San Diego County's
Butterfly, Dragonfly, & Birding Information
California Butterflies & California Dragonflies
Images of California Dragonflies
Images of California Butterflies
CalOdes / DSA Dragonfly Blitz I 2005
CalOdes / DSA Dragonfly Blitz II 2006
CalOdes / DSA Dragonfly Blitz III 2007
A History of California Dragonflying by Kathy Biggs
Who's Who in California Dragonflying
A California Ode Big Year by Don Roberson
Dragonfly Websites
CALIFORNIA DRAGONFLIES & DAMSELFLIES
Dragonflies (Odonata) of the Southwest
The Dragonfly Society of the Americas (D.S.A.)
&
click on logo to visit web site
Los Angeles NABA: www.naba.org/chapters/nabala/index.htm
Orange County NABA: www.naba.org/chapters/nabaoc/index.html
The Xerces Society
Click on Logo to visit web site
Places to go and see Butterflies & Dragonflies in San Diego & Imperial Counties:
San Diego County & Imperial County Dragonfly Locations-Click "Here"
American Butterflies Magazine article on the Anza-Borrego State Park-Click "Here"
Monarch Wintering Grounds in San Diego County- Click "Here"
From the Texas State Parks & Wildlife Dept.
How to Watch: PDF format
Checklist & other links
An Annotated List of the Butterflies of San Diego County, California- 1930 by William S. Wright, the County Supervisor of Nature Study and Curator of Insects, San Diego Society of Natural History.- I transcribed this document almost exactly as written, so some of the language has changed over the years. I hope you enjoy this step into the history of early Naturalist in San Diego County. Click here!
USGS San Diego Checklist
California Dragonflies & Damsels: A key to I.D.'s by Kathy Biggs-Click Here
Dragonflies and Damselflies of Orange County- Click Here
Butterfly Gardening:
Public Butterfly Gardens of San Diego County-Click "Here"
U.C. Irvine List of Native Plants-http://.mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/biodiv/bflyplnt.htm
L.A. NABA's Native Plant Guide for Butterflies (downloadable)
Need Native Plants for your garden?
Click on the Flower for their web site
Las Pilitas Nursery-
This is the best Native Plant Nursery in the County! Please buy your native plants from these good folks!
CalOdes
Listserv- To subscribe-
CalOdes is an E-Mail listserv, that you can receive either immediately,
or in digest version through your E-Mail. Many top Odonata people are on this
list, and it is a place to report your sightings of Dragonflies &
Damselflies in California, and help establish more information on their Status
& Distribution.
San Diego County's
Birding Information
SDBirds
Listserv-
To subscribe-
San Diego Birds is an E-Mail
listserv, that you can receive immediately, or in a digest version through your
E-mail. Many of San Diego's top birders are on the list, and discussions are
open to anything dealing with the Birds, Birders, and anything Birding in the
San Diego County of Southern California.
San Diego County's *400* Club
Here is a list of the people who have put in the time, and dedication to drop everything on a moments notice to chase vagrant birds in the County, or was out in the field, finding these birds. All listed have seen 400 or more species in San Diego County. Click here to see the Club members and their numbers.
An interesting article about Ethics in the field for Birders and Photographers by Tom Webster
San Diego County Stats
Contenders: Black-tailed Gull, Belcher's Gulls, Purple Gallinule, Xantus's Hummingbird , Magnificent Hummingbird, & Townsend's Shearwaters
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