California is a top destination for birdwatching due to its diverse geography and abundance of bird species. Over 600 bird species, representing about two-thirds of North American bird species, can be ...

By Gloria Dickie In the forests of the Sierra Nevada, the black-backed woodpecker is without parallel. The bird appears ...

Crickets chirp in the night as Gerardo Marrón calls to an elf owl on a Baja California Sur mountainside in late October.

The COVID-19 pandemic changed a lot for human society – but it also caused a local species of bird to rapidly evolve, according to a recent study. Dark-eyed juncos typically live in mountain forests ...

Volunteers with San Diego Bird Alliance and San Diego Gas & Electric clean up Mariners Point to prepare for the arrival of an endangered California bird species on Saturday, March 15, 2025 in San ...

A small bird called the Wilson’s phalarope journeys thousands of miles between California’s Mono Lake and another salt lake in Argentina. The species has inspired connections between scientists and ...

Residents of Marin, and the Bay Area at large, are understandably big fans of the diverse natural landscapes of the coast ranges: forests and woodlands, savannas and marshes, ocean coast and chaparral ...

Across several national parks in the Sierra Nevada, researchers found that the populations of some bird species grew rapidly after fires and remained higher even decades later. Scientists already knew ...

Stacker compiled a list of the most commonly hunted migratory birds in California using data from a report released by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in August 2025. Duck and goose species are ...

PETALUMA, Calif. (KGO) -- When wildfires sweep through California, we often think of the impacts in human terms. But now researchers with the Petaluma-based Institute for Bird Populations are ...