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Beauty of Birds

Birding and natural history classes, field reports, essays and tours around the Bay Area, California and the West with Ted Pierce.

Birding & Natural History Links

 

www.baynature.org Bay Nature is a quarterly magazine dedicated to the intelligent and joyful exploration of the natural places, plants, and wildlife of the San Francisco Bay Area. It contains writing, photography, art, and cartography about the natural history of the land and waters of the nine counties ringing the Bay, as well as significant nearby areas (such as the Delta and Monterey Bay).
www.calacademy.org Cal Academy of Sciences
The academy’s website gives you a quick preview of research, expeditions and exhibits at the academy, and stories on science the world over. Fun to navigate, visually exciting and with great links. A virtual encyclopedia of current scientific research.
www.prbo.org PRBO Conservation Science
This is the Bay Area’s premier avian research organization, formerly of Pt. Reyes, now located in Petaluma. The website has information on birds near and far, educational resources, research projects and many links to other bird groups.
www.ggro.org Golden Gate Raptor Observatory
A great website for all things raptorial in the Bay Area and northern California; research information, hawk-spotting training programs, hawk migration counts over Hawk Hill and great
links to other raptor and bird groups.
www.birdlife.org BirdLife International
This website gives a comprehensive and fascinating view of participating bird conservation organizations, programs and links throughout the world.
 
Upcoming Tours
Texas Rio Grande
FEBRUARY 21–28, 2011

The semi-tropical Rio Grande Valley of Texas, one of the most exciting birding locations in the US... Read more

Arizona Border
MARCH 11–18, 2011

Southeast Arizona, the roughly rectangular area between Tucson, Mexico, and New Mexico, is... Read more

Arizona Border
April 16, 2011
Pinnacles National Monument/Condor Quest

This 23,000 acre preserve south of Hollister is composed of eroded and rugged volcanic peaks, with chaparral-dotted hillsides, oak woodlands and riparian corridors teeming with birds... Read more