Site Report: Bodega Bay

Yellow-billed Loon (Gavia adamsii)

Lined Shore Crab (Pachygrapsus crassipes)

A small resort town a couple of hours north from San Francisco, this is where Hitchcock filmed "The Birds." The public areas are along the bayfront and a rocky scrub area west of town.

Visits

2000-12-01: Total guess on the date, it is not in the notes.
2020-06-09: walked around the bird trail
2024-03-15: Word on the street was a Yellow-billed Loon was hanging out in the bay.

Species Seen

Kingdom: Animals (26 records)

Phylum: Arthropods (1 record)

Class: Malacostracans (1 record)

Order: Crabs (1 record)
- Family: Shore Crabs
- Lined Shore Crab (Pachygrapsus crassipes)

Phylum: Chordates (25 records)

Class: Birds (25 records)

Order: Anseriformes (4 records)
- Family: Swans, Geese, and Ducks
- Brant (Branta bernicla)
- Surf Scoter (Melanitta perspicillata)
- Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)
- Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)

Order: Cranes, Rails, and Allies (1 record)
- Family: Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
- American Coot (Fulica americana)

Order: Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies (1 record)
- Family: Hawks, Eagles, and Kites
- Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)

Order: Pelicans (13 records)
- Family: Cormorants
- Double-crested Cormorant (Nannopterum auritum)
- Family: Grebes
- Horned Grebe (Podiceps auritus)
- Eared Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis)
- Western Grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis)
- Family: Loons
- Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata)
- Common Loon (Gavia immer)
- Yellow-billed Loon (Gavia adamsii)
- Family: Oystercatchers
- Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani)
- Family: Sandpipers and Allies
- Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa)
- Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
- Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius)
- Willet (Tringa semipalmata)
- Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)

Order: Perching Birds (3 records)
- Family: American Blackbirds and Orioles
- Brewer's Blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus)
- Family: Starlings and Mynas
- European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
- Family: Swallows
- Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)

Order: Shorebirds and Allies (2 records)
- Family: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
- Short-billed Gull (Larus brachyrhynchus)
- Western Gull (Larus occidentalis)

Order: Vultures (1 record)
- Family: New World Vultures
- Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)

Lifelists

Trips

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