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2010 Umatilla County Composite Bird List

 

   


Compiled by Dave Herr
 

Date Updated: Monday June 28, 2010

Total Number of Bird Species Sighted in Umatilla County in 2010:  224
Total Number of Bird Species Sighted in Umatilla County in 2009:  256
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Total Number of Bird Species Sighted in Umatilla County in 2008:  254    View data table
Total Number of Bird Species Sighted in Umatilla County in 2007:  249    View data table
Total Number of Bird Species Sighted in Umatilla County in 2006:  243
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Total Number of Bird Species Sighted in Umatilla County in 2005:  244    View data table
Total Number of Bird Species Sighted in Umatilla County in 2004:  259    View data table
Total Number of Bird Species Sighted in Umatilla County in 2003:  244    View data table
                           Total Confirmed Bird Species in Umatilla County:   307     View data table

                                 Unconfirmed Bird Species in Umatilla County:        9    View current list

 

 


 

 

How many bird species can we find in Umatilla County in one year?
Bird club members have an opportunity to participate in the fun of finding out. During 2009, this link on the bird club website will keep track of the species recorded for the County. If you observe a species that hasn't been seen this year (see the list below), please send your sighting to Dave Herr at dsherr1@mac.com.

Check in regularly to find out which birds have or haven't been reported.
In 2009 birders reported 255 species while in
2004 birders reported 259 species.
Can we find more than 259 this year?
Well, whether we do or don't, we will have fun trying.

 

 

 

Color Key:

This Background Color = Bird Not Sighted This Year

This Background Color = Bird Sighted This Year

   

SWANS, GEESE, DUCKS JAEGERS, GULLS, TERNS WRENS, DIPPERS, KINGLETS
Greater White-fronted Goose, 2/22 Pomerine Jaeger Rock Wren, 1/1
Snow Goose, 1/13 Parasitic Jaeger Canyon Wren, 4/11
Ross’s Goose Black-legged Kittiwake Bewick’s Wren, 1/1
Cackling Goose, 1/1 Franklin’s Gull, 5/15 House Wren, 4/18
Canada Goose, 1/1 Bonaparte’s Gull, 4/17 Winter Wren, 1/2
Trumpeter Swan Mew Gull, 1/1 Marsh Wren, 1/3
Tundra Swan, 1/3 Ring-billed Gull, 1/1 American Dipper,1/2
Wood Duck, 1/1 California Gull, 1/16 Golden-crowned Kinglet, 1/2
Gadwall, 1/1 Herring Gull, 1/1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 1/1
Eurasian Wigeon, 2/6 Thayer’s Gull  
American Wigeon, 1/1 Western Gull, 2/4 THRUSHES
Mallard, 1/1 Glaucous-winged Gull, 1/3 Western Bluebird, 2/27
Blue-winged Teal, 4/20 Glaucous Gull Mountain Bluebird, 3/7
Cinnamon Teal, 4/6 Sabine’s Gull Townsend’s Solitaire, 1/1
Northern Shoveler, 1/1 Ross’s Gull Veery, 6/11
Northern Pintail, 1/1 Caspian Tern, 4/10 Swainson’s Thrush, 6/13
Green-winged Teal, 1/2 Common Tern Hermit Thrush, 1/2
Canvasback, 3/6 Forster’s Tern, 5/8 American Robin, 1/1
Redhead, 1/1 Black Tern Varied Thrush, 1/10
Harlequin Duck    
 Surf Scoter PIGEONS, DOVES MOCKINGBIRDS, THRASHERS
 Ring-necked Duck, 1/1 Rock Pigeon, 1/1 Gray Catbird, 6/11
Greater Scaup, 1/3 Band-tailed Pigeon Northern Mockingbird
Lesser Scaup, 1/1 White-winged Dove Sage Thrasher, 3/20
White-winged Scoter Mourning Dove, 1/1  
Black Scoter Eurasian Collared-Dove, 1/1 STARLINGS
Long-tailed Duck, 1/3   European Starling, 1/1
Bufflehead, 1/1 CUCKOOS  
Common Goldeneye, 1/1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo PIPITS, WAXWINGS
Barrow’s Goldeneye, 1/3   American Pipit, 1/2
Hooded Merganser, 1/1 OWLS Bohemian Waxwing, 1/1
Common Merganser, 1/1 Barn Owl, 1/1 Cedar Waxwing, 1/1
Red-breasted Merganser Flammulated Owl, 6/13  
Ruddy Duck, 1/2 Western Screech-Owl, 1/2 NEW WORLD WARBLERS
  Great Horned Owl, 1/1 Tennessee Warbler
PHEASANTS, GROUSE,
TURKEYS, QUAIL
Snowy Owl, 2/7 Orange-crowned Warbler, 4/23
Chukar, 1/1 Northern Pygmy-Owl, 1/24 Nashville Warbler, 5/6
Gray Partridge, 2/26 Burrowing Owl, 3/29 Yellow Warbler, 5/5
Ring-necked Pheasant, 1/1 Barred Owl Magnolia Warbler
Ruffed Grouse, 1/2 Great Gray Owl Yellow-rumped Warbler, 1/1
Dusky Grouse, 1/2 Long-eared Owl Black-throated Gray Warbler
Wild Turkey, 1/1 Short-eared Owl, 1/2 Townsend’s Warbler, 5/9
Mountain Quail Boreal Owl Black-and-white Warbler
California Quail, 1/1 Northern Saw-whet Owl, 1/1 American Redstart
    Northern Waterthrush
LOONS NIGHTHAWKS MacGillivray’s Warbler, 5/6
Red-throated Loon Common Nighthawk, 5/29 Common Yellowthroat
Pacific Loon Common Poorwill, 4/28 Hooded Warbler
Common Loon, 1/3   Wilson’s Warbler, 5/22
  SWIFTS, HUMMINGBIRDS Yellow-breasted Chat, 5/23
GREBES Black Swift  
Pied-billed Grebe, 1/1 Vaux’s Swift, 4/21 TANAGERS
Horned Grebe, 1/3 White-throated Swift, 4/17 Western Tanager, 5/9
Red-necked Grebe, 5/21 Black-chinned Hummingbird, 5/10  
Eared Grebe, 1/1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird TOWHEES, SPARROWS, JUNCOS, BUNTINGS
Western Grebe, 1/3 Anna's Hummingbird, 1/1 Green-tailed Towhee, 5/9
Clark’s Grebe, 5/8 Calliope Hummingbird, 4/29 Spotted Towhee, 1/1
  Broad-tailed Hummingbird American Tree Sparrow
PELICANS, CORMORANTS Rufous Hummingbird, 4/17 Chipping Sparrow, 4/22
American White Pelican, 1/3   Brewer’s Sparrow, 4/20
Double-crested Cormorant, 1/1 KINGFISHERS Vesper Sparrow, 4/7
  Belted Kingfisher, 1/1 Lark Sparrow, 5/8
BITTERNS, HERONS, VULTURES   Black-throated Sparrow
American Bittern, 1/3 WOODPECKERS Sage Sparrow
Great Blue Heron,1/1 Lewis’s Woodpecker, 4/28 Savannah Sparrow
Great Egret, 1/3 Williamson’s Sapsucker, 3/21 Grasshopper Sparrow, 4/29
Snowy Egret, 5/20 Red-naped Sapsucker, 5/9 Fox Sparrow, 1/1
Cattle Egret Downy Woodpecker, 1/2 Song Sparrow, 1/1
Green Heron Hairy Woodpecker, 1/2 Lincoln’s Sparrow, 4/9
Black-crowned Night-Heron, 1/1 White-headed Woodpecker, 4/17 Swamp Sparrow
White-faced Ibis, 5/23  Three-toed Woodpecker, 6/26 White-throated Sparrow
Turkey Vulture, 2/26 Black-backed Woodpecker Harris’s Sparrow, 1/1
  Northern Flicker, 1/1 White-crowned Sparrow, 1/1
OSPREY, FALCONS, HAWKS, EAGLES Pileated Woodpecker, 1/2 Golden-crowned Sparrow, 1/1
Osprey, 3/3   Dark-eyed Junco, 1/1
Bald Eagle, 1/1 FLYCATCHERS, KINGBIRDS Lapland Longspur, 3/18
Northern Harrier, 1/1 Olive-sided Flycatcher, 6/13  Snow Bunting
Sharp-shinned Hawk,1/1 Western Wood-Pewee, 5/31 Black-headed Grosbeak, 5/6
Cooper’s Hawk, 1/1 Willow Flycatcher, 6/11 Lazuli Bunting, 4/28
Northern Goshawk, 6/13 Least Flycatcher Indigo Bunting
Swainson’s Hawk, 4/7 Hammond’s Flycatcher, 4/25  
Red-tailed Hawk, 1/1 Gray Flycatcher BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES
Ferruginous Hawk, 2/20 Dusky Flycatcher, 5/9 Bobolink, 6/13
Rough-legged Hawk, 1/1 Western Flycatcher, 6/11 Red-winged Blackbird, 1/1
Golden Eagle, 1/1 Black Phoebe Tricolored Blackbird, 4/10
American Kestrel, 1/1 Say’s Phoebe, 1/27 Western Meadowlark, 1/1
Merlin, 1/2 Ash-throated Flycatcher Rusty Blackbird
Gyrfalcon Western Kingbird, 4/18 Brewer’s Blackbird, 1/3
Peregrine Falcon, 1/1 Eastern Kingbird, 5/22 Yellow-headed Blackbird, 3/17
Prairie Falcon, 1/2   Great-tailed Grackle
  SHRIKES Brown-headed Cowbird, 1/3
RAILS, COOTS, CRANES Loggerhead Shrike, 2/8 Bullock’s Oriole, 5/8
Virginia Rail, 1/3 Northern Shrike, 1/1  
Sora, 4/22   FINCHES, CROSSBILLS
American Coot, 1/1 VIREOS Brambling
Sandhill Crane, 2/21 Cassin’s Vireo, 5/5 Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch, 1/24
  Warbling Vireo, 5/9 Pine Grosbeak 
PLOVERS, SHOREBIRDS Red-eyed Vireo, 6/11 Purple Finch, 1/5
Black-bellied Plover   Cassin’s Finch, 3/21
American Golden-Plover JAYS, CROWS House Finch, 1/1
Pacific Golden-Plover Gray Jay, 5/13 Red Crossbill, 1/1
Semipalmated Plover, 5/14 Steller’s Jay, 1/1 White-winged Crossbill
Killdeer, 1/3 Blue Jay Common Redpoll
Black-necked Stilt, 3/28 Western Scrub-Jay, 2/14 Hoary Redpoll
American Avocet, 3/28 Clark’s Nutcracker, 1/1 Pine Siskin, 1/2
Greater Yellowlegs, 3/7 Black-billed Magpie, 1/1 Lesser Goldfinch, 1/2
Lesser Yellowlegs, 4/17 American Crow, 1/1 American Goldfinch, 1/1
Solitary Sandpiper Common Raven, 1/1 Evening Grosbeak, 2/15
Spotted Sandpiper, 5/8    
Upland Sandpiper LARKS OLD WORLD SPARROW
Whimbrel Horned Lark, 1/1 House Sparrow, 1/1
Long-billed Curlew, 3/13    
Marbled Godwit SWALLOWS  
Ruddy Turnstone Purple Martin  
Sanderling Tree Swallow, 3/20  
Semipalmated Sandpiper Violet-green Swallow, 3/18  
Western Sandpiper Northern Rough-winged Swallow, 4/10  
Least Sandpiper, 4/10 Bank Swallow, 4/17  
Baird’s Sandpiper Cliff Swallow, 4/10  
Pectoral Sandpiper Barn Swallow, 4/18  
Dunlin, 2/8    
Stilt Sandpiper CHICKADEES, NUTHATCHES, CREEPERS  
Short-billed Dowitcher Black-capped Chickadee, 1/1  
Long-billed Dowitcher, 4/16 Mountain Chickadee, 1/1  
Wilson’s Snipe, 1/1 Chestnut-backed Chickadee, 4/23  
Wilson’s Phalarope, 5/8 Red-breasted Nuthatch, 1/1  
Red-necked Phalarope, Bushtit  
Red Phalarope White-breasted Nuthatch, 1/2  
Willet Pygmy Nuthatch, 1/2  
  Brown Creeper, 1/10  
     
     
     

 

Species No Longer Present

Red-legged Partridge: introduced by ODFW in 1980s, but no viable population established

Greater Sage-Grouse: extirpated

Sharp-tailed Grouse: extirpated

Northern Bobwhite: introduced and extirpated

 

Unconfirmed Sightings:

Unconfirmed Species with One Sighting
The species on this list were seen once by one or two observers. Our current information indicates no identifiable photo and no accepted record by the Oregon Bird Records Committee (for review species). Status of any species could change with additional information.

Brant Long-tailed Jaeger Blackpoll Warbler
Brown Pelican Red-breasted Sapsucker
Red Knot Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Hutton’s Vireo