Here is the list of 77 species spotted by the Upper Elementary students on their mini “Big Day,” May 8, 2015:
Waterfowl: (10)
Black Brant
Dusky Canada Goose
American Wigeon
Mallard
Cinnamon Teal
American Green-w Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Surf Scoter
Bufflehead
Loons and Grebes: (6)
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark’s Grebe
Boobies, Pelicans, Cormorants (4)
Brown Pelican
Brandt’s Cormorant
Double-cr Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Herons, Ibises (5)
American Bittern
Great Blue heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Black-cr. Night Heron
Vultures (1)
Turkey Vulture
Hawks, Falcons (3)
Osprey
White-tailed Kite
Red-tailed Hawk
Cranes and Rails (2)
Virginia Rail
American Coot
Plovers, Oystercatchers (2)
Black-bellied Plover
Black Oystercatcher
Stilts, Sandpipers, Etc (11)
Spotted Sandpiper
Wandering Tattler
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Black Turnstone
Sanderling
Dunlin
Short-billed Dowitcher
Gulls, Terns, Jaegers (4)
California Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Caspian Tern
Auks (1)
Common Murre
Pigeons, Cuckoos (3)
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian-Collard Dove
Mourning Dove
Swifts, Hummingbirds (1)
Anna’s Hummingbird
Flycatchers (1)
Black Phoebe
Jays, Crow, Raven (1)
American Crow
Common Raven
Lark, Swallows (5)
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
N. Rough-w. Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Nuthatches, Creepers, wrens, Dippers (1)
Marsh Wren
Thrushes, Wrentit, Thrashers (1)
American Robin
Starling, Pipits, Waxwings (1)
European Starling
Wood Warblers (3)
Orange-cr. Warbler
Audubon’s Yellow-r. Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Buntings, Sparrows(3)
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-cr. Sparrow
Meadowlarks, Blackbirds, Orioles(4)
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer’s Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Bullock’s Oriole
Fringillid Finches (3)
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow (1)
House Sparrow