Bird Friends Of Lake Murray & San Diego

Welcome to Bird Friends Of San Diego County. This site has evolved dramatically over the last eight years. It started with just a few birds photographed at Lake Murray and now consists of over 300 species that can be found throughout San Diego county, as well as some additional species found elsewhere in the United States.

Each bird page below contains a brief description of the bird, where the bird has been seen, and one or more photos. Some pages also contain a sound clip of the bird. Please note that some photographs may indicate that they were taken at another location outside the county. These photos are only used if I have seen the bird within the county, but wasn't able to get a photo of it at the time. San Diego has hundreds of different birds that visit/live here and this site is updated as often as possible. If you would like to be notified when new birds are added, then please join the mailing list.

Please sign my guestbook with any comments you may have. You may also view the guestbook. If you have any questions, suggestions, find mistakes, or have recently seen a bird around the county that is not listed below, please feel free to send me e-mail. -Scott Streit

Resources

Project Wildlife's Emergency Hotline: 619-225-9453
San Diego Area Tide Table #1
San Diego Area Tide Table #2
San Diego Audubon Society

Birding Locations

Lake Murray
Mission Trails Regional Park
Santee Lakes
San Elijo Lagoon
Sweetwater Marsh
Bataquitos Lagoon
Cuyamaca State Park
Torrey Pines & Los Peuitos Lagoon
Lindo Lake
Tijuana River Estuary
Border Field State Park
Flood Control Channel
Famosa Slough

Bird Topics

Bird Parts (Requires Java)
Bird Lifecycle

Contact and Bio Info

Artist Portfolio
Published Photo List
Contact Scott
Sign Guestbook
View Guestbook

Purchase Prints

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	Duck Like Birds American Coot American White Pelican American Wigeon Black Swan Blue-Winged Teal Brant Brown Chinese Goose Brown Pelican Bufflehead Cackling Goose Canada Goose Canvasback Cinnamon Teal Clark's Grebe Common Goldeneye Common Loon Common Merganser Common Moorhen Domestic Muscovy Eared Grebe Eurasian Wigeon Gadwall Greater White-Fronted Goose Green-Winged Teal Harlequin Duck Hooded Merganser Horned Grebe Lesser Scaup Long-Tailed Duck Mallard Mandarin Duck Mute Swan Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Pied-Billed Grebe Red-Breasted Merganser Red-Throated Loon Redhead Ring-Necked Duck Ross's Goose Ruddy Duck Surf Scoter Western Grebe White Chinese Goose White-Winged Scoter Wood Duck Gull Like Birds Black-Legged Kittiwake Black-Vented Shearwater Black Skimmer Bonaparte's Gull California Gull Caspian Tern Elegant Tern Forster's Tern Franklin's Gull Glaucous-Winged Gull Gull-Billed Tern Heermanns Gull Herring Gull Laughing Gull Least Tern Mew Gull Northern Fulmar Ring-Billed Gull Royal Tern Western Gull Hawk Like Birds American Kestrel Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Crested Caracara Ferruginous Hawk Golden Eagle Harris's Hawk Merlin Northern Harrier Osprey Peregrine Falcon Red-Shouldered Hawk Red-Tailed Hawk Turkey Vulture White-Tailed Kite Zone-Tailed Hawk Long Legged Waders Black-Crowned Night-Heron Cattle Egret Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Little Blue Heron Reddish Egret Snowy Egret Tricolored Heron White-Faced Ibis Yellow-Crowned Night-Heron Upright Perching Water Birds Brandt's Cormorant Double-Crested Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant Rhinoceros Auklet Xantus's MurreletUPDATED	Hummingbirds Allen's Hummingbird Anna's Hummingbird Black-Chinned Hummingbird Broad-Billed Hummingbird Costa's Hummingbird Magnificent Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Pigeon Like Birds Band-Tailed Pigeon Common Ground-Dove Eurasian Collared-Dove Mourning Dove Rock Pigeon White-Winged Dove Sandpiper Like Birds American Avocet American Oystercatcher Baird's Sandpiper Bar-Tailed Godwit Black-Bellied Plover Black-Necked Stilt Black Oystercatcher Black Turnstone Dunlin Greater Yellowlegs Killdeer Least Sandpiper Long-Billed Curlew Marbled Godwit Pacific Golden-Plover Red Knot Red-Necked Phalarope Ruddy Turnstone Ruff Sanderling Semipalmated Plover Short-Billed Dowitcher Snowy Plover Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Surfbird Wandering Tattler Western Sandpiper Whimbrel Willet Wilson's Phalarope Swallow Like Birds Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Tree Swallow Vaux's Swift Violet-Green Swallow Tree Clinging Birds Acorn Woodpecker Brown Creeper Downy Woodpecker Gila Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Ladder-Backed Woodpecker Lewis's Woodpecker Northern Flicker Nutall's Woodpecker Pygmy Nuthatch Red-Breasted Nuthatch Red-Breasted Sapsucker Red-Naped Sapsucker White-Breasted Nuthatch White-Headed Woodpecker Williamson's Sapsucker Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker Upland Ground Birds California Quail Gambel's Quail Greater Roadrunnder Lesser Nighthawk Mountain Quail Wild Turkey Owls Barn Owl Burrowing Owl Long-Eared Owl Great Horned Owl Spotted Owl Parrots Lilac-Crowned Parrot Red-Crowned Parrot Red-Lored Parrot Chicken Like Marsh Birds Clapper Rail	Perching Birds American Crow American Goldfinch American Pipit American Redstart American Robin Ash-Throated Flycatcher Baltimore Oriole Bell's Vireo (Least) Belted Kingfisher Bewick's Wren Black-Headed Grosbeak Black Phoebe Black-Tailed Gnatcatcher Black-Throated Blue Warbler Black-Throated Gray Warbler Black-Throated Sparrow Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher Blue Grosbeak Brewer's Blackbird Brewer's Sparrow Brown-Headed Cowbird Brown Thrasher Bullock's Oriole Bushtit Cactus Wren California Gnatcatcher California Thrasher California Towhee Canyon Wren Cape May Warbler Cassin's Finch Cassin's Kingbird Cedar Waxwing Chestnut-Sided Warbler Chipping Sparrow Clay-Colored Sparrow Common Grackle Common Raven Common Yellowthroat Dark-Eyed Junco Dusky-Capped Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe European Starling Fox Sparrow Golden-Crowned Kinglet Golden-Crowned Sparrow Grace's Warbler Grasshopper Sparrow Gray Flycatcher Great-Tailed Grackle Greater Pewee Green-Tailed Towhee Hammond's Flycatcher Hepatic Tanager Hermit Thrush Hermit Warbler Hooded Oriole Horned Lark House Finch House Sparrow House Wren Hutton's Vireo Lark Sparrow Lawrence's Goldfinch Lazuli Bunting Lesser Goldfinch Loggerhead Shrike Lucy's Warbler MacGillivray's Warbler Marsh Wren Mountain Bluebird Mountain Chickadee Nashville Warbler Northern Mockingbird Oak Titmouse Olive-Sided Flycatcher Orange-Crowned Warbler Pacific-Slope Flycatcher Painted Redstart Palm Warbler Phainopepla Pine Siskin Pine Warbler Plumbeous Vireo Prothonotary Warbler Purple Finch Red-Winged Blackbird Rock Wren Rose-Breasted Grosbeak Ruby-Crowned Kinglet Rufous-Crowned Sparrow Rusty Blackbird Sage Sparrow Sage Thrasher Says Phoebe Savannah Sparrow Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher Scott's Oriole Song Sparrow Spotted Towhee Steller's Jay Summer Tanager Thick-Billed Kingbird Townsend's Warbler Tricolored Blackbird Verdin Vermilion Flycatcher Warbling Vireo Western Bluebird Western Kingbird Western Meadowlark Western Scrub Jay Western Tanager Western Wood-Pewee White-Crowned Sparrow Willow Flycatcher Wilson's Warbler Winter Wren Wrentit Yellow-Bellied Flycatcher Yellow-Breasted Chat Yellow-Headed Blackbird Yellow-Rumped Warbler Yellow-Throated Warbler Yellow Warbler (Mangrove) Yellow Warbler


The following is a list of additional birds not found in San Diego.
Perching Birds Abert's Towhee 'Apapane 'Anianiau Black-Capped Chickadee Black Rosy-Finch Brown-Capped Rosy-Finch Canyon Towhee Common Myna Common Waxbill Gray-Crowned Rosy-Finch Japanese White-Eye Java Sparrow Northern Cardinal Nutmeg Mannikin Pyrrhuloxia Red-Billed Leiothrix Red-Crested Cardinal Red-Whiskered Bulbul Red-Vented BulBul White-Rumped Shama Yellow-Fronted Canary	Gull Like Birds Great Frigatebird Red-Footed Booby Red-Tailed Tropicbird Wedge-Tailed Shearwater White-Tailed Tropicbird White Tern Pigeon Like Birds Inca Dove Spotted Dove Zebra Dove Duck Like Birds Nene	Upland Ground Birds Blue Grouse Red Junglefowl Scaled Quail