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BIRD
CHECKLIST
San Joaquin
Wildlife Sanctuary
compiled
by Charles Austin
This checklist, which is based upon and
extends the original 1993 list compiled by Sylvia Gallagher, Robb Hamilton
and Doug Willick, lists 263 species which have been recorded at the San
Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary and adjacent San Diego Creek as of Dec.
31, 1999.
Copies of the list, with monthly abundance
graphs for 166 of the species, may be obtained at Audubon House. (It's
not practical to try to duplicate the bar graphs on this webpage format.)
The following list will give you a good idea of what birds may be found
at the SJWS.
Birds
of the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary
| GREBES |
| __ Pied-billed Grebe |
| __ Horned Grebe |
| __ Eared Grebe |
| __ Western Grebe |
| PELICANS, CORMORANTS |
| __ American White Pelican |
| __ Brown Pelican |
| __ Double-crested Cormorant |
| BITTERNS, HERONS, IBISES |
| __ American Bittern |
| __ Great Blue Heron |
| __ Great Egret |
| __ Snowy Egret |
| __ Cattle Egret |
| __ Green Heron |
| __ Black-crowned Night-Heron |
| __ White-faced Ibis |
| NEW WORLD VULTURES |
| __ Turkey Vulture |
| GEESE, DUCKS |
| __ Greater White-fronted Goose |
| __ Snow Goose |
| __ Canada Goose |
| __ Wood Duck |
| __ Gadwall |
| __ American Wigeon |
| __ Mallard |
| __ Blue-winged Teal |
| __ Cinnamon Teal |
| __ Northern Shoveler |
| __ Northern Pintail |
| __ Green-winged Teal |
| __ Canvasback |
| __ Redhead |
| __ Ring-necked Duck |
| __ Lesser Scaup |
| __ Bufflehead |
| __ Ruddy Duck |
| HAWKS, KITES, EAGLES |
| __ Osprey |
| __ White-tailed Kite |
| __ Northern Harrier |
| __ Sharp-shinned Hawk |
| __ Cooper’s Hawk |
| __ Red-shouldered Hawk |
| __ Red-tailed Hawk |
| __ Golden Eagle |
| FALCONS |
| __ American Kestrel |
| __ Merlin |
| __ Peregrine Falcon |
| __ Peregrine Falcon |
| QUAIL |
| __ California Quail |
| RAILS, GALLINULES, COOTS |
| __ Virginia Rail |
| __ Sora |
| __ Common Moorhen |
| __ American Coot |
| PLOVERS |
| __ Black-bellied Plover |
| __ Semipalmated Plover |
| __ Killdeer |
| STILTS, AVOCETS |
| __ Black-necked Stilt |
| __ American Avocet |
| SANDPIPERS, PHALAROPES |
| __ Greater Yellowlegs |
| __ Lesser Yellowlegs |
|
| __ Willet |
| __ Spotted Sandpiper |
| __ Whimbrel |
| __ Long-billed Curlew |
| __ Marbled Godwit |
| __ Semipalmated Sandpiper |
| __ Western Sandpiper |
| __ Least Sandpiper |
| __ Baird’s Sandpiper |
| __ Dunlin |
| __ Stilt Sandpiper |
| __ Short-billed Dowitcher |
| __ Long-billed Dowitcher |
| __ Wilson's Snipe |
| __ Wilson’s Phalarope |
| __ Red-necked Phalarope |
| GULLS, TERNS |
| __ Bonaparte’s Gull |
| __ Ring-billed Gull |
| __ California Gull |
| __ Western Gull |
| __ Caspian Tern |
| __ Elegant Tern |
| __ Forster’s Tern |
| __ Least Tern |
| __ Black Tern |
| SKIMMERS |
| __ Black Skimmer |
| PIGEONS, DOVES |
| __ Rock Pigeon |
| __ Morning Dove |
| __ Common Ground-Dove |
| ROADRUNNERS |
| __ Greater Roadrunner |
| OWLS |
| __ Barn Owl |
| __ Great Horned Owl |
| NIGHTHAWKS, SWIFTS |
| __ Lesser Nighthawk |
| __ Vaux’s Swift |
| __ White-throated Swift |
| HUMMINGBIRDS |
| __ Black-chinned Hummingbird |
| __ Anna’s Hummingbird |
| __ Costa’s Hummingbird |
| __ Allen’s Hummingbird |
| KINGFISHER |
| __ Belted Kingfisher |
| WOODPECKERS |
| __ Nuttall’s Woodpecker |
| __ Downy Woodpecker |
| __ Northern Flicker |
| FLYCATCHERS |
| __ Willow Flycatcher |
| __ Pacific-slope Flycatcher |
| __ Black Phoebe |
| __ Say’s Phoebe |
| __ Ash-throated Flycatcher |
| __ Cassin’s Kingbird |
| __ Western Kingbird |
| SHRIKES |
| __ Loggerhead Shrike |
| VIREOS |
| __ Bell’s Vireo |
| __ Warbling Vireo |
| CROWS, RAVENS |
| __ American Crow |
| __ Common Raven |
| xxx |
| XXXX |
|
| SWALLOWS |
| __ Tree Swallow |
| __ Violet-green Swallow |
| __ N. Rough-winged Swallow |
| __ Bank Swallow |
| __ Cliff Swallow |
| __ Barn Swallow |
| BUSHTITS, WRENS |
| __ Bushtit |
| __ Bewick’s Wren |
| __ House Wren |
| __ Marsh Wren |
| KINGLETS, GNATCATCHERS |
| __ Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
| __ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
| THRUSHES |
| __ Hermit Thrush |
| __ Western Bluebird |
| __ American Robin |
| MOCKINGBIRDS |
| __ Northern Mockingbird |
| STARLINGS, PIPITS, WAXWINGS |
| __ European Starling |
| __ American Pipit |
| __ Cedar Waxwing |
| WARBLERS |
| __ Orange-crowned Warbler |
| __ Nashville Warbler |
| __ Yellow Warbler |
| __ Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| __ Townsend’s Warbler |
| __ MacGillivray’s Warbler |
| __ Common Yellowthroat |
| __ Wilson’s Warbler |
| __ Yellow-breasted Chat |
| TOWHEES, SPARROWS |
| __ Spotted Towhee |
| __ California Towhee |
| __ Chipping Sparrow |
| __ Brewer’s Sparrow |
| __ Lark Sparrow |
| __ Black-throated Sparrow |
| __ Savannah Sparrow |
| __ Fox Sparrow |
| __ Song Sparrow |
| __ Lincoln’s Sparrow |
| __ White-crowned Sparrow |
| __ Golden-crowned Sparrow |
| GROSBEAKS, BUNTINGS |
| __ Black-headed Grosbeak |
| __ Blue Grosbeak |
| __ Lazuli Bunting |
| BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES |
| __ Red-winged Blackbird |
| __ Tricolored Blackbird |
| __ Western Meadowlark |
| __ Yellow-headed Blackbird |
| __ Brewer’s Blackbird |
| __ Great-tailed Grackle |
| __ Brown-headed Cowbird |
| ORIOLES |
| __ Hooded Oriole |
| __ Bullock's Oriole |
| FINCHES |
| __ House Finch |
| __ Lesser GoldfinchXXXX |
| __ American GoldfinchXXXX |
| OLD WORLD SPARROWSXXXX |
| __ House SparrowXXXX |
| XXXX |
| XXXXx |
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Less
Frequently Seen Birds at the San Joaquin Widlies
The following birds have
been recorded at the SJWS at most four times
as of December 1999, and
for many of them only 2 records exist.
| __ Red-throated Loon |
| __ Clark’s Grebe |
| __ Least Bittern |
| __ Little Blue Heron |
| __ Ross’ Goose |
| __ Brant |
| __ Eurasian Wigeon |
| __ Gargeney |
| __ Greater Scaup |
| __ Surf Scoter |
| __ Common Goldeneye |
| __ Hooded Merganser |
| __ Common Merganser |
| __ Red-breasted Merganser |
| __ Bald Eagle |
| __ Swainson’s Hawk |
| __ Ferruginous Hawk |
| __ Rough-legged Hawk |
| __ Prairie Falcon |
| __ Clapper Rail |
| __ American Golden-Plover |
| __ Pacific Golden-Plover |
| __ Snowy Plover |
| __ Ruddy Turnstone |
| __ Red Knot |
| __ Sanderling |
| __ Little Stint |
| __ White-rumped Sandpiper |
| __ Sharp-tailed Sandpiper |
| __ Ruff |
| __ Red Phalarope |
| __ Franklin’s Gull |
| __ Mew Gull |
| __ Herring Gull |
| __ Glaucous-winged Gull |
| __ Gull-billed Tern |
| __ Royal Tern |
|
| __ Gull-billed Tern |
| __ Royal Tern |
| __ Common Tern |
| __ Spotted Dove |
| __ White-winged Dove |
| __ Ruddy Ground-Dove |
| __ Burrowing Owl |
| __ Black Swift |
| __ Rufous Hummingbird |
| __ Olive-sided Flycatcher |
| __ Western Wood-Pewee |
| __ Gray Flycatcher |
| __ Vermilion Flycatcher |
| __ Tropical Kingbird |
| __ Scissor-tailed Flycatcher |
| __ Cassin’s Vireo |
| __ Hutton’s Vireo |
| __ Western Scrub-Jay |
| __ Horned Lark |
| __ Purple Martin |
| __ Cactus Wren |
| __ Rock Wren |
| __ House Wren |
| __ California Gnatcatcher |
| __ Western Bluebird |
| __ Mountain Bluebird |
| __ Swainson’s Thrush |
| __ American Robin |
| __ Sage Thrasher |
| __ California Thrasher |
| __ Yellow Wagtail |
| __ Black-backed Wagtail |
| __ Sprague’s Pipit |
| __ Phainopepla |
| __ Northern Parula |
| __ Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| __ Black-throated Gray Warbler |
|
| __ Blackburnian Warbler |
| __ Hermit Warbler |
| __ Palm Warbler |
| __ Blackpoll Warbler |
| __ American Redstart |
| __ Northern Waterthrush |
| __ Canada Warbler |
| __ Western Tanager |
| __ Rufous-crowned Sparrow |
| __ Clay-colored Sparrow |
| __ Vesper Sparrow |
| __ Lark Bunting |
| __ Grasshopper Sparrow |
| __ Swamp Sparrow |
| __ White-throated Sparrow |
| __ Dark-eyed Junco |
| __ Chestnut-collared Longspur |
| __ Black-headed Grosbeak |
| __ Indigo Bunting |
| __ Bobolink |
| __ Baltimore Oriole |
| __ Purple Finch |
| __ Pine Siskin |
| __ Lawrence’s Goldfinch |
| XXXX |
| Exotic Species/Escapees |
| __ Mute Swan |
| __ Greylag Goose |
| __ Egyptian Goose |
| __ Mandarin Duck |
| __ White-cheeked Pintail |
| __ Ringed Teal |
| __ Nutmeg Mannikin |
| __ Orange Bishop |
| XXXX |
| XXXX |
| XXXX |
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Acknowledgements: The compiler
wishes to express thanks to Sylvia Gallagher, Robb Hamilton, Trudy Hurd
and Nancy Kenyon for their advice and criticism, while retaining responsibility
for any errors, and to John Schmitt for his elegant cover illustration.
updated
July 11, 2004
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