Hi Everyone,

We've added four species since the last update, most notably our first Red-footed Booby, which was on a buoy at Avalon on Santa Catalina Island. Here are the four new species:

Sooty Shearwater: Santa Catalina Island
Red-footed Booby: Santa Catalina Island
Red-masked parakeet
Red Crossbill

With these, our total is now 266.

Here's the list of all the species we've found this weekend:

* 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
* White-winged Scoter
* Long-tailed Duck
* Bufflehead
* Common Merganser
* 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
* Inca Dove
* White-winged 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
* Black Turnstone
* Surfbird
* Sanderling
* Dunlin
* Least Sandpiper
* Western Sandpiper
* Short-billed Dowitcher
* Long-billed Dowitcher
* Wilson's Snipe
* Wilson's Phalarope
* Red-necked Phalarope
* Red Phalarope
* Spotted Sandpiper
* Solitary Sandpiper
* Wandering Tattler
* Greater Yellowlegs
* Willet
* Lesser Yellowlegs
* Common Murre
* Bonaparte's Gull
* Heermann's Gull
* Ring-billed Gull
* Western Gull
* California Gull
* Herring Gull
* Lesser Black-backed Gull
* Glaucous-winged Gull
* Least Tern
* Caspian Tern
* Forster's Tern
* Royal Tern
* Elegant Tern
* Black Skimmer
* Red-throated Loon
* Pacific Loon
* Common Loon
* Sooty Shearwater
* Black-vented Shearwater
* Red-footed Booby NEW!
* Brandt's Cormorant
* Pelagic 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
* White-tailed Kite
* Northern Harrier
* Sharp-shinned Hawk
* Cooper's Hawk
* Bald Eagle
* Red-shouldered Hawk
* Swainson's Hawk
* Red-tailed Hawk
* Barn Owl
* Western Screech-Owl
* Great Horned Owl
* Northern Saw-whet Owl
* Belted Kingfisher
* Williamson's Sapsucker
* Red-breasted Sapsucker
* Lewis's Woodpecker
* Acorn Woodpecker
* Downy Woodpecker
* Nuttall's Woodpecker
* Ladder-backed Woodpecker
* Hairy Woodpecker
* White-headed Woodpecker
* Northern Flicker
* American Kestrel
* Merlin
* Peregrine Falcon
* Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
* Red-Crowned Parrot
* Lilac-Crowned Parrot
* Nanday Parakeet
* Mitred Parakeet
* Red-masked Parakeet
* Olive-sided Flycatcher
* Western Wood-Pewee
* Hammond's Flycatcher
* Gray Flycatcher
* Dusky Flycatcher
* Pacific-slope Flycatcher
* Black Phoebe
* Say's Phoebe
* Vermilion Flycatcher
* Dusky-capped Flycatcher
* Ash-throated Flycatcher
* Tropical Kingbird
* 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
* Golden-crowned Kinglet
* Ruby-crowned Kinglet
* Red-breasted Nuthatch
* White-breasted Nuthatch
* Pygmy Nuthatch
* Brown Creeper
* Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
* California Gnatcatcher
* Rock Wren
* Canyon Wren
* House Wren
* Marsh Wren
* Bewick's Wren
* Cactus Wren
* American Dipper
* European Starling
* California Thrasher
* Northern Mockingbird
* Western Bluebird
* Townsend's Solitaire
* Swainson's Thrush
* Hermit Thrush
* American Robin
* Cedar Waxwing
* Phainopepla
* House Sparrow
* Scaly-breasted Munia
* American Pipit
* House Finch
* Purple Finch
* Cassin's Finch
* Red Crossbill
* Lesser Goldfinch
* Lawrence's Goldfinch
* American Goldfinch
* Chipping Sparrow
* Black-chinned Sparrow
* Brewer's Sparrow
* Black-throated Sparrow
* Lark Sparrow
* Fox Sparrow
* Dark-eyed Junco
* White-crowned Sparrow
* Golden-crowned Sparrow
* White-throated Sparrow
* Bell's Sparrow
* Savannah Sparrow
* Song Sparrow
* Lincoln's Sparrow
* Swamp Sparrow
* California Towhee
* Rufous-crowned Sparrow
* Green-tailed Towhee
* Spotted Towhee
* Yellow-breasted Chat
* Yellow-headed Blackbird
* Western Meadowlark
* Hooded Oriole
* Bullock's Oriole
* Scott'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
* Palm 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 some common species that we didn't locate. Here's the list of all of those that were tallied during previous ABC weekends:

# Brant
# Wood Duck
# Canvasback
# Greater Scaup
# Black Scoter
# Common Goldeneye
# Hooded Merganser
# Gambel's Quail
# Chukar
# Horned Grebe
# Common Ground-Dove
# Ridgway's Rail
# Sandhill Crane
# Ruddy Turnstone
# Red Knot
# Ruff
# Stilt Sandpiper
# Baird's Sandpiper
# Pectoral Sandpiper
# Semipalmated Sandpiper
# Pomarine Jaeger
# Parasitic Jaeger
# Scripps's Murrelet
# Cassin's Auklet
# Rhinoceros Auklet
# Sabine's Gull
# Laughing Gull
# Franklin's Gull
# Short-billed Gull
# Iceland Gull (Thayer's Gull)
# Glaucous Gull
# Black Tern
# Common Tern
# Yellow-billed Loon
# Black-footed Albatross
# Leach's Storm-Petrel
# Northern Fulmar
# Pink-footed Shearwater
# American Bittern
# Least Bittern
# California Condor
# Golden Eagle
# Zone-tailed Hawk
# Ferruginous Hawk
# Flammulated Owl
# Northern Pygmy-Owl
# Burrowing Owl
# Spotted Owl
# Long-eared Owl
# Red-naped Sapsucker
# Crested Caracara
# Prairie Falcon
# Least Flycatcher
# Thick-billed Kingbird
# Plumbeous Vireo
# Clark's Nutcracker
# Purple Martin
# LeConte's Thrasher
# Mountain Bluebird
# Varied Thrush
# Red-throated Pipit
# Evening Grosbeak
# Pine Siskin
# Grasshopper Sparrow
# Clay-colored Sparrow
# Field Sparrow
# Harris's Sparrow
# Vesper Sparrow
# Orchard Oriole
# Baltimore Oriole
# Northern Waterthrush
# Black-and-white Warbler
# Tennessee Warbler
# Hooded Warbler
# American Redstart
# Northern Parula
# Chestnut-sided Warbler
# Red-faced Warbler
# Painted Redstart
# Summer Tanager
# Indigo Bunting

If you found any of these, please let us know!

It's possible that more reports could arrive in the next couple of days, and some species are under review, so our total could still change, perhaps as much as several species. I'll provide a brief update on Monday and then post a full summary in about a week.

Thank you everyone for all your hard work!

More soon,

Lance

Lance Benner
Altadena