Audubon Society Meeting Features Ringtail Cats, Thursday, Jan. 17

Few people today have seen a ringtail, once known as a “miners’ cat” and much more common in the days of the Gold Rush. But David Wyatt, speaker at the Thursday Jan. 17 meeting of the Sacramento Audubon Society, has seen quite a number. As a professor of biology at Sacramento City College, he has been studying the nocturnal creatures for nearly 30 years.

Ringtails can still be found in the Sierra foothills – there are even some in Audubon’s Bobelaine sanctuary on the Feather River. But the densest known population is in the Sutter Buttes, a small isolated mountain range in the Central Valley about 45 miles north of Sacramento.

Wyatt will report on his recently concluded three-year study aimed at learning more about the life histories and food habits of these charismatic relatives of the raccoon.

The public is invited to the 7 p.m. meeting at the Effie Yeaw Nature Center in Ancil Hoffman Park. (For directions, see sacnaturecenter.com). Free program and parking, and no park-entry fee.

 

 

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