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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.
This bird has a global breeding population of around nine million birds spread across this range, making them a minimally threatened species. While the species in general is not under threat, a sub-species ( M. c. eremophilus ) of the California towhee in the Inyo mountains of Eastern California was previously down to around 175 breeding birds ...
Most birds experience an annual molt, typically after the breeding season, Shultz said, but species like American goldfinches replace their feathers twice a year.
PFG 1: A Field Guide to the Birds (1934), by Roger Tory Peterson . Second edition (1939): A Field Guide to the Birds Third edition (1947): A Field Guide to the Birds Fourth edition (1980): A Field Guide to the Birds: A Completely New Guide to All the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
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 .
The California quail (Callipepla californica), also known as the California valley quail or Valley quail, is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. These birds have a curving crest, plume or topknot made of six feathers, that droops forward: black in males and brown in females; the flanks are brown with white streaks.
A new strain of H5N9 bird flu was detected at a commercial duck operation in California's Merced County. All the ducks were euthanized.
There have been more than 350 confirmed cases of the virus in California since 2022, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife said.