River Fork Ranch Bird List

Based on notes by Graham Chisholm
November 2, 2000

Pied-billed Grebe

American White Pelican

Double-crested Cormorant

American Bittern

Least Bittern

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Green Heron

Black-crowned Night Heron

White-faced Ibis

Canada Goose

Wood Duck

Mallard

Gadwall

Northern Pintail

Cinnamon Teal

Green-winged Teal

Bufflehead

Common Merganser

Hooded Merganser

Turkey Vulture

Northern Harrier

Red-tailed Hawk

Ferruginous Hawk

Golden Eagle

Bald Eagle

Merlin

American Kestrel

California Quail

American Coot

Virginia Rail

Sora

Sandhill Crane

Killdeer

Greater Yellowlegs

Willet

Spotted Sandpiper

Common Snipe

Wilson’s Phalarope

Forster’s Tern

Mourning Dove

Great Horned Owl

Long-eared Owl

Belted Kingfisher

Red-breasted Sapsucker

Downy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Black Phoebe

Say’s Phoebe

Western Kingbird

Clark’s Nutcracker

Black-billed Magpie

Common Raven

Horned Lark

Tree Swallow

Bushtit

Bewick’s Wren

House Wren

Marsh Wren

Rock Wren

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Townsend’s Solitaire

Western Bluebird

American Robin

European Starling

American Pipit

Cedar Waxwing

Orange-crowned Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Common Yellowthroat

Wilson’s Warbler

Spotted Towhee

Chipping Sparrow

Savannah Sparrow

Golden-crowned Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Lincoln’s Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Western Meadowlark

Brown-headed Cowbird

Yellow-headed Blackbird

Red-winged Blackbird

Brewer’s Blackbird

Bullock’s Oriole

Gray-crowned Rosy Finch

House Finch

Pine Siskin

American Goldfinch

Lesser Goldfinch

House Sparrow

91 species