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California is a superb birdwatching location. We have such wide diversity in habitat from the open ocean to the desert and moutaintops...and everything in between. That diverse habitat means we have the perfect habitat for one of the widest selections of birds on the North American continent.

Watching birds can be as simple as watching a single bird's behaviors as it eats, practices safety, or raises a family. Birdwatching can become a challenging hobby by keepng up with all the latest technolgical gadgets for viewing, spotting, photographing or tagging. Birdwatching can be a backyard hobby in which you feed birds seeds, live worms and fruit, or it can be as simple as putting out a birdbath. You can be a landlord who provides cavity or shelf nests to compensate for the ongoing loss of habitat and nesting sites, or you can plant native and prolific food sources for hummingbirds or butterflies (and their caterpillars, which are a major food source for birds).

Birdwatching starts with interest. You can then pursue your interests in many directions...you can migrate with the birds! Enjoy...here is a starting list of birds to show you the breadth of beauty that awaits you at our Southern California backyards, parks and beaches

Click here to find images of Southern California Birds using Google.

Waterbirds American White Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret T Snowy Egret Mallard Northern Pintail Greater Yellowlegs Killdeer California Gull Sand Pipers Turnstones Birds of Prey Turkey Vulture White-tailed Kite Northern Harrier Red-tailed Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Swainson’s Hawk Cooper’s Hawk Sharp-shinned Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Doves, Owls, Parrots, Nightjars Band-tailed Pigeon Spotted Dove Mourning Dove Rock Dove (Commonly known as Pigeons) Common Poorwill Barn Owl Flammulated Owl Western Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Short-eared Owl Yellow-chevroned Parakeet Mitred Parakeet Swifts, Hummingbirds, Kingfishers Vaux's’ Swift White-throated Swift Black-chinned Hummingbird Anna’s Hummingbird Allen’s Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Woodpeckers Downy Woodpecker Nuttall’s Woodpecker Northern Flicker Acorn Woodpecker Red-breasted Sapsucker Flycatchers Olive-sided Flycatcher Say’s Phoebe Black Phoebe Ash-throated Flycatcher Western Wood-Pewee Hammond’s Flycatcher Pacific-slope Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Gray Flycatcher Western Kingbird Cassin’s Kingbird Shrikes and Vireos Loggerhead Shrike Cassin’s Vireo Plumbeous Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Warbling Vireo Hutton’s Vireo Jays and Crows Western Scrub-Jay American Crow Common Raven

Swallows and Larks Purple Martin Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Horned Lark Wrentit, Bushtit, Parids and Wrens Wrentit Bushtit Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Mountain Chickadee Oak Titmouse Winter Wren Bewick’s Wren House Wren Rock Wren Thrushes, etc. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Ruby-crowned Kinglet Golden-crowned Kinglet American Robin Western Bluebird Hermit Thrush Swainson’s Thrush Northern Mockingbird California Thrasher American Pipit European Starling Phainopepla Cedar Waxwing Wood-Warblers Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped (Audubon’s) Warbler Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Hermit Warbler Townsend’s Warbler Palm Warbler MacGillivray’s Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson’s Warbler Tanagers and Buntings Western Tanager Black-headed Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting Spotted Towhee California Towhee Sparrows California has many native sparrows -- don't confuse them with the invasive English Sparrow! Rufous-crowned Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Lark Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Fox Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Blackbirds and Finches Red-winged Blackbird Brewer’s Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Hooded Oriole Bullock’s Oriole Western Meadowlark Purple Finch House Finch Pine Siskin Lesser Goldfinch American Goldfinch

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