1973 KOS Spring Meeting Compiled List of Bird Sightings
Field trips around Lawrence, Douglas County
112 species
 

Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Cattle Egret
Common Egret
White-fronted Goose
Mallard
Gadwall
Blue-winged Teal
Shoveler
Ruddy Duck
Turkey Vulture
Red-tailed Hawk
Swainson’s Hawk
Osprey
American Kestrel
Bobwhite
Coot
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Wilson's Phalarope
Franklin’s Gull
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl
Chuck-will’s-Widow
Whip-poor-will
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Least Flycatcher
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Purple Martin
Blue Jay
Common Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren
Carolina Wren
Mockingbird
Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Robin
Eastern Bluebird
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Water Pipit (American Pipit)
Cedar Waxwing
Loggerhead Shrike
Bell’s Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Black-and-White Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Parula Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Myrtle Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler
Yellow-throat
House Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
Red-winged Blackbird
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Scarlet Tanager
Summer Tanager
Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Dickcissel
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
Rufous-sided Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Harris Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Song Sparrow

"The field trips on Sunday found a delayed migration - with only 112 species being seen. This was close to the lowest number ever seen on a spring count by the KOS."

Compiled April 29, 1973
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