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Important Bird Areas: Coastal California

The sites listed here come from The American Bird Conservancy Guide to the 500 Most Important Bird Areas in the United States (2003). This region encompasses most of California, south of the redwoods and Cascades and west of the deserts and Sierra Nevada. A Mediterranean climate of hot, dry summers and cool, moist winters creates conditions for chapparal in the low mountains along the coast here, home to characteristic specialties like Nuttall's Woodpecker, Oak Titmouse, California Thrasher, and Lawrence's Goldfinch. The coastline provides habitat for waterbirds throughout the year: wintering American Avocet, Marbled Godwit and Surfbird; post-breeding Elegant Terns and Heermann's Gulls from Mexico; and nesting Ashy Storm-Petrels and Scripps's Murrelets on offshore islands. Wintering waterfowl are abundant in the fertile Central Valley, which is also the center of distribution for the localized Tricolored Blackbird and Yellow-billed Magpie.
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Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge
Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge
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Delevan National Wildlife Refuge
Delevan National Wildlife Refuge
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Colusa National Wildlife Refuge
Colusa National Wildlife Refuge
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Sutter National Wildlife Refuge
Sutter National Wildlife Refuge
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Butte Sink National Wildlife Refuge
Butte Sink National Wildlife Refuge
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Cosumnes River Preserve
Cosumnes River Preserve
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Grizzly Island Wildlife Area, California
Grizzly Island Wildlife Area, California
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San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge
San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge
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Bodega Bay
Bodega Bay
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Point Reyes National Seashore
Point Reyes National Seashore
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Farallon National Wildlife Refuge
Farallon National Wildlife Refuge
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Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
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Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
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Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve
Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve
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San Luis National Wildlife Refuge
San Luis National Wildlife Refuge
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Great Valley Grasslands State Park, California
Great Valley Grasslands State Park, California
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Volta Wildlife Area, California
Volta Wildlife Area, California
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North Grasslands Wildlife Area, California
North Grasslands Wildlife Area, California
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Merced National Wildlife Refuge
Merced National Wildlife Refuge
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Los Banos Wildlife Area
Los Banos Wildlife Area
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Montana De Oro State Park, California
Montana De Oro State Park, California
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Morro Strand State Beach, California
Morro Strand State Beach, California
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Morro Bay State Park, California
Morro Bay State Park, California
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Carrizo Plain National Monument
Carrizo Plain National Monument
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Vandenberg Air Force Base
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Los Padres National Forest
Los Padres National Forest
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Channel Islands National Park, California
Channel Islands National Park, California
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Point Mugu
Point Mugu
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Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve
Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve
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San Bernardino National Forest
San Bernardino National Forest
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Camp Pendleton
Camp Pendleton
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San Clemente Island, California
San Clemente Island, California
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Lake Hodges
Lake Hodges
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San Diego National Wildlife Refuge
San Diego National Wildlife Refuge
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San Diego Bay National Wildlife Refuge
San Diego Bay National Wildlife Refuge
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Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge
Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge
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Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve
Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve
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