Volunteers from the Mendocino Coast Audubon Society conducted several years of monitoring cormorant colonies in central coastal Mendocino County.

The oystercatcher is considered vulnerable to decline due to its small global population size (10,000-12,000), low reproductive success and complete dependence on rocky intertidal shorelines.

In 2015, MCAS completed a citizen science project established in 1995 at Point Cabrillo Light Station, a 300-acre California State Historic Park preserve north of Mendocino Village.