Slow motion female Allen's Hummingbird close-up feeding 300fps(trimmed) V09072
A Female Allen's Hummingbird feeding
As well as the parrots of Telegraph Hill, there are many other interesting and beautiful birds in San Francisco and the surrounding area. Large numbers of shore birds can be found at Chrissy Fields and Ocean Beach, including the American Avocet with its unusual upward curved beak, and the bright-on-black of the American Oyster Catcher.
San Francisco has three types of hummingbird, which will sometimes use artificial feeders, giving excellent views of these beautiful little birds. To see them in a more natural setting, visit Golden Gate Park for the Allen's and Anna's hummingbirds, and the Presidio for the best chance to see the Rufous Hummingbird.
List of Birds found in and around San Francisco[]
| Acorn Woodpecker |  |
| Allen's Hummingbird |  |
| American Avocet |  |
| American Black Oystercatcher |  |
| American Coot |  |
| American Crow |  |
| American Goldfinch |  |
| American Kestrel |  |
| American Pipit |  |
| American Redstart |  |
| American Robin |  |
| American Wigeon |  |
| Anna's Hummingbird |  |
| Ash-throated Flycatcher |  |
| Ashy Storm-Petrel |  |
| Band-tailed Pigeon | |
| Bank Swallow | |
| Barn Owl | |
| Barn Swallow | |
| Belted Kingfisher | |
| Bewick's Wren | |
| Black Phoebe | |
| Black Scoter | |
| Black Swift | |
| Black Turnstone | |
| Black-and-white Warbler | |
| Black-bellied Plover | |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | |
| Black-headed Grosbeak | |
| Black-throated Gray Warbler | |
| Black-vented Shearwater | |
| Blackpoll Warbler | |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | |
| Brandt's Cormorant | |
| Brewer's Blackbird | |
| Brown Creeper | |
| Brown Pelican | |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | |
| Bufflehead | |
| Bullock's Oriole | |
| Burrowing Owl | |
| Bushtit | |
| California Gull | |
| California Quail | |
| California Towhee | |
| Canvasback | |
| Caspian Tern | |
| Cassin's Auklet | |
| Cassin's Vireo | |
| Cedar Waxwing | |
| Chestnut-backed Chickadee | |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | |
| Chipping Sparrow | |
| Clark's Grebe | |
| Clay-colored Sparrow | |
| Cliff Swallow | |
| Common Goldeneye | |
| Common Loon | |
| Common Murre | |
| Common Raven | |
| Common Yellowthroat | |
| Cooper's Hawk | |
| Dark-eyed Junco | |
| Double-crested Cormorant | |
| Downy Woodpecker | |
| Dunlin | |
| Dusky Flycatcher | |
| Eared Grebe | |
| Elegant Tern | |
| European Starling | |
| Forster's Tern | |
| Fox Sparrow | |
| Glaucous-winged Gull | |
| Golden-crowned Kinglet | |
| Golden-crowned Sparrow | |
| Great Blue Heron | |
| Great Egret | |
| Great Horned Owl | |
| Greater Yellowlegs | |
| Green Heron | |
| Hairy Woodpecker | |
| Hammond's Flycatcher | |
| Heermann's Gull | |
| Hermit Thrush | |
| Hermit Warbler | |
| Hooded Oriole | |
| Horned Grebe | |
| Horned Lark | |
| House Finch | |
| House Sparrow | 
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| House Wren | |
| Hutton's Vireo | |
| Killdeer | |
| Lark Sparrow | |
| Lazuli Bunting | |
| Leach's Storm-Petrel | |
| Lesser Goldfinch | |
| Lesser Scaup | |
| Lincoln Sparrow | |
| Long-billed Curlew | |
| MacGillivray's Warbler | |
| Mallard | |
| Marbled Godwit | |
| Marsh Wren | |
| Merlin | |
| Mew Gull | |
| Mourning Dove | |
| Nashville Warbler | |
| Northern Flicker | |
| Northern Fulmar | |
| Northern Mockingbird | |
| Northern Parula | |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow | |
| Northern Shoveler | |
| Nuttall's Woodpecker | |
| Olive-sided Flycatcher | |
| Orange-crowned Warbler | |
| Osprey | |
| Pacific Loon | |
| Pacific-slope Flycatcher | |
| Palm Warbler | |
| Pelagic Cormorant | |
| Peregrine Falcon | |
| Pied-billed Grebe | |
| Pigeon Guillemot | |
| Pine Siskin | |
| Pink-footed Shearwater | |
| Purple Finch | |
| Pygmy Nuthatch | |
| Red Crossbill | |
| Red-breasted Merganser | |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | |
| Red-breasted Sapsucker | |
| Red-masked Parakeet | |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | |
| Red-tailed Hawk | |
| Red-throated Loon | |
| Red-winged Blackbird | |
| Rhinoceros Auklet | |
| Ring-billed Gull | |
| Ring-necked Duck | |
| Rock Dove | |
| Rock Wren | |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | |
| Ruddy Duck | |
| Rufous Hummingbird | |
| Sanderling | |
| Savannah Sparrow | |
| Say's Phoebe | |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | |
| Snowy Egret | |
| Snowy Plover | |
| Song Sparrow | |
| Sooty Shearwater | |
| Sora | |
| Spotted Sandpiper | |
| Spotted Towhee | |
| Steller's Jay | |
| Summer Tanager | |
| Surf Scoter | |
| Surfbird | |
| Swainson's Thrush | |
| Swamp Sparrow | |
| Tennessee Warbler | |
| Thayer's Gull | |
| Townsend's Warbler | |
| Tree Swallow | |
| Tricolored Blackbird | |
| Tropical Kingbird | |
| Tufted Puffin | |
| Varied Thrush | |
| Vaux's Swift | |
| Violet-green Swallow | |
| Virginia Rail | |
| Wandering Tattler | |
| Warbling Vireo | |
| Western Bluebird | |
| Western Grebe | |
| Western Gull | |
| Western Kingbird | |
| Western Meadowlark | |
| Western Sandpiper | |
| Western Screech-Owl | |
| Western Scrub-Jay | |
| Western Tanager | |
| Western Wood-Pewee | |
| White-crowned Sparrow | |
| White-throated Sparrow | |
| White-throated Swift | |
| White-winged Parakeet | |
| White-winged Scoter | |
| Willet | |
| Willow Flycatcher | |
| Wilson's Warbler | |
| Winter Wren | |
| Wrentit | |
| Yellow Warbler | |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler |