Bird Reports

KERN COUNTY BIRD SIGHTINGS REPORT Form

Please complete all information. You will be contacted in the event of a bird occurring out of season, in a new area, or if more details or documentation are needed. Always include your name, phone, and email address as well as the date of birding and location.

All birds marked with an asterisk are considered rare. Documentation may be necessary in order to have these birds added to the official records. All birds marked with a double asterisk are county records, additional sightings must be accompanied by exceptional documentation. Any bird not listed on the checklist has never been seen in Kern County, therefore can be added in the new species form below. Please provide exact details of location, time, and description. Supporting documentation is required for new species. This can be in the form of photos, sound recordings, video recording, or really good field notes.

Please inform us immediately if any new or rare species are seen. Other birders appreciate the opportunity to view and confirm any rarities. Thank you for your time.

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	"Official" Bird List for Kern County, California
	BIRDS OBSERVED
WATERFOWL	Fulvous Whistling-Duck Tundra Swan Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross' Goose Brant Canada Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Mallard Northern Pintail Garganey ** Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall Eurasian Wigeon * American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Tufted Duck ** Greater Scaup * Lesser Scaup Oldsquaw Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter ** Common Goldeneye Barrow's Goldeneye * Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser * Ruddy Duck
PHEASANTS GROUSE QUAIL	Chukar (I) Ring-necked Pheasant (I) Blue Grouse Wild Turkey (I) Gambel's Quail (I) California Quail Mountain Quail
LOONS GREBES	Red-throated Loon ** Pacific Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe * Red-necked Grebe * Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clark's Grebe
PELICANS CORMORANTS	American White Pelican Brown Pelican ** Double-crested Cormorant
FRIGATEBIRDS	Magnificent Frigatebird **
HERONS	American Bittern Least Bittern * Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron ** Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron
IBIS SPOONBILLS	White-faced Ibis Roseate Spoonbill **
STORKS VULTURES	Wood Stork ** Turkey Vulture California Condor (I)
RAPTORS	Osprey White-tailed Kite Mississippi Kite Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Swainson's Hawk Zone-tailed Hawk ** Red-tailed Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Prairie Falcon
RAILS	Virginia Rail Sora Common Moorhen American Coot
CRANES	Sandhill Crane
PLOVERS	Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover * Pacific Golden-Plover * Snowy Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Mountain Plover
STILTS AVOCETS	Black-necked Stilt American Avocet
SANDPIPERS	Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Willet Wandering Tattler ** Spotted Sandpiper Whimbrel Long-billed Curlew Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone * Black Turnstone * Red Knot ** Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Sharp-tailed Sandpiper * Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Ruff Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Common Snipe Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Red Phalarope **
GULLS TERNS SKIMMERS	Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Long-tailed Jaeger * Laughing Gull Franklin's Gull Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Heermann's Gull * Mew Gull * Ring-billed Gull California Gull Herring Gull Thayer's Gull * Western Gull * Glaucous-winged Gull ** Glaucous Gull * Black-legged Kittiwake Sabine's Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Arctic Tern ** Forster's Tern Least Tern * Black Tern Black Skimmer **
DOVES	Rock Pigeon (I) Band-tailed Pigeon Spotted Dove (I) White-winged Dove Mourning Dove Inca Dove Common Ground-Dove Ruddy Ground-Dove **
PARROTS	Rose-ringed Parakeet (I)
CUCKOOS	Yellow-billed Cuckoo Greater Roadrunner Groove-billed Ani **
OWLS	Barn Owl Flammulated Owl * Western Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Northern Pygmy-Owl Burrowing Owl Spotted Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl
NIGHTJARS	Lesser Nighthawk Common Nighthawk * Common Poorwill
SWIFTS	Black Swift * Chimney Swift * Vaux's Swift White-throated Swift
HUMMINGBIRDS	Broad-billed Hummingbird * Black-chinned Hummingbird Anna's Hummingbird Costa's Hummingbird Calliope Hummingbird Broad-tailed Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Allen's Hummingbird
KINGFISHERS	Belted Kingfisher
WOODPECKERS	Lewis's Woodpecker Acorn Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker * Red-naped Sapsucker Red-breasted Sapsucker Williamson's Sapsucker Ladder-backed Woodpecker Nuttall's Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker White-headed Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker
FLYCATCHERS	Olive-sided Flycatcher Western Wood-Pewee Eastern Wood-Pewee ** Yellow-bellied Flycatcher * Alder Flycatcher * Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher * Hammond's Flycatcher Dusky Flycatcher Gray Flycatcher Pacific-slope Flycatcher Black Phoebe Eastern Phoebe * Say's Phoebe Vermilion Flycatcher Ash-throated Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher Brown-crested Flycatcher Tropical Kingbird Cassin's Kingbird Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird * Scissor-tailed Flycatcher **
SHRIKES	Northern Shrike ** Loggerhead Shrike
VIREOS	White-eyed Vireo Bell's Vireo Gray Vireo * Blue-headed Vireo ** Cassin's Vireo Plumbeous Vireo* Yellow-throated Vireo ** Hutton's Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo * Red-eyed Vireo * Yellow-green Vireo **
CORVIDS	Steller's Jay Western Scrub-Jay Pinyon Jay Clark's Nutcracker Black-billed Magpie Yellow-billed Magpie American Crow Common Raven
LARKS	Horned Lark
SWALLOWS	Purple Martin Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow
CHICKADEES TITMICE BUSHTITS	Mountain Chickadee Oak Titmouse Verdin Bushtit
NUTHATCHES CREEPER	Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Pygmy Nuthatch Brown Creeper
WRENS DIPPERS	Cactus Wren Rock Wren Canyon Wren Bewick's Wren House Wren Winter Wren Marsh Wren American Dipper
OLD WORLD WARBLERS GNATCATCHERS KINGLETS	Dusky Warbler ** Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet
THRUSHES	Western Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire Veery * Gray-cheeked Thrush * Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush ** American Robin Varied Thrush
WRENTIT	Wrentit
THRASHERS	Gray Catbird * Northern Mockingbird Sage Thrasher Brown Thrasher * Bendire's Thrasher California Thrasher Le Conte's Thrasher
STARLINGS	European Starling (I)
PIPITS	Red-throated Pipit * American Pipit Sprague's Pipit *
SILKY FLYCATCHERS	Bohemian Waxwing * Cedar Waxwing Phainopepla
WOOD-WARBLERS	Blue-winged Warbler * Golden-winged Warbler * Tennessee Warbler * Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Virginia's Warbler * Lucy's Warbler * Northern Parula * Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler ** Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Townsend's Warbler Hermit Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler * Blackburnian Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Prairie Warbler * Palm Warbler * Bay-breasted Warbler ** Blackpoll Warbler * Cerulean Warbler ** Black-and-white Warbler * American Redstart * Prothonotary Warbler * Worm-eating Warbler ** Ovenbird * Northern Waterthrush * Louisiana Waterthrush ** Kentucky Warbler * Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler MacGillivray's Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler * Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler * Painted Redstart ** Yellow-breasted Chat
TANAGERS	Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager * Western Tanager
EMBERIZIDS	Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee California Towhee Rufous-crowned Sparrow American Tree Sparrow ** Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow * Brewer's Sparrow Field Sparrow Black-chinned Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Black-throated Sparrow Sage Sparrow Lark Bunting Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow * Le Conte's Sparrow ** Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow * Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow ** White-throated Sparrow * Harris's Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco McCown's Longspur Lapland Longspur * Smith's Longspur Chestnut-collared Longspur Rustic Bunting Snow Bunting **
GROSBEAKS	Rose-breasted Grosbeak * Black-headed Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting Indigo Bunting Painted Bunting * Dickcissel **
BLACKBIRDS ORIOLES	Bobolink ** Red-winged Blackbird Tricolored Blackbird Western Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Rusty Blackbird * Brewer's Blackbird Common Grackle Great-tailed Grackle Bronzed Cowbird Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole * Hooded Oriole Baltimore Oriole * Bullock's Oriole Scott's Oriole
FINCHES	Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch * Purple Finch Cassin's Finch House Finch Red Crossbill Pine Siskin Lesser Goldfinch Lawrence's Goldfinch American Goldfinch Evening Grosbeak
WEAVER FINCHES	House Sparrow (I)
NEW BIRD RECORD
	* = exceptional species I = Introduced species.
Other Field Observations; Unusual behavior, nesting activity, # of young, habitat, plant, insect or other animal sightings, Thoughts:

This page was created on October 19, 1999 and was last modified on Thursday, January 17, 2008

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