1971 KOS Fall Meeting Compiled List of Bird Sightings
Field trips Cheyenne Bottoms
125 species

Eared Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Little Blue Heron
Cattle Egret
Common Egret
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
American Bittern
White-faced Ibis
Canada Goose
Snow Goose
Blue Goose
Mallard
Gadwall
Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Blue-winged Teal
Shoveler
American Widgeon
Redhead
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Turkey Vulture
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Marsh Hawk (Northern Harrier)
Prairie Falcon
Peregrine Falcon
Sparrow Hawk (American Kestrel)
Bobwhite
Ring-necked Pheasant
King Rail
Virginia Rail
Sora
Coot
Semipalmated Plover
Snowy Plover
Killdeer
American Golden Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Common Snipe
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Knot
Pectoral
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Long-billed Dowitcher
Stilt Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Marbled Godwit
Sanderling
Avocet
Wilson's Phalarope
Northern Phalarope (Red-necked Phalarope)
Herring Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Sabine's Gull
Laughing Gull
Franklin's Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Forster's Tern
Common Tern
Least Tern
Black Tern
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
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
Eastern Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Horned Lark
Bank Swallow
Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Blue Jay
Common Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Mockingbird
Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Robin
Hermit Thrush
Water Pipit (American Pipit)
Loggerhead Shrike
Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
House Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Baltimore Oriole
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
American Goldfinch
Lark Bunting
Savannah Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Song Sparrow

Compiled by Marvin Schwilling on September 26, 1971
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