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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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August 22, 1954, Sacramento By-pass, Yolo co.Calif. 6:45-8 a.m.PDST. calm, clear.
Pie-billed Grebe
Blue Heron - 2 together in rice field.
Egret - 1
Crowned Night Heron - 6-immatures.
Green Heron - lad. and 1 imm.
Mallards - 6
White-tailed Kite - 1 imm.
Sparrow Hawk - 6
Pheasants - no adults, 3 F ad, and 9 imm.
Coot - 2
Killdeer - 35-40, most flying and calling.
Mourning Dove - 3, 1 yng.
Horned Owl - 1 ad. in cottonwood at 50', 8 ft. out from trunk.
Anna Hummingbird - 1 ad.
Red-shafted Flicker - 40-50, mostly loosely paired.
Nuttall Woodpeckers - 15-20, noisy
Black Phoebe - several
Wood Pewee- 2
Cliff Swallow - 1
Scrub Jay - few
Crows
Yellow-billed Magpie - 1
Plain Titmouse - 6
Bush-tits - 30-35
Wren-tits - 2
House Wren - 5
Bewick Wren - 3
Calif. Shrike - chasing spotted towhee, brown towhee, flicker, magpie, etc.
Warbling Vireo - 3
Orange-crowned Warblers - couple in each tree- 75-100 altold.
Pileolated Warblers - 7
McGillvary's Warbler - 3
Meadowlarks - dozens
Yellow-headed Blackbird - 1
Bicolor Redwings - 25
Brewer Blackbird - 50
Bullock Oriole- 2 imm. or F.
Black-headed Grosbeak - 1 F or imm.
House Finches comm n
Spotted Towhees - 25-30
Brown Towhees - 15-20
Common Goldfinches
Green-backed Goldfinches
Chipping Sparrow - 7
Song Sparrows - 2