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* California
* Southeastern
* August 18, 2005
* CASE0508.18

This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial,
Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties.

- Birds mentioned
American Dipper
Mountain Quail
Wood Stork
Yellow-footed Gull
Ruddy Turnstone
Peregrine Falcon
Laughing Gull


Reports summarized this week are from San Bernardino, Riverside, and
Imperial Counties.

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY

Thomas Miko reported an AMERICAN DIPPER in Icehouse Canyon about 200 yards
up trail from the parking lot. 3 MOUNTAIN QUAIL were about 100 yards up
the trail from the parking lot. Other expected mountain birds were seen in
the same general area.

RIVERSIDE COUNTY

>From the Whitewater River delta, Chet McGaugh reported a WOOD STORK. He
reported numerous birds at the river mouth, mostly gulls, including YELLOW
FOOTED GULL, terns, herons, and pelicans. A RUDDY TURNSTONE was on the
east side of the delta.

IMPERIAL COUNTY

Sandy Koonce reported PERAGRINE FALCON, 200+ LAUGHING GULLS, and 34 WOOD
STORK soaring over the intersection of Garst and Red Hill heading north.

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That's it for today. This summary is done weekly, usually on Thursday.
GOOD BIRDING!

Kirk and Linda Stitt
secalrba@earthlink.net
San Bernardino, CA
RBA phone (909)793-5599

For more frequent updates, see the note below.
If you have information on any new rare birds or updates on any of the
birds in this report, PLEASE LET US KNOW. We can't update reports if we
don't hear from you.
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In general, birds that are on this weekly summary are those that are
classified as at least rare in “Birds of Southern California” by Garrett
and Dunn, “Birds of the Salton Sea” by Patten, McCaskie, and Unitt, or
in “Birds of the Lower Colorado River Valley” by Rosenberg, Ohmart,
Hunter, and Anderson. Rarity can be regional or seasonal. For example, a
nuthatch reported at the Salton Sea, where it is rare, may be on the
summary. That same bird reported from the San Bernardino Mountains, where
it is common, would not be. A sparrow reported as a rarity in Riverside
in July, may be common there in December.

If you are only getting this report through Birdwest, you can get MORE
FREQUENT AND COMPREHENSIVE UPDATES by subscribing to inlandcountybirds
(see below).

To report a bird POST TO INLANDCOUNTYBIRDS (see below)!!! If there is
some reason that you cannot post there, or do not want to, e-mail Kirk and
Linda Stitt at secalrba@earthlink.net or call (909) 793-5599 option 3 to
leave a report on the RBA phone machine. Thanks!!!

Please submit your documention of all California Bird Records Committee
review species (as noted in the text above) to:

Guy McCaskie, Secretary, P.O. Box 275, Imperial Beach, CA 91933-0275, E-
mail: guymcc@pacbell.net

Additionally, CBRC species AND birds of local or seasonal rarity should be
reported to the "North American Birds" (formerly "Field Notes") County
Coordinators. They are:

IMPERIAL COUNTY Guy McCaskie 954 Grove Avenue, Imperial Beach, CA 91932
E: guymcc@pacbell.net

INYO COUNTY Tom & Jo Heindel, P.O. Box 400, Big Pine CA 93513 E:
tjheindel@aol.com

KERN COUNTY John Wilson 1425 Alta Vista, Bakersfield CA 93305 E:
jcwilson@lightspeed.net

RIVERSIDE COUNTY John F. Green, 3120 Mount Vernon Ave., Riverside, CA
92507 E:bewickwren@earthlink.net

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY Alexander E. Koonce, 1357 Paige Lane, Redlands, CA
92373 E: sandy_koonce@redlands.edu
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There is an Inland Counties (San Bernardino, Riverside, and Imperial) bird
report & discussion group. You can view messages at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inlandcountybirds/ If you need help
subscribing to inlandcountybirds, e-mail John Green at
bewickwren@earthlink.net

IMPORTANT: Sometimes rare birds that are found in Southeastern CA are not
reported to Inlandcountybirds. Sites and phone numbers where such reports
sometimes appear are marked with *** below. If you are headed to one of
those areas, be sure to check that site or phone number first, in addition
to this RBA.

Los Angeles, Orange, Santa Barbara, and rarely San Diego County reports
are posted on BIRDWEST. To subscribe, send a message to

LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU with SUBSCRIBE BIRDWEST YOUR NAME in the
message (and your name = YOUR real name).

Orange County has an RBA update mailing list. To subscribe, write to
JWeintraub@Fullerton.edu

There is also an Orange County Listserv. Messages can be viewed there
at; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrangeCountyBirding

San Diego County has its own Listserv. You can view messages at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SDBIRDS ***

The San Diego phone RBA also posts reports to:
http://homepage.mac.com/aves/SanDiego.html ***

Sometimes Imperial County reports appear on these sources.

Calbirds covers all of California, but often has SoCal bird reports. To
subscribe, send a blank email to: calbirds-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ***

Sightings in Inyo County and beyond are posted at
http://www.esaudubon.org/birds/

Some Kern County reports are posted at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kerncobirding

Messages to the birding listserve for the Pasadena area can be viewed at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PasadenaAudubon

Messages to the birding listserve for Los Angeles County can be viewed
at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LACoBirds

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