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San Mateo Birds of the Coast

For easy to find reference.

Habitats:
Sandy beach and mudflats, rocky headlands, coastal scrub, freshwater marsh, lake, riparian woodland, farm fields.

Specialty birds:

Resident
Brandt’s and Pelagic Cormorants;
White-tailed Kite;
Peregrine Falcon;
Black Oystercatcher;
Marbled Murrelet;
Rhinoceros Auklet;
Western Screech-Owl;
Northern Pygmy-Owl;
Chestnut-backed Chickadee;
Wrentit.

Summer
Brown Pelican,
Cinnamon Teal,
Heermann’s Gull,
Elegant Tern,
Pigeon Guillemot,
Black Swift,
Allen's Hummingbird,
Bank Swallow.

Winter
Western Grebe;
Wandering Tattler;
Long-billed Curlew;
Black Turnstone;
Surfbird;
Thayer’s and Glaucous-winged Gulls;
Say’s Phoebe.

Other key birds:

Resident
Black-crowned Night-Heron,
Virginia Rail,
Common Murre,
Great Horned Owl,
Winter Wren,
Common Yellowthroat,
Purple Hnch,
American Goldfinch.

Summer
Caspian Tern,
Grasshopper Sparrow.

Winter
Red-throated Loon;
Eared Grebe;
Surf and White-winged Scoters;
Bufflehead;
Sora;
Greater Yellowlegs;
Marbled Godwit,
Ruddy Turnstone;
Sanderling;
Loggerhead Shrike;
Lincoln’s Sparrow