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California Native Birds

You can attract California birds by providing water, food, nesting sites and foraging habitats by way of utilizing California native plants. Find out what specific plant or plants a bird uses.

Click on the bird's name to learn more about its habitat, the California native plants it uses, and to see pictures!

This page is an ongoing process. We hope to have all these ugly grey boxes filled in as soon as possible! Also, if there is no link on a bird it means we have not written the page yet.

Babblers (Timaliidae)

wrentit-chamaea-fasciata - grid24_12
Wrentit, Chamaea fasciata

Blackbirds (Icteridae)

western-meadowlark-sturnella-neglecta - grid24_12
Western Meadowlark, Sturnella neglecta
Red Wing Black bird, sorry he was about 50 meters away - grid24_12
Red-winged Blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus
Tricolored Blackbird, Agelaius tricolor
Scott's Oriole, Icterus parisorum on a Juniper branch - grid24_12
Bullock's Oriole - grid24_12
brewers_blackbird-euphagus-cyanocephalus - grid24_12
hooded-oriole-icterus-cucullatus - grid24_12
Hooded Oriole, Icterus cucullatus

Bushtits (Family Aegithalidae)

bushtit-psaltriparus-minimus - grid24_12
Bushtit, Psaltriparus minimus

Cardinals (Family Cardinalidae)

black-headed-grosbeak-pheucticus-melanocephalus - grid24_12
missing a thumb? - grid24_12
Blue Grosbeak, Guiraca caerulea
The thumbnail of Lazuli Bunting - grid24_12

Chickadees and Titmice (Family Paridae)

oak-titmouse-baeolophus-inornatus - grid24_12
missing a thumb? - grid24_12
Mountain Chickadee, Poecile gambeli
chestnut-backed-chickadee-poecile-rufescens - grid24_12

Creepers (Family Certhiidae)

missing a thumb? - grid24_12
Brown Creeper, Certhia americana

Finches (Family Fringillidae)

missing a thumb? - grid24_12
American Goldfinch, Carduelis tristis
missing a thumb? - grid24_12
Red Crossbill, Loxia leucoptera
A Purple Finch watching camera in the Heteromeles arbutifolia, Toyon - grid24_12
lawrences-goldfinch-carduelis-lawrencei - grid24_12
lesser-goldfinch-carduelis-psaltria - grid24_12
Pine Siskin, Carduelis pinus is native here but I've not got close enough for a picture.

Tyrant Flycatchers (Family Tyrannidae)

missing a thumb? - grid24_12
missing a thumb? - grid24_12
Hammond's Flycatcher. - grid24_12
missing a thumb? - grid24_12
Dusky Flycatcher, Empidonax oberholseri
ash-throated-flycatcher-myiarchus-cinerascens - grid24_12
western-kingbird-tyrannus-verticalis - grid24_12
A drawing of Cassin's Kingbird - grid24_12
black-phoebe-sayornis-nigricans - grid24_12
missing a thumb? - grid24_12

Hummingbirds (Family Trochilidae)

annas_hummingbird-calypte-anna - grid24_12
allens_hummingbird_selasphorus-sasin - grid24_12
missing a thumb? - grid24_12
Black-chinned Hummingbird, Archilochus alexandri
costas-hummingbird-calypte-costae - grid24_12
Rufous hummingbird, Selasphorus rufus watching camera - grid24_12

Crows, Jays, and Magpies (Family Corvidae)

stellers-jay-cyanocitta-stelleri - grid24_12
western-scrub-jay-aphelocoma-californica - grid24_12
yellow-billed-magpie-pica-nutalli - grid24_12
american-crow-corvus-caurinus - grid24_12
missing a thumb? - grid24_12
Common Raven,Corvus corax

King Fishers (Family Alcedinidae)

missing a thumb? - grid24_12
Belted Kingfisher, Ceryle alcyon

Larks (Family Alaudidae)

missing a thumb? - grid24_12
Horned Lark, Eremophila alpestris

Mocking birds and Thrashers (Family Mimidae)

missing a thumb? - grid24_12
Northern Mockingbird, Mimus polyglottos
california_thrasher_toxostoma-curvirostre - grid24_12

Nuthatches (Family Sittidae)

white-breasted-nuthatch-sitta-carolinensis - grid24_12
missing a thumb? - grid24_12

Pigeons and Doves (Family Columbidae)

band-tailed_pigeon-columba-fasciata - grid24_12
missing a thumb? - grid24_12
Rock Dove, Columba livia
mourning-dove-zenaida-macroura - grid24_12

Quail, New World (Family Odontophoridae)

california-quail-callipepla-californica - grid24_12
missing a thumb? - grid24_12
Mountain Quail, Oreortyx pictus

Shrikes (Family Laniidae)

loggerhead-shrike-lanius-ludovicianus - grid24_12
Loggerhead Shrike
Lanius ludovicianus

Silky-flycatchers (Family Ptilogonatidae)

Phainopepl nitens in red berry, Rhamnus ilicifolia - grid24_12
Phainopepla,Phainopepla nitens

Sparrows and Towhees (Family Emberizidae)

california_towhee_pipilo-crissalis - grid24_12
missing a thumb? - grid24_12
lark-sparrow-chondestes-grammacus - grid24_12
Fox sparrow, Passerella iliaca watching the camera. - grid24_12
sage-sparrow-amphispiza-belli - grid24_12
A Rufous crowned sparrow, Aimophila ruficeps is a natural checker-outer. Like little chickens, they'll peck anything once. - grid24_12
missing a thumb? - grid24_12
missing a thumb? - grid24_12
dark-eyed-junco-junco-hyemalis - grid24_12
white-crowned-sparrow-zonotrichia-leucophrys - grid24_12
golden-crowned-sparrow-zonotrichia-atricapilla - grid24_12

Swallows (Family Hirundinidae)

Tree Swallow, Tachycineta cyaneoviridis - grid24_12
Tree Swallow,
Tachycineta cyaneoviridis
violet-green-swallow-tachycineta-thalassina - grid24_12
cliff-swallow-petrochelidon-pyrrhonota - grid24_12
northern-rough-winged-swallow-stelgidopteryx-serripennis, thumb - grid24_12

Tanagers (Family Thraupidae)

Western Tanager - grid24_12

Thrushes (Family Turdidae)

Western Bluebirds at the birdbath - grid24_12
Hermit-thrush, Datharus guttatus looking dejected. - grid24_12
american_robin_turdus-migratorius - grid24_12

Wrens (Family Troglodytidae)

Bewicks Wren - grid24_12
House Wren, Troglodytes aedon - grid24_12
A very poor image of a Rock wren in flight. - grid24_12

Woodpeckers and Sapsuckers (Family Picidae)

Acorn woodpecker, Melanerpes formicivorus - grid24_12
Downy woodpecker, Picoides pubescens. - grid24_12
Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Picoides scalaris - grid24_12
Northern Flicker, Colaptes auratus eating ants - grid24_12
Nuttall's Woodpecker occasionally shows up here . - grid24_12
Red-breasted sapsucker, Sphyrapicus ruber - grid24_12
This picture of the Red-naped Sapsucker, Sphyrapicus nuchalis, was a little dirty window blurred but he was so close! - grid24_12

Wood-Warblers (Family Parulidae)

Wilson's Warbler, Wilsonia pusilla is beautiful and really cute - grid24_12
yellow-warbler-dendroica-petechia - grid24_12
orange-crowned-warbler-vermivora-celata - grid24_12
common-yellowthroat-geothlypis-trichas - grid24_12
Common Yellowthroat, Geothlypis trichas
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