Date: 4/27/26 9:05 pm From: Lance Benner via groups.io <lbenner...> Subject: [LACoBirds] Birdiest County MISSING species
Hi Everyone, Here's the list of species found during previous ABC weekends that haven't been reported this year. Most a rare to very rare but there are also a few that we usually find (American white pelican, surfbird, golden eagle, prairie falcon).
# Species that are missing are shown with a pound sign.
# Greater White-fronted Goose
# Tundra Bean-Goose
# Greater Scaup
# Black Scoter
# Long-tailed Duck
# Hooded Merganser
# Gambel's Quail
# Chukar
# Horned Grebe
# Inca Dove
# Common Ground-Dove
# Black Swift NEW in 2024 Needs outstanding documentation
# Ridgway's Rail
# Sandhill Crane
# Pacific Golden-Plover
# Marbled Godwit
# Red Knot
# Surfbird
# Ruff
# Stilt Sandpiper
# Baird's Sandpiper
# Pectoral Sandpiper
# Semipalmated Sandpiper
# Short-billed Dowitcher
# Wilson's Snipe
# Wilson's Phalarope
# Red Phalarope
# Pomarine Jaeger
# 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
# Golden Eagle
# Ferruginous Hawk
# Burrowing Owl
# Spotted Owl
# Long-eared Owl
# Williamson's Sapsucker
# Red-naped Sapsucker
# Crested Caracara
# Prairie Falcon
# Least Flycatcher
# Dusky-capped Flycatcher
# Thick-billed Kingbird
# Plumbeous Vireo
# Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay NEW in 2024
# Clark's Nutcracker
# Golden-crowned Kinglet
# LeConte's Thrasher
# Mountain Bluebird
# 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
# 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
If you found any of these species over the weekend, please let us know!
Also, please remember that we aren't counting species seen from boats. Due to protocols established more than 20 years ago, pelagic species have to be seen from land (which could include Santa Catalina and San Clemente Islands).
