1970 KOS Fall Meeting Compiled List of Bird Sightings
Field trips Cheyenne Bottoms
135 species

Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Little Blue Heron
Common Egret
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
American Bittern
White-faced Ibis
Canada Goose
White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Mallard
Black Duck
Gadwall
Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Blue-winged Teal
Shoveler
American Widgeon
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Canvasback
Lesser Scaup
Ruddy Duck
Common Merganser
Turkey Vulture
Mississippi Kite
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Golden Eagle
Marsh Hawk
Pigeon Hawk (Merlin)
Sparrow Hawk (American Kestrel)
Bobwhite
Ring-necked Pheasant
Sandhill Crane
Virginia Rail
Sora
American Coot
Semipalmated Plover
Snowy Plover
Killdeer
American Golden Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Common Snipe
Long-billed Curlew
Spotted Sandpiper
Willet
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Knot
Pectoral Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Stilt Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Marbled Godwit
Sanderling
Avocet
Black-necked Stilt
Wilson's Phalarope
Herring Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Franklin's Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Forster's Tern
Common Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Barn Owl
Screech Owl
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Red-shafted Flicker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Blue Jay
Common Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
Mockingbird
Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Robin
Swainson's Thrush
Water Pipit
Starling
Solitary Vireo
Black-and-white Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Myrtle Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
House Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Cardinal
American Goldfinch
Savannah Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Song Sparrow

Compiled by Marvin Schwilling on September 27, 1970
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