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MARCH 17, 2022

American White Pelicans spend their winter months along the Gulf states, California, parts of Arizona, and Mexico down into Central America. They migrate north through the Western United States, breeding in pockets all the way up through Canada.

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Pelicans United States Canada Arizona 242

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AUGUST 19, 2020

Back when I started birding during my youth in California, it didn’t take long for me to notice and appreciate how Northern Mockingbirds would sometimes do backflips in the air while singing. Northern Mockingbirds aren’t all that common in central Mexico, and for some reason, I rarely hear them sing here.

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Argentina Mexico California Breeding 220

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The Colima Warbler has a distinction shared with no other species in the world: It is fully migratory, but both its summer reproductive range and its winter range are almost entirely within Mexico. (A A few breed in Texas’ Big Bend area.) All of our other migratory species either breed mostly in the U.S.

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Mexico Birds South America Turkey 160

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2022

Jonathan is originally from San Blas on Mexico’s west coast, a birder’s paradise I have yet to visit. Snowy Plovers also breed half an hour north of my home, so we have those in common. Snowy Plovers also breed half an hour north of my home, so we have those in common.

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San Diego Turtles Mexico Sparrows 258

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2022

He lamented that he had barely been able to travel during the year — only one trip from New York to California, poor boy — and then went on to give an impressive list of vagrants and first-of-state birds. Cedar Waxwing: For most birders in Mexico, 2021 will be remembered as the year of the Waxwings. How did I miss that?

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Mexico Birds Virginia Barn Owls 234

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2021

The most common one, Manila tamarind, is wildly inaccurate, since the tree is native to southwestern Mexico, not Manila, and its only connection to tamarind trees is that both are in different subfamilies of the huge legume family. I first met the tree in Baja California, where it is known as guamúchil (gwa-MOOCH-eel), so I will call it that.

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2016 2020 Mexico California 278

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MAY 20, 2023

The Kirtland’s Warbler is an endangered bird species that breeds primarily in the jack pine forests of northern Michigan. Specifically, the warbler’s primary breeding range is concentrated in a few counties in the northern Lower Peninsula and the eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

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United States Michigan Texas Virginia 162

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Splits were once a much more subjective determination, based on differences in appearance, vocalizations, habits, and breeding preferences. I doubt that would be true if I still lived in California. But you pretty much must come to Mexico to see the Mexican Duck , which I see every time I go to our nearest lake.

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San Diego San Francisco Mexico Baltimore 185

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Heermann’s Gulls form large breeding colonies on arid islands in the Gulf of California, Mexico, from March through July. The largest colony exists on Isla Raza, where an estimated 90–95% of the total world population breeds 1. This photo by Basar from Wikipedia Commons shows the adult in breeding plumage.

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San Francisco North America Seals Sanctuary 159

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2017

Although some of the most popular Pacific pelagic trips depart from Monterey Bay in California, there are also regular trips out of Half Moon Bay, California; Newport, Oregon; and Westport, Washington. A few breed on the main Hawaiian islands, including Kilauea Point NWR on Kauai. Most of the key breeding locations in the U.S.

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Albatross Hawaii Alaska Puerto Rico 140

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

Among these lands are some of the most productive avian breeding grounds in the United States. At the signing ceremony, President Carter stated : We are setting aside for conservation an area of land larger than the State of California. For comparison, Yosemite NP in California is about 760,000 acres. Gates of the Arctic NP (7.5

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Alaska United States Puffins Wildlife 221

10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2014

The Steller’s Jay ( Cyanocitta stelleri ) is one of the ubiquitous birds seen at Lassen Volcanic National Park in northern California. They are a non-migratory species found in western coniferous and mixed-coniferous forests, breeding from Alaska, western Canada, and the United States south through western Mexico to Nicaragua.

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Nicaragua Alaska United States Canada 172

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2013

Clapper Rails , as currently defined by the AOU, occur along the coasts of North and South America and Caribbean islands, and inland in southern California and Arizona. King Rails occur widely in eastern North America, in eastern and central Mexico, and in Cuba. These are brightly colored birds that breed in freshwater environments.

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Species North America Cuba Louisiana 230

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

But he does live in the States, and America does have albatrosses, and they can be easily seen in California, which is not only in the States but is actually a place I’m fairly sure he visits. They range across the Pacific in search of food, which is why pelagic birders in Monterey can tick them off their California Province list.

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Albatross Hawaii North America California 157

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MARCH 8, 2017

The Grey-silky Flycatcher Ptilogonys cincerus , the is nearly an endemic of central Mexico, but for a few vagrants who vacation down in Guatemala. The birds living on the Baja are fulltime, breeding residents, while many of the birds will range as far north as central California, and Utah.

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Costa Rica Panama Nevada Guatemala 107

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Like many warblers the Nashville Warbler breeds in North America and winters in Mexico. I feel rather fortunate having this visitor to my yard as Birds of North America Online states that they are an “uncommon fall migrant in California” usually in August and September.

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Nashville North America Jordan Mississippi 191

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APRIL 4, 2023

At any rate, the inclusion of these species, which are seen in Mexico and Central America, does make this a ‘North American’ field guide in the true ‘North American’ definition of the geographic term. Large and colorful, they include Mexico, Central America and sometimes South America, showing the full migration route.

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Los Angeles North America America Species 225

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

Every autumn, tens of thousands of Snow Geese arrive in California’s Sacramento Valley following their long journey from the Canadian Arctic (click on photos for full sized images). The Ross’s Goose is the smallest variety of the white geese that breed in North America.

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Geese South Dakota Sacramento Arkansas 154

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JUNE 19, 2013

The Cascade Range, part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, extends from Northern California to Southern British Columbia. Undoubtedly one of the most interesting aspects of Burney Falls for birders is that it is one of the few locations in California where nesting Black Swifts ( Cypseloides niger ) can be found.

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California North America Costa Rica Niger 220

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In truth, they breed inland and can even spend a good portion of the winter months on inland, freshwater bodies across the Southeast, Mexico, and California. If you’re like me, you probably picture pelicans along oceans or seas, bobbing in the salt or brackish water as they feed in their bright groups.

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Kansas Pelicans ALA Cows 115

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JANUARY 18, 2012

Colusa National Wildlife Refuge is part of the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex in California’s Central Valley. v=HYPyMs3_v88 During autumn migration, hundreds of thousands of Greater White-fronted Geese travel the Pacific Flyway to Washington and Oregon, some travelling directly to the Central Valley of California.

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Geese Wildlife Sacramento South Dakota 171

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JULY 20, 2018

Following passage of the United States Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, the California Condor ( Gymnogyps californianus ) was among the first 75 species listed for protection, the so-called “Class of 1967”. Reintroduction efforts expanded to Arizona in 1996, and later, to the Baja California peninsula in Mexico.

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California Condor Oregon California Zoos 106

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MAY 30, 2019

such as California Condors and Passenger Pigeons. His parents moved where opportunity beckoned, taking him from San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, New Mexico, then to Dallas, and finally on to California. Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 190

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MARCH 29, 2017

Now that I am here in Mexico, I finally found them! I will continue to make the drive over to the Pacific Ocean side of the Baja, find a nice, semi-comfortable place in the beachside rocks, and smile contently, as the Snowy Plovers scurry back and forth on the white sandy beaches of Mexico.

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Oregon Defenders Of Wildlife Endangered Species Mexico 103

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2012

Aplomado Falcon ( Falco femoralis ) by Jon David Nelson Shakeups for shearwaters and murrelets Xantus’s Murrelet ( Synthliboramphus hypoleucus ) has been split into California-breeding Scripps’s Murrelet ( Synthliboramphus scrippsi ) and Baja-breeding Guadalupe Murrelet ( Synthliboramphus hypoleucus ).

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Falcons Parrots California Breeding 174

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MARCH 15, 2017

While La Paz, is not really what I would call a tourist destination, but being a waterfront city in Mexico does allow for a certain amount of touristic activities. We also had Ring-billed Gulls, California Gulls, Western Gulls , and our most common, the Yellow-footed Gull.

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Birds Mexico Game California 108

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JANUARY 9, 2018

The Bald Eagle is one of the true American conservation success stories: the iconic national bird was listed in 1967 when there were less than 500 breeding pairs in the lower 48. Due in part to the banning of DDT, the eagle population recovered and was delisted in 2007, when there were more than 10,000 breeding pairs. (The

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Bald Eagle Eagles Endangered Species 2017 100

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NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Christmas Shearwaters Much less common that their larger relatives, but at the same time their habit of surface breeding means they are always around to find in certain spots. Tristam’s Storm-petrel From a tiny petrel to a fairly hefty storm-petrel, this species has a small breeding presence on Tern Island. These guys get around!

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Albatross Hawaii Japan New Zealand 127

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2013

Proposal 2013-A-2 would split the “Guatemalan Pygmy-Owl” ( Glaucidium cobanense ) of southern Mexico and northern Central America from the widespread Northern Pygmy-Owl ( G. nevadensis ) and California Sage Sparrow ( A. Let’s take a look at some of what lurks inside: Pygmy-owl split. Sandwich Tern split. acuflavida ).

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2013 Sparrows Owls Stray 193

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MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Brown Boobies ( Sula leucogaster ), Islas Coronado, Baja California © David J. Ringer Gannets and Boobies (Sulidae) Black-and-white gannets breed on the cold, rocky coasts of the northern and southern oceans. Good day sir.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 155

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APRIL 2, 2019

Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America covers 61 species of the New World sparrow family Passerellidae that breed in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. Mexico border. They’re all birds of North America! Range and Geographic Variation.

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North America Sparrows America United States 157

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It actually makes a lot of sense, the geographic features of the isthmus between North America (including Mexico, because Mexico is part of North America) and South America cut across political lines, as do birds. Of the native breeding species, 112 are endemic or “very nearly endemic.” (Can One field guide, seven countries.

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2013

It is a bird of the Pacific coast of North and South America, breeding in western Mexico and southern California. I had, after all, seen quite a few just a couple of weeks ago in southern California. Roseate Terns making more Roseate Terns. Let me pause for a moment and discuss the Elegant Tern.

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New York South America 2013 New Jersey 150

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JULY 4, 2012

Living in California, I am of course speaking of the Western Bluebird ( Sialia mexicana ). This entire cycle begins in early Spring when Western Bluebirds pair up for breeding. Northern California sees Western Bluebird nest building activities beginning as early as March.

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Washington Eggs California 187

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

We don’t simply learn that Great Horned Owls sometimes eat fish, we learn that in northeastern California, they eat Tui chub and in Pennsylvania they eat brown bullhead catfish. Mexico, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and other islands that make up the Greater and Lesser Antilles.

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North America Owls America Dominican Republic 233

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MAY 15, 2011

We did however see a Yellow-rumped Warbler at Elephant Butte Lake, New Mexico on 16th November 1989 and a Townsend’s Warbler at Big Sur, California on 3rd December 1989. We spent almost 4 months crossing the USA and had an amazing time, although it was not the right time of year for Wood-Warblers.

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South Africa United States Austin Alligators 159

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AUGUST 29, 2012

Rufous Hummingbirds ( Selasphorus rufus ) breed farther North than any other North American hummingbird and have the longest migration route of all U.S. Their spring migration brings the majority of them through Northern California in April when these photos of the male Rufous Hummingbird were taken.

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Mexico California Groups Breeding 181