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A Cooper’s hawk with its prey, spotted in an alder tree in Encanto Park. Photo by Jim Kirchner
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Mayor John Fasana and his wife, Kris, listen and look for the Least Bell’s Vireo.
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Scopes, cameras and binoculars focus on the wide variety of birdlife in the San Gabriel River bed.
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A snowy egret is spotted in a small pond below the first weir north of the Puente Largo Bridge. Photo by Jim Kirchner
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State and Federal agencies have placed non-lethal traps along the riverbed to remove the parasitic brown-headed cowbird from the area. |
The Bird Report for April 19, 2009
Location: San Gabriel River, Duarte
Time: 0745-1015. Bird walk for Duarte Historical Museum.
Weather: Clear, wind N 0-10 mph; 65-75 deg F.
Site: Riverbottom mostly dry; some water under willows north of Encanto pedestrian bridge, and a large pool of water immediately below the first concrete dam north of the bridge.
Coverage: Encanto Park, footbridge across river, and then up east side of river to first concrete dam.
Number of species found: 48
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Mallard California Quail Great Blue Heron Snowy Egret Green Heron Turkey Vulture Cooper's Hawk Red shouldered Hawk Red tailed Hawk Sora Bandtailed Pigeon Mourning Dove Black chinned Hummingbird Anna's Hummingbird Rufous/Allen's Hummingbird Gray Flycatcher Black Phoebe Western Kingbird Bell's Vireo American Crow Common Raven Northern Rough winged Swallow Cliff Swallow Bushtit Bewick's Wren House Wren American Robin Wrentit Northern Mockingbird California Thrasher Phainopepla Common Yellowthroat Yellow breasted Chat Western Tanager Spotted Towhee California Towhee Song Sparrow Black headed Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting Red winged Blackbird Brown headed Cowbird Hooded Oriole Purple Finch House Finch Lesser Goldfinch Lawrence's Goldfinch American Goldfinch Orange Bishop |
Anas platyrhynchos Callipepla californica Ardea herodias Egretta thula Butorides virescens Cathartes aura Accipiter cooperii Buteo lineatus Buteo jamaicensis Porzana carolina Patagioenas fasciata Zenaida macroura Archilochus alexandri Calypte anna Selasphorus rufus/sasin Empidonax wrightii Sayornis nigricans Tyrannus verticalis Vireo bellii Corvus brachyrhynchos Corvus corax Stelgidopteryx serripennis Petrochelidon pyrrhonota Psaltriparus minimus Thryomanes bewickii Troglodytes aedon Turdus migratorius Chamaea fasciata Mimus polyglottos Toxostoma redivivum Phainopepla nitens Geothlypis trichas Icteria virens Piranga ludoviciana Pipilo maculatus Pipilo crissalis Melospiza melodia Pheucticus melanocephalus Passerina amoena Agelaius phoeniceus Molothrus ater Icterus cucullatus Carpodacus purpureus Carpodacus mexicanus Carduelis psaltria Carduelis lawrencei Carduelis tristis Euplectes franciscanus | Found 5 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 8 3 4 1 1 3 1 2 2 2 1 12 2 4 1 1 2 1 1 1 3 1 1 2 6 12 2 1 8 4 1 1 5 6 1 4 3 |