KANSAS BIRDS: Species List for Butler County, KS

WHISTLING-DUCKS ____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo* ____ Greater Yellowlegs ____ Black-bellied Whistling-Duck ____ Black-billed Cuckoo ____ Wilson's Phalarope GEESE, SWANS NIGHTJARS JAEGERS ____ Snow Goose ____ Common Nighthawk* ____ Parasitic Jaeger ____ Ross's Goose ____ Common Poorwill ____ Long-tailed Jaeger† ____ Greater White-fronted Goose ____ Chuck-will's-widow GULLS ____ Cackling Goose ____ Eastern Whip-poor-will ____ Bonaparte's Gull ____ Canada Goose* SWIFTS ____ Franklin's Gull ____ Trumpeter Swan ____ Chimney Swift* ____ Mew Gull ____ Tundra Swan HUMMINGBIRDS ____ Ring-billed Gull DUCKS ____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird§ ____ Herring Gull ____ Wood Duck§ ____ Anna's Hummingbird† ____ Iceland Gull ____ Blue-winged Teal§ ____ Rufous Hummingbird ____ Lesser Black-backed Gull ____ Cinnamon Teal ____ Glaucous Gull ____ Northern Shoveler RAILS, GALLINULES ____ Virginia Rail TERNS ____ Gadwall ____ Caspian Tern ____ American Wigeon ____ Sora ____ Common Gallinule ____ Black Tern ____ Mallard* ____ Forster's Tern ____ Northern Pintail ____ American Coot ____ Green-winged Teal CRANES LOONS ____ Canvasback ____ Sandhill Crane ____ Red-throated Loon ____ Redhead ____ Pacific Loon ____ Ring-necked Duck STILTS, AVOCETS ____ Common Loon ____ Greater Scaup ____ Black-necked Stilt ____ American Avocet CORMORANTS ____ Lesser Scaup ____ Double-crested Cormorant ____ Surf Scoter PLOVERS ____ Neotropic Cormorant ____ White-winged Scoter ____ Black-bellied Plover ____ Black Scoter ____ American Golden-Plover PELICANS ____ Long-tailed Duck ____ Killdeer* ____ American White Pelican ____ Bufflehead ____ Semipalmated Plover HERONS ____ Common Goldeneye ____ Piping Plover ____ American Bittern ____ Hooded Merganser ____ Mountain Plover ____ Least Bittern ____ Common Merganser SANDPIPERS ____ Great Blue Heron* ____ Red-breasted Merganser ____ Upland Sandpiper* ____ Great Egret ____ Ruddy Duck ____ Whimbrel ____ Snowy Egret QUAIL ____ Hudsonian Godwit ____ Little Blue Heron ____ Northern Bobwhite* ____ Marbled Godwit ____ Cattle Egret ____ Green Heron§ TURKEY, GROUSE, PHEASANT ____ Stilt Sandpiper ____ Sanderling ____ Black-crowned Night-Heron ____ Wild Turkey§ ____ Yellow-crowned Night-Heron ____ Greater Prairie-Chicken* ____ Dunlin ____ Ring-necked Pheasant* ____ Baird's Sandpiper IBISES ____ Least Sandpiper ____ Glossy Ibis GREBES ____ White-rumped Sandpiper ____ White-faced Ibis ____ Pied-billed Grebe ____ Buff-breasted Sandpiper ____ Roseate Spoonbill ____ Horned Grebe ____ Pectoral Sandpiper ____ Eared Grebe VULTURES ____ Semipalmated Sandpiper ____ Turkey Vulture* ____ Western Grebe ____ Western Sandpiper PIGEONS, DOVES ____ Long-billed Dowitcher OSPREY, HAWKS, KITES, ____ Rock Pigeon* ____ American Woodcock* EAGLES ____ Eurasian Collared-Dove* ____ Wilson's Snipe ____ Osprey ____ White-winged Dove ____ Spotted Sandpiper ____ Swallow-tailed Kite ____ Mourning Dove* ____ Solitary Sandpiper ____ Golden Eagle ____ Lesser Yellowlegs ____ Northern Harrier* CUCKOOS ____ Willet ____ Sharp-shinned Hawk ____ Greater Roadrunner* ____ Cooper's Hawk*

Butler - 1 ____ Northern Goshawk ____ Warbling Vireo* WAXWlNGS ____ Bald Eagle* ____ Red-eyed Vireo§ ____ Cedar Waxwing ____ Mississippi Kite* JAYS, MAGPIES, CROWS OLD WORLD SPARROWS ____ Red-shouldered Hawk* ____ Blue Jay* ____ House Sparrow* ____ Broad-winged Hawk ____ Black-billed Magpie ____ Swainson's Hawk* PIPITS ____ American Crow* ____ American Pipit ____ Red-tailed Hawk* ____ Fish Crow ____ Rough-legged Hawk ____ Sprague's Pipit ____ Ferruginous Hawk LARKS FINCHES ____ Horned Lark* BARN OWLS ____ Evening Grosbeak ____ Barn Owl* SWALLOWS ____ House Finch§ ____ Bank Swallow ____ Purple Finch OWLS ____ Tree Swallow* ____ Common Redpoll ____ Eastern Screech-Owl§ ____ N. Rough-winged Swallow ____ Red Crossbill ____ Great Horned Owl* ____ Purple Martin* ____ Pine Siskin ____ Snowy Owl ____ Barn Swallow* ____ American Goldfinch§ ____ Burrowing Owl* ____ Cliff Swallow* ____ Barred Owl§ LONGSPURS ____ Long-eared Owl CHICKADEES, TITMICE ____ Lapland Longspur ____ Short-eared Owl ____ Carolina Chickadee ____ Smith's Longspur ____ Black-capped Chickadee* ____ Chestnut-collared Longspur KINGFISHERS ____ Tufted Titmouse* ____ Snow Bunting ____ Belted Kingfisher* NUTHATCHES SPARROWS WOODPECKERS ____ Red-breasted Nuthatch ____ Grasshopper Sparrow* ____ Red-headed Woodpecker* ____ White-breasted Nuthatch* ____ Lark Sparrow* ____ Red-bellied Woodpecker* ____ Lark Bunting ____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker CREEPERS ____ Brown Creeper ____ Chipping Sparrow ____ Downy Woodpecker* ____ Clay-colored Sparrow ____ Hairy Woodpecker* WRENS ____ Field Sparrow* ____ Northern Flicker* ____ House Wren* ____ Fox Sparrow ____ Pileated Woodpecker ____ Winter Wren ____ American Tree Sparrow FALCONS ____ Sedge Wren ____ Dark-eyed Junco ____ American Kestrel* ____ Marsh Wren ____ White-crowned Sparrow ____ Merlin ____ Carolina Wren* ____ Harris's Sparrow ____ Peregrine Falcon ____ Bewick's Wren* ____ White-throated Sparrow ____ Prairie Falcon GNATCATCHERS ____ Vesper Sparrow FLYCATCHERS ____ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher* ____ LeConte's Sparrow ____ Baird's Sparrow ____ Great Crested Flycatcher* KINGLETS ____ Western Kingbird* ____ Henslow's Sparrow§ ____ Golden-crowned Kinglet ____ Savannah Sparrow ____ Eastern Kingbird* ____ Ruby-crowned Kinglet ____ Scissor-tailed Flycatcher* ____ Song Sparrow ____ Olive-sided Flycatcher THRUSHES ____ Lincoln's Sparrow ____ Eastern Wood-Pewee§ ____ Eastern Bluebird* ____ Swamp Sparrow ____ Yellow-bellied Flycatcher ____ Mountain Bluebird ____ Green-tailed Towhee ____ Alder Flycatcher ____ Townsend's Solitaire ____ Spotted Towhee ____ Willow Flycatcher ____ Swainson's Thrush ____ Eastern Towhee§ ____ Least Flycatcher ____ Hermit Thrush BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES ____ Eastern Phoebe* ____ Wood Thrush ____ Yellow-headed Blackbird ____ American Robin* ____ Bobolink SHRIKES ____ Varied Thrush ____ Loggerhead Shrike* ____ Eastern Meadowlark* ____ Northern Shrike THRASHERS ____ Western Meadowlark§ ____ Gray Catbird* ____ Orchard Oriole* VIREOS ____ Brown Thrasher* ____ Baltimore Oriole* ____ White-eyed Vireo ____ Northern Mockingbird* ____ Red-winged Blackbird* ____ Bell's Vireo* ____ Brown-headed Cowbird* STARLINGS ____ Yellow-throated Vireo ____ Rusty Blackbird ____ European Starling* ____ Blue-headed Vireo ____ Brewer's Blackbird ____ Philadelphia Vireo

Butler - 2 ____ Common Grackle* Please report any birds not on this list ____ Great-tailed Grackle* to Max Thompson, Southwestern CHATS College, Dept of Biology, 100 ____ Yellow-breasted Chat College St., Winfield, KS 67156, [email protected] WARBLERS ____ Ovenbird Rare birds noted with † should be ____ Louisiana Waterthrush* reported to the Kansas Bird Records ____ Golden-winged Warbler Committee (KBRC) care of Chuck ____ Black-and-white Warbler Otte, 11319 Dundon Rd., Milford, KS ____ Prothonotary Warbler 66514, [email protected] ____ Tennessee Warbler ____ Orange-crowned Warbler More information on reporting rare ____ Nashville Warbler birds can be found at the KBRC home ____ Mourning Warbler page on the Kansas Ornithological ____ Kentucky Warbler Society’s Web site at: ____ Common Yellowthroat§ https://ksbirds.org ____ American Redstart ____ Northern Parula§ Please report additions or errors on ____ Magnolia Warbler this list to Chuck Otte, 11319 Dundon ____ Blackburnian Warbler Rd., Milford, KS 66514 ____ Yellow Warbler§ [email protected] ____ Chestnut-sided Warbler ____ Blackpoll Warbler 303 species ____ Palm Warbler ____ Pine Warbler The taxonomic sequence and ____ Yellow-rumped Warbler nomenclature used in this list follow ____ Yellow-throated Warbler the Check-list of North American ____ Black-throated Green Warbler Birds, 7th edition, American ____ Canada Warbler Ornithologists Union, 1998, updated ____ Wilson's Warbler through the 61st Supplement, 2020, GROSBEAKS, BUNTINGS The Auk, Volume 137, Issue 3, 1 July ____ Summer Tanager 2020, ukaa030, ____ Scarlet Tanager https://doi.org/10.1093/auk/ukaa030 ____ Northern Cardinal* ____ Rose-breasted Grosbeak ____ Black-headed Grosbeak ____ Blue Grosbeak§ ____ Lazuli Bunting ____ Indigo Bunting* ____ Painted Bunting ____ Dickcissel*

† Fewer than ten Kansas records [ ] Hypothetical species § Probable breeding species * Confirmed breeding species Probable and confirmed breeding species as defined by the Kansas Breeding Bird Atlas Project.

This list was compiled from records of the Kansas Ornithological Society, Kansas Breeding Bird Atlas Project, and the Kansas Biological Survey.

April 10, 2021

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