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SAN LEANDRO SHORELINE DEVELOPMENT DRAFT EIR <br />CITY OF SAN LEANDRO <br />BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES <br />opportunities. Wildlife in developed areas are typically acclimated to human activity, and include species <br />common in urban and suburban habitats such as scrub jay, mourning dove, house finch, house sparrow, <br />American robin, mockingbird, Norway rat, and house mouse. The mature trees provide roosting and <br />potential nesting substrate for birds, and the grove of eucalyptus in the southeastern edge of the golf <br />course provide winter roosting habitat for a colony of monarch butterflies, as discussed further below <br />under Special -Status Species. <br />The scattered marshland plants along the riprap shoreline of the marina provide little habitat value for <br />native wildlife, but the open waters of the bay provide foraging and resting opportunities for a variety of <br />bird species including gulls, ducks and shorebirds. At low tides, invertebrate populations in exposed <br />mudflats provide important foraging opportunities for resident and migratory shorebirds and waterfowl. <br />The rock shoreline harbors small shore crabs and isopods and the intertidal and sub -tidal zone supports <br />native oyster, numerous clams and mussels including Japanese littleneck and shot -shelled clams. The <br />open waters of the bay provides dispersal and foraging opportunities for estuarine and marine fish and <br />other aquatic life. Anglers along the shoreline frequently catch striped bass, California bat ray, white <br />croaker, and leopard shark, as well as several surf perch species. <br />Special -Status Species <br />According to records maintained by the CNDDB and other sources, numerous special -status species have <br />been reported from the shoreline of San Leandro and the bay. Figures 4.3-1 and 4.3-2 show the reported <br />occurrences of special -status plant and animal species, according to records maintained by the CNDDB. <br />Additional information on special -status species known or suspected from the site vicinity is provided in <br />the 2007 San Leandro Marina Opportunities and Constraints Analysis,' although most of these suspected <br />occurrences were reported from areas outside of the Project site, in the southern portion of the San <br />Leandro Marina study area south of Monarch Bay Golf Course where natural marshland and wetland <br />habitat remains. A table of special -status species known or suspected from the site vicinity, excerpted <br />from the 2007 San Leandro Marina Opportunities and Constraints Analysis is contained in Appendix F. <br />Special -Status Animal Species <br />As indicated in Figure 4.3-2, most of the reported occurrences of special -status animal species from the <br />surrounding area are typically associated with coastal salt marsh and aquatic habitat of the bay, which has <br />long been extirpated from upland areas on the Project site. These include: the State and federally <br />endangered California clapper rail (Rallus longirostris obsoletus), the federally threatened California black <br />rail (Lcterallus jamaicensis coturniculus), and the state and federally endangered salt -marsh harvest <br />mouse (Reithrodontomys rcviventris), as well as salt -marsh wandering shrew (Sorex vcgrcns halicoetes), <br />Alameda song sparrow (Melospiza melodic pusillula), and salt -marsh common yellowthroat (Geothlypis <br />trichas) all three of which are not listed under the Endangered Species Acts but are considered California <br />Species of Special Concern ("SSC') species by the CDFW. <br />z ESA, San Leandro Marina Opportunities and Constraints Analysis, 2007. <br />4.3-6 DECEMBER 2014 <br />