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Least Tern

  • smallest tern
  • long pointed wings
  • black cap & eyestrip

Diet: Fish

FM: High Dives

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Forster’s Tern

  • forked tail
  • batman mask with white lores

Diet: Fish

FM: High DIves

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Royal Tern

  • orange bill
  • orange & black feet
  • batman mask that starts at eyes

Diet: Fish

FM: High Dives

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Caspian Tern

  • red/orange bill
  • black cap extends to forehead

Diet: Fish

FM: High DIves

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Black Skimmer

  • lower mandible longer than upper mandible

Diet: Fish

FM: Skims

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Immature and Adult

Western Gull

  • Immature brown all over
  • Adult has darker gray on wings than California Gull
  • very square tails

Diet: Fish

FM: Low patrol

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California Gull

  • lighter gray than Western Gull wings
  • wings extend past square white tail

Diet: Terrestrial Invertebrates

FM: Low Dives

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Ring-billed Gull

  • ring around bill
  • smallest of gulls

Diet: Omnivore

FM: Ground glean

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Heerman’s Gull

  • white head, gray body, darker wings, red bill

Diet: Fish

FM: High Dives

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Common Loon

  • Fish-eating bill
  • webbed feet
  • legs back on body (can’t take off flying from land because of this)

Diet: Fish

FM: Surface Dives

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Pied-billed Grebe

  • Lobed toes/feet
  • black throat
  • line on bill

Diet: Aquatic Invertebrates

FM: Surface dives

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Eared Grebe

  • lobed toes/feet
  • looks like Clark’s and Western Grebes but smaller
  • gray on neck

Diet: Aquatic Invertebrates

FM: Surface dives

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Clark’s Grebe

  • lobed toes/feet
  • white lores in breeding season

Diet: Fish

FM: Surface dives

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Western Grebe

  • lobed toes/feet
  • dark lores in breeding season

Diet: Fish

FM: Surface dives

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Immature and Adult

Brown Pelican

  • Immature all brown
  • Adult has black, white, & orange on head
  • totipalmate feet

Diet: Fish

FM: High dives

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Adult Brandt’s Cormorant

  • totipalmate feet
  • long white filament feathers on back
  • light below bill on chin

Diet: Fish

FM: Surface dives

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Immature Brandt’s Cormorant

  • totipalmate feet
  • all brown, with lighter brown under bill on chin

Diet: Fish

FM: Surface dives

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Adult Double-crested Cormorant

  • totipalmate feet
  • black tufts on side of head
  • tails longer than Brandt’s Cormorant

Diet: Fish

FM: Surface dives

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Immature Double-crested Cormorant

  • totipalmate feet
  • immature all brown with larger tail than Brandt’s Cormorant

Diet: Fish

FM: Surface dives

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Great Blue Heron

  • Black & white body
  • gray neck with white & black head

Diet: Fish

FM: Stalk and strike

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Green Heron

  • rust colored breast and nape
  • green back, cap, & wings

Diet: Fish

FM: Stalk and strike

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Great Egret

  • yellow bill
  • black legs & feet

Diet: Fish

FM: Stalk and strike

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Cattle Egret

  • yellow bill
  • yellow legs & feet

Diet: Terrestrial Invertebrates

FM: Ground glean

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Snowy Egret

  • black bill & legs
  • yellow feet

Diet: Aquatic Invertebrates

FM: Stalk and strike

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Brant * white spotted ring around black neck * smaller than Canada Goose Diet: Vegitation FM: Surface dips
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Canada Goose * white chin & rump * black neck Diet: Vegitation FM: Surface dips
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Female Ruddy Duck * Brown stripe through white patch on head Diet: Aquatic Invertebrates FM: Surface dives
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Male Ruddy Duck * all white patch on head Diet: Aquatic Invertebrates FM: Surface dives
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Redhead * demarkation from black to white is a wide V shape * darker toward rump Diet: Vegitation FM: Surface dives
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Canvasback * demarkation from black to white is in a straight line Diet: Vegitation FM: Surface dives
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Female American Wigeon * distinct demarkation from brown to white on chest Diet: Vegitation FM: Dabbles
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Male American Wigeon * Green stripe through eye * White on head Diet: Vegitation FM: Dabbles
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Male Mallard * Green head, white ring around neck * purple speculum Diet: Seeds/grains FM: Dabbles
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Female Mallard * brown with white chin * purple speculum Diet: Seeds/grains FM: Dabbles
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Female Northern Pintail * no pattern/ brown * pointed tail Diet: Seeds/grains FM: Dabbles
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Male Northern Pintail * Brown & white with black tail * tail pointed Diet: Seeds/grains FM: Dabbles
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Male Cinnamon Teal * Cinnamon//rust colored * Green speculum * Baby-blue wing patch Diet: Seeds/grains FM: Surface dips
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Female Cinnamon Teal * Baby-blue wing patch * \*\*No white crescent on face like Blue-winged Teal\*\* Diet: Seeds/grains FM: Surface dips
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Blue-winged Teal * Brown with white crescent moon on face * Green speculum * Baby-blue wing patch Diet: Seeds FM: Surface dips
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Male Green-winged Teal * Copper colored head with green stripe * Green speculum Diet: Seeds FM: Ground glean
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Female Green-winged Teal * Green speculum Diet: Seeds FM: Ground glean
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Lesser Scaup * Black with white belly Diet: Aquatic Invertebrates FM: Surface Dives
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Female Northern Shoveler * no pattern, but shovel bill Diet: Vegitation FM: Surface dips
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Male Northern Shoveler * Shovel for bill * Black head, white chest, copper body Diet: Vegitation FM: Surface dips
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Male Bufflehead * Purple on face with large white patch Diet: Aquatic Invertebrates FM: Surface dives
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Female Bufflehead * Smaller white patch on face than male Diet: Aquatic Invertebrates FM: Surface dives
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Male Red-breasted Merganser * Bill looks like it has teeth Diet: Fish FM: Surface dives
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Female Red-breasted Merganser * Bill looks like it has teeth Diet: Fish FM: Surface dives
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Osprey * Large white and black raptor * Will hold fish parallel to body Diet: Fish FM: High dives
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Peregrin Falcon * Long, pointed wings * Brown spots on cream underbelly Diet: Birds FM: Aerial Pursuit
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Clapper Rail * Flanks barred Diet: Aquatic Invertebrates FM: Probes
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Sora * Flanks barred * Smaller than Clapper Rail Diet: Seeds FM: Ground glean
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American Coot * All black * Lobed toes/feet Diet: Omnivore FM: Surface dips
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Whimbrel * Bill decurved Diet: Terrestrial Invertebrates FM: Ground glean
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Marbled Godwit * Recurved bill Diet: Aquatic invertebrates FM: Probes
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Greater Yellowlegs * Yellow legs * Long bill, long legs Diet: Fish FM: Probes
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Willet * Prominent white wing patch Diet: Aquatic Invertebrates FM: Probes
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Willet * Prominent white wing patch Diet: Aquatic invertebrates FM: Probes
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Spotted Sandpiper * Small black dots on white belly Diet: Terrestrial invertebrates FM: Ground glean
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Short-billed Dowitcher * Long bill * Short legs * Feeds like a sewing machine Diet: Aquatic invertebrates FM: Probes
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Sanderling * Small prober * No spots like Spotted Sandpiper Diet: Terrestrial invertebrates FM: Probes
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Western Sandpiper * Very small * Whiter than Least Sandpiper Diet: Terrestrial Invertebrates FM: Ground glean
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Least Sandpiper * Very small * Browner than Western Sanpiper Diet: Terrestrial invertebrates FM: Probes
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Killdeer * Bulbous bill * Two black bands on white chest Diet: Terrestrial Invertebrates FM: Ground glean
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Semipalmated Plover * Bulbous bill * One band on chest Diet: Aquatic invertebrates FM: Ground glean
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Snowy Plover * Bulbous bill * Partial band on chest Diet: Terrestrial invertebrates FM: Ground glean
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Black-bellied Plover * Bulbous bill * Larger than other plovers * Black belly only during breeding season (this one has winter plumage) Diet: Terrestrial invertebrates FM: Ground glean
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American Avocet * Very recurved bill * Looks like a toasted marshmallow Diet: Omnivore FM: Sweeps
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Black-necked Stilt * Very long legs * Black bill Diet: Aquatic invertebrates FM: Probes, Ground glean

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