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bird list idaho snake river bird of prey area may 5-11, 2002

2004-04-04 - 10:21 a.m.

Please note: This is not the official trip list. Most of the folks on the tour saw a couple more species because I can be a little slow, and I added an extra species on the morning after the official tour was over. These are the bird species that I myself actually saw.

barn owl cave along the snake river, idaho
Barn Owl Cave, Snake River, Idaho
© 2002 by Roger Williams, all rights reserved

  1. Eared Grebe
  2. Western Grebe
  3. Clark's Grebe
  4. American White Pelican
  5. Double-crested Cormorant
  6. Great blue heron
  7. Canada goose
  8. Wood duck
  9. Green-winged Teal
  10. Mallard
  11. Cinnamon Teal
  12. Northern Shoveler
  13. Gadwall
  14. American Widgeon
  15. Redhead
  16. Ring-necked Duck
  17. Lesser Scaup
  18. Common Goldeneye
  19. Bufflehead
  20. Common Merganser
  21. Ruddy Duck
  22. Turkey vulture
  23. Osprey
  24. Bald Eagle
  25. Northern Harrier
  26. Sharp-shinned Hawk
  27. Cooper's Hawk
  28. Swainson's Hawk
  29. Ferruginous Hawk
  30. Golden Eagle
  31. American Kestrel
  32. Peregrine Falcon
  33. Prairie Falcon
  34. Gray Partridge
  35. Chukar
  36. Ring-necked Pheasant
  37. California Quail
  38. American Coot
  39. Sandhill Crane
  40. Semipalmated Plover
  41. Killdeer
  42. Black-necked Stilt
  43. American Avocet
  44. Spotted Sandpiper
  45. Long-billed Curlew
  46. Least Sandpiper
  47. Long-billed Dowitcher
  48. Wilson's Phalarope
  49. Red-necked Phalarope
  50. Franklin's Gull
  51. Bonaparte's Gull
  52. Ring-billed Gull
  53. California Gull
  54. Forster's Tern
  55. Caspian Tern
  56. Black Tern
  57. Rock Dove
  58. Mourning Dove
  59. Barn Owl
  60. Western Screech-Owl
  61. Great horned Owl
  62. Burrowing Owl
  63. Long-eared Owl
  64. Vaux's Swift
  65. Belted Kingfisher
  66. Lewis' Woodpecker
  67. Red-naped Sapsucker
  68. Northern Flicker -- "red shafted"
  69. Dusky Flycatcher
  70. Say's Phoebe
  71. Western Kingbird
  72. Horned Lark
  73. Tree Swallow
  74. Violet-green Swallow
  75. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
  76. Bank Swallow
  77. Cliff Swallow
  78. Barn Swallow
  79. Steller's Jay
  80. Black-billed Magpie
  81. American Crow
  82. American Raven
  83. Black-capped Chickadee
  84. Mountain Chickadee
  85. Red-breasted Nuthatch
  86. Rock Wren
  87. Canyon Wren
  88. House Wren
  89. American Dipper
  90. Golden-crowned Kinglet
  91. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  92. Mountain Bluebird
  93. Townsend's Solitaire
  94. American Robin
  95. Varied Thrush
  96. Loggerhead Shrike
  97. European Starling
  98. Cassin's Vireo
  99. Plumbeous Vireo
  100. Orange-crowned Warbler
  101. Nashville Warbler
  102. Yellow Warbler
  103. Yellow-rumped Warbler -- "Audubon's"
  104. Common Yellowthroat (heard) -- the others saw it, but I was too slow!
  105. Western Tanager
  106. Black-headed Grosbeak
  107. Lazuli Bunting
  108. Chipping Sparrow
  109. Vesper Sparrow
  110. Lark Sparrow
  111. Savannah Sparrow
  112. Song Sparrow
  113. Dark-eyed Junco -- "Oregon" Junco
  114. Red-winged Blackbird
  115. Western Meadowlark
  116. Yellow-headed blackbird
  117. Brewer's Blackbird
  118. Brown-headed Cowbird
  119. Great-tailed Grackle
  120. Bullock's Oriole
  121. Cassin's Finch
  122. House Finch
  123. Pine Siskin
  124. American Goldfinch
  125. Evening Grosbeak
  126. House Sparrow

singing horned lark in idaho
Singing Horned Lark
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