Last revised 23 June 2007
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Google (very impressive
at finding most relevant sites)
Soople
(easy interface for Google's advanced searches)
Teoma
(if Google doesn't find it, try this one)
KillerInfo
(another good search engine with useful features)
Open
Directory Project (volunteer editors select the best sites)
About.com
(formerly The Mining Company)
Michigan
eLibrary
My Virtual Reference
Desk
Education World Search
Engine
FINDOUT
Learn2.com--the
ability utility
Alameda Creek
Alliance
Aņo Nuevo State Reserve
Aquatic Outreach Institute
Audubon
San Francisco Bay Restoration Program
Bay
Area Backroads (KRON-TV)
Bay Area Discovery
Museum (Fort Baker, Sausalito)
Bay
Area Ramblings with Arnel Guanlao
Bay
Area Ridge Trail Council
Bay Area
Transit Information Project
Bay
Crossings magazine
The
Bay Model (Sausalito)
Bay Nature
magazine
Bay
Trail
Bicycle Trails Council of
the East Bay
Bodega Marine Laboratory
(Bodega Bay)
Bouverie Preserve
(Glen Ellen)
California Academy of
Sciences (Golden Gate Park, San Francisco)
California
Coastal Trail
California Delta
Chambers of Commerce & Visitors Bureau
California
Native Plant Society
California State
Parks
Chabot Space & Science
Center (Oakland)
Coastal
Conservancy
Coastwalk
Coyote
Point Museum (San Mateo)
Crab
Cove Visitor Center (Alameda)
Don
Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
East
Bay Regional Parks
Eastshore
State Park
Elkhorn Slough National
Estuarine Research Reserve (Watsonville)
Exploratorium
Golden Gate Biosphere
Reserve
Golden Gate National Recreation
Area
Golden
Gate Park (San Francisco)
Greenbelt
Alliance
Guadalupe River Park & Gardens
(San Jose)
Gulf of the Farallones National
Marine Sanctuary
Hayward
Shoreline Interpretive Center
Jasper
Ridge Biological Preserve (Stanford University)
Jepson
Herbarium (UC Berkeley)
Lawrence
Hall of Science (Berkeley)
Lindsay
Wildlife Museum (Walnut Creek)
Marin
Agricultural Land Trust
Marin
County Open Space District
Marin
County Parks
Marine Mammal Center
(Marin Headlands)
Marin
Headlands
Midpeninsula Regional
Open Space District
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Mount Diablo Interpretive Association
Mount Tamalpais Interpretive Association
Oakland Museum of California
Oakland
Zoo
Occidental Arts and
Ecology Center (Sonoma County)
Palo
Alto Baylands Preserve
Point
Reyes National Seashore
Point Reyes
National Seashore Association (Field Seminars)
Randall
Museum San Francisco
Regional
Parks Foundation (East Bay)
Rotary
Nature Center (Lake Merritt, Oakland)
San
Francisco Bay Restoration (Audubon)
San
Francisco Estuary Project
San Francisco
Zoo
Santa Clara County Parks
Save San Francisco Bay Association
Sempervirens Fund (coastal redwood
preservation)
Shorebird
Nature Center (Berkeley Marina)
Sierra
Club (San Francisco Bay chapter)
Six
Flags Marine World (Vallejo)
Sonoma
County Regional Parks
Strybing Arboretum
& Botanical Gardens (Golden Gate Park, San Francisco)
Sulphur
Creek Nature Center (Hayward)
Sunnyvale
Baylands Park
Tech Museum of Innovation
(San Jose)
Mike Thoma's
SF Bay Area Nature Hikes
Transit
Outdoors
Virtual Parks (move
around in panoramic views of many local parks)
Wildflower
Hotsheet (learn or report where they're blooming right now)
ABA
Checklist of Birds of North America
Alameda
County Birding Page
Altacal Audubon
Society (Butte/Glenn/Tehama counties)
American
Bird Conservancy
American Birding
Association
American Ornithologists' Union
Arcata Marsh & Wildlife
Sanctuary
Association of
Field Ornithologists
Audubon California
Audubon
Canyon Ranch
Audubon Naturalist
Society (Washington DC)
Audubon Society
(National)
Avian
Botulism fact sheet
Avian
Influenza (Bird Flu)
The Aviary - Information
Resource for Birding and Companion Birds
Bald
Eagle nestcam (Massachusetts)
Barred
Owl nestcam (Massachusetts)
Bent
Life Histories of Birds On-line
Bird
Banding Laboratory (info on reporting bird bands)
Bird
Banding and Migration Studies (Coyote Creek, south SF Bay)
Birdcare.com
- Jacobi Jayne & Co. wild bird pages
Bird
clipart
Birder.com
Birders
and Their Birds (who is that bird named for?)
Birder's
World (magazine)
Bird
Families of the World
The Bird Guide
(BC/WA/OR/ID/CA)
Bird Identification
Birding Hotspots Around the World
The Birdhouse
Network (nestcams and more)
Birding
(magazine)
Birding in Canada
Birding
Online Magazines
Birding on the Web
Birding
Resources (Yahoo)
BirdLinks
Bird Links to the World
Bird Longevity
Records
Bird magazine
on-line index
Bird Monitoring
in North America (Christmas counts, breeding surveys, etc.)
Birdnet
- The Ornithological Information Source
BirdNutz
(Les Chibana guided outings)
Birds
& Blooms (magazine - gardens, birdhouses, bird feeding, etc.)
Birds of Berkeley
Birds
of North America (life histories for the 21st century)
Birds
of Prey in California
Birds of
the World on Postage Stamps
BirdSource
Birds West
Birdwatching
Dot Com - About Wild Birds and Birdfeeding
Birdwatching
in Northern Ireland
Birdzilla.com
Bobelaine Audubon Sanctuary
Calbird Mailing
List Message Archive
California
Audubon Sanctuaries
California
Birding Hotspots
California
Birding Lists Digest
Joe
Morlan's California Birding Pages
California
Bird Records Committee
California
Delta Birding
California Dept of Fish
& Game
California Duck Days
(Davis)
California Fish &
Game Laws
California
North Coast Wildlife Society
California
Raptor Center (Davis)
Cats
and Wildlife (links to many resources)
Cats
Indoors! (campaign for safer cats and birds)
CAVNET
- Cavity-nesting Bird Research
Central
Coast Birding Trail (Ventura County to Monterey County)
Central
Sierra Audubon Society
Central Valley
Bird Club
Central
Valley Birds mailing list
Christmas
Bird Count Database (data for each USA count 1900-2000 can be viewed)
Clark's Nutcracker
in California
Contra
Costa County Birding Page
Contra
Costa County Breeding Bird Atlas
Cornell
Lab of Ornithology
Cosumnes
River Preserve (south of Sacramento)
Coyote
Creek Riparian Station
Dutch Birding
Association
Eagle Optics (good
prices on binoculars & scopes)
The
Eagle Page
East Bay Birders Circle
Eastern Sierra Audubon Society
Elsie
Roemer Bird Sanctuary
Fresno
Audubon Society
Fresno
County Birding Page
Gay
Birders Club (for gay & lesbian birdwatchers worldwide)
Golden
Gate Audubon Society
Golden Gate Raptor
Observatory
Steve
Hampton's Birding Page (Yolo County)
Hawk
Watch Results (current data, NE USA only)
Herons
& Egrets in California
Humboldt
County Birding Page
The Hummingbird
Web Page
Hummingbirds!
Hummingbirds.net
International
Bird Rescue (Cordelia)
Kern
Audubon Society (Bakersfield)
Kern
County Birding Page
Kerncrest
Audubon Society (Ridgecrest, Calif.)
Lake
County Birding Page
LANIUS Software
(software for birders, Fairfield)
Longevity
records (from banded birds)
Los
Angeles Audubon Society
Madrone
Audubon Society (Santa Rosa)
Magpies
in California
Marin Audubon Society
Marin County Birding Page
Mendocino Coast Audubon Society
(Fort Bragg)
Mendocino
County Birding Page
Merced
County Birding Page
Migratory
Bird Management (USF&WS)
Monterey
Birding Adventures (Rick Fournier custom birding outings)
Monterey
County Birding Page
Monterey
Peninsula Audubon Society
Joe
Morlan's California Birding Pages
Mount
Diablo Audubon Society
Napa
County Birding Page
Napa-Solano
Audubon Society
National
Birding Hotline Cooperative (various e-mail lists and their archives, including
BirdChat)
National Fish & Wildlife Foundation
National Wetlands Inventory
National
Wildlife Refuges
Nature
Conservancy
Nature Sounds Society
Nest
Box Cam (bluebird & chickadee nests in the Carolinas)
Noel's
Very Birdy Web Site (Florida)
North
Bay Bird Guide: Lisa Hug
Northern
California BirdBox (transcripts of rare bird alerts)
Oakland
Bird Club
Ohlone Audubon Society
Optics for Birding
Oregon
Birders On-Line
The O.W.L. - Ornithological
Web Library
Owls
& Owling (with special reference to the Bay Area)
Owls
of North America
Pacific
Seabird Group
Palo
Alto Baylands Preserve
Partners
in Flight
Patuxent Migratory
Bird Research Center (analysis of CBC & BBS data)
Peregrine
Audubon Society (Ukiah)
Peregrine
Falcon nestcam (Pittsburgh PA)
Peregrine
Falcon nestcam (Seattle WA)
Peterson
Online Birds
Point Reyes Bird Observatory
Project Feederwatch
Quail at Coyote Hills
Raptor Research Foundation
Redbud Audubon Society (Lake County)
Redwood Region Audubon Society
Royal Society for
the Protection of Birds
Sacramento
Audubon Society
Sacramento
County Birding Page
San
Benito County Birding Page
Sandhill
Cranes in California
San Francisco Bay
Bird Observatory
Bird
Checklist for San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuges
San
Francisco Bay Wildlife Society
San
Francisco County Birding Page
San Francisco
Field Ornithologists
San
Joaquin Audubon Society
San
Joaquin County Birding Page
San
Mateo County Birding Page
Santa
Clara County Birding Page
Santa Clara
Valley Audubon Society
Santa
Cruz Bird Club
Santa
Cruz County Birding Page
Sequoia
Audubon Society (San Mateo County)
Shearwater
Journeys (Northern California pelagic trips)
Sierra
Foothills Audubon Society
Solano
County Birding Page
Sonoma
County Birding Page
South
Bay Birders Unlimited
Stanislaus
Audubon Society
Stanislaus
County Birding Page
TeenBirdChat
(discussions among young birders)
Texas
Whooping Cranes (migration reports, links to other crane sites)
Thayer
Birding Software
Tiburon Audubon
Center
Tree
Swallow nestcam (Ithaca NY)
Tsuru
(Bird and Mammal Images)
Tulare
County Audubon Society
Tweeters
(Washington & British Columbia birding)
VGI
Vision Foundation (data on North American bird observations)
The
Virtual Birder
Warbler
Watch
Waterfowl &
Wetlands Office (USF&WS)
Western
Birds (magazine)
Western Field
Ornithologists
West
Nile Virus
Whooping
Crane Eastern Partnership (migration with ultralight plane)
Wild
Bird Center of Walnut Creek
Wild
Bird Habitats (on-line sales of feeders, houses, etc.)
Wild
Birds Unlimited Feeder Cam ("live" views of backyard feeders in
New Jersey)
Wild Birds
Unlimited (Dublin)
Wild Birds
Unlimited (Pleasant Hill)
Wild
Birds Unlimited (San Jose)
Wild
Wings: Heading North
Wintu Audubon
Society (Redding)
Woodendipity
(whimsical bird houses & feeders)
Ya
Know You're a Birder (cartoons)
Yolo
Audubon Society
Yolo
County Birding Page
Amazon.com
Banned
Books Online
Bibliofind (old,
used & rare books from thousands of bookdealers)
On-Line
Books Page (links to thousands of books you can read on-line)
University
of California Press
Amazon.com
Black Swan Records (good
source for Canadian releases)
CD Europe
CD Universe
Down
Home Music (roots music of the world)
FolkWeb
(independent folk and acoustic artists)
Ladyslipper
Music (music by women - and some myn)
World
Wide Music
Annie's Annuals
Bay Area Gardener
Berkeley
Horticultural Nursery
Butterflies
California Botanical
Data (native plant photos, range maps, etc.)
California
Native Plant Society
Fine
Gardening (magazine)
The
Garden Gate (magazine)
Green
Landscaping with Native Plants (info from EPA)
Horticulture
(magazine)
Invasive Species
(plants & animals)
Lady Bird Johnson
Wildflower Center (Austin TX)
Magic
Gardens (nursery in Berkeley)
Milaeger's
Gardens (Racine WI)
Old House
Gardens (heirloom bulbs - Ann Arbor MI)
Pine
Ridge Gardens (birds, butterflies, native plants, wetlands, etc.)
Regan's
Nursery
Secret Gardens of the
East Bay (Park Day School tour each April)
Timeless
Roses (lots of useful info)
Wild
Ones (advocates for native plants)
Big Fib (What do you
want to believe today?)
The Onion
(satirical newspaper - some vulgar language)
Rec.humor.funny
Home Page
Acme Mapper (switch
between aerial photos and topo maps)
California Highway Conditions
DeLorme
| CyberMaps
GlobeXplorer
(satellite and aerial photos)
Google Maps
Green Map
System
MapQuest
The
Right Site - Demographic Reports
San
Francisco Bay Area Historic Topographic Maps
TerraServer
(aerial photos and topo maps)
Topozone
(topo maps)
U.S. Gazetteer
USGS Mapping Information:
GNIS Data Base Query
University
of Texas Online Map Collection (historical/current for most everywhere)
Beedle Um Bum - our folk/world
music info and links
California
Folk Music Home Page
Folk
Music, An Index to Recorded Resources
Folk
Music Home Page
FolkWeb - On-Line
CD Store and Listening Room
Freight
& Salvage Coffeehouse (Berkeley)
I
Hear America Singing (Library of Congress)
Musician's
Home Pages
Songs.com
Ragtime
Home Page
Fortissimo Folk Music
Early Recorded Sounds
AlterNet (the mix is the
message)
Antiwar.com
(a Libertarian viewpoint)
Archaeology
Magazine
The Wire (Associated
Press)
BAG News Notes (discussion/analysis
of news images)
Bakersfield Californian
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Bush
Watch
Cagle's
Political Cartoons ("all the top editorial cartoonists")
The
Christian Science Monitor
San Francisco
Chronicle (sfgate.com)
Coastal
Post (Bolinas - not your typical free monthly!)
Comics.com
Ucomics.com
Common
Dreams (progressive news & views, links to worldwide news services)
Contra Costa Times
Counterpunch
(webzine by Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St Clair)
Daily
Kos (The State of the Nation)
East
Bay Express
The Electronic
Intifada (the viewpoint from Palestine)
Environmental
Health News
Environmental News Network
San Francisco Examiner
Failure
Is Impossible
FAIR (Fairness &
Accuracy in Reporting)
Food First
(Institute for Food & Development Policy)
Fresno
Bee
The Funny Times (cartoons
and more)
Global Exchange (building
people to people ties)
Globalize
Justice - Not War!
Grist Magazine
(environmental news from Earth Day network)
The
Guardian (London)
Jim
Hightower (America's #1 Populist)
Huffington
Post
The
Independent (London)
Independent
Media Center
Indian Country
(American Indian news)
Informed Comment
(Juan Cole on the Middle East)
Institute for
Public Accuracy (consortium of policy researchers)
Molly
Ivins (she can't say that, can she?)
Jinn
(Pacific News Service)
Left
Business Observer
Liberal Opinion
Week
Los Angeles Times
Media
Alliance
San
Jose Mercury News
The Nation
New California Media (ethnic & other
non-mainstream media)
New Left Review
The New York Times
News
Dissector (Danny Schechter)
Nieman
Watchdog (Questions the press should ask)
The
Nonviolence Web
Oakland Tribune
Greg Palast
The
Progressive
The Progressive Populist
(a different viewpoint from Iowa)
Progressive
Review
Reclaim Democracy
(restoring citizen authority over corporations)
ReliefWeb
(news about humanitarian relief)
Rough
& Tumble (California public policy & politics - links to today's
news)
Salon.com
Science
News Online - The Weekly Newsmagazine of Science
The
Smirking Chimp (ask not at whom the chimp smirks)
Talking
Points Memo
Third World Network
This Modern World (Tom Tomorrow
tells it like it is)
Tidepool (West
Coast environmental news)
Tom Dispatch
(a regular antidote to the mainstream media)
Tom Paine.com
(a journal of opinion)
truthout
UN Wire (news about
UN from UN Foundation)
The War in
Context
Washington Monthly
Washington Post
ZNet
(A Community of People Concerned About Social Change)
A&E (cable TV channel)
Air America Radio
Al-Jazeera (Arab cable TV, English-language
website)
BBC
Bravo
(cable TV channel)
CNN
Democracy
Now
Flashpoints & Dennis Bernstein
Free Radio Berkeley (International Radio
Action Training Education)
FreeSpeech
Internet TV (because the people know better)
Free
Speech TV (part-time cable network)
History
Channel (cable TV)
Independent Film
Channel (cable TV)
KALW
KALX
KCBS
(all-news radio)
KFCF (Free Speech Radio
for Central California)
KMUD (Redwood
Community Radio, Garberville)
KPFA
KPFA Local Advisory Board
KPIG
KQED
KTEH
KVMR (community radio in Nevada City)
KZYX (Mendocino County)
Midnight Special (WFMT, Chicago)
Minnesota Public Radio
National
Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB)
National
Public Radio (NPR)
Pacifica Foundation/Network
A Prairie Home Companion
Public
Broadcasting Service (PBS, TV)
RadioSpace
Sunday Salon (Larry Bensky, KPFA)
WUMB Folk Radio (streaming folk music 24/7)
Allergy & Asthma Information
Ancestry.com (many genealogical
resources, a lot requiring paid subscription)
Butterfly
Website
California Biodiversity
Council
California
Heritage Digital Image Access Project
California
Voter Foundation
Center for Democracy
and Technology
Computer
Virus alerts and hoaxes
Conversion
of measurement units
Cyndi's List
of Geneology Sites on the Internet
Earthquakes
- Up-to-the-minute info on Bay Area quakes
Evolution
vs Creationism
ExpertCity (on-line
computer help)
Free Speech Movement Archives
(our picture is here!)
History House
How
Stuff Works
HTML Writers Guild Website
Human Rights Watch
Internet
Archive Wayback Machine
Internet
Movie Database
Internet Broadway Database
Internet
Scams & Hoaxes
League of Women
Voters
Library of Congress
The
Living Internet
National Lawyers
Guild (know your legal rights)
National
Security Archive (secret documents declassified through FOIA)
The
Nature Conservancy
Neat stuff
on the web (the librarian without walls)
netLibrary
(e-books to view or buy)
Project Vote Smart
RootsWeb
Geneaological Data Cooperative (surnames, places, census data, etc., etc.)
Tide and Current Predictor
Time
(official US Time)
UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights (Geneva conventions, etc.)
University
of California Digital Library
Urban
Legends (history, facts, sociology)
Urban
Legends Reference Pages (San Fernando Valley Folklore Society)
Usernomics
(ergonomics, plus a great metasite)
US Geological
Survey
Webmonkey (Website
design)
Webopedia (dictionary of
computer terminology)
West
Nile Virus
The Word Detective
The Word Spy (newly
coined English words and phrases)
World Watch Institute
World
Wide Words (meaning and origin of English words & phrases)
Bay
Area Doppler Radar
Eureka
Doppler Radar
AccuWeather
(lots of detailed local information)
East
Bay Weather & Tides
Willits/Brooktrails
Forecast
NWS
Bay Area Forecast Discussion and Glossary
Eureka
Forecast Discussion and Glossary
Northern
California Doppler Radar
National Weather Service - Bay
Area/Monterey
NWS - Eureka
NWS - National Home
Page
Paul's Weather (serving
the Bay Area since 1995)
El
Niņo info and links
La
Niņa info and links
Current
rainfall amounts
Regional
Doppler Radar
Weatherbase.com
(long-term averages for worldwide locations)
The
Weather Channel
Weather
Channel West Central Radar Loop
Weather
Channel Southwestern Radar Loop
Weather
Underground (includes historical data)
NOTE:
The radar loops will take some time to download a number of images, then give
you an animated time sequence.
The Christmas Revels
(highly recommended)
Metagrrrl (Larry's
niece Dinah)
Daily Alice (Larry's
sister Jinx)
The Earth Flag (expand
your patriotic scope!)
Introduction
to the Game of Go
Mind Fun
American Peace Flag (support America
and peace)
Planet
Patriot
Poems (including Poem of
the Day)
