Bird Festival Sightings 2007

These birds were found by our leaders in 2007. 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
Pink-footed Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Short-tailed Shearwater
Black-vented Shearwater
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Brandt's Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Great Egret
Cattle Egret***
Snowy Egret
Tundra Swan
Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Ross' Goose
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Brant
Wood Duck
Green winged Teal
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
Eurasian Wigeon
American Wigeon
Canvasback
Ring necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
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
Black bellied Plover
Snowy Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Mountain Plover
Killdeer
Black Oystercatcher
Black-necked Stilt
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
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson’s Snipe
Pomarine Jaeger
Bonaparte's Gull
Heermann's Gull
Mew Gull
Ring billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Thayer’s Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous Gull ***
Glaucous winged Gull
Black legged Kittiwake
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Forster's Tern
Black Skimmer
Common Murre
Pigeon Guillemot
Marbled Murrelet
Xantu’s Murrelet
Ancient Murrelet
Cassin's Auklet
Rhinoceros Auklet
Band-tailed Pigeon
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Greater Roadrunner
Barn Owl
Great Horned Owl
Northern Pygmy Owl
Burrowing Owl
White throated Swift
Anna's Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Acorn Woodpecker
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Northern Flicker
Black Phoebe
Say's Phoebe
Eastern Phoebe

Cassin’s Kingbird
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Barn 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
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby crowned Kinglet
Blue gray Gnatcatcher
Western Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Varied Thrush
Wrentit
Northern Mockingbird
California Thrasher
Sage Thrasher
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Phainopepla
Loggerhead Shrike
European Starling
Hutton's Vireo
Orange crowned Warbler
Yellow rumped Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Hermit Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Western Tanager
Black-headed Grosbeak
Spotted Towhee
California Towhee
Rufous crowned Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Sage Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's 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

***Seen on festival weekend but not on an organized tour