and anadromous fish. Species abundance data for development of this checklist encompasses all units of Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge including Neskowin Marsh. ABUNDANT: Occurs ineasily moderate found in to appropriate habitat large at the right numbers, time ofCOMMON: and year. Occurs inusually easy small to find in to appropriateyear. habitat moderate at the numbers, right time of and FAIRLY COMMON: Occursusually—but in not smallappropriate always—found habitat at numbers, the with right time and of some year. UNCOMMON: effort Occurs annually in in very smallto numbers. be Not expected onextended any effort given day, overseason(s). but the may be course foundRARE: of with Occurs the less thanpattern appropriate annually, over but there time tendshabitat. at to the be a right timeACCIDENTAL: of Represents an year exceptional in occurrencemight that appropriate not be repeated again for decades. IRREGULAR: Representsnumbers an are irruptive highly variablebe species from small to year even whose to large numbers year.another present year There in it one may may year, be while absent in altogether. Species Abundance Code Legend Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refugeestablished was in 1991 to protectfor wintering geese habitat as well asand diverse forest coastal for wetlands migratory waterfowl, shorebirds NESTUCCA BAY National Wildlife Refuge Bird Abundance Chart and Checklist U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2127 SE Marine Science Drive Newport OR 97365 541-867-4550 www.fws.gov/oregoncoast [email protected]

Dec Nov Oct Sep Aug July June May Apr Mar Feb Jan MacGillivray’s Warbler Common Yellowthroat Yellow Warbler Palm Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Townsend’s Warbler Hermit Warbler Wilson’s Warbler Spotted Towhee Clay-colored Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Western Tanager Black-headed Grosbeak Dickcissel Red-winged Blackbird Western Meadowlark Brewer’s Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Bullock’s Oriole House Finch Purple Finch Red Crossbill Pine Siskin American Goldfinch Evening Grosbeak House Sparrow

Dec Nov Oct Sep Aug July June May Apr Mar Feb Jan Western Wood-Pewee Willow Flycatcher Hammond’s Flycatcher Pacific-slope Flycatcher Black Phoebe Western Kingbird Northern Shrike Cassin’s Vireo Hutton’s Vireo Warbling Vireo Gray Jay Steller’s Jay Western Scrub-Jay American Crow Common Raven Purple Martin Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow N. Rough-winged Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Chestnut-backed Chickadee Bushtit Red-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper House Wren Pacific Wren Marsh Wren Bewick’s Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Wrentit Western Bluebird Swainson’s Thrush Hermit Thrush American Robin Varied Thrush European Starling American Pipit Cedar Waxwing Orange-crowned Warbler Dec Nov Oct Sep Aug July June May Apr Mar Feb Jan Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson’s Snipe Red-necked Phalarope Red Phalarope Bonaparte’s Gull Heermann’s Gull Mew Gull Ring-billed Gull Western Gull California Gull Herring Gull Thayer’s Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Caspian Tern Elegant Tern Band-tailed Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove Mourning Dove Barn Owl Western Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Northern Pygmy-Owl Barred Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Vaux’s Swift Anna’s Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-breasted Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker American Kestrel Merlin Gyrfalcon Peregrine Falcon Prairie Falcon Olive-sided Flycatcher

Dec Nov Oct Sep Aug July June May Apr Mar Feb Jan Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Western Grebe Brandt’s Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant Brown Pelican American Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Turkey Vulture Osprey White-tailed Kite Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper’s Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Swainson’s Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Virginia Rail Sora American Coot Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Wandering Tattler Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Whimbrel Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Black Turnstone Dunlin Baird’s Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper

Dec Nov Oct Sep Aug July June May Apr Mar Feb Jan Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross’s Goose Brant Cackling Goose Taverner’s Cackling Goose Cackling Cackling Goose Aleutian Cackling Goose Canada Goose Western Canada Goose Lesser Canada Goose Dusky Canada Goose 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 Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Barrow’s Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Mountain Quail California Quail Ruffed Grouse Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon Common Loon