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MORRO BAY WINTER BIRD FESTIVAL
Every January on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, the Morro Coast Audubon Society in collaboration with California State Parks, Central Coast Natural History Association, the city of Morro Bay, the Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce, and Friends of the Estuary, host the Winter Bird Festival. All-day and half-day tours will take participants to a wide variety of habitats, including deep water pelagic, oak woodland and riparian, wetland and estuary, and the unique grassland habitat of the Carrizo Plain. Workshops will cover a vast array of topics ranging from beginner birding classes to gull identification. Outstanding Evening Speakers will make presentations on Saturday and Sunday. A variety of vendors will be present with nature related artwork, books, field equipment and attire, and local merchant wares.

Morro Bay California is one of the few remaining estuaries on the Pacific flyway. Christmas Bird Counts on the bay have numbered above the 200 species mark, and the festival bird lists have totaled over 220 species for the weekend, making this area on the central California coast a prime birding destination.

For more information please visit the Morro Bay Bird Festival website!

Protect our wildlife!

Not to long ago my children were peacefully sitting next to a resting pelican that had made himself very cozy  in some warm sand while the sun was gently setting, a scene fit for a postcard.  But out of know where I was horrified by the site of a woman allowing her dog to chase down and attempt to eat our beautiful Pelican friend. 

This happened at Avila Beach.  Thank heaven above my Superman of a husband has the athletic body that he inherited from his father Mike Hull who played for the Washington Redskins.  He got up and within 5 seconds had caught up with that vicious dog and the endangered Pelican.  Allowing the Pelican to fly free.  Story Continued...

 

 

Anna's Hummingbird

American Avocets

Brant

Brown Pelican

Forster's Terns

Great-blue Heron

Great Egret

Long-billed Curlew

Least Sandpipers

Marbled Godwit

Black-crowned Night Heron

Shorebirds

Snowy Egret

White-crowned Sparrow

White Pelicans


 

Local Websites
Central Coast Natural History Association
Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce
Morro Coast Audubon Society
San Luis Obispo County Birds
High Mountain Lookout - A local Condor tracking site.
Central Coast Birding Trail
Morro Bay National Estuary Program
Central Coast Salmon Enhancement
Central Coast Astronomical Society
Institute for Wildlife Studies
Christmas Bird Count
Morro Bay State Park Museum of Natural History
Peregrine Falcons of Morro Rock
Audubon California
Important Bird Area Program
Western Snowy Plover
SLO County Visitors and Conference Bureau
Our local birds and beautiful pictures visit, Slo birds

Websites of Environmental Concern
Project Gutpile! - Help get lead bullets out of the environment.
Sustainable Sources / Green Building
Center for Biological Diversity
US Greenbuilding Council
Environmental Organization Web Directory
Sierra Club
Natural Resources Defense Council
Wilderness Society
Greenpeace
EnviroLink
Earth First!

Birding  
San Luis Obispo County
Santa Barbara County
Kern County
Monterey Bay
Ventura County
CALBIRDS - Statewide Rare Bird Listserv
California Birding List Digest - All the lists collected on one page
Hi Mountain Condors
BIRDWEST Western States
BIRDCNTR Central States
BIRDEAST Eastern States
BIRDCHAT General Birding Discussion Group
Frontiers of Bird Identification
Ornithology Discusion Group

California Birding Web Pages
Joe Morlan's California Birding Pages - A great site with links to every county in the state.
Monterey County - Don Roberson's excellent Monterey County website plus bird families of the world and other info.
Santa Barbara County - An excellent SB County website by Jamie Chavez.
CBRC - California Bird Records Committee. Submit a rare bird sighting or view their picture gallery.
Western Field Ornithologists - Subscribe to the Journal Western Birds.
California Audubon - Links to all the state Audubon societies.
La Purisima Audubon Society (Lompoc)
Santa Barbara Audubon Society
Stanislaus Audubon Society
Monterey Peninsula Audubon Society
Point Reyes Bird Observatory
Santa Cruz Bird Club - A great site with tons of bird info.
Hopper Mountain - US Fish & Wildlife Service Condor page.
Ventana Wilderness Society
Southwest Birders

Bird Friendly Commercial Web Pages
Wild Birds Unlimited - San Luis Obispo
Embarcadero Inn - Offers custom birding maps, binoculars, and birder package deals to guests. In Morro Bay, CA.

National Links
National Audubon Society
American Bird Conservancy
BirdSource
ABA American Birding Association
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
AOU American Ornithologists' Union
Utah Birding
Southeast Arizona Bird Observatory
Portal, AZ
Tucson Audubon Society
Bird Checklists of the United States
Indiana Audubon Society

Worldwide Links
World Bird Link Directory

 

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