1972 KOS Fall Meeting Compiled List of Bird Sightings
Field trip to Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Management Area, Barton County
118 species

Eared Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Common Egret (Great Egret)
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Least Bittern
American Bittern
Canada Goose
White-fronted Goose
Mallard
Gadwall
Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Blue-winged Teal
American Widgeon
Shoveler
Redhead
Canvasback
Ruddy Duck
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Swainson’s Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Marsh Hawk (Northern Harrier)
Peregrine Falcon
Pigeon Hawk (Merline)
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 (Wilson's Snipe)
Upland Plover (Upland Sandpiper)
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Stilt Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Marbled Godwit
Avocet
Wilson's Phalarope
Northern Phalarope (Red-necked Phalarope)
Ring-billed Gull
Laughing Gull
Franklin’s Gull
Bonaparte’s Gull
Forster’s Tern
Black Tern
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Burrowing Owl
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Red-shafted Flicker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Kingbird
Western Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Horned Lark
Violet-green Swallow
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Blue Jay
Common Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren
Mockingbird
Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Robin
Water Pipit (American Pipit)
Cedar Waxwing
Loggerhead Shrike
Starling
House Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Dickcissel
American Goldfinch
Rufous-sided Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
Le Conte’s Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Slate-colored Junco
Clay-colored Sparrow
Lapland Longspur

Compiled on September 24, 1972
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