LAKE PALMDALE BIRD LIST © 2016 Callyn Yorke

250 SPECIES

(* Denotes questionable record; adequate documentation not provided.)

  • Canada Goose
  • Cackling Goose
  • Tundra Swan
  • Gray-lag Goose (introduced; domestic)
  • Greater White-fronted Goose
  • Brant
  • Wood Duck
  • Gadwall
  • American Wigeon
  • Mallard
  • Blue-winged Teal
  • Cinnamon Teal
  • Northern Shoveler
  • Northern Pintail
  • Green-winged Teal
  • Canvasback
  • Redhead
  • Ring-necked Duck
  • Lesser Scaup
  • Greater Scaup
  • Surf Scoter
  • White-winged Scoter
  • Bufflehead
  • Common Goldeneye
  • Common Merganser
  • Red-breasted Merganser
  • Hooded Merganser
  • Ruddy Duck
  • California Quail
  • Red-throated Loon *
  • Pacific Loon
  • Common Loon
  • Pied-billed Grebe
  • Horned Grebe
  • Eared Grebe
  • Western Grebe
  • Clark’s Grebe
  • Double-crested Cormorant
  • American White Pelican
  • Brown Pelican (14 May 2015)
  • American Bittern
  • Least Bittern (5 May, 2014)
  • Great Blue Heron
  • Great Egret
  • Snowy Egret
  • Cattle Egret
  • Green Heron
  • Black-crowned Night Heron
  • White-faced Ibis
  • Turkey Vulture
  • Osprey
  • White-tailed Kite
  • Bald Eagle (17 March, 2014)
  • Northern Harrier
  • Sharp-shinned Hawk
  • Cooper’s Hawk
  • Red-shouldered Hawk
  • Swainson’s Hawk
  • Red-tailed Hawk
  • Golden Eagle
  • American Kestrel
  • Merlin
  • Peregrine Falcon
  • Prairie Falcon
  • Virginia Rail
  • Sora
  • Common Moorhen
  • American Coot
  • Black-bellied Plover
  • Semipalmated Plover
  • Killdeer
  • Black-necked Stilt
  • American Avocet
  • Greater Yellowlegs
  • Lesser Yellowlegs
  • Solitary Sandpiper
  • Willet
  • Spotted Sandpiper
  • Whimbrel
  • Marbled Godwit (11 Sept. 2013)
  • Ruddy Turnstone (16 Sept. 2014)
  • Sanderling
  • Western Sandpiper
  • Least Sandpiper
  • Baird’s Sandpiper
  • Pectoral Sandpiper
  • Dunlin
  • Short-billed Dowitcher
  • Long-billed Dowitcher
  • Wilson’s Snipe
  • Red-necked Phalarope
  • Wilson’s Phalarope
  • Parasitic Jaeger
  • Franklin’s Gull
  • Bonaparte’s Gull
  • Heermann’s Gull *
  • Mew Gull *
  • Ring-billed Gull
  • California Gull
  • Herring Gull
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull *
  • Glaucous-winged Gull
  • Sabine’s Gull
  • Caspian Tern
  • Forster’s Tern
  • Common Tern
  • Black Tern
  • Eurasian Collared Dove
  • Rock Pigeon
  • Mourning Dove
  • Greater Roadrunner
  • Barn Owl
  • Great Horned Owl
  • Black Swift
  • Vaux’s Swift
  • White-throated Swift
  • Black-chinned Hummingbird
  • Anna’s Hummingbird
  • Costa’s Hummingbird
  • Rufous Hummingbird
  • Selasphorus sp.
  • Belted Kingfisher
  • Acorn Woodpecker
  • Red-breasted Sapsucker
  • Nuttall’s Woodpecker
  • Ladder-backed Woodpecker
  • Downy Woodpecker
  • Hairy Woodpecker
  • Northern Flicker (RS; YS)
  • Olive-sided Flycatcher
  • Western Wood Pewee
  • Willow Flycatcher
  • Hammond’s Flycatcher
  • Gray Flycatcher
  • Dusky Flycatcher *
  • Pacific Slope Flycatcher
  • Black Phoebe
  • Say’s Phoebe
  • Vermilion Flycatcher
  • Ash-throated Flycatcher
  • Cassin’s Kingbird
  • Western Kingbird
  • Loggerhead Shrike
  • Plumbeous Vireo
  • Cassin’s Vireo
  • Warbling Vireo
  • Red-eyed Vireo
  • Western Scrub-Jay
  • Stellar’s Jay * (April, 2015)
  • American Crow (3 March, 2014)
  • Common Raven
  • Horned Lark
  • Purple Martin
  • Tree Swallow
  • Violet-green Swallow
  • Northern Rough-winged Swallow
  • Bank Swallow
  • Cliff Swallow
  • Barn Swallow
  • Mountain Chickadee
  • Oak Titmouse
  • Verdin
  • Bushtit
  • White-breasted Nuthatch
  • Red-breasted Nuthatch (October 8, 2015)
  • Cactus Wren
  • Rock Wren
  • Bewick’s Wren
  • House Wren
  • Marsh Wren
  • Brown Creeper
  • Golden-crowned Kinglet
  • Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  • Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  • Swainson’s Thrush
  • Hermit Thrush
  • American Robin
  • Mountain Bluebird
  • Townsend’s Solitaire (Feb 4, 2016)
  • Wrentit *
  • Northern Mockingbird
  • California Thrasher
  • LeConte’s Thrasher
  • European Starling
  • American Pipit
  • Cedar Waxwing
  • Phainopepla
  • Orange-crowned Warbler
  • Nashville Warbler
  • Northern Parula
  • Virginia’s Warbler
  • Lucy’s Warbler
  • Yellow Warbler
  • Yellow-rumped Warbler (A; M)
  • Black-throated Gray Warbler
  • Townsend’s Warbler
  • Hermit Warbler
  • Prairie Warbler
  • Blackpoll Warbler
  • Blue-winged Warbler
  • Black-throated Green Warbler *
  • Black & White Warbler
  • American Redstart
  • Prothonotary Warbler
  • Worm-eating Warbler
  • Northern Waterthrush
  • MacGillivray’s Warbler
  • Common Yellowthroat
  • Hooded Warbler (Oct. 2015)
  • Wilson’s Warbler
  • Yellow-breasted Chat
  • Spotted Towhee
  • California Towhee
  • Chipping Sparrow
  • Brewer’s Sparrow
  • Vesper Sparrow *
  • Lark Sparrow
  • Sage Sparrow
  • Savannah Sparrow
  • Fox Sparrow
  • Song Sparrow
  • Lincoln’s Sparrow
  • Swamp Sparrow *
  • White-crowned Sparrow
  • Golden-crowned Sparrow
  • Dark-eyed Junco
  • Summer Tanager
  • Western Tanager
  • Black-headed Grosbeak
  • Blue Grosbeak
  • Lazuli Bunting
  • Red-winged Blackbird
  • Tricolored Blackbird
  • Western Meadowlark
  • Yellow-headed Blackbird
  • Brewer’s Blackbird
  • Great-tailed Grackle
  • Brown-headed Cowbird
  • Bullock’s Oriole
  • Hooded Oriole
  • Scott’s Oriole *
  • Purple Finch
  • House Finch
  • Red Crossbill (Feb 4, 2016)
  • Pine Siskin
  • Lesser Goldfinch
  • Lawrence’s Goldfinch
  • American Goldfinch
  • Evening Grosbeak *
  • House Sparrow