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E:\Myfiles\Documents\County Checklists\Elk.Wpd KANSAS BIRDS: Species List for Elk County, KS GEESE, SWANS RAILS, GALLINULES ____ Snowy Egret ____ Snow Goose ____ Virginia Rail ____ Little Blue Heron ____ Ross's Goose ____ Sora ____ Cattle Egret ____ Greater White-fronted Goose ____ American Coot ____ Green Heron ____ Black-crowned Night-Heron ____ Cackling Goose CRANES ____ Canada Goose* ____ Sandhill Crane ____ Yellow-crowned Night-Heron ____ Trumpeter Swan STILTS, AVOCETS IBISES DUCKS ____ Black-necked Stilt ____ White-faced Ibis ____ Wood Duck ____ American Avocet VULTURES ____ Blue-winged Teal ____ Black Vulture PLOVERS ____ Northern Shoveler ____ Turkey Vulture* ____ Gadwall ____ Black-bellied Plover ____ American Wigeon ____ American Golden-Plover OSPREY, HAWKS, KITES, ____ Mallard ____ Killdeer* EAGLES ____ American Black Duck ____ Semipalmated Plover ____ Osprey ____ Northern Pintail SANDPIPERS ____ Golden Eagle ____ Green-winged Teal ____ Upland Sandpiper§ ____ Northern Harrier ____ Canvasback ____ Long-billed Curlew ____ Sharp-shinned Hawk ____ Redhead ____ Hudsonian Godwit ____ Cooper's Hawk ____ Ring-necked Duck ____ Marbled Godwit ____ Northern Goshawk ____ Greater Scaup ____ Baird's Sandpiper ____ Bald Eagle ____ Lesser Scaup ____ Least Sandpiper ____ Mississippi Kite ____ Bufflehead ____ White-rumped Sandpiper ____ Red-shouldered Hawk ____ Common Goldeneye ____ Buff-breasted Sandpiper ____ Broad-winged Hawk ____ Hooded Merganser ____ Pectoral Sandpiper ____ Swainson's Hawk ____ Common Merganser ____ Semipalmated Sandpiper ____ Red-tailed Hawk* ____ Red-breasted Merganser ____ Long-billed Dowitcher ____ Rough-legged Hawk ____ Ruddy Duck ____ Wilson's Snipe ____ Ferruginous Hawk QUAIL ____ American Woodcock BARN OWLS ____ Northern Bobwhite* ____ Spotted Sandpiper ____ Barn Owl ____ Solitary Sandpiper OWLS TURKEY, GROUSE, PHEASANT ____ Lesser Yellowlegs ____ Wild Turkey§ ____ Eastern Screech-Owl ____ Greater Yellowlegs ____ Great Horned Owl* ____ Greater Prairie-Chicken* ____ Wilson's Phalarope ____ Ring-necked Pheasant ____ Snowy Owl GULLS ____ Burrowing Owl GREBES ____ Bonaparte's Gull ____ Barred Owl ____ Pied-billed Grebe ____ Franklin's Gull ____ Short-eared Owl ____ Horned Grebe ____ Ring-billed Gull KINGFISHERS PIGEONS, DOVES ____ Herring Gull ____ Belted Kingfisher§ ____ Rock Pigeon§ TERNS WOODPECKERS ____ Eurasian Collared-Dove* ____ Caspian Tern ____ Mourning Dove* ____ Red-headed Woodpecker* ____ Black Tern ____ Red-bellied Woodpecker* CUCKOOS ____ Forster's Tern ____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ____ Greater Roadrunner LOONS ____ Downy Woodpecker§ ____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo* ____ Common Loon ____ Hairy Woodpecker* ____ Black-billed Cuckoo CORMORANTS ____ Northern Flicker NIGHTJARS ____ Double-crested Cormorant ____ Pileated Woodpecker ____ Common Nighthawk§ FALCONS ____ Chuck-will's-widow§ PELICANS ____ American White Pelican ____ American Kestrel* ____ Eastern Whip-poor-will ____ Merlin SWIFTS HERONS ____ Gyrfalcon† ____ Chimney Swift§ ____ American Bittern§ ____ Prairie Falcon ____ Least Bittern HUMMINGBIRDS ____ Great Blue Heron* FLYCATCHERS ____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird* ____ Great Egret ____ Great Crested Flycatcher* ____ Western Kingbird* Elk - 1 ____ Eastern Kingbird* THRUSHES ____ Bobolink ____ Scissor-tailed Flycatcher* ____ Eastern Bluebird* ____ Eastern Meadowlark* ____ Eastern Wood-Pewee* ____ Mountain Bluebird ____ Western Meadowlark ____ Yellow-bellied Flycatcher ____ Veery ____ Orchard Oriole* ____ Acadian Flycatcher§ ____ Swainson's Thrush ____ Baltimore Oriole* ____ Alder Flycatcher ____ Hermit Thrush ____ Red-winged Blackbird* ____ Willow Flycatcher ____ Wood Thrush ____ Brown-headed Cowbird* ____ Least Flycatcher ____ American Robin* ____ Rusty Blackbird ____ Eastern Phoebe* ____ Brewer's Blackbird THRASHERS ____ Say's Phoebe ____ Gray Catbird ____ Common Grackle* SHRIKES ____ Brown Thrasher* ____ Great-tailed Grackle* ____ Loggerhead Shrike* ____ Northern Mockingbird* WARBLERS ____ Ovenbird VIREOS STARLINGS ____ White-eyed Vireo ____ European Starling* ____ Worm-eating Warbler ____ Bell's Vireo* ____ Northern Waterthrush WAXWINGS ____ Yellow-throated Vireo§ ____ Louisiana Waterthrush§ ____ Bohemian Waxwing ____ Black-and-white Warbler§ ____ Blue-headed Vireo ____ Cedar Waxwing ____ Philadelphia Vireo ____ Prothonotary Warbler* ____ Warbling Vireo OLD WORLD SPARROWS ____ Tennessee Warbler ____ Red-eyed Vireo ____ House Sparrow* ____ Orange-crowned Warbler ____ Nashville Warbler JAYS, MAGPIES, CROWS PIPITS ____ Mourning Warbler ____ Blue Jay* ____ American Pipit ____ Kentucky Warbler§ ____ American Crow* FINCHES ____ Common Yellowthroat§ ____ Fish Crow ____ Evening Grosbeak ____ Hooded Warbler LARKS ____ Pine Grosbeak ____ American Redstart ____ Horned Lark* ____ House Finch§ ____ Northern Parula§ ____ Purple Finch ____ Yellow Warbler SWALLOWS ____ Pine Siskin ____ Chestnut-sided Warbler ____ Bank Swallow ____ American Goldfinch§ ____ Blackpoll Warbler ____ Tree Swallow ____ Palm Warbler LONGSPURS ____ N. Rough-winged Swallow ____ Yellow-rumped Warbler ____ Lapland Longspur ____ Purple Martin* ____ Yellow-throated Warbler ____ Smith's Longspur ____ Barn Swallow* ____ Black-throated Green Warbler ____ Cliff Swallow SPARROWS ____ Wilson's Warbler ____ Grasshopper Sparrow* CHICKADEES, TITMICE GROSBEAKS, BUNTINGS ____ Lark Sparrow* ____ Carolina Chickadee* ____ Summer Tanager§ ____ Lark Bunting ____ Black-capped Chickadee* ____ Scarlet Tanager ____ Chipping Sparrow ____ Tufted Titmouse* ____ Northern Cardinal* ____ Clay-colored Sparrow ____ Rose-breasted Grosbeak NUTHATCHES ____ Field Sparrow* ____ Blue Grosbeak* ____ Red-breasted Nuthatch ____ Fox Sparrow ____ Indigo Bunting* ____ White-breasted Nuthatch§ ____ American Tree Sparrow ____ Painted Bunting* CREEPERS ____ Dark-eyed Junco ____ Dickcissel* ____ Brown Creeper ____ White-crowned Sparrow ____ Harris's Sparrow WRENS † Fewer than ten Kansas records ____ White-throated Sparrow ____ House Wren* [ ] Hypothetical species ____ Vesper Sparrow ____ Winter Wren § Probable breeding species ____ Henslow's Sparrow§ ____ Sedge Wren * Confirmed breeding species ____ Savannah Sparrow ____ Marsh Wren Probable and confirmed breeding ____ Song Sparrow ____ Carolina Wren* species as defined by the Kansas ____ Lincoln's Sparrow ____ Bewick's Wren* Breeding Bird Atlas Project. ____ Swamp Sparrow GNATCATCHERS ____ Spotted Towhee This list was compiled from records ____ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher§ ____ Eastern Towhee of the Kansas Ornithological Society, KINGLETS CHATS Kansas Breeding Bird Atlas Project, ____ Golden-crowned Kinglet ____ Yellow-breasted Chat and the Kansas Biological Survey. ____ Ruby-crowned Kinglet BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES ____ Yellow-headed Blackbird April 10, 2021 Elk - 2 Please report any birds not on this list to Max Thompson, Southwestern College, Dept of Biology, 100 College St., Winfield, KS 67156, [email protected] Rare birds noted with † should be reported to the Kansas Bird Records Committee (KBRC) care of Chuck Otte, 11319 Dundon Rd., Milford, KS 66514, [email protected] More information on reporting rare birds can be found at the KBRC home page on the Kansas Ornithological Society’s Web site at: https://ksbirds.org Please report additions or errors on this list to Chuck Otte, 11319 Dundon Rd., Milford, KS 66514 [email protected] 259 species The taxonomic sequence and nomenclature used in this list follow the Check-list of North American Birds, 7th edition, American Ornithologists Union, 1998, updated through the 61st Supplement, 2020, The Auk, Volume 137, Issue 3, 1 July 2020, ukaa030, https://doi.org/10.1093/auk/ukaa030 Elk - 3.
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