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- Olive-sided Flycatcher
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Tyrannidae
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- White throat and abdomen w/ dark vest
- Habitat: Coniferous forests
- Call: "quick three beers"
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- Western Wood-pewee
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Tyrannidae
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- Uniformly, dark greyish-brown
- Long primary projection
- Indistinct pale wing bars
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- Habitat: Woodlands and forests
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- Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax sp.)
- Family: Tyrannidae
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- Drab olive w/ 2 whitish-grey wing bars
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- Habitat: Riparian woodlands
- **CA/Fed Endangered Species
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- Hammond's Flycatcher (Empidonax sp.)
- Family: Tyrannidae
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- Greyish-olive w/ 2 whitish wing bars
- Notched tail
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- Habitat: Coniferous forest
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- Dusky Flycatcher (Empidonax sp.)
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Tyrannidae
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- Greyish-olive w/ 2 whitish wing bars
- Long, notched tail
- Short primary projection
- --
- Habitat: Chaparral and coniferous forests
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- Pacific-slope Flycatcher (Empidonax sp.)
- Order: Passseriformes
- Family: Tyrannidae
- --
- olive-green w/ 2 yellow to white wing bars
- --
- Habitat: woodlands and forests
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- Black Phoebe
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Tyrannidae
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- Black w/ white abdomen
- --
- Habitat: Riparian woodlands
- Call: Phee-bee
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- Say's Phoebe
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Tyrannidae
- --
- Brownish-grey w/ pale rusty abdomen and undertail coverts
- Black tail
- --
- Habitat: Grasslands, desert scrub, ag fields
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- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Tyrannidae
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- Brownish-grey upperparts
- Pale grey throat and breast
- Pale yellow abdomen and undertail coverts
- Short, bushy crest
- --
- Habitat: scrub habitats, pinyon-juniper woodlands
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- Cassin's Kingbird
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Tyrannidae
- --
- Dark grey head and breast w/ sharply contrasting white chin
- Yellow abdomen
- Black tail w/ pale tips
- --
- Habitat: savannah
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- Western Kingbird
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Tyrannidae
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- Pale grey breast, less contrasting white chin
- Yellow abdomen
- Black tail, white edges on outers
- No pale edging on wing coverts
- --
- Habitat: Grasslands, desert scrub, ag fields
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- Loggerhead Shrike
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Laniidae
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- Grey above, white below
- Black face mask
- Short hook, tornial teeth
- --
- Habitat: Grasslands, desert scrub, ag fields
- Fed Endangered
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- Impales prey on thorns
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- Hutton's Vireo
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Vireonidae
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- Greenish olive upperparts
- 2 yellow-white wing bars, darkest wing part between
- --
- Habitat: Oak woodlands
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- Bell's Vireo
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Vireonidae
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- Dull grey, to yellowish-grey, lighter below
- 2 wing bars, lower wing bar brightest
- --
- Habitat: Riparian woodland
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- Fed. threatened
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- Cassin's Vireo
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Vireonidae
- --
- Dull, olive-green upperparts
- Browner crown
- Whitish underparts
- 2 yellow-white wing bars
- --
- Habitat: Coniferous forestss
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- Warbling Vireo
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Vireonidae
- --
- Grayish-olive upperparts
- Whitish underparts
- No wingbars
- Whitish supercilium
- --
- Habitat: Riparian woodlands
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- Gray Jay
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Corvidae
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- Dark grey upperparts, whitish under
- Whitish throat
- White head, black crown patch
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- Habitat: Coniferous forests
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- Steller's Jay
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Corvidae
- --
- Habitat: Coniferous forests
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- Island Scrub-Jay
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Corvidae
- --
- Habitat: Scrub habitats and woodlands
- Only true endemic
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- Western Scrub-Jay
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Corvidae
- --
- Habitat: Scrub habitats, oak woodlands
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- Pinyon Jay
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Corvidae
- --
- Habitat: Pinyon-juniper woodland
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- Clark's Nutcracker
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Corvidae
- --
- Habitat: Subalpine coniferous forests
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- Black-billed Magpie
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Corvidae
- --
- Habitat: Riparian woodlands, especially near grasslands and meadows
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- Yellow-billed Magpie
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Corvidae
- --
- Habitat: Oak woodlands
- --
- Endemic to CA
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- American Crow
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Corvidae
- --
- Habitat: generalist
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- Common Raven
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Corvidae
- --
- Habitat: generalist
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- Horned Lark
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Alaudidae
- --
- Habitat: Grasslands, desert scrub, ag fields
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- Purple Martin (male)
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Hirundinidae
- --
- Glossy blue-black
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- Habitat: forests and woodlands
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- Purple Martin (female)
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Hirundinidae
- --
- Greyish underparts, brown collar
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- Habitat: Forests and woodlands
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- Tree Swallow
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Hirundinidae
- --
- Greenish-blue upperparts
- White underparts
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- Violet-green Swallow
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Hirundinidae
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- Velvety-green upperparts, white underparts
- Purplish nape and uppertail coverts
- --
- Habitat: Montane coniferous forests
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- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Hirundinidae
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- Plain swallow, brown upperparts
- whitish underparts
- no distinguishing features
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- Habitat: open areas
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- Bank Swallow
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Hirundinidae
- --
- Brown band on white chest
- Slight notch in tail
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- Habitat: riparian areas and shorelines
- CA threatened
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- Cliff Swallow
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Hirunidinidae
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- Looks like it flew into a cliff
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- Habitat: Generalist, no heavy forests, needs vertical surface for nest attachment
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- Barn Swallow
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Hirunidinidae
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- Blue-black upperparts w/ orange to whitish underparts
- Chestnut forehead and throat
- Long, deeply forked tail
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- Habitat: generalist, needs vertical surface for nest attachment
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