Last updated 22 March 2010

Contra Costa and Alameda County Birding

Information and weblinks for birding in the East Bay

Links for Contra Costa and Alameda County Birding Also visit Favorite Birding Locations for East Bay birding sites. Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley Webcam View of the San Francisco Bay Area, looking west from the Berkeley Hills. Links to weather, earthquakes and more! Joe Morlan's California Birding Pages for Contra Costa and Alameda County A Guide to Finding Birds in Contra Costa County Checklist of the Birds of Contra Costa County Contra Costa Breeding Bird Atlas Birds that nest in "your own backyard". "Sightings" (formerly EBB) Posts about birds in Contra Costa and Alameda County.

Lapland Longspur         Photo by George Griffeth Calcarius lapponicus Berkeley, Alameda Co., CA                      Sept 2004

Aububon Societies and other Nature Groups in the East Bay Mount Diablo Audubon Society Contra Costa Golden Gate Audubon Society Oakland/Berkeley area (and San Francisco) Ohlone Audubon Society Southern Alameda County Save Mount Diablo Mount Diablo Interpretive Association Close to Home Oakland Museum Lindsay Wildlife Museum

The Contra Costa County Breeding Bird Atlas is now available from MDAS

Birding Classes

Albany Adult School Birding Classes Rusty Scalf and Bob Lewis's popular Bay Area Birding classes, as well as classes offered by other fine instuctors. Also see Birding Class Page

Local Nature Stores Wild Birds Unlimited Pleasant Hill  East Bay Nature (formerly Wild Bird Center) Walnut Creek

UC Berkeley Find the answer to almost any question you may have about birds at the Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natural History Library in the Life Science Building at UC Berkeley.  The stacks are open to the general public to browse. Visitors may borrow library materials directly for $100 per year. Directly above the library is the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology which houses a wide variety of bird study skins. The museum is closed to the public.

Articles, Scientific Papers, and Interesting Notes on Birds of Contra Costa and Alameda Counties

Wrentit - Extensive study of breeding Wrentits in the Berkeley Hills. Erickson, M. M.  1938.  Territory, annual cycle, and numbers in a population of wrentits. (Chamaea fasciata).  Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool  42:247-334.

The California Woodpecker and I William Ritter, 1938, University of California Press, Berkeley The California Woodpecker, or Acorn Woodpecker as we now call this bird, was studied in the East Bay oak woodlands.  Long out of print, the colored frontpiece by Allen Brooks is charming. Check online book stores for used copies.

More Information on Birds in the East Bay.

Bay Nature - The magazine about nature in the San Franciso Bay Area, often featuring the East Bay..

East Bay Yard Lists See Don Lewis's Saw Whet Owl as a yard bird in Lafayette. Take a look at the Bay Area Shorebird and Bay Area Wetlands page created by Nick Despota!