Birds found during our 
West Coast USA 
 Birding & Nature Tour 


in September 2004 


in Washington State &
central California
List compiled by Armas Hill


 PHOTO AT RIGHT: PINE GROSBEAK, 
seen in the Cascade Mountains of Washington  



Dates & Codes:


1:   September 9-15, 2004
     in WASHINGTON STATE

     in the area of Puget Sound (ps), 
        including the San Juan Islands,
        also north of Seattle, including the Skagit Flats (ps)

     in the Cascade Mountains (cm)
     and east of the Cascades (ec) 

     (In 2004, the pelagic trip normally taken from Westport, WA was cancelled due
      to bad weather. As an alternative, we took a boat-trip in the Puget Sound,
      where we had close looks at alcids and orcas.)
     

2:  September 16-19, 2005
     in central CALIFORNIA 

     east of the San Francisco Bay area to Yosemite (es)
     east of Yosemite (ey); at Yosemite (y)
     in & near the Central Valley  (cv) 
     and along the Pacific coast in & near Monterey (pc)

     There was a pelagic trip from Monterey, CA on Sept. 19 (mp)
      
       

 
(t): a globally threatened or rare species, designated by Birdlife International.
(t1): critical     (t2): endangered     (t3): vulnerable
(nt): a near-threatened species globally.
(i): introduced species.
 (h): heard only

Links:

Cumulative List of Birds during our West Coast Tours

In cumulative lists of birds, scientific names are given & subspecies are noted.

North American Mammals

A list of Mammals during our September '04 West Coast USA tour follows the bird-list.
 

Upcoming West Coast USA Birding Tours


 Bird-List:
  1. Common Loon - 1:ps

  2. Red-necked Grebe - 1:ps

  3. Horned Grebe - 1:ps

  4. Eared Grebe - 2:ey

  5. Pied-billed Grebe - 2:ey,pc

  6. Western Grebe - 1:ps,ec  2:ey 

  7. Clark's Grebe - 2:ey

  8. Northern Fulmar - 2:mp

  9. Sooty Shearwater - 2:mp

  10. Pink-footed Shearwater - 2:mp

  11. Buller's Shearwater - 2:mp

  12. Ashy Storm-Petrel - 2:mp (1500+ seen)

  13. Black Storm-Petrel - 2:mp (30 seen)

  14. Least Storm-Petrel - 2:mp (5 seen)

  15. Wilson's Storm-Petrel - 2:mp (1 seen)

  16. Brown Pelican - 2:pc

  17. American White Pelican - 2:ey

  18. Double-crested Cormorant - 1:ps,ec  2:ey,pc

  19. Pelagic Cormorant - 1:ps  2:pc,mp

  20. Brandt's Cormorant - 1:ps  2:pc

  21. Green Heron - 2:es

  22. Snowy Egret - 2:pc

  23. Great Egret - 2:es,pc

  24. Great Blue Heron - 1:ps,ec  2:ey,pc

  25. White-faced Ibis - 2:cv,ey

  26. Canada Goose - 1:ps,ec  2:pc

  27. Wood Duck - 1:ps,ec

  28. Mallard - 1:ps,cm,ec  2:es,ey

  29. Gadwall - 1:ec

  30. Northern Pintail - 1:ps,ec

  31. American Wigeon - 1:ps,ec

  32. Cinnamon Teal - 1:ps  2:ey

  33. Blue-winged Teal - 2:es

  34. Green-winged Teal - 1:ps,cm

  35. Redhead - 1:ec

  36. Ring-necked Duck - 1:ec

  37. Greater Scaup - 1:ec

  38. Lesser Scaup - 1:ec  2:ey

  39. Harlequin Duck - 1:ps

  40. Surf Scoter - 1:ps

  41. White-winged Scoter - 1:ps

  42. Barrow's Goldeneye - 1:cm,ec

  43. Hooded Merganser - 1:ec

  44. Common Mergasner - 1:cm  2:ey,pc

  45. Ruddy Duck - 2:ey,pc

  46. Turkey Vulture - 1:ps,ec  2:es,ey,cv,pc

  47. Osprey - 1:ps,ec  2:pc

  48. White-tailed Kite - 2:pc

  49. Golden Eagle - 2:cv

  50. Bald Eagle - 1:ps  2:ey

  51. Northern Harrier - 1:ps  2:es,ey

  52. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1:ec

  53. Cooper's Hawk - 1:ec  2:pc

  54. Red-shouldered Hawk -  2:es

  55. Swainson's Hawk - 1:ec  2:cv

  56. Red-tailed Hawk - 1:ps,ec  2:es,ey,cv

  57. American Kestrel - 1:ps,ec  2:es,ey,cv

  58. Prairie Falcon - 1:ec

  59. California Quail - 1:ec

  60. Chukar (i) - 1:ec

  61. Blue Grouse - 1:ec

  62. Wild Turkey - 2: cv

  63. Common Moorhen - 2:es

  64. American Coot - 1:ps,ec  2:es,ey,pc

  65. Black-bellied Plover - 2:pc

  66. Semipalmated Plover - 1:ps  2:pc

  67. Killdeer - 1:ps,ec  2:es,pc

  68. Black Oystercatcher - 1:ps  2:pc

  69. American Avocet - 2:ey

  70. Black-necked Stilt - 2:ey,pc

  71. Greater Yellowlegs - 1:ps

  72. Lesser Yellowlegs - 1:ps

  73. Whimbrel - 2:pc

  74. Long-billed Curlew (nt) - 2:cv,pc

  75. Willet - 2:pc

  76. Marbled Godwit - 2:pc

  77. Ruddy Turnstone - 2:pc

  78. Black Turnstone - 2:pc

  79. Wandering Tattler - 2:pc

  80. Surfbird - 2:pc

  81. Red Knot - 2:pc

  82. Sanderling - 2:pc

  83. Western Sandpiper - 1:ps  2:ey,cv,pc

  84. Least Sandpiper - 2:cv,pc

  85. Long-billed Dowitcher - 2:pc

  86. Wilson's Phalarope - 2:ey

  87. Red-necked Phalarope - 2:mp,pc

  88. Pomarine Jaeger - 2:mp

  89. South Polar Skua - 2:mp

  90. Common Black-headed Gull - 1:ps  (not common at all, but rare in WA)

  91. Bonaparte's Gull - 1:ps

  92. Mew Gull - 1:ps

  93. Ring-billed Gull - 1:ps,ec  2:pc

  94. California Gull - 2:ey,mp,pc

  95. "American" Herring Gull - 1:ps  2:pc

  96. Glaucous-winged Gull - 1:ps

  97. Western Gull - 1:ps  2:mp,pc

  98. Heermann's Gull (nt) - 1:ps  2:mp.pc

  99. Sabine's Gull - 2:mp

  100. Caspian Tern - 1:ps

  101. Elegant Tern (nt) - 1:pc

     
  102. Common Murre - 1:ps  2:mp,pc

  103. Pigeon Guillemot - 1:ps  2:mp

  104. Marbled Murrelet (nt) - 1:ps

  105. Rhinoceros Auklet - 1:ps  2:mp

  106. Feral Pigeon (i) - 1:ps,ec  2:es,ey,cv,pc

  107. Mourning Dove - 1:ps,ec  2:es,cv,pc

  108. Great Horned Owl - 1:ec  2:es,pc

  109. Common Poorwill - 1:ec 

  110. Vaux's Swift - 1:ps,cm,ec  2:es

  111. White-throated Swift - 2:es

  112. Anna's Hummingbird - 2:es

     
  113. Belted Kingfisher - 1:ps

  114. Acorn Woodpecker - 2:es

  115. Red-breasted Sapsucker - 1:ps

  116. Red-naped Sapsucker - 1:ec

  117. Downy Woodpecker - 1:ps,cm  2:es

  118. Hairy Woodpecker - 1:ps,cm  2:es

  119. American Three-toed Woodpecker - 1:cm

  120. Nuttall's Woodpecker - 2:es

  121. White-headed Woodpecker - 2:y

  122. "Red-shafted" Northern Flicker - 1:ps,ec  2:es,cv

  123. Pileated Woodpecker - 1:cm

  124. Western Wood Pewee - 2:es

  125. Willow Flycatcher - 2:es

  126. Black Phoebe - 2:es

  127. Say's Phoebe - 1:ec

  128. Ash-throated Flycatcher - 2:es  

  129. Violet-green Swallow - 1:ps,cm,ec  2:y 
      
  130. Barn Swallow - 1:ps  2:es,ey,cv,pc|

  131. Steller's Jay - 1:ps.ec  2:y

  132. Western Scrub-Jay - 2:es

  133. Gray Jay - 1:cm

  134. Pinyon Jay - 2:ey

  135. Clark's Nutcracker - 1:cm  2:y

  136. Black-billed Magpie - 1:ec  2:es,ey

  137. Yellow-billed Magpie - 2:cv

  138. Northern Raven - 1:ps,cm,ec  2:es,ey,y

  139. American Crow - 1:ps,cm,ec  2:es,cv,pc

  140. Northwestern Crow - 1:ps

  141. Oak Titmouse - 2:es

  142. Black-capped Chickadee - 1:ps,ec

  143. Mountain Chickadee - 1:cm  2:y

  144. Chestnut-backed Chickadee - 1:ps  2:pc

  145. American Bushtit - 1:ps  2:es

  146. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1:ps,cm  2:y

  147. White-breasted Nuthatch - 1:ec  2:es

  148. Pygmy Nuthatch - 1:ps

  149. Brown Creeper - 1:ps  2:es 

  150. Bewick's Wren - 1:ps

  151. Marsh Wren - 1:ps

  152. Rock Wren - 2:es

  153. American Dipper - 1:cm

  154. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1:cm

  155. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1:ec  2:es

  156. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2:es

  157. Mountain Bluebird - 1:ec  2:y

  158. Western Bluebird - 1:ec  2:es

  159. Townsend's Solitaire - 1:cm  2:y

  160. Varied Thrush - 1:cm

  161. American Robin - 1:ps,cm,ec  2:es,ey,cv,pc

  162. Hermit Thrush - 1:ec

  163. Sage Thrasher - 2:ey

  164. European Starling (i) - 1:ps,ec  2:es,ey,cv,pc

  165. Buff-bellied (or American) Pipit - 1:ec

  166. Phainopepla - 2:es

  167. Cedar Waxwing - 1:ps,ec 

  168. Orange-crowned Warbler - 1:ps  2:es,ey

  169. American Yellow Warbler - 2:es

  170. "Audubon's" Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1:ec

  171. Black-throated Gray Warbler - 1:ec  2:es

  172. Townsend's Warbler - 1:ps,cm

  173. Common Yellowthroat - 1:ps

     
  174. Western Meadowlark - 1:ec  2:es

  175. Red-winged Blackbird - 1:ps,ec  2:es,cv,pc

  176. Tricolored Blackbird - 2:pc

  177. Brewer's Blackbird - 1:ps,ec  2:es,ey,cv,pc

  178. Brown-headed Cowbird - 2:cv

  179. Western Tanager - 1:cm

  180. Spotted Towhee - 1:ps,ec  2:es

  181. California Towhee - 2:es

  182. Rufous-crowned Sparrow - 2:es

  183. Sage Sparrow - 2:ey

  184. Brewer's Sparrow - 2:ey

  185. Chipping Sparrow - 1:ps

  186. Savannah Sparrow - 1:ps,ec  2:es,ey

  187. Golden-crowned Sparrow - 1:cm,ec

  188. White-crowned Sparrow - 1:ps,cm,es  2:es,ey

  189. Song Sparrow - 1:ps  2:ey

  190. "Oregon" Dark-eyed Junco - 1:ps,ec  2:y

  191. Pine Grosbeak - 1:cm

  192. Purple Finch - 1:ps

  193. Cassin's Finch - 1:ec  2:y

  194. House Finch - 1:ps,ec  2:ey,cv

  195. Red Crossbill - 1:ps

  196. White-winged Crossbill - 1:ps

  197. Pine Siskin - 1:ps,cm,ec

  198. Lesser Goldfinch - 2:es,ey

  199. American Goldfinch - 1:ps,ec

  200. House Sparrow (i) - 1:ps,ec  2:cv,pc
      



 Mammals during our West Coast USA Tour in Sept 2004

Codes:

1 - in Washington State 
     (pp: Puget Sound pelagic)
2 - in California 
     (mp: Monterey pelagic)



Big Brown Bat - 1

other bats - 2

Douglas's Squirrel - 1, 2

Red Squirrel -1 

Western Gray Squirrel - 2

Cascade Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel - 1

Townsend's Ground Squirrel - 1

Belding's Ground Squirrel - 1 

California Ground Squirrel - 2

Townsend's Chipmunk - 1

Least Chipmunk - 1

Yellow Pine Chipmunk - 1

Merriam's Chipmunk - 2

Panamint Chipmunk - 2

North American Deermouse - 1

Gray Fox - 1

Coyote - 1, 2

Northern Raccoon - 1

River Otter - 2

Black-tailed Jackrabbit - 2

Brush Rabbit - 2

Mountain Cottontail - 1

Eastern Cottontail - 1

Mule Deer - 1, 2

White-tailed Deer - 1

Bighorn Sheep - 1



Sea Otter - 2

Harbor Seal - 1:pp,  2

Northern Fur Seal - 2:mp (1 seen)

California Sea Lion - 2

Steller's (or Northern) Sea Lion - 1:pp

Pacific White-sided Dolphin - 2:mp

Risso's Dolphin (or Gray Grampus) - 2:mp

Northern Right Whale Dolphin - 2:mp

Orca (or Killer Whale) - 1:pp

Humpback Whale - 2:mp