Species With Brown Heads, Facial Marks, or Shoulders

Gadwall
Golden Eagle
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Prairie Falcon
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
(Historical)
Common Nighthawk
Common Poorwill
Vaux's Swift
Say's Phoebe
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bushtit
Brown Creeper
House Wren
Winter Wren
Bewick's Wren
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
California Thrasher
Cedar Waxwing
California Towhee
Grasshopper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Brown-headed Cowbird
Pine Siskin

House Sparrow


Species With Green Heads, Facial Marks, or Shoulders
Wood Duck
Mallard
Green-winged Teal
American Wigeon
Northern Shoveler
Greater Scaup
Common Goldeneye
Anna's Hummingbird (2)
Allen's Hummingbird (2)
Rufous Hummingbird (2)


Species With Seemingly Black Heads, Facial Marks, or Shoulders
Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Steller's Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Black Phoebe
Purple Martin
(Historical)
European Starling
Spotted Towee
Dark-eyed Junco
Black-headed Grosbeak

Red-winged Blackbird
Tri-colored Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Evening Grosbeak


Species With Black and

White

Heads, Facial Marks, or Shoulders


Black-crowned
Night-Heron
Canada Goose
Surf Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Osprey
Peregrine Falcon
California Quail
American Coot
Black-necked Stilt
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
White-throated Swift
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
(Historical)
Acorn Woodpecker
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Pygmy Nuthatch
Black-and-white Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
White-throated Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Western Meadowlark


Species With

White

Heads, Facial Marks, or Shoulders


Snowy Egret
Great Egret
Ring-billed Gull
Mew Gull
California Gull

Herring Gull
Barn Owl


Species With Yellow Heads, Facial Marks, or Shoulders

Golden-crowned Kinglet
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Hermit Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Western Tanager
White-throated Sparrow(2)
Golden-crowned Sparrow(2)
Western Meadowlark(2)

American Goldfinch
Lesser Goldfinch
Lawrence's Goldfinch (2)
Evening Grosbeak (2)

 


Species With Orange-Rust Heads, Facial Marks, or Shoulders
 
Green Heron
Northern Pintail
Cinnamon Teal
Canvasback
Redhead
American Avocet
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Rufous Hummingbird
Allen's Hummingbird
Chestnut-backed Chickadee(2)
Red-breasted Nuthatch(2)
Western Bluebird(2)
Varied Thrush
American Robin
Orange-crowned Warbler(2)
Black-headed Grosbeak (2)
Hooded Oriole
Bullock's Oriole
Lark Sparrow

Swamp Sparrow

 


Species With Red Heads, Facial Marks, or Shoulders
 
Turkey Vulture
Ring-necked Pheasant
Common Moorhen
Anna's Hummingbird
Acorn Woodpecker(2)
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Red-naped Woodpecker
Nuttall's Woodpecker (2)
Downy Woodpecker (2)
Hairy Woodpecker(2)

Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Summer Tanager
Western Tanager(2)
Red-winged Blackbird (2)
Tricolored Blackbird (2)

Purple Finch
House Finch

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Species With Rose Heads, Facial Marks, or Shoulders
 

California Condor
(historical)


Species With Blue Heads, Facial Marks, or Shoulders
Ruddy Duck (2)
Belted Kingfisher
Western Scrub-Jay
White-breasted Nuthatch(2)
Pygmy Nuthatch(2)

Western Bluebird
Lazuli Bunting

 


Species With Grey Heads, Facial Marks, or Shoulders
 

Northern Harrier
American Kestrel
Merlin
Band-tailed Pigeon
Rock Dove
 
Mourning Dove
Western Screech-Owl
Western Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
Wrentit
Oak Titmouse
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Townsend's Solitaire
Northern Mockingbird
MacGillivray's Warbler

Fox Sparrow
Lawrence's Goldfinch


Species With Grey-Green Heads, Facial Marks, or Shoulders
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Western Wood-Pewee
Willow Flycatcher
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Hutton's Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Cassin's Vireo
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Orange-crowned Warbler

Nashville Warbler


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