Brooks Island is a highly protected part of the East Bay Regional Parks District.
Special permission is required before anyone can set foot onto the island.
Brooks Island lies one kilometer off the coast of Richmond within the San Francisco Bay. The Caspian Tern colony of Brooks Island is well established and has been there for many years. The island is also home to a colony of Western Gulls. The Colonial Waterbird Research Program consists of two phases. Phase one is an incubation survey, which measures different reproductive parameters.