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  • About
    • History & Mission
    • Staff & Board
    • Annual Reports
  • Birding
    • Area Birding Guide
    • CONSERVATION
    • Plants for Birds
    • Birding By Bus
    • Birding News
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Join/Renew
    • Donate
    • Volunteer
    • Calendar
  • Education
  • Resources
    • FAQ
    • Bird Safety & Ethics
    • INJURED BIRD? OR BABY BIRD OUT OF NEST?
    • Urban Waterfowl
  • Store
  • CONTACT US

BIRDING RESOURCES

​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
Background Photo Credit: ​Walker Golder

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Lahontan Audubon Society
PO Box 2304
Reno, NV 89505-2304
[email protected]
Lahontan Audubon Society Mission Statement:
To preserve and improve the remaining habitat of birds and other wildlife, restore historical habitat, and educate people, especially children, ​about birds in our unique Nevada environments.
Bird Photos by Jeff Bleam
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