Central Coast Water Birds
FREQUENTLY SEEN BIRDS - PART ONE
Enjoy these photos of birds often observed during the festival (on or near water)
courtesy of Dave Keeling, photographer
Mouse over photo for bird identification and/or click for larger view.
To view Land Bird, go to Part Two
Mallard
Gadwall
Eurasian Wigeon
Green-Winged Teal
Lesser Scaup
Herring Gull
Canvasback
Redhead
Harlequin Duck
Black Oystercatcher
Common Goldeneye
Snow Goose
Common Gallinule
Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
Red-Necked Grebe
Red-Throated Loon
Pacific Loon
Arctic Loon
Double-Crested Cormorant
White Pelican
Western gull
Bonaparte’s Gull
Red Knot
Black Turnstone
Surfbird
Short-Billed Dowitcher
Brown Pelican
American Golden-Plover
Glaucous-Winged Gull
Greater White-Fronted Goose
Ring-Necked Duck
Wood Duck
Clark’s Grebe
White-Winged Scoter
Western Grebe
Pelagic Cormorant
Brandt’s Cormorant
White-Faced Ibis
Great Egret
American Bittern
Least Bittern
Black-Crowned Night-Heron
Green Heron
Black-Necked Stilt
Wilson’s Snipe
Snowy Egret
Cattle Egret
Willet
Canada Goose
Snowy Plover
Great Blue Heron
Ruddy Turnstone
Heermann’s Gull
Cinnamon Teal
Greater Scaup
Ruddy Duck
American Coot
Pied-Billed Grebe
Common Loon
Ring-Billed Gull
California Gull
Royal Tern
Black-Bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Dunlin
Spotted Sandpiper
Marbled Godwit
Pigeon Guillemot
Surf Scoter
Common Murre
Black-Vented Shearwater
Pink-Footed Shearwater
Northern Fulmar
Black-Footed Albatross
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Black-Legged Kittiwake
Long-Billed Curlew
Sora
Virginia Rail
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Sooty Shearwater
American Avocet
Black Skimmer
Caspian Tern
Forster’s Tern
Mountain Plover
Killdeer
Northern Shoveler
Long-Billed Dowitcher
Whimbrel
Least Sandpiper
Wandering Tattler
Western Sandpiper
Sanderling
Red Phalarope
Red-Necked Phalarope
Sabine’s Gull
Mew Gull
Red-Breasted Merganser
Common Merganser
Long-Tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Blue-Winged Teal
Northern Pintail
American Wigeon
Ross’s Goose
Cackling Goose
Brant