November 08, 2009

Santa Cruz Island FALL BIRD LIST (as seen by the crew)

Seen on the island, or in the waters immediately surrounding the island (aka, Santa Barbara Channel, or just offshore)

Island Scrub Jay (well, of course.)
Orange-crowned warbler
Rufous-crowned sparrow
Black phoebe
Anna's Hummingbird
American Kestrel
Red-tailed hawk
Common raven
Lesser goldfinch
Bushtit
Brown pelican
Horned lark
Bewick's wren
Acorn woodpecker
Northern flicker (red and yellow shafted)
Western flycatcher
Hutton's vireo
House finch
Wilson's warbler
Phainopepla
California quail
Western gull
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Allen's hummingbird
Spotted towhee
Song sparrow
Mourning dove
Western meadowlark
Black-headed grosbeak
Brandt's cormorant
Black oystercatcher
Barn swallow
Eurasian collared dove
Black-throated gray warbler
Chipping sparrow
Great blue heron
Red-breasted nuthatch
White-throated swift
Hermit thrush
Lark sparrow
Warbling vireo
Western tanager
Brown-headed cowbird
Say's phoebe
Fox sparrow
Prairie warbler
Sharp-shinned hawk
Cooper's hawk
Western wood-pewee
Rock wren
House wren
Winter wren
Lazuli bunting
Peregrine falcon
Common yellowthroat
Blackpoll warbler
Lincoln's sparrow
Cliff swallow
Green-tailed towhee
Northern rough-winged swallow
Heerman's gull
Double crested cormorant
Spotted sandpiper
Yellow-rumped warbler (Audubon's)
Yellow warbler
Red-breasted sapsucker
Pectoral sandpiper
Bullock's Oriole
Ruby-crowned kinglet
Ash-throated flycatcher
Loggerhead shrike
Merlin
Vesper sparrow
Killdeer
Townsend's solitaire
Red-naped sapsucker
Dark-eyed (oregon) junco
White-crowned sparrow
Northern mockingbird
Wilson's snipe
Cedar waxwing
Brewer's blackbird
Common poorwill
European starling
Northern waterthrush
Burrowing owl
Northern saw-whet owl
Band-tailed pigeon
Townsend's warbler
Golden-crowned sparrow
Western grebe
Black-bellied plover
Common loon
Northern harrier
Hermit warbler
American robin
Mountain bluebird
Osprey
Golden-crowned kinglet
Purple finch
American goldfinch
Black turnstone
Varied thrush
Brown creeper
Pelagic cormorant

Sorry it's not in taxonomic order... I'm too lazy to take it out of our rough sighting order.

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