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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.
White-tailed eagle: Accipitridae: Haliaeetus albicilla (Linnaeus, 1758) 196 Bald eagle: Accipitridae: Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Linnaeus, 1766) 197 White-bellied sea eagle: Accipitridae: Icthyophaga leucogaster (Gmelin, JF, 1788) 198 Sanford's sea eagle: Accipitridae: Icthyophaga sanfordi (Mayr, 1935) 199 African fish eagle: Accipitridae ...
It has a white forehead and a white stripe behind the eye, and its lores and the upper borders to the white forehead are black. The killdeer also has a white collar with a black upper border. The rest of the face is brown. The breast and belly are white, except for two black breast bands. It is the only plover in North America with two breast ...
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. It includes the southwestern Santa Cruz Mountains. [1] [2]
The white patch on the rump can be seen while the bird is in flight. Its long wings extend beyond the tail by about a quarter inch. [9] Baird's sandpiper also shows this trait but can be distinguished by the lack of a white rump. There is also a thin white stripe on the wing [6] and a row of marks on the flanks below the wings. [9]
While it has white faces and white underparts, it has black wingtips, beaks, and shoulders. Contrastingly, the white-tailed kite has deep red eyes that stand out at night. [6] A mid-sized kite, it measures 35–43 cm (14–17 in) in length, spans 88–102 cm (35–40 in) across the wings and weighs 250–380 g (8.8–13.4 oz).
In the north, California quail, along with possibly other quail species, chipmunks, and other ground squirrels [11] seemed to be the favorite prey. Other birds preyed upon include red-shafted flickers, acorn woodpeckers, eared quetzals, Steller's jays, yellow-rumped caciques, tropical kingbirds, and even eastern screech owls. [12]
The California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is a New World vulture and the largest North American land bird. It became extinct in the wild in 1987 when all remaining wild individuals were captured, but has since been reintroduced to northern Arizona and southern Utah (including the Grand Canyon area and Zion National Park), the coastal mountains of California, and northern Baja California ...