Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Nyctanassa violacea
Coyote Point, San Mateo, July 23, 2002
Bird Photos
San Mateo County, CA — Rarities
Sage Thrasher
Oreoscoptes montanus
Montara, December 16–21, 2001. Extremely tame; feeding on Pyracanthus berries.
Dusky-capped Flycatcher
Myiarchus tuberculifer
Año Nuevo State Park, January 9, 2000
Thick-billed Kingbird
Tyrannus crassirostris
Half Moon Bay, January 9, 2000
Rock Sandpiper
Calidris ptilocnemis
Pillar Point, Princeton, November 20, 1999
Sandhill Crane
Antigone canadensis
Calera Creek, October 24, 1999
Rock Wren
Salpinctes obsoletus
Calera Creek, October 24, 1999
Other California Rarities
Hudsonian Godwit
Limosa haemastica
Alviso, August 2003
LeConte's Sparrow & Sprague's Pipit
Ammospiza leconteii / Anthus spragueii
Salton Sea, February 2003
Bhutan, April–May 2004
White-bellied Heron
Ardea insignis
Near Punakha, Bhutan
Ibisbill
Ibidorhyncha struthersii
Paro, Bhutan
Venezuela, February 2000
Bearded Bellbird
Procnias averano
Sierra de Lema, Venezuela
Paradise Tanager
Tangara chilensis
Sierra de Lema, Venezuela
Bearded Tachuri
Polystictus pectoralis
Río Caurama, Venezuela
Bicolored Wren
Campylorhynchus griseus
Río Caurama, Venezuela
Borneo, May 1998
Black-breasted Fruit-Hunter
Chlamydochaera jefferyi
Mount Kinabalu, Borneo
Bornean Treepie
Dendrocitta cinerascens
Mount Kinabalu, Borneo
Little Spiderhunter
Arachnothera longirostra
Danum Valley, Borneo
Chile, December 1997
Yellow-bridled Finch
Melanodera xanthogramma
Puyehue National Park, Chile
Many-colored Rush-Tyrant
Tachuris rubrigastra
Laguna El Peral, Chile
Diademed Sandpiper
Phegornis mitchellii
El Yeso, Chile. Massively magnified scan from a pocket camera.
Andean Flicker
Colaptes rupicola
Lauca National Park, Chile
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