San Bernardino Valley Audubon Society RBA
March 12, 2008
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RBA
* California
* Southeastern
* March 12, 2008
* CASE0803.12
This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial,
Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties. Names in the report are generally
those of the reporting party and not necessarily the person claiming the
first sighting.
The bird alert phone line housed at the San Bernardino County Museum is no
longer in service. If you have a rare bird to report and must use a phone
line, please call 909-800-5177.
Birds mentioned:
Red-throated Loon
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Yellow-billed Loon
Horned Grebe
Green Heron
Tundra Swan
Blue-winged Teal
Redhead
Red-breasted Merganser
Hooded Merganser
Zone-tailed Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Rough-legged hawk
Bald Eagle
Merlin
Sandhill Crane
Wilson's Plover
Mountain Plover
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Wilson's Snipe
Spotted Dove
Red-crowned Parrot
Eastern Phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Pinyon Jay
California Gnatcatcher
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Hooded Oriole
- Transcript
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
Frances Oliver and John Luther birded Mojave Narrows Regional Park in
Victorville on Mar. 1, where they found the continuing EASTERN PHOEBE. The
next day, they visited Lake Havasu and found 2 COMMON LOONS, 1-2 RED-
THROATED LOONS, 1-2 PACIFIC LOONS, HORNED GREBE, RED-BREASTED MERGANSER,
and, finally, a YELLOW-BILLED LOON. At Parker Dam, they found 5 VERMILION
FLYCATCHERS, 2 males, 2 females, and a juvenile. At Harper Dry Lake they
found 14 MOUNTAIN PLOVER.
David Vander Pluym also birded the Lake Havasu area on Mar. 7 and saw 3
PACIFIC LOONS, a RED-THROATED LOON on the California side, and 2 COMMON
LOONS on the Arizona side.
Robert Packard visited the Lake Havasu area on Mar. 9 and saw the RED-
THROATED LOON, PACIFIC LOON, and COMMON LOON.
Bill Deppe birded some areas of San Bernardino County on Mar. 10. They
found RED-CROWNED PARROTS in the south part of Redlands, CALIFORNIA
GNATCATCHER and RUFOUS-CROWNED SPARROW in the Jurupa Hills off of Sierra,
and SPOTTED DOVE at the Chino dairy preserve area east of Edison and
Archibald.
RIVERSIDE COUNTY
Frances Oliver visited the San Jacinto Wildlife Area on Mar. 5 and saw a
FERRUGINOUS HAWK, the continuing TUNDRA SWAN, a MERLIN, and a ROUGH-LEGGED
HAWK.
Lynn Miller visited the Lake Perris area and spotted at least 15
SWAINSON’S HAWKS on Mar. 5.
The Coachella Valley Wild Bird Center reported on their monthly bird walk.
They had 35 species including GREEN HERON, and WILSON’S SNIPE.
Howard King also located a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK at San Jacinto Wildlife Area
as well as 2 young BALD EAGLES on Mar. 7. Later in the week, on March 10,
Howard found a small flock of PINYON JAYS in Garner Valley and an adult
BALD EAGLE at Lake Hemet.
Roger Higson found an early WESTERN KINGBIRD, 2 SWAINSON’S HAWKS, 5 HOODED
MERGANSERS, 3 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, and 7 SANDHILL CRANES in the Blythe area
this week.
Jimmy McMorran forwarded a report of the season’s first HOODED ORIOLE in
Hemet/Diamond Valley on Mar. 10.
Bob Packard birded the area between Mystic Lake and Bridge Street near San
Jacinto Wildlife Area on Mar. 10. Highlights included 6 REDHEAD, 44 LONG-
BILLED CURLEW, 4 WHIMBREL, and a MERLIN.
IMPERIAL COUNTY
Patrick Del Pizzo forwarded a report of a ZONE-TAILED HAWK flying with a
group of Turkey Vultures near the intersection of west 6th and Cedar in
Holtville on Mar. 4.
Bernard and Ann Schmidt phoned in a report of a possible WILSON’S PLOVER
seen on Mar. 1 at the end of the Rock Hill trail at the Sonny Bono Salton
Sea NWR.
Brad Singer found a variety of teals at the Salton Sea on Mar. 10,
including 6 BLUE-WINGED TEAL.
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In general, birds that are on this weekly summary are those that are
classified as at least rare in “Birds of Southern California” by Garrett
and Dunn, “Birds of the Salton Sea” by Patten, McCaskie, and Unitt, or
in “Birds of the Lower Colorado River Valley” by Rosenberg, Ohmart,
Hunter, and Anderson. Rarity can be regional or seasonal. For example, a
nuthatch reported at the Salton Sea, where it is rare, may be on the
summary. That same bird reported from the San Bernardino Mountains, where
it is common, would not be. A sparrow reported as a rarity in Riverside
in July, may be common there in December.
If you are only getting this report through Birdwest, you can get MORE
FREQUENT AND COMPREHENSIVE UPDATES by subscribing to inlandcountybirds
(see below).
To report a bird POST TO INLANDCOUNTYBIRDS (see below)!!! If there is
some reason that you cannot post there, or do not want to, e-mail Kirk and
Linda Stitt at secalrba@earthlink.net or call (909)800-9898 (Linda’s
cell). Note that the phone hotline is no longer available.
Please submit your documentation of all California Bird Records Committee
review species (as noted in the text above) to:
Guy McCaskie, Secretary, P.O. Box 275, Imperial Beach, CA 91933-0275, E-
mail: guymcc@pacbell.net
Additionally, CBRC species AND birds of local or seasonal rarity should be
reported to the "North American Birds" (formerly "Field Notes") County
Coordinators. They are:
IMPERIAL COUNTY Guy McCaskie 954 Grove Avenue, Imperial Beach, CA 91932
E: guymcc@pacbell.net
INYO COUNTY Tom & Jo Heindel, P.O. Box 400, Big Pine CA 93513 E:
tjheindel@aol.com
KERN COUNTY John Wilson 1425 Alta Vista, Bakersfield CA 93305 E:
jcwilson@lightspeed.net
RIVERSIDE COUNTY John F. Green, 3120 Mount Vernon Ave., Riverside, CA
92507 E:bewickwren@earthlink.net
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY Alexander E. Koonce, 1357 Paige Lane, Redlands, CA
92373 E: sandy_koonce@redlands.edu
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There is an Inland Counties (San Bernardino, Riverside, and Imperial) bird
report & discussion group. You can view messages at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inlandcountybirds/
IMPORTANT: Sometimes rare birds that are found in Southeastern CA are not
reported to Inlandcountybirds. Sites and phone numbers where such reports
sometimes appear are marked with *** below. If you are headed to one of
those areas, be sure to check that site or phone number first, in addition
to this RBA.
Los Angeles, Orange, Santa Barbara, and rarely San Diego County reports
are posted on BIRDWEST. To subscribe, send a message to
LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU with SUBSCRIBE BIRDWEST YOUR NAME in the
message (and your name = YOUR real name).
Orange County has an RBA update mailing list. To subscribe, write to
JWeintraub@Fullerton.edu
There is also an Orange County Listserv. Messages can be viewed there
at; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrangeCountyBirding
San Diego County has its own Listserv. You can view messages at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SDBIRDS ***
The San Diego phone RBA also posts reports to:
http://homepage.mac.com/aves/SanDiego.html ***
Sometimes Imperial County reports appear on these sources.Calbirds covers
all of California, but often has SoCal bird reports. To
subscribe, send a blank email to: calbirds-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ***
Sightings in Inyo County and beyond are posted at
http://www.esaudubon.org/birds/
Some Kern County reports are posted at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kerncobirding
Messages to the birding listserve for the Pasadena area can be viewed at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PasadenaAudubon
Messages to the birding listserve for Los Angeles County can be viewed
at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LACoBirds
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A schedule of San Bernardino Valley Audubon Society field trips is
available on the SBVAS website: http://www.sbvas.org
Important Southern California Bird Alert and Wildlife Phone Numbers: Los
Angeles RBA (323) 874-1318 ***
Monterey Bay RBA (831)626-6605
Morro Bay RBA (805) 528-7182
Orange County RBA (949) 487-6869
San Diego RBA (619) 688-2473 ***
Santa Barbara RBA (805) 964-8240 (report to (805)-964-1316)
Southeastern CA Bird Alert report to (909) 800-5177
Southern California BIRDBOX (818) 952-5502 + 5 ***
CalTip (CA Fish & Game) (800) 952-5400 (to report wildlife violations)
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