It's 01-21-2023: another free super best day for wild birds-found fresh daily from Southern California 550+ species​
We moving away from the every day bird but we will keep them coming. We will be more weekly than daily .
So we offer for your perusal a pictorial and informational ​compilation of birds
found in and around Southern California. 
Take virtual trip via HIC..Hotspot Illustrated Checklist> prudently packed with PoP >​​here are two most popular;
 Los Angeles County: LAC-HIC and San Diego County -- SDC-HIC ...  and for more HICs see "Birds of>HICs Parade"
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Bird of the Day 01-01-2023 Mexican Duck - Huntington Beach, Orange County
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Bird of the Day 12-20-2022 Wood Sandpiper, San Jacinto Wildlife Area, Riverside County
Mallard chick video and ​other videos seen on  "Bird Video Clips" > SHOWS menu
California Thrasher named Chuck Berry is hiding in the tree. 
 see if you hear "Chuck Berry Chuck Berry".
BIRD of the Year
2021 -----2020 ---- ​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 not sure how long these A+ pictures will be online; so click "Dave" for the show: in memory of Dave Furseth
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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 or P1000
PictureZoo Safari Park.. Secretarybird
Spots of the Day -No longer a regular feature. See the old ones >> ​SpotoftheDay
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A day at the "Zoo Safari Park"  to see some birds and their friends.
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new yardbirds as of 03-15-2021 Purple Finch are here as of 3-7-2021 -- 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 Living Desert Zoo 12-22-2021
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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