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Torrey Pines Docent Society Bird Survey

April 7-8 , 2007

Ducks & Geese

Ruddy Shelduck*  3 (Exotic)

Gadwall  25

American Wigeon  1

Mallard  17

Cinnamon Teal  2

Northern Shoveler  22

Green-winged Teal  8

Lesser Scaup  2

Surf Scoter  1

Bufflehead  16

Ruddy Duck  7

Quail

California Quail  16

Loons

Common Loon  1

Grebes

Pied-billed Grebe  8

Western Grebe  5

Pelicans

Brown Pelican  13

Cormorants

Brandt's Cormorant  5

Double-crested Cormorant  11

Herons & Egrets

Great Blue Heron  2

Great Egret  6

Snowy Egret  9

Black-crowned Night-Heron   1

Ibises

White-faced Ibis  75

Hawks & Kites

White-tailed Kite  4

Red-shouldered Hawk  2

Red-tailed Hawk  8

Falcons

American Kestrel  2

Peregrine Falcon  1

Rails & Coots

American Coot  25

Plovers

Snowy Plover  4

Semipalmated Plover  1

Killdeer  5

Sandpipers & Phalaropes

Willet  12

Long-billed Curlew  1

Marbled Godwit  2

Gulls & Terns

Heermann's Gull  3

Ring-billed Gull  4

California Gull  22

Western Gull  28

Caspian Tern  57

Forster's Tern  6

Royal Tern  110

Elegant Tern  75

Pigeons & Doves

Rock Pigeon  6

Mourning Dove  19

Swifts

Vaux's Swift*  3

White-throated Swift  9

Hummingbirds

Black-chinned Hummingbird*  1

Anna's Hummingbird  33

Costa's Hummingbird*  1

Rufous/Allen's Hummingbird*  5

Woodpeckers

Nuttall's Woodpecker  3

Downy Woodpecker*  1

Tyrant Flycatchers

Black Phoebe  5

Say's Phoebe  3

Cassin's Kingbird  13

Western Kingbird  7

Jays and Crows

Western Scrub-Jay  13

American Crow  31

Common Raven  27

Swallows

Tree Swallow  2

N. Rough-winged Swallow  29

Cliff Swallow  63

Barn Swallow  1

Bushtits

Bushtit  29

Wrens

Bewick's Wren  8

House Wren  2

Marsh Wren  1 (heard only)

Kinglets

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  2

Gnatcatchers

California Gnatcatcher  4

Thrushes

Hermit Thrush  3

Wrentits

Wrentit  27

Mockingbirds & Thrashers

Northern Mockingbird  1

California Thrasher  2

Starlings

European Starling  2

Wood-Warblers

Orange-crowned Warbler  11

Yellow-rumped Warbler  30

Common Yellowthroat  8

Yellow-breasted Chat*  2

Emberizids

Spotted Towhee  8

California Towhee  36

Rufous-crowned Sparrow  1

Savannah Sparrow  5

Song Sparrow  23

White-crowned Sparrow  17

Golden-crowned Sparrow  1

Blackbirds

Red-winged Blackbird  83

Brewer's Blackbird  9

Hooded Oriole*  3

Finches

House Finch  83

Lesser Goldfinch  12

Old World Sparrows

House Sparrow  1

 

Total of 92 species (unusual sightings shown with an asterisk and in italics)

Observers:

Hank & Jane Baele, David Blue, Will Cox, Kathy Estey, Blair Francis, Jack Friery, Gary Grantham, Don Grine and Herb Knufken

 

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