Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The California quail is the official state bird of California. This list of birds of California is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species seen naturally in the U.S. state of California as determined by the California Bird Records Committee (CBRC). [1] Additional accidental and hypothetical species have been added from different sources.
Although the term "bird of prey" could theoretically be taken to include all birds that actively hunt and eat other animals, [4] ornithologists typically use the narrower definition followed in this page, [5] excluding many piscivorous predators such as storks, cranes, herons, gulls, skuas, penguins, and kingfishers, as well as many primarily ...
List of birds of Santa Cruz County, California. The county is in Northern California, located on the California coast, including northern Monterey Bay, and west of the San Francisco Bay and Silicon Valley. It includes the southwestern Santa Cruz Mountains. [1] [2]
California condor: Cathartidae: Gymnogyps californianus (Shaw, 1797) 1 King vulture: Cathartidae: Sarcoramphus papa (Linnaeus, 1758) 2 Andean condor: Cathartidae: Vultur gryphus Linnaeus, 1758: 3 Black vulture: Cathartidae: Coragyps atratus (Bechstein, 1793) 4 Turkey vulture: Cathartidae: Cathartes aura (Linnaeus, 1758) 5 Lesser yellow-headed ...
Typical owls are small to large solitary nocturnal birds of prey. They have large forward-facing eyes and ears, a hawk-like beak, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye called a facial disk. Flammulated owl, Psiloscops flammeolus; Western screech-owl, Megascops kennicottii; Great horned owl, Bubo virginianus
Hummingbirds are small birds capable of hovering in mid-air due to the rapid flapping of their wings. They are the only birds that can fly backwards. Black-chinned hummingbird, Archilochus alexandri (C) Anna's hummingbird, Calypte anna; Costa's hummingbird, Calypte costae (R) Calliope hummingbird, Selasphorus calliope (A)
A goshawk Flying a saker falcon. Falconry is the hunting of wild animals in their natural state and habitat by means of a trained bird of prey.Small animals are hunted; squirrels and rabbits often fall prey to these birds.
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct. Contents