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San Mateo County, CA — Rarities

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Nyctanassa violacea

Coyote Point, San Mateo, July 23, 2002

Sage Thrasher

Oreoscoptes montanus

Montara, December 16–21, 2001. Extremely tame; feeding on Pyracanthus berries.

Dusky-capped Flycatcher

Myiarchus tuberculifer

Año Nuevo State Park, January 9, 2000

Thick-billed Kingbird

Tyrannus crassirostris

Half Moon Bay, January 9, 2000

Rock Sandpiper

Calidris ptilocnemis

Pillar Point, Princeton, November 20, 1999

Sandhill Crane

Antigone canadensis

Calera Creek, October 24, 1999

Rock Wren

Salpinctes obsoletus

Calera Creek, October 24, 1999

Other California Rarities

Hudsonian Godwit

Limosa haemastica

Alviso, August 2003

LeConte's Sparrow & Sprague's Pipit

Ammospiza leconteii / Anthus spragueii

Salton Sea, February 2003

Bhutan, April–May 2004

White-bellied Heron

Ardea insignis

Near Punakha, Bhutan

Ibisbill

Ibidorhyncha struthersii

Paro, Bhutan

Venezuela, February 2000

Bearded Bellbird

Procnias averano

Sierra de Lema, Venezuela

Paradise Tanager

Tangara chilensis

Sierra de Lema, Venezuela

Bearded Tachuri

Polystictus pectoralis

Río Caurama, Venezuela

Bicolored Wren

Campylorhynchus griseus

Río Caurama, Venezuela

Borneo, May 1998

Black-breasted Fruit-Hunter

Chlamydochaera jefferyi

Mount Kinabalu, Borneo

Bornean Treepie

Dendrocitta cinerascens

Mount Kinabalu, Borneo

Little Spiderhunter

Arachnothera longirostra

Danum Valley, Borneo

Chile, December 1997

Yellow-bridled Finch

Melanodera xanthogramma

Puyehue National Park, Chile

Many-colored Rush-Tyrant

Tachuris rubrigastra

Laguna El Peral, Chile

Diademed Sandpiper

Phegornis mitchellii

El Yeso, Chile. Massively magnified scan from a pocket camera.

Andean Flicker

Colaptes rupicola

Lauca National Park, Chile

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