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JBALDUCCI JEWELRY WILL DONATE 20% OF ALL QUAIL PIECES PURCHASED FROM OUR SITE TO
THE GOLDEN GATE AUDUBON SOCIETY TO HELP SAVE THE SAN FRANCISCO QUAIL..
FROM THE GOLDEN GATE AUDUBON SOCIETY:
Save the Quail
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The haunting call of the California Quail, the California State bird, is now
rarely heard in Golden Gate Park. Historically, San Francisco's streams and
coastal scrub vegetation provided the food, cover, and water necessary for
healthy quail populations. As the growing city altered the natural
environment, the quail survived in a few areas—Golden Gate Park, McLaren
Park, and the Presidio—that preserved remnants of brushy habitat and
provided food and protection from predators. Beginning in the 1980s,
however, quail populations in the parks declined rapidly as new trends in
park management resulted in removal of the quails' brushy homes. Today, the
city's quail population has plummeted from more than 1,500 quail to roughly
15 birds.
Rather than accept the disappearance of quail, Golden Gate Audubon
launched its Save the Quail campaign to ensure that California Quail would
not be lost from the city forever. We developed wide public support for a
quail restoration plan, successfully lobbied to have the California Quail
recognized as the official San Francisco bird, and worked with other public
interest groups, as well as the city's Recreation and Parks Department and the
Presidio Trust, to develop the restoration plan.
Today, Golden Gate Audubon is restoring quail habitat in the Presidio and
Harding Park Golf Course at Lake Merced. Our annual Quail Restore-A-Thon
draws hundreds of volunteers and helps raise funds for our ongoing efforts. Our
project partners, the Presidio Trust and the San Francisco Recreation and
Parks Department, contribute immeasurably by providing quail-friendly plants
and hands-on volunteers.
