Subject: [Tweeters] my bird list from my visit to western kansas/nebraska
Date: Apr 3 08:21:12 2008
From: Devorah Bennu - birdologist at yahoo.com


hello tweets,

i have returned from my trip to Kansas/Nebraska and
thought i'd share my bird list with you. i also have
written stories about some of my adventures, which can
be found on my blog.

Life list birds are indicated with an asterix;

Snow goose, white and blue phases
Canada goose
Cackling goose
Wood duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Blue-winged teal (plentiful)
Northern shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged teal
Canvasback
Redhead (only one pair, but they were very close to
the road)
Ring-necked duck
Greater scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded merganser
Red-breasted merganser
Ruddy duck
Ring-necked pheasant
*Greater prairie-chickens dancing on several lek sites
in Kansas
Wild turkey, many individuals including three males
that were actively courting females
Common loon, all in their spectacular breeding plumage
Pied-billed grebe
Eared grebe
*American white pelican
Double-crested cormorant
Great blue heron
Great egret
Turkey vulture, LOTS!
Cooper's hawk
Red-tailed hawk
Rough-legged hawk
American kestrel
Merlin
American coot
Sandhill crane (greater and lesser)
Killdeer
Greater yellowlegs
*Franklin's gull, all in spectacular breeding plumage
Bonaparte's gull
Ring-billed gull
Herring gull
Rock dove
*Eurasian collared dove
Mourning dove
Barn owl
Barred owl
Belted kingfisher
Red-bellied woodpecker
Downy woodpecker
Northern flicker, both the yellow-shafted and
red-shafted subspecies, as well as several
"orange-shafted" hybrids
Loggerhead shrike
Blue jay
American crow
Horned lark
Tree swallow
Northern rough-winged swallow
Tufted titmouse
Red-breasted nuthatch
Carolina wren
*Eastern bluebird
American Robin
Northern mockingbird
European starling
Cedar waxwing
*American tree sparrow
*Vesper sparrow
Savannah sparrow
Fox sparrow
Song sparrow
*Harris' sparrow
White-crowned sparrow
Dark-eyed junco, "slate-colored" subspecies
Chestnut-collared longspur
Northern cardinal
Red-winged blackbird
Eastern meadowlark
Western meadowlark
Yellow-headed blackbird
Common grackle
Great-tailed grackle
Brown-headed cowbird
House finch
American goldfinch
House sparrow

86 species total seen in six days, accompanied by Dave
Rintoul, Elizabeth Dodd, or Chuck Otte. Thanks to all
of them for showing me a great time and for helping me
pick up some lifers, despite my broken arm.

i also kept a roadkill list because of the astonishing
carnage alongside the roadways;

Striped skunk (also seen alive)
White-tailed deer (also seen alive)
Opossum (only seen dead)
Domestic housecat
American robin
Red-tailed hawk (saw at least three dead birds)
Barred owl (saw only one)
Great-horned owl (only saw one dead, none alive)
Yellow-headed blackbird (saw one)
American kestrel
Badger (only seen dead)
Raccoon (saw several dead ones only)
Jack rabbit (saw several dead ones only)
Cottontail rabbit (saw this animal alive, too)
*Fox squirrel



GrrlScientist
Devorah
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/
Roosting high up a tree somewhere in Central Park, NYC


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