A Checklist of the Birds of
OREGON and NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

Bold-faced species are rare, unusual or local species.
x = observed       h = heard only
  Oct Oct Oct
  1999 2000 2006
Fulvous Whistling-Duck      
Greater White-fronted Goose x x x
Emperor Goose      
Snow Goose     x
Ross's Goose      
Brant      
Cackling Goose     x
Canada Goose x x x
Trumpeter Swan      
Tundra Swan   x  
Wood Duck x   x
Gadwall x x x
Eurasian Wigeon   x x
American Wigeon x x x
American Black Duck      
Mallard x x x
Blue-winged Teal x   x
Cinnamon Teal     x
Northern Shoveler x x x
Northern Pintail x x x
Garganey      
Baikal Teal      
Green-winged Teal x x x
Canvasback x x x
Redhead x x x
Ring-necked Duck x x x
Tufted Duck      
Greater Scaup   x x
Lesser Scaup x x x
Steller's Eider      
King Eider      
Harlequin Duck x x x
Surf Scoter x x x
White-winged Scoter x x x
Black Scoter x x x
Long-tailed Duck x    
Bufflehead x x x
Common Goldeneye      
Barrow's Goldeneye      
Smew      
Hooded Merganser x x x
Common Merganser x x x
Red-breasted Merganser x x x
Ruddy Duck x x x
Chukar      
Gray Partridge      
Ring-necked Pheasant x x x
Ruffed Grouse x x x
Greater Sage-Grouse      
Spruce Grouse      
Sooty (Blue) Grouse      
Wild Turkey      
Mountain Quail      
California Quail x x x
Red-throated Loon x x x
Pacific Loon x x x
Common Loon x x x
Yellow-billed Loon      
Pied-billed Grebe x x x
Horned Grebe   x x
Red-necked Grebe x   x
Eared Grebe x x x
Western Grebe x x x
Clark's Grebe x x x
Shy Albatross      
Laysan Albatross   x  
Black-footed Albatross x x x
Short-tailed Albatross   x  
Northern Fulmar x x x
Murphy's Petrel      
Mottled Petrel      
Streaked Shearwater      
Pink-footed Shearwater x x x
Flesh-footed Shearwater   x  
Buller's Shearwater x x x
Sooty Shearwater x x x
Short-tailed Shearwater x x  
Black-vented Shearwater      
Wilson's Storm-Petrel      
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel x    
Leach's Storm-Petrel   x  
Black Storm-Petrel      
American White Pelican x x x
Brown Pelican x x x
Brandt's Cormorant x x x
Double-crested Cormorant x x x
Pelagic Cormorant x x x
Magnificnt Frigatebird      
American Bittern x    
Least Bittern      
Great Blue Heron x x x
Great Egret x x x
Snowy Egret x x  
Little Blue Heron      
Tricolored Heron      
Cattle Egret      
Green Heron     x
Black-crowned Night-Heron x   x
White-faced Ibis     x
Turkey Vulture x   x
Osprey     x
White-tailed Kite     x
Bald Eagle x x x
Northern Harrier x x x
Sharp-shinned Hawk x x x
Cooper's Hawk x x x
Northern Goshawk     x
Red-shouldered Hawk x   x
Broad-winged Hawk      
Swainson's Hawk      
Red-tailed Hawk x x x
Ferruginous Hawk   x x
Rough-legged Hawk x x x
Golden Eagle   x x
American Kestrel x x x
Merlin x x x
Gyrfalcon      
Peregrine Falcon x x x
Prairie Falcon     x
Yellow Rail      
Virginia Rail x x h
Sora     h
Common Moorhen      
American Coot x x x
Sandhill Crane x x x
Black-bellied Plover x x x
American Golden-Plover      
Pacific Golden-Plover      
Lesser Sand-Plover      
Snowy Plover      
Semipalmated Plover     x
Piping Plover      
Killdeer x x x
Mountain Plover      
Black Oystercatcher x x x
Black-necked Stilt x   x
American Avocet      
Greater Yellowlegs x   x
Lesser Yellowlegs      
Spotted Redshank      
Solitary Sandpiper      
Willet x    
Wandering Tattler x   x
Spotted Sandpiper     x
Upland Sandpiper      
Whimbrel x    
Bristle-thighed Curlew      
Long-billed Curlew x    
Hudsonian Godwit      
Bar-tailed Godwit      
Marbled Godwit     x
Ruddy Turnstone      
Black Turnstone x x x
Surfbird x x x
Great Knot      
Red Knot      
Sanderling   x x
Semipalmated Sandpiper      
Western Sandpiper x   x
Red-necked Stint      
Little Stint      
Long-toed Stint      
Least Sandpiper x   x
Baird's Sandpiper     x
Pectoral Sandpiper x   x
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper      
Rock Sandpiper      
Dunlin x x x
Curlew Sandpiper      
Stilt Sandpiper      
Buff-breasted Sandpiper      
Ruff      
Short-billed Dowitcher      
Long-billed Dowitcher x   x
Wilson's Snipe x x x
Wilson's Phalarope      
Red-necked Phalarope x x x
Red Phalarope x x  
South Polar Skua     x
Pomarine Jaeger x x x
Parasitic Jaeger   x x
Long-tailed Jaeger     x
Laughing Gull      
Franklin's Gull      
Little Gull      
Black-headed Gull      
Bonaparte's Gull x x  
Heermann's Gull x x x
Mew Gull x x x
Ring-billed Gull x x x
California Gull x x x
Herring Gull x x x
Thayer's Gull   x  
Slaty-backed Gull      
Western Gull x x x
Western x Glaucous-winged Gull x x x
Glaucous-winged Gull x x x
Glaucous Gull      
Sabine's Gull x x x
Black-legged Kittiwake   x  
Red-legged Kittiwake      
Ross's Gull      
Caspian Tern      
Elegant Tern      
Common Tern      
Arctic Tern      
Forster's Tern x    
Least Tern      
Black Tern      
Common Murre x x x
Thick-billed Murre      
Pigeon Guillemot x x x
Marbled Murrelet x   x
Xantus's Murrelet      
Ancient Murrelet      
Cassin's Auklet x x x
Parakeet Auklet      
Rhinoceros Auklet x x x
Horned Puffin      
Tufted Puffin     x
Rock Pigeon x x x
Band-tailed Pigeon      
White-winged Dove      
Mourniing Dove x x x
Yellow-billed Cuckoo      
Barn Owl      
Flammulated Owl      
Western Screech-Owl      
Great Horned Owl x   x
Snowy Owl      
Northern Hawk Owl      
Northern Pygmy-Owl x    
Burrowing Owl      
Spotted Owl      
Barred Owl      
Great Gray Owl   x  
Long-eared Owl      
Short-eared Owl      
Boreal Owl      
Northern Saw-whet Owl      
Common Nighthawk      
Common Poorwill      
Black Swift      
Vaux's Swift      
White-throated Swift      
Black-chinned Hummingbird      
Anna's Hummingbird     x
Costa's Hummingbird      
Calliope Hummingbird      
Broad-tailed Hummingbird      
Rufous Hummingbird      
Allen's Hummingbird      
Belted Kingfisher x x x
Lewis's Woodpecker x    
Acorn Woodpecker x   x
Williamson's Sapsucker x x  
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker      
Red-naped Sapsucker      
Red-breasted Sapsucker x   x
Nuttall's Woodpecker      
Downy Woodpecker x x x
Hairy Woodpecker x x x
White-headed Woodpecker x x x
Amer. Three-toed Woodpecker x    
Black-backed Woodpecker     x
Northern (Red-shafted) Flicker x x x
Red x Yellow-shafted Flicker     x
Pileated Woodpecker x x x
Olive-sided Flycatcher      
Western Wood-Pewee      
Eastern Wood-Pewee      
Willow Flycatcher      
Least Flycatcher      
Hammond's Flycatcher      
Gray Flycatcher      
Dusky Flycatcher      
Pacific-slope Flycatcher      
Cordilleran Flycatcher      
Black Phoebe      
Eastern Phoebe      
Say's Phoebe     x
Vermilion Flycatcher      
Ash-throated Flycatcher      
Tropical Kingbird      
Cassin's Kingbird      
Western Kingbird      
Eastern Kingbird      
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher      
Loggerhead Shrike     x
Northern Shrike   x  
Bell's Vireo      
Plumbeous Vireo      
Cassin's Vireo      
Blue-headed Vireo      
Hutton's Vireo      
Warbling Vireo      
Red-eyed Vireo      
Gray Jay x x x
Steller's Jay x x x
Blue Jay      
Western Scrub-Jay x x x
Pinyon Jay      
Clark's Nutcracker x x x
Black-billed Magpie x x x
American Crow x x x
Northwestern Crow      
Common Raven x x x
Horned Lark     x
Purple Martin      
Tree Swallow x   x
Violet-green Swallow     x
Northern Rough-winged Swallow x    
Bank Swallow      
Cliff Swallow     x
Barn Swallow x   x
Black-capped Chickadee x x x
Mountain Chickadee x x x
Chestnut-backed Chickadee x x x
Oak Titmouse      
Juniper Titmouse      
Bushtit      
Red-breasted Nuthatch x x x
Whtie-breasted Nuthatch   x x
Pygmy Nuthatch x x x
Brown Creeper x x x
Rock Wen     x
Canyon Wren     x
Bewick's Wren x x x
House Wren      
Winter Wren x x x
Marsh Wren x x x
American Dipper x x x
Golden-crowned Kinglet x x x
Ruby-crowned Kinglet x x x
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher      
Northern Wheatear      
Western Bluebird x x  
Mountain Bluebird x   x
Townsend's Solitaire x x x
Veery      
Gray-cheeked Thrush      
Swainson's Thrush      
Hermit Thrush x x x
Wood Thrush      
American Robin x x x
Varied Thrush   x x
Wrentit x x x
Gray Catbird      
Northern Mockingbird      
Sage Thrasher      
Brown Thrasher      
California Thrasher      
European Starling x x x
American Pipit x x x
Bohemian Waxwing      
Cedar Waxwing x x x
Phainopepla      
Golden-winged Warbler      
Tennessee Warbler      
Orange-crowned Warbler x x x
Nashville Warbler      
Virginia's Warbler      
Lucy's Warbler      
Northern Parula      
Yellow Warbler x   x
Chestnut-sided Warbler      
Magnolia Warbler      
Cape May Warbler      
Black-throated Blue Warbler      
Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler   x  
Yellow-rumped (Aud's) Warbler x   x
Black-throated Gray Warbler      
Black-throated Green Warbler      
Townsend's Warbler   x x
Townsend's x Hermit Warbler     x
Hermit Warbler     x
Blackburnian Warbler      
Yellow-throated Warbler      
Pine Warbler      
Prairie Warbler      
Palm Warbler   x  
Bay-breasted Warbler      
Blackpoll Warbler      
Black-and-white Warbler      
American Redstart      
Prothonotary Warbler      
Worm-eating Warbler      
Ovenbird      
Northern Waterthrush      
Kentucky Warbler      
Mourning Warbler      
MacGillivray's Warbler      
Common Yellowthroat x x x
Hooded Warbler      
Wilson's Warbler x    
Canada Warbler      
Yellow-breasted Chat      
Summer Tanager      
Scarlet Tanager      
Western Tanager      
Green-tailed Towhee x   x
Spotted Towhee x x x
California Towhee     x
American Tree Sparrow      
Chipping Sparrow x   x
Clay-colored Sparrow      
Brewer's Sparrow x    
Black-chinned Sparrow      
Vesper Sparrow      
Lark Sparrow      
Black-throated Sparrow      
Sage Sparrow      
Lark Bunting      
Savannah Sparrow x x x
Grasshopper Sparrow      
Le Conte's Sparrow