Dates & Codes:


1: September 9-14, 2005
    in WASHINGTON STATE

     in the southwestern part of the state from
     Ocean Shores and Westport south to the
     Columbia River (sw)

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

    (In 2005, the pelagic trip normally taken from Westport, WA 
     was cancelled due to bad weather.)

     
2:  September 15-18, 2005
     in central CALIFORNIA 
     north of San Francisco, mostly in the area of Point Reyes (pr)
     in San Francisco (sf)

     along the Pacific Coast from San Francisco south to Monterey (pc)
     inland, mostly east of Gilroy in the southern Central Valley (cv) 

     There was a pelagic trip from Monterey, CA on Sept. 17  (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

(CA:e): endemic to California
(CA:qe): a California quasi-endemic (nearly endemic to California)

Species in capital letters are rare where they were seen during the tour (California). 

Upcoming West Coast USA Birding Tours

1. Pacific Loon - 1:sw  2:pr
   
   
2. Common Loon - 1:sw  2:pr
   
   
3. Red-necked Grebe - 2:pr
   
   
4. Horned Grebe - 2:pr
   
   
5. Eared Grebe - 1:sw  2:cv
   
   
6. Pied-billed Grebe - 1:sw  2:pr,cv
   
   
7. Western Grebe - 1:sw   
   
   
8. Clark's Grebe - 2:cv
   
   
9. Black-footed Albatross (t3) - 2:mp
   
   
10. Northern Fulmar - 2:mp
    
    
11. HAWAIIAN PETREL (t3) - 2:mp
    
    
12. Sooty Shearwater - 1:sw  2:mp
    
    
13. Short-tailed Shearwater - 2:mp
    
    
14. Pink-footed Shearwater (t3) - 2:mp
    
    
15. Buller's Shearwater (t3) - 2:mp
    
    
16. Ashy Storm-Petrel (nt) (CA:qe) - 2:mp 
    
    
17. Black Storm-Petrel - 2:mp 
    
    
18. Least Storm-Petrel - 2:mp 
    
    
19. Brown Pelican - 1:sw  2:pr,sf,pc,mp
    
    
20. American White Pelican - 2:pr,cv
    
    
21. Double-crested Cormorant - 1:sw,ec  2:pr,pc,cv
    
    
22. Pelagic Cormorant - 1:sw  2:pc
    
    
23. Brandt's Cormorant - 2:pc
    
    
24. American Bittern - 2:cv (6 at one location)
    
    
25. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2:pr,cv
    
     
26. Green Heron - 2:sw
    
    
27. Snowy Egret - 2:pr,pc,cv
    
    
28. Great Egret - 2:pr,pc,cv
    
    
29. Great Blue Heron - 1:sw,ec  2:pr,pc,cv
    
    
30. Canada Goose - 1:sw,ec  
    
    
31. Wood Duck - 1:sw
    
    
32. Mallard - 1:sw  2:pr,cv
    
    
33. Gadwall - 2:pr,cv
    
    
34. Northern Pintail - 1:sw  2:pr,cv
    
    
35. American Wigeon - 1:sw,ec  2:pr,cv
    
    
36. Northern Shoveler - 1:sw
    
    
37. Cinnamon Teal - 2:pr,cv
    
    
38. Blue-winged Teal - 2:cv
    
    
39. Green-winged Teal - 1:sw,ec  2:pr,cv
    
    
40. Redhead - 2:cv
    
    
41. Ring-necked Duck - 1:ec
    
    
42. Lesser Scaup - 1:sw
    
    
43. Surf Scoter - 1:sw  2:pr
    
    
44. American Scoter - 1:sw
    
    
45. White-winged Scoter - 1:sw
    
    
46. Common Goldeneye - 1:sw
    
    
47. Bufflehead  - 2:cv
    
    
48. Common Mergasner - 1:sw
    
    
49. Ruddy Duck - 2:cv
    
    
50. Turkey Vulture - 1:sw  2:pr,pc,cv
    
    
51. Osprey - 1:sw  2:pr
    
    
52. Golden Eagle - 2:pr
    
    
53. Northern Harrier - 1:sw  2:pr,pc
    
    
54. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1:ec  2:pr,pc
    
    
55. Cooper's Hawk - 1:ec  2:pr
    
    
56. Red-shouldered Hawk -  2:pr,pc
    
    
57. Swainson's Hawk - 1:ec
    
    
58. Red-tailed Hawk - 1:sw,ec  2:pr,pc,cv
    
    
59. Merlin  - 1:cm
    
    
60. American Kestrel - 1:ec  2:pr,pc,cv
    
    
61. California Quail - 1:ec  2:pr,pc,cv
    
    
62. Sora - 2:cv
    
    
63. American Coot - 2:pr,cv
    
    
64. Sandhill Crane - 2:cv
    
    
65. Black-bellied (or Gray)  Plover - 1:sw  2:pr
    
    
66. Pacific Golden Plover - 1:sw
    
    
67. Snowy Plover - 1:sw
    
    
68. Killdeer - 1:sw,ec  2:pr,pc,cv
    
    
69. Black Oystercatcher - 2:pr
    
    
70. Black-necked Stilt - 2:pr,pc,cv
    
    
71. Greater Yellowlegs - 2:pr,cv
    
    
72. Lesser Yellowlegs - 1:sw  2:cv
    
    
73. Whimbrel - 1:sw
    
    
74. Long-billed Curlew (nt) - 2:pr
    
    
75. Willet - 1:sw  2:pr,pc
    
    
76. Marbled Godwit - 1:sw  2:pr,pc
    
    
77. Ruddy Turnstone - 2:pc
    
    
78. Black Turnstone - 1:sw  2:pc
    
    
79. Wandering Tattler - 1:sw
    
    
80. Surfbird - 1:sw
    
    
81. Red Knot - 1:sw
    
    
82. Sanderling - 1:sw  2:pr
    
    
83. Pectoral Sandpiper - 1:ec
    
    
84. Least Sandpiper - 1:ec  2:pc
    
    
85. White-rumped Sandpiper - 1:ec
    
    
86. Baird's Sandpiper - 1:ec
    
    
87. Western Sandpiper - 1:sw  2:pr,pc
    
    
88. Short-billed Dowitcher - 1:sw
    
    
89. Long-billed Dowitcher - 1:sw
    
    
90. Red-necked Phalarope - 2:pr
    
    
91. Parasitic Jaeger - 1:sw  2:mp
    
    
92. Pomarine Jaeger - 2:mp
    
    
93. South Polar Skua - 2:mp
    
    
94. Bonaparte's Gull - 1:sw
    
    
95. Mew Gull - 1:sw
    
    
96. Ring-billed Gull - 1:sw  2:pr,cv
    
    
97. California Gull - 1:sw  2:pc,mp
    
    
98. "American" Herring Gull - 1:sw
    
    
99. Glaucous-winged Gull - 1:sw
    
    
100. Western Gull - 1:sw  2:pr,pc,mp,cv
     
     
101. Heermann's Gull (nt) - 1:sw  2:pr,pc,mp
     
     
102. Black-legged Kittiwake - 1:sw
     
     
103. Caspian Tern - 1:sw
     
     
104. Forster's Tern - 2:pc
     
      
105. Common Murre - 1:sw  2:pc,mp
     
     
106. Pigeon Guillemot - 1:sw  2:mp
     
     
107. Marbled Murrelet (nt) - 1:pr
     
     
108. Rhinoceros Auklet - 2:mp
     
     
109. Common (or Feral) Pigeon (i) - 1:sw,ec  2:pr,pc,cv
     
     
110. Mourning Dove - 1:ec  2:pr,pc,cv
     
     
111. Red-masked Parakeet (i) - 2:sf
     
     
112. Great Horned Owl - 1:ec  2:pr
     
     
113. Anna's Hummingbird - 2:sf,pr,cv
     
      
114. Belted Kingfisher - 1:sw,ec  2:pr,pc,cv
     
     
115. Acorn Woodpecker - 2:pr
     
     
116. Downy Woodpecker - 1:sw
     
     
117. "Red-shafted" Northern Flicker - 1:sw,cm  2:pr
     
     
118. Pileated Woodpecker - 1:pr
     
     
119. Pacific-slope Flycatcher  - 2:pr 
     
     
120. Willow Flycatcher - 2:pr
     
     
121. Black Phoebe - 2:pr,cv
     
     
122. Say's Phoebe - 2:pr
     
     
123. Eastern Kingbird - 2:pr
     
     
124. Loggerhead Shrike - 2:cv
     
     
125. Hutton's Vireo - 1:cm
     
     
126. Violet-green Swallow - 1:ec  
     
     
127. Tree Swallow - 2:cv
     
     
128. Barn Swallow - 1:sw,ec  2:pr  (inc 1 albino in WA)
     
     
129. Steller's Jay - 1:sw,cm  2:pr
     
     
130. Western Scrub-Jay - 1:sw  2:pr,cv
     
     
131. Black-billed Magpie - 1:ec
     
     
132. Yellow-billed Magpie - 2:cv
     
     
133. Northern Raven - 1:sw,cm,ec  2:pr,pc,cv
     
     
134. American Crow - 1:sw,ec  2:sf,pr,pc,cv
     
     
135. Northwestern Crow - 1:sw
     
     
136. Black-capped Chickadee - 1:sw  2:pr
     
     
137. Mountain Chickadee - 1:cm  
     
     
138. Chestnut-backed Chickadee - 1:sw,cm  2:pr
     
     
139. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1:sw,cm
     
     
140. Brown Creeper - 1:sw
     
     
141. Wrentit - 2:pc 
     
     
142. Bewick's Wren - 1:sw  2:pr,pc
     
     
143. Winter Wren - 1:sw
     
     
144. Marsh Wren - 2:cv
     
     
145. American Dipper - 1:cm
     
     
146. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1:sw
     
     
147. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1:cm
     
     
148. Western Bluebird - 1:ec
     
     
149. Varied Thrush - 1:sw
     
     
150. American Robin - 1:sw,ec  2:pr
     
     
151. Swainson's Thrush - 2:pr
     
     
152. Northern Mockingbird - 2:cv
     
     
153. European Starling (i) - 1:sw,ec  2:sf,pr,pc,cv
     
     
154. American Pipit - 1:ec
     
     
155. Cedar Waxwing - 1:sw 
     
     
156. Orange-crowned Warbler - 1:sw  2:pr
     
     
157. American Yellow Warbler - 1:sw  2:pr
     
     
158. "Audubon's" Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1:cm,ec
     
     
159. Black-throated Gray Warbler - 1:sw
     
     
160. Hermit Warbler - 1:sw
     
     
161. Common Yellowthroat - 1:sw  2:pr
     
      
162. Western Meadowlark - 1:ec  2:cv
     
     
163. Red-winged Blackbird - 1:sw  2:pr,cv
     
     
164. Tricolored Blackbird - 2:pr,cv
     
     
165. Brewer's Blackbird - 1:ec  2:sf,pr,pc,cv
     
     
166. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1:ec  2:pr,cv
     
     
167. Black-headed Grosbeak - 2:pr
     
     
168. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2:pr
     
     
169. Spotted Towhee - 1:sw  2:pr
     
     
170. California Towhee - 2:pr
     
     
171. Rufous-crowned Sparrow - 2:cv
     
     
172. Brewer's Sparrow - 2:pr
     
     
173. Chipping Sparrow - 1:sw
     
     
174. Savannah Sparrow - 1:sw,ec  2:pr
     
     
175. Vesper Sparrow - 2:pr
     
     
176. Golden-crowned Sparrow - 1:sw
     
     
177. White-crowned Sparrow - 1:sw,ec  2:pr,pc,cv
     
     
178. "Slate-colored" Fox Sparrow - 1:sw
     
     
179. Song Sparrow - 1:sw,ec  2:pr,pc,cv
     
     
180. Lincoln's Sparrow - 1:sw,ec
     
     
181. "Oregon" Dark-eyed Junco - 1:cm  2:pr
     
     
182. Evening Grosbeak - 1:sw
     
     
183. Purple Finch - 1:sw
     
     
184. House Finch - 1:sw,ec  2:pr
     
     
185. American Goldfinch - 1:sw,ec  2:pr
     
     
186. House Sparrow (i) - 1:sw,ec  2:sf,pr,pc,cv  
     

Mammals during our West Coast USA Tour in Sept 2005



Codes:

1 - in Washington State 
     sw: southwest
     cm: Cascade Mountains
     ec: east of Cascades 

2 - in California
     pr: Point Reyes area
     pc: Pacific coast, San Francisco south to Montery
     mp: Monterey pelagic trip 9/17
     cv: southern Central Valley 

     
(i): introduced in North America
(i/wNA): introduced in western North America



 1. Douglas's Squirrel - 1:sw

 2. Eastern Gray Squirrel (i/wNA) -1:sw 

 3. Western Gray Squirrel - 2:pr

 4. California Ground Squirrel - 2:cv

 5. Townsend's Chipmunk - 1:sw

 6. Yellow Pine Chipmunk - 1:cm

 7. Merriam's Chipmunk - 2:pr

 8. Northwestern Deermouse - 1:sw

 9. Nutria (i) - 1:sw

10, Coyote - 2:cv

11. Mule (or "Black-tailed") Deer - 1:sw,ec  2:pr

12. "Columbian" White-tailed Deer - 1:sw  (an endangered subspecies)

13. (Common) Fallow Deer (i) - 2:pr

14. (Tule) Elk - 2


15. Sea Otter - 2:pc,mp

16. Harbor Seal - 1:sw,  2:pr,pc

17. California Sea Lion - 2:pc,mp

18. Pacific White-sided Dolphin - 2:mp

19. Baird's Beaked Whale - 2:mp  (up to 8 seen, 4 together on water surface close to boat) 

20. Humpback Whale - 2:mp (also 8 seen, 2 - mother & calf - breaching)