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

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" and record your sightings during the tour. Special thanks to Kurt Radamaker for making this available!

Baja Birds Checklist - Click to download PDF from
http://www.mexicobirding.com

Common Loon Pacific Loon Eared Grebe Western Grebe Black-footed Albatross Laysan Albatross Northern Fulmar Pink-footed Shearwater Black-vented Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Black Storm Petrel Ashy Storm Petrel Red-billed Tropicbird Blue-footed Booby Brown Booby Brown Pelican White Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Brandt's Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant Magnificent Frigatebird Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tri-colored Heron Reddish Egret Black-crowned Night heron Yellow-crowned Night heron White Ibis Brant Surf Scoter Red-breasted Merganser Turkey Vulture Osprey Northern Harrier Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon California Quail Clapper Rail Common Moorhen American Coot Black-bellied Plover Wilson's Plover American Oystercatcher Black Oystercatcher Greater Yellowlegs Willet Wandering Tattler Spotted Sandpiper Red-necked Phalarope Whimbrel Long-billed Curlew Marbled Godwit Black Turnstone Ruddy Turnstone Surfbird Sanderling Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dowitcher (spp.) Pomarine Jaeger Long-tailed Jaeger Bonaparte's Gull

Heermann's Gull Ring-billed Gull California Gull Yellow-footed Gull Western Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Herring Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Sabine's Gull Forster's Tern Least Tern Caspian Tern Royal Tern Elegant Tern Common Tern Xantus' Murrelet Craveri's Murrelet Cassin's Auklet Rhinoceros Auklet White-winged Dove Ground Dove White-throated swift Xantus' Hummingbird (Baja endemic) Anna's Hummingbird Costa's Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Gila Woodpecker Ladder-backed Woodpecker Ash-throated Flycatcher Black Phoebe Vermillion Flycatcher Horned Lark Violet-green Swallow Raven Verdin Cactus Wren Rock Wren Canyon Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Black-tailed Gnatcatcher Northern Mockingbird Gray Thrasher (Baja endemic) Phainopepla Loggerhead Shrike Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Yellow Warbler (mangrove warbler sub-species) Common Yellowthroat Black-headed Grosbeak Northern Cardinal House Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Lark Sparrow Black-throated Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Hooded Oriole House Finch Lesser Goldfinch