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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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April 11, 1950, E. Side, Yolo By-pass, along Putah Sinks, 1220-1430 PST.
White Pelicans - 18
Farallon Cormorants - 2
Blue Heron - 3
American Egret
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night Heron
Mallards - 12
Cinnamon Teal - 28
Shoveller - 8 pair
Vulture
White-tailed Kite
Marsh Hawk
Sparrow Hawk
Pheasants
Coots - 3750-4000
Kildeer
Least Sandpiper 50
Dowitchers - 150
Western Sandpiper - 200
Avocets - 18
Black-necked Stilts - 7
California Gulls - 25
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-shafted Flicker -
Nuttall Woodpecker
Violet-green Swallows
Tree Swallows - 40
Interior Calif. Jay
Western Crows
Suisun Long-billed Marsh Wren
Audubon Warbler
Pacific Yellowthroats
Western Meadowlarks
Yellow-headed Blackbirds - Flocks of 10, 20, 15 and 50 seen - all males, feeding
on grassy slopes of by-pass levee.
Calif. Bicolor Redwings
Bullock Oriole - 1 male in Fremont cottonwood - 1st of year.
Brewer Blackbirds
Purple Finches
House Finches
Common Goldfinches
Green-backed Goldfinches
Gambel White-crowned S parrows
Golden-crowned Sparrows.
April 11, 1950, Southside Park, Sacramento, Calif. 1540-1600 PST.
Mallard - 3 pair, 8M, 4F and 4 with young - 6, 8, 5, and 3.
Ring-necked Duck - 6M and 4F
Rufous Hummingbirds
Coots - 18
Robins
Brewer Blackbird