Breeding San Diego Species 
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2013
Many escapes and introductions have taken place over the years and some species have found the warm, dry climate to their liking. Quite a few species are well-established and breeding from San Diego to Los Angeles and beyond. In particular, subsection iii seems to be the hurdle that most species can’t clear.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2022
Not bad given that the 5 families in the inner circle of the laughingthrush family have a combined number of about 68 species. The Hainan version is sometimes considered a separate species, in which case it is classified as Near Threatened. 36, if my counting is right and there has been no very recent split or lump.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2022
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. Snowy Plovers also breed half an hour north of my home, so we have those in common. Feast your eyes.
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. We hope that our journey will provide important information about many Neotropical bird species as well as inform conservation.” Very little is known about this enigmatic species.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
It was not a flycatcher at all, but an exotic (and equally bizarre) from Africa, which certainly escaped from someone’s cage or perhaps even migrated from the small breeding population of escapees in southern California. Pin-tailed Whydah at Sutro Heights Park, San Francisco, CA.
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
JUNE 20, 2012
In addition to their homing tendency, breeding swallows are attracted to old nests. Completed nests during this breeding season cannot be touched without a permit from the U.S. Salmon, UC Cooperative Extension, San Diego Co.; Under suitable conditions, a nest is quite durable and can be used in successive years.
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