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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!
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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
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
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
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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