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BIRD SPECIES OBSERVED IN CALIFORNIA
List of Files The color photos and illustrations
contained herein emphasize the adult male bird in breeding season but may
also show females and immatures.
Their coloration may be duller or absent at different times of the
year. Measurements are the average
length from bill to tip of tail.
Images were redrawn and or modified from originals found in the
literature, with the painter or photographer of the model being noted after
each file name. John James Audubon
paintings are especially stressed (see AUDUBON). [Slower
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Ctrl/F ] [Bird Groups] ------------------------------------------------- WATERBIRDS
(primarily
Inshore Waters) Coots, Cormorants, Dippers, Ducks,
Teals & Wigeons, Gallinules, Geese, Grebes, Kingfishers, WADING BIRDS (Coastal & Inshore Waters) Avocets, Bitterns, Cranes, Curlews, Dowitchers, Dunlins
& Knots,
Egrets, Godwits, Herons, Ibis,
Killdeers,
Plovers, Rails, Sanderlings, Snipes, Stilts, Storks, Turnstones, Willets, Yellowlegs SHORE & OFFSHORE
BIRDS (Ocean &/or Inshore Waters) Albatrosses, Auks, Boobies, Cormorants, Frigate Birds, Fulmars, Godwits, Guillemots, Gulls, Jaegers, Kittiwakes, Murrelets, Murres, Oystercatchers, Petrels, Phalaropes, Puffins, Sandpipers, Shearwaters,
Skimmers, Skuas, Surfbird, Tattlers, Terns, Tropicbirds, Whimbrels Eagles, Falcons, Hawks, Kites, Ospreys, Owls, Vultures GAME & GROUND BIRDS (Terrestrial) Chukars,
Doves, Grouse, Pheasants, Pigeons, Pipits, Poorwills, Quail, Roadrunners, Flickers, Sapsuckers, Woodpeckers PERCHING BIRDS (incl.
Swifts, Swallows & Nighthawks) Blackbirds, Bluebirds, Bobolinks, Buntings, Bushtits, Cardinals, Chats, Chickadees, Cowbirds, Creepers, Crossbills, Crows & Ravens, Cuckoos, Finches, Flycatchers, Gnatcatchers, Grackles, Grosbeaks, Jays, Juncos, Kingbirds, Kinglets, Larks, Longspurs, Magpies, Meadowlarks, Mockingbirds, Nighthawks, Nutcrackers, Nuthatches, Orioles,
Ovenbirds, Parrots, Phainopepla, Phoebes, Plovers (terrestrial), Robins, Shrikes, Siskins, Sparrows, Starlings, Swallows, Swifts, Tanagers, Thrashers, Titmice, Towhees, Verdin, Vireos, Warblers & Thrushes, Waxwings, Wood-Pewee, Wrens, Wrentits ====================================== |
WATERBIRDS
(primarily Inshore Waters)
Coots (Previews)
American
Coot, Fulica
americana <#148> -- J. J. Audubon
American Coot, Fulica americana
<#19> -- R. Leung
Cormorants (Previews)
Double-crested
Cormorant, Phalacrocorax
auritus <#4> -- R. Leung
Dippers (Previews)
American
Dipper, Cinclus mexicanus
<#204> -- J. J. Audubon
American Dipper, Cinclus mexicanus
<#598> -- J. Farrand,
Jr.
American Dipper, Cinclus mexicanus
<#82> -- R. Leung
American
Wigeon, Anas
(Mayeca) americana <#207> -- J. J. Audubon
American
Wigeon, Anas
(Mayeca) americana <#5> -- R. Leung
Black Scoter Duck, Melanitta nigra
<#554> -- J. Farrand,
Jr.
Blue-winged Teal, Anas discors
<#228> -- J. J.
Audubon
Blue-winged Teal, Anas discors
<#14> -- R. Leung
Bufflehead Duck, Bucephala albeola
<#248> -- J. J.
Audubon
Bufflehead
Duck, Bucephala
albeola <#11> -- R. Leung
Canvasback Duck, Aythya valisineria
<#187> -- J. J.
Audubon
Canvasback Duck, Aythya valisineria
<#8> -- R. Leung
Cinnamon Teal, Anas cyanoptera <#354> -- H. Clarke
Cinnamon Teal, Anas cyanoptera
<#13> -- R. Leung
Common Goldeneye Duck, Bucephala clangula <#190> -- J. J. Audubon
Common
Goldeneye Duck, Bucephala clangula <#16> -- R. Leung
Common Merganser Duck, Mergus merganser
<#203> -- J. J.
Audubon
Common
Merganser Duck, Mergus merganser <#2> -- R. Leung
Eurasian Wigeon, Anas penelope
<#387> -- H.
Clarke
Fulvous Whistling Duck,
Dendrocygna
bicolor <#550> -- J. Farrand, Jr.
Gadwall Duck, Anas strepera
<#657> -- J. J.
Audubon
Gadwall Duck, Anas strepera <#549> -- J. Farrand,
Jr.
Greater Scaup Duck, Aythya marila
<#551> -- J.
Farrand, Jr.
Green-winged
Teal, Anas
carolinensis <#220> -- J. J. Audubon
Green-winged Teal, Anas crecca
or Anas
carolinensis <#17> -- R. Leung
Harlequin
Duck, Histrionicus
histrionicus <#149> -- J. J.
Audubon
Harlequin Duck, Histrionicus histrionicus
<#22> -- R. Leung
Hooded
Merganser Duck, Lophodytes cucullatus <#668> -- J. J.
Audubon
Hooded Merganser Duck, Lophodytes cucullatus
<#547> -- J.
Farrand, Jr.
Lesser Scaup Duck, Aythya affinis
<#247> -- J. J.
Audubon
Lesser Scaup Duck, Aythya affinis
<#21> -- R. Leung
Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos
<#159> -- J. J.
Audubon
Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos
<#12> -- R. Leung
Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos
platyrhynchos <#265> -- A. Menaboni
Northern
Pintail or Pintail Duck, Anas acuta <#686> -- J. J.
Audubon
Northern Pintail or
Pintail Duck, Anas acuta <#355> -- H.
Clarke
Northern
Pintail or Pintail Duck, Anas acuta <#9> -- R. Leung
Northern Pintail or
Pintail Duck, Anas acuta tzitzihoa
<#262> -- A.
Menaboni
Northern
Shoveler Duck, Anas clypeata <#356> -- H.
Clarke
Northern Shoveler Duck,
Anas
clypeata <#15> -- R. Leung
Oldsquaw
Duck, Clangula
hyemalis <#689> -- J. J.
Audubon
Oldsquaw Duck, Clangula hyemalis
<#552> -- J.
Farrand, Jr.
Red-breasted
Merganser Duck, Mergus serrator <#202> -- J. J.
Audubon
Red-breasted Merganser
Duck, Mergus
serrator <#358> -- H. Clarke
Redhead Duck, Aythya americana
<#699> -- J. J.
Audubon
Redhead Duck, Aythya americana
<#548> -- J.
Farrand, Jr.
Red-throated Loon, Gavia stellata
<#3> -- R. Leung
Ring-necked Duck, Aythya collaris
<#191> -- J. J.
Audubon
Ring-necked Duck, Aythya collaris
<#20> -- R. Leung
Ruddy Duck, Oxyura jamaicensis
<#714> -- J. J.
Audubon
Ruddy Duck, Oxyura jamaicensis
<#359> -- H.
Clarke
Steller’s Eider Duck, Polysticta stelleri <#156>
-- J. J. Audubon
Surf
Scoter Duck, Melanitta perspicillata
<#725> -- J. J.
Audubon
Surf Scoter Duck, Melanitta perspicillata
<#357> -- H.
Clarke
White-winged Scoter
Duck, Melanitta
fusca (deglandi) <#553>
-- J. Farrand, Jr.
White-winged
Scoter Duck, Melanitta fusca (deglandi)
<#737> -- J. J.
Audubon
White-winged Scoter
Duck, Melanitta
fusca <#18> -- R. Leung
Wood Duck, Aix sponsa
<#739> -- J. J.
Audubon
Wood Duck, Aix sponsa
<#386> -- H.
Clarke
Wood Duck, Aix sponsa
<#260> -- A.
Menaboni
Common
Gallinule or Moorhen, Gallinula chloropus
<#646> -- J. J.
Audubon
Common
Gallinule or Moorhen, Gallinula chloropus
<#429> -- G.
Christman
Common Gallinule or Moorhen, Gallinula chloropus
<#362> -- H.
Clarke
