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| | CALIFORNIA'S PLANTS AND ANIMALS |
 | | The least Bell's vireo is a summer resident of cottonwood-willow forest, oak woodland, shrubby thickets, and dry washes with willow thickets at the edges. |
 | | Formerly, the vireo was known to breed from interior northern California near Red Bluff in Tehama County south through the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys and Sierra Nevada foothills, and in the coastal ranges from Santa Clara County south to the approximate vicinity of San Fernando in Baja California. |
 | | Currently, its breeding range is in Southern California, with large populations in Riverside and San Diego counties and smaller populations in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Diego counties and in northern Baja California. |
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