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Ted Beedy Ted Beedy has spent most of his life birding in the Sierra, including the Mono Basin. He authored the wildlife chapters of the Water Rights Environmental Impact Report for Mono Lake, and spent three years doing field work in the Mono Basin. Along with Ed Pandolfino, he is co-author of Birds of the Sierra Nevada: Their Natural History, Status, and Distribution, which includes color illustrations of about 270 species by Keith Hansen. He is also a co-author of Hansen's Field Guide to the Birds of the Sierra Nevada. Ted received his Ph.D. in Zoology from UC Davis in 1982 and did his dissertation research on the birds of Yosemite.