1974 KOS Spring Meeting Compiled List of Bird Sightings
Field trips around Emporia, Lyon County
130 species
 

Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Little Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Mallard
Gadwall
Blue-winged Teal
Widgeon
Shoveler
Wood Duck
Lesser Scaup
Ruddy Duck
Turkey Vulture
Mississippi Kite
Red-tailed Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Sparrow Hawk (American Kestrel)
Greater Prairie Chicken
Bobwhite
Ring-necked Pheasant
Sora
Coot
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Golden Plover
Common Snipe
Upland Plover (Upland Sandpiper)
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Stilt Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Wilson's Phalarope
Ring-billed Gull
Franklin's Gull
Forster's Tern
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Barred Owl
Poor-will
Chimney Swift
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Kingbird
Western Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Purple Martin
Blue Jay
Common Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren
Carolina Wren
Long-billed Marsh Wren (Marsh Wren)
Short-billed Marsh Wren (Sedge Wren)
Mockingbird
Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Robin
Wood Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Eastern Bluebird
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Loggerhead Shrike
Starling
Warbling Vireo
Black and White Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Parula Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Myrtle Warbler
Palm Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Yellowthroat
House Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Painted Bunting
Dickcissel
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
Rufous-sided Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Le Conte' s Sparrow
Henslow's Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Harris Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow

"The Fox Sparrow appeared on the list for the first time. Three species were listed for the second time: Pileated Woodpecker, Olive- sided Flycatcher, Short -billed Marsh Wren. Henslow's Sparrow was listed for the first time in 22 years--the third time ever. - Amelia J. Betts"

Compiled by Amelia J. Betts, April 28, 1974
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