Field List of the Birds of Los Angeles County

(mainland and offshore waters) This field list contains 491 bird species recorded in Los Angeles County, California, including Santa Catalina and San Clemente Islands and offshore waters (to the 200 mile limit) for which the nearest point of land is Los Angeles County. The list includes eight well-established non-native species that have been accepted to the California state list by the California Bird Records Committee; an additional 14 naturalized nonnative species which have significant populations in Los Angeles County but are not accepted to the California list are listed in brackets (), as are two additional species, the Gambel's Quail and Northern Cardinal, which are native to California but introduced into Los Angeles County (bracketed species are not included in the 491 total above).