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SPECIFIC DATA FOR BIRD SPECIES OBSERVED IN CALIFORNIA

The color illustrations emphasize the adult male bird in breeding season but may also show females and immatures. Their coloration may be duller or absent at different times of the year. Measurements are the average length from bill to tip of tail. Images were redrawn and or modified from originals found in the literature, with the painter or photographer of the model being noted after each file name. John James Audubon paintings are especially stressed (see AUDUBON). [All Files]

Bird Groups] [Bird Types] [Alphabetical List] [Numerical List] References Citations

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WATERBIRDS (primarily Inshore Waters)

Coots, Cormorants, Dippers, Ducks, Teals & Wigeons, Gallinules, Geese, Grebes, Kingfishers,

Loons, Pelicans, Swans

WADING BIRDS (Coastal & Inshore Waters)

Avocets, Bitterns, Cranes, Curlews, Dowitchers, Dunlins & Knots, Egrets, Godwits, Herons, Ibis,

Killdeers, Plovers, Rails, Sanderlings, Snipes, Stilts, Storks, Turnstones, Willets, Yellowlegs

SHORE & OFFSHORE BIRDS (Ocean and/or Inshore Waters)

Albatrosses, Auks, Boobies, Cormorants, Frigate Birds, Fulmars, Godwits, Guillemots, Gulls,

Jaegers, Kittiwakes, Murrelets, Murres, Oystercatchers, Petrels, Phalaropes, Puffins, Sandpipers,

Shearwaters, Skimmers, Skuas, Surfbird, Tattlers, Terns, Tropicbirds, Whimbrels

PREDATORY & SCAVENGER BIRDS

Eagles, Falcons, Hawks, Kites, Ospreys, Owls, Vultures

GAME & GROUND BIRDS (terrestrial)

Chukars, Doves, Grouse, Pheasants, Pigeons, Pipits, Poorwills, Quail, Roadrunners,

Skylarks, Turkeys

WOODPECKER GROUP

Flickers, Sapsuckers, Woodpeckers

HUMMINGBIRDS

PERCHING BIRDS (incl. Swifts, Swallows & Nighthawks)

Blackbirds, Bluebirds, Bobolinks, Buntings, Bushtits, Cardinals, Chats, Chickadees,

Cowbirds, Creepers, Crossbills, Crows & Ravens, Cuckoos, Finches, Flycatchers,

Gnatcatchers, Grackles, Grosbeaks, Jays, Juncos, Kingbirds, Kinglets, Larks, Longspurs,

Magpies, Meadowlarks, Mockingbirds, Nighthawks, Nutcrackers, Nuthatches, Orioles,

Ovenbirds, Parrots, Phainopepla, Phoebes, Plovers (terrestrial), Robins, Shrikes, Siskins,

Sparrows, Starlings, Swallows, Swifts, Tanagers, Thrashers, Titmice, Towhees, Verdin,

Vireos, Warblers & Thrushes, Waxwings, Wood-Pewee, Wrens, Wrentits

John James Audubon Collection

A. & S. Menaboni Collection

References