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Field Checklist of the Birds of Field Checklist of Baja California Mexico The Birds of Baja California compiled by Kurt and Cindy Radamaker Checklists available at Mexico Birding Website August 2008 http://MexicoBirding.com Kurt Radamaker Checklist for the Birds of Baja California Locality __________________________________ This list conforms to the A.O.U. checklist order and nomenclature, Observer(s) _______________________________ as of April 2007. 1 Date __________Time ______ Total Species ____ Weather __________________________________ * and in bold = Species sighted 10+- times in the last 25 years. Remarks __________________________________ e = Exirpated or Extinct † = Exotic or introduced species Documentation of unusual species should be sent to North Ameri- Locality __________________________________ can Birds regional editor, Baja Peninsula : Observer(s) _______________________________ 2 Date __________Time ______ Total Species ____ Richard A. Erickson Weather __________________________________ LSA Associates Remarks __________________________________ 20 Executive Park Suite 200 Irvine, CA 92614 Locality __________________________________ [email protected] Observer(s) _______________________________ 3 Date __________Time ______ Total Species ____ Weather __________________________________ Remarks __________________________________ Locality __________________________________ Observer(s) _______________________________ 4 Date __________Time ______ Total Species ____ Weather __________________________________ Remarks __________________________________ Locality __________________________________ Observer(s) _______________________________ Kurt and Cindy Radamaker 5 Date __________Time ______ Total Species ____ April 2007 Weather __________________________________ Remarks __________________________________ 1 2 3 4 5 Note Notes DUCKS & GEESE - ANATIDAE Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Fulvous Whistling-Duck * Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross's Goose Brant Cackling Goose Canada Goose Tundra Swan * Wood Duck Gadwall Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon Mallard Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Garganey * 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 PHEASANTS & TURKEYS - PHASIANIDAE Ring-necked Pheasant † QUAIL - ODONTOPHORIDAE Mountain Quail California Quail Gambel's Quail 3 1 2 3 4 5 Note LOONS - GAVIIDAE Notes Red-throated Loon Arctic Loon * Pacifi c Loon Common Loon Yellow-billed Loon * GREBES - PODICIPEDIDAE Least Grebe Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clark's Grebe ALBATROSSES - DIOMEDEIDAE Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Short-tailed Albatross * PROCELLARIIFORMES - PROCELLARIIDAE Northern Fulmar Juan Fernandez Petrel * Galapagos/Hawaiian Petrel * Cook's Petrel Cory's Shearwater * Pink-footed Shearwater Flesh-footed Shearwater * Wedge-tailed Shearwater Buller's Shearwater * Sooty Shearwater Short-tailed Shearwater Manx Shearwater * Townsend's Shearwater Black-vented Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater * STORM-PETRELS - HYDROBATIDAE Wilson's Storm-Petrel * Leach's Storm-Petrel Ashy Storm-Petrel Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel Black Storm-Petrel Guadalupe Storm-Petrel e Least Storm-Petrel TROPICBIRDS - PHAETHONTIDAE Red-billed Tropicbird Red-tailed Tropicbird * 4 1 2 3 4 5 Note Notes BOOBIES - SULIDAE Masked Booby Nazca Booby * Blue-footed Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby PELICANS - PELECANIDAE American White Pelican Brown Pelican CORMORANTS - PHALACROCORACIDAE Brandt's Cormorant Neotropic Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant FRIGATEBIRDS- FRIGATIDAE Magnifi cent Frigatebird Great Frigatebird BITTERNS, HERONS & EGRETS - ARDEIDAE American Bittern Least Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Reddish Egret Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron IBISES & SPOONBILLS - THRESKIORNITHIDAE White Ibis White-faced Ibis Roseate Spoonbill * STORKS - CICONIIDAE Wood Stork NEW WORLD VULTURES - CATHARTIDAE Turkey Vulture e California Condor KITES, HAWKS, EAGLES & HARRIERS - ACCIPITRIDAE Osprey White-tailed Kite Mississippi Kite * 5 1 2 3 4 5 Note 1 2 3 4 5 Note Bald Eagle Lapland Longspur Northern Harrier Chestnut-collared Longspur Sharp-shinned Hawk CARDINALS & BUNTINGS - CARDINALIDAE Cooper's Hawk NORTHERN CARDINAL Common Black-Hawk * Pyrrhuloxia Harris's Hawk Rose-breasted Grosbeak Red-shouldered Hawk Black-headed Grosbeak Broad-winged Hawk Blue Grosbeak Swainson's Hawk Lazuli Bunting Zone-tailed Hawk Indigo Bunting Red-tailed Hawk Varied Bunting Ferruginous Hawk Painted Bunting Rough-legged Hawk * Dickcissel Golden Eagle BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES & ALLIES - ICTERIDAE CARACARAS AND FALCONS - FALCONIDAE Bobolink Crested Caracara Red-winged Blackbird Guadalupe Caracara e Tricolored Blackbird American Kestrel Western Meadowlark Merlin Yellow-headed Blackbird Peregrine Falcon Rusty Blackbird * Prairie Falcon Brewer's Blackbird RAILS, GALLINULES & COOTS - RALLIDAE Common Grackle * Black Rail * Great-tailed Grackle Clapper Rail Bronzed Cowbird Virginia Rail Brown-headed Cowbird Sora Orchard Oriole Common Moorhen Hooded Oriole American Coot Streak-backed Oriole * CRANES - GRUIDAE Bullock's Oriole Sandhill Crane * Baltimore Oriole PLOVERS - CHARADRIIDAE Scott's Oriole Black-bellied Plover FINCHES & EUPHONIAS - FRINGILLIDAE American Golden-Plover Purple Finch Pacifi c Golden-Plover Cassin's Finch Snowy Plover House Finch Wilson's Plover Red Crossbill Semipalmated Plover Pine Siskin Killdeer Lesser Goldfi nch Mountain Plover Lawrence's Goldfi nch Eurasian Dotterel * American Goldfi nch OYSTERCATCHERS - HAEMATOPODIDAE WEAVER FINCHES - PASSERIDAE American Oystercatcher House Sparrow Black Oystercatcher STILTS & AVOCETS - RECURVIROSTRIDAE 6 15 1 2 3 4 5 Note 1 2 3 4 5 Note MacGillivray's Warbler Black-necked Stilt Common Yellowthroat American Avocet Belding's Yellowthroat SANDPIPERS & ALLIES - SCOLOPACIDAE Hooded Warbler Terek Sandpiper * Wilson's Warbler Spotted Sandpiper Canada Warbler Solitary Sandpiper Painted Redstart Wandering Tattler Fan-tailed Warbler * Greater Yellowlegs Yellow-breasted Chat Willet TANAGERS - THRAUPIDAE Lesser Yellowlegs Hepatic Tanager * Whimbrel Summer Tanager Long-billed Curlew Scarlet Tanager Hudsonian Godwit * Western Tanager Bar-tailed Godwit * NEW WORLD SPARROWS - EMBERIZIDAE Marbled Godwit Green-tailed Towhee Ruddy Turnstone Spotted Towhee Black Turnstone California Towhee Surfbird Abert's Towhee Red Knot Cassin's Sparrow * Sanderling Rufous-crowned Sparrow Semipalmated Sandpiper Chipping Sparrow Western Sandpiper Clay-colored Sparrow Little Stint * Brewer's Sparrow Least Sandpiper Black-chinned Sparrow Baird's Sandpiper Vesper Sparrow Pectoral Sandpiper Lark Sparrow Dunlin Black-throated Sparrow Curlew Sandpiper * Sage Sparrow Stilt Sandpiper Lark Bunting Buff-breasted Sandpiper * Savannah Sparrow Ruff * Grasshopper Sparrow Short-billed Dowitcher Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow * Long-billed Dowitcher Fox Sparrow Wilson's Snipe Song Sparrow Wilson's Phalarope Lincoln's Sparrow Red-necked Phalarope Swamp Sparrow Red Phalarope White-throated Sparrow GULLS, TERNS & SKIMMERS - 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  • Biological Resources and Management

    Biological Resources and Management

    Vermilion flycatcher The upper Muddy River is considered one of the Mojave’s most important Common buckeye on sunflower areas of biodiversity and regionally Coyote (Canis latrans) Damselfly (Enallagma sp.) (Junonia coenia on Helianthus annuus) important ecological but threatened riparian landscapes (Provencher et al. 2005). Not only does the Warm Springs Natural Area encompass the majority of Muddy River tributaries it is also the largest single tract of land in the upper Muddy River set aside for the benefit of native species in perpetuity. The prominence of water in an otherwise barren Mojave landscape provides an oasis for regional wildlife. A high bird diversity is attributed to an abundance of riparian and floodplain trees and shrubs. Contributions to plant diversity come from the Mojave Old World swallowtail (Papilio machaon) Desertsnow (Linanthus demissus) Lobe-leaved Phacelia (Phacelia crenulata) Cryptantha (Cryptantha sp.) vegetation that occur on the toe slopes of the Arrow Canyon Range from the west and the plant species occupying the floodplain where they are supported by a high water table. Several marshes and wet meadows add to the diversity of plants and animals. The thermal springs and tributaries host an abundance of aquatic species, many of which are endemic. The WSNA provides a haven for the abundant wildlife that resides permanently or seasonally and provides a significant level of protection for imperiled species. Tarantula (Aphonopelma spp.) Beavertail cactus (Opuntia basilaris) Pacific tree frog (Pseudacris regilla)