Birding - Winter Bird Festival - Morro Bay, CA

		Sightings at Festival 2002
		MORRO BAY WINTER Bird Festival Sightings in 2002 * 203 SPECIES SEEN * These sightings (especially the unusual sightings) were not verified as is done for the Christmas count but all were seen by our expert leaders during the 6th Annual Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival, January 18-21, 2002. 203 was the total species count for the 2002 Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival!! (Here's 2001 & here's 2000) LIST OF SPECIES SEEN IN 2002
		Red-throated Loon 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 American White Pelican Brown Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Brandt's Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Cattle Egret Black-crowned Night-Heron Greater White-fronted Goose Ross's Goose Brant Canada Goose Green-winged Teal Mallard Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck Surf 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 Sandhill Crane	Black-bellied Plover Snowy Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Mountain Plover Black Oystercatcher American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Willet Wandering Tattler 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 Red Phalarope Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Bonaparte's Gull Heermann's Gull Mew Gull Ring-billed Gull California Gull Herring Gull Thayer's Gull Western Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Caspian Tern Royal Tern Forster's Tern Common Murre Cassin's Auklet Rhinoceros Auklet Rock Dove Band-tailed Pigeon Mourning Dove Eurasian Collared-Dove Barn Owl Northern Pygmy Owl Burrowing Owl Long-eared Owl White-throated Swift Anna's Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Lewis' Woodpecker Acorn Woodpecker Red-naped Sapsucker Red-breasted Sapsucker Nuttall's Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Black Phoebe Say's Phoebe Horned Lark Tree Swallow Steller's Jay Western Scrub-Jay Yellow-billed Magpie American Crow Common Raven	Chestnut-backed Chickadee Oak Titmouse Say's Bushtit White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Rock Wren Canyon Wren Bewick's 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 American Pipit Cedar Waxwing Phainopepla Loggerhead Shrike European Starling Hutton's Vireo Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Townsend's Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Spotted Towhee California Towhee Rufous-crowned Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Red-winged Blackbird Tricolored Blackbird Western Meadowlark Brewer's Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Purple Finch House Finch Lesser Goldfinch American Goldfinch House Sparrow ADDITIONAL SPECIES Nutmeg Manakin Laysan Albatross Tufted Puffin Flesh-footed Shearwater Eurasian Collared Dove Elegant Tern Black and White Warbler
		June 29, 2003