American Crows are very social, sometimes forming flocks in the thousands. In birds, the color blue depends on lighting, so California Scrub-Jays can also look simply dark. When birders use the term shorebirds, however, they are referring to specific types of birds with distinct body shapes and behaviors. However, they have their feet placed far back on the body, making them quite ungainly on land. The nest site of the White-Throated Swift is usually in narrow vertical crevice in buildings or cliffs. Eudocimus albus One of the most numerous wading birds in Florida, and common elsewhere in the southeast. A favorite bird of the region is the Sandhill Crane (Antigone canadensis). Feeding on a wide variety of flying insects, including flies, beetles, true bugs, wasps, and on winged adult ants. Grebes are small to medium-large freshwater diving birds. Other birds, like blue jays, crows and bobolinks, travel by day and follow the shoreline, stopping to feed as they move along. Nest has bulky foundation of twigs supporting open cup of weeds, grass, leaves, lined with fine material such as rootlets, moss, animal hair, plant down. Description: Horned Larks are small, long-bodied songbirds that usually adopt a horizontal posture. Western Bluebirds rely on trees both for nesting cavities and hunting perches. The throat is blue in males and gray-buff in females, and the lower belly is whitish. Black-crowned Night-Heron: This is a medium-sized, stocky heron with short neck and legs, black upperparts, gray wings and white to pale gray underparts. Budgerigars, also known as budgies or parakeets, are small birds with big personalities. The tail is long and rounded, and the wings are broad, Song Sparrows are streaky and brown with thick streaks on a white chest and flanks. Little Gull: The smallest of all gulls, with pale gray upperparts and white nape, neck, breast, belly, and tail. They are found on every continent and in every kind of environmentin mountains and deserts, on plains, and near seashores. Nest has a foundation of twigs, topped with softer cup of plant fibers, grass, weeds, animal hair, and feathers. They feed on a wide variety of insects, especially beetles, also caterpillars, ants, true bugs, but will also eat some nuts, seeds, fruits, berries. They eat a variety of insects in summer as well as, a few spiders and snails. Diet and behavioral habits: Fairly common year-round, the California Thrasher only found in California and Baja California. Nesting habits: Their nest site is in a large tree such as sycamore, cottonwood, oak, or pine, placed on a horizontal or near-horizontal branch, often well out from the trunk. About 30,000 to 80,000 of these small shorebirds arrive at Mono Lake in mid-summer after breeding in the northern U.S. and southern Canada. Balboa Park is home to Hundreds of native and migrant birds thanks to the varied landscapes, and mild climate. A white patch in each wing is often visible on perched birds, and in flight these become large white flashes. These are the Chuck-wills-widow, Common Nighthawk, and Whip-poor will. Description: Small and compact, with a flat head and fairly long, curved beak. Diet and behavioral habits: Introduced to Balboa Park at the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, to create an environment similar to European public squares, the Rock Pigeon is now commonly found year-round in Balboa Park. Their diet is a wide variety of insects, including ants, wasps, bees, beetles, caterpillars, moths, and many others, along with some spiders and centipedes. The nest is built in a dense shrub or tree, usually 3-10' above the ground, sometimes lower or higher (rarely up to 60'). Diet and behavioral habits: This common year-round resident, the Lesser Goldfinches feed in weedy fields, budding treetops, and the brush of open areas and edges. Grayish brown all over, they sometimes have a reddish brown underside, The California Thrasher is the largest of the thrashers. Oystercatchers are generally stocky, shorter shorebirds with long, thick, straight bills strong enough to pry oysters, clams, and mussels free from slippery rocks and crack these delicacies open. They often show a slight peak at the rear of the crown. Nest construction is begun by the male, is often completed by the female. Even vultures, eagles, and other raptors as well as the occasional heron, egret, and swallow may be found in beach and shoreline habitats. Like many “dabbling ducks”, they feed in the water by tipping forward and grazing on underwater plants. The long tail and short wings can give this bird an ungainly look in flight. These two types of shorebirds are often seen together, even in breeding areas. Description: White-Throated Swift are small, with a black back, wings, and tail, a white throat, belly, and sides behind the wings. They have a cylindrical body, with long, pointed, swept back wings. Description: Red-Tailed Hawk adults usually can be recognized by the trademark reddish-brown tail, the rest of their plumage can be quite variable, with local Red-tails ranging from blackish, to brown, to nearly white. Their diet includes berries, nectar, and insects, like caterpillars, beetles, wasps, ants, and many others. The bill is straight and thin Black Phoebes are mostly sooty gray on the upperparts and chest, with a slightly darker black head. Nest is a bulky open cup, rather loosely made of twigs, grass, weeds, and strips of bark, lined with finer grass, rootlets, and animal hair. Diet and behavioral habits: Common year round in Balboa Park, California Towhees live in chaparral and other tangled, shrubby, and dry habitats. Male Western Bluebirds are shiny blue above with rust-orange extending from a vest on the breast onto the upper back. The gray body is sandwiched between a brown breast and black rear. Because these are tropical birds, their plumage is generally more colorful and has warmer tones than most shorebirds. The dark plumage of most oystercatcher species is very similar and the best way to identify these birds is by geography, since many of them have limited ranges that do not overlap. They may nest as solitary pairs or in colonies. Starlings are boisterous, loud, and they travel in large groups. The Red-Shouldered Hawk diet includes small mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and birds, but their diet varies with region and season. The American Crow is omnivorous, and seems to feed on practically anything it can find, including insects, spiders, snails, earthworms, frogs, small snakes, shellfish, carrion, garbage, eggs, and young of other birds, seeds, grain, berries, fruit. They also have long rounded tails and longish necks and the bill is curved slightly downward. It also may eat some berries and fruits, more than most flycatchers. Anna’s Hummingbirds are a blur of motion as they hover before flowers looking for nectar and insects. Consult our bird identification guide to ID mystery birds in the backyard and beyond. They may use hearing as well as sight to locate prey. Nesting habits: Nest site is in any kind of cavity, including natural hollows in trees and stumps, old woodpecker holes, crevices in buildings, in nest boxes, or almost any kind of enclosed space (flowerpots, parked cars, shoes, drainpipes, etc.). This page features small birds with either entirely blue plumages, or where blue / purplish blue is a major plumage detail. Nesting habits: Nests are built by the female, with sticks and twigs brought by the male, after the female selects a nesting site from a selection picked by the male. Diet and behavioral habits: These birds are common year round in Balboa Park, but numbers have declined since the turn of the century. The nest is a shallow half cup glued to inside wall of tree. A common sight in cities around the world, the Rock Pigeon will crowd streets and public squares in flocks, living on discarded food, and seeds. They frequent wooded suburban areas and woodlands near streams with cottonwoods, willows, and sycamores. The back has narrow black-and-white horizontal bars with a solid black patch on the upper back. Cavity usually 3-35' above ground, sometimes up to 60' or higher. Nest has a foundation of twigs, leaves, bark strips, and trash, topped with a softer cup of moss, leaves, animal hair, feathers, and sometimes, bits of snakeskin. Snowy Egret. The gift shop, run by Wild Birds Unlimited, is the best place in the region to shop for field guides and optics. Diet and behavioral habits: A common, year-round resident, Nuttall's Woodpeckers have increased in numbers in Balboa Park since 1984. In flight, the red rump is conspicuous. Females are all brown with light striping on their breasts. They are mottled gray-brown, with reddish brown faces and a neat white patch on the throat. The majority of diet of all seasons consists of seeds, such as thistle and wild sunflower, also seeds of various weeds. Diet and behavioral habits: Seen in Balboa Park since the 1920’s, the Western Bluebird is now a year-round resident. Short walk to lake that loops back to the parking lot. Description: Tiny among birds, Anna’s are medium-sized and stocky for a hummingbird. Description: A small woodpecker with a chisel-shaped bill they have a small rounded head, a flat back, and an elongated appearance, and are black-and-white striped birds. The nest (built mostly by the female) is open an cup of grass, weeds, fine twigs, leaves, rootlets, sometimes with feathers, string, or other debris added. Nesting habits: Usually nesting in tall trees, they will also build nests on cliff ledges, among arms of giant cactus, or on artificial structures such as towers or buildings, like the Museum of Us’s California Tower. Insects make up majority of diet, especially in summer; feeds heavily on grasshoppers, caterpillars, beetles, ants. swan noun. Birds of the Mountain Streams. a bird with a long thin beak that lives mainly in wet areas. Nesting habits: The Bushtit Nest site is in a tree or shrub, 8-35' above the ground, sometimes lower or higher. This Itinerary has been brought to you by Friends of Balboa Park, with contributions by SDG&E, Balboa Park Online Collaborative, The City of San Diego Department of Parks and Recreation, San Diego National History Museum, and Monarch School. Nesting habits: Rock Pigeons may mate for life and will nest on buildings and window ledges, or under bridges, and on natural cliffs. The nest is a bulky basket of large sticks and twigs, with deep depression in center lined with grass, bark strips, moss, or animal hair. This hawk’s diet is varied, and can often be seen hunting from a high perch or in flight, searching for voles, rats, rabbits, and ground squirrels, which are their major prey, but they also eat many birds, bats, frogs, toads, insects, and reptiles, especially snakes. The black-necked stilt which is found worldwide, the banded stilt is in Australia, and the black stilt, which is critically endangered, is only found in New Zealand. They also may eat some spiders, berries, and sometimes seeds. They are stocky with thin, straight bills and fairly short tails. The pale eyebrow that is characteristic of so many wren species is much fainter in House Wrens. Bushtits are fairly plain brown-and-gray birds. Male Mallards have a dark, iridescent-green head and bright yellow bill. Their bills are yellowish-orange, and the legs black. Their diet consists of many insects, especially in summer, including beetles, grasshoppers, caterpillars, ants, wasps, and spiders. Description: House Sparrows are chunkier, fuller in the chest, with a larger, rounded head, shorter tail, and stouter bill than most American sparrows, Male House Sparrows are brightly colored birds with gray heads, white cheeks, a black bib, and rufous neck. Their wings are short, rounded, and broad, making the tail seem particularly long in flight, Mockingbirds are overall gray-brown, paler on the breast and belly, with two white wingbars on each wing. During the breeding season, these birds are often shy and will engage in dramatic distraction displays to protect their ground-level nests and chicks. Diet and behavioral habits: This bird is fairly common year-round, living in coastal scrub and sage scrub in the canyons of Balboa Park. Mourning Doves perch on telephone wires and forage for seeds on the ground; their flight is fast and bullet straight. Nesting habits: Many details of nesting remain poorly known, partly because the nest sites are so inaccessible. Hood is black and extends onto upper neck. Their backs are noticeably striped with buff, black, and brown. Dark-Eyed Junco These small birds have solid black heads and white stripes on either side of their tails and are often seen eating seeds on the forest floor. Description: Bewick’s Wrens are medium-sized wrens with a slender body and a strikingly long tail often held upright. Females have similar head and breast patterns but are less crisply defined. Nesting habits: House Finches use a wide variety of sites for their nest, especially in conifers, palms, ivy on buildings, cactus, holes in man-made structures, averaging about 12-15' above the ground. Kids’ Guide to Oregon Birds. Please click on the birds button for additional bird pictures and bird identification help. Many plovers have distinct bands on their head or breast and may also show distinct wing patterns in flight. Learn about some of Alaska's most well-known bird species. Young ducklings are tended to by the female, but feed themselves and eat mostly aquatic insects. Of these, approximately 150 species breed in the state, with the remainder being winter residents or transients that just pass through the state during migration. She has over 16 years experience writing about wild birds for magazines and websites. Five species have been recorded in South Carolina. Diet and behavioral habits: A fairly common resident, since 1980, look for California Scrub-Jays in open habitats, like that of the West Mesa of Balboa Park. Listen for the male's scratchy metallic song and look for him perched above head level in trees and shrubs. Description: Western Bluebirds are small thrushes that perch upright. Search for anything from Birds and Squirrels to Natural Gardening & Pest Control. Description: The California Thrasher is a large, long-tailed songbird, with a long, down-curved beak. Even vultures, eagles, and other raptors as well as the occasional heron, egret, and swallow may be found in beach and shoreline habitats. The nest is a bulky cup of twigs, weed stems, rootlets, leaves, feathers, hair, and debris, lined with finer plant fibers and other material. Diet and behavioral habits: A very common site in Balboa Park, all year round, Anna’s Hummingbirds are common in yards, parks, residential streets, eucalyptus groves, riverside woods, savannahs, and coastal scrub. All avocets are part of the Recurvirostridae bird family which also includes the stilts. Diet and behavioral habits: Migrating to the area in spring and fall, often in large numbers, the Vaux’s Swift can be seen hunting during daylight hours, especially on overcast, wet or rainy days. Most shorebirds are carnivorous and eat a range of insects, mollusks, crustaceans, worms, larvae, tadpoles, and similar prey. Pied-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps Sometimes even in holes or crevices in buildings or other odd spots. Listen for these birds in and around trees and forests, where you may find them hunting from a perch, either within areas of dense trees, or in the open, swooping down when it locates prey. The next set of pictures provides a small sample of Illinois birds that can be seen year round as well as during the migratory seasons. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron. Some males have contrasting blackish face masks. Eats snails, insects, frogs, shrimp, small fish and birds, eggs and young of other birds, fruits, berries, seeds and grains. Description: A small bird, dark gray-brown with long, pointed, swept-back wings. The term shorebird covers several related bird families that are part of this distinct group, and more than 180 species could be considered true shorebirds around the world. These smart birds require lots of toys and socialization to keep them happy. Description: Not just large “songbirds,” with a thick neck, shaggy throat feathers, and a sharp beak. Neotropic Cormorant. A small bird, males stand out thanks to a dollop of red on their faces that diminishes as it stretches down their necks and breasts. The belly is clean white, and the wing feathers are edged with pale gray. Description: The Red-Shouldered Hawk is one of the most distinctively marked common hawks, with barred reddish-peachy underparts and a strongly banded tail. The American avocet is the only one found in North America, making it easily recognizable, especially in its colorful cinnamon-tinged breeding plumage. Characteristics and pictures may help you in Identifying some birds that you may encounter while visiting Balboa Park. The black throat extends up the face like a little mask around the eye and down the chest to make a bib. They will also eat rodents, eggs and young of other birds, and small reptiles and amphibians. The Spruce uses cookies to provide you with a great user experience. The tail is long and floppy; the bird often adopts a hunched-over posture. A common year round resident to Balboa Park, since the late 1980’s, the Cassin’s Kingbird prefers semi-open, wooded areas, with pine and oak groves. Learn tips for creating your most beautiful (and bountiful) garden ever. Nesting habits: The Common Raven’s nest site is usually on ledge of rock cliff, or high in tall tree (especially conifer). Peregrine Falcon. Red-winged Blackbird. Nest (built mostly or entirely by female) is an open cup of weeds, grass, leaves, and strips of bark, lined with fine grass, rootlets, and animal hair. Nesting habits: The Mallard nest usually consists of a shallow bowl of gathered plant material, lined with down, on the ground or in a tree stump, concealed by plants or trees. They sing a very distinctive three note whistle song. Juveniles have more grayish or buffy underparts than adults, and juveniles of both sexes have some red on the crown. In flight, the long neck is tucked in and the legs extend far beyond the tip of the short tail. Melissa Mayntz has been a birder and wild bird enthusiast for 30+ years. All feathers on Great Egrets are white. A lake is a body of water that is surrounded by land. Few birds are as uniformly matte brown as a California Towhee, except for a rusty patch under the tail and around their bill. Short-winged, often keeping its longish tail either cocked above the line of the body or slightly drooped. As one of the smallest parrots, budgies come in an array of colors, and they can learn to talk. Landbirds Shorebirds Waterbirds Waterfowl Three species of nightjars are known to occur in Kentucky. Diet and behavioral habits: Seen frequently throughout the year in Balboa Park since the late 1980’s, Great Egrets wade in shallow water (both fresh and salt) to hunt fish, frogs, and other small aquatic animals, and can often be spotted near the Lily Pond and Botanical Building. Diet and behavioral habits: After becoming established in Balboa Park in the late 1980’s, they are an abundant resident. Male may build incomplete "dummy" nests, and the female probably chooses site and completes one nest for raising young. Berries and small fruits are important in diet especially in winter, including the fruits of mistletoe, juniper, and elderberry. Over 350 species of birds have been documented in Kentucky. They have also been known to eat some insects, especially in summer, and they will also scavenge for crumbs of food left by humans. We want to be your resource for backyard birding info, if you don't see what you are looking for, send us … Introducing "One Thing": A New Video Series, The Spruce Gardening & Plant Care Review Board, The Spruce Renovations and Repair Review Board. Grid View List View. Nesting sites for the Mourning Dove are typically in a tree or shrub, on the ground, or on a building ledge or other structure. The most diverse category of shorebirds is the sandpipers. Nesting habits: Nest site is usually in a dense shrub or low tree, typically 4-12' above the ground, but may be very low (sometimes on the ground) or up to 30' or higher. These birds have relatively plump bodies, and their legs are thicker than most other shorebirds. Cooper's Hawk. By using The Spruce, you accept our, Top 15 Most Popular Bird Species in North America. Nesting habits: The nest which is probably built by both sexes, is built in a shallow depression, either on the ground, on a cliff ledge, or under overhanging rocks, and usually is lined with grass, and other plants. Adult males flash white wingbars. Male does most of excavating, and will create a new nest cavity every year. Nesting habits: The Horned Lark nest is built in early winter on open ground, often next to grass clump, or other object. The nest itself is made by both sexes, and the nest material is obtained by breaking off small twigs from trees while flying. Nest is a woven hanging pouch of grass and plant fibers, lined with plant down, hair, feathers. … Diet and behavioral habits: A fairly common year-round resident, the White-throated Swift is seen all around Balboa Park from the Cabrillo Bridge to the Florida Canyon, since the 1940’s. Slightly darker above than below, they have brown-gray heads, gray wings, and tan-gray underparts. Nest (built by both sexes) is attached to twigs and branches, a tightly woven hanging pocket, up to a foot long, with an entrance near the top that leads to a narrow passage which opens into nest chamber. Assertive, vocal, and inquisitive, you’ll often notice scrub-jays silhouetted high in trees, on wires, or on posts where they act as lookouts. Keep Bird Feeders Clean and Backyard Birds Safe ... WATCH FOX 57 South Carolina DNR and South Carolina Electric & Gas provide a Purple Martin Bird Sanctuary located on a small island on Lake Murray. Adult females aren’t red; they are plain grayish-brown with thick, blurry streaks and an indistinctly marked face. While there are many species that include “sandpiper” in their name, other species such as turnstones, stints, godwits, curlews, woodcocks, phalaropes, yellowlegs, snipes, and dowitchers are also classified as sandpipers. Diet and behavioral habits: Mallards have a varied diet, the majority being plant material, including seeds, stems, and roots of a vast variety of different plants, especially grasses, pondweeds, as well as, acorns.. Mallards also eat insects, crustaceans, mollusks, tadpoles, frogs, earthworms, and small fish. Diet and behavioral habits: These birds are year-round residents south of Morley Field and at the Florida landfill. The most common bird in the Tahoe Basin is the Mountain Chickadee. The back and wings are plain brown; underparts gray-white; and the long tail is barred with black and tipped with white spots. We hope you have enjoyed learning about some of Balboa Park's feathered friends. They will also forage by walking on the ground, in trees or shrubs to find berries, grass seeds, acorns, and they will occasionally eat a few earthworms or insects. This is the first slide. There are many bird species found in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The following are a few of the ones often seen by visitors. Nesting habits: Nesting begins early, by late winter in southern areas. Horned Larks are social birds, sometimes found in huge flocks outside the breeding season. In summer they are purplish-green iridescent with yellow beaks; in fresh winter plumage they are brown, covered in brilliant white spots. Almost all of their diet is vegetable matter, mostly weed seeds, and buds and flower parts in spring, berries and small fruits in late summer and fall. They have long legs and long tails, which they often hold up and away from their body at different angles. 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