Birding-Related - Morro Bay
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Program and registration information for the 2006 (and future years) Morro Bay Winter
Bird Festival, Jan. 13-16, 2006, in Morro Bay, CA, is at the all new
morrobaybirdfestival.org site- (Historical archives related to the Annual Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival (2003 -present))
- (Historical archives related to the Morro Bay Bird Fest 2003 working directory (maps))
- BirdFest.org is an alternative front door to the Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival and related resources
- Morro Coast Audubon has a new site at http://morrocoastaudubon.org/ (it was http://www.gliderpilots.org/audubon/)
- http://morrostrand.com Common Birds of Morro Strand State Beach
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Local Nature Photos including
Many Local Birds are at
digitalchocolate.org
- Snowy Plover Blog
6-9-03 Snowy Plover nest discovered 2000' inland in Cloisters (Morro Bay, CA)
6-22-03 Plover Family decides to move to the beach!
6-24-03 Two chicks seen on the beach (Teresa Larson reports) - "Plovers nest in Cloisters' peace" http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/6235017.htm
- http://westernsnowyplover.org/ -- A resource site devoted to the recovery of the Western Snowy Plover
- Freeman Hall's Montaņa de Oro Raptor Identification Tips (now with photos)
- Mike Stiles' San Luis Obispo County Birds
- Wild Birds Unlimited (San Luis Obispo)
- Links to Birding Links (good)
- SIALIA.COM The CA Birding Lists Digest (Covers Northern and Southern Califirnia)
- Peregrine Falcon Watching
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Morro
Bay Peregrine Falcon Watchers Yahoo! Group
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The Peregrine Falcons of Morro Rock by Judy Sullivan
(http://morro-bay.com/falcon/
will take you there also)
This Morro Rock Peregrine Falcon site moved March 2005
to http://morrorockperegrines.com/
- Banding Peregrine Falcon Chicks, May 14, 2001
- Location of the Peregrine Falcons on 3-25-2001 (annotated photo - very large)
- Location of the Peregrine Falcons on 6-7-2001
- In search of the Peregrine Falcons on the ocean (west) side of Morro Rock 6-7-2001
- Curt Beebe's outing on May 20, 2001
- Peregrine Falcon (male) on Morro Rock
- Also see Outdoor Activities - Morro Rock for much more
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- SLO County Birding Yahoo! Group <= must join if doing local birding
- CALBIRD California Birding List
- La Purisima Audubon Society Central Coast Birding Trail
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North American
Birds Photo Gallery by Peter LaTourrette
- Birding
America has a fairly comprehensive guide to birding in this area
- Morro Bay (where to go, what you will see)
- Sweet Springs Nature Preserve in nearby Los Osos on the way to...
- Montaņa
de Oro
- Miscellaneous California birding links
- Birding America California
- Brant
Geese Photo by Don Baccus
See his entire Morro Bay collection - Hi Mountain Condor Lookout Related Yahoo! Group
- Carol & Les's Cayucos Site (contains many good photos, esp. birds)
- utyx directory for Birding Resources (general birding-related news, books, web resources)
- This "Index of Pacific Northwest Bird Photos" by Christine Vadai is a pretty good reference for looking up photos of frequently encountered birds around Morro Bay
- Photos from the upcoming Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival (Jan. 14-17, 2005) will be posted at BirdFest.Org. You can find birding links, and detailed maps and descriptions of the best places to bird in Morro Bay at BirdFest.Org or at http://morro-bay.com/birdfest/
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"Responsible Birding at Morro bay - A Good Boater's Guide to Common Birds of the Morro Bay Estuary" brochure from the Morro Bay National Estuary
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Read Nancy Revelle's blog and see her photo gallery (bird and nature-related).
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Read
Joyce Cory's
BirdingLady.com local bird blog
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Morro Bay
Loon Sighting site (report sightings here)
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eBird.org is
a citizen science tool that allows anyone to report any bird species
anywhere anytime. This
joint venture
of Audubon and the
Cornell Lab of
Ornithology opens a new era of citizen science, which will help our
birds in a time of increasing threats from habitat loss to West Nile
virus.
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Local nature photos at NEW PhotoMorroBay.com, Mike Baird's bairdphotos.com or stealthispicture.com, digitalchocolate.org, NEW picasaweb.google.com/mikebaird, mikebaird.slide.com, zazzle.com/mikebaird*, app.tabblo.com/studio/person/mikebaird/, and NEW flickr.com/photos/mikebaird ; Marc Kurth's morrobayphotos.com; Gary Robershaw's http://pbase.com/roberthouse; Cleve Nash's http://clevenash.com; Joyce Cory's Birding Blog; see also Flickr.com's most interesting and most recent Morro Bay photos... NEW BirdsOfMorroBay.com -- NEW Mike Baird's Morro Bay, CA Flickr Surfing Photos http://surf.morro-bay.com; NEW See Mike Baird's most popular photos at Flickr NEW Buy the best photo gear - recommendations by local photographers NEW Greg Blasingame Photography
www.flickr.com 
mikebaird's Most Interesting 50 photoset
Also, see "Outdoor Activities"
Special Maps for Bird Fest 2003 Jan. 17-20, 2003 (Maps, etc.)
Bird
Hunting in Morro Bay In the Bleachers comic
Conflict
in the Bay - Hunters versus Kayakers
Neil
Farrell on the history of this conflict
Bob Isenberg's Pacific Coast Peregrine Watch Hat
Birding Identification SItes:
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http://www.whatbird.com/ - Over 900 birds are in this database - search one by one from 11 attributes (habitat, color, backyard feeder, bill length, readily eats, bill shape, location, shape, size, wing shape, family) - use the attributes you are sure of first to identify birds. Very good! This site seems to be a little slow to generate results, but it is very smart - narrowing down results as you select more and more features, and subsets of values for those features.
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Idaho Museum of Natural History Visual Key for Bird Identification
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The
Internet Bird Collection (IBC) http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/whatIBC.phtml
is a non-profit endeavor with the goal of disseminating knowledge
about the world's avifauna. It is
an on-line audiovisual library of footage of the world's birds that is
available to the general public free of charge.
While the initial aim is to post at least one video per species, the
long-term objective is to eventually include several videos showing a
variety of biological aspects (e.g. feeding, breeding, etc.) for every
species.