Bird Festival Sightings 2003

These birds were found by our leaders in 2003. Birds highlighted in boldface are considered rare or uncommon.

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Red-throated Loon
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark's Grebe
Northern Fulmar
Black-footed Albatross
Pink-footed Shearwater
Black-vented Shearwater
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Brandt's Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Greater White-fronted Goose
Ross's Goose
Brant
Canada Goose
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
Eurasian Wigeon
American Wigeon
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
White-tailed Kite
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Golden Eagle
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Prairie Falcon
Wild Turkey
California Quail
Virginia Rail
Sora
American Coot
Sandhill Crane

Black-bellied Plover
Snowy Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Mountain Plover
Black Oystercatcher
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Black Turnstone
Surfbird
Sanderling
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Dowitcher Species
Red Phalarope
Pomarine Jaeger
Bonaparte's Gull
Heermann's Gull
Mew Gull
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Thayer's Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Black Skimmer
Forster's Tern
Common Murre
Marbled Murrelet
Xantus's Murrelet
Ancient Murrelet
Cassin's Auklet
Rhinoceros Auklet
Rock Dove
Band-tailed Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Short-eared Owl
White-throated Swift
Anna's Hummingbird
Allen's Hummingbirf
Belted Kingfisher
Acorn Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Black Phoebe
Say's Phoebe
Horned Lark
Barn Swallow
Tree Swallow
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
Yellow-billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven

Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Oak Titmouse
Bushtit
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Rock Wren
Canyon Wren
Bewick's Wren
House Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Western Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Varied Thrush
Wrentit
Northern Mockingbird
California Thrasher
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Phainopepla
Loggerhead Shrike
European Starling
Hutton's Vireo
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Spotted Towhee
California Towhee
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Sage Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Tricolored Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Purple Finch
House Finch
Pine Siskin
Lesser Goldfinch
Lawrence's Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

ADDITIONAL SPECIES
Mute Swan