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California’s Autumn Seas

10,000 Birds

And there aren’t just cool birds rocking up, migratory bats do too. A Hoary Bat. Jen and I looking at said bat (piccie by Adam Brown). California Sea Lions porpoised through the clear water. Birding bats California Farallon Islands seabirds whales' And there where whales. You could even smell its breath!

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Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: West Coast–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The two main chapters cover Marine Mammals (Orca; Whales; Dolphins and Porpoises; Sea Lions, Fur Seals, and Elephant Seal; Rarer Marine Mammals) and Seabirds (Albatrosses, Shearwaters and Fulmar, Strom-Petrels, Phalaropes, Alcids, Red-billed Tropicbird, Brown Booby, South Polar Skua, Jaegers, Gulls and Terns, Rarer Seabirds).

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Collaborative list – January 2020

10,000 Birds

Flushing Meadows Corona Park–Porpoise Bridge. Bat Falcon – Falco rufigularis. Hamlin Beach SP–Parking Lot No. 1 (Winter Lakewatch). 01 Jan 2020. Smew – Mergellus albellus. Labudovo Okno NR–Uš?e 05 Jan 2020. Hooded Merganser – Lophodytes cucullatus. 04 Jan 2020. 04 Jan 2020. 23 Jan 2020. 01 Jan 2020.

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