Waterfowl N Shorebirds N Gulls and Terns N Owls N Greater Scaup American Avocet Bonaparte’s Gull Barn Owl ◡ Lesser Scaup ◡ Black Oystercatcher Franklin’s Gull Great Horned Owl ◡ Harlequin Duck Black-bellied Plover Heermann’s Gull Snowy Owl Surf Scoter American Golden-Plover Mew Gull Northern Pygmy-Owl White-winged Scoter Pacific Golden-Plover Ring-billed Gull Barred Owl ◡ Black Scoter Semipalmated Plover Western Gull 2 Short-eared Owl Long-tailed Duck Killdeer ◡ California Gull Northern Saw-whet Owl ◡ Bufflehead Whimbrel Herring Gull Kingfishers Common Goldeneye Long-billed Curlew Iceland Gull Belted Kingfisher ◡ Barrow’s Goldeneye Marbled Godwit Glaucous-winged Gull 2 ◡ Woodpeckers Hooded Merganser ◡ Ruddy Turnstone GWxWestern Gull (hybrid) ◡ Red-breasted Sapsucker ◡ Common Merganser Black Turnstone Caspian Tern P Downy Woodpecker ◡ Red-breasted Merganser Red Knot Common Tern Hairy Woodpecker ◡ Ruddy Duck ◡ Surfbird Loons Pileated Woodpecker ◡ Quail and Allies Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Red-throated Loon Northern Flicker ◡ California Quail ◡ Stilt Sandpiper Pacific Loon Falcons Ring-necked Pheasant ◡ Sanderling Common Loon American Kestrel ◡ P Grebes Dunlin Yellow-billed Loon 1 Merlin Peregrine Falcon Pied-billed Grebe ◡ Rock Sandpiper Cormorants Flycatchers Horned Grebe Baird’s Sandpiper Brandt’s Cormorant Olive-sided Flycatcher Red-necked Grebe Least Sandpiper Pelagic Cormorant ◡ Western Wood-Pewee P Eared Grebe Pectoral Sandpiper Double-crested Cormorant ◡ Willow Flycatcher Western Grebe Semipalmated Sandpiper Pelicans ◡ Hammond’s Flycatcher Clark’s Grebe Western Sandpiper American White Pelican Pacific-slope Flycatcher Pigeons and Doves Short-billed Dowitcher Brown Pelican ◡ Western Kingbird Rock Pigeon ◡ Long-billed Dowitcher Herons and Allies Vireos Band-tailed Pigeon ◡ Wilson’s Snipe P American Bittern ◡ Hutton’s Vireo ◡ Eurasian Collared-Dove ◡ Wilson’s Phalarope Great Blue Heron ◡ Cassin’s Vireo ◡ Mourning Dove ◡ Red-necked Phalarope Great Egret Warbling Vireo ◡ Nightjars Spotted Sandpiper ◡ Green Heron Shrikes Common Nighthawk P Solitary Sandpiper Vultures Northern Shrike Swifts Wandering Tattler Turkey Vulture Corvids Black Swift Greater Yellowlegs Hawks and Eagles Steller’s Jay ◡ Vaux’s Swift Willet Osprey ◡ California Scrub-Jay Hummingbirds Lesser Yellowlegs Golden Eagle American Crow ◡ Anna’s Hummingbird ◡ Jaegers and Alcids Northern Harrier ◡ Common Raven ◡ Rufous Hummingbird Pomarine Jaeger Sharp-shinned Hawk ◡ ◡ Chickadees Parasitic Jaeger Cooper’s Hawk ◡ Calliope Hummingbird Black-capped Chickadee ◡ Common Murre Northern Goshawk Rails, Coots and Cranes Chestnut-backed Chickadee ◡ Pigeon Guillemot Bald Eagle Virginia Rail ◡ ◡ ◡ Larks Marbled Murrelet Red-tailed Hawk Sora ◡ ◡ Horned Lark Ancient Murrelet 1 Rough-legged Hawk American Coot ◡ Rhinoceros Auklet 1 These species most likely to be seen from a boat (ferry, Sandhill Crane 1 Whale watching, etc.) Tufted Puffin 2 Many local gulls resembling these species are actually Western x Glaucous-winged hybrids. Martins and Swallows N Finches and Allies N The complete March 2021 checklist includes Birds of Whidbey Island N. Rough-winged Swallow ◡ Evening Grosbeak monthly frequency codes that were developed Simplified Checklist Purple Martin ◡ House Finch ◡ using eBird bar charts for Island County and local knowledge of Whidbey birders. In order Tree Swallow ◡ Purple Finch ◡ to fit onto 8.5’ x 11” paper for at-home print- Violet-green Swallow ◡ Red Crossbill ◡ ing, this simplified version contains only the Bank Swallow Pine Siskin ◡ list of species. For more information and the Barn Swallow ◡ American Goldfinch full edition go to ◡ www.whidbeyaudubonsociety.org. Cliff Swallow ◡ Longspurs and Snow Buntings Use the form there to report sightings of Bushtit Lapland Longspur birds not on this checklist. Bushtit ◡ Snow Bunting Whidbey Audubon Society Notes: Kinglets New World Sparrows is dedicated to the understanding, Golden-crowned Kinglet ◡ Chipping Sparrow appreciation and protection of birds Ruby-crowned Kinglet and other wildlife species and their Fox Sparrow Nuthatches habitats on Whidbey Island and in Dark-eyed Junco ◡ surrounding waters. Enjoy the varied Red-breasted Nuthatch ◡ White-crowned Sparrow ◡ habitats of our beautiful island. Treecreepers Golden-crowned Sparrow Brown Creeper ◡ White-throated Sparrow Note: This is a simple list of species. Wrens Frequency categories were removed Savannah Sparrow ◡ Rock Wren to fit onto 8.5’ x 11” paper for at- Song Sparrow ◡ House Wren ◡ home printing. Lincoln’s Sparrow Nesting N Pacific Wren ◡ Swamp Sparrow ◡ Nests on Whidbey. Marsh Wren ◡ Spotted Towhee ◡ P Possibly nests on Whidbey; uncon- Bewick’s Wren ◡ firmed. Blackbirds Starlings Yellow-headed Blackbird P Waterfowl N European Starling ◡ Western Meadowlark P Snow Goose Thrushes Bullock’s Oriole P Gr. White-fronted Goose Western Bluebird Red-winged Blackbird Brant Mountain Bluebird ◡ Brown-headed Cowbird Cackling Goose Townsend’s Solitaire ◡ Brewer’s Blackbird Canada Goose Varied Thrush P ◡ ◡ Wood-Warblers Trumpeter Swan Swainson’s Thrush ◡ Orange-crowned Warbler Tundra Swan Hermit Thrush ◡ Nashville Warbler Wood Duck ◡ American Robin ◡ Blue-winged Teal P Waxwings MacGillivray’s Warbler Cedar Waxwing ◡ Common Yellowthroat ◡ Cinnamon Teal ◡ Old World Sparrows Yellow Warbler ◡ Northern Shoveler P House Sparrow ◡ Yellow-rumped Warbler ◡ Gadwall ◡ Pipits Black-thr. Gray Warbler ◡ Eurasian Wigeon American Pipit Townsend’s Warbler ◡ American Wigeon ◡ Wilson’s Warbler ◡ Mallard ◡ Cardinals and Grosbeaks Northern Pintail ◡ Western Tanager ◡ Green-winged Teal ◡ Black-headed Grosbeak ◡ Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck P March 2021 species list .