Birds Breeding San Diego 
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2013
They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. Like so many trips this one is more about the journey than the destination which brings us to why they have a guest post (hopefully the first of several) on 10,000 Birds.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
This bird was photographed a few years ago in Connecticut, by Corey Finger. Recently a Fork-tailed Flycatcher was reported from a park in San Francisco, a long ways away from its home in Central and South America. I know birders just as well as I know birds, and I was not ready to put all my faith in this fantastic sighting.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2022
One of those ornithologists is Jonathan Vargas, with whom I went birding on the first Monday of this month of May. Jonathan is originally from San Blas on Mexico’s west coast, a birder’s paradise I have yet to visit. But the past several years he has worked on several projects in Ensenada, just south of San Diego.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 18, 2013
Sunshine and surfing, deserts and wildfires, Hollywood and San Diego. Yet, somehow, on 31 May one was discovered on Puddingstone Reservoir, the large man-made lake that is the center of Bonelli Park, a nearly 2,000 acre expanse in San Dimas, just east of Los Angeles. And even if you get there your odds of finding one are small.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. And, the birds are awesome. Ringer Anhingas and darters , cormorants and shags , frigatebirds , gannets and boobies , pelicans , and the tropicbirds all share a characteristic found in no other living bird: Their feet are totipalmate.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Splits were once a much more subjective determination, based on differences in appearance, vocalizations, habits, and breeding preferences. A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned how the difference between the two species that used to be considered subspecies of the White-collared Seedeater led me to find my best Mexican birding buddies.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2012
I know it sounds strange, especially when the folks at Mission San Juan Capistrano are trying to coax them back by playing recordings of the bird’s mating calls. In addition to their homing tendency, breeding swallows are attracted to old nests. Because IT IS ILLEGAL TO INTERFERE WITH NESTING BIRDS!! Authors: T.
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