• Bird Species Seen in the North Hills (by month, 2-page PDF), 2005,   2006,   2007,   2008,   2009,   2010,   2011,   2012 [updated 1-31-12]
  
• Bird Species - Kay's Complete Neighborhood List (1-page PDF)   (June 1993-April 2011) [updated 5-31-11]
  
• Bird Species - Dave Quady's Winter List (1-page PDF)   (1976 - 2011) [updated 1-2-12]
  
• Butterfly and Moth Species in Claremont Canyon (1-page PDF)   (Butterflies and Moths identified since 2006) [updated 9-22-11]
  
• Wild Plants of the Claremont Canyon Watershed (7-page PDF) by  scientific or common name [ updated 7-22-11]
  
• EBRPD: Claremont Canyon Wild Plants list, 2003 (11-page PDF) or Wildflower photos, 2007 (18-page PDF)
  
• Plants of Garber Park, Oakland, CA (3-page PDF)   (Survey by Lech Naumovich, July-November 2006, updated by KHL 9-1-11)
  
• Bryophytes of Garber Park, Oakland, CA (1-page PDF)   (Survey by Dan Norris, November 2011)
• Fungus Species in Claremont Canyon (2-page PDF)   (Mushrooms identified since 2006) [updated 7-09-10]
  
• Lichen Species in Claremont Canyon (2-page PDF)   (California Lichen Society Survey 2009) [updated 12-29-09] (Map Showing Lichen Sites)
  

FIELD GUIDE RECOMMENDATIONS

For authoritative assistance in species identification, nothing beats a good field guide!  Here are a few of my favorites:

General Fauna

      Illustrated Guide to Common Animals of the East Bay Hills. Illustrated by Dana Gardner. Plastic laminated
      folding sheet, produced by the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, Spring 2011. Remarkably good pictures of
      most of the bird, butterfly, reptile, amphibian, and mammal species we are likely to see in Claremont
            Canyon. Purchase from Botanical Garden shop.

Birds

Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 6th Edition. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2011.

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America, by David Allen Sibley. New York: Knopf, 2003.

Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, by Roger Tory Peterson, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.

Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America, by Ted Floyd. New York: Harper Collins, 2008.

Mammals

Mammals of North America, by Roland W. Kays. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2002. (Princeton Field             Guides).

Mammals of North America, by Kenn Kaufman. Boston: Houton Mifflin, 2004 (Kaufman Focus Guides).

Butterflies

Field Guide to Butterflies of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley Regions, by Arthur M. Shapiro.             Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007 (California Natural History Guides, #92).

Butterflies through Binoculars: The West, by Jeffrey Glassberg. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001.

Common Butterflies of California, by Bob Stewart. West Coast Lady Press, 1997. [Probably out-of-print; but           worth looking for.]

Local Butterflies of the San Francisco Bay Area. Local Guides to Nature Science, 2002. [Laminated folding           plastic sheet.]

Plants

Plants of the San Francisco Bay Region: Mendocino to Monterey, Rev. ed. by Linda H. Beidleman and
        Eugene N. Kozloff. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Annotated Checklist of the East Bay Flora, compiled by Barbara Ertter. California Native Plant Society, East
        Bay Chapter, Special Publication #3, 1997. [Not actually a field guide; but useful in determining possible
        local species.]

Plants of the East Bay Parks, by Glenn Keator, Roberts Rinehart Publisher, 1994. [Probably out-of-print; but
        worth looking for.]

Mushrooms - recommended by Debbie Viess, Bay Area Mycological Society

All That the Rain Promises and More ...A hip pocket guide to western mushrooms, by David Arora. Berkeley:
        Ten Speed Press, 1991.

Mushrooms Demystified, 2nd edition, by David Arora. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1986.

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