1959 KOS Fall Meeting Compiled List of Bird Sightings
Field trips to Emporia and surrounding areas in Lyon County
87 species

Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
White-fronted Goose
Mallard
Black Duck
Gadwall
American Widgeon
Blue-winged Teal
Shoveller
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Ruddy Duck
Turkey Vulture
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Swainson’s Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Marsh Hawk (Northern Harrier)
Osprey
Sparrow Hawk (American Kestrel)
Greater Prairie Chicken
Bobwhite
Ring-necked Pheasant
American Coot
Killdeer
Common Snipe
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dowitcher (Long-billed?)
Franklin Gull
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Screech Owl
Great Homed Owl
Barred Owl
Chimney Swift
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Red-shafted Flicker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Horned Lark
Barn Swallow
Blue Jay
Common Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Bewick’s Wren
Carolina Wren
Mockingbird
Robin
Eastern Bluebird
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Loggerhead Shrike
Starling
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Myrtle Warbler
House Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Cardinal
American Goldfinch
Rufous-sided Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Harris Sparrow
Lincoln Sparrow
Song Sparrow

Compiled October 11, 1959
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