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Zoom Recording: The Motus Wildlife Tracking System: Using technology to research grassland birds, with Senior Avian Ecologist Matt Webb.
The recording of this program from 3 December 2024 is now available online
The Motus Wildlife Tracking System: Using technology to research grassland birds, with Senior Avian Ecologist Matt Webb.
The Motus Wildlife Tracking System is a complex and sophisticated system designed to track migrations of birds and other wildlife, and currently has over 1,500 stations worldwide. The Motus (Latin for movement or motion) system uses a variety of transmitters – some as light as .05 grams – which are attached to a variety of migrating wildlife. Information from the receiver stations is fed into large databases which are at the core of a great deal of research on migrations. In this overview and to illustrate how the system actually works, Matt Webb will describe how the Motus system is being used for research on five different species of grassland birds at the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.
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Matt Webb is the Senior Avian Ecologist and Motus Wildlife Tracking System Coordinator at the Bird Conservatory of the Rockies in Fort Collins, CO. He was born and raised in Salida, CO. Around age 10, at odds with his preferences, his family moved to the ‘dull’ plains of Northern Colorado. To Matt’s surprise, he fell in love with the endless roll and incredible diversity of the shortgrass prairies. He later spent some time in Pittsburgh, PA, working at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the American Bird Conservancy, and the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Wildlife Biology and a Master’s in Conservation Leadership, both received from Colorado State University. When not building automated radio telemetry stations, Matt enjoys mothing, photographing beetles, riding and fixing bicycles, turning over stones, and dragging his family outside at night to watch the International Space Station go by.
Our entire catalog of Zoom recordings is here.
President’s Annual Appeal for 2024
The Western Gulls have already chipped in. (Photo: Grace Murayama 7-23-17)
We are asking you to consider giving us your support this year. Remember, this is our only fund raising effort. We don’t pester you weekly, monthly, or throughout the year. Your help allows our all-volunteer group to accomplish our mission “to be a center for wildlife education, habitat protection, and conservation issues that involve birds.”
These efforts are of increasing importance in view of the past decreasing support for environmental issues coming from the Federal Administration.
You can DONATE four different ways:
- With the self-addressed envelope enclosed with the annual appeal letter (sent to those already on our membership rolls)
- Send a check to our mailing address: SMBAS, PO Box 35, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
- With PayPal using the PayPal Widget located on the right side bar of the blog
- With a Credit Card using the same PayPal Widget located on the right side bar of the blog. You do not have to join PayPal to donate, just have your credit card “standing by.”
Please take a moment and make a donation today.
We continue our strong backing of all things birds, habitat, native plants, the environment and conservation through education, field trips, bird monitoring, speakers and grants to students and conservation groups.
Please take a minute to read the annual appeal letter below and see what we have been doing this year.
Thank you,
Jean Garrett
President
Link to print copy of our 2024-25 Calendar of Field Trips and Programs
Dear Friend of SMBAS, November 6, 2024
We ask for your help only once a year! Last year marked the end of our 12 year support for 10 buses for inner city students to attend the Ballona Wetlands education program. The field trip is for elementary schools to participate in a hands-on learning session about the environment around a beach. Teachers & students love the Ballona program because it is fun. Students use microscopes to see what is in the water; they learn to pull invasive weeds and not confuse them with native plants; they learn to identify coastal birds; and they see where the river finally reaches the ocean.
With your help, we can continue to fund more buses. Educational programs like the Ballona field trip have helped create the commitment the younger generations have to the environment.
Our focus is on:
Education
- Student Conservation Association. We financially support the association because it is on the job training for students. They repair trails and even put up barriers to prevent dirt bikes from straying off the trails.
- Nature Nexus Institute, the new formal name for the Ballona Wetlands program mentioned above. For some elementary students, it is the first time they have seen the ocean.
- We provided funding to support laminated training/education materials for the LA County’s Young Lifeguard program.
- Children’s walk. Every fourth Sunday of the month at 10 AM, we offer an educational program at the Malibu Lagoon State Beach. (Adults 8:30 a.m.)
Public Outreach
- Every first Tuesday (October-May, except January) we have a Zoom program starting at 7:30 PM with speakers on subjects that range from the parrot population in Los Angeles to conservation efforts on the ocean. Upcoming programs are announced on our BLOG, smbasblog.com (Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SantaMonicaAudubon). Prior program recordings are available on the blog.
Habitat Conservation and Research
- We offer grants to local college students. Current projects include collecting DNA from Wilson’s & Yellow Warblers to determine timing of migration, the number breeding locally and identification of the bird’s origins as a means to establish migration patterns. Another student study collected data on the effects that various species of lice have on quail and the level of health of the quail as a result.
- We sponsor and staff the Malibu Lagoon location for the Coastal Cleanup project.
- We actively support the Dune Restoration Project undertaken by the City of Santa Monica and the Bay Foundation. We are helping to fund the new signage.
Bird Monitoring
- Not only have we kept a bird count at Malibu Lagoon for decades, we also monitor Western Snowy Plovers (WSP) and have helped pay for fencing for the WSP at Malibu Lagoon and Santa Monica Beach. Volunteers from our organization also monitor Brown Pelicans and Least Terns whose numbers are included in the data given to Federal, State and local agencies so that declining or increasing populations can be tracked.
We hope you will check our blog for fascinating articles by Chuck Almdale, look for the upcoming speakers, and check out our other monthly walks. Join us at Malibu Lagoon (on the 4th Sunday of every month). On the Lagoon walk, you can leave at any time so don’t think that it will take all morning if you don’t want to. We have good binoculars to lend to you for the walks, paid for by your donations.
Please remember all contributions are fully tax deductible and will be used exclusively in direct support of our programs.
Your continued financial assistance helps us to encourage other people to care about the environment!
Jean Garrett, President
post office box 35 pacific palisades california 90272
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[posted by Chuck Almdale]
Butterbredt Christmas Bird Count December 21st
The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is held every year in the dead of winter. For those not familiar with this event, which is a Field Trip combined with Citizen Science, click here and here.
The kicker is that our count does not take place in Santa Monica Bay. It happens in the high Mojave Desert where snow is present, some years in little patches in the shade and other years where you need 4WD and skis to get around. We don’t know what the weather will be in 2 weeks from now but is typically in the 40s-50s and sunny – snow years are rare.
You do not need to be an expert bird identifier – there will be one in every group. We need about 4 groups to cover the territory and every eye counts.
If you’re up for an adventurous day of birding send me an email: <smbaudubon@gmail.com>. In addition to warm bodies we also need cars – unless it’s a snow year 4WD is not necessary but low-slung cars might be a problem. Leave the Jaguar at home.
You are all invited to the next ZOOM meeting
of Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society
The Motus Wildlife Tracking System: Using technology to research grassland birds, with Senior Avian Ecologist Matt Webb.
Zoom Evening Meeting, Tuesday, 3 December, 7:30 p.m.
Zoom waiting room opens 7:15 p.m.
The Motus Wildlife Tracking System is a complex and sophisticated system designed to track migrations of birds and other wildlife, and currently has over 1,500 stations worldwide. The Motus (Latin for movement or motion) system uses a variety of transmitters – some as light as .05 grams – which are attached to a variety of migrating wildlife. Information from the receiver stations is fed into large databases which are at the core of a great deal of research on migrations. In this overview and to illustrate how the system actually works, Matt Webb will describe how the Motus system is being used for research on five different species of grassland birds at the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.
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Matt Webb is the Senior Avian Ecologist and Motus Wildlife Tracking System Coordinator at the Bird Conservatory of the Rockies in Fort Collins, CO. He was born and raised in Salida, CO. Around age 10, at odds with his preferences, his family moved to the ‘dull’ plains of Northern Colorado. To Matt’s surprise, he fell in love with the endless roll and incredible diversity of the shortgrass prairies. He later spent some time in Pittsburgh, PA, working at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the American Bird Conservancy, and the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Wildlife Biology and a Master’s in Conservation Leadership, both received from Colorado State University. When not building automated radio telemetry stations, Matt enjoys mothing, photographing beetles, riding and fixing bicycles, turning over stones, and dragging his family outside at night to watch the International Space Station go by.
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Migration continues at Malibu Lagoon, 24 Nov. 2024
[Text by Chuck Almdale; photos by Lillian Johnson, Ray Juncosa, Ted S. & Chris Tosdevin. Trip list at the end.]
We had almost 2200 birds in 66 species, with four species accounting for 70% of the total, and I’m certain this is an undercount. The numerous culprits were American Coots (560), Sanderlings (200 but always in motion), California Gulls (525) and Brown Pelicans (260). Farther down you’ll get a chance to count some birds yourself. It’s almost like being there! Weather was great: cool, but feeling warmer than the 54-59° we recorded (a thermal t-shirt helps).
I think WordPress has again changed their blogsite appearance. I never know from month to month what these postings will look like or how the emails will appear, and I accept little credit or blame for what you get. It is what it is.
Wintering Buffleheads finally showed up – nine of them including this lovely iridescent male.
The usual Double-crested Cormorants occupied the usual snags. Was this a staring contest below?
Edges of the channels seemed rather lush as the photo below demonstrates. That’s the back of Malibu Colony in the distance, stuffed to the brim with movie stars and moguls all no doubt sound asleep. The white railing of the tidal clock sidewalk emerges from the depths.
You’ll be glad to know the photographer escaped with his face intact after taking the shot below.
That’s a pretty fierce 5 inch, 1/3 ounce, 6-7.5 inch wingspan bird. It’s risky taking these big game photos, but someone has to do it.
I maintain that the male Gadwall, when well-seen, close up and in good light, is among the most beautiful and elegant of ducks.
Below is the north channel as seen from “1st viewpoint” near the PCH bridge, with one of the brushy sand islands on the left. This is where we spotted the next bird.
Below, among the spikey bushes and red-tipped pickleweed we found a Sora. These 8.75″ birds used to breed at the lagoon in small numbers, as did Virginia Rail, but since the extensive reedbeds were removed, they show up only during migration.
As alluded to earlier, the lagoon has a “winter ramp – tidal clock” sidewalk (read about it) which occasionally is inundated, at which time we can read the lagoon height. Here we approach the ramp which looks much like a sidewalk that someone installed too low.
The tidal clock sidewalk emerges from the water. Note slightly-lighter tile water level markers on left. (Lillian Johnson 11/24/24)
Above the pathway to the beach, the Osprey perched, waiting.
It looks huge here but it’s only 22-25″ from bill to tail-tip.
Down at the edge of the sea were Sanderlings. They are the little “peeps” that run up and down the sandy slope with the sloshing waves, and for many beach-goers are the archetypal sandpiper.
Nearby were the much larger Marbled Godwits with the upcurved bill.
And among the washed-up seaweed we found a Whimbrel. Another fifty Whimbrel rested among the gulls along the edge of the lagoon.
Below is a closer view of the “bird hide.” I am convinced this was built because of a miscommunication of mine. When asked about the desirability of a bird hide at the lagoon, I immediately thought of those wooden shacks dotting every marsh across England, dark on the inside with windows one carefully raises to closely view unsuspecting birds, the paragon of bird hides of the world, and replied, “Sure. Build it with a concrete floor so it doesn’t shake and bounce when we walk.” [This drives photographers crazy.] The structure below, to my great surprise, was the result.
Among the many pelicans we found this bird busily fishing. Look closely to find the fish.
The Franklin fire burned through Malibu a week after these photos were taken, including some of the hills in the distance. Check here to see the fire map.
A week after this trip, chapter member and frequent Malibu Lagoon birder Femi Faminu discovered a Nelson’s Sparrow (formerly Sharp-tailed Sparrow, then Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow) at the lagoon. There will be a separate posting on this. If we’re lucky this bird will stay at the lagoon for a while.
Quiz Time!
All these photos were taken 11-24-24 at the lagoon and many of the birds are in plumage transition.
Quiz Answers & credits
#1. Black-bellied Plover; stubby dark bill, black axillaries. (Chris Tosdevin 11/24/24)
#2. Black Oystercatcher eats very few oysters. (Chris Tosdevin 11/24/24)
#3. Common Yellowthroat female has sharp gray-brown outline around yellow throat. (Chris Tosdevin 11/24/24)
#4. Whimbrel; striped head, downcurved bill. (Ray Juncosa 11-24-24)
#5. Sanderling flock portion; I counted 148 (probably +-10). (Chris Tosdevin 11/24/24)
#6. Red-breasted Merganser; wings are supposedly different, but I can’t tell from this photo. (Chris Tosdevin 11/24/24)
#7. Sora likes reed beds. Look for their chunky shape and short thick bill. (Ted S. 11/24/24)
#8. Ruddy Turnstone (Chris Tosdevin 11/24/24)
#9. Belted Kingfisher female has barely visible cinnamon flanks. (Chris Tosdevin 11/24/24)
#10. Gadwall female often has yellow/orange “lips” & mostly-dark upper bill. (Chris Tosdevin 11/24/24)
#11. Two Ring-necked Ducks with peaked heads, white streak behind white eyering & white “ring” around the bill, plus a coot. (Chris Tosdevin 11/24/24)
#12. Pied-billed Grebes aren’t particularly closely related to ducks. (Chris Tosdevin 11/24/24)
#13. Snoozing Ruddy Ducks are known as “Stifftails” by hunters. (Chris Tosdevin 11/24/24)
Malibu Lagoon on eBird as of 11-25-24: 8219 lists, 2640 eBirders, 319 species.
Most recent species added: Cassin’s Vireo, 9/23/24 by Colin Drummond.
I checked the eBird “total Malibu Lagoon birds” for the past year as it mysteriously hops around, even while the “most recent new species” rarely changes: Oct’23 – 319 species, Dec’23-320, Jan-May’24-319, May-Aug’24-320, Sep’24-318, Oct’24-319; bird counts apparently arriving from bizarroland.
Birds new for the season: Bufflehead, Red-breasted Merganser, Sora, Black Oystercatcher, Marbled Godwit, Herring Gull, Hermit Thrush, Spotted Towhee. “New for the season” means it has been three or more months since last recorded on our trips.
Many, many thanks to photographers: Ray Juncosa, Lillian Johnson, Ted S. & Chris Tosdevin.
Upcoming SMBAS scheduled field trips; no reservations or Covid card necessary unless specifically mentioned:
- Newport Back Bay Sun. Dec 15, 8:00 am Chuck Almdale
- Butterbredt Christmas Count Sat. Dec 21, 8:30 am? Chuck Bragg Reservation
- Malibu Lagoon, Sun. Dec 22, 8:30 (adults) & 10 am (parents & kids)
- These and any other trips we announce for the foreseeable future will depend upon expected status of the Covid/flu/etc. pandemic at trip time. Any trip announced may be canceled shortly before trip date if it seems necessary. By now any other comments should be superfluous.
- Link to Programs & Field Trip schedule.
The next SMBAS Zoom program: TBA, Evening Meeting, Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
The SMBAS 10 a.m. Parent’s & Kids Birdwalk is again running. Reservations not necessary for families, but for groups (scouts, etc.), call Jean (213-522-0062).
Links: Unusual birds at Malibu Lagoon
9/23/02 Aerial photo of Malibu Lagoon
More recent aerial photo
Prior checklists:
2023: Jan-June, July-Dec 2024: Jan-June
2021: Jan-July, July-Dec 2022: Jan-June, July-Dec
2020: Jan-July, July-Dec 2019: Jan-June, July-Dec
2018: Jan-June, July-Dec 2017: Jan-June, July-Dec
2016: Jan-June, July-Dec 2015: Jan-May, July-Dec
2014: Jan-July, July-Dec 2013: Jan-June, July-Dec
2012: Jan-June, July-Dec 2011: Jan-June, July-Dec
2010: Jan-June, July-Dec 2009: Jan-June, July-Dec
The 10-year comparison summaries created during the Lagoon Reconfiguration Project period, remain available—despite numerous complaints—on our Lagoon Project Bird Census Page. Very briefly summarized, the results unexpectedly indicate that avian species diversification and numbers improved slightly during the restoration period June’12-June’14.
Many thanks to Marie Barnidge-McIntyre, Lillian Johnson, Chris & Ruth Tosdevin and others for their contributions to this month’s checklist.
The species lists below is intermittently re-sequenced to agree with the California Bird Records Committee Official California Checklist. If part of the right side of the chart below is hidden, there’s a slider button inconveniently located at the bottom end of the list. The numbers 1-9 left of the species names are keyed to the nine categories of birds at the bottom.
[Chuck Almdale]
| Malibu Census 2024 | 6/23 | 7/28 | 8/25 | 9/22 | 10/27 | 11/24 | |
| Temperature | 62-72 | 63-72 | 64-78 | 67-75 | 64-68 | 54-59 | |
| Tide Lo/Hi Height | L-1.17 | L+1.81 | L+2.00 | L+2.09 | H+4.75 | L+2.06 | |
| Tide Time | 0537 | 0916 | 0735 | 0611 | 0742 | 1139 | |
| 1 | Canada Goose | 9 | 4 | ||||
| 1 | Gadwall | 35 | 27 | 12 | 30 | 38 | 26 |
| 1 | American Wigeon | 1 | 13 | 12 | |||
| 1 | Mallard | 15 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 28 | 10 |
| 1 | Green-winged Teal | 4 | 1 | ||||
| 1 | Ring-necked Duck | 4 | 3 | ||||
| 1 | Bufflehead | 9 | |||||
| 1 | Hooded Merganser | 1 | |||||
| 1 | Red-breasted Merganser | 10 | |||||
| 1 | Ruddy Duck | 28 | 22 | ||||
| 2 | Pied-billed Grebe | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 8 |
| 2 | Eared Grebe | 4 | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Western Grebe | 1 | 28 | ||||
| 7 | Feral Pigeon | 3 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| 7 | Mourning Dove | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |
| 8 | Anna’s Hummingbird | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 8 | Allen’s Hummingbird | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| 2 | Sora | 2 | |||||
| 2 | American Coot | 2 | 72 | 340 | 560 | ||
| 5 | Black-necked Stilt | 2 | |||||
| 5 | Black Oystercatcher | 2 | |||||
| 5 | Black-bellied Plover | 1 | 51 | 70 | 67 | 136 | 75 |
| 5 | Killdeer | 3 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 20 | 1 |
| 5 | Semipalmated Plover | 13 | 3 | ||||
| 5 | Snowy Plover | 6 | 22 | 42 | 18 | 34 | |
| 5 | Whimbrel | 52 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 15 | |
| 5 | Long-billed Curlew | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 5 | Marbled Godwit | 12 | |||||
| 5 | Wilson’s Phalarope | 1 | |||||
| 5 | Spotted Sandpiper | 2 | 1 | ||||
| 5 | Willet | 2 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 51 |
| 5 | Greater Yellowlegs | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 5 | Ruddy Turnstone | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | ||
| 5 | Sanderling | 2 | 1 | 5 | 200 | ||
| 5 | Least Sandpiper | 23 | 3 | 4 | 8 | ||
| 5 | Western Sandpiper | 6 | 13 | 2 | |||
| 6 | Heermann’s Gull | 65 | 42 | 5 | 24 | 79 | 29 |
| 6 | Ring-billed Gull | 2 | 2 | 12 | 15 | ||
| 6 | Western Gull | 160 | 220 | 113 | 55 | 27 | 65 |
| 6 | Herring Gull | 1 | |||||
| 6 | California Gull | 3 | 10 | 23 | 75 | 440 | 525 |
| 6 | Glaucous-winged Gull | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 6 | Caspian Tern | 14 | 4 | 1 | |||
| 6 | Forster’s Tern | 1 | 2 | ||||
| 6 | Elegant Tern | 25 | 240 | 10 | |||
| 6 | Royal Tern | 5 | 5 | 6 | |||
| 2 | Common Loon | 2 | |||||
| 2 | Brandt’s Cormorant | 2 | 5 | ||||
| 2 | Pelagic Cormorant | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 2 | Double-crested Cormorant | 24 | 28 | 37 | 54 | 51 | 44 |
| 2 | Brown Pelican | 125 | 163 | 27 | 24 | 30 | 260 |
| 3 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | Snowy Egret | 7 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 5 |
| 3 | Green Heron | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | Great Egret | 9 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | Great Blue Heron | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| 3 | White-faced Ibis | 3 | |||||
| 4 | Turkey Vulture | 4 | 1 | 7 | 1 | ||
| 4 | Osprey | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 4 | Red-shouldered Hawk | 1 | |||||
| 4 | Red-tailed Hawk | 2 | 1 | ||||
| 8 | Belted Kingfisher | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 8 | Nuttall’s Woodpecker | 1 | |||||
| 8 | Hairy Woodpecker | 1 | |||||
| 4 | American Kestrel | 1 | |||||
| 8 | Nanday Parakeet | 25 | |||||
| 9 | Black Phoebe | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 9 | Say’s Phoebe | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 9 | Ash-throated Flycatcher | 1 | |||||
| 9 | Cassin’s Kingbird | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 9 | Western Kingbird | 8 | |||||
| 9 | Loggerhead Shrike | 1 | |||||
| 9 | California Scrub-Jay | 2 | |||||
| 9 | American Crow | 6 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 22 |
| 9 | Common Raven | 4 | 1 | ||||
| 9 | Oak Titmouse | 1 | |||||
| 9 | Tree Swallow | 3 | 1 | 12 | |||
| 9 | No. Rough-winged Swallow | 5 | 2 | ||||
| 9 | Barn Swallow | 20 | 20 | 20 | 1 | ||
| 9 | Cliff Swallow | 6 | 4 | ||||
| 9 | Bushtit | 9 | 19 | 5 | 20 | 30 | 12 |
| 9 | Wrentit | 1 | 4 | 1 | |||
| 9 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
| 9 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 1 | 4 | 1 | |||
| 9 | House Wren | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | ||
| 9 | Marsh Wren | 2 | 1 | ||||
| 9 | Bewick’s Wren | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 9 | European Starling | 1 | 10 | 12 | |||
| 9 | Northern Mockingbird | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 9 | Western Bluebird | 5 | |||||
| 9 | Hermit Thrush | 1 | |||||
| 9 | Scaly-breasted Munia | 1 | |||||
| 9 | House Finch | 11 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 4 |
| 9 | Lesser Goldfinch | 2 | 3 | 6 | |||
| 9 | Lark Sparrow | 1 | |||||
| 9 | Dark-eyed Junco | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 9 | White-crowned Sparrow | 16 | 15 | ||||
| 9 | Savannah Sparrow | 1 | |||||
| 9 | Song Sparrow | 5 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 8 |
| 9 | California Towhee | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |
| 9 | Spotted Towhee | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 9 | Western Meadowlark | 15 | |||||
| 9 | Hooded Oriole | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 9 | Red-winged Blackbird | 11 | 11 | 1 | |||
| 9 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 18 | |||||
| 9 | Great-tailed Grackle | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 15 | |
| 9 | Orange-crowned Warbler | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 9 | Common Yellowthroat | 1 | 5 | 7 | 8 | ||
| 9 | Yellow Warbler | 1 | |||||
| 9 | Yellow-rumped Warbler (Aud) | 15 | 15 | ||||
| 9 | Townsend’s Warbler | 2 | |||||
| Totals by Type | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | |
| 1 | Waterfowl | 59 | 37 | 14 | 43 | 112 | 93 |
| 2 | Water Birds – Other | 155 | 192 | 68 | 155 | 469 | 882 |
| 3 | Herons, Egrets & Ibis | 22 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 20 | 14 |
| 4 | Quail & Raptors | 0 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 2 |
| 5 | Shorebirds | 9 | 139 | 157 | 142 | 197 | 404 |
| 6 | Gulls & Terns | 254 | 527 | 165 | 162 | 564 | 635 |
| 7 | Doves | 8 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| 8 | Other Non-Passerines | 2 | 2 | 7 | 31 | 5 | 3 |
| 9 | Passerines | 92 | 70 | 92 | 119 | 136 | 142 |
| Totals Birds | 601 | 991 | 528 | 678 | 1511 | 2179 | |
| Total Species | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | |
| 1 | Waterfowl | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 |
| 2 | Water Birds – Other | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 8 |
| 3 | Herons, Egrets & Ibis | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| 4 | Quail & Raptors | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| 5 | Shorebirds | 5 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 10 |
| 6 | Gulls & Terns | 5 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| 7 | Doves | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 8 | Other Non-Passerines | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| 9 | Passerines | 17 | 9 | 22 | 27 | 24 | 24 |
| Totals Species – 111 | 44 | 38 | 62 | 68 | 65 | 66 |
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