1965 KOS Fall Meeting Compiled List of Bird Sightings
Field trip to Cheyenne Bottoms, Barton County
115 species

Eared Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Little Blue Heron
Common Egret (Great Egret)
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Least Bittern
American Bittern
Cattle Egret
Canada Goose
White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Blue Goose
Mallard
Black Duck
Gadwall
Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Blue-winged Teal
American Widgeon
Shoveler
Wood Duck
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Ruddy Duck
Turkey Vulture
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Swainson Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Marsh Hawk (Northern Harrier)
Peregrine Falcon
Sparrow Hawk (American Kestrel)
Bobwhite
Ring-necked Pheasant
White-faced Ibis
Sandhill Crane
King Rail
Sora
American Coot
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Common Snipe (Wilson's Snipe)
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Sanderling
Long-billed Dowitcher
Short-billed Dowitcher
Stilt Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Hudsonia Godwit
American Avocet
Wilson Phalarope
Northern Phalarope (Red-necked Phalarope)
Herring Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Franklin Gull
Forster Tern
Common Tern
Least Tern
Black Tern
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Red-shafted Flicker
Red-bellied Flicker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Blue Jay
Common Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
American Robin
Water Pipit (American Pipit)
Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Wilson Warbler
House Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
American Goldfinch
Rufous-sided Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow

Compiled by Marvin Schwilling on September 26, 1965
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