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Geese, Swans & Ducks
Greater White-Fronted Goose: Visits during winter & Migration
Snow Goose: Rare occurrence, Winter Visitor
Ross's Goose: Rare occurrence, Winter Visitor
Brant: Accidental occurrence
Cackling Goose: Rare occurence, Winter Visitor
Canada Goose: Resident, seen year round
Trumpeter Swan: Accidental Occurence
Tundra Swan: Winter Visitor
Whooper Swan: Accidental Occurrence
Wood Duck: Resident, seen year round
Gadwall: Resident, seen year round
Eurasian Wigeon: Rare occurrence, visits during migration
American Wigeon: Rare occurrence, summer & winter visitor
Mallard: Resident, seen year round
Blue-winged Teal: Rare occurrence, summer visitor
Cinnamon Teal: Summer & Winter visitor, rare occurrence
Northern Shoveler: Resident, seen year round
Nothern Pintail: Resident, seen year round
Green-winged Teal: Resident, seen year round
Canvasback: Visits during migration
Redhead: Resident, seen year round
Ring-necked Duck: Resident, seen year round
Tufted Duck: Accidental occurrence
Greater Scaup: Rare occurrence, winter visitor
Lesser Scaup: Resident, seen year round
Harlequin Duck: Accidental occurrence
Surf Scoter: Accidental occurence
White-winged Scoter: Accidental Occurence
Long-Tailed Duck: Accidental occurrence
Bufflehead: Resident, seen year round
Common Goldeneye: Winter visitor
Barrow's Goldeneye: Rare occurence, winter visitor
Hooded Merganser: Winter Visitor
Common Merganser: Resident, seen year round
Red-Breasted Merganser: Rare occurrence, visits during migration
Ruddy Duck: Resident, seen year round, winter & summer visitor
Pelicans & Cormorants
American White Pelican: Summer visitor
Double-Crested Comorant: Summmer Visitor
Vultures, Hawks, & Falcons
Turkey Vulture: Summer Visitor
Osprey: Summer Visitor
White-tailed Kite: Accidental occurrence
Bald Eagle: Resident, seen year round
Northern Harrier: Winter Visitor
Sharp-shinned Hawk: Resident, seen year round
Cooper's Hawk: Resident, seen year round
Northern Goshawk: Rare occurence, resident
Red-shouldered Hawk: Resident, seen year round
Swainson's Hawk: Summer Visitor
Red-tailed Hawk: Resident, seen year round
Ferruginous Hawk: Winter Visitor
Rough-legged Hawk: Winter Visitor
Golden Eagle: Resident, seen year round
American Kestrel: Resident, seen year round
Merlin: Rare occurrence, winter visitor
Peregrine Falcon: Summer visitor
Prairie Falcon: Resident, seen year round
Plovers, Shorebirds, Snipe & Phalaropes
Black-bellied Plover: Rare occurrence, visits in migration season
Snowy Plover: Rare occurrence, visits in migration season
Semipalmated Plover: Rare occurrence, visits in migration
Killdeer: Resident, seen year round
Mountain Plover: Rare occurrence, visits in migration season
Black-necked Stilt: Summer Visitor
American Avocet: Summer Visitor
Spotted Sandpiper: Rare occurrence, visits during migration season
Solitary Sandpiper: Rare occurrence, visits during migration season
Greater Yellowlegs: Visits during summer & migration season
Willet: Summer Visitor
Lesser Yellowlegs: Rare occurence, visits during migration season
Whimbrel: Accidental occurrence
Long Billed Curlew: Summer Visitor
Marbled Godwit: Accidental Occurrence
Ruddy Turnstone: Accidental Occurence
Sanderling: Accidental Occurrence
Semipalmated Sandpiper: Accidental Occurrence
Western Sandpiper: Visits during migration season
Least Sandpiper: Visits during migration season
Baird's Sandpiper: Visits during migration season
Pectoral Sandpiper: Rare occurence, visits during migration season
Dunlin: Rare occurrence, visits during migration season
Short-billed Dowticher: Rare occurrence, visits during migration seaon
Long-billed Dowitcher: Visits during migration season
Wilson's Snipe: Rare Occurrence
Wilson's Phalarope: Summer Visitor
Red-necked Phalarope: Rare occurrence, visits during migration season
Goatsuckers
Common Nighthawk: Summer Visitor
Common Poorwill: Summer Visitor
Swifts
Black Swift: Rare occurrence, visirs during migration
Vaux's Swift: Summer Visitor
White-throated Swift: Summer visitor
Kingfishers
Belted Kingfisher: Resident
Woodpeckers
Lewis's Woodpecker: Summer Visitor
Acorn Woodpecker: Resident
Williamson's Sapsucker: Resident
Red-naped Sapsucker: Rare occurence, visitss during migration season
Red-breasted Sapsucker: Resident
Nuttall's Woodpecker: Rare occurrence, visits during migration season
Downy Woodpecker: Resident
Hairy Woodpecker: Resident
White-headed Woodpecker: Resident
Black-backed Woodpecker: Rare occurrence, resident
Northern Flicker: Resident
Pileated Woodpecker: Resident
Vireos
Plumbeous Vireo: Rare occurrence, summer visitor
Cassin's Vireo: Summer visitor
Hutton's Vireo: Rare occurrence, resident
Warbling Vireo: Summer visitor
Larks
Horned Lark: Resident
Swallows
Purple Martin: rare occurrence, visits during migration season
Tree Swallow: Summer visitor
Viloet-green Swallow: Summer Visitor
Northern Rough-winged Swallow: Summer Visitor
Bank Swallow: Summer Visitor
Cliff Swallow: Summer visitor
Barn Swallow: Summer visitor
Nuthatches & Creeper
Red breasted Nuthatch: Resident
White breasted Nuthatch: Resident
Pygmy Nuthatch: Resident
Brown Creeper: Resident
Chukar: Resident, seen year round, rare occurrence. Introduced, established non-native
Greater Sage-Grouse: Extirpated
Sooty Grouse: Resident, seen year round
Wild Turkey: Resident, seen year round. Introduced, established non-native
Mountain Quail: Resident, seen year round
California Quail: Resident, seen year round
Pied-billed Grebe: Resident, seen year round
Horned Grebe: Visits during migration season
Red-necked Grebe: Rare occurence, visits during migration
Eared Grebe: Resident, seen year round
Western Grebe: Resident, seen year round
Clark's Grebe: Rare occurrence, summer & winter visitor
Bitterns,Herons,Egres,Ibises
American Bittern: Summer visitor
Least Bittern: Rare occurrence, visits during migration
Great Blue Heron: Resident, seen year round
Great Egret: Resident, seen year round
Snowy Egret: Visits during migration
Little Blue Heron: Accidental occurrence
Cattle Egret: Rare occurrence,visits during migration
Green Heron: Rare occurrence, visits during migration season
Black-crowned Night Heron: Summer visitor
White-faced lbis: Summer visitor
Rails & Coots
Yellow Rail: Etirpated
Virginia Rail: Summer Visitor
Sora: Summer Visitor
Common Moorhen: Rare occurence, summer visitor
American Coot: Resident, seen year round
Cranes
Sandhill Crane: Visits during summer and migration season
Gulls, Terns & Jaegers:
Franklin's Gull: Accidental Visitor
Bonaparte's Gull: Visits during migration
Mew Gull: Rare occurrence, visits during migration season
Ring-billed Gull: Resident, seen year round
California Gull: Resident, seen year round
Herring Gull: Rare occurrence, visits during migration season
Thayer's Gull: Rare occurrence, visits during migration season
Western Gull: Accidental visit
Glaucous-winged Gull: Rare occurrence, Visits during migration season
Sabine's Gull: Accidental visitor
Caspian Tern: Summer visitor & Migration visitor
Black Tern: Summer & Migration visitor
Common Tern: Accidental visitor
Forster's Tern: Summer visitor
Prasitic Jaeger: Accidental visitor
Long- Tailed Jaeger: Accidental visitor
Pigeons & Doves
Rock Pigeon: Resident, Introduced, establishes non-native
Band-tailed Pigeon: Resident
Mourning Dove: Resident
Owls
Barn Owl: Resident
Flammulated Owl: Summer visitor
Western Screech Owl: Rare occurence, resident
Great Horned Owl: Resident
Northen Pygmy Owl: Resident
Burrowing Owl: Summer Visitor
Spotted Owl: Resident
Barred Owl: Rare occurence, resident
Great Gray Owl: Rare occurrence, resident
Long-eared Owl: Resident
Short-eared Owl: Resident
Northern Saw- whet Owl: Rare occurrence, resident
Hummingbirds
Black-chinned Hummingbird: Rare occurrence, summer visitor
Anna's Hummingbird: Resident, seen year round
Costa's Hummingbird: Accidental Visitor
Calliope Hummingbird: Summer Visitor
Broad-tailed Hummingbird: Accidental occurence
Rufous Hummingbird: Visits during migration season
Flycatchers:
Olive-sided Flycatcher: Summer visitor
Western Wood- Pewee: Summer visitor
Willow Flycatcher: Summer visitor
Least Flycatcher: Accidental visitor
Hammond's flycatcher: Summer visitor
Gray Flycatcher: Summer Visitor
Dusky Flycatcher: Summer Visitor
Pacific- slope Flycatcher: Summer visitor
Cordilleran Flycatcher: Accidental visitor
Black Phoebe: resident
Say's Phoebe:Rare occurrence, resident
Ash-throated Flycatcher: Rare occurrence, summer visitor
Western Kingbird: Summer visitor
Eastern Kingbird: Accidental occurrence
Shrikes:
Loggerhead Shrike: Rare occurrence, winter visitor
Northern Shrike: Rare occurrence, winter visitor
Jays, Magpies & Crows
Gray Jay: Rare occurrence, resident
Stellar's Jay: Resident
Western Scrub Jay: Resident
Pinyon Jay: Visits during migration
Clark's Nutcracker: Resident
Black Billed Magpie: Resident
Yellow billed Magpie: Accidental occurrence
American Crow: Resident
Common Raven: Resident
Chickadees, titmice, & bushtit
Mountain Chickadee: Resident
Chestnut backed Chickadee: Resident
Juniper Titmouse: Rare occurrence, resident
Bushtit: Resident
Wrens
Rock wren: Summer visitor
Canyon Wren: Resident
Bewick's wren: Resident
House Wren: Summer Visitor
Winter Wren: residential
Marsh Wren: Summer visitor
BIRD WATCHING
Patridges,Grouse & Quail
Loons
Red-throated Loon: Rare occurrence, visits during migration
Pacific Loon: Rare occurrence, winter visitor
Common Loon: Rare occurrence, summer & winter visitor