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Birds of Santa Cruz / Central Coast

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Introduction
List of birds of Santa Cruz County, California
Common Birds
Acorn woodpecker
Aegithalidae
American coot
American robin
Anna's hummingbird
Band-tailed pigeon
Bewick's wren
Brandt's cormorant
Brewer's blackbird
California gull
California quail
California towhee
Chestnut-backed chickadee
Common murre
Dark-eyed junco
Golden-crowned sparrow
Grey plover
Heermann's gull
Hermit thrush
House finch
House sparrow
Mallard
Marbled godwit
Mourning dove
Northern flicker
Northern mockingbird
Northern saw-whet owl
Pacific loon
Pacific-slope flycatcher
Pied-billed grebe
Red-tailed hawk
Red-winged blackbird
Rock dove
Sanderling
Song sparrow
Spotted towhee
Starling
Steller's jay
Surf scoter
Townsend's warbler
Turnstone
Waxwing
Western grebe
Western gull
Western screech owl
Western scrub jay
White-crowned sparrow
Willet
Wilson's warbler
Wrentit
Yellow-rumped warbler
Less COmmon Birds
American white pelican
Black-necked grebe
Brown pelican
Clark's grebe
Great northern loon
Horned grebe
Red-throated loon
Double-crested cormorant
Pelagic cormorant
American bittern
Great blue heron
Great egret
Snowy egret
Cattle egret
Green heron
Black-crowned night heron
Turkey vulture
Canada goose
Brant goose
Wood duck
Gadwall
American wigeon
Blue-winged teal
Cinnamon teal
Northern shoveler
Northern pintail
Green-winged teal
Canvasback
Ring-necked duck
Greater scaup
Lesser scaup
White-winged scoter
Bufflehead
Common goldeneye
Hooded merganser
Common merganser
Red-breasted merganser
Ruddy duck
Osprey
White-tailed kite
Hen harrier
Sharp-shinned hawk
Cooper's hawk
Red-shouldered hawk
Ferruginous hawk
Golden eagle
American kestrel
Merlin (bird)
Peregrine falcon
Turkey (bird)
Virginia rail
Sora (bird)
Common gallinule
Snowy plover
Semipalmated plover
Killdeer
Black oystercatcher
Black-necked stilt
American avocet
Greater yellowlegs
Lesser yellowlegs
Wandering tattler
Spotted sandpiper
Whimbrel
Long-billed curlew
Surfbird
Western sandpiper
Least sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-billed dowitcher
Long-billed dowitcher
Wilson's snipe
Wilson's phalarope
Red-necked phalarope
Red phalarope
Pomarine skua
Parasitic jaeger
Bonaparte's gull
Common gull
Ring-billed gull
American herring gull
Thayer's gull
Glaucous-winged gull
Sabine's gull
Black-legged kittiwake
Caspian tern
Elegant tern
Common tern
Arctic tern
Forster's tern
Pigeon guillemot
Marbled murrelet
Xantus's murrelet
Ancient murrelet
Cassin's auklet
Rhinoceros auklet
Evening grosbeak
American goldfinch
Lawrence's goldfinch
Lesser goldfinch
Pine siskin
Red crossbill
Purple finch
Bullock's oriole
Hooded oriole
Brown-headed cowbird
Western meadowlark
Tricolored blackbird
Lazuli bunting
Black-headed grosbeak
White-throated sparrow
Swamp sparrow
Lincoln's sparrow
Fox sparrow
Grasshopper sparrow
Savannah sparrow
Lark sparrow
Chipping sparrow
Western tanager
Common yellowthroat
MacGillivray's warbler
Palm warbler
Hermit warbler
Black-throated gray warbler
American yellow warbler
Orange-crowned warbler
Buff-bellied pipit
California thrasher
Varied thrush
Swainson's thrush
Western bluebird
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned kinglet
Golden-crowned kinglet
American dipper
Marsh wren
Winter wren
House wren
Brown creeper
Pygmy nuthatch
Red-breasted nuthatch
Oak titmouse
Barn swallow
Petrochelidon
Northern rough-winged swallow
Violet-green swallow
Tree swallow
Horned lark
Raven
American crow
Warbling vireo
Hutton's vireo
Cassin's vireo
Loggerhead shrike
Western kingbird
Ash-throated flycatcher
Say's phoebe
Black phoebe
Western wood pewee
Olive-sided flycatcher
Pileated woodpecker
Hairy woodpecker
Downy woodpecker
Nuttall's woodpecker
Red-breasted sapsucker
Belted kingfisher
Allen's hummingbird
White-throated swift
Vaux's swift
Northern pygmy owl
Great horned owl
Barn owl