At Virgin Creek Beach we saw two color-banded Snowy Plovers which turned out to have been banded as chicks in Monterey County only last July.
The following 77 bird species were noted by at least one member of the group:
Red-throated Loon
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Western Grebe
Northern Fulmar
Pink-footed Shearwater (possible)
Sooty Shearwater
Double-crested Cormorant
Brandt's Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveller
American Wigeon
Surf Scoter
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Red-shouldered Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
American Coot
Black-bellied Plover
Snowy Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Black Oystercatcher
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Wandering Tatler
Whimbrel
Marbled Godwit
Black Turnstone
Surfbird
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Red-necked Phalarope
Heermann's Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Murre
Pigeon Guillemot
Vaux's Swift
Anna's Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Acorn Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Black Phoebe
Say's Phoebe
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
Common Raven
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Pygmy Nuthatch
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Wrentit
European Starling
Yellow Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Western Tanager
Savannah Sparrow
Sooty Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Purple Finch
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Beechy Ground Squirrel
Harbor Seal
California Sea Lion
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