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Bolsa Chica wetlands all images © Mark Chappell At least some of the images on these pages were made at Bolsa Chica. A large screen will give the best results (you may have to scroll pages containing multiple images)

Loons, grebes     Pacific loon     Red-throated loon     Pied-billed grebe     Eared grebe     Horned grebe     Western grebe     Clark's grebe Herons     Great blue heron     Green heron     Black-crowned night heron, in flight     Yellow-crowned night heron     Common egrets; in flight     Snowy egret; in flight     Reddish egret     American bittern Pelicaniform birds     American white pelican     Brown pelican, flying, fishing     Double-crested cormorant Ducks and geese      Buffleheads     Ruddy duck     Surf scotor     Red-breasted merganser     Lesser scaup     Gadwall     Green-winged teal     Blue-winged teal     Northern pintail; in flight     American wigeon     Eurasian wigeon

Rails, coots, etc.     American coot     Clapper rail Gulls     Bonaparte's gull     Western gull     Ring-billed gull     Parasitic jaeger Terns, etc     Forster's tern     Elegant terns, courtship flight     Royal terns     Caspian tern     Least tern     Black skimmer Sandpipers, other shorebirds     Shorebird flocks; in flight     Dunlin     Red knot     Least sandpiper     Western sandpiper, flock     Greater yellowlegs     Willet     Whimbrel     Long-billed curlew     Marbled godwit: preening,     Short-billed dowitchers; more     American avocets; flying     Black-necked stilt     Red-necked phalarope

Hawks and falcons     White-tailed kite     Northern harrier     Osprey     American kestrel     Merlin     Peregrine falcon Hummingbirds     Allen's hummingbird     Anna's hummingbird Woodpeckers     Downy woodpecker Wood warblers     Common yellowthroat Towhees     California towhee Sparrows     Savannah sparrow Orioles, blackbirds     Western meadowlark The scene. . .      Bolsa Chica sunrises