California/Arizona/Nevada/Utah Birds Just one week away and it went so fast, but essentially all of the birds were new (apart from a few house sparrows!) and a wide variety of habitats too - from the elevated south rim of the Grand Canyon, the semi-desert countryside of northern Arizona to deep suburban habitats found around the Los Angeles Zoo.
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American Robin |
Band-tailed Pigeon |
Bewick's Wren |
Black Phoebe |
Brewer's Blackbird(m) |
Bushtit |
Cooper's Hawk |
Crowned Crane |
Dark-eyed Junco |
Flamingo |
Gray-headed dark-eyed Junco |
House Finch(f) |
House Finch(m) |
Inca Tern |
Lesser Goldfinch |
Mountain Chickadee |
Plush-crested Jay |
Red-crowned Woodpecker |
Rufous-crowned Sparrow |
Song Sparrow |
Tufted Titmouse |
Western scrub-Jay (another) |
White-crowned Robin-Chat |
White-crowned Sparrow |
Wild Turkey |
Brewer's Blackbird(f) |
Harpy Eagle |
Sunbittern |
Black-necked Swan |
Whistling Duck |
Red-tailed Hawk |
African Fish-Eagle |
Eurasian Eagle-Owl |
Steller's Sea Eagle |
Abyssinian Ground Hornbill |
Scarlet Macaw |
Images © Russell Cockman |