CHECKLIST Santa Cruz Co. Checklist - 421 species GREBES Pied-billed Grebe Red-necked Grebe Horned Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clark's Grebe ALBATROSSES Black-footed Albatross Laysan Albatross SHEARWATERS AND PETRELS Northern Fulmar Cook's Petrel Murphy's Petrel Streaked Shearwater Wedge-tailed Shearwater Buller's Shearwater Flesh-footed Shearwater Pink-footed Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Short-tailed Shearwater Manx Shearwater Black-vented Shearwater STORM-PETRELS Wilson's Storm-Petrel Least Storm-Petrel Leach's Storm-Petrel Black Storm-Petrel Ashy Storm-Petrel Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel FRIGATEBIRDS Magnificent Frigatebird GANNETS AND BOOBIES Masked Booby Brown Booby CORMORANTS Brandt's Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant PELICANS American White Pelican Brown Pelican DUCKS, SWANS, GEESE Fulvous Whistling-Duck Ruddy Duck Tundra Swan Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross's Goose Emperor Goose Canada Goose Brant Wood Duck Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon Gadwall Green-winged Teal Mallard Northern Pintail Garganey Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Tufted Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck Oldsquaw Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Barrow's Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Common Merganser HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS Little Blue Heron Snowy Egret Great Blue Heron Great Egret Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Least Bittern American Bittern IBIS AND SPOONBILLS White-faced Ibis NEW WORLD VULTURES Turkey Vulture OSPREY Osprey HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES White-tailed Kite Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Swainson's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle FALCONS AND CARACARAS American Kestrel Merlin Prairie Falcon Peregrine Falcon PHEASANTS, GROUSE, QUAIL AND TURKEYS Ring-necked Pheasant WOOD-PARTRIDGES Mountain Quail California Quail RAILS AND COOTS Yellow Rail Black Rail Clapper Rail Virginia Rail Sora Common Moorhen American Coot CRANES Sandhill Crane SANDPIPERS Common Snipe Marbled Godwit Whimbrel Long-billed Curlew Upland Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Wandering Tattler Willet Ruddy Turnstone Black Turnstone Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Surfbird Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Rock Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Ruff Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Red Phalarope OYSTERCATCHERS Black Oystercatcher AVOCETS AND STILTS Black-necked Stilt American Avocet PLOVERS AND LAPWINGS Pacific Golden-Plover American Golden-Plover Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Snowy Plover Mountain Plover GULLS AND TERNS Heermann's Gull Mew Gull Ring-billed Gull California Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Western Gull Glaucous Gull Thayer's Gull Herring Gull Bonaparte's Gull Laughing Gull Franklin's Gull Little Gull Sabine's Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Black Tern Caspian Tern Royal Tern Elegant Tern Common Tern Arctic Tern Forster's Tern Least Tern JAEGERS AND SKUAS South Polar Skua Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Long-tailed Jaeger SKIMMERS Black Skimmer AUKS, ALCIDS Common Murre Thick-billed Murre Pigeon Guillemot Marbled Murrelet Xantus's Murrelet Craveri's Murrelet Ancient Murrelet Cassin's Auklet Parakeet Auklet Rhinoceros Auklet Horned Puffin Tufted Puffin LOONS Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon Common Loon PIGEONS AND DOVES Rock Dove Band-tailed Pigeon Mourning Dove White-winged Dove Common Ground-Dove NEW WORLD CUCKOOS Yellow-billed Cuckoo GROUND-CUCKOOS AND ALLIES Greater Roadrunner BARN-OWLS Barn Owl OWLS Flammulated Owl Western Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Snowy Owl Spotted Owl Northern Pygmy-Owl Burrowing Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl NIGHTJARS Lesser Nighthawk Common Nighthawk Common Poorwill SWIFTS Black Swift Vaux's Swift White-throated Swift HUMMINGBIRDS Black-chinned Hummingbird Anna's Hummingbird Costa's Hummingbird Calliope Hummingbird Broad-tailed Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Allen's Hummingbird KINGFISHERS Belted Kingfisher WOODPECKERS Lewis's Woodpecker Acorn Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Red-naped Sapsucker Red-breasted Sapsucker Williamson's Sapsucker Nuttall's Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker TYRANT FLYCATCHERS Olive-sided Flycatcher Greater Pewee Western Wood-Pewee Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Hammond's Flycatcher Gray Flycatcher Dusky Flycatcher Pacific-slope Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Say's Phoebe Black Phoebe Dusky-capped Flycatcher Ash-throated Flycatcher Tropical Kingbird Cassin's Kingbird Western Kingbird Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird CROWS AND JAYS Steller's Jay Western Scrub-Jay Yellow-billed Magpie Clark's Nutcracker American Crow Common Raven VIREOS AND ALLIES Bell's Vireo Hutton's Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Plumbeous Vireo Cassin's Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Yellow-green Vireo Warbling Vireo SHRIKES Loggerhead Shrike WAXWINGS AND SILKY-FLYCATCHERS Phainopepla Bohemian Waxwing Cedar Waxwing DIPPERS American Dipper THRUSHES Varied Thrush Western Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush American Robin MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Sage Thrasher Brown Thrasher California Thrasher STARLINGS European Starling NUTHATCHES Pygmy Nuthatch Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch CREEPERS Brown Creeper WRENS Rock Wren Canyon Wren Marsh Wren Bewick's Wren Winter Wren House Wren GNATCATCHERS Blue-gray Gnatcatcher LONG-TAILED TITS Bushtit SWALLOWS Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Purple Martin Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow KINGLETS Ruby-crowned Kinglet Golden-crowned Kinglet OLD WORLD WARBLERS Dusky Warbler Wrentit CHICKADEES, TITS Mountain Chickadee Chestnut-backed Chickadee Oak Titmouse LARKS Horned Lark OLD WORLD SPARROWS House Sparrow WAGTAILS AND PIPITS White Wagtail Black-backed Wagtail Yellow Wagtail Red-throated Pipit American Pipit SISKINS, CROSSBILLS AND ALLIES Brambling Pine Siskin American Goldfinch Lesser Goldfinch Lawrence's Goldfinch Purple Finch Cassin's Finch House Finch Red Crossbill Evening Grosbeak NEW WORLD WARBLERS Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Virginia's Warbler Lucy's Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Townsend's Warbler Hermit Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler MacGillivray's Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat BUNTINGS, SPARROWS, TANAGERS, ALLIES Lapland Longspur Chestnut-collared Longspur Lark Bunting Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Harris's Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Savannah Sparrow Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow Le Conte's Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Brewer's Sparrow Black-chinned Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Black-throated Sparrow Sage Sparrow Rufous-crowned Sparrow Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee California Towhee Summer Tanager Western Tanager Dickcissel Rose-breasted Grosbeak Black-headed Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting Indigo Bunting Painted Bunting BLACKBIRDS, GRACKLES, ORIOLES Hooded Oriole Baltimore Oriole Bullock's Oriole Orchard Oriole Yellow-headed Blackbird Red-winged Blackbird Tricolored Blackbird Western Meadowlark Great-tailed Grackle Common Grackle Rusty Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Bobolink Percent not seen - 57.01%