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Ted Beedy Ted Beedy has spent most of Ted's life birding in the Sierra, including the Mono Basin. Ted 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, Ted 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. Ted is also a co-author of Hansen's Field Guide to the Birds of the Sierra Nevada. Ted received a Ph.D. in Zoology from UC Davis in 1982 and did dissertation research on the birds of Yosemite. This year will be Ted's 18th Chautauqua.