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  1. America's Birdiest County Update: 225 Species, Saturday, 10:18 am LINK
    DATE: Apr 29, 2023 @ 10:23am, 3 year(s) ago
    Hi Everyone,
    We've added nearly a lot more species since last night and our total is now 226 species. Here are the species we've added, in no particular order:
    Marbled Godwit
    Long-billed Curlew
    Sanderling
    Wandering Tattler
    Heermann's Gull
    Least Tern
    Elegant Tern
    Red-throated Loon
    Common Loon
    Black-vented shearwater
    American White Pelican
    Osprey
    Bald Eagle
    Barn Owl
    Lewis's Woodpecker
    Merlin
    Bank Swallow
    Red-breasted Nuthatch
    Fox Sparrow
    Lesser Nighthawk
    Vaux's Swift
    Common Gallinule
    Snow Goose
    Ross's Goose
    Cackling Goose
    Say's Phoebe
    American Dipper
    Hutton's Vireo
    Common Poorwill
    Calliope Hummingbird
    Gray Flycatcher
    Black-chinned sparrow
    Here's the list of ALL the species we've FOUND:
    
    * Snow Goose * Ross's Goose * Greater White-fronted Goose * Tundra Bean-Goose NEW! * Cackling Goose * Canada Goose * Blue-winged Teal * Cinnamon Teal * Northern Shoveler * Gadwall * American Wigeon * Mallard * Northern Pintail * Green-winged Teal * Redhead * Ring-necked Duck * Lesser Scaup * Surf Scoter * Long-tailed Duck * Bufflehead * Red-breasted Merganser * Ruddy Duck * Mountain Quail * California Quail * Pied-billed Grebe * Eared Grebe * Western Grebe * Clark's Grebe * Rock Pigeon * Band-tailed Pigeon * Eurasian Collared-Dove * Spotted Dove * Mourning Dove * Greater Roadrunner * Lesser Nighthawk * Common Poorwill * Vaux's Swift * White-throated Swift * Black-chinned Hummingbird * Anna's Hummingbird * Costa's Hummingbird * Rufous Hummingbird * Allen's Hummingbird * Calliope Hummingbird * Virginia Rail * Sora * Common Gallinule * American Coot * Black-necked Stilt * American Avocet * Black Oystercatcher * Black-bellied Plover * Pacific Golden-Plover * Snowy Plover * Semipalmated Plover * Killdeer * Whimbrel * Long-billed Curlew * Marbled Godwit * Sanderling * Dunlin * Least Sandpiper * Western Sandpiper * Long-billed Dowitcher * Wilson's Snipe * Wilson's Phalarope * Red-necked Phalarope * Spotted Sandpiper * Solitary Sandpiper * Wandering Tattler * Greater Yellowlegs * Lesser Yellowlegs * Heermann's Gull * Ring-billed Gull * Western Gull * California Gull * Glaucous-winged Gull * Least Tern * Caspian Tern * Forster's Tern * Elegant Tern * Black Skimmer * Red-throated Loon * Pacific Loon * Common Loon * Black-vented Shearwater * Brandt's Cormorant * Neotropic Cormorant * Double-crested Cormorant * American White Pelican * Brown Pelican * Great Blue Heron * Great Egret * Snowy Egret * Cattle Egret * Green Heron * Black-crowned Night-Heron * Yellow-crowned Night-Heron * White-faced Ibis * Turkey Vulture * Osprey * Northern Harrier * Cooper's Hawk * Bald Eagle * Red-shouldered Hawk * Swainson's Hawk * Red-tailed Hawk * Barn Owl * Western Screech-Owl * Great Horned Owl * Belted Kingfisher * Lewis's Woodpecker * Acorn Woodpecker * Downy Woodpecker * Nuttall's Woodpecker * Hairy Woodpecker * Northern Flicker * American Kestrel * Merlin * Peregrine Falcon * Yellow-chevroned Parakeet * Red-Crowned Parrot * Nanday Parakeet * Mitred Parakeet * Olive-sided Flycatcher * Western Wood-Pewee * Hammond's Flycatcher * Gray Flycatcher * Dusky Flycatcher * Pacific-slope Flycatcher * Black Phoebe * Say's Phoebe * Vermilion Flycatcher * Ash-throated Flycatcher * Cassin's Kingbird * Western Kingbird * Bell's Vireo * Hutton's Vireo * Cassin's Vireo * Warbling Vireo * Loggerhead Shrike * Steller's Jay * California Scrub-Jay * American Crow * Common Raven * Mountain Chickadee * Oak Titmouse * Verdin * Horned Lark * Northern Rough-winged Swallow * Tree Swallow * Violet-green Swallow * Bank Swallow * Barn Swallow * Cliff Swallow * Red-Whiskered Bulbul * Bushtit * Wrentit * Ruby-crowned Kinglet * Red-breasted Nuthatch * White-breasted Nuthatch * Blue-gray Gnatcatcher * California Gnatcatcher * Canyon Wren * House Wren * Marsh Wren * Bewick's Wren * Cactus Wren * American Dipper * European Starling * California Thrasher * Northern Mockingbird * Western Bluebird * Swainson's Thrush * Hermit Thrush * American Robin * Cedar Waxwing * Phainopepla * House Sparrow * Scaly-breasted Munia * American Pipit * House Finch * Purple Finch * Lesser Goldfinch * Lawrence's Goldfinch * American Goldfinch * Chipping Sparrow * Black-chinned Sparrow * Lark Sparrow * Fox Sparrow * Dark-eyed Junco * White-crowned Sparrow * Golden-crowned Sparrow * Bell's Sparrow * Savannah Sparrow * Song Sparrow * Lincoln's Sparrow * Swamp Sparrow * California Towhee * Rufous-crowned Sparrow * Spotted Towhee * Yellow-breasted Chat * Yellow-headed Blackbird * Western Meadowlark * Hooded Oriole * Bullock's Oriole * Red-winged Blackbird * Tricolored Blackbird * Brown-headed Cowbird * Brewer's Blackbird * Great-tailed Grackle * Orange-crowned Warbler * Nashville Warbler * MacGillivray's Warbler * Common Yellowthroat * Yellow Warbler * Yellow-rumped Warbler * Black-throated Gray Warbler * Townsend's Warbler * Hermit Warbler * Wilson's Warbler * Western Tanager * Black-headed Grosbeak * Blue Grosbeak
    
    * Lazuli Bunting
    There are still many species we haven't found that we usually get, plus some rare birds that turned up in previous years. Here's that list:
    # Brant
    # Wood Duck
    # Canvasback
    # Greater Scaup
    # White-winged Scoter
    # Black Scoter
    # Common Goldeneye
    # Hooded Merganser
    # Common Merganser
    # Gambel's Quail
    # Chukar
    # Horned Grebe
    # Inca Dove
    # Common Ground-Dove
    # White-winged Dove
    # Ridgway's Rail
    # Sandhill Crane
    # Ruddy Turnstone
    # Black Turnstone
    # Red Knot
    # Surfbird
    # Ruff
    # Stilt Sandpiper
    # Baird's Sandpiper
    # Pectoral Sandpiper
    # Semipalmated Sandpiper
    # Short-billed Dowitcher
    # Red Phalarope
    # Willet
    # Pomarine Jaeger
    # Parasitic Jaeger
    # Common Murre
    # Scripps's Murrelet
    # Cassin's Auklet
    # Rhinoceros Auklet
    # Sabine's Gull
    # Bonaparte's Gull
    # Laughing Gull
    # Franklin's Gull
    # Short-billed Gull
    # Herring Gull
    # Lesser Black-backed Gull
    # Iceland Gull (Thayer's Gull)
    # Glaucous Gull
    # Black Tern
    # Common Tern
    # Royal Tern
    # Yellow-billed Loon
    # Black-footed Albatross
    # Leach's Storm-Petrel
    # Northern Fulmar
    # Pink-footed Shearwater
    # Sooty Shearwater
    # Pelagic Cormorant
    # American Bittern
    # Least Bittern
    # California Condor
    # White-tailed Kite
    # Golden Eagle
    # Sharp-shinned Hawk
    # Zone-tailed Hawk
    # Ferruginous Hawk
    # Flammulated Owl
    # Northern Pygmy-Owl
    # Burrowing Owl
    # Spotted Owl
    # Long-eared Owl
    # Northern Saw-whet Owl
    # Williamson's Sapsucker
    # Red-naped Sapsucker
    # Red-breasted Sapsucker
    # Ladder-backed Woodpecker
    # White-headed Woodpecker
    # Crested Caracara
    # Prairie Falcon
    # Lilac-Crowned Parrot
    # Red-masked Parakeet
    # Least Flycatcher
    # Dusky-capped Flycatcher
    # Tropical Kingbird
    # Thick-billed Kingbird
    # Plumbeous Vireo
    # Clark's Nutcracker
    # Purple Martin
    # Golden-crowned Kinglet
    # Pygmy Nuthatch
    # Brown Creeper
    # Rock Wren
    # LeConte's Thrasher
    # Mountain Bluebird
    # Townsend's Solitaire
    # Varied Thrush
    # Red-throated Pipit
    # Evening Grosbeak
    # Cassin's Finch
    # Red Crossbill
    # Pine Siskin
    # Grasshopper Sparrow
    # Clay-colored Sparrow
    # Field Sparrow
    # Brewer's Sparrow
    # Black-throated Sparrow
    # Harris's Sparrow
    # White-throated Sparrow
    # Vesper Sparrow
    # Green-tailed Towhee
    # Orchard Oriole
    # Baltimore Oriole
    # Scott's Oriole
    # Northern Waterthrush
    # Black-and-white Warbler
    # Tennessee Warbler
    # Hooded Warbler
    # American Redstart
    # Northern Parula
    # Chestnut-sided Warbler
    # Palm Warbler
    # Red-faced Warbler
    # Painted Redstart
    # Summer Tanager
    # Indigo Bunting
    
    There are still species we've never found on ABC weekend that have been in the county recently such as blue-headed vireo, sage thrasher, Pacific wren, and others. If you find any of those, please let us know!
    Thank you!
    Best wishes,
    Lance
    Lance Benner Altadena
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