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Hi, I will be teaching a continuing education class on the identification and status of owls, nightjars and swifts on Tuesday evenings starting tonight, April 8 through May 20 at the CCSF John Adams c

This morning my CCSF ornithology class had a nice male EURASIAN WIGEON at India Basin. We also saw up to 6 BLACK-NECKED STILTS and one OSPREY flew over. Illustrated eBird checklist is at... http://ebi

Just a note about birding classes being offered soon in San Francisco. The 2014 Master Birder Class – starts February 5 at the California Academy of Sciences and runs through December. Instructors are

SF Birds, Photo generously contributed by Calvin Lou is at... http://www.westernfieldornithologists.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=635 Enjoy! wrote:

I thought others might post, but there was a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW at El Polin this morning. I'm not sure who found it, but Bob Toleno, Juli Chamberlin and Colleen Burke-Hill were all looking at the bi

A couple of photos at... http://fog.ccsf.edu/~jmorlan/TropicalKingbirdP1130748.htm wrote:

Photos from this morning... http://fog.ccsf.edu/~jmorlan/Blue-footedBoobyP1130496.htm More details at... http://fog.ccsf.edu/~jmorlan/Blue-footedBoobyP1120990s.htm Good luck! <paulsaraceni@...

Calvin's photo of this bird is at... http://www.westernfieldornithologists.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=627

<josiahbird06@...> wrote: We had a small flock (4-6 birds) fly over while we were looking for the titmouse in the Presidio last Thursday 29 August.

Robbie Fischer just had the OAK TITMOUSE in the same copse of oaks as described about 8am this morning, Sunday, September 1st. wrote:

The former Sage Sparrow has been split into Sagebrush Sparrow (Artemisiospiza nevadensis) Bell's Sparrow (Artemisiospiza belli) The June 2012 bird from Mt. Davidson photographed by Linda Swanson... ht

The Birdbox is now back up. 415-681-7422 Thanks.

The Birdbox is currently not answering. The problem is with the phone lines. We expect AT&T should have it fixed sometime tomorrow. I'll post when I know more. Thanks.

Some further information on Orange-crowned Warbler juvs. with wing bars here... http://fog.ccsf.edu/~jmorlan/warbler.jpg http://fog.ccsf.edu/~jmorlan/may.htm The CCSF web server suffered a power failu

The two differ in the color of the throat color of the male.

7 April 2012 Took my Ornithology class out to Sutro Heights and the Cliff House this morning. A WESTERN KINGBIRD was along the stairs leading down to the baths. A nice male HERMIT WARBLER was at Sutro

Sorry for the late report, but my ornithology class field trip was able to study an apparent EURASIAN X AMERICAN WIGEON at India Basin on Saturday, March 23rd. We also saw one adult CLAPPER RAIL at He

The BROWN BOOBY was present all morning on the north end of "North Dome Rock." http://www.markeaton.org/sffo1/SFBirding/Offshore%20Rocks.html Visible most of the time from the Sutro Observation Deck.

Ken, Creamy varieties of Eurasian Collared-Dove were part of the initial expansion of the species into California. Ten years ago I photographed such birds at Calipatria and commented on them at the ti