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Malibu Lagoon Trip Lists July – December 2012

December 31, 2012

This list was created at a later date in order to have a complete record on the blog site.  [Chuck Almdale]

Malibu Census 2012 7/22 8/26 9/23 10/28 11/25 12/23
Temperature 64-70 70-78 73-80 72-78 60-62 50-60
Tide Lo/Hi Height H +2.34 H +2.59 L +2.88 H +5.93 H +5.83 H +5.40
Tide Time 1121 1136 1021 0845 0647 0544
Snow Goose 1
Brant 1 1
Gadwall 4 8 12 12
American Wigeon 16 9
Mallard 42 32 34 10 18 22
Northern Shoveler 4 11 18 18 14
Green-winged Teal 3 9
Surf Scoter 5
White-winged Scoter 1
Bufflehead 3 6
Red-brstd Merganser 2 1 1 7 4
Ruddy Duck 5 4 48 47
Red-throated Loon 7 3
Pacific Loon 10 3
Common Loon 1
Pied-billed Grebe 4 10 7 2 4 4
Horned Grebe 2 1
Eared Grebe 3 4 4 4
Western Grebe 3 12 5 27 35
Clark’s Grebe 1
Blk-vented Shearwater 200
Brandt’s Cormorant 1 4 6 30
Dble-crstd Cormorant 24 34 45 45 24 42
Pelagic Cormorant 2 1 3
Brown Pelican 17 37 22 6 32 35
Great Blue Heron 1 5 5 2 2 2
Great Egret 1 1 1 6 1 2
Snowy Egret 11 14 8 6 10 18
Blk-crwnd N-Heron 1 1
Turkey Vulture 2
Osprey 1
Cooper’s Hawk 1 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
American Coot 12 33 270 250 194 210
Blk-bellied Plover 45 64 160 75 217 35
Snowy Plover 22 45 46 62 61 45
Semipalmated Plover 2 1
Killdeer 3 5 6 12 11 2
Black Oystercatcher 1 1
Spotted Sandpiper 1 4 3 3 2 1
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Willet 2 3 7 34 6
Whimbrel 42 52 38 2 1 4
Marbled Godwit 3 31 18
Ruddy Turnstone 5 9 14 15 5 6
Black Turnstone 2 2
Sanderling 1 200 11 40
Western Sandpiper 2 6
Least Sandpiper 3 6 14 21
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Dunlin 2
Short-billd Dowitcher 2 3
Red-necked Phalarope 1
Boneparte’s Gull 1
Heermann’s Gull 12 17 8 8 21 9
Ring-billed Gull 4 1 39 25 150
Western Gull 95 134 93 6 55 300
California Gull 2 4 7 60 215 2150
Herring Gull 2
Glaucous-wingd Gull 1 1 1
Least Tern 3
Forster’s Tern 1 22 14 5
Royal Tern 3 3 11 11 3
Elegant Tern 45 69 87 2
Black Skimmer 1
Rock Pigeon 2 12 4 20 38 12
Mourning Dove 2 2 2
Anna’s Hummingbird 1 1 1
Allen’s Hummingbird 9 7 3 7 3 3
Belted Kingfisher 1 1 1
Black Phoebe 5 8 9 8 5 12
Say’s Phoebe 1 2 1
Western Kingbird 4
Western Scrub-Jay 1 2 2 1
American Crow 6 5 1 9 5 6
Rough-wingd Swallow 5 2
Tree Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 20 22
Cliff Swallow 15 1
Oak Titmouse 1 1
Bushtit 8 14 4 30
Bewick’s Wren 2 1
House Wren 1 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 1 1
Wrentit 1
Northern Mockingbird 5 4 3 2 2
European Starling 17 28 45 10 18
Ornge-crwnd Warbler 1 3 1
Yellow-rumpd Warbler 25 12 16
Common Yellowthroat 1 1 2 5 3 2
Spotted Towhee 1
California Towhee 1 1 3 2 2
Savannah Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 4 3 1 3 4 8
Lincoln’s Sparrow 1
White-crwnd Sparrow 4 4
Red-winged Blackbird 8 40
Western Meadowlark 1
Great-tailed Grackle 5 7 6 8 7 9
Hooded Oriole 2
Bullock’s Oriole 1 1
House Finch 35 1 4 5 2
Lesser Goldfinch 4 4 3 10
American Goldfinch 3
Totals by Type July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Waterfowl 49 36 51 57 120 120
Water Birds-Other 57 121 363 315 309 570
Herons, Egrets 13 20 14 15 14 22
Raptors 1 1 2 1 1 3
Shorebirds 128 196 275 400 394 158
Gulls & Terns 161 232 207 149 335 2617
Doves 4 14 4 20 38 14
Other Non-Pass. 10 7 3 9 5 4
Passerines 133 105 90 133 84 96
Totals Birds 556 732 1009 1099 1300 3604
 
Total Species July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Waterfowl 4 2 4 6 10 9
Water Birds-Other 4 8 7 8 10 12
Herons, Egrets 3 3 3 4 4 3
Raptors 1 1 2 1 1 2
Shorebirds 11 13 10 12 10 10
Gulls & Terns 7 7 6 8 8 7
Doves 2 2 1 1 1 2
Other Non-Pass. 2 1 1 3 3 2
Passerines 18 16 15 21 15 16
Totals Species – 106 52 53 49 64 62 63

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