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CHECKLIST of IDAHO BIRDS Prepared by Idaho Bird Records Committee (IBRC) 2019 CHECKLIST OF IDAHO BIRDS Prepared by Idaho Bird Records Committee (IBRC) 2019 432 species _ *Emperor Goose _ Horned Grebe _ Stilt Sandpiper _ *Neotropic Cormorant _ Snow Goose _ Red-necked Grebe _ Sanderling _ Double-crested Cormorant _ Ross's Goose _ Eared Grebe _ Dunlin _ American White Pelican _ Greater White-fronted _ Western Grebe _ Baird's Sandpiper _ *Brown Pelican For information about Goose _ Clark's Grebe _ Least Sandpiper _ American Bittern birding in Idaho, visit _ *Brant _ Rock Pigeon _ *White-rumped Sandpiper _ *Least Bittern idahobirds.net _ Cackling Goose _ *Band-tailed Pigeon _ *Buff-breasted Sandpiper _ Great Blue Heron _ Canada Goose _ Eurasian Collared-Dove _ Pectoral Sandpiper _ Great Egret _ Trumpeter Swan _ **Passenger Pigeon _ Semipalmated Sandpiper _ Snowy Egret For detailed information _ Tundra Swan _ *White-winged Dove _ Western Sandpiper _ *Little Blue Heron about Idaho bird _ *Whooper Swan _ Mourning Dove _ *Short-billed Dowitcher _ *Tricolored Heron distribution, visit _ Wood Duck _ Yellow-billed Cuckoo _ Long-billed Dowitcher _ Cattle Egret idahobirds.net/distribution _ *Garganey _ *Black-billed Cuckoo _ Wilson's Snipe _ *Green Heron _ Blue-winged Teal _ Common Nighthawk _ Spotted Sandpiper _ Black-crowned Night-Heron _ Cinnamon Teal _ Common Poorwill _ Solitary Sandpiper _ *White Ibis For information about the _ Northern Shoveler _ Black Swift _ Lesser Yellowlegs _ *Glossy Ibis Idaho Bird Records _ Gadwall _ *Chimney Swift _ Willet _ White-faced Ibis _ Eurasian Wigeon _ Vaux's Swift _ Greater Yellowlegs _ Turkey Vulture Committee, visit _ American Wigeon _ White-throated Swift _ Wilson's Phalarope _ Osprey ibrc.idahobirds.net _ Mallard _ *Ruby-throated _ Red-necked Phalarope _ *White-tailed Kite _ *American Black Duck Hummingbird _ *Red Phalarope _ Golden Eagle _ Northern Pintail _ Black-chinned _ *Pomarine Jaeger _ Northern Harrier _ Green-winged Teal Hummingbird _ *Parasitic Jaeger _ Sharp-shinned Hawk _ Canvasback _ Anna's Hummingbird _ *Long-tailed Jaeger _ Cooper's Hawk _ Redhead _ *Costa's Hummingbird _ *Ancient Murrelet _ Northern Goshawk _ Ring-necked Duck _ Broad-tailed Hummingbird _ *Black-legged Kittiwake _ Bald Eagle _ *Tufted Duck _ Rufous Hummingbird _ Sabine's Gull _ *Red-shouldered Hawk _ Greater Scaup _ Calliope Hummingbird _ Bonaparte's Gull _ Broad-winged Hawk _ Lesser Scaup _ *Broad-billed Hummingbird _ *Little Gull _ Swainson's Hawk _ Harlequin Duck _ *Yellow Rail _ *Ross's Gull _ Red-tailed Hawk _ Surf Scoter _ Virginia Rail _ *Laughing Gull _ Rough-legged Hawk _ White-winged Scoter _ Sora _ Franklin's Gull _ Ferruginous Hawk _ *Black Scoter _ *Common Gallinule _ *Heermann's Gull _ Barn Owl _ Long-tailed Duck _ American Coot _ Mew Gull _ Flammulated Owl _ Bufflehead _ Sandhill Crane _ Ring-billed Gull _ Western Screech-Owl _ Common Goldeneye _ *Whooping Crane _ *Western Gull _ Great Horned Owl _ Barrow's Goldeneye _ Black-necked Stilt _ California Gull _ Snowy Owl _ Hooded Merganser _ American Avocet _ Herring Gull _ *Northern Hawk Owl _ Common Merganser _ *American Oystercatcher _ Iceland Gull _ Northern Pygmy-Owl _ Red-breasted Merganser _ Black-bellied Plover _ Lesser Black-backed Gull _ Burrowing Owl _ Ruddy Duck _ American Golden-Plover _ *Slaty-backed Gull _ Barred Owl _ *Mountain Quail _ *Pacific Golden-Plover _ Glaucous-winged Gull _ Great Gray Owl _ California Quail _ *Snowy Plover _ Glaucous Gull _ Long-eared Owl _ Gambel's Quail _ Semipalmated Plover _ *Great Black-backed Gull _ Short-eared Owl _ Chukar _ Killdeer _ *Least Tern _ Boreal Owl _ Gray Partridge _ *Mountain Plover _ Caspian Tern _ Northern Saw-whet Owl _ Ring-necked Pheasant _ *Upland Sandpiper _ Black Tern _ Belted Kingfisher _ Ruffed Grouse _ *Whimbrel _ Common Tern _ Lewis's Woodpecker _ Greater Sage-Grouse _ Long-billed Curlew _ *Arctic Tern _ *Red-headed Woodpecker _ Spruce Grouse _ *Hudsonian Godwit _ Forster's Tern _ *Acorn Woodpecker _ *White-tailed Ptarmigan _ Marbled Godwit _ *Red-throated Loon _ *Red-bellied Woodpecker _ Dusky Grouse _ *Ruddy Turnstone _ Pacific Loon _ Williamson's Sapsucker _ Sharp-tailed Grouse _ *Red Knot _ Common Loon _ *Yellow-bellied Sapsucker _ Wild Turkey _ *Ruff _ *Yellow-billed Loon _ Red-naped Sapsucker _ Pied-billed Grebe _ *Sharp-tailed Sandpiper _ *Wood Stork _ *Red-breasted Sapsucker _ American Three-toed _ Clark's Nutcracker _ European Starling _ Golden-crowned Sparrow _ Black-throated Gray Woodpecker _ Black-billed Magpie _ Bohemian Waxwing _ Dark-eyed Junco Warbler _ Black-backed Woodpecker _ American Crow _ Cedar Waxwing _ Yellow-breasted Chat _ Townsend's Warbler _ Downy Woodpecker _ Common Raven _ *Phainopepla _ Yellow-headed Blackbird _ *Hermit Warbler _ Hairy Woodpecker _ Horned Lark _ *Siberian Accentor _ Bobolink _ *Black-throated Green _ White-headed Woodpecker _ *Purple Martin _ House Sparrow _ Western Meadowlark Warbler _ Northern Flicker _ Tree Swallow _ American Pipit _ *Orchard Oriole _ *Canada Warbler _ Pileated Woodpecker _ Violet-green Swallow _ *Brambling _ *Hooded Oriole _ Wilson's Warbler _ *Crested Caracara _ N. Rough-winged Swallow _ Evening Grosbeak _ Bullock's Oriole _ *Summer Tanager _ American Kestrel _ Bank Swallow _ Pine Grosbeak _ *Baltimore Oriole _ *Scarlet Tanager _ Merlin _ Cliff Swallow _ Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch _ Scott's Oriole _ Western Tanager _ *Gyrfalcon _ Barn Swallow _ Black Rosy-Finch _ Red-winged Blackbird _ Rose-breasted Grosbeak _ Peregrine Falcon _ Black-capped Chickadee _ House Finch _ Brown-headed Cowbird _ Black-headed Grosbeak _ Prairie Falcon _ Mountain Chickadee _ *Purple Finch _ *Rusty Blackbird _ *Blue Grosbeak _ Ash-throated Flycatcher _ Chestnut-backed _ Cassin's Finch _ Brewer's Blackbird _ Lazuli Bunting _ *Great Crested Flycatcher Chickadee _ Common Redpoll _ Common Grackle _ *Indigo Bunting _ *Tropical Kingbird _ Boreal Chickadee _ *Hoary Redpoll _ Great-tailed Grackle _ *Painted Bunting _ *Cassin's Kingbird _ Juniper Titmouse _ Red Crossbill _ Ovenbird _ *Dickcissel _ Western Kingbird _ Bushtit _ Cassia Crossbill _ *Worm-eating Warbler _ Eastern Kingbird _ Red-breasted Nuthatch _ White-winged Crossbill _ Northern Waterthrush _ *Scissor-tailed Flycatcher _ White-breasted Nuthatch _ Pine Siskin _ *Louisiana Waterthrush *review species _ *Fork-tailed Flycatcher _ Pygmy Nuthatch _ Lesser Goldfinch _ Golden-winged Warbler _ Olive-sided Flycatcher _ Brown Creeper _ American Goldfinch _ *Blue-winged Warbler Idaho Bird Records _ Western Wood-Pewee _ Rock Wren _ Lapland Longspur _ Black-and-white Warbler Committee requests a rare _ *Alder Flycatcher _ Canyon Wren _ *Chestnut-collared _ *Prothonotary Warbler bird report for any date or _ Willow Flycatcher _ House Wren Longspur _ *Tennessee Warbler region within Idaho. The _ Least Flycatcher _ Pacific Wren _ *McCown's Longspur _ Orange-crowned Warbler IBRC also requests _ Hammond's Flycatcher _ *Winter Wren _ Snow Bunting _ *Lucy's Warbler documentation for some _ Gray Flycatcher _ Marsh Wren _ Green-tailed Towhee _ Nashville Warbler subspecies, as well as out _ Dusky Flycatcher _ Bewick's Wren _ Spotted Towhee _ Virginia's Warbler of season and out of region _ Cordilleran Flycatcher _ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher _ *Eastern Towhee _ *Connecticut Warbler records. For information _ *Black Phoebe _ American Dipper _ *Cassin's Sparrow _ MacGillivray's Warbler about which sightings _ *Eastern Phoebe _ Golden-crowned Kinglet _ American Tree Sparrow _ *Mourning Warbler warrant a rare bird report, _ Say's Phoebe _ Ruby-crowned Kinglet _ Chipping Sparrow _ Common Yellowthroat please visit the review _ Loggerhead Shrike _ *Red-flanked Bluetail _ Clay-colored Sparrow _ *Hooded Warbler species page _ Northern Shrike _ *Eastern Bluebird _ Brewer's Sparrow _ American Redstart ibrc.idahobirds.net/review- _ *White-eyed Vireo _ Western Bluebird _ Vesper Sparrow _ *Cape May Warbler species _ *Bell's Vireo _ Mountain Bluebird _ Lark Sparrow _ *Northern Parula _ *Yellow-throated Vireo _ Townsend's Solitaire _ Black-throated Sparrow _ *Magnolia Warbler _ Cassin's Vireo _ Veery _ Sagebrush Sparrow _ *Bay-breasted Warbler **extinct _ *Blue-headed Vireo _ *Gray-cheeked Thrush _ Lark Bunting _ *Blackburnian Warbler _ Plumbeous Vireo _ Swainson's Thrush _ Savannah Sparrow _ Yellow Warbler Please report sightings of _ *Philadelphia Vireo _ Hermit Thrush _ Grasshopper Sparrow _ *Chestnut-sided Warbler review species using the _ Warbling Vireo _ *Wood Thrush _ *LeConte's Sparrow _ *Blackpoll Warbler Rare Bird Report Form _ Red-eyed Vireo _ American Robin _ Fox Sparrow _ *Black-throated Blue _ Canada Jay _ Varied Thrush _ Song Sparrow Warbler _ Pinyon Jay _ Gray Catbird _ Lincoln's Sparrow _ *Palm Warbler _ Steller's Jay _ *Curve-billed Thrasher _ Swamp Sparrow _ *Pine Warbler _ Blue Jay _ *Brown Thrasher _ White-throated Sparrow _ Yellow-rumped Warbler _ *California Scrub-Jay _ Sage Thrasher _ Harris's Sparrow _ *Yellow-throated Warbler _ Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay _ Northern Mockingbird _ White-crowned Sparrow .
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