Common Birds of the San Marcos Foothills

As of this writing (12/28) 148 bird species have been spotted at the San Marcos Foothills Preserve.
Most of these birds are year-round residents, while others migrate through in the spring and winter.

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Bird Species of the San Marcos Foothills

Observational data pulled from RGBIF for SMF from May 1991 to July 2023. By default, species are sorted by order, family, genus, and then commonality. To sort data, click on column headings. To filter data, use the search bar in the box under each column heading. Entering a number in the Observed column will filter for all species with more observations than that number. Species with an asterisk in the Introduced column are those which are non-native to the region and have established successful breeding populations. Diet categories include avivores (bird eating), carnivores (animal eating), herbivore (plant eating), insectivore (insect eating), and omnivore (animal and plant eating), piscivore (fish eating).

Citations: [1] iNaturalist contributors, iNaturalist (2023). iNaturalist Research-grade Observations. iNaturalist.org. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ab3s5x accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-12-29.. Accessed from R via rgbif (https://github.com/ropensci/rgbif) on 2023-12-28"), rights = "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode") [2] Auer T, Barker S, Barry J, Charnoky M, Curtis J, Davies I, Davis C, Downie I, Fink D, Fredericks T, Ganger J, Gerbracht J, Hanks C, Hochachka W, Iliff M, Imani J, Jordan A, Levatich T, Ligocki S, Long M T, Morris W, Morrow S, Oldham L, Padilla Obregon F, Robinson O, Rodewald A, Ruiz-Gutierrez V, Schloss M, Smith A, Smith J, Stillman A, Strimas-Mackey M, Sullivan B, Weber D, Wolf H, Wood C (2023). EOD – eBird Observation Dataset. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/aomfnb accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-12-29.. Accessed from R via rgbif (https://github.com/ropensci/rgbif) on 2023-12-28 [3] Fahy K (2016). SBMNH Vertebrate Zoology. Version 5.1. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/amfnkq accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-12-29.. Accessed from R via rgbif (https://github.com/ropensci/rgbif) on 2023-12-28