READING ISLAND bird list Shasta County, CA By Bill Oliver October 2004 SPECIES SEEN All Dates ~ in Reading Island ~ 87 seen GREBES Pied-billed Grebe CORMORANTS Double-crested Cormorant DUCKS, SWANS, GEESE Greater White-fronted Goose, Snow Goose, Canada Goose, Wood Duck, Mallard, Common Goldeneye, Common Merganser HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS Great Blue Heron, Great Egret NEW WORLD VULTURES Turkey Vulture OSPREY Osprey HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES Bald Eagle, Cooper's Hawk, Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk FALCONS AND CARACARAS American Kestrel PHEASANTS, GROUSE, QUAIL AND TURKEYS Ring-necked Pheasant WOOD-PARTRIDGES California Quail CRANES Sandhill Crane PLOVERS AND LAPWINGS Killdeer GULLS AND TERNS Ring-billed Gull PIGEONS AND DOVES Mourning Dove BARN-OWLS Barn Owl OWLS Great Horned Owl SWIFTS Vaux's Swift HUMMINGBIRDS Anna's Hummingbird KINGFISHERS Belted Kingfisher WOODPECKERS Lewis's Woodpecker, Acorn Woodpecker, Red-breasted Sapsucker, Nuttall's Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker TYRANT FLYCATCHERS Western Wood-Pewee, Willow Flycatcher, Dusky Flycatcher, Black Phoebe, Ash-throated Flycatcher, Western Kingbird CROWS AND JAYS Western Scrub-Jay, Yellow-billed Magpie, American Crow VIREOS AND ALLIES Warbling Vireo WAXWINGS AND SILKY-FLYCATCHERS Phainopepla, Cedar Waxwing THRUSHES Western Bluebird, Hermit Thrush, American Robin MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS Northern Mockingbird STARLINGS European Starling NUTHATCHES Red-breasted Nuthatch, White-breasted Nuthatch WRENS Bewick's Wren, House Wren LONG-TAILED TITS Bushtit SWALLOWS Tree Swallow, Violet-green Swallow, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Cliff Swallow KINGLETS Ruby-crowned Kinglet CHICKADEES, TITS Oak Titmouse SISKINS, CROSSBILLS AND ALLIES American Goldfinch, Lesser Goldfinch, House Finch NEW WORLD WARBLERS Orange-crowned Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Black-throated Gray Warbler, Townsend's Warbler, Common Yellowthroat 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 Bullock's Oriole, Red-winged Blackbird, Western Meadowlark, Brewer's Blackbird STATISTICS -------- Species seen - 87