California Birds

A list of what I saw during my five days in California. I went birding three times and this list only includes the birds I saw on those three trips. Lifers are in red.

  • Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve (SR) in Murrieta (2/15)
  • North Etiwanda Preserve (NE) in Rancho Cucamonga (2/18)
  • Crystal Cove State Park (CC) in Orange County (2/19)
  1. Acorn Woodpecker (SR)
  2. Allen’s Hummingbird (CC)
  3. American Crow (SR)
  4. American Kestrel (SR)
  5. Anna’s Hummingbird (SR, NE, CC)
  6. Band-tailed Pigeon (SR)
  7. Bell’s Sparrow (NE)
  8. Black-bellied Plover (CC)
  9. Black Phoebe (CC)
  10. Black Turnstone (CC)
  11. Brown Pelican (CC)
  12. Bushtit (NE, CC)
  13. California Gnatcatcher (CC)
  14. California Thrasher (NE)
  15. California Towhee (NE)
  16. Common Raven (SR, NE, CC)
  17. Double-crested Cormorant (CC)
  18. Golden Eagle (SR)
  19. Heermann’s Gull (CC)
  20. House Finch (SR, NE)
  21. Lawrence’s Goldfinch (SR)
  22. Lesser Goldfinch (NE)
  23. Mourning Dove (NE)
  24. Northern Flicker (SR)
  25. Northern Mockingbird (NE)
  26. Nuttall’s Woodpecker (SR)
  27. Oak Titmouse (SR)
  28. Red-tailed Hawk (NE)
  29. Rock Wren (NE)
  30. Royal Tern (CC)
  31. Ruby-crowned Kinglet (SR)
  32. Sanderling (CC)
  33. Semipalmated Plover (CC)
  34. Snowy Plover (CC)
  35. Song Sparrow (CC)
  36. Spotted Towhee (SR, NE)
  37. Turkey Vulture (SR)
  38. Western Bluebird (NE)
  39. Western Gull (CC)
  40. Western Scrub-Jay (SR)
  41. Whimbrel (CC)
  42. White-crowned Sparrow (SR, NE, CC)
  43. Willet (CC)
  44. Wrentit (SR)
  45. Yellow-rumped Warbler (SR, NE)

Not a long list, but I wasn’t going for numbers. I was deliberately targeting specific species and accomplished what I set out to do.

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