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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