Southern California - Fall 2009
9-11 Oct 2009
by Henry Detwiler

Paul, Bruce, and I had an excellent three-day trip exploring the birds of San Diego, the Laguna Mts, and the Imperial Valley.

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# Species
1 Pied-billed Grebe
2 Eared Grebe
3 Western Grebe
4 Clark's Grebe
5 Black-vented Shearwater
6 American White Pelican
7 Brown Pelican
8 Brandt's Cormorant
9 Double-crested Cormorant
10 Pelagic Cormorant
11 Least Bittern
12 Great Blue Heron
13 Great Egret
14 Snowy Egret
15 Little Blue Heron
16 Reddish Egret
17 Cattle Egret
18 Green Heron
19 Black-crowned Night Heron
20 White-faced Ibis
21 Sandhill Crane
22 Greater White-fronted Goose
23 Snow Goose
24 Ross' s Goose
25 Cackling Goose
26 Canada Goose
27 Brant
28 Gadwall
29 American Wigeon
30 Mallard
31 Blue-winged Teal
32 Northern Shoveler
33 Northern Pintail
34 Green-winged Teal
35 Lesser Scaup
36 Ruddy Duck
37 Osprey
38 Northern Harrier
39 Cooper's Hawk
40 Red-shouldered Hawk
41 Red-tailed Hawk
42 American Kestrel
43 Peregrine Falcon
44 Ring-necked Pheasant
# Species
45 Wild Turkey
46 California Quail
47 Gambel's Quail
48 Clapper Rail
49 Virginia Rail
50 Sora
51 American Coot
52 Black-bellied Plover
53 Snowy Plover
54 Semipalmated Plover
55 Killdeer
56 Black Oystercatcher
57 Black-necked Stilt
58 American Avocet
59 Greater Yellowlegs
60 Lesser Yellowlegs
61 Solitary Sandpiper
62 Willet
63 Wandering Tattler
64 Spotted Sandpiper
65 Whimbrel
66 Long-billed Curlew
67 Marbled Godwit
68 Ruddy Turnstone
69 Black Turnstone
70 Surfbird
71 Red Knot
72 Sanderling
73 Semipalmated Sandpiper
74 Western Sandpiper
75 Least Sandpiper
76 Dunlin
77 Short-billed Dowitcher
78 Long-billed Dowitcher
79 Wilson's Snipe
80 Red-necked Phalarope
81 Turkey Vulture
82 Laughing Gull
83 Heerman's Gull
84 Ring-billed Gull
85 California Gull
86 Herring Gull
87 Lesser Black-backed Gull
88 Western Gull
# Species
89 Caspian Tern
90 Royal Tern
91 Elegant Tern
92 Forster's Tern
93 Black Tern
94 Rock Pigeon
95 Band-tailed Pigeon
96 Mourning Dove
97 Inca Dove
98 Common Ground-Dove
99 Eurasian Collared Dove
100 Red-crowned Parrot
101 Greater Roadrunner
102 Barn Owl
103 Burrowing Owl
104 Vaux's Swift
105 White-throated Swift
106 Anna's Hummingbird
107 Rufous Hummingbird
108 Belted Kingfisher
109 Acorn Woodpecker
110 Gila Woodpecker
111 Red-naped Sapsucker
112 Nuttall's Woodpecker
113 Hairy Woodpecker
114 Northern Flicker
115 Western Wood Pewee
116 Dusky Flycatcher
117 Pacific Slope Flycatcher
118 Black Phoebe
119 Say's Phoebe
120 Vermilion Flycatcher
121 Loggerhead Shrike
122 Stellar's Jay
123 Western Scrub Jay
124 American Crow
125 Common Raven
126 Horned Lark
127 Wrentit
128 Tree Swallow
129 Barn Swallow
130 Mountain Chickadee
131 Oak Titmouse
132 Verdin
133 Bushtit
# Species
134 White-breasted Nuthatch
135 Pygmy Nuthatch
136 Brown Creeper
137 Rock Wren
138 Bewick's Wren
139 House Wren
140 Marsh Wren
141 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
142 California Gnatcatcher
143 Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
144 Western Bluebird
145 Northern Mockingbird
146 Sage Thrasher
147 California Thrasher
148 European Starling
149 American Pipit
150 Cedar Waxwing
151 Phainopepla
152 Yellow-rumped Warbler
153 Common Yellowthroat
154 Orange-crowned Warbler
155 Black-throated Gray Warbler
156 Wilson's Warbler
157 Townsend's Warbler
158 Spotted Towhee
159 California Towhee
160 Abert's Towhee
161 Chipping Sparrow
162 Brewer's Sparrow
163 Lark Sparrow
164 Savannah Sparrow
165 Song Sparrow
166 Lincoln's Sparrow
167 White-crowned Sparrow
168 Dark-eyed Junco
169 Red-winged Blackbird
170 Tricolored Blackbird
171 Western Meadowlark
172 Brewer's Blackbird
173 Great-tailed Grackle
174 Brown-headed Cowbird
175 House Finch
176 Lesser Goldfinch
177 Lawrence's Goldfinch
178 House Sparrow

black-throated blue warbler
Wild Turkey, Laguna Mts.

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