Ornithology 2 Summary (Fall 2016)
If you miss a class, please check this page and study the listed topics in your field guide. Click here
for last semester's calendar.
Note: Please park in the Hayes Street Parking lot. All spaces are available except disabled
and reserved drop off for the child care center. If the lot is full and you park in the Grove Street lot you will
likely get a parking ticket unless you display the temporary parking passes which are available to all registered students.
These passes must be stamped by the John Adams office which closes at 7:30pm!
Class notes by Elisabeth Koster are here. (Plumage and molt terminology here. )
Please register at eBird and email me your eBird ID. I can then offer to
share field trip lists with you.
Click here for a summary of bird name changes
from the 57th AOU supplement.
Click here for a summary of bird name
changes from the 56th AOU supplement.
Click here for a summary of
bird name changes from the 55th AOU supplement.
Click here for a summary of bird name
changes from the 54th AOU supplement.
Australia Dogs and Beaches brochure.
An online version of Ridgway's Color Standards and nomenclature is available here.
Replacement Sibley 2nd edition first printing
To get a replacement copy, cut the barcode off the back cover of your second edition, first printing and mail it
to:
Penguin Random House
Attn: Consumer Services/DMS
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
"Subspecies for Birders" presented to Marin Audubon on 13 October. Audio
Recording and PDF here
"Birding Antarctica by Cruise Ship" presented for
Sequoia Audubon on 8 December. Free program. Details here.
Recommended Shorebird Reference Books
This was the last class of the semester. Please preregister if you plan to enroll in the Spring. Click here for details.
We completed and reviewed the shorebirds on page 200.
Click here, here,
and here for my Pectoral Sandpiper photos and notes. Click here
for photos and analysis of a controversial Pectoral Sandpiper in Vancouver.
Click here, here,
here, here,
here, here
and here for photos of Sharp-tailed Sandpipers in
California.
My notes and photos of a Buff-breasted Sandpiper at Half Moon Bay are here. Additional
Buff-breasted Sandpiper photos are here,
here, here,
here, here,
here, here,
here, here,
here, here,
and here.
My notes and Ruff photos are here here,
and here. Additional Ruff photos are here,
here, here,
here, here,
here, here,
here, here,
here, here,
here and here.
December 7, 2016
We reviewed the shorebirds on pages 190-198.
November 30, 2016
We completed and reviewed the sandpipers on page 198.
My juvenile Dunlin from New Brunswick.
Winter plumage Dunlin from San Diego. Click here
for my photo and notes on a breeding plumage Dunlin in Ohio.
My Curlew Sandpiper photos and
notes from Australia and Thailand.
More Curlew Sandpiper images are here,
here, here,
here, here,
here, here,
here, here,
here and here.
Stilt Sandpiper images are here, here,
here, here
and here.
November 23, 2016
We completed and reviewed the sandpipers on page 196.
Photos of White-rumped Sandpipers at China Lake in California are here
and here. Click here
for my description of a White-rumped Sandpiper in Alviso.
My Baird's Sandpiper photos are here,
here, here,
here and here.
Click here for another photo of a Baird's Sandpiper in
San Francisco.
My Spoon-billed Sandpiper
photos and analysis from Thailand.
My Thailand Broad-billed Sandpiper
photos and analysis.
Full account with photos of adult Red-necked
Stint at Hayward. My excruciatingly detailed
description of an adult from Ventura County in 1994. My Red-necked
Stint photos from Australia
and Thailand. Click here
for a photo of an alternate plumage Red-necked Stint at Moss Landing. Another photo of the same bird is here.
Another breeding plumage Red-necked Stint photo from Ventura County is here.
Adult from Kern County is here. More recent
Alaska Red-necked Stint is here.
Little Stint photos at Alviso. Click here
for photos of an alternate plumage Little Stint in Los Angeles and here
for photos of a juvenile Little Stint in Baja, Mexico. Full details of the Baja bird are here.
Additional Little Stint photos from California are here,
here, here
and here.
My Long-toed Stint photos and notes
from Thailand. Full documentation for the Long-toed Stint at the Salinas Sewer Ponds is here.
Click here for additional photos
of that bird.
My Temminck's Stint photos and notes from India
and Thailand.
We reviewed the shorebirds on pages 182-192.
We completed and reviewed the "peeps" on page 192.
Click here for my photos and notes on identification of a juvenile Semipalmated Sandpiper at Half Moon Bay. More from Half Moon Bay here and here. Semipalmated Sandpipers from New Brunswick. Click here for a juvenile Semipalmated Sandpiper and here for an adult at Arcata. Click here for a photo and ID discussion of a probable basic adult Semipalmated Sandpiper in Ventura.
Click here for my my photo of a juvenile Western Sandpiper at Abbotts Lagoon and here for Half Moon Bay. Basic plumage Western Sandpiper. Photos and ID discussion of both juvenile Semipalmated Sandpiper (including "rufous morph") and Least Sandpiper are here.
Juvenile Least Sandpiper
with Semipalmated Sandpipers in New Brunswick with ID discussion. Photos of bright juvenile Least Sandpipers
are here and here.
My photo of an adult basic Least Sandpiper is here.
October 26, 2016
We completed and reviewed the shorebirds on page 190.
Click here for my photo and notes on a Surfbird
in Half Moon Bay. A photo of Surfbird from one of our field trips is here.
My photos of Great Knots in Australia are here
and here. The SurfKnot (presumed
Great Knot X Surfbird hybrid) is here.
Click here, here,
here, and here
for my photo and discussion of Sanderlings in Half Moon Bay and Cuba.
October 18, 2016
We completed and reviewed the shorebirds on page 188.
Click here for my photo and discussion of a Ruddy Turnstone at Playa del Rey,
California and here for my photo
of a Ruddy Turnstone in Puerto Rico.
Click here, here
and here for my photos of Black Turnstone.
Click here for photos of a Pribilof Rock Sandpiper at
Ocean Shores, Washington. Click here for my photo and discussion of a Rock Sandpiper
at Playa del Rey, California and click here for
my photos of a Rock Sandpiper at Half Moon Bay.
October 12, 2016
We completed and reviewed the godwits on page 186.
My Black-tailed Godwit from Thailand
and India.
My photos and detailed discussion of Hudsonian Godwit in Napa here
and here. Click here
for my photos and notes on a Hudsonian Godwit at Alviso; additional photos are here.
Click here for photos and my notes on a Bar-tailed Godwit
at San Gregorio. A stunning series of photos of a Bar-tailed Godwit at Fort Bragg is here.
Bar-tailed Godwit photos from Humboldt Bay are here
and here. Click here
and here for photos of Bar-tailed Godwits in Washington
State.
Click here for a photo of an aberrant Marbled Godwit
that was originally thought to be a Bar-tailed Godwit. For additional photos and detailed analysis by Roberson
on that controversial bird, click here. My Marbled
Godwit photos from Half Moon Bay
and Ano Nuevo. Click here for my photo and discussion
of Marbled Godwits and a Willet at Coyote Point. My photos and notes from Bolsa Chica here
and here.
October 5, 2016
We completed and reviewed the shorebirds on pages 182 and 184.
My photos of Upland Sandpiper from Minnesota with notes are here
and here. Additional Upland
Sandpiper photos are here and here.
Click here for a photo and discussion of the identification
of a Whimbrel. My Whimbrel photos including discussion of geographic variation are here
and here. Additional Whimbrel photos here,
here and here;
photo of Eurasian race of Whimbrel is here.
Click here for details and photos of a Bristle-thighed
Curlew in Cresecent City and here for details including
a video of a Bristle-thighed Curlew at Point Reyes.
Long-billed Curlew is here, here
& here (with notes).
September 28, 2016
We completed and reviewed the shorebirds on pages 180 and 182.
My Wandering Tattler photos from Pacifica,
Half Moon Bay and from San
Francisco. Click here for photo of a Wandering Tattler
and discussion of its nasal groove.
My Gray-tailed Tattler photos from Australia are here.
Click here for an article on tattler identification with a photo
of a juvenile Gray-tailed Tattler in Washington State.
My Common Sandpiper photos from Tanzania,
India and Thailand.
My Spotted Sandpiper photos from Ohio (with notes) and Belize.
Additional Spotted Sandpiper photo here.
