northern and southern CA; coast and inland locations
Stuart Healy with Birdfinders, UK tour participants, September 11-26, 1999
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Trip Log
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Species recorded on Birdfinders CA Tour northern and southern CA; coast and inland locations Stuart Healy with Birdfinders, UK tour participants, September 11-26, 1999 |
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| 254 species recorded 16 birding days |
| DUCKS, GEESE, AND WATERFOWL (17) |
| Greater White-fronted Goose |
| Canada Goose |
| Wood Duck |
| Gadwall |
| American Wigeon |
| Mallard |
| Blue-winged Teal |
| Cinnamon Teal |
| Northern Shoveler |
| Northern Pintail |
| Green-winged Teal |
| Redhead |
| Ring-necked Duck |
| Lesser Scaup |
| Surf Scoter |
| Common Merganser |
| Ruddy Duck |
| NEW WORLD QUAIL (2) |
| California Quail |
| Gambel's Quail |
| PHEASANTS, GROUSE, AND ALLIES (3) |
| Chukar |
| Greater Sage-Grouse |
| Sooty Grouse |
| GREBES (4) |
| Pied-billed Grebe |
| Eared Grebe |
| Western Grebe |
| Clark's Grebe |
| SHEARWATERS AND PETRELS (2) |
| Pink-footed Shearwater |
| Sooty Shearwater |
| BOOBIES AND GANNETS (1) |
| Brown Booby |
| PELICANS (2) |
| American White Pelican |
| Brown Pelican |
| CORMORANTS AND SHAGS (3) |
| Brandt's Cormorant |
| Double-crested Cormorant |
| Pelagic Cormorant |
| HERONS, EGRETS, AND BITTERNS (7) |
| Great Blue Heron |
| Great Egret |
| Snowy Egret |
| Little Blue Heron |
| Cattle Egret |
| Green Heron |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron |
| IBISES AND SPOONBILLS (1) |
| White-faced Ibis |
| NEW WORLD VULTURES (1) |
| Turkey Vulture |
| OSPREY (1) |
| Osprey |
| HAWKS, EAGLES, AND KITES (8) |
| White-tailed Kite |
| Northern Harrier |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk |
| Cooper's Hawk |
| Red-shouldered Hawk |
| Swainson's Hawk |
| Red-tailed Hawk |
| Golden Eagle |
| FALCONS (3) |
| American Kestrel |
| Peregrine Falcon |
| Prairie Falcon |
| RAILS, GALLINULES, AND COOTS (4) |
| Clapper Rail |
| Virginia Rail |
| Common Moorhen |
| American Coot |
| PLOVERS (4) |
| Black-bellied Plover |
| Snowy Plover |
| Semipalmated Plover |
| Killdeer |
| OYSTERCATCHERS (1) |
| Black Oystercatcher |
| STILTS AND AVOCETS (2) |
| Black-necked Stilt |
| American Avocet |
| SANDPIPERS AND ALLIES (21) |
| Spotted Sandpiper |
| Wandering Tattler |
| Greater Yellowlegs |
| Willet |
| Lesser Yellowlegs |
| Whimbrel |
| Long-billed Curlew |
| Marbled Godwit |
| Ruddy Turnstone |
| Black Turnstone |
| Surfbird |
| Red Knot |
| Sanderling |
| Western Sandpiper |
| Least Sandpiper |
| Pectoral Sandpiper |
| Dunlin |
| Short-billed Dowitcher |
| Long-billed Dowitcher |
| Wilson's Phalarope |
| Red-necked Phalarope |
| GULLS, TERNS, AND SKIMMERS (15) |
| Laughing Gull |
| Franklin's Gull |
| Heermann's Gull |
| Ring-billed Gull |
| Western Gull |
| Yellow-footed Gull |
| California Gull |
| Herring Gull |
| Caspian Tern |
| Black Tern |
| Common Tern |
| Forster's Tern |
| Royal Tern |
| Elegant Tern |
| Black Skimmer |
| SKUAS AND JAEGERS (2) |
| Pomarine Jaeger |
| Parasitic Jaeger |
| AUKS, MURRES, AND PUFFINS (2) |
| Common Murre |
| Cassin's Auklet |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES (6) |
| Rock Pigeon |
| Band-tailed Pigeon |
| Spotted Dove |
| White-winged Dove |
| Mourning Dove |
| Common Ground-Dove |
| CUCKOOS (1) |
| Greater Roadrunner |
| BARN-OWLS (1) |
| Barn Owl |
| OWLS (4) |
| Great Horned Owl |
| Northern Pygmy-Owl |
| Burrowing Owl |
| Great Gray Owl |
| NIGHTJARS AND ALLIES (1) |
| Lesser Nighthawk |
| SWIFTS (2) |
| Vaux's Swift |
| White-throated Swift |
| HUMMINGBIRDS (3) |
| Anna's Hummingbird |
| Costa's Hummingbird |
| Rufous Hummingbird |
| KINGFISHERS (1) |
| Belted Kingfisher |
| WOODPECKERS (11) |
| Acorn Woodpecker |
| Gila Woodpecker |
| Williamson's Sapsucker |
| Red-naped Sapsucker |
| Red-breasted Sapsucker |
| Ladder-backed Woodpecker |
| Nuttall's Woodpecker |
| Downy Woodpecker |
| Hairy Woodpecker |
| White-headed Woodpecker |
| Northern Flicker |
| TYRANT FLYCATCHERS (10) |
| Olive-sided Flycatcher |
| Western Wood-Pewee |
| Willow Flycatcher |
| Hammond's Flycatcher |
| Gray Flycatcher |
| Pacific-slope Flycatcher |
| Black Phoebe |
| Say's Phoebe |
| Ash-throated Flycatcher |
| Western Kingbird |
| SHRIKES (1) |
| Loggerhead Shrike |
| VIREOS (2) |
| Hutton's Vireo |
| Warbling Vireo |
| CROWS, JAYS, AND MAGPIES (9) |
| Steller's Jay |
| Island Scrub-Jay |
| Western Scrub-Jay |
| Pinyon Jay |
| Black-billed Magpie |
| Yellow-billed Magpie |
| Clark's Nutcracker |
| American Crow |
| Common Raven |
| LARKS (1) |
| Horned Lark |
| SWALLOWS (6) |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
| Tree Swallow |
| Violet-green Swallow |
| Bank Swallow |
| Barn Swallow |
| Cliff Swallow |
| CHICKADEES AND TITS (4) |
| Mountain Chickadee |
| Chestnut-backed Chickadee |
| Oak Titmouse |
| Juniper Titmouse |
| PENDULINE TITS (1) |
| Verdin |
| LONG-TAILED TITS (1) |
| Bushtit |
| NUTHATCHES (3) |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch |
| White-breasted Nuthatch |
| Pygmy Nuthatch |
| CREEPERS (1) |
| Brown Creeper |
| WRENS (6) |
| Cactus Wren |
| Rock Wren |
| Canyon Wren |
| Bewick's Wren |
| House Wren |
| Marsh Wren |
| GNATCATCHERS (3) |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
| California Gnatcatcher |
| Black-tailed Gnatcatcher |
| DIPPERS (1) |
| American Dipper |
| KINGLETS (2) |
| Golden-crowned Kinglet |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
| THRUSHES AND ALLIES (5) |
| Western Bluebird |
| Mountain Bluebird |
| Townsend's Solitaire |
| Swainson's Thrush |
| American Robin |
| BABBLERS (1) |
| Wrentit |
| MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS (5) |
| Northern Mockingbird |
| Sage Thrasher |
| California Thrasher |
| Crissal Thrasher |
| Le Conte's Thrasher |
| STARLINGS (1) |
| European Starling |
| WAXWINGS (1) |
| Cedar Waxwing |
| SILKY-FLYCATCHERS (1) |
| Phainopepla |
| NEW WORLD WARBLERS (16) |
| Orange-crowned Warbler |
| Nashville Warbler |
| Virginia's Warbler |
| Northern Parula |
| Yellow Warbler |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Black-throated Gray Warbler |
| Townsend's Warbler |
| Hermit Warbler |
| Black-and-white Warbler |
| American Redstart |
| MacGillivray's Warbler |
| Common Yellowthroat |
| Wilson's Warbler |
| Yellow-breasted Chat |
| BUNTINGS, SPARROWS AND ALLIES (17) |
| Green-tailed Towhee |
| Spotted Towhee |
| California Towhee |
| Abert's Towhee |
| Rufous-crowned Sparrow |
| Chipping Sparrow |
| Clay-colored Sparrow |
| Brewer's Sparrow |
| Vesper Sparrow |
| Lark Sparrow |
| Black-throated Sparrow |
| Sage Sparrow |
| Savannah Sparrow |
| Song Sparrow |
| Lincoln's Sparrow |
| White-crowned Sparrow |
| Dark-eyed Junco |
| CARDINALS AND ALLIES (3) |
| Western Tanager |
| Black-headed Grosbeak |
| Lazuli Bunting |
| TROUPIALS AND ALLIES (7) |
| Red-winged Blackbird |
| Tricolored Blackbird |
| Western Meadowlark |
| Yellow-headed Blackbird |
| Brewer's Blackbird |
| Great-tailed Grackle |
| Brown-headed Cowbird |
| SISKINS, CROSSBILLS, AND ALLIES (9) |
| Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch |
| Pine Grosbeak |
| Purple Finch |
| Cassin's Finch |
| House Finch |
| Pine Siskin |
| Lesser Goldfinch |
| Lawrence's Goldfinch |
| American Goldfinch |
| OLD WORLD SPARROWS (1) |
| House Sparrow |
| 254 species recorded 16 birding days |
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Black-footed Albatross Northern Fulmar Buller's Shearwater Short-tailed Shearwater Least Storm-Petrel Black Storm-Petrel Ashy Storm-Petrel Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel American Bittern |
Red Phalarope Sabine's Gull Arctic Tern Least Tern South Polar Skua Long-tailed Jaeger Pigeon Guillemot Rhinoceros Auklet |
Itinerary Summary
Day 1: Saturday, Sep 11 - Day List 21
Ventura Harbor
Day 2: Sunday, Sep 12 - Day List 63, Trip List 66
Ventura Harbor; Island Packers trip to Prisoner's Harbor, Santa Cruz Island.
Day 3: Monday, Sep 13 - Day List 75, Trip List 108
Alisal Canyon; Nojoqui Falls County Park; Oceano; Morro Bay
Day 4: Tuesday, Sep 14 - Day List 91, Trip List 128
Morro Bay State Park, Montaņa de Oro State Park; Roberts Lake
Day 5: Wednesday, Sep 15 - Day List 80, Trip List 162
Pelagic trip out of Monterey; Elkhorn Slough
Day 6: Thursday, Sep 16 - Day List 90, Trip List 184
Elkhorn Slough; San Luis NWR; Chevron Meadow, Yosemite NP
Day 7: Friday, Sep 17 - Day List 45, Trip List 196
Yosemite NP: Glacier Point, Westfall Meadow, Yosemite Valley, Chevron Meadow
Day 8: Saturday, Sep 18 - Day List 57, Trip List 209
Yosemite NP: White Wolf, Tuolomne Meadow, Tioga Pass; Mono Lake (S. Tufa)
Day 9: Sunday, Sep 19 - Day List 49, Trip List 214
Crowley Lake area; Hot Springs Creek; Sagehen Summit
East Mono Lake; Mammoth Lakes area
Day 10: Monday, Sep 20 - Day List 50, Trip List 222
White Mountains, Kern River Valley
Day 11: Tuesday, Sep 21 - Day List 65, Trip List 236
Butterbredt Spring; Jawbone Canyon; California City Central Park; Galileo (Silver Saddle
Resort)
Day 12: Wednesday, Sep 22 - Day List 110, Trip List 254
Salton Sea North: Lincoln Rd, Salton Sea State Recreation Area
Salton Sea South: Wister Unit, Davis & Garst Roads, Red Hill Area, NWR Headquarters
Ramer Lake; Las Flores Drive, Brawley
Day 13: Thursday, Sep 23 - Day List 90, Trip List 258
Sheldon Reservoir Area near Brawley
Anza-Borrego SP: Visitor Center, Palm Canyon, Yaqui Well area
Cuyamaca Mountains: Julian, Cuyamaca Lake, Paso Picacho Campground
Day 14: Friday, Sep 24 - Day List 77, Trip List 264
Otay Lakes; Tijuana Slough NWR, Imperial Beach; Chula Vista; Silver Strand; SD River
Day 15: Saturday, Sep 25 - Day List 89, Trip List 270
San Elijo Lagoon; Bolsa Chica; Palos Verdes Peninsula: Averill Park, Forrestal Dr, Point Fermin
Day 16: Sunday, Sep 26 - Day List 28, Trip List 271
Chilao area, San Gabriel Mountains
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Trip Log |
Species recorded on Birdfinders CA Tour northern and southern CA; coast and inland locations Stuart Healy with Birdfinders, UK tour participants, September 11-26, 1999 |
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