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The California quail is the official state bird of California. This list of birds of California is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species seen naturally in the U.S. state of California as determined by the California Bird Records Committee (CBRC). [1] Additional accidental and hypothetical species have been added from different sources.
Winter plumage, California. The breeding habitat of the California gull are lakes and marshes in interior western North America from the Northwest Territories, Canada south to eastern California and Colorado. [5] They nest in colonies, sometimes with other birds. The nest is a shallow depression on the ground lined with vegetation and feathers.
Castle Rock is the second largest nesting seabird colony south of Alaska (after the Farallon Islands), [5] is a nationally significant sea bird colony and one of only two island National Wildlife Refuges in offshore California; the other is Southeast Farallon Island. [2]
It is also home to the largest breeding colony for Scripps's murrelet, a threatened seabird species. Scripps's murrelet is listed as vulnerable because so much of its breeding takes place on such a small and isolated island. Fourteen species of birds nest annually on the island. These include the horned lark, orange-crowned warbler, and house ...
The Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge is located in the Imperial Valley of California, 40 miles (64 km) north of the Mexican border. Situated at the southern end of the Salton Sea, the refuge protects one of the most important nesting sites and stopovers along the Pacific Flyway.
In most seabird colonies several different species will nest on the same colony, often exhibiting some niche separation. Seabirds can nest in trees (if any are available), on the ground (with or without nests), on cliffs, in burrows under the ground and in rocky crevices. Colony size is a major aspect of the social environment of colonial birds.
List of birds of Santa Cruz County, California. The county is in Northern California , located on the California coast, including northern Monterey Bay , and west of the San Francisco Bay and Silicon Valley .
This is a comprehensive listing of the bird species recorded in Channel Islands National Park, which is in the U.S. state of California.This list is based on one published by the National Park Service (NPS) that as of November 2011 contained 387 species.