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County Statistics 
Current County List: 389
Top county lister: 317 (Jon Dunn; 81%) 
Top Big Year: none
Top Big Day: 135* on 6 Sep 1998 (C. Corben, L. Hug, P.J. Metropulos, J. Roth, D. Shuford, E. Strauss)
"Best Bird": Long-billed Murrelet (29 July, 2 & 6 Aug 1983 Mono Lake; found dead)
Close second: Pelagic Cormorant (8 Dec 1976 Silver Lake) 
Contenders: Yellow Rail, White-rumped Sandpiper, singing Eastern Wood-Pewee, Cassin's Sparrow 
Compiler for North American Birds: Kristie Nelson
P.O. Box 402 
Lee Vining CA 93541
storm_petrel@hotmail.com 
Statistics last updated 11/04; see "explanations of county statistics" for details. Thank you to John Sterling, Emilie Strauss, Peter Metropulos, and Kristie Nelson for supplying some of the information here.

Bird Clubs
Eastern Sierra Audubon Society

Birding Sites
Mono Basin - Interactive map
Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve
Bodie State Historical Park
Eastern Sierra Birding Trail
Green Creek
East Walker River
Pickel Meadow
Slinkard - Little Antelope Valley
Crowley Lake Sage Grouse Lek
Inyo National Forest
Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area
Birding the Mono Basin
Yosemite National Park
State Parks

Other Birding Resources
Eastern Sierra Bird Sightings (current)
Eastern Sierra Bird Sightings
(archive)
Mono Lake Recent Bird Sightings
Eastern Sierra Birding Trails
Birds of the Mono Basin
Gulls of Mono Lake
Mono Lake Field Seminars
Inyo National Forest
Birding Inyo National Forest
Tahoe National Forest
Yosemite National Park Checklist
Birds and Birding in the Sierra-Nevada - Email list

Recommended Reference
Birds of Yosemite and the East Slope (1988, 1992) by David Gaines, Artemisia Press.

Please send corrections, additions or updates to Joe Morlan: jmorlan@ccsf.org
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