MERCED COUNTY BIRD CHECKLIST Location: ______________________________________ Date: ____________________ JAN2015-LIST Ducks, Geese, and Swans _____ 5 Fulvous Whistling-Duck _____ 1 Greater Wht-frnted Goose _____ 5 Emperor Goose _____ 1 Snow Goose _____ 1 Ross's Goose _____ 5 Brant _____ 1 Cackling Goose _____ 1 Canada Goose _____ 5 Trumpeter Swan _____ 3 Tundra Swan _____ 1 Wood Duck _____ 1 Gadwall _____ 3 Eurasian Wigeon _____ 1 American Wigeon _____ 1 Mallard _____ 3 Blue-winged Teal _____ 1 Cinnamon Teal _____ 1 Northern Shoveler _____ 1 Northern Pintail _____ 1 Green-winged Teal _____ 1 Canvasback _____ 2 Redhead _____ 1 Ring-necked Duck _____ 5 Tufted Duck _____ 4 Greater Scaup _____ 1 Lesser Scaup _____ 5 Surf Scoter _____ 5 White-winged Scoter _____ 5 Long-tailed Duck _____ 1 Bufflehead _____ 1 Common Goldeneye _____ 4 Barrow's Goldeneye _____ 2 Hooded Merganser _____ 1 Common Merganser _____ 5 Red-breasted Merganser _____ 1 Ruddy Duck New World Quail _____ 1 California Quail Pheasants and Turkeys _____ 2 Ring-necked Pheasant _____ 2 Wild Turkey Loons _____ 5 Red-throated Loon _____ 5 Pacific Loon _____ 3 Common Loon Grebes _____ 1 Pied-billed Grebe _____ 3 Horned Grebe _____ 5 Red-necked Grebe _____ 1 Eared Grebe _____ 1 Western Grebe _____ 1 Clark's Grebe Cormorants _____ 1 Dbl-crested Cormorant Pelicans _____ 1 American White Pelican _____ 5 Brown Pelican Herons, Bitterns, and Allies _____ 2 American Bittern _____ 5 Least Bittern _____ 1 Great Blue Heron _____ 1 Great Egret _____ 1 Snowy Egret _____ 5 Little Blue Heron _____ 1 Cattle Egret _____ 2 Green Heron _____ 2 Blk-crowned Night-Heron Ibises _____ 1 White-faced Ibis

Storks _____ 5 Wood Stork New World Vultures _____ 1 Turkey Vulture _____ 5 California Condor Ospreys _____ 1 Osprey Hawks, Kites, Eagles, and Allies _____ 2 White-tailed Kite _____ 2 Bald Eagle _____ 1 Northern Harrier _____ 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk _____ 1 Cooper's Hawk _____ 5 Northern Goshawk _____ 1 Red-shouldered Hawk _____ 5 Broad-winged hawk _____ 1 Swainson's Hawk _____ 1 Red-tailed Hawk _____ 1 Ferruginous Hawk _____ 2 Rough-legged Hawk _____ 2 Golden Eagle Rails, Gallinules, and Coots _____ 5 Yellow Rail _____ 1 Virginia Rail _____ 2 Sora _____ 1 Common Gallinule _____ 1 American Coot Cranes _____ 1 Sandhill Crane Lapwings and Plovers _____ 1 Black-bellied Plover _____ 4 American Golden-Plover _____ 3 Pacific Golden-Plover _____ 3 Snowy Plover _____ 2 Semipalmated Plover _____ 1 Killdeer _____ 5 Mountain Plover Stilts and Avocets _____ 1 Black-necked Stilt _____ 1 American Avocet Sandpipers, Phalaropes _____ 1 Spotted Sandpiper _____ 4 Solitary Sandpiper _____ 5 Wandering Tattler _____ 1 Greater Yellowlegs _____ 2 Willet _____ 2 Lesser Yellowlegs _____ 2 Whimbrel _____ 5 Hudsonian Godwit _____ 1 Long-billed Curlew _____ 3 Marbled Godwit _____ 4 Ruddy Turnstone _____ 5 Black Turnstone _____ 5 Red Knot _____ 4 Sanderling _____ 4 Semipalmated Sandpiper _____ 1 Western Sandpiper _____ 1 Least Sandpiper _____ 3 Baird's Sandpiper _____ 3 Pectoral Sandpiper _____ 1 Dunlin _____ 5 Curlew Sandpiper _____ 5 Stilt Sandpiper _____ 5 Ruff _____ 2 Short-billed Dowitcher _____ 1 Long-billed Dowitcher _____ 1 Wilson’s Snipe _____ 1 Wilson's Phalarope _____ 1 Red-necked Phalarope _____ 5 Red Phalarope

Gulls and Terns _____ 5 Sabine's Gull _____ 1 Bonaparte's Gull _____ 5 Little Gull _____ 4 Franklin's Gull _____ 3 Mew Gull _____ 1 Ring-billed Gull _____ 4 Western Gull _____ 1 California Gull _____ 1 Herring Gull _____ 2 Thayer's Gull _____ 2 Glaucous-winged Gull _____ 3 Glaucous Gull _____ 1 Caspian Tern _____ 2 Black Tern _____ 5 Common Tern _____ 1 Forster's Tern _____ 5 Black Skimmer Skuas _____ 5 Parasitic Jaeger _____ 5 Black-legged Kittiwake Pigeons and Doves _____ 1 Rock Pigeon _____ 4 Band-tailed Pigeon _____ 1 Eurasian Collared-Dove _____ 5 White-winged Dove _____ 1 Mourning Dove Cuckoos and Roadrunners _____ 5 Yellow-billed Cuckoo _____ 2 Greater Roadrunner Barn Owls _____ 1 Barn Owl Typical Owls _____ 5 Flammulated Owl _____ 2 Western Screech-Owl _____ 1 Great Horned Owl _____ 3 Northern Pygmy-Owl _____ 1 Burrowing Owl _____ 5 Spotted Owl _____ 5 Long-eared Owl _____ 3 Short-eared Owl _____ 5 Northern Saw-whet Owl Goatsuckers _____ 2 Lesser Nighthawk _____ 5 Common Nighthawk _____ 2 Common Poorwill Swifts _____ 2 Vaux's Swift _____ 1 White-throated Swift Hummingbirds _____ 1 Blk-chinned Hummingbird _____ 1 Anna's Hummingbird _____ 2 Costa's Hummingbird _____ 2 Rufous Hummingbird _____ 5 Allen's Hummingbird _____ 5 Calliope Hummingbird Kingfishers _____ 1 Belted Kingfisher Woodpeckers and Allies _____ 2 Lewis's Woodpecker _____ 1 Acorn Woodpecker _____ 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker _____ 5 Red-naped Sapsucker _____ 1 Red-breasted Sapsucker _____ 1 Nuttall's Woodpecker _____ 1 Downy Woodpecker _____ 2 Hairy Woodpecker _____ 1 Northern Flicker

Falcons _____ 1 American Kestrel _____ 2 Merlin _____ 2 Peregrine Falcon _____ 1 Prairie Falcon Tyrant Flycatchers _____ 2 Olive-sided Flycatcher _____ 2 Western Wood-Pewee _____ 2 Willow Flycatcher _____ 3 Hammond's Flycatcher _____ 4 Gray Flycatcher _____ 4 Dusky Flycatcher _____ 2 Pacific-slope Flycatcher _____ 1 Black Phoebe _____ 5 Eastern Phoebe _____ 1 Say's Phoebe _____ 5 Vermilion Flycatcher _____ 1 Ash-throated Flycatcher _____ 4 Cassin's Kingbird _____ 1 Western Kingbird Shrikes _____ 1 Loggerhead Shrike _____ 5 Northern Shrike Vireos _____ 4 Bell's Vireo _____ 4 Plumbeous Vireo _____ 2 Cassin's Vireo _____ 2 Hutton's Vireo _____ 1 Warbling Vireo _____ 5 Red-eyed Vireo Crows and Jays _____ 2 Steller's Jay _____ 1 Western Scrub-Jay _____ 1 Yellow-billed Magpie _____ 1 American Crow _____ 1 Common Raven Larks _____ Horned Lark Swallows _____ 5 Purple Martin _____ 1 Tree Swallow _____ 2 Violet-green Swallow _____ 1 N. Rough-wingd Swallow _____ 3 Bank Swallow _____ 1 Cliff Swallow _____ 1 Barn Swallow Chickadees and Titmice _____ 5 Chestnut-bckd Chickadee _____ 1 Oak Titmouse Bushtits _____ 1 Bushtit Nuthatches _____ 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch _____ 1 White-breasted Nuthatch Creepers _____ 2 Brown Creeper Wrens _____ 1 Rock Wren _____ 1 Canyon Wren _____ 1 House Wren _____ 3 Pacific Wren _____ 1 Marsh Wren _____ 1 Bewick's Wren Gnatcatchers _____ 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Dippers _____ 4 American Dipper Kinglets _____ 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet _____ 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet Sylviid Warblers _____ 1 Wrentit

Thrushes _____ 1 Western Bluebird _____ 2 Mountain Bluebird _____ 4 Townsend's Solitaire _____ 2 Swainson's Thrush _____ 1 Hermit Thrush _____ 1 American Robin _____ 2 Varied Thrush Mockingbirds and Thrashers _____ 5 Gray Catbird _____ 1 Northern Mockingbird _____ 3 Sage Thrasher _____ 1 California Thrasher Starlings _____ 1 European Starling Pipits _____ 1 American Pipit Waxwings _____ 5 Bohemian Waxwing _____ 1 Cedar Waxwing Silky-flycatchers _____ 1 Phainopepla Wood-Warblers _____ 5 Northern Waterthrush _____ 5 Black-and-White Warbler _____ 1 Orange-crowned Warbler _____ 2 Nashville Warbler _____ 5 Virginia's Warbler _____ 2 MacGillivray's Warbler _____ 1 Common Yellowthroat _____ 5 Northern Parula _____ 5 Magnolia Warbler _____ 1 Yellow Warbler _____ 5 Chestnut-sided Warbler _____ 5 Blackpoll Warbler _____ 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler _____ 2 Blk-throatd Gray Warbler _____ 5 Blk-thrtd Green Warbler _____ 5 American Redstart _____ 5 Prothonotary Warbler _____ 5 Worm-eating Warbler _____ 2 Townsend's Warbler _____ 3 Hermit Warbler _____ 5 Palm Warbler _____ 1 Wilson's Warbler _____ 5 Canada Warbler _____ 2 Yellow-breasted Chat Towhees, Sparrows and Allies _____ 5 Green-tailed Towhee _____ 1 Spotted Towhee _____ 2 Rufous-crowned Sparrow _____ 1 California Towhee _____ 2 Chipping Sparrow _____ 5 Clay-colored Sparrow _____ 4 Brewer's Sparrow _____ 5 Black-chinned Sparrow _____ 2 Vesper Sparrow _____ 1 Lark Sparrow _____ 5 Sagebrush Sparrow _____ 2 Bell's Sparrow _____ 3 Lark Bunting _____ 1 Savannah Sparrow _____ 3 Grasshopper Sparrow _____ 1 Fox Sparrow _____ 1 Song Sparrow _____ 1 Lincoln's Sparrow _____ 5 Swamp Sparrow _____ 2 White-throated Sparrow _____ 5 Harris's Sparrow _____ 1 White-crowned Sparrow _____ 1 Golden-crowned Sparrow _____ 1 Dark-eyed Junco

Cardinals and Allies _____ 1 Western Tanager _____ 5 Rose-breasted Grosbeak _____ 1 Black-headed Grosbeak _____ 2 Blue Grosbeak _____ 2 Lazuli Bunting _____ 5 Indigo Bunting Blackbirds, Orioles and Allies _____ 1 Red-winged Blackbird _____ 1 Tricolored Blackbird _____ 1 Western Meadowlark _____ 2 Yellow-headed Blackbird _____ 5 Rusty Blackbird _____ 1 Brewer's Blackbird _____ 1 Great-tailed Grackle _____ 1 Brown-headed Cowbird _____ 2 Hooded Oriole _____ 1 Bullock's Oriole Finches and Allies _____ 3 Purple Finch _____ 5 Cassin's Finch _____ 1 House Finch _____ 5 Red Crossbill _____ 2 Pine Siskin _____ 1 Lesser Goldfinch _____ 2 Lawrence's Goldfinch _____ 1 American Goldfinch _____ 5 Evening Grosbeak Old World Sparrows _____ 1 House Sparrow