Birders, The Northern California Birdbox is back in service. I just posted seeing the NORTHERN GANNET at Pedro Point in Pacifica, San Mateo County this afternoon. The Birdbox is a free public telephon

Birders, We are pleased to announce that the Northern California Birdbox is back in service. Unfortunately recent messages posted before the crash could not be restored, but otherwise this service con

Birders, The Northern California Birdbox experienced a fatal hard drive failure and is offline. At this time it is uncertain when/if it will be revived. Thank you. -- Joseph Morlan, Pacifica, CA

Jerry, Streaks in the middle of the breast look thin to me. They are usually thick mid-breast on Rose-breast. The more pigment in the ground color, the stronger the streaking on Black-headed. Rose-bre

I took a detour on my way to judge the 50th Annual Leonard Waxdeck Bird Calling Contest at Piedmont High School to check the nest box. At least two Barn Owls were still there, the fluffy juvenile seem

Here is an example... http://fog.ccsf.edu/~jmorlan/FerruginousHawk10686_1053198121362986_1661299127507950655_n.jpg [EBB_Sightings]" <EBB_Sightings-noreply@...> wrote:

Looks like a dark morph Ferruginous Hawk to me. <EBB_Sightings-noreply@...> wrote:

Albert, Great find! Looks like a Cassin's Vireo to me. In fresh plumage, Blue-headed Vireos usually have more dark contrasting in the malar region instead of the gradual gray shading of Cassin's. Also

On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:06:34 -0700, "Aaron Maizlish aaron.maizlish@... [EBB_Sightings]" <EBB_Sightings-noreply@...> wrote: There is a summer range map, showing subspecies on page 212

<EBB_Sightings@...> wrote: I think they can be very useful even if you don't own a GPS. E.g. in this case, if you paste John Cant's (37.5595, -122.0810) coordinates into Google Maps... htt

They nest in the clay tiles of the rooftops there. Have been for many years. On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 17:21:55 -0700 (PDT), "'profegreg422@...' profegreg422@... [EBB_Sightings]" <EBB_Sightings-n

The Redheads and American Bittern were still there this morning as well as a Common Gallinule. Photos of the bittern are at... http://fog.ccsf.edu/~jmorlan/AmericanBitternP1150384.htm

This morning the word was that birders have permission to walk down that driveway and look in the large oak in back which is where the bird spends most of its time. Please speak softly and be respectf

Yes. According to BNA... "Black Phoebes also capture fish; for example, at goldfish pond in Pasadena, CA, an individual repeatedly dove into pond, apparently trying to capture young fish (Howell 1924)

I think White-naped Crane would lack the apparent contrast between the dark neck and gray body and would show more extensive contrasting dark primaries and secondaries. This bird shows a very narrow b

I would be cautious about the bird being a hybrid. Eurasian Wigeon frequently look like that when they first arrive in the fall. The brown body feathers are retained eclipse plumage. Often they will m

Male Tufted Duck was first seen at Lake Merrit 07 Nov 1976–28 Mar 1977 27 Oct–06 Nov 1977 (one of two) 15 Nov 1978–13 Jan 1979 The above three records all believed to be the same bird. Also.. 19 Mar–0

Larry, Clicking on the images which gives locality and dates. I now see that most of those photos are from Florida. But I found one photo from Coyote Hills at.. http://pick14.pick.uga.edu/mp/20p?see=I

<thompson14ster@...> wrote: Larry, That photo is labeled from 2007-2010. Do you have photos of the current bird with date and locality indicated? Or is that the bird? Semipalmated Sandpiper in C

<chucao@...> wrote: The Stephens Island Wren went extinct largely because of Feral Cats. Feral cats have been implicated in the decline and/or extinction of several other species of birds an