SPECIFIC DATA
FOR BIRD SPECIES OBSERVED IN CALIFORNIA
The color
illustrations 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). [All Files] [Bird
Groups] [Alphabetical List] Citations
Please CLICK on group
desired
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WATERBIRDS
(primarily Inshore Waters)
Coots, Cormorants, Dippers, Ducks,
Teals & Wigeons, Gallinules, Geese, Grebes, Kingfishers,
Loons, Pelicans, Swans
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 and/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
PREDATORY
& SCAVENGER BIRDS
Eagles, Falcons, Hawks, Kites, Ospreys, Owls, Vultures
GAME & GROUND BIRDS (terrestrial)
Chukars, Doves, Grouse, Pheasants, Pigeons, Pipits, Poorwills, Quail, Roadrunners,
Skylarks, Turkeys
WOODPECKER
GROUP
Flickers, Sapsuckers, Woodpeckers
HUMMINGBIRDS
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
John James
Audubon Collection
A. & S. Menaboni Collection
References
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