Whales and dolphins commonly seen on Searcher Natural History Tours:
Videos
Blue Whale
Common Dolphins
Dolphins
Gray Whales
Humpback Whales
Blue Whales
Fin Whales
Bryde's Whales
Sperm Whales
Killer Whales
Pilot Whales
Long-beaked common Dolphins
Short-beaked common Dolphins
Bottlenose Dolphins
Seals and sea lions commonly seen on Searcher Natural History Tours:
California sea lions
Harbor seals
Northern elephant seals
Guadalupe fur seals
Birds commmly seen on Searcher Natural History Tours
Birds in italics have been seen on previous trips but are uncommon and not expected
Birds in bold are Baja endemics
(Provided by Peter Gaede. Sequence and names follow that in the American Birding Association Trip List for North American Birds.)
Print this "Field Checklist to the Birds of Baja California" to record your sightings during the tour. Special thanks to Kurt Radamaker for making this available!
Brant
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Cinnamon Teal
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Surf Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
California Quail
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Least Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Northern Fulmar
Cook’s Petrel
Pink-footed Shearwater
Flesh-footed Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Townsend’s Shearwater
Black-vented Shearwater
Black Storm-Petrel
Least Storm-Petrel
Red-billed Tropicbird
Masked Booby
Blue-footed Booby
Brown Booby
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brandt’s Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormornat
Magnificent Frigatebird
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Reddish Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
White Ibis
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Cooper’s Hawk
Zone-tailed Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Crested Caracara
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Prairie Falcon
Clapper Rail
American Coot
Black-bellied Plover
Wilson’s Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
American Oystercatcher
Black Oystercatcher
Spotted Sandpiper
Wandering Tattler
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Black Turnstone
Surfbird
Sanderling
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-billed Dowitcher
Red-necked Phalarope
Red Phalarope
Laughing Gull
Bonaparte’s Gull
Heermann’s Gull
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Yellow-footed Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Glaucous Gull
Sabine’s Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Forster’s Tern
Royal Tern
Elegant Tern
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Long-tailed Jaeger
Xantus’s Murrelet
Craveri’s Murrelet
Cassin’s Auklet
Rhinoceros Auklet
Rock Pigeon
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Common Ground-Dove
White-throated Swift
Xantus’s Hummingbird
Anna’s Humingbird
Costa’s Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Gila Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Guilded Flicker
Gray Flycatcher
Black Phoebe
Say’s Phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
Bell’s Vireo
Gray Vireo
Plumbeous Vireo
Western Scrub-Jay
Common Raven
Horned Lark
San Benito Island
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Verdin
Rock Wren
San Benito Island
Cactus Wren
Canyon Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
California Gnatcatcher
Northern Mockingbird
Sage Thrasher
Gray Thrasher
Phainopepla
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Mangrove
MacGillivray’s Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Green-tailed Towhee
California Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Black-throated Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Large-billed
San Benito Island
White-crowned Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
Black-headed Grosbeak
Hooded Oriole
Scott’s Oriole
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
House Sparrow