Birder's Guide | Bolsa Chica Conservancy

Bird Species	W	Sp	Su	F	BC	CP
Rails and Coots
Clapper Rail [SBNWR]	rare	rare	rare	rare	•
Virginia Rail	rare	rare		rare	•	•
Sora	uncom	uncom	rare	uncomm	•	•
Common Moorhen	rare	rare		rare		•
American Coot	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	•	•
Plovers
Black-bellied Plover	Abundant	Abundant	uncom	Abundant	•	•
Pacific Golden-Plover	rare	rare		rare	•
Snowy Plover	uncom	uncom	uncom	uncom	•
Semipalmated Plover	Common	Common		Common	•	•
Killdeer	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	•	•
Mountain Plover (x) [SBNWR]
Stilts and Avocets
Black-necked Stilt	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	•	•
American Avocet	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	•	•
Sandpipers and Phalaropes
Greater Yellowlegs	Fcom	Fcom	rare	Fcom	•	•
Lesser Yellowlegs	rare	rare		uncom	•	•
Solitary Sandpiper		rare		rare	•	•
Willet	Abundant	Abundant	Common	Abundant	•	•
Wandering Tattler	rare	uncom		rare	•
Spotted Sandpiper	Fcom	Fcom	rare	Fcom	•	•
Whimbrel	Fcom	Fcom	rare	Fcom	•	•
Long-billed Curlew	Fcom	Fcom	rare	Fcom	•	•
Marbled Godwit	Abundant	Abundant	uncom	Abundant	•	•
Ruddy Turnstone	uncom	Common	uncom	Common	•
Black Turnstone	uncom	uncom		uncom	•
Surfbird [SAR]	rare	uncom		rare
Red Knot	rare	uncom	uncom	uncom	•
Sanderling	Common	Common	Fcom	Common	•
Semipalmated Sandpiper (x)					•
Western Sandpiper	Abundant	Abundant	Common	Abundant	•	•
Least Sandpiper	Common	Common	Fcom	Common	•	•
Baird's Sandpiper				rare	•
Pectoral Sandpiper				rare	•	•
Dunlin	Common	Common	rare	Common	•	•
Stilt Sandpiper (x)
Short-billed Dowitcher	Abundant	Abundant	Fcom	Abundant	•	•
Long-billed Dowitcher	Abundant	Abundant	Fcom	Abundant	•	•
Common Snipe	uncom	uncom		uncom	•	•
Wilson's Phalarope		uncom		Fcom	•	•
Red-necked Phalarope		uncom		Fcom	•	•
Red Phalarope	rare	rare		rare	•	•
Jaegers
Pomarine Jaeger [pier]	rare	rare		rare
Parasitic Jaeger	rare	uncom		uncom	•
Long-tailed Jaeger (x)					•
Gulls and Terns
Laughing Gull		rare	rare	rare	•
Franklin's Gull		rare		rare	•
Little Gull (x)
Common Black-headed Gull (x)
Bonaparte's Gull	Abundant	Abundant	rare	Abundant	•	•
Heermann's Gull	uncom	rare	uncom	uncom	•
Mew Gull [SAR]	Fcom	Fcom		Fcom	•	•
Ring-billed Gull	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	•	•
California Gull	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	•	•
Herring Gull	Fcom	uncom		uncom	•	•
Thayer's Gull	rare	rare			•
Western Gull	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	•	•
Glaucous-winged Gull	uncom	rare		rare	•	•
Glaucous Gull (x)
Black-legged Kittiwake	rare	rare			•
Gull-billed Tern (x)					•
Caspian Tern	Fcom	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	•	•
Royal Tern	Fcom	Fcom	Fcom	Fcom	•
Elegant Tern		Common	Abundant	Abundant	•	•
Sandwich Tern (x)					•
Common Tern		uncom	Fcom	Fcom	•
Forster's Tern	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	•	•
Least Tern		Abundant	Abundant		•	•
Black Tern		rare		rare	•
Black Skimmer	uncom	uncom	Abundant	Abundant	•	•
Auks, Murres, and Puffins
Common Murre [pier]	uncom	uncom		uncom	•
Cassin's Auklet [pier]	uncom	uncom		uncom
Rhinoceros Auklet [pier]	uncom	uncom		uncom
Pigeons and Doves
Rock Dove	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	•	•
Band-tailed Pigeon				rare		•
Spotted Dove	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	•	•
White-winged Dove (x)						•
Mourning Dove	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	Abundant	•	•
Common Ground Dove	Fcom	Fcom	Fcom	Fcom		•
Owls
Barn Owl	uncom	uncom	uncom	uncom	•	•
Great Horned Owl	uncom	uncom	uncom	uncom	•	•
Western Screech Owl	rare	rare	rare	rare	•
Short-eared Owl	rare	rare		rare	•	•
Burrowing Owl	rare	rare	rare	rare	•	•
Northern Saw-whet Owl (x)