If you're a birder, you'll know what a life list is. It's basically a list of all the bird species one has observed and positively ID'd in one's lifetime. This blog is a record of my "critter" life list (mostly of birds), including photos I've taken over the years, some of the actual lifer if I was lucky enough to get the shot. Don't expect National Geographic quality stuff here, just the work of an amateur photog who loves to trudge out into nature.

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Cassin's Kingbird (Tyrannus vociferans)

8/17/03 Lake Red Bluff, Tehama County, CA 
5/18/01 Eaton Canyon Trail, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Cassin's Kingbird

SPECIES: Tyrannus vociferans

LIFE LIST DATE: 5/18/2001

LOCATION: Eaton Canyon Trail, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, CA

From Kaufman Focus Guide: Birds of North America:

HABITAT: Fairly common in west, in riversides and canyons, favoring more wooded areas than Western Kingbird. Noisy. Often perches among foliage of tall trees. 

IDENTIFYING MARKS: 8 1/2"; Like Western Kingbird, but darker gray head and chest contrast more with white chin. Tail has pale tip, but only faint white edges. Bill larger, wings have more obvious scaly pattern. 

VOICE: Loud rough chi beer, sometimes run into excited series, kidder-kideer-kideer. Also (mainly at dawn) a rising rough series, berg-berg-berg-BERG.  
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