The Montrose Primer

Waterfowl (36)

• Tundra Swan
• Trumpeter Swan*
• Mute Swan
• Greater White-fronted Goose
• Snow Goose
• Ross's Goose
• Brant
• Canada Goose
• Cackling Goose
• Wood Duck
• Green-winged Teal
• American Black Duck
• Mallard
• Northern Pintail
• Blue-winged Teal
• Northern Shoveler
• Gadwall
• American Wigeon
• Canvasback
• Redhead
• Ring-necked Duck
• Greater Scaup
• Lesser Scaup
• King Eider
• Harlequin Duck
• Long-tailed Duck
• Black Scoter
• Surf Scoter
• White-winged Scoter
• Common Goldeneye
• Barrow's Goldeneye
• Bufflehead
• Hooded Merganser
• Common Merganser
• Red-breasted Merganser
• Ruddy Duck

Loons (3)

• Red-throated Loon
• Pacific Loon
• Common Loon

Grebes (5)

• Pied-billed Grebe
• Horned Grebe
• Red-necked Grebe
• Eared Grebe
• Western Grebe

Pelicaniforms (4)

• American White Pelican
• Brown Pelican
• Double-crested Cormorant
• Magnificent Frigatebird

Herons (12)

• American Bittern
• Least Bittern
• Great Blue Heron
• Great Egret
• Snowy Egret
• Little Blue Heron
• Tricolored Heron
• Reddish Egret
• Cattle Egret
• Green Heron
• Black-crowned Night-Heron
• Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Diurnal Birds of Prey (13)

• Turkey Vulture
• Osprey
• Bald Eagle
• Golden Eagle
• Northern Harrier
• Sharp-shinned Hawk
• Cooper's Hawk
• Northern Goshawk
• Red-tailed Hawk
• Rough-legged Hawk
• American Kestrel
• Merlin
• Peregrine Falcon

Gallinaceous Birds (1)

• Ring-necked Pheasant

Rails, Cranes (9)

• Yellow Rail
• Black Rail
• King Rail
• Virginia Rail
• Sora
• Purple Gallinule
• Common Moorhen
• American Coot
• Sandhill Crane

Plovers (6)

• Black-bellied Plover
• American Golden-Plover
• Snowy Plover
• Semipalmated Plover
• Piping Plover
• Killdeer

Sandpipers (27)

• American Avocet
• Greater Yellowlegs
• Lesser Yellowlegs
• Solitary Sandpiper
• Willet

• Spotted Sandpiper
• Upland Sandpiper
• Whimbrel
• Hudsonian Godwit
• Marbled Godwit
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Red Knot
• Sanderling
• Semipalmated Sandpiper
• Western Sandpiper
• Least Sandpiper
• White-rumped Sandpiper
• Baird's Sandpiper
• Pectoral Sandpiper
• Purple Sandpiper
• Dunlin
• Stilt Sandpiper
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper
• Short-billed Dowitcher
• Long-billed Dowitcher
• Wilson's Snipe
• American Woodcock
• Wilson's Phalarope
• Red-necked Phalarope
• Red Phalarope

Jaegers (1)

• Parasitic Jaeger

Gulls (18)

• Laughing Gull
• Franklin's Gull
• Little Gull
• Black-headed Gull
• Bonaparte's Gull
• Mew Gull
• Ring-billed Gull
• California Gull
• Herring Gull
• Thayer's Gull
• Iceland Gull
• Glaucous Gull
• Lesser Black-backed Gull
• Great Black-backed Gull
• Black-legged Kittiwake
• Sabine's Gull
• Ivory Gull
• Black-tailed Gull

Terns (6)

• Caspian Tern
• Royal Tern
• Common Tern
• Forster's Tern
• Least Tern
• Black Tern

Columbids (4)

• Rock Pigeon
• Eurasian Collared-Dove
• Mourning Dove
• White-winged Dove

Parrots (1)

• Monk Parakeet

Cuckoos (3)

• Black-billed Cuckoo
• Yellow-billed Cuckoo
• Groove-billed Ani

Owls (7)

• Barn Owl
• Great Horned Owl
• Snowy Owl
• Burrowing Owl
• Long-eared Owl
• Short-eared Owl
• Northern Saw-whet Owl

Nightjars (2)

• Common Nighthawk
• Whip-poor-will

Swifts (1)

• Chimney Swift

Hummingbirds (1)

• Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Kingfishers (1)

• Belted Kingfisher

Woodpeckers (6)

• Red-headed Woodpecker
• Red-bellied Woodpecker
• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
• Downy Woodpecker
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Northern Flicker

Flycatchers (14)

• Olive-sided Flycatcher
• Eastern Wood-Pewee
• Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
• Acadian Flycatcher
• Alder Flycatcher

• Willow Flycatcher
• Least Flycatcher
• Eastern Phoebe
• Say's Phoebe
• Ash-throated Flycatcher
• Great Crested Flycatcher
• Western Kingbird
• Eastern Kingbird
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Shrikes (2)

• Northern Shrike
• Loggerhead Shrike

Vireos (7)

• White-eyed Vireo
• Bell's Vireo
• Blue-headed Vireo
• Yellow-throated Vireo
• Warbling Vireo
• Philadelphia Vireo
• Red-eyed Vireo

Corvids (3)

• Blue Jay
• American Crow
• Fish Crow

Larks (1)

• Horned Lark

Swallows (6)

• Purple Martin
• Tree Swallow
• Northern Rough-winged Swallow
• Bank Swallow
• Cliff Swallow
• Barn Swallow

Parids (2)

• Black-capped Chickadee
• Tufted Titmouse

Creepers (1)

• Brown Creeper

Nuthatches (2)

• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• White-breasted Nuthatch

Wrens (7)

• Rock Wren
• Carolina Wren
• Bewick's Wren
• House Wren
• Winter Wren
• Sedge Wren
• Marsh Wren

Kinglets (2)

• Golden-crowned Kinglet
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Gnatcatchers (1)

• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Thrushes (9)

• Eastern Bluebird
• Townsend's Solitaire
• Veery
• Gray-cheeked Thrush
• Swainson's Thrush
• Hermit Thrush
• Wood Thrush
• American Robin
• Varied Thrush

Mimids (3)

• Gray Catbird
• Northern Mockingbird
• Brown Thrasher

Pipits (1)

• American Pipit

Waxwings (1)

• Cedar Waxwing

Starlings (1)

• European Starling

Warblers (39)

• Blue-winged Warbler
• Golden-winged Warbler
• Tennessee Warbler
• Orange-crowned Warbler
• Nashville Warbler
• Northern Parula
• Yellow Warbler