A Checklist of the Birds of
WASHINGTON & VANCOUVER

Bold-faced species are rare, unusual or local species.
  Aug Aug Aug Aug
  95-98 2000 2003 2004
Greater White-fronted Goose x x   x
Brant x      
Canada Goose x x x x
Black Swan (escape)     x  
Wood Duck x x    
Gadwall x x x x
American Wigeon x x    
Mallard x x x x
Blue-winged Teal x x x  
Cinnamon Teal x x   x
Northern Shoveler x x x x
Northern Pintail x x x x
Green-winged Teal x x x x
Redhead x      
Ring-necked Duck x x    
Greater Scaup x x x x
Lesser Scaup x      
Harlequin Duck x x x x
Surf Scoter x x x x
White-winged Scoter x x x x
Black Scoter x x   x
Long-tailed Duck x      
Bufflehead x   x  
Hooded Merganser x x x x
Common Merganser x x x x
Red-breasted Merganser x x   x
Ruddy Duck x x x  
Ring-necked Pheasant x     x
Ruffed Grouse     x  
Spruce Grouse x      
White-tailed Ptarmigan   x x x
Sooty (Blue) Grouse x x x x
Mountain Quail       x
California Quail x x x x
Red-throated Loon x x    
Pacific Loon x x x  
Common Loon x x x x
Yellow-billed Loon x x    
Pied-billed Grebe x x x x
Horned Grebe x      
Red-necked Grebe x x x x
Eared Grebe x x    
Western Grebe x x x x
Black-footed Albatross x x x x
Northern Fulmar x x x x
Pink-footed Shearwater x x x x
Flesh-footed Shearwater x     x
Buller's Shearwater x x x  
Sooty Shearwater x x x x
Short-tailed Shearwater     x  
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel x x x  
American White Pelican x      
Brown Pelican x x x x
Brandt's Cormorant x x x x
Double-crested Cormorant x x x x
Pelagic Cormorant x x x x
American Bittern x      
Great Blue Heron x x x x
Great Egret x x x x
Green Heron x x x  
Black-crowned Night-Heron       x
Turkey Vulture x x x x
Osprey x x x x
Bald Eagle x x x x
Northern Harrier x x x x
Sharp-shinned Hawk x x x x
Cooper's Hawk x x x x
Northern Goshawk x x    
Red-tailed Hawk x x x x
Golden Eagle x x x x
American Kestrel x x x x
Merlin x     x
Peregrine Falcon x x   x
Prairie Falcon x     x
Virginia Rail x x x x
Sora x      
American Coot x x x x
Sandhill Crane x x    
Black-bellied Plover x x x x
American Golden-Plover x x    
Pacific Golden-Plover x x    
Snowy Plover x   x x
Semipalmated Plover x x x x
Killdeer x x x x
Black Oystercatcher x x x x
Greater Yellowlegs x x x x
Lesser Yellowlegs x x    
Solitary Sandpiper x      
Willet x x x x
Wandering Tattler x x x x
Spotted Sandpiper x   x x
Whimbrel x x x x
Long-billed Curlew x     x
Bar-tailed Godwit x x   x
Marbled Godwit x x x x
Ruddy Turnstone x x x x
Black Turnstone x x x x
Surfbird x x x x
Red Knot       x
Sanderling x x x x
Semipalmated Sandpiper x x x x
Western Sandpiper x x x x
Least Sandpiper x x x x
Baird's Sandpiper x     x
Pectoral Sandpiper x x    
Rock Sandpiper x      
Dunlin     x x
Stilt Sandpiper x      
Short-billed Dowitcher x x   x
Long-billed Dowitcher x x x  
Wilson's Snipe x      
Wilson's Phalarope x x    
Red-necked Phalarope x x x x
Red Phalarope x x x x
South Polar Skua x x x  
Pomarine Jaeger x   x x
Parasitic Jaeger x      
Long-tailed Jaeger x x   x
Bonaparte's Gull x x x  
Heermann's Gull x x x x
Mew Gull x x x x
Ring-billed Gull x x x x
California Gull x x x x
Herring Gull x x x  
Western Gull x x x x
Western x Glaucous-winged Gull x x x x
Glaucous-winged Gull x x x x
Sabine's Gull x x x x
Black-legged Kittiwake x      
Red-legged Kittiwake   x    
Caspian Tern x x x x
Elegant Tern x      
Common Tern x x x  
Arctic Tern x x    
Common Murre x x x x
Pigeon Guillemot x x x x
Marbled Murrelet x x x x
Cassin's Auklet x   x x
Rhinoceros Auklet x x x x
Horned Puffin   x    
Tufted Puffin x x x x
Rock Pigeon x x x x
Band-tailed Pigeon x x x x
Mourning Dove x x x x
Barn Owl x      
Western Screech-Owl x      
Northern Pygmy-Owl x x    
(Northern) Spotted Owl   x    
Common Nighthawk x x x x
Black Swift x      
Vaux's Swift x x x x
White-throated Swift   x   x
Anna's Hummingbird x x    
Rufous Hummingbird x x x x
Belted Kingfisher x x x x
Red-breasted Sapsucker x x   x
Downy Woodpecker x x x x
Hairy Woodpecker x x x x
Northern (Red-shafted) Flicker x x x x
Pileated Woodpecker x x   x
Olive-sided Flycatcher x x x x
Western Wood-Pewee x x x x
Willow Flycatcher x     x
Hammond's Flycatcher x x x  
Dusky Flycatcher x     x
Pacific-slope Flycatcher   x   x
Eastern Kingbird x      
Cassin's Vireo x x    
Hutton's Vireo x     x
Warbling Vireo x x   x
Red-eyed Vireo x      
Gray Jay x x x x
Steller's Jay x x x x
Western Scrub-Jay x x   x
Clark's Nutcracker x x x x
American Crow x x x x
Nothwestern Crow x x x x
Common Raven x x x x
Sky Lark x x    
Horned Lark x x x  
Tree Swallow x x x x
Violet-green Swallow x x x x
Northern Rough-winged Swallow x x x x
Bank Swallow   x x  
Cliff Swallow x x x x
Barn Swallow x x x x
Black-capped Chckadee x x x x
Mountain Chickadee x x x x
Chestnut-backed Chichadee x x x x
Bushtit x x x x
Red-breasted Nuthatch x x x x
Pygmy Nuthatch x     x
Brown Creeper x x   x
Bewick's Wren x x x x
House Wren x   x x
Winter Wren x x x x
Marsh Wren x x x  
American Dipper x x x x
Golden-crowned Kinglet x x x x
Ruby-crowned Kinglet x   x  
Western Bluebird x      
Mountain Bluebird x   x x
Townsend's Solitaire x x    
Swainson's Thrush x      
Hermit Thrush x x    
American Robin x x x x
Varied Thrush x x x x
European Starling x x x x
Crested Myna(extirpated in 2004) x x    
American Pipit x x x x
Cedar Waxwing x x x x
Orange-crowned Warbler x   x x
Nashville Warbler x      
Yellow Warbler x x x x
Yellow-rumped (Aud's) Warbler x x x x
Black-throated Gray Warbler x x    
Townsend's Warbler x x x x
Hermit Warbler x      
MacGillivray's Warbler x      
Common Yellowthroat x x x x
Wilson's Warbler x x x  
Western Tanager x x x x
Spotted Towhee x x   x
Chipping Sparrow x x x  
Vesper Sparrow x      
Lark Sparrow     x  
Savannah Sparrow x x x x
Fox Sparrow x x    
Song Sparrow x x x x
Lincoln's Sparrow x      
White-crowned Sparrow x x x x
Dark-eyed (Oregon) Junco x x x x
Lapland Longspur x      
Black-headed Grosbeak       x
Red-winged Blackbird x x x x
Yellow-headed Blackbird x      
Brewer's Blackbird x x x x
Brown-headed Cowbird x x x x
Bullock's Oriole x      
Pine Grosbeak x      
Purple Finch x      
Cassin's Finch x   x x
House Finch x x x x
Red Crossbill x x x x
White-winged Crossbill x      
Pine Siskin x x x x
American Goldfinch x x x x
Evening Grosbeak x x x x
House Sparrow x x x x
Total Species 172-
194		 184 157 166
August 2003 and 2004 were to Washington only; these tours did not include Vancouver.        

x = observed       h = heard       d = dead
  Aug Aug Aug Aug
  95-98 2000 2003 2004
MAMMALS        
Black Bear x     x
Opossum d d d d
Raccoon x x d x
River Otter   x    
Striped Skunk d d   d
Muskrat x x    
Coyote   h   h
Hoary Marmot x x x x
Olympic Marmot x      
Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel x x x x
Townsend Chipmunk x x x x
Yellow Pine Chipmunk   x x x
Eastern Gray Squirrel x x    
Eastern "Black" Squirrel x      
Douglass Squirrel (Chickaree) x x x x
Porcupine d   d d
Northern Water Shrew   d    
Pika x x x h
Snowshoe Hare x x    
Eastern Cottontail x     x
Elk x x x x
Mule Deer x x x x
White-tailed Deer     x  
Fallow Deer (introduced) x      
Mountain Goat x x x  
Humpback Whale     x  
Minke Whale x      
Gray Whale x x    
Harbor Porpoise x x x x
Dall's Porpoise x   x x
Harbor Seal x x x x
Elephant Seal     x x
Northern Fur Seal     x x
         
FISHES        
Ocean Sunfish x x x x
Blue Shark x x x x
Steelhead x x    
Sea Run Cutthroat Trout   x    
Silver Salmon     x x
Rainbow Trout       x
         
REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS        
Western Garter Snake x x   x
Western Painted Turtle x x   x
Cascades Frog x      
Bullfrog x x    
Tailed Frog   x    
Fence Lizard     x  
         
INVERTEBRATES        
Banana Slug x x x x
Ochre Seastar x x x x
Mound-building Ants x x   x
Jellyfish x x x x
Horned Beetle     x  
Tiger Beetle     x x
Red Rock Crab     x  
Dungeness Crab     x x
         
NATURAL PHENOMENA        
Perseid Meteor Shower     x x
Rainbow     x  
Sundog       x
Corona       x
Fogbow       x
         

A Checklist of the Birds of WASHINGTON & VANCOUVER
Compiled by Robert M. Schutsky
Bird Treks, 216 Spring Lane
Peach Bottom, PA USA 17563-4008
717-548-3303 info@birdtreks.com
www.birdtreks.com
Created by Valerie K. M. Schutsky

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