​STATE & LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

​​Birds and Conservation in Nevada & Regionally

• Bristlecone Audubon
• Red Rock Audubon Society
• Plumas Audubon Society​
• Tahoe Institute for Natural Science (TINS)
• Tahoe Rim Trail Association
• Great Basin Bird Observatory
• NW NV Nature Conservancy Projects
• Friends of Silver Saddle Ranch, Carson City
• Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge  
• Friends of Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge, Fallon NV
• Sierra Club, Toiyabe Chapter
• Friends of Nevada Wilderness 
• Nevada Conservation League  
• Nevada Bird Record Committee
  • Nevada Review List 
• Nevada Wildlife Federation
• Nevada Department of Wildlife
• Sagebrush Ecosystem Program - a collaborative, multi-disciplinary program established to protect and enhance the sagebrush landscape.   Check out their webpage for info about the Nevada Greater Sage-Grouse conservation plan.  Katie Andrl, our May 2017 Program speaker, is a member of the technical team.​
• Western Field Ornithologists  
• California Audubon Chapter Network  

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National Organizations

​​Birding, Conservation, and Environmental Groups

• National Audubon Society
• American Birding Association
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology  Research, Education, Citizen Science, Technology, Conservation 
• Peregrine Fund  Conservation of Raptors
• American Bird Conservancy
• The Nature Conservancy  Conserve lands and waters on which all life depends
• Hawkwatch  Conserving raptors and our shared environment
• Defenders of Wildlife
• The U.S. Committee of the North American Bird Conservation Initiative 
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Migratory Birds 
• Partners In Flight
• The State of the Birds of North America
• The North American Bluebird Society
• National Fish & Wildlife Foundation

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Websites & Apps

​​Birding Help

• Merlin Photo ID  (Cornell)
• All About Birds  (Cornell)
• E-Bird - Keep your check list on line.  Find out where a species might be, and what has been seen.  Excellent site. For an example, click here to visit Lahontan Audubon Society's E-Bird account.
• Birding.aba.org is the new location for state, regional, international, and specialty birding listserves, plus butterflies and bugs.
• McCaulay Library  (Cornell) Explorable archive of wildlife sounds and videos
• All About Birds  Online guide to Birds and Bird Watching
• Bird Songs and Sounds - Many, many bird songs and sounds. Excellent sound quality.
• Birdzilla  Comprehensive selection of wild bird information, articles, on-line life list, and the Birdzilla.com mall.
• WildBirds.com is the place to come for answers about wild birds in your yard and around the corner!
• The Feather Atlas - identify a bird feather you have found, by simply uploading a photo to their website or naming its colors and size.
• Fatbirder.com links up birding enthusiasts from all over the world. They believe it to be the most comprehensive web site of its kind worldwide.
• Birding Pal Go birding with a pal from around the world.
• Birding on the Net migrated to a new home at ABA.org.  Rare Bird alerts, Butterflies and Bugs, and birding list archives.  Individual mailing lists (regional/specialty) pages     ​
• Scavenger Hunt for Kids of All Ages: Print and fill in our featured SPOT IT! SCAVENGER HUNT. 

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backyard birds of northern nevada

A video series by Alan Gubanich
Thank you to  Sam Bellis and the Galena Creek Visitors Center for helping with these videos

​Introduction to Identifying Backyard Birds

​Some Common Resident Birds

​Common Summer Breeders

​Migrants and Winter Birds

​Other Possible Species

partnerships & local resources

Background Photo Credit: ​Walker Golder