Swans, Geese, Ducks
Greater White-fronted Goose
Brant 1          
Canada Goose     6   4  
American Wigeon     5   30  
Mallard     10   6  
Northern Pintail     3      
Loons
Pacific Loon 50+ migrants        
Common Loon 1          
Grebes
Pied-billed Grebe 2   1      
Western Grebe 8          
Cormorants, Pelicans
American White Pelican 20          
Brown Pelican 20       1  
Brandt's Cormorant 25          
Double-crested Cormorant 5   4   2  
Pelagic Cormorant 10          
Herons & Egrets; Ibis
Great Blue Heron     1      
Great Egret 2       1  
Snowy Egret     5   3  
Black-crowned Night-Heron         1  
American Vultures
Turkey Vulture 6   5   1  
Kites, Hawks, Eagles
Osprey         2  
White-tailed Kite         1  
Northern Harrier 1       1m  
Red-tailed Hawk         1  
Falcons
American Kestrel 2       1  
Peregrine Falcon         1 imm  
Rails
American Coot     1      
Plovers
Black-bellied Plover     1 Wintering 200  
Snowy Plover         1  
Semipalmated Plover 2 Migrant 2   (2)  
Killdeer     3 Resident 6  
Oystercatchers, Stilts & Avocets
Black Oystercatcher 5 Resident        
American Avocet         2  
Black-necked Stilt     6 Resident 10  
Sandpipers
Greater Yellowlegs     2 Wintering 12  
Willet 30 Wintering 30   30  
Wandering Tattler 5 Wintering        
Long-billed Curlew         3 Wintering
Marbled Godwit 50 Wintering 5   10  
Ruddy Turnstone         1 Wintering
Black Turnstone 15 Wintering        
Surfbird 40 Wintering     1  
Sanderling 10 Wintering        
Western Sandpiper 10 Wintering 4   1500  
Least Sandpiper 30 Wintering 8   2  
  Dowitcher sp.     25 Wintering 50  
Red-necked Phalarope 25 Transients 1      
Gulls & Terns
Heermann's Gull 10          
Ring-billed Gull 2   1   10  
California Gull 10   10   3  
Western Gull 50   35   4  
Glaucous-winged Gull 1       (1)  
Elegant Tern 1   1   1  
Forster's Tern     5   25  
Alcids
Common Murre     1      
Pigeon Guillemot 8 immature        
Pigeons & Doves
Rock Pigeon         40  
Mourning Dove     2   5  
Kingfishers
Belted Kingfisher 1   1      
Flycatchers
Black Phoebe 1   1   3  
Say's Phoebe         1  
Corvids
Western Scrub-Jay         1  
American Crow 4   10   6  
Titmice, Chickadees, etc.
Bushtit     4   12  
Wrens
Marsh Wren     hrd      
Thrashers
Northern Mockingbird         1  
Starlings & Pipits
European Starling         25  
Buntings, Sparrows, Grosbeaks
California Towhee     5      
Savannah Sparrow         5  
Song Sparrow 1   1   2  
White-crowned Sparrow         2  
Blackbirds
Brewer's Blackbird 2          
Finches
House Finch         8  
Weavers
House Sparrow     6      
             
TOTAL 37   36   49  

Total species seen during quarter: 73
()  Seen only by instructor, or only by a student

Last Updated on 09/27/2008
by Bob