Bird Festival Sightings 2008
These birds were found by our leaders in 2008. Birds highlighted in boldface are considered rare or uncommon.
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WATERFOWL -QUAIL
Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross's Goose Brant Cackling Goose Canada Goose Wood Duck Gadwall Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon Mallard Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Canvasback Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Long-tailed Duck Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Wild Turkey California Quail LOON-GREBE Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clark’s Grebe PELAGICS-PELICAN Northern Fulmar Pink-footed Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Short-tailed Shearwater Black-vented Shearwater American White Pelican Brown Pelican CORMORANT-BITTERN-HERON Brandt’s Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant American Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-heron VULTURE-HAWK-FALCON Turkey Vulture California Condor 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 |
RAIL-PLOVER-SANDPIPER Virginia Rail Sora Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover Snowy Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Mountain Plover Black Oystercatcher American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Willet Spotted Sandpiper Whimbrel Long-billed Curlew Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Black Turnstone Surfbird Red Knot Sanderling Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dunlin Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson’s Snipe JAEGER-GULL-TERN-ALCIDS 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 Glaucous Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Caspian Tern Royal Tern Forster's Tern Black Skimmer Common Murre Pigeon Guillemot Marbled Murrelet Rhinoceros Auklet DOVE-OWL-SWIFT-HUMMER Rock Pigeon Band-tailed Pigeon Eurasian Collared Dove Mourning Dove Greater Roadrunner Barn Owl Great Horned Owl Burrowing Owl White-throated Swift Anna’s Hummingbird Allen’s/Rufous Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher WOODPECKER-FLYCATCHER Lewis’s Woodpecker Acorn Woodpecker Red-naped Sapsucker Red-breasted Sapsucker Nuttall’s Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Black Phoebe Say’s Phoebe |
SHRIKE-VIREO-CORVID-LARK Loggerhead Shrike Hutton’s Vireo Stellar’s Jay Western Scrub Jay Yellow-billed Magpie American Crow Common Raven Horned Lark SWALLOW-WREN-KINGLET Tree Swallow Barn Swallow 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 Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher BLUEBIRD-STARLING-PHAINO Western Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Hermit Thrush American Robin Varied Thrush Wrentit Northern Mockingbird Sage Thrasher California Thrasher European Starling American Pipit Cedar Waxwing Phainopepla WARBLER-TANAGER Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Townsend's Warbler Grace’s Warbler* Common Yellowthroat TOWHEE-SPARROW 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 White-crowned Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco BLACKBIRD-FINCH Red-winged Blackbird Tricolored Blackbird Western Meadowlark Brewer’s Blackbird Great-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Purple Finch House Finch Pine Siskin Lesser Goldfinch American Goldfinch House Sparrow *First record for the Festival |