San Mateo Birds of the Coast

For easy to find reference.

Habitats:
Sandy beach and mudflats, rocky headlands, coastal scrub, freshwater marsh, lake, riparian woodland, farm fields.


Specialty birds: 
Resident
Brandt’s and Pelagic Cormorants; 
White-tailed Kite; 
Peregrine Falcon; 
Black Oystercatcher; 
Marbled Murrelet; 
Rhinoceros Auklet; 
Western Screech-Owl; 
Northern Pygmy-Owl; 
Chestnut-backed Chickadee; 
Wrentit. 


Summer
Brown Pelican, 
Cinnamon Teal, 
Heermann’s Gull, 
Elegant Tern, 
Pigeon Guillemot, 
Black Swift, 
Allen's Hummingbird, 
Bank Swallow. 


Winter
Western Grebe; 
Wandering Tattler; 
Long-billed Curlew; 
Black Turnstone; 
Surfbird; 
Thayer’s and Glaucous-winged Gulls; 
Say’s Phoebe.


Other key birds: 
Resident 
Black-crowned Night-Heron, 
Virginia Rail, 
Common Murre, 
Great Horned Owl, 
Winter Wren, 
Common Yellowthroat, 
Purple Hnch, 
American Goldfinch. 


Summer 
Caspian Tern, 
Grasshopper Sparrow. 


Winter
Red-throated Loon; 
Eared Grebe; 
Surf and White
Winged Scoters; 
Bufflehead; 
Sora; 
Greater Yellowlegs; 
Marbled Godwit,
Ruddy Turnstone; 
Sanderling; 
Loggerhead Shrike; 
Lincoln’s Sparrow