Region - The Southwest Pacific region includes the states of California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.
It is an area of dry western woodlands, dense streamside forests, chaparral thickets, desert and sagebrush plains, mountain cliffs, mesas, and bare rocky slopes. Large urban and residential areas are found here, mostly along the coast.
Rocky shores, cliffs, and extensive beaches are the main features of the Seacoast of California, while in the central portion of the state extensive fresh-water marshes provide important summer and winter homes for many birds. Some of the coniferous forest here are drier and more open and consist of pine, oak, pinyon, juniper, or redwood forests.
Identification - There are 84 birds you can easily hear and identify in the Southwest Pacific region. The following is a list, in the American Ornithologists' Union order, of these birds:
Pied-billed Grebe
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Tundra Swan
Snow Goose
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Northern Pintail
American Wigeon
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Ring-necked Pheasant
Wild Turkey
California Quail
Virginia Rail
Sora
Killdeer
Black Oystercatcher
American Avocet
Spotted Sandpiper
Long-billed Curlew
Common Snipe
Herring Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Great Horned Owl
Common Nighthawk
Common Poorwill
Whip-poor-will
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Steller's Jay
Scrub Jay
Clark's Nutcracker
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Cactus Wren
Rock Wren
Canyon Wren
Bewick's Wren
House Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
American Dipper
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Veery
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Warbling Vireo
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Western Tanager
Rufous-sided Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Northern Oriole
Purple Finch
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Evening Grosbeak
House Sparrow
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