BolsaChica


The Bolsa Chica section has five pages with over 350 bird images from the
Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Ballona Creek, and Newport Back Bay.
There are separate pages displaying flight and portrait photographs of
Egrets, Herons, Skimmers & Grebes; Terns; Shorebirds; Ducks and
Pelicans; and Hawks, a Peale’s Peregrine and several other birds.

The Bolsa Chica wetlands are a major stop on the Pacific Flyway,
and it is a spectacular photographic venue. Nearly half of the bird
species in the United States stop there at one time or another.

Click on a display composite below to select a page.

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Images in this section are in a number of different Galleries on the Photoshelter website.
The Banner below leads to the Wildlife Collections page where a Gallery can be selected.

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Images are in the Birds Collection

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70 portraits and flight shots of Snowy Egrets, Great Egrets, Great Blue Herons,
Night Herons, Black Skimmers, and Grebes taken at the Bolsa Chica wetlands.

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Bolsa Chica is an excellent place to see Terns. There are Elegant Terns, Forster’s Terns,
Least Terns, Common Terns, Caspian Terns, Royal Terns and others. 68 images on this
page concentrate on portraits and flight shots of the Forster’s Tern and the Elegant Tern.

Shorebirds


The Shorebirds page displays 90 images of American Avocets, Black-Necked Stilts,
Marbled Godwits, Willets, Black-Bellied Plovers, Least Sandpipers, Long-Billed Curlews
and other shorebirds taken at Bolsa Chica, Ballona Creek, Newport Back Bay and images
 which were taken in the Palo Alto Wetlands, at the LA River, and in Alaska to add context.

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75 images of Buffleheads and Pintails, Widgeons, Cinnamon Teals,
Green-Winged Teals and other ducks, along with portraits and hunting
dive shots of Brown Pelicans in non-breeding and breeding plumage.

Raptors


75 images of Light, Intermediate and Dark morph Red-Tailed Hawks,
Rufous-morph Juvenile Red-Tailed Hawks, perched Cooper’s Hawks and
Peale’s Peregrine Falcons, White-Tailed Kites and Kestrels, Ospreys,
Harriers, Cormorants, and other birds including a Belted Kingfisher,
Great-Tailed Grackles, Red-Winged Blackbirds, and Sparrows.

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Elegant Tern takeoff X4708c

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Forster’s Tern Portrait X0783c

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Images in this section are in several different Galleries on the Photoshelter website.
The Banner below leads to the Gallery Collections page where a Gallery can be selected.

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Images are in the Birds Collection and Featured Birds Collection

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