Websites, books and articles.
| Websites |
| Joe Morlan's web site, http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~jmorlan/ Rare birds sightings in California, county birding, photo gallery of rarities. Information on Joe's Classes held at SF State. Membership of California Rare Bird Committees. A great resource! |
| Denise Wight's Birding Pages, http://blkittiwake.com/ Classes taught by Denise, including bird sounds. Recent field trip info, nice pictures by Dave Furseth. |
| East Bay Birding Information, http://www.diabloaudubon.com/mailman2/listinfo/sightings this is a listing of unusual birds seen in the Bay Area. To post a sighting, send e-mail to sightings@diabloaudubon.com. |
| California Birding Hotspots, http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/uscalifornia.htm Just what the name says. |
| Cornell University and Citizen Science, http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ Projects for backyard feeding, observation, counting and more. |
| Barn Owls in Berkeley, http://www.kboib.org/ Website of a small band of birding enthusiasts dedicated to preserving the population of Barn Owls that call (if they could) Berkeley their home. |
| Books and Articles | The Shorebird Guide, Michael O'Brien, Richard
Crossley and Kevin Karlson, Houghton Mifflin, 2006 Hundreds of beautiful shorebird photos, with descriptions of status, taxonomy, behavior, migration and molt of North American shorebirds. |
| Gathering of Angels, Migrating Birds and their Ecology,
Kenneth P. Able, Ed., Comstock Books, 1999 How birds migrate, and stories of selected species migrations. |
| Living on the Wind, Scott Weidensaul, North Point Press,
1999 Migration strategies, conservation issues, scientific methods. |
If you find a book, article or magazine you'd like to suggest for this list, please send your suggestion to Bob.
Bay Area Bird Photographers is a group of local photographers sponsored by the Santa Clara Audubon Society.
Here are some local bird photographers
Eleanor Briccetti
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Ashok Khosla
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Peter LaTourette
Bob Lewis F
Jim Scarff
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Yamil Saenz F
Glen Tepke
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Sialia, a summary of all California rare bird alerts
Northern California RBA transcribed by Calvin Lou