All About Birds California

✍ Scribed by Cornell University. Laboratory of Ornithology,

• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 301
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Table of Contents
Introduction
Getting Started
Birding 101
Four Keys to Bird Identification
Using Field Marks to Identify Birds
Use Merlin to See the Possibilities
Tips for Beginning Bird Watchers
Listening to Birds
Photographing Birds
Digiscoping
Attracting Birds to Your Yard
Birdscaping
Bird Feeders
Feeder Placement & Safety
Bird Food
Water Sources
Features of a Good Birdhouse
Getting Involved
Citizen Science
eBird
Great Backyard Bird Count
Bird Academy
Project FeederWatch
NestWatch
Celebrate Urban Birds
Seven Simple Actions to Help Birds
Guide to Species
Snow Goose / GEESE • SWANS • DUCKS
Brant
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Wood Duck
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Canvasback
Redhead
Lesser Scaup
Ruddy Duck
California Quail / QUAIL • TURKEY • GROUSE
Gambel’s Quail
Wild Turkey
Sooty Grouse
Chukar
Pied-billed Grebe / GREBES
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Rock Pigeon / PIGEONS • DOVES • CUCKOOS
Band-tailed Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Common Ground Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Greater Roadrunner
Lesser Nighthawk / NIGHTJARS
Common Nighthawk
White-throated Swift / SWIFTS • HUMMINGBIRDS
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird
Costa’s Hummingbird
Calliope Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Allen’s Hummingbird
Sora / RAILS • GALLINULES • COOTS
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Sandhill Crane / CRANES • STILTS • OYSTERCATCHERS
Black-necked Stilt
Black Oystercatcher
Black-bellied Plover / PLOVERS • SANDPIPERS
Killdeer
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Western Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Willet
Common Murre / MURRES • AUKS
Pigeon Guillemot
Black-legged Kittiwake / GULLS • TERNS
Heermann’s Gull
Mew Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Western Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Glaucous Gull
Least Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Common Tern
Forster’s Tern
Royal Tern
Elegant Tern
Black Skimmer / SKIMMERS
Red-throated Loon / LOONS
Common Loon
Brandt’s Cormorant / CORMORANTS • PELICANS
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Great Blue Heron / HERONS • IBISES
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White-faced Ibis
Turkey Vulture / VULTURES
Osprey / KITES • HAWKS • EAGLES
White-tailed Kite
Golden Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Swainson’s Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Western Screech-Owl / OWLS
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Barred Owl
Belted Kingfisher / KINGFISHERS
Red-breasted Sapsucker / WOODPECKERS
Acorn Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
White-headed Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel / FALCONS
Peregrine Falcon
Western Wood-Pewee / TYRANT FLYCATCHERS
Black Phoebe
Say’s Phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Warbling Vireo / VIREOS
Loggerhead Shrike / SHRIKES
Northern Shrike
Canada Jay / JAYS • MAGPIES • CROWS
Pinyon Jay
Steller’s Jay
California Scrub-Jay
Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay
Black-billed Magpie
Yellow-billed Magpie
Clark’s Nutcracker
American Crow
Common Raven
Mountain Chickadee / CHICKADEES • TITMICE
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Oak Titmouse
Juniper Titmouse
Verdin / VERDINS
Horned Lark / LARKS
Purple Martin / SWALLOWS
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Bushtit / BUSHTITS
Wrentit / WRENTITS
Golden-crowned Kinglet / KINGLETS
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Red-breasted Nuthatch / NUTHATCHES
White-breasted Nuthatch
Pygmy Nuthatch
Brown Creeper / CREEPERS
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher / GNATCATCHERS
Rock Wren / WRENS
Canyon Wren
House Wren
Pacific Wren
Bewick’s Wren
Cactus Wren
American Dipper / DIPPERS
European Starling / STARLINGS
Northern Mockingbird / MOCKINGBIRDS
Western Bluebird / THRUSHES
Mountain Bluebird
Townsend’s Solitaire
Varied Thrush
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing / WAXWINGS
Phainopepla / SILKY-FLYCATCHERS
House Sparrow / OLD WORLD SPARROWS
Evening Grosbeak / FINCHES • CROSSBILLS
House Finch
Purple Finch
Cassin’s Finch
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin
Lesser Goldfinch
Lawrence’s Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
Grasshopper Sparrow / SPARROWS • JUNCOS • TOWHEES
Black-throated Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Brewer’s Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Abert’s Towhee
California Towhee
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Green-tailed Towhee
Spotted Towhee
Yellow-breasted Chat
Yellow-headed Blackbird / BLACKBIRDS • ORIOLES • GRACKLES
Western Meadowlark
Hooded Oriole
Bullock’s Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Tricolored Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Brewer’s Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Orange-crowned Warbler / WOOD-WARBLERS
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Townsend’s Warbler / WOOD-WARBLERS
Wilson’s Warbler
Summer Tanager / TANAGERS • GROSBEAKS • BUNTINGS
Western Tanager
Black-headed Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting
Image Credits
Index
Acknowledgments