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Kenneth Norris Rancho Marino UC Reserve in Cambria, San Luis ObispoCo., CA, February 26 (part two of two), 2022
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-	This and another nearby larger specimen that escaped are the first Hemigrapsus nudus (purple shore crab) I have found at this locality, although there are scattered other reports from this part of central California at inaturalist.org. It is extremely common further north, e.g., Puget Sound in Washington.	-
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-	A highlight of my brief return to the intertidal close to sunset, rock hopping with Mauricio, was seeing about 15 black turnstones working the intertidal. They are such active birds and fun to watch. Along with black oystercatchers, these turnstones are among the few shorebirds to specialize on rocky shores. - See eBird black turnstone pages for identification and relevant for Bio 317 rocky intertidal life history.	-
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