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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.
Oriental greenfinch: Unknown [106] LC [106] c. 10,000-100,000 breeding pairs [106] Chloris sinica (Linnaeus, 1766) 112 Bonin greenfinch: Unknown NE Chloris kittlitzi (Seebohm, 1890) 113 Yellow-breasted greenfinch: Unknown [107] LC [107] Chloris spinoides (Vigors, 1831) 114 Vietnamese greenfinch: Unknown [108] LC [108] Chloris monguilloti ...
The greenfinches are small passerine birds in the genus Chloris in the subfamily Carduelinae within the Fringillidae. The species have a Eurasian distribution except for the European greenfinch, which also occurs in North Africa. These finches all have large conical bills and yellow patches on the wing feathers.
Many birds in other families are also commonly called "finches". These groups include the estrildid finches ( Estrildidae ) of the Old World tropics and Australia ; some members of the Old World bunting family ( Emberizidae ) and the New World sparrow family ( Passerellidae ); and the Darwin's finches of the Galapagos islands, now considered ...
List of birds of California; List of birds of Channel Islands National Park; List of birds of Yosemite National Park; List of birds of Santa Cruz County, California; F.
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 forests of Northern California are home to many animals, for instance the American black bear.There are between 25,000 and 35,000 black bears in the state. [6]The forests in northern parts of California have an abundant fauna, which includes for instance the black-tailed deer, black bear, gray fox, North American cougar, bobcat, and Roosevelt elk.
"Vireo" is a Latin word referring to a green migratory bird, perhaps the female golden oriole, possibly the European greenfinch. [1] [2] They are typically dull-plumaged and greenish in color, the smaller species resembling wood warblers apart from their heavier bills.