No, the Acorn Woodpecker was seen in California...boooooring!
Just curious if anyone wanted to tackle my list of 190 and tell me which birds are usually considered the "rarest". Thanks!
Acorn Woodpecker
Allen's Hummingbird
American Avocet
American Bittern
American Coot
American Crow
American Goldfinch
American Kestrel
American Oystercatcher
American Redstart
American White Pelican
American Widgeon
Anna's Hummingbird
Bald Eagle
Baltimore Oriole
Barn Swallow
Belted Kingfisher
Black Duck
Black Phoebe
Black Vulture
Black-and-white Warbler
Black-Bellied Plover
Black-Capped Chickadee
Black-Crowned Night Heron
Black-Necked Stilt
Blue Grosbeak
Blue Jay
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
Boat-Tailed Grackle
Brant Goose
Brewer's Blackbird
Brewer's Sparrow
Broad Winged Hawk
Brown Pelican
Brown Thrasher
Brown-Headed Cowbird
Bufflehead
Bullock's Oriole
California Gull
California Quail
Canada Goose
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina Wren
Cave Swallow
Cedar Waxwing
Chesnut-Backed Chickadee
Chimney Swift
Chipping Sparrow
Clapper Rail
Cliff Swallow
Common Goldeneye
Common Grackle
Common Merganser
Common Raven
Common Yellowthroat
Cooper's Hawk
Dark-Eyed Junco
Double-Crested Cormorant
Downy Woodpecker
Dunlin
Eared Grebe
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Towhee
Eastern Wood Pewee
European Starling
Evening Grosbeak
Field Sparrow
Fish Crow
Forster's Tern
Glossy Ibis
Gray Catbird
Gray Vireo
Great Black-Backed Gull
Great Blue Heron
Great Cormorant
Great Crested Flycatcher
Great Egret
Great Horned Owl
Greater Scaup
Greater Yellowlegs
Green Heron
Greylag Goose
Hairy Woodpecker
Harlequin Duck
Hermit Thrush
Herring Gull
Horned Grebe
House Finch
House Sparrow
House Wren
Indigo Bunting
Killdeer
Laughing Gull
Least Flycatcher
Lesser Black-Backed Gull
Lesser Goldfinch
Lesser Scaup
Lesser Yellowlegs
Little Blue Heron
Loggerhead Shrike
Long-Billed Dowditcher
MacGillivray's Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Mallard
Marsh Wren
Mourning Dove
Mute Swan
Northern Bobwhite
Northern Cardinal
Northern Flicker
Northern Gannet
Northern Harrier
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Parula
Northern Rough-Winged Swallow
Northern Shoveler
Oak Titmouse
Orchard Oriole
Osprey
Ovenbird
Pacific-Slope Flycatcher
Palm Warbler
Pelagic Cormorant
Peregrine Falcon
Pied-Billed Grebe
Pigeon Guillemot
Pine Warbler
Piping Plover
Prairie Warbler
Purple Finch
Purple Martin
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Red-Breasted Merganser
Red-Breasted Nuthatch
Red-Necked Phalarope
Red-Tailed Hawk
Red-Throated Loon
Red-Winged Blackbird
Ring-Billed Gull
Ring-Necked Pheasant
Robin
Rock Dove
Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
Royal Tern
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Sage Sparrow
Sanderling
Savannah Sparrow
Scarlet Tanager
Sharp-Shinned Hawk
Snow Bunting
Snow Goose
Snowy Egret
Solitary Sandpiper
Song Sparrow
Sooty Grouse
Stellar's Jay
Surf Scoter
Swamp Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Tree Swallow
Tri-Colored Heron
Tufted Titmouse
Turkey Vulture
Veery
Warbling Vireo
Western Scrub Jay
Western Tanager
White-Breasted Nuthatch
White-Crowned Sparrow
White-Eyed Vireo
White-Headed Woodpecker
White-Throated Sparrow
White-Throated Swift
Wild Turkey
Willet
Williamson's Sapsucker
Wilson's Phalarope
Wilson's Warbler
Wood Duck
Worm-Eating Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
Yellow-Headed Blackbird
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Yellow-Throated Warbler
Well if you saw it in NJ then Acorn Woodpecker would be the one - but seeing as I know you couldn't have i'd say Evening Grosbeak rates quite highly on a lot of peoples desired birds lists
Haha, if only!
No, the Acorn Woodpecker was seen in California...boooooring!