http://reportband.gov/ is where you can report any banded birds. Partial sightings can still be matched to the correct bird sometimes. It just depends how many other birds might have similar color/let

Bay Raptor Rescue (https://www.bayraptorrescue.org/) is one such org that rescues hawks trapped in buildings. Sounds like someone, maybe them, is already on the case. If it's a bird that has eaten rec

Hi everyone, sorry to spam the list but I'm remotely answering phone calls for Lindsay Wildlife and a mail carrier just called in an injured crow at 2507 Pawnee Drive in Walnut Creek. He's not able to

FYI I should have mentioned there’s a $5 parking fee today at Lake Temescal. Megan Jankowski

Two Red-necked phalaropes are at Lake Temescal right now, in the water close to the beach, on the side closest to 24. Megan Jankowski Oakland

There was a good variety at Middle Harbor Shoreline today, but the highlight were seven Black Skimmers. I arrived just a little after high tide, but it looks like they were seen in the morning and yes

Mike, in regards to your question I think the first thing to do is determine very basically what type of bird it is: for example raptor, shorebird, duck, passerine, etc., and then try to further narro

Nice photo! I learned something of interest about our California curlews from my friend Andy Boyce who bands curlews in Montana. He says this: "an interesting fact is that there are Long-billed Curlew

Hi everyone, this is super off topic so apologies. There's a woman attending a horse show at Heather Farms today and she has a possibly injured juvenile White-Tailed Kite that she brought from her hom

Lindsay Wildlife received several Vaux's Swift nestlings today that fell out of a nest in a chimney in Martinez. I reached out to Rusty Scalf, who said he thinks this might be the first breeding recor

Seen just now, but it flew off from the gull flock. No guarantees it’ll stick around. Megan Jankowski Oakland

Steve, I'm sure someone other than me will chime in with more info. I don't know at what point it was decided to be a Chilean, but that's what I've been hearing the past few years and will fully admit

Sorry, I meant nationwide CBC data, since you have Emeryville locked down! Is this available to the public? Megan <mindfuldocumentation@...> wrote:

I feel like there are way fewer scaup on the bay then just a few years ago, but it would be prudent to get the Oakland Christmas Bird Count data to really show what the decline is. There is a general

Thanks for the input! I definitely thought the bill shape looked like a Common's. It's interesting that the color abnormality is localized in the bill, though that makes me wonder if other bare parts,

Sorry for the late post, but I was trying to determine if there was anything to this. I saw a goldeneye yesterday (Sunday) afternoon at Lake Merritt at the northwest corner (right by Grand Ave) which

I'm posting this for Sharon as she's having trouble sending it to the group for some reason. Her email is sljue1 at gmail.com .......... There's a decent candidate for a juvenile bar-tailed godwit at

My GGAS walk today did not spot the Baird's Sandpiper. Due to tides we didn't even really have any peeps until the end of the walk. We did however see a Wandering Tattler on one of the rocky islands v

There is a pair of stilts with at least two chicks in the seasonal wetland at Garretson Point. I am watching one fluff ball exploring while one adult broods and the other adult forages. They are prett

Despite the air quality conditions I am still going to lead my walk Sunday at 9:30 am at Middle Harbor Shoreline in Oakland. Depending how bad it is that day we may cut it short. It's also a small loc