Thousands of bird nests, that had viable eggs in them, were abandoned when 2 drones were illegally flown over the nesting area, and one of them crashed there. In fact, the remains of nearly 3,000 Elegant Terns can now be seen on the grounds of the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, where they normally nest on the ground. It’s one of the largest-scale abandonment of eggs ever at the coastal site that is north of San Diego.
At nearly 1,500 acres, the reserve is the largest saltwater marsh between the Monterey Bay, and the Tijuana River Estuary in Mexico. Some 800 species of plants and animals live at, or migrate to, Bolsa Chica.
