California Ecosystems - Thrashers in the Ceanothus (original) valley oak This piece features the Variable

This piece features the Variable Checkerspot butterfly with the flowers of its caterpillar’s host plant

Santa Cruz Black Salamander and some of their neighbors who share the San Lorenzo River watershed

Cox's Orange Pippin

they are most impacted by the decline of suitable habitat in a heavily developed region

Where males forage near the sea floor along the continental shelf

California Ecosystems - Thrashers in the Ceanothus (original) valley oak This piece features the VariableCalifornia's foothills are blanketed with vast swaths of shrubbery, also known as chaparral. This dense growth provides habitat for a number of animals. Buck brush (Ceanothus cuneatus) is one of our dominant chaparral shrubs. It is eaten by caterpillars of the Ceanothus Silk Moth (Hyalophora euryalus). California Thrashers (Toxostoma redivivum) use their long, curved bills to dig for food in the leaf litter beneath shrubs and perch atop them to sing.