Bird Festival Sightings 2006

These birds were found by our leaders in 2006. Birds highlighted in boldface are considered rare or uncommon.

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Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Pied billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark's Grebe
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Brandt's Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White-faced Ibis
Snow Goose
Ross' Goose
Brant
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Green winged Teal
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
Eurasian Wigeon
American Wigeon
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Harlequin Duck
Long-tailed Duck
Black Scoter
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
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson’s Snipe
Red Phalarope
Bonaparte's Gull
Heermann's Gull
Mew Gull
Ring billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Thayer’s Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous winged Gull
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Forster's Tern
Black Skimmer
Rock Dove
Band-tailed Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Eurasian-collared Dove
Greater Roadrunner
Barn Owl
Great Horned Owl
Northern Pygmy Owl
Burrowing Owl
Long-eared Owl
White throated Swift
Anna's Hummingbird
Allen's Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Acorn Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Red-naped Sapsucker
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
"Western" Flycatcher
Gray Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Black Phoebe

Say's Phoebe
Cassin’s Kingbird
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub Jay
Yellow billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
Chestnut backed Chickadee
Oak Titmouse
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White breasted Nuthatch
Pygmy 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
Wrentit
Northern Mockingbird
California Thrasher
Sage Thrasher
Le Conte’s 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
Northern Parula
Nashville Warbler
Spotted Towhee
California Towhee
Rufous crowned Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Bunting
Lark Sparrow
Sage Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Golden crowned Sparrow
White crowned Sparrow
Dark eyed Junco
Red winged Blackbird
Tricolored Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown headed Cowbird
Purple Finch
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow