Bird's Nests in San Diego

Here is a list of birds that regularly breed in San Diego county: • Pied-billed Grebe • Clark’s Grebe • Brandt’s Cormorant • Double-crested Cormorant • Brown Pelican • Little Blue Heron • Great Blue Heron • Green Heron • Black-crowned Night Heron • Snowy Egret • Great Egret • Cattle Egret • Snowy Plover (Endangered) • Least Bittern • Clapper Rail (Endangered) • White-faced Ibis • Turkey Vulture • Ruddy Duck • Mallard • Cinnamon Teal Duck • Redhead Duck • White-tailed Kite • Northern Harrier • Cooper’s Hawk • Red-shouldered Hawk • Golden Eagle • American Kestrel • Prairie Falcon AKA Peregrine Falcon • Mountain Quail • California Quail • Gambel’s Quail • Clapper Rail • Virginia Rail • Common Gallinule or Moorhen • American Coot • Killdeer • Black-necked Stilt • American Avocet • Southern Western Gull • Caspian Tern • Elegant Tern • Forster’s Tern • Black Skimmer • Band-tailed Pigeon • Mourning Dove • White-winged Dove • Common Ground Dove • Greater Roadrunner • Barn Owl • Western Screech Owl • Great Horned Owl • Pacific Horned Owl • Pallid Horned Owl • Spotted Owl • Burrowing Owl • Northern Saw-whet Owl • Long-eared Owl • Dusky Poor-will • White-throated Swift • Anna’s Hummingbird • Costa’s Hummingbird • Belted Kingfisher • Acorn Woodpecker • Sierra Red-breasted Sapsucker • Nuttall’s Woodpecker • Ladder-backed Woodpecker • Downy Woodpecker • Hairy Woodpecker • White-headed Woodpecker • Monterey Red-shafted Flicker • Say’s Phoebe • Black Phoebe • Cassin’s Kingbird • Grinnell’s Shrike • California Shrike • Oberholser’s Vireo • Steller’s Jay • Western Scrub Jay • American Crow • Common Raven • Phainopepla • Western Bluebird • American Robin • Northern Mockingbird • Leconte’s Thrasher • California Thrasher • Crissal Thrasher • White-naped Pygmy Nuthatch • White-breasted Nuthatch • Brown Creeper • San Diego Cactus Wren (Endangered) • Desert Cactus Wren • Rock Wren • Canyon Wren • Mary Clark’s Marsh Wren • Sooty Bewick’s Wren • House Wren • Verdin • Blue-gray Gnatcatcher • California Gnatcatcher • Black-tailed Gnatcatcher • Plain or Oak Titmouse • Bushtit • Tree Swallow • Wrentit • California Horned Lark • Island Horned Lark • Yuma Horned Lark • American Goldfinch • Lesser Goldfinch • Lawrence’s Goldfinch • House Finch • San Diego Song Sparrow • Rufous-crowned Sparrow • Grasshopper Sparrow • Bell’s Sage Sparrow • Lark Sparrow • Black-throated Sparrow • Spotted or Rufous-sided Towhee • Brown or California Towhee • Western Yellowthroat • Red-winged Blackbird • Brewer’s Blackbird • Tricolored Blackbird • Western Meadowlark • Great-tailed Grackle • Dwarf Cowbird • Belding’s Sparrow (Endangered)

Lat: 32.64 Long: -117.08

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