What makes it all the more ironic is that the gray birch is generally a short-lived tree. I first took my daughter to the tree after she turned 1, when the meadow floor was strewn with blue phlox.

Magic, a little blue penguin in the care of La Jolla’s Birch Aquarium, died Dec. 8 after a battle with a fungal infection. The 6-year-old penguin, who had been at Birch since October 2020 and ...

Birds at the Beyster Family Little Blue Penguins Exhibit. Courtesy Birch Aquarium Elected leaders and representatives from the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego ...

La Jolla’s Birch Aquarium has some new little residents, and the public can see them when the Beyster Family Little Blue Penguins exhibit opens Tuesday, July 12. Little blue penguins — the ...