1978 KOS Fall Meeting Compiled List of Bird Sightings
Field trip to Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Management Area, Barton County
122 species

Eared Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Little Blue Heron
Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
American Bittern
White Pelican
White-faced Ibis
Canada Goose
White-fronted Goose
Mallard
Gadwall
Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
American Widgeon
Ring-necked Duck
Redhead
Ruddy Duck
Turkey Vulture
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Bald Eagle
Marsh Hawk (Northern Harrier)
Osprey
Prairie Falcon
Merlin
American Kestrel
Ring-necked Pheasant
King Rail
Virginia Rail
Sora
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Semipalmated Plover
Snowy Plover
Killdeer
American Golden Plover
Common Snipe (Wilson's Snipe)
Spotted Sandpiper
Willet
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Stilt Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Marbled Godwit
Sanderling
American Avocet
Northern Phalarope (Red-necked Phalarope)
Ring-billed Gull
Franklin's Gull
Sabine Gull
Forster's Tern
Black Tern
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Barn Owl
Screech Owl
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Belted Kingfisher
Common (Yellow-shafted) Flicker
Common (Red-shafted) Flicker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Blue Jay
Common Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren
Long-billed Marsh Wren (Marsh Wren)
Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
American Robin
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Water Pipit (American Pipit)
Loggerhead Shrike
Starling
Yellow-rumped (Audubon's) Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
American Goldfinch
Rufous-sided Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco
Field Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Song Sparrow

Compiled on October 1, 1978
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