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Accipitridae is a family of birds of prey which includes hawks, eagles, kites, harriers, and Old World vultures. These birds have very large powerful hooked beaks for tearing flesh from their prey, strong legs, powerful talons, and keen eyesight. [8]: 136–137 Golden eagle, Aquila chrysaetos (B) Northern harrier, Circus hudsonius (B)
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These California gulls now inhabit large, remote salt-production ponds and levees and have a very large food source provided by nearby landfills from San Francisco, San Jose and other urban areas, all the way up into the Sacramento area. The South Bay California gull population has grown from less than 1,000 breeding birds in 1982 to over ...
C. a. zelotes Osgood, 1901 – mountains of south Oregon to north, east, south California (west USA) C. a. phillipsi Unitt & Rea, 1997 – central California (west USA) C. a. montana Ridgway, 1882 – interior southwest Canada to central north and central USA; C. a. leucosticta Van Rossem, 1931 – south Nevada and Utah (central west USA)
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.
A conservation center in California has taken in hundreds of malnourished birds that experts say are facing weather-driven starvation.. Care facilities have received more than 800 brown pelicans ...
California condors are North America's largest flying land birds. [3] Among all living flying birds, the Andean condor is the third heaviest after the Kori bustard and great bustard (up to 21 kg or 46 lb), and second only to the wandering albatross (up to 3.5 m or 11 ft 6 in) in wingspan.
The yellow-billed magpie (Pica nuttalli), also known as the California magpie, is a large corvid that inhabits California's Central Valley and the adjacent chaparral foothills and mountains. Apart from its having a yellow bill and a yellow streak around the eye, it is virtually identical to the black-billed magpie (Pica hudsonia) found in much ...