Date: 4/25/26 1:09 pm From: Lance Benner via groups.io <lbenner...> Subject: [LACoBirds] America's Birdiest County MISSING species: Saturday, 1 pm
Hi Everyone, Here are the species found in previous years that we haven't found yet this year:
# Species that are missing are shown with a pound sign.
# Greater White-fronted Goose
# Tundra Bean-Goose
# Greater Scaup
# White-winged Scoter
# Black Scoter
# Long-tailed Duck
# Common Goldeneye
# Hooded Merganser
# Gambel's Quail
# Chukar
# Horned Grebe
# Inca Dove
# Common Ground-Dove
# Black Swift NEW in 2024 Needs outstanding documentation
# Calliope Hummingbird
# Ridgway's Rail
# Sandhill Crane
# Pacific Golden-Plover
# Marbled Godwit
# Ruddy Turnstone
# Black Turnstone
# Red Knot
# Surfbird
# Ruff
# Stilt Sandpiper
# Baird's Sandpiper
# Pectoral Sandpiper
# Semipalmated Sandpiper
# Short-billed Dowitcher
# Wilson's Snipe
# Wilson's Phalarope
# Red Phalarope
# Lesser Yellowlegs
# Pomarine Jaeger
# Parasitic Jaeger
# Common Murre
# Scripps's Murrelet
# Cassin's Auklet
# Pigeon Guillemot NEW in 2025
# Rhinoceros Auklet
# Sabine's Gull
# Laughing Gull
# Short-billed Gull
# Yellow-footed Gull NEW in 2024
# Lesser Black-backed Gull
# Iceland Gull (Thayer's Gull)
# Glaucous-winged Gull
# Glaucous Gull
# Black Tern
# Common Tern
# Yellow-billed Loon
# Black-footed Albatross
# Leach's Storm-Petrel
# Black Storm-Petrel NEW in 2024
# Northern Fulmar
# Pink-footed Shearwater
# Sooty Shearwater
# Black-vented Shearwater
# Red-footed Booby
# American White Pelican
# American Bittern
# California Condor
# White-tailed Kite
# Golden Eagle
# Zone-tailed Hawk
# Ferruginous Hawk
# Burrowing Owl
# Spotted Owl
# Long-eared Owl
# Williamson's Sapsucker
# Red-naped Sapsucker
# Red-breasted Sapsucker
# Lewis's Woodpecker
# Crested Caracara
# Merlin
# Prairie Falcon
# Red-masked Parakeet
# Least Flycatcher
# Dusky Flycatcher
# Dusky-capped Flycatcher
# Tropical Kingbird
# Thick-billed Kingbird
# Plumbeous Vireo
# Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay NEW in 2024
# Clark's Nutcracker
# Purple Martin
# Bank Swallow
# Golden-crowned Kinglet
# Brown Creeper
# American Dipper
# LeConte's Thrasher
# Mountain Bluebird
# Townsend's Solitaire
# Varied Thrush
# Red-throated Pipit
# Evening Grosbeak
# Red Crossbill
# Pine Siskin
# Grasshopper Sparrow
# Clay-colored Sparrow
# Field Sparrow
# Brewer's Sparrow
# Harris's Sparrow
# White-throated Sparrow
# Vesper Sparrow
# Swamp Sparrow
# Green-tailed Towhee
# Orchard Oriole
# Baltimore Oriole
# Tricolored Blackbird
# Northern Waterthrush
# Black-and-white Warbler
# Tennessee Warbler
# Hooded Warbler
# American Redstart
# Northern Parula
# Blackburnian Warbler NEW in 2024
# Chestnut-sided Warbler
# Palm Warbler
# Red-faced Warbler
# Painted Redstart
# Summer Tanager
# Indigo Bunting
# Painted Bunting NEW in 2024
Does anyone have time for a seawatch? Good numbers of pelagic species have been seen from boats, but following long-standing protocols, to count them, we need to see the birds from land (Santa Catalina and San Clemente Islands are OK).
At least one team is planning to visit the eastern San Gabriel Mountains this afternoon where there is currently a mix of light rain and snow.
If you find any of these species, please let us know! Regards, Lance _._,_._,_
