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.

Several hummingbird species have been spotted throughout California in recent weeks, according to an online map, revealing which of these tiny birds may be headed to your gardens and feeders. Birders ...

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 ...

Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences kept busy throughout 2025. Along with collaborators from across the globe, ...

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 ...

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 ...