This was a great Sonoran Audubon Society trip to Keno Bay, Mexico. The lodgings were outstanding and the local food was wonderful. Keno bay is noted for its sea food. We had nine participants on the trip. It included a pelagic trip to a bird island (Isla San Pedro Matir) and a trip to the Seri Indian village of Punta Chueca. Most of us bought items from the Seri’s. Everyone picked up at least one life bird.

Following are the 92 species and 1 subspecies observed on the Kino trip. We saw all of our target birds.

TARGET BIRDS Black Storm-Petrel Least Storm-Petrel Red-billed Tropicbird Brown Booby Blue-footed Booby Elegant Tern Craveri's Murrelet Yellow Warbler, Mangrove subspecies (adult male and female, immature male) (Dendroicapetechia, Erithachordies group) Yellow Warbler (adult female) (Dendroica petechia, Aestiva group) OTHER SPECIES   9. Eared Grebe 12. Neotropic Cormorant 15. Black-crowned Night Heron 18. Tricolored Heron 21. Snowy Egret 24. White Ibis (Immature) 27. Osprey 30. Red-tailed Hawk 33. Gambel's Quail 36. Black-bellied Plover 39. Spotted Sandpiper 42. Marbled Godwit 45. Pomarine Jaeger 48. Ring-bellied Gull 51. Elegant Tern 54. Forster's Tern 57. Mourning Dove 60. Inca Dove 63. Ash-throated Flycatcher 66. Loggerhead Shrike 69. Mangrove Swallow 72. Cactus Wren 75. Northern Mockingbird 78. Orange-crowned Warbler 81. Chipping Sparrow 84. Lark Bunting 87. Great-tailed Grackle 90. House Finch 10. Magnificent Frigatebird 13. Double-crested Cormorant 16. Yellow-crowned Night Heron 19. Reddish Egret 22. Great Egret 25. Turkey Vulture 28. Common Black-Hawk 31. Crested Caracara 34. Clapper rail (4 heard) 37. American Oystercatcher 40. Whimbrel 43. Ruddy Turnstone 46. Heerman's Gull 49. California Gull 52. Royal Tern 55. Least Tern 58. White-winged Dove 61. Costa's Hummingbird 64. Western Kingbird 67. Warbling Vireo 70. Barn Swallow 73. Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher 76. Curve-billed Thrasher 79. Wilson's Warbler 82. Lark Sparrow 85. Savanna Sparrow - (Large-billed,       Passerculus sandwichenis       rostratus) 88. Hooded Oriole 91. Lesser Goldfinch 11. Brown Pelican 14. Brandt's Cormorant 17. Green Heron 20. Cattle Egret 23. Great Blue heron 26. Black vulture 29. Harris' Hawk 32. American Kestrel 35. Wilson's Plover 38. Willet 41. Long-billed Curlew 44. Sanderling 47. Laughing Gull 50. Yellow-footed Gull 53. Caspian Tern 56. Black Skimmer 59. Common Ground Dove 62. Gila Woodpecker 65. Cassin's Kingbird 68. Common Raven 71. Verdin 74. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 77. Phainopepla 80. Western Tanager 83. Black-throated Sparrow 86. White-crowned Sparrow 89. Scott's Oriole 92. House Sparrow

The dolphins that surrounded the “Red Rover” on our way to Isla San Pedro Matir were Common Dolphins.

Isle San Pedro Matir is a breeding ground for the California Sea Lion, Zalophus californianus.