Question

Can you name five birds that you have seen locally?

Answer 1

Seagull



Blackbird




Band-tailed pigeon



Northern rough-winged swallow



Great Egret

Answer 2

Pigeons

Sparrows

Bluejays

Red-******** Robins

Crows

Answer 3

Robin
Crow
Bluejay
Hawk
Heron
Gull
I can go on and on...

Answer 4

Wild turkey, Black Vulture, Pileated Woodpecker, Eastern Flicker, Indigo Bunting.....all in my backyard....

Answer 5

Pigeon
Sparrow
Goldfinch
Herring Gull
Red tailed Hawk
Many others!

Answer 6

Tweets, George, Birdbrain, Woody and Blackie.

Answer 7

Morning Dove
Cardinal
Scissor Tailed Flycatcher
Meadow Lark
Red Tailed Hawk

Many others!

Answer 8

Kites, hawks, (even a ferrogenous (sic) hawk, largest of them all), falcons, vultures, scrub jays, hummingbirds, quail, and many others including my favorite:

Answer 9

Bald Eagle, Ospreys, Orioles, Blackbirds, Sea Gulls...

Answer 10

Crows, pigeons, geese, swallows and seagulls.

Answer 11

Mockingbird,scissor tail ,dove,crow,wren,cardinal okay that's six! Lol

Answer 12

Besides my bird, I see hummingbirds, cardinals, mockingbirds, hawks, buzzards, woodpeckers, doves, turkeys, ducks, and many more.

Answer 13

Seagulls, pelicans, cardinals, wrens, mockingbirds.

Answer 14

American Robin, Canadian goose, Great Blue Heron, Mourning Dove, Cardinal, &c...;.

Answer 15

Osprey , Eagle , Pheasant ,Canadian wild geese , starlings , wild turkey ,woodpecker , herron / crane on and on . We got a lot of birds here.

Answer 16

Sparrow Robin Starling Crow Hawk Hummingbird ....List goes on

Answer 17

Robins, doves, swallows, owls and once an eagle. There are a multitude of birds around my place.

Answer 18

Coopers Hawks
Barred owls
Mockingbirds
Blue Jays
Cardinals
Chick a dees
Mexican doves
wild parakeets
barn sparrows
hummingbirds

Answer 19

cardinals
blue jays
robins
red tailed hawk
barn owl

Answer 20

Northern Goshawk, Cardinal, Bluejay, Chickadee, House sparrow

Answer 21

sparrows, crows, cardinals, red tailed hawk, pigeon, robin red ******

Answer 22

A lot more than 5, actually, and in fact just yesterday I saw a hawk that was NOT the type most commonly found here, the red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), but rather was LIKELY it's similar in appearance cousin red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus), which I have also seen here locally but due to distance, sun angle and other issues I was not able to make a positive ID this sighting. I had a peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) that had just knocked a Chihuahuan raven (Corvus cryptoleucus) out of the sky land with it at my feet - and that type raven is also a common sight here. I also came upon an osprey (Pandion haliaetus) with a freshly killed fish it was devouring. Because I usually only see them from a significant distance and they look a lot like falcons under those conditions, I failed to realize that many of my falcon sightings were actually American kestrels (Falco sparverius) and I now realize that was what was perched in my own back yard once when I came around the corner and caught it by surprise. And I've had exactly two sightings of the northern harrier (aka hen harrier in some locations) (Circus cyaneus) locally.

The brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is a common sight here as is Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus). There are about ...&

A lot more than 5, actually, and in fact just yesterday I saw a hawk that was NOT the type most commonly found here, the red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), but rather was LIKELY it's similar in appearance cousin red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus), which I have also seen here locally but due to distance, sun angle and other issues I was not able to make a positive ID this sighting. I had a peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) that had just knocked a Chihuahuan raven (Corvus cryptoleucus) out of the sky land with it at my feet - and that type raven is also a common sight here. I also came upon an osprey (Pandion haliaetus) with a freshly killed fish it was devouring. Because I usually only see them from a significant distance and they look a lot like falcons under those conditions, I failed to realize that many of my falcon sightings were actually American kestrels (Falco sparverius) and I now realize that was what was perched in my own back yard once when I came around the corner and caught it by surprise. And I've had exactly two sightings of the northern harrier (aka hen harrier in some locations) (Circus cyaneus) locally.

The brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is a common sight here as is Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus). There are about 19 species of seagull that either live or visit this area, one of the fanciest is the California gull (Larus californicus) but many other species, including but not limited to Heermann's gull (Larus heermanni). Many species of gulls are kleptoparasitic and steal food or prey from other birds. Closely related to gulls, we also have different species of terns here - and it's **** to tell them apart sometimes but I've seen & photographed both the royal tern (Thalasseus maximus) and the common tern (Sterna hirundo), others I'm not so sure due again to various factors.

Common birds include the northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos), the western scrub jay (Aphelocoma californica) and the Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) as well as varios sparrows and finches. I've often heard but more rarely seen great horned owls (Bubo virginianus) and I once saw a Bullock's oriole (Icterus bullockii) worrying a hawk that had wandered too close to it's home turf. The common (aka European) starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is a common sight. It's easy to attract the American goldfinch (Spinus tristis) with a feeder as well as our most common hummingbird, Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna) though I've also seen other related species here as well.



We also have a variety of herons/egrets, among them the great egret (Ardea alba) snowy egret (Egretta thula) and the blue heron (Ardea herodias).

All the above, and many more, are found within a reasonably small radius from my home in places I frequent. Brewer's blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus), house sparrow (Passer domesticus), house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus), California towhee (Melozone crissalis), greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) (and no, they don't really go 'meep meep'), dusky flycatcher, (Empidonax oberholseri) and really so many others were around me as a kid and I had no idea, not until recently when I began to take an interest.

Indeed until you asked the question and I started trying to recall all the species I've seen in the last year or so, I had no idea the number was as large as it is.

I've also seen a number of birds that I could not reliably identify.

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Answer 23

And I didn't even get into the exotic species from around the world resident at the San Diego zoo, which I just visited. It would not be fair to count them - they're not naturally from here nor are they willing visitors.

Answer 24

Sure...

Answer 25

I can limit it two five woodpeckers!

Pileated
Downie
Hairy
Red Bellied
Red Headed

Answer 26

Wild Turkey
Turkey Vultures
Pheasants
Geese
Heron

Answer 27

Finch, dove, cardinal, blue jay, robin

Answer 28

Starlings, bluejays, wrens, pigeons, crows

Answer 29

Live by a river. Eagles,ducks,blue herons,sea gulls, loons, crows, More that I don't know the species.

Answer 30

Eurasian Dove, Rock Dove, Mourning Dove, Blue Jay, Red Headed Woodpecker and I could go on and on

Answer 31

Cardinals, chickens, guineas, robins, blue jays, sparrows, eagles, hawks, owls, buzzards, ducks, cowbirds, starlings, red winged blackbirds, yellow winged blackbirds, pelicans (near & on the lake), turkeys, woodpeckers, pigeons, scissor tails & a few others I'm not sure what they are.

Answer 32

cardinal, crow, robin, blue jay, sparrow

Answer 33

A cute little sand owl, grackles, ducks, sparrows and a **** pidgeon that ****** on my arm.

Answer 34

Osprey, Pelican, Tern, Sea Gull, Mocking Bird

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Answer 35

Eagle,Osprey,blue jay,cardinal,spoonbill

Answer 36

Living in Florida is like living in Jurrassic park LOL

Saw Storks, egrets, ibises , Sea gulls, and Pelicans...many more but that will do for now

Answer 37

black birds(i think they are everywhere)humming birds cardinals blue jays many different kinda of hawks