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Checklist of the Birds of Exposition Park, Los Angeles County

by Kimball L. Garrett, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History
TERRA, Vol. 28 No. 1, Fall 1989






      Mew Gull
Residents-Native
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Chimney Swift*
White-throated Swift
Black-chinned Hummingbird*
Anna's Hummingbird
Black Phoebe
Cliff Swallow*
Scrub Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Bushtit
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
Brewer's Blackbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch

Residents-Introduced
Rock Dove
Spotted Dove
Mitred Conure
Canary-winged Parakeet
Yellow-headed Parrot
European Starling
House Sparrow

Migrant and Winter
Visitant Landbirds

Red-shouldered Hawk
Turkey Vulture
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Band-tailed Pigeon**
Great Horned Owl**
Short-eared Owl**
Vaux's Swift
Costa's Hummingbird**
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Northern Flicker
Willow Flycatcher
Pacific-slope (Western) Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Dusky Flycatcher**
Western Kingbird
Purple Martin**
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow


White-breasted Nuthatch**
Brown Creeper**
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Swainsons Thrush
Hermit Thrush
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Bohemian Waxwing**
Hutton's Vireo**
Solitary Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Virginia's Warbler**
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Hermit Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler**
Blackpoll Warbler**
Black-and-white Warbler**
American Redstart
Northern Waterthrush**
MacGillivray's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat**
Western Tanager
Black-headed Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting
Rufous-sided Towhee
California (Brown) Towhee**
Lark Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow**
Brewer's Sparrow**
Fox Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Tricolored Blackbird**
Western Meadowlark
Brown-headed Cowbird
Hooded Oriole
Northern Oriole
Pine Siskin

Lesser Goldfinch
Purple Finch

Waterbirds
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Cattle Egret
Green-backed Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Greater White-fronted Goose
Northern Pintail**
Killdeer
Lesser Yellowlegs*
Whimbrel
Long-billed Dowitcher
Mew Gull
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Western Gull
Caspian Tern
Least Tern**

Additional Exotics/ Escapees
Lady Amherst's Pheasant
Cockatiel
Peach-faced Lovebird
Patagonian Conure
Lilac-crowned Parrot
Yellow-fronted Canary
Zebra Finch
Pin-tailed Whydah


      Raven
Owl

                        Kestrel

   Bohemian Waxwing
   *Summer resident only
**recorded only once in Exposition Park

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