Date: 4/25/26 3:15 pm From: Lance Benner via groups.io <lbenner...> Subject: [LACoBirds] America's Birdiest County MISSING species, 3 pm, Saturday
Hi Again, Here's a list of all the species found during previous ABC weekends dating back to 2004 that we haven't found yet this time:
# 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
# Least Flycatcher
# Dusky Flycatcher
# Dusky-capped Flycatcher
# Tropical Kingbird
# Thick-billed Kingbird
# Plumbeous Vireo
# Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay NEW in 2024
# Clark's Nutcracker
# Bank Swallow
# Golden-crowned Kinglet
# 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
# 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
We still need help with pelagic species, mountain species, a couple of things in the Antelope Valley (such as LeConte's Thrasher), American dipper, and recent rarities. I've been scraping eBird reports for most of the species but people have also emailed result to me directly. We've had pretty good coverage at many of the usual hotspots including Harbor Regional Park, Hansen Dam, Bonelli Park, Santa Fe Dam, Ballona Wetlands, Sand Dune Park, Sepulveda Basin, Malibu Lagoon, Malibu Creek State Park, Hahamongna Watershed Park, Griffith Park, Descanso Gardens, Placerita Canyon State Park, Bear Divide, the LA Arboretum, Quail Lake, the Piute Ponds, and Apollo Park. To date, there haven't been any reports from the the rocky breakwaters at Playa Del Rey, Nebeker Ranch, the ag fields in the Antelope Valley, Mt. Wilson, or the West Fork of the San Gabriel River. As I mentioned earlier, there haven't been any reports from high elevations in the eastern San Gabriel Mountains yet, but at least one team said they were planning to cover some of that area this afternoon. Best wishes, Lance Lance BennerPasadena _._,_._,_
