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new mexico bird list, nov. 14-21, 2004 2004-11-24 - 10:44 a.m. � 2004 by Roger Williams While we came for the spectacle of the huge numbers of cranes and geese, we did add an astonishing new life bird -- the Red Crossbill. I've also added the White-Crowned Sparrow to my life list, not because I haven't seen it before, but because for whatever reason it got left off my list and I didn't realize it until now. Perhaps the first time I noticed the White-Crowned Sparrow was years ago, hiking in the Grand Canyon, when I got separated from the other people and came across a singing bird. A nice memory from before the days of keeping an official list. I've never seen a Crossbill before, and at first I kept getting these tantalizing glimpses that left me totally confused. There was a streaky bird who kept flitting behind a branch. There were the yellow bottoms of some other birds very high up. Then, close but still heavily shadowed in a pine, was a red-rumped bird with its face buried deep in its pine cone prize. The picture didn't snap into focus until a cooperative female came out and posed for us in the open. Even then, for a brief moment, I wondered if I was looking at a mutant with a freakishly deformed beak. Then I finally realized what we had -- young birds (the streaky guys), females (the yellow-rumped ones), and the gloriously colored red males who kept their beaks sneakily busy so I wouldn't see the odd crossbills right away. The Greater Roadrunner was a surprisingly elusive bird. Indeed, it was the last species to be added to the list on the last tour of the last day. � 2004 by Roger Williams Pied-billed Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clark's Grebe American White Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Neotropic Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Black-crowned Night-Heron Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross's Goose Canada Goose American Wigeon Gadwall Mallard Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Redhead Ring-necked Duck Common Merganser -- 1 female at Elephant Butte Osprey -- 1 at Elephant Butte Bald Eagle -- 2, one adult, at Bosque Northern Harrier -- many! Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk -- light, rufous, and Harlan's morph all seen well Ferruginous Hawk American Kestrel -- many! Gambel's Quail Ring-necked Pheasant Sandhill Crane -- count increased from 7,400 to 11,000-plus during our visit American Coot Killdeer -- heard only Greater Yellowlegs Ring-billed Gull American Herring Gull -- 1 at Elephant Butte Rock Dove Mourning Dove White-winged Dove Greater Roadrunner Belted Kingfisher Acorn Woodpecker -- 1 at Water Canyon Red-naped Sapsucker Ladder-backed Woodpecker -- pair at Elephant Butte Northern Flicker -- Red-shafted Black Phoebe Say's Phoebe Ruby-crowned Kinglet Rock Wren Northern Mockingbird Curve-billed Thrasher -- Elephant Butte area Western Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire -- 1 at Water Canyon White-breasted Nuthatch -- Water Canyon Loggerhead Shrike -- Elephant Butte American Crow Chihuahuan Raven Common Raven -- 1 calling at Water Canyon European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler -- Audubon's Spotted Towhee Canyon Towhee -- Sandia Mountains Chipping Sparrow Black-throated Sparrow -- 1 at Elephant Butte White-crowned Sparrow -- many White-throated Sparrow -- tan type at Bosque Visitor Center feeder Dark-eyed Junco -- both Gray-Headed and Oregon subspecies Pyrrhuloxia -- Elephant Butte Red-winged Blackbird Yellow-headed Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Common Grackle -- 1 at Bosque House Finch -- 1 at Sandia Red Crossbill -- Gila National Forest, Emory Pass, family group Pine Siskin -- many, Water Canyon Lesser Goldfinch American Goldfinch House Sparrow � 2004 by Roger Williams back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford