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MORRO
BAY WINTER Bird Festival
Sightings in 2005
* 221 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 9th Annual Morro Bay Winter
Bird Festival, January 14-17 2005. 221 was the total species count
for the 2005 Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival. This is the highest
festival count yet!
LIST OF 221 SPECIES SEEN AT 2005 FESTIVAL
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Red throated Loon
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Pied billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark's Grebe
Northern Fulmar
Pink-footed Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Short-tailed Shearwater
Black-vented Shearwater
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Brandt's Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Greater White-fronted Goose
Ross' Goose
Brant
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Eurasian Green-winged Teal
Green winged Teal
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
Eurasian Wigeon
American Wigeon
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Black Scoter
Surf Scoter
White-winged 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
Golden Eagle
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Prairie Falcon
Wild Turkey
California Quail
Virginia Rail
Sora
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
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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
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson’s Snipe
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
Black Skimmer
Common Murre
Marbled Murrelet
Xantu’s Murrelet
Cassin's Auklet
Rhinoceros Auklet
Rock Dove
Band-tailed Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Greater Roadrunner
Barn Owl
Great Horned Owl
Northern Pygmy Owl
Burrowing Owl
White throated Swift
Anna's Hummingbird
Allen's Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Acorn Woodpecker
Lewis’s Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Red-naped Sapsucker
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Black Phoebe
Say's Phoebe
Cassin’s Kingbird
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub Jay
Yellow billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
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Chestnut
backed Chickadee
Oak Titmouse
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Rock Wren
Bewick's Wren
House Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby crowned Kinglet
Blue gray Gnatcatcher
Western Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Wrentit
Northern Mockingbird
California Thrasher
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Phainopepla
Loggerhead Shrike
European Starling
Hutton's Vireo
Orange crowned Warbler
Yellow rumped Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Spotted Towhee
California Towhee
Rufous crowned Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Sage Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Golden crowned Sparrow
White crowned Sparrow
Dark eyed Junco
Red winged Blackbird
Tricolored Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown headed Cowbird
Purple Finch
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
UNUSUAL SPECIES
Flesh-footed Shearwater
Buller’s Shearwater
Eurasian Collared Dove
Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker
Barn Swallow
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