Date: 8/7/25 8:37 am From: Thomas Benson via groups.io <tbenson...> Subject: [inlandcountybirds] Southeastern CA RBA: August 7, 2025
RBA
* California
* Southeastern
* August 7, 2025
* CASE25.08.07
This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties. California Bird Records Committee review species are denoted by asterisks. To report a bird POST TO INLANDCOUNTYBIRDS (https://groups.io/g/inlandcountybirds). If there is some reason that you cannot post there, please e-mail or call/text Tom Benson at <tbenson...> or (909) 648-0899.
Birds mentioned:
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Broad-billed Hummingbird
Hudsonian Godwit
Black Turnstone
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Ruff
*COMMON BLACK HAWK*
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Eastern Kingbird
Purple Martin
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
A BROAD-BILLED HUMMINGBIRD was seen at Big Morongo Canyon Preserve Jul 18-24 (Dan Baumann).
A YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was seen at Mojave Narrows Regional Park Jul 28-Aug 6 (Robert Fowlie).
RIVERSIDE COUNTY
A *COMMON BLACK HAWK* continued at Palo Verde Ecological Reserve through Jul 26 (Dan D'Urso).
An EASTERN KINGBIRD continued at Palo Verde Ecological Reserve through Jul 18 (Ron Hirst).
IMPERIAL COUNTY
Two YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS were seen at the Cibola Experimental Revegetation Site along the Colorado River on Jul 19 (Elian Elias).
A HUDSONIAN GODWIT was at the intersection of Lack and Grubel Road (SESS) Jul 23-24 (Guy McCaskie).
A BLACK TURNSTONE was seen at the west end of Young Road on Jul 25 (Samuel Bressler).
A SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER was at the west end of Young Road Jul 25-29 (Samuel Bressler).
A RUFF was seen at the west end of Young Road Jul 29-Aug 5 (Dessi Sieburth).
A PURPLE MARTIN was seen at the west end of Young Road on Jul 30 (Sasha Cahill).
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Birds included in this weekly summary are those that are considered casual or of less than annual occurrence in San Bernardino, Riverside, or Imperial Counties, or in some cases regionally within these areas. If you do find or see something of interest, whether it be a geographical or seasonal rarity, evidence of local range expansion, or a novel breeding record, I'd recommend sharing that information with the CBRC, North American Birds subregional editors, or regional listservs as appropriate. Information for contacting these entities is available below.
Please submit your documentation of all California Bird Records Committee review species (denoted by asterisks) to CBRC Secretary Tom Benson at <secretary...> or via the CBRC website: https://www.californiabirds.org/report_sighting.html
CBRC review species and birds of local or seasonal rarity should be reported to the North American Birds (https://www.aba.org/north-american-birds/) county coordinators. They are:
IMPERIAL COUNTY: Guy McCaskie, <guymcc...>
INYO COUNTY: Chris and Rosie Howard, <chris93514...>
KERN COUNTY: Kelli Heindel-Levinson, <kkheindel...>
RIVERSIDE COUNTY: David Rankin, <david.rankin...>
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY: Alexander E. Koonce, <sandy_koonce...>
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Other dying birding listservs that occasionally include reports of birds in southern California are:
A schedule of San Bernardino Valley Audubon Society field trips is available on the SBVAS website at https://www.sbvas.net/field-trips
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Bird status and distribution references that every southeastern California birder should own:
Birds of southern California: status and distribution (1981), by Kimball L. Garrett and Jon L. Dunn
Birds of the Salton Sea: status, biogeography, and ecology (2003), by Michael A. Patten, Guy McCaskie, and Philip Unitt (update: https://archive.westernfieldornithologists.org/archive/V56/56(2)-p126-p142.pdf)
Birds of the Lower Colorado River Valley (1991), by Kenneth V. Rosenberg, Robert D. Ohmart, William C. Hunter, and Bertin W. Anderson
