It's 10-24-2020: another free super best day for wild birds-found fresh daily from Southern California 550+ species​
At this time >>  PLEASE STAY SAFE .. We wear masks and also found we get a lot less pollen and dust in our lungs.
 There are "treatments in work"; but it may be months before it is safe to hang out together again.
So we offer for your perusal a pictorial and informational ​compilation of birds
found in and around Southern California. 
It's good to be the couch potato! Take virtual trip via HIC..Hotspot Illustrated Checklist> prudently packed with PoP ​​
here are two most popular; Goleta : Lake Los Carneros   -- LLC-HIC and
South El Monte: Legg Lake  -- LL-HIC ...  and for more HICs see "Birds of>HICs Parade"
Our apologies  for temporally not keeping "Birds of the Week"  and "Spots of the Day" up to date:
Birds of the week last updated 06-10-2020 at >> Shows>Birds of the Week"
Spots of the Day -Click picture see the eBird list
BIRD of the Year
​2019 ----------  2018  ----------- 2017
California Audubon Bird of the Year 2009-2016
eBird Rare Bird Alerts by county:  SDC-RBA, 
IC-RBA, OC-RBA, RC-RBA, LAC-RBA, SBC-RBA,
 VC-ARB,  SBarC-RBA, SLOC-RBA, KC-RBA     and 
  Inland county Bird-alerts  ICB-RBA
Orange County Bird-alerts  OCB-RBA
San Diego County Bird-alerts  SCB-RBA
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Here are the WICs(Weather Info-Cast):
 CAR-WIC Carlsbad, FUL-WIC Fullerton, MUR-WIC  
​Murrieta, RIV-WIC Riverside, BAK-WIC Bakersfield,
 LA-WIC Los Angeles, LAX-WIC LAX,  SLO-WIC San Luis Obispo, VEN-WIC Ventura, VIC-WIC Victorville
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This is our local Bird Picture Book Plus, therefore enjoy the Pictures, Profiles and Portals of perpetual plumage.
​Most pictures in this site are taken in Southern California. Birds captioned Carolina Birds or Wiki Commons are seen in SOCAL but picture maybe taken some were else. We are now using more of these in the Profile Pages to help with identification.
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 We promise to provide the PoP (Plethora of Plumage​) 
postscript: our purpose is pictorial plumage proliferation
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If you find injured or baby bird; who are you going to call?
 bird help lines WRF or WH  or OCBPC
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Camera recommendation for Nikon Coolpix P900 
Picture
Just in 32 new birds of the week 06-10-2020 Little Blue Heron -- from San Diego. To see the show, just click button on right
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"You got to love the great outdoors" ​
or 'signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Fowl Ballroom'
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To learn what this site is about, click on our Simplefect page. 
"we enjoy the endeavor to be informative and entertaining" ​here and now
​'we share with you our plumage found'
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Sorry for this disclaimer about our portals to other sites:
We use a large amount of links to other web sites; they could be broken and we would not know about it. Broken links will happen and we will fix them as soon as possible=thanks for your tolerance/understanding
Disclaimer 2: sometimes it's very hard to identify birds; we still have some miss identified birds on site we are correcting​- this also seems to be a continuing need
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editors note: We can dive head first into a plethora of plumage and we may get tickled but we won't get hurt.
__Definitions:__ Aves, Avian, Bird, Penniferous, Pennigerous  ____
pleasure in the improved prodigious, profound and profuse plumage. ​
​backup lists for administration only
==Recent Birds of the Day below==
Older Birds of the Day moved to "SHOWS" pages per year. 
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Laughing Kookaburra at San Diego Zoo
Tricolored Heron  ===>
Editors note: We are not only besieged, but also inundated, engulfed, swamped, saturated, and overwhelmed by birds; and today we got more birds.
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​Click "COMMON ABBREVIATIONS" for often use location abbreviations especially in picture caption
Do you need to identify a bird? See Birders page or Bird categories for a way to find your bird.
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