Birds of Orange County, CA

All the pictures on these pages are of free, wild birds in Orange County, CA and all were taken by me since October of 2017. In that time I have learned a lot about birds and cameras, and possibly even a little about the art of photography. I hope you enjoy the photos. The individual species are listed below in roughly the same order as I encountered them. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please email me using the link at the bottom of my home page.


Red-shouldered Hawk

White-tailed Kite

Red-tailed Hawk

Barn Owl

Turkey Vulture

Mourning Dove

California Scrub-jay

White-crowned Sparrow

Northern Mockingbird

Spotted Towhee

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Bushtit

Common Raven

American Crow

Black Phoebe

Say's Phoebe

Scaly-breasted Munia

Snowy Egret

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

California Towhee

House Finch

Western Kingbird

Cooper's Hawk

Lesser Goldfinch

American Coot

Greater Roadrunner

Western Grebe

Great Egret

Western Sandpiper

Great Blue Heron

Mallard

Amer. White Pelican

Brown Pelican

White-faced Ibis

Song Sparrow

Forster's Tern

Pied-billed Grebe

Canada Goose

California Quail

Acorn Woodpecker

Hermit Thrush

Fox Sparrow

Band-tailed Pigeon

Nuttall's Woodpecker

Black-crowned Night Heron

Merlin

American Kestrel

California Thrasher

European Starling

California Gnatcatcher

Allen's Hummingbird

Anna's Hummingbird

Costa's Hummingbird

Cassin's Kingbird

Belted Kingfisher

Spotted Sandpiper

Northern Flicker

Downy Woodpecker

Dark-eyed Junco

Phainopepla

Chipping Sparrow

Ruddy Duck

Hutton's Vireo

Bewick's Wren

Wrentit

Orange-crowned Warbler

Western Bluebird

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Green Heron

Mountain Chickadee

House Wren

Ring-billed Gull

Killdeer

Lesser Scaup

American Wigeon

Gadwall

Cinnamon Teal

Sharp-shinned Hawk

Hooded Merganser

Western Gull

Double-crested Cormorant

Lincoln's Sparrow

Northern Shoveler

Rock Pigeon

Egyptian Goose

Greater Yellowlegs

Great-tailed Grackle

Least Sandpiper

Black-bellied Plover

Whimbrel

Caspian Tern

Semipalmated Plover

Willet

Sanderling

Heermann's Gull

Common Yellowthroat

Western Meadowlark

American Robin

American Pipit

Bufflehead

Brewer's Blackbird

Cedar Waxwing

Eurasian Collared Dove

Red-winged Blackbird

Green-winged Teal

Eared Grebe

Savannah Sparrow

Brant

Surf Scoter

American Avocet

Long-billed Curlew

Reddish Egret

Northern Pintail

Marbled Godwit

Redhead

Red Knot (juvenile)

Black-necked Stilt

Horned Grebe

Blue-winged Teal

Golden-crowned Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow

Oak Titmouse

White-breasted Nuthatch

Cactus Wren

Purple Finch

Vermillion Flycatcher

White-throated Swift

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Tree Swallow

Northern Harrier

Clark's Grebe

Osprey

Black-headed Grosbeak

Common Gallinule

Sora

Yellow Warbler

Ring-necked Duck

Snow Goose

Canvasback

Peregrine Falcon

Snowy Plover

Royal Tern

House Sparrow

California Gull

Red-breasted Merganser

Ridgway's Rail

Great Horned Owl

Cliff Swallow

Barn Swallow

Violet-green Swallow

Long-billed Dowitcher

Red-breasted Sapsucker

Lilac-crowned Parrot

Palm Warbler

Black Oystercatcher

Elegant Tern

Bonaparte's Gull

Wilson's Warbler

Pin-tailed Whydah

Hooded Oriole

Wood Duck

Red-crowned Parrot

Yellow-headed Parrot

Pacific-slope Flycatcher

Rufous Hummingbird

Tropical Kingbird

Bullock's Oriole

Lewis's Woodpecker

Nashville Warbler

Western Tanager

Black-throated Gray Warbler

Baltimore Oriole

Ash-throated Flycatcher

Black Skimmer

Brown-headed Cowbird

Bell's Vireo

Lazuli Bunting

Warbling Vireo

Townsend's Warbler

Western Wood-pewee

Hermit Warbler

Black-chinned Hummingbird

Lesser Nighthawk

Swainson's Thrush

Hairy Woodpecker

Blue Grosbeak

Yellow-breasted Chat

Least Tern

Swinhoe's White-eye

Olive-sided Flycatcher

Orange-cheeked Waxbill

Rock Wren

Black-chinned Sparrow

Rufous-crowned Sparrow

American Goldfinch

Bell's Sparrow

Lark Sparrow

Horned Lark

Brandt's Cormorant

Yellow-throated Vireo

Swainson's Hawk

Wilson's Phalarope

Solitary Sandpiper

Lesser Yellowlegs

Northern Red Bishop

Bald Eagle

Indigo Bunting

Least Bittern

Red-necked Phalarope

Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Ruff

Loggerhead Shrike

Bronze Mannikin

Baird's Sandpiper

Cackling Goose

Willow Flycatcher

Greater White-fronted Goose

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Pectoral Sandpiper

Wilson's Snipe

Mandarin Duck

Bank Swallow

Stilt Sandpiper

Dunlin

Vaux's Swift

Surfbird

Black Turnstone

Ruddy Turnstone

Black-vented Shearwater

Pink-footed Shearwater

Common Tern

Parasitic Jaeger

Buller's Shearwater

Arctic Tern

Pomarine Jaeger

Red-footed Booby

Pelagic Cormorant

Masked Booby

Little Blue Heron (juvenile)

Common Loon

Marsh Wren

Varied Thrush

Hammond's Flycatcher

Common Nighthawk

Red-naped Sapsucker

Cattle Egret

Lucy's Warbler

Black-and-white Warbler

Green-tailed Towhee

Mountain Bluebird

Mountain Quail

Long-tailed Duck (female)

Mew Gull

Herring Gull

Zone-tailed Hawk

Hepatic Tanager

Burrowing Owl

Ovenbird

Western Screech-Owl

Gray Flycatcher

American Redstart

Eurasian Wigeon

Common Merganser

Clay-colored Sparrow

Summer Tanager

Red-throated Loon

Laughing Gull

Glaucous-winged Gull

Long-eared Owl

Lawrence's Goldfinch

Common Goldeneye

Grasshopper Sparrow

Yellow-chevroned Parakeet

Short-billed Dowitcher

Nazca Booby

Common Ringed Plover

Wandering Tattler

Magnolia Warbler

Chestnut-collared Longspur

Northern Waterthrush

Black Tern

Chestnut-sided Warbler

MacGillivray's Warbler

Neotropic Cormorant

Sage Thrasher

Canyon Wren

Townsend's Solitaire

Brown Creeper

Pine Siskin

Painted Redsart

Northern Parula

Franklin's Gull

Greater Pewee

Brown Thrasher

Swamp Sparrow

Tricolored Heron

Mountain Plover

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Ross's Goose

Brown-crested Flycatcher

Eastern Phoebe

Pine Warbler

Vesper Sparrow

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Cassin's Vireo

Calliope Hummingbird

Orchard Oriole

Yellow-headed Blackbird

Black Swan

Red Phalarope

Black-throated Sparrow

Purple Martin

Brewer's Sparrow

Blackburnian Warbler

Gray Catbird

White-winged Dove

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Harlequin Duck

Thick-billed Kingbird

Mexican Duck

Broad-winged Hawk

Black Swift

Mitred Parakeet

Pigeon Guillemot

Pacific Golden Plover

Least Flycatcher

Black-throated Blue Warbler

Plumbeous Vireo

Canada Warbler

Tennessee Warbler

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Golden Eagle

Bay-breasted Warbler

Ferruginous Hawk

Tri-colored Blackbird

European Goldfinch

Great-crested Flycatcher

Red-eyed Vireo

Harris's Sparrow

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