Local Birding Resources

[edit] Regional Resources

Santa Clara County Audubon Society
South Bay Birders Unlimited: The primary resource for information about birding in Silicon ValleyKendric Smith.
- Kendric has updated his listing of high tides in Palo Alto. Very useful if you're chasing rails at Palo Alto Baylands. Also has pointers to tide information for many other sites.
Birders use 4-Letter Codes: On the various mailing lists, you'll see reports where birds are identified by a four letter code. Here is a web page that documents these codes.

South-Bay-Birds Mailing List Archives: archives from the list before it was moved to Yahoo Groups.
Sialia.com consolidates recent archives from all birding lists in california. Very useful for checking out of the area reports.
if you're looking for the mailing lists for bird reports in other counties in California, you should check out the List of Lists on Sialia.com. Subscription info for the lists is managed via Steve Holzman's Map of Birding Lists.