Torrey Pines Docent Society Bird Survey

January 4, 2009

Gadwall 20

American Wigeon 130

Mallard 13

Cinnamon Teal 2

Northern Shoveler 15

Northern Pintail 20

Green-winged Teal 74

Ring-necked Duck 1

Lesser Scaup 6

Bufflehead 5

Red-breasted Merganser 3

Ruddy Duck 1

California Quail 1

Red-throated Loon 10

Pacific Loon 12

Pied-billed Grebe 7

Eared Grebe 1

Western Grebe 100

Brown Pelican 40

Brandt's Cormorant 1400

Double-crested Cormorant 6

Great Blue Heron 2

Great Egret 14

Snowy Egret 10

White-faced Ibis 80

Osprey 2

Northern Harrier 2

Red-tailed Hawk 3

American Kestrel 1

Peregrine Falcon 1

Common Moorhen 2

American Coot 47

Black-bellied Plover 1

Snowy Plover 60

Semipalmated Plover 1

Killdeer 3

Spotted Sandpiper 1

Willet 13

Whimbrel 2

Long-billed Curlew 3

Marbled Godwit 4

Sanderling 3

Western Sandpiper 21

Least Sandpiper 15

peep sp. 20

Long-billed Dowitcher 12

Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher 1

Heermann's Gull 20

Ring-billed Gull 22

Western Gull 20

California Gull 12

Glaucous-winged Gull 2

Caspian Tern 1

Forster's Tern 2

Royal Tern 3

Pomarine Jaeger 1 Identified by volunteer Elias Elias.

Parasitic Jaeger 1 Identified by volunteer Elias Elias.

Rock Pigeon 1

Mourning Dove 3

Anna's Hummingbird 15

Rufous/Allen's Hummingbird 1

Belted Kingfisher 1

Black Phoebe 9

Say's Phoebe 5

Cassin's Kingbird 7

Western Scrub-Jay 3

American Crow 1

Common Raven 3

Northern Rough-winged Swallow 3

Bushtit 12

Rock Wren 1

House Wren 2

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1

California Gnatcatcher 5

Wrentit 7

Northern Mockingbird 2

California Thrasher 1

European Starling 159

Orange-crowned Warbler 1

Yellow-rumped Warbler 18

Common Yellowthroat 15

Spotted Towhee 11

California Towhee 12

Rufous-crowned Sparrow 4

Savannah Sparrow (Belding's) 4

Song Sparrow 8

White-crowned Sparrow 17

Red-winged Blackbird 45

Western Meadowlark 9

Brewer's Blackbird 28

House Finch 44

Lesser Goldfinch 1

House Sparrow 2

Total of 93 species (unusual sightings shown with an asterisk and in italics)

(Torrey Pines segment of the Rancho Santa Fe Christmas count)  Count was conducted by Kathy Dickey, Herb Knufken, Will Cox, Jack Friery, Don Grine, Gary Grantham, Blair Francis, Anonymous, and several additional Christmas count volunteers.