California Adventure, Apr 2013
2-8 Apr 2013
by
Henry Detwiler
Göran, Lena, and I spent a fine week of birding from San Francisco to San Diego via Big Sur, Idyllwild, the Salton Sea, and the Laguna Mountains. The checklist below has the birds that we heard and saw during our journey!
| Pacific Loon |
| Common Loon |
| Pied-billed Grebe |
| Eared Grebe |
| Western Grebe |
| Clark's Grebe |
| American White Pelican |
| Brown Pelican |
| Brandt's Cormorant |
| Double-crested Cormorant |
| Pelagic Cormorant |
| American Bittern |
| Least Bittern |
| Great Blue Heron |
| Great Egret |
| Snowy Egret |
| Little Blue Heron |
| Cattle Egret |
| Green Heron |
| Black-crowned Night Heron |
| Yellow-crowned Night Heron |
| White-faced Ibis |
| Canada Goose |
| Wood Duck |
| Gadwall |
| American Wigeon |
| Mallard |
| Blue-winged Teal |
| Cinnamon Teal |
| Northern Shoveler |
| Northern Pintail |
| Green-winged Teal |
| Redhead |
| Greater Scaup |
| Surf Scoter |
| Bufflehead |
| Common Merganser |
| Red-breasted Merganser |
| Ruddy Duck |
| Osprey |
| White-tailed Kite |
| Northern Harrier |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk |
| Cooper's Hawk |
| Red-shouldered Hawk |
| Red-tailed Hawk |
| American Kestrel |
| Peregrine Falcon |
| Wild Turkey |
| Mountain Quail |
| California Quail |
| Gambel's Quail |
| Clapper Rail |
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| Sora |
| Common Moorhen |
| American Coot |
| Black-bellied Plover |
| Snowy Plover |
| Semipalmated Plover |
| Killdeer |
| Black Oystercatcher |
| Black-necked Stilt |
| American Avocet |
| Greater Yellowlegs |
| Willet |
| Wandering Tattler |
| Spotted Sandpiper |
| Whimbrel |
| Long-billed Curlew |
| Marbled Godwit |
| Ruddy Turnstone |
| Black Turnstone |
| Surfbird |
| Sanderling |
| Western Sandpiper |
| Least Sandpiper |
| Dunlin |
| Short-billed Dowitcher |
| Long-billed Dowitcher |
| Wilson's Snipe |
| Red-necked Phalarope |
| Turkey Vulture |
| Bonaparte's Gull |
| Heermann's Gull |
| Mew Gull |
| Ring-billed Gull |
| California Gull |
| Herring Gull |
| Western Gull |
| Glaucous-Winged Gull |
| Gull-billed Tern |
| Caspian Tern |
| Royal Tern |
| Elegant Tern |
| Forster's Tern |
| Black Skimmer |
| Common Murre |
| Pigeon Guillemot |
| Rock Pigeon |
| Band-tailed Pigeon |
| White-winged Dove |
| Mourning Dove |
| Inca Dove |
| Common Ground-Dove |
| Eurasian Collared Dove |
| Red-crowned Parrot |
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| Greater Roadrunner |
| Barn Owl |
| Great Horned Owl |
| Burrowing Owl |
| Spotted Owl |
| White-throated Swift |
| Anna's Hummingbird |
| Costa's Hummingbird |
| Allen's Hummingbird |
| Belted Kingfisher |
| Acorn Woodpecker |
| Ladder-backed Woodpecker |
| Nuttall's Woodpecker |
| Downy Woodpecker |
| Hairy Woodpecker |
| White-headed Woodpecker |
| Northern Flicker |
| Pileated Woodpecker |
| Hammond's Flycatcher |
| Pacific Slope Flycatcher |
| Black Phoebe |
| Say's Phoebe |
| Ash-throated Flycatcher |
| Cassin's Kingbird |
| Western Kingbird |
| Bell's Vireo |
| Warbling Vireo |
| Steller's Jay |
| Western Scrub Jay |
| Yellow-billed Magpie |
| American Crow |
| Common Raven |
| Wrentit |
| Horned Lark |
| Tree Swallow |
| Violet-green Swallow |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
| Cliff Swallow |
| Barn Swallow |
| Mountain Chickadee |
| Chestnut-backed Chickadee |
| Oak Titmouse |
| Verdin |
| Bushtit |
| White-breasted Nuthatch |
| Pygmy Nuthatch |
| Brown Creeper |
| Cactus Wren |
| Rock Wren |
| Bewick's Wren |
| House Wren |
| Pacific Wren |
| Marsh Wren |
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| Golden-crowned Kinglet |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
| Black-tailed Gnatcatcher |
| Western Bluebird |
| Swainson's Thrush |
| Hermit Thrush |
| American Robin |
| Varied Thrush |
| Northern Mockingbird |
| Sage Thrasher |
| California Thrasher |
| Crissal Thrasher |
| European Starling |
| American Pipit |
| Cedar Waxwing |
| Phainopepla |
| Black-throated Gray Warbler |
| Common Yellowthroat |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Orange-crowned Warbler |
| Wilson's Warbler |
| Yellow Warbler |
| Spotted Towhee |
| California Towhee |
| Abert's Towhee |
| Chipping Sparrow |
| Brewer's Sparrow |
| Black-chinned Sparrow |
| Lark Sparrow |
| Black-throated Sparrow |
| Savannah Sparrow |
| Song Sparrow |
| Lincoln's Sparrow |
| White-crowned Sparrow |
| Golden-crowned Sparrow |
| Dark-eyed Junco |
| Black-headed Grosbeak |
| Red-winged Blackbird |
| Tricolored Blackbird |
| Western Meadowlark |
| Yellow-headed Blackbird |
| Brewer's Blackbird |
| Great-tailed Grackle |
| Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Hooded Oriole |
| Bullock's Oriole |
| Purple Finch |
| Cassin's Finch |
| House Finch |
| Pine Siskin |
| Lesser Goldfinch |
| American Goldfinch |
| House Sparrow |
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Surfbirds, Imperial Beach, California
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