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KOOTENAI COUNTY BIRD LIST CONTINUED

compiled by Dr. Stephen Lindsay

Part 2

 

Species

Date

Location

Observer

PARTRIDGES, GROUSE, TURKEY

 

 

 

Gray Partridge ( u )

Jan. 1

Rathdrum Prairie

Shirley Sturts

Ring-necked Pheasant ( c )

Jan. 5

Spirit Lake CBC

Janet Callen, Lisa Hardy

Ruffed Grouse ( c )

Jan. 2

Thompson Lake

Lisa Hardy, Shirley Sturts

Spruce Grouse ( u )

Sept. 15

Twin Crags

CDA Audubon Field Trip, Lisa Hardy/Steve Lindsay , leaders

Blue Grouse ( u )

 

 

 

------Sharp-tailed Grouse (h=1910,1914

 

 

 

Wild Turkey ( c )

Jan. 2

Thompson Lake

Lisa Hardy, Shirlley Sturts

NEW WORLD QUAIL

 

 

 

California Quail ( c )

Jan. 6

Fernan Lake

Shirley Sturts

RAILS, COOTS

 

 

 

Virginia Rail ( s )

May 26

Fernan Creek

Steve Lindsay

Sora ( u )

May 10

Fernan Lake

Kris Buchler

American Coot ( c )

Jan. 5

Spirit Lake CBC

Kris Buchler, Roland Craft, Nancy Mertz, Elaine and Dick Codding, Donna Sopetto

CRANES

 

 

 

Sandhill Crane ( r )

 

 

 

PLOVERS

 

 

 

Black-bellied Plover ( r )

 

 

 

Ameican Golden-Plover ( r )

 

 

 

Semipalmated Plover ( r )

 

 

 

Killdeer ( c )

Feb. 17

Thompson Lake

Diane Holsinger (out of town birder - Virginia)

SANDPIPERS, PHALAROPES

 

 

 

Greater Yellowlegs ( s )

 

 

 

Lesser Yellowlegs ( s )

September

Spirit Lake

Laura Bayless

Solitary Sandpiper ( s )

 

 

 

Willet ( # )

 

 

 

Spotted Sandpiper ( c )

May 14

Higgens Point, Coeur d'Alene Lake

Kris Buchler

Upland Sandpiper ( # )

 

 

 

Long-billed Curlew ( r )

 

 

 

Marbled Godwit ( # )

 

 

 

Sanderling ( s )

 

 

 

Semipalmated Sandpiper ( s )

 

 

 

Western Sandpiper ( s )

 

 

 

Least Sandpiper ( s )

 

 

 

White-rumped Sandpiper ( # )

 

 

 

Baird's Sandpiper ( s )

July 29

Cataldo Area

Lisa Hardy, Scott Rae

Pectoral Sandpiper ( s )

Oct. 6

Hardy Loop Road - Cataldo

Steve Lindsay

Dunlin ( # )

 

 

 

Stilt Sandpiper ( # )

 

 

 

Short-billed Dowitcher ( r )

 

 

 

Long-billed Dowitcher ( s )

Oct. 26

Anderson Lake

Audubon Field Trip - Lisa Hardy, Leader

Common Snipe ( c )

April 7

Fernan Lake

Judy and Phil Waring

Wilson's Phalarope ( s)

May 25

Killarney Lake

Ellen Scriven

Red-necked Phalarope ( # )

 

 

 

---------Red Phalarope (h=1934)

 

 

 

GULLS, TERNS

 

 

 

Parasitic Jaeger ( # )

 

 

 

Franklin's Gull ( r )

 

 

 

Bonaparte's Gull ( u )

Jan. 2

Thompson Lake

Lisa Hardy, Shirley Sturts

Mew Gull ( r )

 

 

 

Ring-billed Gull ( c )

Jan. 2

Thompson Lake

Lisa Hardy, Shirley Sturts

California Gull ( c )

Jan. 2

CDA City Beach

Steve Lindsay

Herring Gull ( u )

Jan. 2

Thompson Lake

Lisa Hardy, Shirley Sturts

Thayer's Gull ( s )

Jan. 14

CDA City Beach

John Weber

Iceland Gull ( # )

 

 

 

Glaucous-winged Gull ( r )

 

 

 

Glaucous Gull ( s )

 

 

 

Sabine's Gull ( # )

 

 

 

Caspian Tern ( s )

 

 

 

Common Tern ( s )

 

 

 

Forster's Tern ( s )

 

 

 

Black Tern ( c )

May 6

Wolf Lodge Creek

Dick Cripe

MURRES

 

 

 

Ancient Murrelet ( # )

 

 

 

PIGEONS, DOVES

 

 

 

Rock Dove ( c )

Jan. 5

Spirit Lake CBC

Janet Callen, Lisa Hardy

Band-tailed Pigeon ( # )

 

 

 

Mourning Dave ( c )

Jan. 1

Fernan Lake

Shirley Sturts

CUCKOOS

 

 

 

……..Yellow-billed Cuckoo ( h-1895) 

 

 

 

BARN OWLS

 

 

 

Barn Owl ( s )

 

 

 

TYPICAL OWLS

 

 

 

Flammulated Owl ( # )

 

 

 

Western Screech Owl

 

 

 

Great Horned Owl ( u )

March 3

Armstrong Hill, CDA

Kris Buchler

Snowy Owl ( r )

Jan. 1

Rathdrum Prairie

Steve Lindsay

Northern Hawk Owl ( # )

 

 

 

Northern Pygmy-Owl ( u )

Jan. 5

Spirit Lake CBC

Shirley Sturts, George and Katie Sayler, Marie Dymkoski,Cindi Langlitz, Kaitlin Henderson

Barred Owl ( s )

Jan 1

Killarney Lake

Ellen Scriven

Great Gray Owl ( r )

 

 

 

Long-eared Owl ( r )

 

 

 

Short-eared Owl ( s )

Fall

Rathdrum Prairie

Joe Taggert

Northern Saw-whet Owl ( s )

Week of  December 23rd

Near CDA Airport

Found dazed and later released

Rick and Cindi Langlitz

GOATSUCKERS

 

 

 

Common Nighthawk ( c )

April 28 - a month earlier than the usual arrival date

Rimrock Road area north of Hayden lake

Kathryn Henderson

Common Poorwill ( r )

June 13

Twin Lakes area

Cindy Langlitrz

SWIFTS

 

 

 

Black Swift ( r )

 

 

 

Vaux's Swift ( u )

June 3

Armstrong Hill, Coeur d'Alene

Kris Buchler

White-throated Swift ( # )

 

 

 

HUMMINGBIRDS

 

 

 

Black-chinned Hummingbird ( c )

May 6

Mica Bay, Coeur d'Alene Lake

Jerry Hanson

Costa's Hummingbird ( # )

 

 

 

Calliope Humiingbird ( c )

April 19

Coeur d'Alene yard

Phil Waring

Broad-tailed Hummingbird ( # )

 

 

 

Rufous Hummingbird ( c )

April 26

April 26

Twin Lakes

Harrison

Cindi Langlitz

Mike Patterson's Website no observer given

KINGFISHERS

 

 

 

Belted Kingfisher ( c )

Jan. 2

Thompson Lake

Lisa Hardy, Shirley Sturts

WOODPECKERS

 

 

 

Lewis' Woodpecker ( r )

 

 

 

Red-bellied Woodpecker ( # )

 

 

 

Williamson' Sapsucker ( r )

June 29

Gotham Bay, CDA Lake

Earl and Jan Kendle

Red-naped Sapsucker ( c )

April 13

Coeur d'Alene

Del Cameron

Downy Woodpecker ( c )

Jan. 2

Thompson Lake

Lisa Hardy, Shirley Sturts

Hairy Woodoecker ( c )

Jan. 1

Fernan Lake

Shirley Sturts

White-headed Woodpecker ( r )

Oct. 20

4th of July area

Doug Schonewald

Three-toed Woodpecker ( s )

June 30

Boise Peak

Steve Lindsay

Black-backed Woodpecker ( s )

Jan. 5

Spirit Lake CBC

Bill Gundlach

Northern Flicker ( c )

Jan. 1

Fernan Lake

Shirley Sturts

Pileated Woodpecker ( u )

Jan. 5

Spirit Lake CBC

Bill Gundlach

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