Globally Important Bird Areas in California

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park . view bird guide

Arcata Marsh . view bird guide

Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge . view bird guide

Bodega Bay . view bird guide

Butte Sink National Wildlife Refuge

Butterbredt Spring Wildlife Sanctuary . view bird guide

Camp Pendleton (Santa Margarita River Valley) . view bird guide

Carrizo Plain National Monument . view bird guide

Cibola National Wildlife Refuge . view bird guide

Clear Lake National Wildlife Refuge . view bird guide

Colusa National Wildlife Refuge . view bird guide

Cosumnes River Preserve . view bird guide

Delevan National Wildlife Refuge . view bird guide

Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge (San Francisco Bay) . view bird guide

East Park Reservoir . view bird guide

Eldorado National Forest . view bird guide

Elkhorn Slough . view bird guide

Farallon Islands . view bird guide

Goose Lake . view bird guide

Havasu National Wildlife Refuge . view bird guide

Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge . view bird guide

Imperial National Wildlife Refuge . view bird guide

Joshua Tree National Park . view bird guide

Kings Canyon National Park . view bird guide

Klamath National Forest . view bird guide

Lake Abert . view bird guide

Lake Hodges (San Dieguito River Park) . view bird guide

Lassen National Forest . view bird guide

Lassen Volcanic National Park . view bird guide

Los Banos Wildlife Management Area . view bird guide

Los Padres National Forest . view bird guide

Lower Kalmath National Wildlife Refuge . view bird guide

Merced National Wildlife Refuge . view bird guide

Mojave National Preserve . view bird guide

Mono Lake . view bird guide

Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary . view bird guide

Morro Bay . view bird guide

Mugu Lagoon . view bird guide

Napa-Sonoma Marshes . view bird guide

North Grasslands Wildlife Management Area (The Grasslands Ecological Area) . view bird guide

Plumas National Forest . view bird guide

Point Reyes National Seashore . view bird guide

Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge . view bird guide

Salton Sea . view bird guide

San Bernadino National Forest . view bird guide

San Clemente Island . view bird guide

San Diego National Wildlife Refuge Complex - Otay Sweetwater and Vernal Pools Unit . view bird guide

San Diego National Wildlife Refuge Complex - South San Diego Bay Unit . view bird guide

San Francisco Bay . view bird guide

San Luis National Wildlife Refuge and Great Valley Grasslands State Park . view bird guide

Santa Cruz Island Preserve (Channel Islands National Park) . view bird guide

Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument new IBA! view account

Sequoia National Forest . view bird guide

Sequoia National Park . view bird guide

Shasta-Trinity National Forest . view bird guide

Sierra National Forest . view bird guide

South Fork, Kern River Valley . view bird guide

Stanislaus National Forest . view bird guide

Suisun Marsh . view bird guide

Sutter National Wildlife Refuge . view bird guide

Sweetwater Marsh National Wildlife Refuge . view bird guide

Tahoe National Forest . view bird guide

Tijuana Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve & Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge . view bird guide

Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge . view bird guide

Upper Klamath National Wildlife Refuge

Upper Newport Bay Regional Park and Ecological Reserve . view bird guide

Vandenberg Air Force Base . view bird guide

Volta Wildlife Management Area (The Grasslands Ecological Area) . view bird guide

Yosemite National Park . view bird guide

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