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1996 Birding Contest Summary

Loons Gaviiformes
8 Pacific Loon.
3 23 Common Loon
Grebes Podicipediformes
30 Pied-billed Grebe
16 6 Horned Grebe
26 2 Eared Grebe
29 Western Grebe
29 Clark's Grebe
Pelicans Pelicaniformes
30 American White Pelican
29 Double-crested Cormorant
Herons & EgretsCiconiiformes
8 American Bittern
1 Least Bittern
30 Great Blue Heron
18 3 Great Egret
30 Snowy Egret
30 Cattle Egret
1 2 Green Heron
30 Black-crowned Night Heron
30 White-faced Ibis
Waterfowl Anseriformes
2 7 Tundra Swan
2 4 Trumpeter Swan
8 4 Greater White-fronted Goose
7 11 Snow Goose
2 10 Ross' Goose
30 Canada Goose
25 2 Wood Duck
29 1 Green-winged Teal
30 Mallard
29 1 Northern Pintail
29 Blue-winged Teal
30 Cinnamon Teal
30 Northern Shoveler
30 Gadwall
1 Eurasian Wigeon
30 American Wigeon
13 14 Canvasback
30 Redhead
30 1 Ring-necked Duck
16 4 Greater Scaup
30 Lesser Scaup
8 Harlequin Duck
5 Oldsquaw
4 Black Scoter
20 1 Surf Scoter
6 White-winged Scoter
27 3 Common Goldeneye
8 4 Barrow's Goldeneye
30 Bufflehead
14 5 Hooded Merganser
25 2 Common Merganser
25 2 Red-breasted Merganser
27 2 Ruddy Duck
Hawks & Eagles Falconiformes
30 Turkey Vulture
27 2 Osprey
28 1 Bald Eagle
30 Northern Harrier
30 Sharp-shinned Hawk
25 5 Cooper's Hawk
3 7 Northern Goshawk
10 Common Black Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
28 1 Swainson's Hawk
30 Red-tailed Hawk
28 1 Ferruginous Hawk
29 1 Rough-legged Hawk
30 Golden Eagle
30 American Kestrel
23 3 Merlin
8 16 Peregrine Falcon
Gyrfalcon
21 8 Prairie Falcon
Grouse & Quail Galliformes
Gray Partridge (I)
16 7 Chukar (I)
30 Ring-necked Pheasant (I)
8 5 Blue Grouse
White-tailed Ptarmigan (I)
13 2 Ruffed Grouse
12 Sage Grouse
Sharp-tailed Grouse
22 2 Wild Turkey (I)
19 Gambel's Quail
29 California Quail
Cranes, Rails & CootsGruiformes
26 Virginia Rail
22 3 Sora
22 Common Moorhen
30 American Coot
29 1 Sandhill Crane
Shorebirds & GullsCharadriiformes
12 9 Black-bellied Plover
1 4 Lesser Golden Plover
26 Snowy Plover
26 1 Semipalmated Plover
30 Killdeer
1 2 Mountain Plover
30 Black-necked Stilt
30 American Avocet
27 3 Greater Yellowlegs
25 1 Lesser Yellowlegs
2 4 Solitary Sandpiper
30 Willet
29 Spotted Sandpiper
Upland Sandpiper
3 1 Whimbrel
29 Long-billed Curlew
8 9 Marbled Godwit
1 Ruddy Turnstone
2 Red Knot
17 7 Sanderling
19 2 Semipalmated Sandpiper
26 Western Sandpiper
20 6 Least Sandpiper
12 8 Baird's Sandpiper
8 Pectoral Sandpiper
1 Dunlin
1 Stilt Sandpiper
4 3 Short-billed Dowitcher
29 3 Long-billed Dowitcher
29 1 Common Snipe
27 1 Wilson's Phalarope
9 10 Red-necked Phalarope
1 Red Phalarope
Parasitic Jaeger
Long-tailed Jaeger
25 4 Franklin's Gull
20 4 Bonaparte's Gull
9 1 Mew Gull
30 Ring-billed Gull
30 California Gull
18 1 Herring Gull
15 2 Thayer's Gull
2 Glaucous-winged Gull
19 Glaucous Gull
Sabine's Gull
27 2 Caspian Tern
6 Common Tern
30 Forster's Tern
12 5 Black Tern
Doves & PigeonsColumbiformes
30 Rock Dove
7 5 Band-tailed Pigeon
10 White-winged Dove
30 Mourning Dove
17 Inca Dove
Cuckoo, RoadrunnerCuculiformes
1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
11 Greater Roadrunner
Owls Strigiformes
26 Barn Owl
1 2 Flammulated Owl
25 3 Western Screech Owl
30 Great Horned Owl
8 4 Northern Pygmy Owl
26 Burrowing Owl
Spotted Owl
1 12 Long-eared Owl
28 1 Short-eared Owl
2 Northern Saw-whet Owl
Goatsuckers Caprimulgiformes
7 Lesser Nighthawk
29 1 Common Nighthawk
7 6 Common Poorwill
Swifts & HummingbirdsApodiformes
8 Black Swift
25 3 White-throated Swift
28 1 Black-chinned Hummingbird
5 Costa's Hummingbird
4 7 Calliope Hummingbird
Anna's Hummingbird
30 1 Broad-tailed Hummingbird
28 1 Rufous Hummingbird
Kingfishers Coraciiformes
29 1 Belted Kingfisher
Woodpeckers Piciformes
25 4 Lewis' Woodpecker
Acorn Woodpecker
25 1 Red-naped Sapsucker
3 Williamson's Sapsucker
22 Ladder-backed Woodpecker
29 Downy Woodpecker
15 6 Hairy Woodpecker
6 Three-toed Woodpecker
30 Northern Flicker
Perching Birds Passeriformes
Flycatchers Tyrannidae
25 1 Olive-sided Flycatcher
26 3 Western Wood-Pewee
20 3 Willow Flycatcher
5 2 Least Flycatcher
5 9 Hammond's Flycatcher
11 10 Dusky Flycatcher
15 2 Gray Flycatcher
6 15 Cordilleran Flycatcher
1 23 Black Phoebe
1 2 Eastern Phoebe
28 1 Say's Phoebe
6 Vermilion Flycatcher
8 9 Ash-throated Flycatcher
3 Brown-crested Flycatcher
4 1 Cassin's Kingbird
30 Western Kingbird
30 Eastern Kingbird
Larks Alaudidae
30 Horned Lark
Swallows Hirundinidae
16 5 Purple Martin
30 Tree Swallow
29 1 Violet-green Swallow
30 N. Rough-winged Swallow
29 1 Bank Swallow
27 3 Cliff Swallow
30 Barn Swallow
Jays and Crows Corvidae
16 Gray Jay
30 Steller=s Jay
Blue Jay
30 Scrub Jay
19 8 Pinyon Jay
7 18 Clark=s Nutcracker
30 Black-billed Magpie
30 American Crow
28 1 Common Raven
Chickadees Paridae
30 Black-capped Chickadee
28 2 Mountain Chickadee
26 1 Plain Titmouse
Verdin Remizidae
23 Verdin
Bushtit Aegithalidae
23 3 Bushtit
Nuthatches Sittidae
27 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch
27 White-breasted Nuthatch
4 Pygmy Nuthatch
Creepers Certhiidae
22 4 Brown Creeper
Wrens Troglodytidae
7 Cactus Wren
19 8 Rock Wren
13 5 Canyon Wren
8 15 Bewick=s Wren
22 6 House Wren
7 1 Winter Wren
30 Marsh Wren
Dipper Cinclidae
26 4 American Dipper
Kinglets and ThrushesMuscicapidae
14 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet
30 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
28 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
27 Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
2 10 Western Bluebird
27 3 Mountain Bluebird
29 Townsend=s Solitaire
1 Veery
10 9 Swainson=s Thrush
20 6 Hermit Thrush
30 American Robin
Varied Thrush
Thrashers Mimidae
7 11 Gray Catbird
24 6 Northern Mockingbird
26 1 Sage Thrasher
Brown Thrasher
2 Bendire=s Thrasher
11 Crissal Thrasher
1 LeConte=s Thrasher
Pipit Motacillidae
15 7 American Pipit
Waxwings Bombycillidae
13 1 Bohemian Waxwing
26 4 Cedar Waxwing
Silky Flycatcher Ptilogonatidae
17 Phainopepla
Shrikes Laniidae
12 5 Northern Shrike
27 2 Loggerhead Shrike
Starling Sturnidae
30 European Starling
Vireos Vireonidae
7 Bell=s Vireo
5 5 Gray Vireo
24 1 Solitary Vireo
26 1 Warbling Vireo
1 Red-eyed Vireo
Warblers, Sparrows, Tanagers, Blackbirds and Orioles Emberizidae
2 4 Tennessee Warbler
24 2 Orange-crowned Warbler
9 2 Nashville Warbler
22 2 Virginia=s Warbler
12 Lucy=s Warbler
30 Yellow Warble
1 Chestnut-sided Warbler
30 Yellow-rumped Warbler
15 2 Black-throated Gray Warbler
10 3 Townsend=s Warbler
2 Grace=s Warbler
Palm Warbler
1 Black and White Warbler
American Redstart
1 Ovenbird
4 4 Northern Waterthrush
26 1 MacGillivray=s Warbler
20 4 Common Yellowthroat
1 Hooded Warbler
20 6 Wilson=s Warbler
20 1 Yellow-breasted Chat
10 Summer Tanager
29 1 Western Tanager
2 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
28 1 Black-headed Grosbeak
25 4 Blue Grosbeak
29 Lazuli Bunting
2 Indigo Bunting
24 4 Green-tailed Towhee
29 Rufous-sided Towhee
17 Abert=s Towhee
3 Rufous-crowned Sparrow
14 3 American Tree Sparrow
29 Chipping Sparrow
26 1 Brewer=s Sparrow
3 6 Black-chinned Sparrow
24 3 Vesper Sparrow
29 Lark Sparrow
4 16 Black-throated Sparrow
16 6 Sage Sparrow
6 5 Lark Bunting
22 5 Savannah Sparrow
6 1 Grasshopper Sparrow
14 3 Fox Sparrow
29 Song Sparrow
17 4 Lincoln=s Sparrow
1 Swamp Sparrow
2 White-throated Sparrow
1 2 Golden-crowned Sparrow
30 White-crowned Sparrow
7 2 Harris= Sparrow
29 Dark-eyed Junco
12 McCown=s Longspur
13 Lapland Longspur
Chestnut-collered Longspur
21 Snow Bunting
25 1 Bobolink
30 Red-winged Blackbird
30 Western Meadowlark
30 Yellow-headed Blackbird
30 Brewer's Blackbird
28 2 Great-tailed Grackle
15 3 Common Grackle
29 1 Brown-headed Cowbird
13 Hooded Oriole
30 Northern Oriole
11 Scott's Oriole
Finches Fringillidae
Brambling
1 8 Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
3 Black Rosy-Finch
2 14 Pine Grosbeak
29 2 Cassin's Finch
30 House Finch
20 6 Red Crossbill
7 White-winged Crossbill
Common Redpoll
29 1 Pine Siskin
24 3 Lesser Goldfinch
29 American Goldfinch
29 1 Evening Grosbeak
Weaver Finch Passeridae
30 House Sparrow
Others
1 Smith's Longspur
1 Purple Finch
1 2 Vaux Swift
15 Scarlet Tannager
1 Bronzed Cowbird
3 Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2 Black-throated Blue Warbler
2 Eastern Bluebird
1 Blackpoll Warbler
2 Yellow-billed Loon
1 Red-necked Grebe
1 Mute Swan
1 Greater Golden Plover
1 Blue-throated Hummingbird