Lower san lorenzo river species
Bird Species
The eBird web site lists 238 bird species observed on the Lower San Lorenzo River, within the Santa Cruz City limits.
Accipiter sp.
Acorn Woodpecker American Avocet American Bittern American Coot American Crow American Goldfinch American Kestrel American Pipit American Robin American White Pelican American Wigeon Anna's Hummingbird Ash-throated Flycatcher Band-tailed Pigeon Barn Swallow Belted Kingfisher Bewick's Wren Black Phoebe Black Skimmer Black Turnstone Black-and-white Warbler Black-bellied Plover Black-crowned Night-Heron Black-headed Grosbeak Black-necked Stilt Black-legged Kittiwake Black-throated Gray Warbler Blue-footed Booby Blue-winged Teal blackbird sp. Brambling Bonaparte's Gull Brandt's Cormorant Brant Brewer's Blackbird Brown Creeper Brown Pelican Brown-headed Cowbird Bufflehead Bushtit Buteo sp. Cackling Goose California Gull California Thrasher California Towhee Canada Goose Caspian Tern Cedar Waxwing Chestnut-backed Chickadee Chipping Sparrow Clark's Grebe Clay-colored Sparrow Cliff Swallow Common Gallinule Common Goldeneye Common Grackle Common Loon Common Merganser Common Murre Common Raven Common Tern Common Yellowthroat Cooper's Hawk cormorant sp. Dark-eyed Junco Double-crested Cormorant Downy Woodpecker Downy/Hairy Woodpecker duck sp. Dunlin Dusky-capped Flycatcher Eared Grebe Eastern Kingbird Eastern Phoebe Elegant Tern Eurasian Collared-Dove European Starling Evening Grosbeak falcon sp. |
Forster's Tern
Fox Sparrow Glaucous Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Glaucous-winged x Glaucous Golden-crowned Sparrow Gull (hybrid) Golden-crowned Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Great Blue Heron Great Egret Greater Scaup Greater White-fronted Goose Greater Yellowlegs Greater/Lesser Scaup Green Heron Green-winged Teal gull sp. Hairy Woodpecker Hammond's Flycatcher Heermann's Gull Hermit Thrush Hermit Warbler Herring Gull Herring x Glaucous Gull (hybrid) Herring x Glaucous-winged Gull (hybrid) Hooded Merganser Hooded Oriole Horned Grebe House Finch House Sparrow House/Purple Finch Killdeer hummingbird sp. Hutton's Vireo Indigo Bunting Killdeer Larus sp. Lazuli/Indigo Bunting Least Sandpiper Least Tern Lesser Scaup Lesser Goldfinch Lesser Yellowlegs Lincoln's Sparrow Little Gull Loggerhead Shrike Long-billed Curlew Long-billed Dowitcher Long-tailed Duck loon sp. Mallard Marbled Godwit Masked Booby Marsh Wren Merlin Mew Gull Mourning Dove Northern Flicker Northern Fulmar Northern Harrier Northern Mockingbird Northern Rough-winged Swallow Northern Shoveler Northern Waterthrush Nuttall's Woodpecker Oak Titmouse Olive-sided Flycatcher Orange-crowned Warbler Osprey Pacific Loon Pacific Wren Pacific-slope Flycatcher Palm Warbler Parasitic Jaeger peep sp. Pelagic Cormorant Peregrine Falcon Pied-billed Grebe Pigeon Guillemot |
Pine Siskin
Plumbeous Vireo Purple Finch Pygmy Nuthatch Red Phalarope Red-breasted Merganser Red-breasted Nuthatch Red-breasted Sapsucker Red-necked Grebe Red-necked Phalarope Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Red-throated Loon Red-winged Blackbird Rhinoceros Auklet Ring-billed Gull Ring-necked Duck Rock Pigeon Rose-breasted Grosbeak Ross's Goose Ruby-crowned Kinglet Ruddy Duck Ruddy Turnstone Rufous Hummingbird Rufous/Allen's Hummingbird Sabine's Gull Sanderling Savannah Sparrow Say's Phoebe Semipalmated Plover Sharp-shinned Hawk Short-billed Dowitcher Snowy Egret Snowy Plover Solitary Sandpiper Song Sparrow Sora Spinus sp. (goldfinch sp.) Sooty Shearwater Spotted Sandpiper Spotted Towhee Steller's Jay Surf Scoter Surfbird Swainson's Thrush swallow sp. Swamp Sparrow Thayer's Gull Townsend's Warbler Tree Swallow Tropical Kingbird Turkey Vulture Vaux's Swift Vesper Sparrow Violet-green Swallow Warbling Vireo Western Grebe Western Gull Western Kingbird Western Meadowlark Western Sandpiper Western Scrub-Jay Western Tanager Western Wood-Pewee Western x Clark's Grebe (hybrid) Western x Glaucous-winged Gull (hybrid) Western/Clark's Grebe Whimbrel White-crowned Sparrow White-crowned x Golden-crowned Sparrow (hybrid) Western Tanager Western Wood-Pewee Willet Wilson's Snipe Wilson's Warbler Wood Duck Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler |
fish Species
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mammal species
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Steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) Pacific lamprey (Lampetra tridentata) Prickly sculpin (Cottus aspercoa) Strange sculpin (Cottus aleuticus) Pacific staghorn sculpin (Leptocottus armatus) Starry flounder (Platichthys stellatus) Threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) Sacramento sucker (Catostomus occidentalis) Top smelt (Atherinops affinis) Tidewater goby (Eucyclogobius newberryi) Green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris) |
California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi)
Fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) Harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) Reptile species
Western terrestrial garter snake (Thamnophis elegans)
Pond slider (Trachemys scripta) Insect species
American lady (Vanessa virginiensis
Common checkered-skipper (Pyrgus communis) Flame skimmer (Libellula saturata) |
iNaturalist (Pictures take a few moments to load)
The web site iNaturalist offers reports of natural history observations of wildlife and plant species on the Lower San Lorenzo River. Scroll down through the pictures; there are 80 species to view!
The web site iNaturalist offers reports of natural history observations of wildlife and plant species on the Lower San Lorenzo River. Scroll down through the pictures; there are 80 species to view!