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This page is a summary of "rare" and "specialty" birds seen recently in southern California and Arizona. Our aim is to update this summary daily. Please understand that not all of these records have been confirmed. The information on this page comes from the following sources:
Rare Birds
Rarities are those birds not expected to be at the indicated location, or not expected at that time of year. They could be vagrant, like a Black-throated Blue Warbler, or a wintering migrant, like a Cliff Swallow. Some birds may be listed because they are locally rare, like a Black Skimmer at Lake Havasu.
Specialty Birds
Specialty birds are those which might be of interest to visitors to our area. Examples might be Black Rail, Mountain Quail, Elegant Trogon, or Le Conte's Thrasher. Even though it's possible to see or hear many of these specialty birds year-round, it's always nice to know when someone reports them, and where they were seen.
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| ARIZONA Rare & Specialty Bird Sightings - Mar 10, 2013 - Mar 16, 2013 | ||
SUN |
SOUTHEAST AZ |
Florida Canyon: Rufous-capped Warbler; Painted Redstart Whitewater Draw: Sandhill Crane (3700); Ruddy Ground-dove Miller Canyon: Spotted Owl; Hepatic Tanager Sierra Vista, San Pedro House: Fox Sparrow |
CENTRAL AZ |
Hassayampa Preserve: Common Black-hawk; Lawrence's Goldfinch; Summer Tanager | |
NORTHERN AZ |
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WESTERN AZ |
Bill Williams NWR: White-winged Scoter (3); Long-tailed Duck; Barrow's Goldeneye (6); Red-throated Loon (3); Pacific Loon (2) Havasu Springs Resort: Pacific Loon; Horned Grebe (2) Kofa NWR: Bendire's Thrasher (2) Crissal Thrasher |
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MON |
SOUTHEAST AZ |
San Pedro River: Pacific Wren Patagonia: Gray Hawk (Empire Ranch Rd); Chihuahuan Raven; Phainopepla Harshaw Creek Rd: Hepatic Tanager Tubac: Common Black-hawk (25) |
CENTRAL AZ |
Anthem: Rufous Hummingbird Boyce Thompson Arboretum: Williamson's Sapsucker (2) |
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NORTHERN AZ |
Verde Valley: Grasshopper Sparrow (10) | |
WESTERN AZ |
TUE |
SOUTHEAST AZ |
Patagonia Lake SP: Common Black-hawk Patagonia, Paton's House: White-throated Sparrow Hereford, Miller Canyon Rd: Broad-billed Hummingbird |
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CENTRAL AZ |
Boyce Thompson Arboretum: Common Black-hawk; Williamson's Sapsucker (2); Phainopepla; Painted Redstart (3) | ||
NORTHERN AZ |
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WESTERN AZ |
Havasu NWR, Pintail Slough: Eastern Phoebe |
WED |
SOUTHEAST AZ |
Hereford, Ash Canyon: Lucifer Hummingbird; Mexican Jay; Pyrrhuloxia Sierra Vista, San Pedro House: Gray Hawk (Kingfisher Pond); Fox Sparrow; White-throated Sparrow Tucson, migrating: Common Black-hawk (7); Gray Hawk (2) Tubac, migrating: Common Black-hawk (17) |
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CENTRAL AZ |
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NORTHERN AZ |
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WESTERN AZ |
Bill Williams NWR: Lucy's Warbler (6); Red-shouldered Hawk; Lawrence's Goldfinch |
THU |
SOUTHEAST AZ |
Agua Caliente Park: Northern Beardless-tyrannulet (2) Tubac: Common Black-hawk (4); Zone-tailed Hawk (3) Catalina SP: Northern Beardless-tyrannulet (3); Lucy's Warbler Patagonia, Paton House: Violet-crowned Hummingbird; Broad-billed Hummingbird Huachuca Mts: Elf Owl; Broad-tailed Hummingbird |
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CENTRAL AZ |
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NORTHERN AZ |
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WESTERN AZ |
FRI |
SOUTHEAST AZ |
Roger Road WRF: Yellow-throated Warbler Tubac: Common Black-hawk (38); Zone-tailed Hawk; Ferruginous Hawk; Gray Hawk |
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CENTRAL AZ |
Sunflower: Common Black-hawk |
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NORTHERN AZ |
Verde Valley: Common Black-hawk (V bar V Heritage Center) Oak Creek Canyon, Grasshopper Pt: Pacific Wren; Broad-tailed Hummingbird |
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WESTERN AZ |
Bill Williams NWR, Planet Ranch Rd: Lawrence's Goldfinch (4+) |
SAT |
SOUTHEAST AZ |
Huachuca Canyon: Painted Redstart (23); Elegant Trogon (2); Arizona Woodpecker (3) |
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CENTRAL AZ |
Mt Ord: Black-chinned Sparrow; Painted Redstart (6); Olive Warbler (2); Crissal Thrasher Sunflower: Common Black-hawk (2); Zone-tailed Hawk (2) |
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NORTHERN AZ |
Flagstaff: Eurasian Wigeon (Mormon Lake); Rough-legged Hawk (Mormon Lake Overlook); Evening Grosbeak (10, Mormon Lakes Lodge) | ||
WESTERN AZ |
Yuma: Burrowing Owl (12); Crissal Thrasher (2); Ferruginous Hawk (8) Martinez Lake: Neotropic Cormorant (2) |
| CALIFORNIA Rare & Specialty Bird Sightings - Mar 10, 2013 - Mar 16, 2013 | ||
SUN |
SAN DIEGO CO. |
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IMPERIAL CO. |
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RIVERSIDE CO. |
San Jacinto WA: Iceland Gull |
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| MON | SAN DIEGO CO. |
Dairy Mart Pond: Eastern Phoebe; White-collared Seedeater Spring Valley: Grace's Warbler Lower Otay Lake: Bay-breasted Warbler; Prairie Warbler San Diego Bay, south: Reddish Egret (2) Borrego Springs: Swainson's Hawk (80) |
IMPERIAL CO. |
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RIVERSIDE CO. |
| TUE | SAN DIEGO CO. |
El Cajon: Lawrence's Goldfinch (40, private yard) Poway: Varied Thrush (Del Paseo Dr) |
IMPERIAL CO. |
Salton Sea: Cave Swallow (2, gun club on Pound Rd) | |
RIVERSIDE CO. |
| WED | SAN DIEGO CO. |
San Diego: Eastern Phoebe (across from SD Mission) Fort Rosecrans: Pacific Wren; Lawrence's Goldfinch |
IMPERIAL CO. |
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RIVERSIDE CO. |
Bootsma Dairy: Glaucous Gull; Mew Gull |
| THU | SAN DIEGO CO. |
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IMPERIAL CO. |
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RIVERSIDE CO. |
Riverside: Swainson's Hawk (27, south of Scott and Leon Rds) Salton Sea, North Shore: Neotropic Cormorant |
| FRI | SAN DIEGO CO. |
Fort Rosecrans Natl Cemetery: Pacific Wren |
IMPERIAL CO. |
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RIVERSIDE CO. |
| SAT | SAN DIEGO CO. |
Julian: Spotted Owl Borrego Valley: Crissal Thrasher; Lawrence's Goldfinch Laguna Mts, Agua Dulce Rd: Pacific Wren Famosa Slough: Summer Tanager Jacumba: Lawrence's Goldfinch; Tricolored Blackbird (60) |
IMPERIAL CO. |
Salton Sea: Cave Swallow; Neotropic Cormorant (5) | |
RIVERSIDE CO. |
Last update: March 17, 2013