All About Birds California

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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