We went for a fantastic three-week holiday taking in a three-night stop at San Francisco either side of a week on Maui and a week on Big Island. I didn’t record every sighting as it wasn’t really a birding trip, as such, and I wanted to record lots of other things too. I did, however take as many photos as I could. though we did not see too many endemics (we never really got much of a chance to spend time on our own in the rain forests which is where we really need to be) Despite that we clocked up about forty species and twenty-six of those were lifers.
Birds Seen in San Francisco ( 17 Species, 8 Lifers )
| American Coot | Fulica americana | Lifer |
| American Crow | Corvus brachyrhynchos | |
| Blue Jay | Cyanocitta cristata | Lifer |
| Brewer’s Blackbird | Euphagus cyanocephalus | Lifer |
| Canada Goose | Branta canadensis | |
| Chestnut-backed Chickadee | Poecile rufescens | Lifer |
| Double-crested Cormorant | Phalacrocorax auritus | |
| Herring Gull | Larus argentatus | |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | |
| Raven | Corvus corax | |
| Red-masked Parakeet | Aratinga erythrogenys | Lifer |
| Red-tailed Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis | Lifer |
| Ring-necked Duck | Aythya collaris | Lifer |
| Rock Dove / Feral Pigeon | Columba livia | |
| Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | |
| Steller’s Jay | Cyanocitta stelleri | Lifer |
| White-crowned Sparrow | Zonotrichia leucophrys |
Birds Seen in Hawaii ( 23 Species, 18 Lifers )
| Black Noddy (Hawaiian) | Anous minutus melanogenys | Lifer |
| Black-necked Stilt | Himantopus mexicanus | Lifer |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Common Myna | Acridotheres tristis | Lifer |
| Common Waxbill | Estrilda astrild | Lifer |
| Gray Francolin | Francolinus pondicerianus | Lifer |
| Grey Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
| Hawaiian Coot | Fulica alai | Lifer |
| Hawaiian Goose | Branta sandvicensis | Lifer |
| House Finch | Carpodacus mexicanus | Lifer |
| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | |
| Japanese White-eye | Zosterops japonicus | Lifer |
| Java Sparrow | Lonchura oryzivora | Lifer |
| Night-heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
| Northern Cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | Lifer |
| Pacific Golden Plover | Pluvialis fulva | Lifer |
| Red-crested Cardinal | Paroaria coronata | Lifer |
| Rock Dove / Feral Pigeon | Columba livia | |
| Saffron Finch | Sicalis flaveola | Lifer |
| Spotted Dove | Streptopelia chinensis | Lifer |
| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | Lifer |
| Yellow-billed Cardinal | Paroaria capitata | Lifer |
| Zebra Dove | Geopelia striata | Lifer |