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 - LARIDAE Harris's Sparrow * Laughing Gull White-crowned Sparrow Franklin's Gull Golden-crowned Sparrow Bonaparte's Gull Dark-eyed Junco Heermann's Gull Yellow-eyed Junco Mew Gull McCown's Longspur * Ring-billed Gull

14 7 1 2 3 4 5 Note 1 2 3 4 5 Note California Gull Herring Gull WAXWINGS - BOMBYCILLIDAE Thayer's Gull Cedar Waxwing Lesser Black-backed Gull * SILKY-FLYCATCHERS - PTILOGONATIDAE Yellow-footed Gull Phainopepla Western Gull WOOD WARBLERS - PARULIDAE Glaucous-winged Gull Blue-winged Warbler * Glaucous Gull Golden-winged Warbler * Sabine's Gull Tennessee Warbler Black-legged Kittiwake Orange-crowned Warbler White Tern * Nashville Warbler Sooty Tern Virginia's Warbler Least Tern Lucy's Warbler Gull-billed Tern Northern Parula Caspian Tern Tropical Parula * Black Tern Yellow Warbler Common Tern Chestnut-sided Warbler Arctic Tern Magnolia Warbler Forster's Tern Cape May Warbler * Royal Tern Black-throated Blue Warbler Elegant Tern Yellow-rumped Warbler Black Skimmer Black-throated Gray Warbler SKUAS & JAEGERS - STERCORARIIDAE Black-throated Green Warbler South Polar Skua Townsend's Warbler Pomarine Jaeger Hermit Warbler Parasitic Jaeger Blackburnian Warbler Long-tailed Jaeger Yellow-throated Warbler ALCIDS - ALCIDAE Grace's Warbler * Common Murre * Pine Warbler * Pigeon Guillemot * Prairie Warbler Marbled Murrelet * Palm Warbler Xantus's Murrelet Bay-breasted Warbler * Craveri's Murrelet Blackpoll Warbler Ancient Murrelet * Cerulean Warbler * Cassin's Auklet Black-and-white Warbler Crested Auklet * American Redstart Rhinoceros Auklet Prothonotary Warbler PIGEONS & DOVES - COLUMBIDAE Worm-eating Warbler * Rock Pigeon † Ovenbird Band-tailed Pigeon Northern Waterthrush Eurasian Collared-Dove Louisiana Waterthrush * Spotted Dove Kentucky Warbler White-winged Dove Connecticut Warbler * Mourning Dove Mourning Warbler *

8 13 1 2 3 4 5 Note 1 2 3 4 5 Note Rock Wren Inca Dove Canyon Wren Common Ground-Dove Bewick's Wren Ruddy Ground-Dove House Wren CUCKOOS, ROADRUNNERS & ANIS - CUCULIDAE Winter Wren Yellow-billed Cuckoo Marsh Wren Black-billed Cuckoo * KINGLETS - REGULIDAE Greater Roadrunner Golden-crowned Kinglet Groove-billed Ani * Ruby-crowned Kinglet BARN OWLS - TYTONIDAE GNATCATCHERS - SYLVIIDAE Barn Owl Dusky Warbler * TYPICAL OWLS - STRIGIDAE Yellow-browed Warbler * Flammulated Owl * Arctic Warbler * Western Screech-Owl Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Great Horned Owl California Gnatcatcher Northern Pygmy-Owl Black-tailed Gnatcatcher Elf Owl BLUEBIRDS & THRUSHES - TURDIDAE Burrowing Owl Western Bluebird Spotted Owl * Mountain Bluebird Long-eared Owl Townsend's Solitaire Short-eared Owl Gray-cheeked Thrush * Northern Saw-whet Owl Swainson's Thrush GOATSUCKERS - CAPRIMULGIDAE Hermit Thrush Lesser Nighthawk American Robin Common Nighthawk * Varied Thrush Common Poorwill WRENTIT - TIMALIIDAE Whip-poor-will Wrentit SWIFTS - APODIDAE MOCKINGBIRDS & THRASHERS - MIMIDAE Black Swift * Gray Catbird Chimney Swift * Northern Mockingbird Vaux's Swift Sage Thrasher White-throated Swift Gray Thrasher HUMMINGBIRDS - TROCHILIDAE Bendire's Thrasher * Broad-billed Hummingbird California Thrasher Xantus's Hummingbird Crissal Thrasher Ruby-throated Hummingbird * Le Conte's Thrasher Black-chinned Hummingbird STARLINGS - STURNIDAE Anna's Hummingbird European Starling † Costa's Hummingbird WAGTAILS & PIPITS - MOTACILLIDAE Calliope Hummingbird Eastern Yellow Wagtail * Rufous Hummingbird White Wagtail * Allen's Hummingbird Olive-backed Pipit * KINGFISHERS - ALCEDINIDAE Red-throated Pipit Belted Kingfi sher American Pipit WOODPECKERS - PICIDAE

12 9 1 2 3 4 5 Note 1 2 3 4 5 Note Lewis's Woodpecker Acorn Woodpecker VIREOS - VIREONIDAE Gila Woodpecker White-eyed Vireo * Williamson's Sapsucker Bell's Vireo Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Gray Vireo Red-naped Sapsucker Plumbeous Vireo Red-breasted Sapsucker Cassin's Vireo Ladder-backed Woodpecker Blue-headed Vireo * Nuttall's Woodpecker Hutton's Vireo Downy Woodpecker Warbling Vireo Hairy Woodpecker Philadelphia Vireo Northern Flicker Red-eyed Vireo Gilded Flicker Yellow-green Vireo TYRANT FLYCATCHERS - TYRANNIDAE JAYS, CROWS, RAVENS & ALLIES - CORVIDAE Olive-sided Flycatcher Western Scrub-Jay Greater Pewee * Pinyon Jay Western Wood-Pewee Clark's Nutcracker Yellow-bellied Flycatcher * American Crow Alder Flycatcher * Common Raven Willow Flycatcher LARKS - ALAUDIDAE Least Flycatcher Horned Lark Hammond's Flycatcher SWALLOWS & MARTINS - HIRUNDINIDAE Gray Flycatcher Purple Martin Dusky Flycatcher Tree Swallow Pacifi c-slope Flycatcher Violet-green Swallow Cordilleran Flycatcher * Northern Rough-winged Swallow Black Phoebe Bank Swallow Eastern Phoebe Cliff Swallow Say's Phoebe Barn Swallow Vermilion Flycatcher CHICKADEES & TITMICE - PARIDAE Dusky-capped Flycatcher * Mountain Chickadee Ash-throated Flycatcher Oak Titmouse Great Crested Flycatcher * VERDIN - REMIZIDAE Brown-crested Flycatcher * Verdin Great Kiskadee * BUSHTIT - AEGITHALIDAE Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher * Bushtit Tropical Kingbird NUTHATCHES - SITTIDAE Cassin's Kingbird Red-breasted Nuthatch Thick-billed Kingbird White-breasted Nuthatch Western Kingbird Pygmy Nuthatch Eastern Kingbird * CREEPERS - CERTHIIDAE Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Brown Creeper SHRIKES - LANIIDAE WRENS - TROGLODYTIDAE Loggerhead Shrike Cactus Wren

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