1996 KOS Spring Meeting Compiled List of Bird Sightings
Field trips to Morton County, KS
as well as excursions into Baca County, CO and Cimarron County, OK
175 species
 

Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Clark's Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
White-faced Ibis
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Widgeon
Canvasback
Redhead
Lesser Scaup
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Turkey Vulture
Mississippi Kite
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
American Kestrel
Prairie Falcon
Ring-necked Pheasant
Lesser Prairie Chicken
Northern Bobwhite
Scaled Quail
American Coot
Lesser Golden Plover
Snowy Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Mountain Plover
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Upland Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Common Snipe
Wilson's Phalarope
Franklin's Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Barn Owl
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Short-eared Owl
Common Nighthawk
Common Poor-will
Chimney Swift
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Lewis' Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Say's Phoebe
Cassin's Kingbird
Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Horned Lark
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Blue Jay
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Chihuahuan Raven
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Rock Wren
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Curve-billed Thrasher
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Loggerhead Shrike
European Starling
Gray Vireo
Solitary Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Virginia's Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler
Yellow-rumped (Audubon's) Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Western Tanager
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Black-headed Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting
Indigo Bunting
Painted Bunting
Dickcissel
Green-tailed Towhee
Spotted Towhee
Eastern Towhee
Canyon Towhee
Cassin's Sparrow
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Black-throated Sparrow
Lark Bunting
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Harris' Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Great-tail Grackle
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Bullock's Oriole
House Finch
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Additional species from OK/CO
Golden Eagle
Greater Roadrunner
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Scrub Jay
Common Raven
Canyon Wren
Dark-eyed (Gray-headed) Junco

Compiled by Roy Beckemeyer on May 5, 1996
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