1973 KOS Fall Meeting Compiled List of Bird Sightings
Field trip to Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Management Area, Barton County
135 species

Pied-billed Grebe
White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Little Blue Heron
Cattle Egret
Common Egret (Great Egret)
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
American Bittern
Canada Goose
White-fronted Goose
Mallard
Gadwall
Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Blue-winged Teal
American Wigeon
Shoveler
Wood Duck
Redhead
Lesser Scaup
Ruddy Duck
Hooded Merganser
Turkey Vulture
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Bald Eagle
Marsh Hawk (Northern Harrier)
Peregrine Falcon
Merlin
Kestrel
Bobwhite
Ring-necked Pheasant
King Rail
Sora
American Coot
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Snowy Plover
Killdeer
American Golden Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Common Snipe
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird’s Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Stilt Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Buff -breasted Sandpiper
Sanderling
Avocet
Wilson’s Phalarope
Herring Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Franklin's Gull
Sabine Gull
Forster's Tern
Common Tern
Black Tern
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Barn Owl
Screech Owl
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Red-shafted Flicker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Say’s Phoebe
Traill's Flycatcher (Alder/Willow Flycatcher)
Least Flycatcher
Horned Lark
Violet-green Swallow
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Blue Jay
Common Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren
Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Robin
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Water Pipit
Loggerhead Shrike
Starling
Solitary Vireo
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Myrtle Warbler
House Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Baltimore Oriole
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Cardinal
Blue Grosbeak
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Baird's Sparrow
Vesper sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Song Sparrow

Compiled by Max Thompson on September 23, 1973
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