Birds of Bolsa Chica
These birds were observed at the Bolsa Chica Lowlands Restoration Site during twelve saturation surveys conducted every two months from October 2007 to August 2009. It only includes birds in the restored areas (including the Full Tidal Basin, Rabbit Island, the Muted Tidal Basins, Seasonal Ponds, and the Muted Pocket Marsh) (map of surveyed ares). There are additional species regularly observed in Inner and Outer Bolsa Bay, which are areas not included in the surveys described above, as well as occasional rare birds present but not detected within the restored lowlands.
| Allen's Hummingbird |
| American Avocet |
| American Bittern |
| American Coot |
| American Crow |
| American Goldfinch |
| American Kestrel |
| American Pipit |
| American Wigeon |
| Anna's Hummingbird |
| Ash-throated Flycatcher |
| Barn Swallow |
| Belding's Savannah Sparrow |
| Belted Kingfisher |
| Bewick's Wren |
| Black Phoebe |
| Black Skimmer |
| Black-bellied Plover |
| Black-crowned Night Heron |
| Black-headed Grosbeak |
| Black-necked Stilt |
| Blue-gray gnatcatcher |
| Blue-winged Teal |
| Bonaparte's Gull |
| Brant |
| Brewer's Blackbird |
| Brown Pelican |
| Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Bufflehead |
| Burrowing Owl |
| Bushtit |
| California Gull |
| California Least Tern |
| California Towhee |
| Canada Goose |
| Canvasback |
| Caspian Tern |
| Cassin's Kingbird |
| Cattle Egret |
| Cinnamon Teal |
| Clark's Grebe |
| Cliff Swallow |
| Common Loon |
| Common Merganser |
| Common Raven |
| Common Yellowthroat |
| Cooper's Hawk |
| Costa's Hummingbird |
| Double-crested Cormorant |
| Dunlin |
| Eared Grebe |
| Elegant Tern |
| European Starling |
| Forster's Tern |
| Gadwall |
| Glaucous-winged Gull |
| Great Blue Heron |
| Great Egret |
| Greater Scaup |
| Greater Yellowlegs |
| Great-tailed Grackle |
| Green Heron |
| Green-winged Teal |
| Gull-billed Tern |
| Heerman's Gull |
| Hooded Merganser |
| Hooded Oriole |
| Horned Grebe |
| House Finch |
| House Sparrow |
| House Wren |
| Killdeer |
| Least Sandpiper |
| Lesser Goldfinch |
| Lesser Scaup |
| Lesser Yellowlegs |
| Loggerhead Shrike |
| Long-billed Curlew |
| Long-tailed Duck |
| Mallard |
| Marbled Godwit |
| Marsh Wren |
| Merlin |
| Mew Gull |
| Mourning Dove |
| Mute Swan |
| Northern Flicker |
| Northern Harrier |
| Northern Mockingbird |
| Northern Pintail |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
| Northern Shoveler |
| Orange-crowned Warbler |
| Osprey |
| Pacific Loon |
| Pacific-slope Flycatcher |
| Pelagic Cormorant |
| Peregrine Falcon |
| Pied-billed Grebe |
| Red Knot |
| Red Phalarope |
| Red-breasted Merganser |
| Reddish Egret |
| Redhead |
| Red-necked Phalarope |
| Red-tailed Hawk |
| Red-winged Blackbird |
| Ring-billed Gull |
| Ring-necked Duck |
| Rock Dove |
| Rock Pigeon |
| Royal Tern |
| Ruddy Duck |
| Ruddy Turnstone |
| Sanderling |
| Savannah Sparrow |
| Say's Phoebe |
| Selasphorus sp. |
| Semipalmated Plover |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk |
| Short-billed Dowitcher |
| Short-eared Owl |
| Snow Goose |
| Snowy Egret |
| Song Sparrow |
| Sora |
| Spotted Sandpiper |
| Surf Scoter |
| Tree Swallow |
| Turkey Vulture |
| Unidentified Dowitcher |
| Unidentified Yellowlegs |
| Vaux's Swift |
| Vesper Sparrow |
| Violet-Green Swallow |
| Virginia Rail |
| Western Grebe |
| Western Gull |
| Western Kingbird |
| Western Meadowlark |
| Western Sandpiper |
| Western Snowy Plover |
| Whimbrel |
| White Pelican |
| White-crowned Sparrow |
| White-faced Ibis |
| White-tailed Kite |
| White-throated Swift |
| Willet |
| Wilson's Phalarope |
| Wilson's Snipe |
| Wilson's Warbler |
| Wood Duck |
| Wrentit |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
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