Bird List, Howling Oak
Ranch, 2008
Seen on 3/30/08
Mallards
American Widgeon
Ring-necked duck
Black Phoebe
White-Crowned Sparrow
House Sparrow
House Finch
Red-shouldered Hawk
Yellow billed Magpie
Brown-headed cowbird
Red-winged blackbird
Brewer’s blackbird
Northern (Bullock’s) Oriole
Lewis’s Woodpecker
Barn Swallow
Rock Dove
Western Meadowlark
Lesser goldfinch
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Turkey Vulture
Say’s Phoebe
Ruby crowned kinglet
Western Scrub-jay
Swainson’s Hawk
Western kingbird
Western bluebird
American Robin
White-breasted nuthatch
American Crow
Anna’s hummingbird
Month of April (additions)
Cooper’s
Hawk
Wild turkey
Red-tailed hawk
Northern Flicker
Northern Harrier
Golden-crowned sparrow
Green Heron
Great blue heron
Golden Eagle
Wood duck
American kestrel
Tree swallow
Black-shouldered (white-tailed)
kite
Mourning dove
Northern mockingbird
European Starling
Lark Sparrow
Earlier in 2008
Common Golden-eye
Canvasback
Northern Shoveler
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Bald Eagle
Ruddy Duck
American coot
Green-winged Teal
Northern Pintail
Dark-eyed Junco
Other (seen in other
years)
Great-horned owl
Loggerhead Shrike
White pelican (overhead)
Snow geese (overhead)
White-fronted geese
(overhead)
White-faced ibis (overhead)
Sandhill crane (overhead)
Great Egret
Burrowing Owl
California Quail
Pied-billed Grebe
American Bittern
Hooded merganser
Ring-necked Pheasant
Belted Kingfisher
Acorn Woodpecker
American goldfinch
Some small owl species yet to
be identified
We undoubtedly have more warblers sparrows, and flycatchers, but haven’t learned to
recognize them yet