Wild Life in the North Hills

WILD LIFE in the NORTH HILLS
Flora and Fauna of Claremont Canyon, Oakland, California

WILDLIFE BOOKLET

Wildlife of the North Hills: Birds, Animals, Butterflies (14-page PDF Booklet) [updated 4-30-08]
(The pages of this Wildlife PDF, if printed in 'landscape mode' on both sides, can be stacked and folded to form a 5.5x8.5" booklet.)

Wildlife of the North Hills: Birds, Animals, Butterflies (34-page PDF) [updated 4-30-08]

Birds only (23-page PDF) [updated 4-30-08]
Animals only (9-page PDF) [updated 12-23-05]
Butterflies only (8-page PDF) [updated 6-23-06]

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BIRD AND PLANT LISTS

Bird Species Seen in the North Hills (by month, 2-page PDF), 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 [updated 11-01-08]
Bird Species - Kay's Complete Neighborhood List (1-page PDF) (June 1993-April 2008) [updated 4-30-08]
Bird Species - Dave Quady's Winter List (1-page PDF) (1976 - 2007) [updated 5-07-08]
Wild Plants of the Claremont Canyon Watershed (7-page PDF) by scientific or common name [ updated 5-07-08]
EBRPD: Claremont Canyon Wild Plants list, 2003 (11-page PDF) or Wildflower photos, 2007 (18-page PDF)
Plants of Garber Park, Oakland, CA (2-page PDF) (Survey by Lech Naumovich, July-November 2006)

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FIELD GUIDE RECOMMENDATIONS

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

Birds: Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 5th Edition. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2006.; The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America, by David Allen Sibley. New York: Knopf, 2003.; Field Guide to Western Birds, by Roger Tory Peterson, 3rd Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. (Peterson Field Guides: 2).; Birds of North America, by Kenn Kaufman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. (Kaufman Focus Guides).
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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