SPECIES SEEN ~ BATTLE CREEK All Dates ~ All Places ~ 89 seen By Bill Oliver, October 2004 GREBES Pied-billed Grebe CORMORANTS Double-crested Cormorant DUCKS, SWANS, GEESE Tundra Swan Greater White-fronted Goose Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Ring-necked Duck Common Goldeneye Common Merganser HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS Great Blue Heron Great Egret NEW WORLD VULTURES Turkey Vulture HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES White-tailed Kite Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk FALCONS AND CARACARAS American Kestrel Merlin Prairie Falcon Peregrine Falcon PHEASANTS, GROUSE, QUAIL AND TURKEYS Ring-necked Pheasant Wild Turkey WOOD-PARTRIDGES California Quail RAILS AND COOTS Virginia Rail Sora Common Moorhen American Coot CRANES Sandhill Crane SANDPIPERS Greater Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper PLOVERS AND LAPWINGS Killdeer PIGEONS AND DOVES Mourning Dove KINGFISHERS Belted Kingfisher WOODPECKERS Lewis's Woodpecker Acorn Woodpecker Nuttall's Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker TYRANT FLYCATCHERS Say's Phoebe Black Phoebe Western Kingbird CROWS AND JAYS Western Scrub-Jay Yellow-billed Magpie American Crow Common Raven WAXWINGS AND SILKY-FLYCATCHERS Phainopepla Cedar Waxwing THRUSHES Western Bluebird Hermit Thrush American Robin MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS Northern Mockingbird California Thrasher STARLINGS European Starling NUTHATCHES White-breasted Nuthatch CREEPERS Brown Creeper WRENS Bewick's Wren House Wren LONG-TAILED TITS Bushtit SWALLOWS Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Cliff Swallow KINGLETS Ruby-crowned Kinglet OLD WORLD WARBLERS Wrentit CHICKADEES, TITS Oak Titmouse OLD WORLD SPARROWS House Sparrow WAGTAILS AND PIPITS American Pipit SISKINS, CROSSBILLS AND ALLIES American Goldfinch Lesser Goldfinch House Finch NEW WORLD WARBLERS Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler BUNTINGS, SPARROWS, TANAGERS, ALLIES Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Savannah Sparrow Lark Sparrow Spotted Towhee California Towhee Black-headed Grosbeak BLACKBIRDS, GRACKLES, ORIOLES Red-winged Blackbird Western Meadowlark Brewer's Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird -------- STATISTICS -------- Species seen - 89