Gallery | Birds
In the early morning hours or in the late afternoon, a variety of birds can be found in the intertidal zone at Bird Rock. Some birds, such as the Brown Pelican and the Cormorants, use the small rock island as a resting perch between near shore flights in search of schooling fish to feed upon. Other birds, such as the Snowy Egret, mimic our own movements through the tide pools carefully placing one foot in front of the other with attention directed down in search of an organism – though in their case, for a meal.
Catoptrophorus semipalmatus
Willet
Charadrius alexandrinus
Snowy Plover
Egretta thula
Snowy Egret
Heteroscelus incanus
Wandering Tattler
Larus occidentalis
Western Gull
Limosa fedoa
Marbled Godwit
Mergus serrator
Red-breasted Merganser
Pelecanus occidentalis
Brown Pelican
Phalacrocorax auritus
Double Crested Cormorant
Phalacrocorax pelagicus
Pelagic Cormorant
Phalacrocorax penicillatus
Brandt's Cormorant
Pluvialis fulva
Pacific Golden Plover
Sterna sp.
Tern
