E-mail Discussion Groups (Listservers) of Interest to East Bay Birders

Recent postings from all California birding listservers are collected at http://www.sialia.com/s/calists.pl  

Bay Area

East Bay Birds  Alameda & Contra Costa Counties.  http://folkbird.net/ebb/

North Bay Birds  Sonoma, Marin, Napa, Lake, & Solano Counties.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/northbaybirds/

Peninsula Birding  San Mateo County.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/peninsula-birding/

San Francisco Birds  San Francisco County.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sfbirds/

South Bay Birders  Santa Clara County.  http://www.stanford.edu/~kendric/birds/

California

CalBird  This list appears to be defunct. General discussions of California birding and major sightings anywhere in the state.  http://calbird.kiwi.net/

Calbirds  Discussions of birds and birding in California.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Calbirds

Also see http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~jmorlan/emailmap.htm

Western USA

BirdWest  Transcriptions of Rare Bird Alert hotlines from Alberta to New Mexico and along the West Coast. (You can select particular hotlines if you wish.)  http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdwest.html

AZ-NM Chat  Arizona and New Mexico.  http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~siler/AZNM.html  &  http://www.americanbirding.org/resources/reschat.htm

NVbirds  Nevada.  http://list.audubon.org/archives/nvbirds.html

Oregon Birders On Line (OBOL)  http://www.cyber-dyne.com/~lb/obol.html

Tweeters  Washington state and British Columbia.  http://www.scn.org/earth/tweeters/

General USA

BirdChat  General discussions of birding and sightings of national importance.  http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdchat.html

Northern California (outside the Bay Area)

Central Sierra Birds  Alpine, Calaveras, Mariposa, & Tuolumne Counties, Stanislaus National Forest & Yosemite National Park.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central-sierra-birds/

Central Valley Birds  Central Valley Bird Club discussions.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central_valley_birds/

MendoBirds  Mendocino County.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mendobirds/

Monterey Bay Birds (MBB)  http://www.virtualbirder.com/bmail/mbb/

NWCalBird  Humboldt, Del Norte & Trinity Counties.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nwcalbird/

SJBirds  San Joaquin County.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sjbirds/

Sierra Nevada Birds (Mtn-birds)  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sierra-nevadabirds/

STA_Birds  Stanislaus County.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sta_birds/

Southern California

Inland County Birds  Riverside, San Bernardino, & Imperial Counties.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inlandcountybirds/

LACoBirds  Los Angeles County.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lacobirds/

Orange County Birding  Orange County.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/orangecountybirding/

Pasadena Audubon  Pasadena area.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pasadenaaudubon/

SBCoBirding  Santa Barbara County, Channel Islands, offshore waters.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sbcobirding/

SDBirds  San Diego & Imperial Counties, northern Baja California.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sdbirds/

SLOCoBirding  San Luis Obispo County.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/slocobirding/

VenturaCoBirding  Ventura County.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/venturacobirding/  

Lots More Lists  (all over the world)

ABA Birder Resources: Lists  America.  http://www.americanbirding.org/resources/reschat.htm

Bird Links to the World: Mailing Lists  http://www.bsc-eoc.org/links/links4.html

Listservs: Birding on the Internet (Roger Tory Peterson Institute)  http://www.thayerbirding.com/listserv.htm

Thanks to Mike Feighner for his extensive help with this page.