1968 KOS Fall Meeting Compiled List of Bird Sightings
Field trip to Cheyenne Bottoms, and Barton County, Kansas
130 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
American Bittern
White-faced Ibis
Canada Goose
White-fronted Geese
Mallard
Black Duck
Mottled Duck
Gadwall
Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Blue-winged Teal
Shoveler
Baldpate (American Wigeon)
Wood Duck
Redhead
Lesser Scaup
Ruddy Duck
Hooded Merganser
Turkey Vulture
Mississippi Kite
Red-tailed Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Marsh Hawk
Osprey
Peregrine Falcon
Sparrow Hawk
Bobwhite
Ring-necked Pheasant
Sandhill Crane
King Rail
Virginia Rail
Sora
Coot
Semipalmated Plover
Snowy Plover
Killdeer
Golden Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Common Snipe (Wilson's Snipe)
Long-billed Curlew (probably a very long billed Whimbrel - Editor)
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Knot
Pectoral Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird’s Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Stilt Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Sanderling
American Avocet
Wilson's Phalarope
Northern Phalarope (Red-necked Phalarope)
Herring Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Franklin’s Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Forster’s Tern
Common Tern
Black Tern
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Screech Owl
Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Short-eared Owl
Common Nighthawk
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Red-shafted Flicker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Least Flycatcher
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Blue Jay
Common Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren
Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Water Pipit (American Pipit)
Cedar Waxwing
Loggerhead Shrike
Starling
Bell’s Vireo
Orange-crowned Warbler
Myrtle Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Yellow-throat
House Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Red-wing Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Indigo Bunting
American Goldfinch
Rufous-sided Towhee
Lark Bunting
Savannah Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Slate-colored Junco
Field Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Song Sparrow

Compiled by Amelia J. Betts on September 29, 1968
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