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. But the past several years he has worked on several projects in Ensenada, just south of San Diego. Snowy Plovers also breed half an hour north of my home, so we have those in common.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2022
The Blue-crowned Laughingthrush (Wuyuan) is listed as Critically Endangered, as there are only about 250-280 birds spending the breeding season in Northeastern Jiangxi (and according to the HBW, it is not clear where they spend the non-breeding period).
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10,000 Birds
JULY 30, 2014
Southern California pelagics (San Diego to Morro Bay). Gull-billed Terns breed in south San Diego Bay, along with Black Skimmers and several other tern species. San Diego County has many important nesting sites for the imperiled Western Snowy Plover and California Least Tern. Ventura, CA. The desert.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 18, 2013
Sunshine and surfing, deserts and wildfires, Hollywood and San Diego. Yet, somehow, on 31 May one was discovered on Puddingstone Reservoir, the large man-made lake that is the center of Bonelli Park, a nearly 2,000 acre expanse in San Dimas, just east of Los Angeles. And even if you get there your odds of finding one are small.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2013
They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. The non-breeding distribution is virtually unknown, although they are suspected to winter in northern South America (Howell and Web 1995). Very little is known about this enigmatic species.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2013
Quite a few species are well-established and breeding from San Diego to Los Angeles and beyond. Many escapes and introductions have taken place over the years and some species have found the warm, dry climate to their liking.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
It was not a flycatcher at all, but an exotic (and equally bizarre) from Africa, which certainly escaped from someone’s cage or perhaps even migrated from the small breeding population of escapees in southern California. Pin-tailed Whydah at Sutro Heights Park, San Francisco, CA.
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