1974 KOS Fall Meeting Compiled List of Bird Sightings
Field trip to Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Management Area, Barton County
A joint meeting with Burroughs Audubon and Oklahoma Ornithological Society
154 species

Common Loon
Eared Grebe
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
America Bittern
Louisiana Heron (Tricolored Heron)
White-faced Ibis
Canada Goose
White-fronted Goose
Mallard
Black Duck
Gadwall
Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Shoveler
American Widgeon
Redhead
Ruddy Duck
Turkey Vulture
Mississippi Kite
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Harlan’s Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Swainson’s Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Golden Eagle
Marsh Hawk (Northern Harrier)
Osprey
Peregrine Falcon
Pigeon Hawk (Merlin)
Sparrow Hawk (American Kestrel)
Bobwhite Quail
Ring-necked Pheasant
Sandhill Crane
King Rail
Virginia Rail
Sora
Yellow Rail
American Coot
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Killdeer
American Golden Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Common Snipe (Wilson's Snipe)
Upland Plover (Upland Sandpiper)
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird’s Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Stilt Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Marbled Godwit
Sanderling
American Avocet
Wilson’s Phalarope
Northern Phalarope (Red-necked Phalarope)
Sabine’s Gull
Herring Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Franklin’s Gull
Forster’s Tern
Least Tern
Black Tern
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Screech Owl
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Barred Owl
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Red-shafted Flicker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Kingbird
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Least Flycatcher
Hammond’s Flycatcher
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Blue Jay
Common Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
House Wren
Long-billed Marsh Wren (Marsh Wren)
Mockingbird
Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Robin
Swainson’s Thrush
Water Pipit (American Pipit)
Cedar Waxwing
Loggerhead Shrike
Starling
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Yellowthroat
House Sparrow
Bobolink
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Grackle
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird
Brewer’s Blackbird
Common Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Cardinal
Dickcissel
American Goldfinch
Lark Bunting
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Le Conte’s Sparrow
Sharp-tailed Sparrow (Nelson's Sparrow)
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Song Sparrow

Compiled on September 21, 1974
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