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CALIFORNIA BIRD TRIPS & LINKS TO SITE GUIDES

SITE GUIDES BY COUNTY

Not all counties have site guides yet.

information heavily borrowed from Joe Morlan's Birding Pages, the best site on the web for California Birding information

Alameda
Alpine
Amador
Butte
Calaveras
Colusa
Contra Costa
Del Norte
El Dorado
Fresno
Glenn

Humboldt

Imperial
Inyo
Kern
Kings
Lake
Lassen
Los Angeles
Madera
Marin
Mariposa
Mendocino

Merced

Modoc
Mono
Monterey
Napa
Nevada
Orange
Placer
Plumas
Riverside
Sacramento

San Benito

San Bernardino

San Diego
San Francisco
San Joaquin
San Luis Obispo
San Mateo
Santa Barbara
Santa Clara
Santa Cruz
Shasta

Sierra
 

Siskiyou

Solano
Sonoma
Stanislaus
Sutter
Tehama
Trinity
Tulare
Tuolumne
Ventura
Yolo
Yuba

Watchable Wildlife in California

Alameda
Alpine

Alpine County Birding Localities by Penelope Bowen
More Alpine County Birding Localities by John Luther

Amador
Butte

ButteBirders

Calaveras

Calaveras County Birding Localities by Penelope Bowen

Where to go birding in Tuolumne and Calaveras Counties

Colusa
Contra Costa

Guide to Finding Birds in Contra Costa County by Steve Glover

Del Norte

The NorthWest Bird Guide by Greg Gillson

Redwood Region Audubon Society Birding Hotspots

El Dorado
Fresno

Birding Sites in the Fresno Area

Glenn

Humboldt

Humboldt County Birding Sites by David Fix

Imperial

Birds of the Imperial Valley

Bird Watching at the Salton Sea Wildlife Refuge By Lynn Bremner

Inyo

Eastern Sierra Birding Hot Spots by Larry Blakely

Eastern Sierra Birding Trail

Kern

Birding Kern County, California by Alison Sheehey

Kern River Valley Bird Finding Guide by Bob Barnes

Kings

Luke Cole's Easy Guide to Birding in Kings County

Lake

Birding in Lake County

Lassen
Los Angeles

Millennium Birding in Los Angeles by Martin Byhower

Where To Bird In And Near The San Fernando Valley

"Where to Bird in and around Pasadena"

Madera

Marin

Birding in the North Bay - Bodega Bay 

Top 7 Birding Areas in Marin County

Mariposa
Mendocino

Where can I go birding in Mendocino County?

Birding Guide Updates

Merced

Birding Areas in Merced, Stanislaus and San Joaquin Counties
Modoc

John Mariani's Winter Birding in Siskiyou and Modoc

Birding the Warner Mountains by John Mariani

Mono

Eastern Sierra Birding Hot Spots by Larry Blakely

Eastern Sierra Birding Hot Spots - including information and locations of:   Lake Crowley, Birchim Canyon, Aspendell, Farmer's Pond, Brockman Lane Area, Warren and Klondike Lakes, Steward Lane, Tinemaha Reservoir, Cottonwood Marshes, Dirty Socks Hot Springs, Keeler Wetlands, North Haiwee Reservoir

Mono Lake Recent Bird Sightings

Monterey

Central Coast Birding Trail, Monterey County

Monterey Peninsula Audubon Society's Bird Trail

Don Roberson's Birding Monterey County

Napa

Napa County Birding by John Sterling

Nevada

Ten Birding Hotspots in Nevada County

Orange

Orange County Birding Localities by Joel Weintraub

Good Birding Locations by Nancy Kenyon

Birding in Orange County by Bill Wimley

Placer

Birding in Placer County, California -- by Bruce E. Webb

Plumas

Northern Plumas County Guide to Birding by Helen Green and Dan Airola

Riverside

Pomona Valley Birding Locations from Pomona Valley AS

Sacramento

Site Guide to Birding Yolo and Sacramento Counties by Yolo Audubon Society

Site Guide to the Cosumnes River Preserve by John Trochet

San Benito

San Benito County Birding Site Guide

San Bernardino

Birders' guide to Clark Mountain

San Diego

Birds and Butterflies of San Diego County by Doug Aguillard

San Diego County breeding bird atlas

San Francisco

Bay Area Ramblings - by Arnel Guanlao

San Joaquin

Birding Areas in Merced, Stanislaus and San Joaquin Counties

San Luis Obispo

Central Coast Birding Trail

Moro Bay Estuary

San Mateo
Santa Barbara

Central Coast Birding Trail

Los Padres National Forest

Santa Clara

Birding the Alamitos Creek Trail by John Mariani
Birding the Almaden Valley by John Mariani
Birding Oka Ponds by Linda Sullivan

Santa Cruz

Birding Sites in Santa Cruz County

Shasta

Wintu Audubon Society Places to Bird

Sierra
Siskiyou

The NorthWest Bird Guide - by Greg Gillson

Birding in the vicinity of McCloud by John Mariani

Don Baccus' Guide To Winter Birding In The Klamath Basin

John Mariani's Winter Birding in Siskiyou and Modoc

Solano
Sonoma
Stanislaus

Birding Areas in Merced, Stanislaus and San Joaquin Counties

Stanislaus Birds

Sutter
Tehama
Trinity
Tulare

Tuolumne

Where to go birding in Tuolumne and Calaveras Counties

Ventura

Central Coast Birding Trail

Central Coast Birding Trail Ventura County

Yolo

Birding in Yolo County & Vicinity

Site Guide to Birding Yolo and Sacramento Counties by Yolo Audubon Society

Yuba


Birding Trip Reports

Bill Walker's Trip Reports

Birdwatching trip reports from all around the world

California Trip Reports - Blake Maybank's "Birding the Americas: Trip Report and Trip Planning Repository".

Death Valley Trip Report - May, 1997. By Doug and Arlene Ripley.

Trip Report: California, September 17 to October 3, 1998 - by Cliff Buckton.

BIRDING WEBSITES

California Wildlife Festivals - All of the nature festivals Audubon California's webmaster could find.

Joe Morlan's California Birding Pages - An interactive map of  California with birding statistics, sites and other resources for all 58 California counties.

Bird Source A joint project of the National Audubon Society and Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Map bird migration, count backyard, breeding, and Christmas birds.

Birding California - from On-Line Highways

Birding California -by Mary Scott.

Birding in California

Birding Pals

California Birding Home Page

California County Geographic Birding Guide

Central Coast Birding Trail - 83 prime birding locations in 4 coastal counties. A cooperative project of 6 Central Coast Audubon Chapters.

eBird lets you record your bird sightings and track where other's have seen the same species recently.

eNature.com, provides information drawn from National Audubon Society Field Guides. Bird calls,  local guides, and create and maintain online life lists.

American Birding Association Publications, national events, totally focusing on birding and bird conservation.

Fat Birder

Golden Gate Raptor Observatory

Ornithology.com For ornithologists, birders, and the conservationists.

Point Reyes Bird Observatory

San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The Nest Box. Arlene Ripley's site

Ventana Wilderness Society - BIG SUR ORNITHOLOGY LAB

"Where do you want to go birding today?", Tina MacDonald's site

Single Species or

Family Sites

California Parrot Project

Movies of California Rarities

Ocean Wanderers, a site by Angus Wilson,

Pelagic Birding in Central California - by Angus Wilson.

Rose-ringed Parakeets of Bakersfield, California - by Alison Sheehey

Seawatching in California - part of Noel Warner's birding site. 

SURFBIRDS.com A group of British and American birders are bringing together articles of interest, rare bird reports, identification features and more, along with Andy Birch's terrific sketchbooks from his birding adventures.

The Wild Parrots of San Francisco's Telegraph Hill

Government Sites

California Department of Fish and Game

National Wildlife Health Center

National Bird Banding Laboratory

Wildlife Centers

California National Wildlife Refuges Index

Gorp;s site - California National Wildlife Refuges

Aņo Nuevo State Preserve

Bolinas Lagoon - Audubon Canyon Ranch 

Doheny State Beach, Orange County

El Dorado Nature Center

Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve

Humboldt Bay Wildlife Refuge

Joshua Tree National Park

Kern National Wildlife Refuge

Le Bateau du Audubon

Mono Lake: California, USA International Reserve

Palo Alto Baylands Preserve

Pixley National Wildlife Refuge

Sacramento NWR Complex - includes Butte Sink, Colusa, Delevan, Sacramento River, and Sutter NWRs; and Butte Sink Wildlife Management Area.

Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge

Sweetwater NWR and Chula Vista Nature Center

The Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve

Upper Newport Bay Regional Park and Ecological Reserve

Yosemite National Park

 

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