Birding Sites
MacKerricher State Park
Montgomery Woods Trail
Jug Handle State Reserve
Russian Gulch State Park
Mendocino Headlands State Park
Big River
Ten Mile Coast Trail
Bird Watching at the
Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
18220 North Highway One, Fort Bragg, 707-964-435. All walks are free and start at the Gardens entrance. (Open 7 days a week 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.)
Mendocino Coast Audubon Society
Nesting Birds of the Mendocino Coast: Whimbrel; Sanderling; Marbled Godwit; Western Sandpiper; Killdeer; Snowy Plover.
Some Common Birds of the Mendocino Coast: mallards, wood ducks, oystercatchers, Great Blue Herons, hummingbirds, ravens, woodpeckers.
Spotted Owl taken in the woods in Mendocino.