List of Birds of Placer County
(updated November 25, 2000 by Bruce Webb)Until I can believe most of the pending sightings myself, this list will not be updated.
So, this current list is as close to believable as I can justify publishing. Many of the pending sightings have not received any peer review and they remain off the list until photographic evidence is submitted. (this includes several of my own single observer sightings)
311 species compiled in the current 7th Edition A.O.U. Checklist order include:
LOONS Red-throated Loon * Pacific Loon * Common Loon Yellow-billed Loon * SRO (CBRC) GREBES Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe * Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clark's Grebe PELICANS & CORMORANTS American White Pelican Double-crested Cormorant BITTERNS & HERONS American Bittern Least Bittern * Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Cattle Egret * Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron IBISES White-faced Ibis AMERICAN VULTURES Turkey Vulture SWANS, GEESE, & DUCKS Trumpeter Swan * (CBRC) Tundra Swan Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross's Goose Canada Goose Brant * Wood Duck Gadwall Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon Mallard Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup * Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck * Oldsquaw * Bufflehead Surf Scoter * White-winged Scoter * Black Scoter * SRO Common Goldeneye Barrow's Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck KITES, HAWKS, EAGLES, HARRIERS Osprey White-tailed Kite Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk Swainson's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle FALCONS American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Prairie Falcon QUAIL, GROUSE, & TURKEY Ring-necked Pheasant - I Blue Grouse Wild Turkey - I Mountain Quail California Quail RAILS, GALLINULES, & COOTS Virginia Rail Sora Common Moorhen American Coot CRANES Sandhill Crane PLOVERS Black-bellied Plover Snowy Plover * Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Mountain Plover * STILTS & AVOCETS Black-necked Stilt American Avocet SANDPIPERS & PHALAROPES Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Willet Spotted Sandpiper Whimbrel Long-billed Curlew Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone * Red Knot * Sanderling * Semipalmated Sandpiper * Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper * Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Ruff * Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Common Snipe Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Red Phalarope * SRO GULLS & TERNS Parasitic Jaeger
Long-tailed Jaeger* SRO Lake Forest, Tahoe 9-10-98 & 9-15/16-00 up to 3 jaegers Franklin's Gull -- SRO * Bonaparte's Gull Mew Gull * Ring-billed Gull California Gull Herring Gull Thayer's Gull Western Gull* SRO Glaucous-winged Gull Glaucous Gull * Sabine's Gull * Caspian Tern Common Tern * Arctic Tern * Forster's Tern Black Tern PIGEONS & DOVES Rock Dove - I Band-tailed Pigeon Mourning Dove CUCKOOS & ROADRUNNERS Yellow-billed Cuckoo * Greater Roadrunner * BARN OWLS Barn Owl TYPICAL OWLS 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 GOATSUCKERS Common Nighthawk Common Poorwill SWIFTS Black Swift Vaux's Swift White-throated Swift HUMMINGBIRDS Black-chinned Hummingbird Anna's Hummingbird Costa's Hummingbird * Calliope Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird KINGFISHERS Belted Kingfisher WOODPECKERS Lewis's Woodpecker Acorn Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker -SRO * Red-naped Sapsucker * Red-breasted Sapsucker Williamson's Sapsucker Nuttall's Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker White-headed Woodpecker Black-backed Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker TYRANT FLYCATCHERS Olive-sided Flycatcher Western Wood-Pewee Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher * Hammond's Flycatcher Gray Flycatcher Dusky Flycatcher Pacific-slope Flycatcher Black Phoebe Say's Phoebe Ash-throated Flycatcher Western Kingbird SHRIKES Northern Shrike * Loggerhead Shrike VIREOS Cassin's Vireo Hutton's Vireo Warbling Vireo JAYS, MAGPIES, & CROWS 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 N. Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow CHICKADEES & TITMICE Mountain Chickadee Chestnut-backed Chickadee Oak Titmouse BUSHTITS Bushtit NUTHATCHES Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Pygmy Nuthatch CREEPERS Brown Creeper WRENS Rock Wren Canyon Wren Bewick's Wren House Wren Winter Wren Marsh Wren DIPPERS American Dipper OLD WORLD WARBLERS, OLD WORLD FLYCATCHERS, & THRUSHES Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Western Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush American Robin Varied Thrush Wrentit MOCKINGBIRDS & THRASHERS Northern Mockingbird Sage Thrasher * Brown Thrasher * California Thrasher STARLINGS European Starling - I PIPITS American Pipit WAXWINGS Bohemian Waxwing * Cedar Waxwing SILKY-FLYCATCHERS Phainopepla WOOD-WARBLERS, TANAGERS Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Yellow Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler * Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Townsend's Warbler Hermit Warbler Palm Warbler * American Redstart * Northern Waterthrush * MacGillivray's Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat TANAGERS Western Tanager SPARROWS Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee California Towhee Rufous-crowned Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Brewer's Sparrow Black-chinned Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Black-throated Sparrow Sage (Bell's) Sparrow Lark Bunting * Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow * Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco McCown's Longspur * Lapland Longspur * Chestnut-collared Longspur * GROSBEAKS and Allies Rose-breasted Grosbeak * Black-headed Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak * Lazuli Bunting Indigo Bunting –SRO * BLACKBIRDS and Allies Bobolink * Red-winged Blackbird Tricolored Blackbird Western Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Great-tailed Grackle * Brown-headed Cowbird Hooded Oriole Bullock's Oriole FINCHES Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch * Pine Grosbeak Purple Finch Cassin's Finch House Finch Red Crossbill Pine Siskin Lesser Goldfinch Lawrence's Goldfinch American Goldfinch Evening Grosbeak OLD WORLD SPARROWS House Sparrow- I I = introduced Pending acceptance Franklin's Gull * SRO Beals Point, Folsom Lake SRA 11-5-99 Slaty-backed type Herring Gull * (CBRC) 1/98 Photo record - pending submission & review Arctic Tern* two SRO and Photographic records Sept 1998 - pending review Blackpoll Warbler * SRO Auburn Ravine - pending review Gray Catbird * SRO CBRC - State listed species reported Oct 1999, Auburn Ravine pending review Vermilion Flycatcher * SRO Lincoln - (date?) Pending Review
SROindicates a single observer sight record only -- pending acceptance by local records committee or CBRC. An asterisk * indicates a bird rare enough in Placer County to warrant notifying local birders or calling the Bird Box (916) 481-0118. (CBRC) indicates that documentation should be sent to the California Bird Records Committee at: Dr. Michael M. Rogers, CBRC Secretary, P.O. Box 340, Moffett Field, CA 94035-0340 (or by e-mail at mrogers@nas.nasa.gov). This version of the Placer County Bird Checklist (in current A.O.U. order) was prepared by Bruce Webb. Please forward any details of species additions, seasonal or status changes to the author at: Bruce E. Webb