1959 KOS Spring Meeting Compiled List of Bird Sightings
Field trips to Douglas and Shawnee Counties
142 species
 

Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron
American Egret
Green Heron
Mallard
Gadwall
Baldpate (American Wigeon)
Blue-winged Teal
Shoveller
Lesser Scaup
American Merganser
Turkey Vulture
Red-tailed Hawk
Swainson Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Marsh Hawk (Northern Harrier)
Osprey
Sparrow Hawk (American Kestrel)
Greater Prairie Chicken
Bob-white
Sora Rail
American Coot
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Golden Plover
Common Snipe
Upland Plover (Upland Sandpiper)
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Wilson Phalarope
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Great Horned Owl
Whip-poor-will
Booming Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Kingbird
Western Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Crested Flycatcher
Phoebe
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Wood Pewee
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Purple Martin
Blue Jay
Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
House Wren
Bewick Wren
Carolina Wren
Mockingbird
Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Robin
Wood Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Swainson Thrush
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Veery
Eastern Bluebird
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Water Pipit (American Pipit)
Loggerhead Shrike
Starling
White-eyed Vireo
Bell Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Solitary Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Black-and-white Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Parula Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Myrtle Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Black-poll Warbler
Palm Warbler
Ovenbird
Louisiana Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler
Yellowthroat
Yellow-breasted Chat
Wilson Warbler
American Redstart
Canada Warbler
House Sparrow
Bobolink
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Scarlet Tanager
Summer Tanager
Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Dickcissel
American Goldfinch
Red-eyed Towhee (Eastern Towhee)
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Slate-colored Junco
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Harris Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Lincoln Sparrow
Song Sparrow

Compiled May 3, 1959
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