International Migratory Bird Day, May 9, 2015

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International Migratory Bird Day (in the northern hemisphere) is typically the second Saturday in May.  This year, the Nevada Bird Count crew was surveying at Warm Springs Natural Area, Moapa, Nevada.  Here’s an incomplete list of the birds we recorded today:

  1. Abert’s Towhee

  2. American Kestrel

  3. Bell’s Vireo

  4. Bewick’s Wren (including nestlings)

  5. Black Phoebe

  6. Black-headed Grosbeak

  7. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

  8. Blue Grosbeak

  9. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

  10. Brewer’s Sparrow

  11. Brown-crested Flycatcher

  12. Brown-headed Cowbird

  13. Bullock’s Oriole

  14. Common Raven

  15. Common Yellowthroat

  16. Crissal Thrasher

  17. Eurasian Collared-Dove

  18. Gambel’s Quail

  19. Gray Flycatcher

  20. Great-tailed Grackle

  21. Greater Roadrunner

  22. Green-tailed Towhee

  23. Hammond’s Flycatcher

  24. House Finch (including fledglings)

  25. Ladder-backed Woodpecker (including fledglings)

  26. Lazuli Bunting

  27. Lesser Goldfinch

  28. Lucy’s Warbler (including fledglings)

  29. MacGillivray’s Warbler

  30. Mourning Dove

  31. Northern Mockingbird

  32. Northern Rough-winged Swallow

  33. Orange-crowned Warbler

  34. Pacific-slope Flycatcher

  35. Phainopepla (including nestlings)

  36. Red-tailed Hawk

  37. Red-winged Blackbird

  38. Ruby-crowned Kinglet

  39. Song Sparrow

  40. Summer Tanager

  41. Turkey Vulture

  42. Townsend’s Warbler

  43. Verdin (including fledglings)

  44. Vermilion Flycatcher

  45. Violet-green Swallow

  46. Warbling Vireo

  47. Western Kingbird

  48. Western Wood-Pewee

  49. White-crowned Sparrow (all of the ones that I saw were dark-lored).

  50. Wilson’s Warbler

  51. Yellow Warbler

  52. Yellow-breasted Chat

  53. Yellow-headed Blackbird

  54. Yellow-rumped Warbler


    A great day!  Happy birding,

Jen

 

The Dark-lored, himself. Photo by Jen Ballard