Torrey Pines Docent Society Bird Survey

Sept 1-2, 2007

Ducks & Geese

Gadwall  14

Mallard  14

Quail

California Quail  10

Grebes

Pied-billed Grebe  5

Pelicans

Brown Pelican  12

Cormorants

Brandt's Cormorant  2

Double-crested Cormorant  8

Herons & Egrets

Great Blue Heron  3

Great Egret  2

Snowy Egret  11

Little Blue Heron*  1

Green Heron  1

Black-crowned Night-Heron   1

Ibises

White-faced Ibis  1

Hawks & Kites

Osprey  3

Red-shouldered Hawk  1

Red-tailed Hawk  2

Falcons

American Kestrel  3

Peregrine Falcon  1

Plovers

Black-bellied Plover  1

Snowy Plover  1

Semipalmated Plover  13

Killdeer  3

Sandpipers & Phalaropes

Solitary Sandpiper*  2

Willet  14

Long-billed Curlew  3

Marbled Godwit  77

Sanderling  4

Western Sandpiper  8

Least Sandpiper  21

Short-billed Dowitcher  2

Gulls & Terns

Heermann's Gull  50

Ring-billed Gull  5

California Gull  6

Western Gull  60

Caspian Tern  3

Forster's Tern  2

Royal Tern  2

Elegant Tern  1

Pigeons & Doves

Rock Pigeon  7

Mourning Dove  10

Hummingbirds

Anna's Hummingbird  12

Kingfishers

Belted Kingfisher  2

Tyrant Flycatchers

Pacific-slope Flycatcher  1

Black Phoebe  4

Cassin's Kingbird  7

Jays and Crows

Western Scrub-Jay  5

American Crow  3

Common Raven  8

Swallows

Barn Swallow  1

Bushtits

Bushtit  20

Wrens

Bewick's Wren  2

House Wren  3

Gnatcatchers

California Gnatcatcher  4

Wrentits

Wrentit  16

Mockingbirds & Thrashers

California Thrasher  2

Wood-Warblers

Common Yellowthroat  7

Emberizids

California Towhee  21

Belding's Savannah Sparrow  7

Song Sparrow  14

Blackbirds

Red-winged Blackbird  4

Brewer's Blackbird  10

Finches

House Finch  130

Observers: David Blue, Kathy Estey, Blair Francis, Jack Friery, Gary Grantham, Don Grine, Herb Knufken