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Field Checklist of the Birds of Baja California, Mexico Field Checklist of the Field Checklist of Birds of Baja California, The Birds Mexico of Baja California, Mexico Edited by Kurt A. Radamaker Updated November 22 2018 Checklist available at http://mexicobirding.com Updated November 22 2018 Field Checklist of The Birds of Baja California, Mexico Locality __________________________________ Observer(s) _______________________________ This checklist contains 538 species of birds that have been recorded 1 Date __________Time ______ Total Species ____ in Baja California, Mexico. Weather __________________________________ Remarks __________________________________ The species list conforms to the American Ornithologists’ Society (AOS), checklist order and nomenclature as of the 59th supplement published June 27, 2018. Locality __________________________________ Observer(s) _______________________________ Statuses are general and cover the entire penninsula, a species un- 2 Date __________Time ______ Total Species ____ expected in southern Baja may ocur with regularity in northern Baja Weather __________________________________ or vice versa. For example, Tricolored Blackbird is regular in Baja Remarks __________________________________ California, but unrecorded in Baja California Sur, therefore Tricol- ored Blackbird is not considered rare for the penninsula. * = Accidental, not to be expected, very few records. Locality __________________________________ # = Very rare, generally less than annual, not unexpected Observer(s) _______________________________ (int) = Introduced 3 Date __________Time ______ Total Species ____ (ex) = Extirpated or Extinct previously bred or presumed to have Weather __________________________________ bred in Baja, but no longer occurs naturally. they may Remarks __________________________________ have been re-introduced but remain un-established. Species or subspecies marked with an asterisk or pound sign (*, #) should be documented with photographs and or written details. Locality __________________________________ Observer(s) _______________________________ Documentation of unusual species should be sent to North American 4 Date __________Time ______ Total Species ____ Birds regional editor, Baja Peninsula Weather __________________________________ Remarks __________________________________ Richard A. Erickson LSA Associates 20 Executive Park Locality __________________________________ Suite 200 Observer(s) _______________________________ 5 Irvine, CA 92614 Date __________Time ______ Total Species ____ [email protected] Weather __________________________________ Remarks __________________________________ Checklist last updated: November 22 2018 Notes 1 2 3 4 5 Note Anatidae - Swans, Geese, Ducks Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Fulvous Whistling-Duck # Snow Goose Ross's Goose Greater White-fronted Goose Brant Cackling Goose Canada Goose Tundra Swan * Wood Duck # Garganey * Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon Mallard Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck * Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Long-tailed Duck # Buffl ehead Common Goldeneye Barrow's Goldeneye * Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Odontophoridae - Quail Mountain Quail California Quail Gambel's Quail Phasianidae - Pheasant Ring-necked Pheasant (int) 3 1 2 3 4 5 Note 1 2 3 4 5 Note Podicipedidae - Grebes Thraupidae - Tanagers and Allies Least Grebe Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater (int) Pied-billed Grebe Morelet's Seedeater * Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe * Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clark's Grebe Columbidae - Pigeons and Doves Rock Pigeon (int) Band-tailed Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove (int) Spotted Dove (int) Inca Dove Common Ground-Dove Ruddy Ground-Dove White-winged Dove Mourning Dove Cuculidae - Cuckoos, Roadrunners, and Anis Yellow-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo * Greater Roadrunner Groove-billed Ani * Caprimulgidae - Nighthawks and Nightjars Lesser Nighthawk Common Nighthawk * Common Poorwill Mexican Whip-poor-will Apodidae - Swifts Black Swift * Chimney Swift * Vaux's Swift White-throated Swift Trochilidae - Hummingbirds Ruby-throated Hummingbird * Black-chinned Hummingbird Anna's Hummingbird Costa's Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Allen's Hummingbird Calliope Hummingbird Broad-billed Hummingbird # 4 17 1 2 3 4 5 Note 1 2 3 4 5 Note American Redstart Xantus's Hummingbird Cape May Warbler * Rallidae - Rails, Gallinules, and Coots Cerulean Warbler * Black Rail # Northern Parula Ridgway's Rail Tropical Parula * Virginia Rail Magnolia Warbler # Sora Bay-breasted Warbler * Purple Gallinule * Blackburnian Warbler # Common Gallinule Yellow Warbler American Coot Chestnut-sided Warbler Gruidae - Cranes Blackpoll Warbler Sandhill Crane * Black-throated Blue Warbler Recurvirostridae - Stilts and Avocets Palm Warbler Black-necked Stilt Pine Warbler * American Avocet Yellow-rumped Warbler Haematopodidae - Oystercatchers Yellow-throated Warbler * American Oystercatcher Prairie Warbler * Black Oystercatcher Grace's Warbler * Charadriidae - Plovers Black-throated Gray Warbler Black-bellied Plover Townsend's Warbler American Golden-Plover # Hermit Warbler Pacifi c Golden-Plover # Black-throated Green Warbler # Snowy Plover Fan-tailed Warbler * Wilson's Plover Canada Warbler * Semipalmated Plover Wilson's Warbler Killdeer Red-faced Warbler * Mountain Plover Painted Redstart # Eurasian Dotterel * Cardinalidae - Cardinals, Grosbeaks, Scolopacidae - Sandpipers, Piranga Tanagers and allies Phalaropes, and Allies Hepatic Tanager # Upland Sandpiper * Summer Tanager Whimbrel Scarlet Tanager # Long-billed Curlew Western Tanager Bar-tailed Godwit * Flame-colored Tanager * Hudsonian Godwit * Northern Cardinal Marbled Godwit Pyrrhuloxia Ruddy Turnstone Rose-breasted Grosbeak Black Turnstone Black-headed Grosbeak Red Knot Blue Grosbeak Surfbird Lazuli Bunting Ruff # Indigo Bunting Sharp-tailed Sandpiper * Varied Bunting Stilt Sandpiper Painted Bunting Curlew Sandpiper * Dickcissel Sanderling 16 5 1 2 3 4 5 Note 1 2 3 4 5 Note Dunlin Guadalupe Junco Baird's Sandpiper Baird's Junco Little Stint * Icteriidae - Chats Least Sandpiper Yellow-breasted Chat Buff -breasted Sandpiper * Icteridae - Blackbirds and allies Pectoral Sandpiper Yellow-headed Blackbird Semipalmated Sandpiper Bobolink Western Sandpiper Eastern Meadowlark * Short-billed Dowitcher Western Meadowlark Long-billed Dowitcher Orchard Oriole Wilson’s Snipe Hooded Oriole Terek Sandpiper * Streak-backed Oriole * Spotted Sandpiper Bullock’s Oriole Solitary Sandpiper Baltimore Oriole Wandering Tattler Scott's Oriole Lesser Yellowlegs Red-winged Blackbird Willet Tricolored Blackbird Greater Yellowlegs Bronzed Cowbird Wood Sandpiper * Brown-headed Cowbird Marsh Sandpiper * Rusty Blackbird * Wilson's Phalarope Brewer's Blackbird Red-necked Phalarope Common Grackle * Red Phalarope Great-tailed Grackle Stercorariidae - Jaegers Parulidae - Wood Warblers South Polar Skua Ovenbird Pomarine Jaeger Worm-eating Warbler * Parasitic Jaeger Louisiana Waterthrush * Long-tailed Jaeger Northern Waterthrush Alcidae - Murres and Auklets Golden-winged Warbler * Common Murre # Blue-winged Warbler * Pigeon Guillemot # Black-and-white Warbler Marbled Murrelet * Prothonotary Warbler # Scripps's Murrelet Tennessee Warbler Guadalupe Murrelet Orange-crowned Warbler Craveri's Murrelet Lucy's Warbler Ancient Murrelet * Nashville Warbler Cassin’s Auklet Virginia's Warbler # Parakeet Auklet * Connecticut Warbler * Crested Auklet * MacGillivray's Warbler Rhinoceros Auklet Mourning Warbler * Laridae - Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers Kentucky Warbler * Black-legged Kittiwake # Belding’s Yellowthroat Sabine's Gull Common Yellowthroat Bonaparte's Gull Hooded Warbler # 6 15 1 2 3 4 5 Note 1 2 3 4 5 Note House Finch Laughing Gull Purple Finch # Franklin's Gull Cassin's Finch Heermann's Gull Red Crossbill Mew Gull Pine Siskin Ring-billed Gull Lesser Goldfi nch Western Gull Lawrence's Goldfi nch Yellow-footed Gull American Goldfi nch California Gull Calcariidae -Longspurs Herring Gull and Snow Buntings Iceland Gull # Lapland Longspur Lesser Black-backed Gull # Chestnut-collared Longspur Glaucous-winged Gull McCown's Longspur * Glaucous Gull # Emberizidae - Old World Sparrows Brown Noddy * Little Bunting * White Tern * Passerellidae - New World Sparrows Sooty Tern Green-tailed Towhee Least Tern Spotted Towhee Gull-billed Tern Rufous-crowned Sparrow Caspian Tern California Towhee Black Tern Abert's Towhee Common Tern Cassin's Sparrow * Arctic Tern Chipping Sparrow Forster's Tern Clay-colored Sparrow Royal Tern Brewer's Sparrow Sandwich Tern * Black-chinned Sparrow Elegant Tern Vesper Sparrow Black Skimmer Lark Sparrow Phaethontidae - Tropicbirds Black-throated Sparrow Red-billed Tropicbird Sagebrush Sparrow Red-tailed Tropicbird * Bell's Sparrow Gaviidae - Loons Lark Bunting Red-throated Loon Savannah Sparrow Arctic Loon * Grasshopper Sparrow Pacifi c Loon Nelson’s Sparrow * Common Loon Fox Sparrow Yellow-billed Loon * Song Sparrow Diomedeidae - Albatrosses Lincoln's Sparrow Laysan Albatross Swamp Sparrow Black-footed Albatross White-throated Sparrow Short-tailed Albatross (ex) * Harris's Sparrow
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