Complete checklist of Oregon's birds (current as of January 1997)

This list is based on the records of the Oregon Bird Records Committee (OBRC)
and uses the taxonomic sequence and nomenclature of the American
Ornithologists' Union (AOU), as published in AOU, 1983, Check-list of
North American birds, 6th edition (Allen Press, Inc., Lawrence, KS), as
supplemented.  The OBRC asks for reports of any bird species recorded in
Oregon not on the list, and all species represented on this list with
one asterisk (*) or two (**).  Write: OBRC, P.O. Box 10373, Eugene, OR 97440

LEGEND
* ...... A review species.  At least      E ...... Extirpated.  No modern
         one record verified by                    records -- California
         photograph, specimen, or                  Condor and Sharp-tailed
         video or sound recording --               Grouse.
         99 species.                      I ...... Introduced species -- 8
** ..... A review species.  Sight                  species.
         records only, no verification
         -- 14 species.                     ...... Total species: 466


      GAVIIDAE
    Red-throated Loon
    Pacific Loon
    Common Loon
*   Yellow-billed Loon

      PODICIPEDIDAE
    Pied-billed Grebe
    Horned Grebe
    Red-necked Grebe
    Eared Grebe
    Western Grebe
    Clark's Grebe

      DIOMEDEIDAE
    Black-footed Albatross
    Laysan Albatross
**  Short-tailed Albatross

      PROCELLARIIDAE
    Northern Fulmar
*   Mottled Petrel
*   Murphy's Petrel
    Pink-footed Shearwater
    Flesh-footed Shearwater
    Buller's Shearwater
    Sooty Shearwater
    Short-tailed Shearwater
**  Black-vented Shearwater

      HYDROBATIDAE
**  Wilson's Storm-Petrel
    Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel
    Leach's Storm-Petrel
*   Black Storm-Petrel

      PELICANIDAE
    American White Pelican
    Brown Pelican

      PHALACROCORACIDAE
    Double-crested Cormorant
    Brandt's Cormorant
    Pelagic Cormorant

      FREGATIDAE
*   Magnificent Frigatebird

      ARDEIDAE
    American Bittern
    Least Bittern
    Great Blue Heron
    Great Egret
    Snowy Egret
*   Little Blue Heron
*   Tricolored Heron
    Cattle Egret
    Green Heron
    Black-crowned Night-Heron

      THRESKIORNITHIDAE
    White-faced Ibis

      CATHARTIDAE
    Turkey Vulture
*E  California Condor

      ANATIDAE
*   Fulvous Whistling-Duck
    Tundra Swan
*   Whooper Swan
    Trumpeter Swan
    Greater White-fronted Goose
    Snow Goose
    Ross' Goose
    Emperor Goose
    Brant
    Canada Goose
    Wood Duck
    Green-winged Teal
*   Baikal Teal
*   American Black Duck
    Mallard
    Northern Pintail
*   Garganey
    Blue-winged Teal
    Cinnamon Teal
    Northern Shoveler
    Gadwall
    Eurasian Wigeon
    American Wigeon
    Canvasback
    Redhead
    Ring-necked Duck
*   Tufted Duck
    Greater Scaup
    Lesser Scaup
*   King Eider
*   Steller's Eider
    Harlequin Duck
    Oldsquaw
    Black Scoter
    Surf Scoter
    White-winged Scoter
    Common Goldeneye
    Barrow's Goldeneye
    Bufflehead
*   Smew
    Hooded Merganser
    Common Merganser
    Red-breasted Merganser
    Ruddy Duck

      ACCIPITRIDAE
    Osprey
    White-tailed Kite
    Bald Eagle
    Northern Harrier
    Sharp-shinned Hawk
    Cooper's Hawk
    Northern Goshawk
    Red-shouldered Hawk
*   Broad-winged Hawk
    Swainson's Hawk
    Red-tailed Hawk
    Ferruginous Hawk
    Rough-legged Hawk
    Golden Eagle

      FALCONIDAE
    American Kestrel
    Merlin
    Prairie Falcon
    Peregrine Falcon
*   Gyrfalcon

      PHASIANIDAE
I   Gray Partridge
I   Chukar
I   Ring-necked Pheasant
    Ruffed Grouse
    Sage Grouse
    Spruce Grouse
    Blue Grouse
*E  Sharp-tailed Grouse
I   Wild Turkey

      ODONTOPHORIDAE
I   Northern Bobwhite
    California Quail
    Mountain Quail

      RALLIDAE
    Yellow Rail
    Virginia Rail
    Sora
*   Common Moorhen
    American Coot

      GRUIDAE
    Sandhill Crane

      CHARADRIIDAE
    Black-bellied Plover
    American Golden-Plover
    Pacific Golden-Plover
*   Mongolian Plover
    Snowy Plover
    Semipalmated Plover
**  Piping Plover
    Killdeer
*   Mountain Plover

      HAEMATOPODIDAE
    Black Oystercatcher

      RECURVIROSTRIDAE
    Black-necked Stilt
    American Avocet

      SCALOPACIDAE
    Greater Yellowlegs
    Lesser Yellowlegs
*   Spotted Redshank
    Solitary Sandpiper
    Willet
    Wandering Tattler
    Spotted Sandpiper
    Upland Sandpiper
    Whimbrel
**  Bristle-thighed Curlew
    Long-billed Curlew
*   Hudsonian Godwit
*   Bar-tailed Godwit
    Marbled Godwit
    Ruddy Turnstone
    Black Turnstone
    Surfbird
*   Great Knot
    Red Knot
    Sanderling
    Semipalmated Sandpiper
    Western Sandpiper
*   Red-necked Stint
*   Little Stint
*   Long-toed Stint
    Least Sandpiper
    Baird's Sandpiper
    Pectoral Sandpiper
    Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
    Rock Sandpiper
    Dunlin
*   Curlew Sandpiper
    Stilt Sandpiper
    Buff-breasted Sandpiper
    Ruff
    Short-billed Dowitcher
    Long-billed Dowitcher
    Common Snipe
    Wilson's Phalarope
    Red-necked Phalarope
    Red Phalarope

      LARIDAE [STERCORARIINAE]
    South Polar Skua
    Pomarine Jaeger
    Parasitic Jaeger
    Long-tailed Jaeger
      [LARINAE]
*   Laughing Gull
    Franklin's Gull
*   Little Gull
*   Black-headed Gull
    Bonaparte's Gull
    Heermann's Gull
    Mew Gull
    Ring-billed Gull
    California Gull
    Herring Gull
    Thayer's Gull
*   Slaty-backed Gull
    Western Gull
    Glaucous-winged Gull
    Glaucous Gull
    Black-legged Kittiwake
*   Red-legged Kittiwake
*   Ross' Gull
    Sabine's Gull
      [STERNINAE]
    Caspian Tern
    Elegant Tern
    Common Tern
    Arctic Tern
    Forster's Tern
*   Least Tern
    Black Tern

      ALCIDAE
    Common Murre
*   Thick-billed Murre
    Pigeon Guillemot
    Marbled Murrelet
*   Xantus' Murrelet
    Ancient Murrelet
    Cassin's Auklet
*   Parakeet Auklet
    Rhinoceros Auklet
    Tufted Puffin
    Horned Puffin

      COLUMBIDAE
I   Rock Dove
    Band-tailed Pigeon
*   White-winged Dove
    Mourning Dove

      CUCULIDAE
*   Yellow-billed Cuckoo

      TYTONIDAE
    Barn Owl

      STRIGIDAE
    Flammulated Owl
    Western Screech-Owl
    Great Horned Owl
    Snowy Owl
*   Northern Hawk Owl
    Northern Pygmy-Owl
    Burrowing Owl
    Spotted Owl
    Barred Owl
    Great Gray Owl
    Long-eared Owl
    Short-eared Owl
*   Boreal Owl
    Northern Saw-whet Owl

      CAPRIMULGIDAE
    Common Nighthawk
    Common Poorwill

      APODIDAE
    Black Swift
    Vaux's Swift
    White-throated Swift

      TROCHILIDAE
    Black-chinned Hummingbird
    Anna's Hummingbird
*   Costa's Hummingbird
    Calliope Hummingbird
    Broad-tailed Hummingbird
    Rufous Hummingbird
    Allen's Hummingbird

      ALCEDINIDAE
    Belted Kingfisher

      PICIDAE
    Lewis' Woodpecker
    Acorn Woodpecker
*   Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
    Red-naped Sapsucker
    Red-breasted Sapsucker
    Williamson's Sapsucker
*   Nuttall's Woodpecker
    Downy Woodpecker
    Hairy Woodpecker
    White-headed Woodpecker
    Three-toed Woodpecker
    Black-backed Woodpecker
    Northern Flicker
    Pileated Woodpecker

      TYRANNIDAE [FLUVICOLINAE]
    Olive-sided Flycatcher
    Western Wood-Pewee
*   Eastern Wood-Pewee
    Willow Flycatcher
*   Least Flycatcher
    Hammond's Flycatcher
    Dusky Flycatcher
    Gray Flycatcher
    Pacific-slope Flycatcher
    Cordilleran Flycatcher
    Black Phoebe
*   Eastern Phoebe
    Say's Phoebe
*   Vermilion Flycatcher
      [TYRANNINAE]
*   Dusky-capped Flycatcher           (pending)
    Ash-throated Flycatcher
*   Tropical Kingbird
    Western Kingbird
    Eastern Kingbird
*   Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

      LANIIDAE
    Northern Shrike
    Loggerhead Shrike

      VIREONIDAE
**  Bell's Vireo
    Cassin's Vireo
*   Plumbeous Vireo                   (pending)
    Hutton's Vireo
    Warbling Vireo
    Red-eyed Vireo

      CORVIDAE
    Gray Jay
    Steller's Jay
    Blue Jay
    Western Scrub-Jay
    Pinyon Jay
    Clark's Nutcracker
    Black-billed Magpie
    American Crow
    Northwestern Crow
    Common Raven

      ALAUDIDAE
    Horned Lark

      HIRUNDINIDAE
    Purple Martin
    Tree Swallow
    Violet-green Swallow
    Northern Rough-winged Swallow
    Bank Swallow
    Barn Swallow
    Cliff Swallow

      PARIDAE
    Black-capped Chickadee
    Mountain Chickadee
    Chestnut-backed Chickadee
    Oak Titmouse
    Juniper Titmouse

      AEGITHALIDAE
    Bushtit

      SITTIDAE
    Red-breasted Nuthatch
    White-breasted Nuthatch
    Pygmy Nuthatch

      CERTHIIDAE
    Brown Creeper

      TROGLODYTIDAE
    Rock Wren
    Canyon Wren
    Bewick's Wren
    House Wren
    Winter Wren
    Marsh Wren

      CINCLIDAE
    American Dipper

      REGULIDAE
    Golden-crowned Kinglet
    Ruby-crowned Kinglet

      MUSCICAPIDAE [SYLVIINAE]
    Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
      [TURDINAE]
*   Northern Wheatear
    Western Bluebird
    Mountain Bluebird
    Townsend's Solitaire
    Veery
*   Gray-cheeked Thrush
    Swainson's Thrush
    Hermit Thrush
*   Wood Thrush
    American Robin
    Varied Thrush
      [TIMALIINAE]
    Wrentit

      MIMIDAE
    Gray Catbird
    Northern Mockingbird
    Sage Thrasher
*   Brown Thrasher
**  California Thrasher

      STURNIDAE
I   European Starling

      MOTACILLIDAE
*   Black-backed Wagtail
    American Pipit

      BOMBYCILLIDAE
    Bohemian Waxwing
    Cedar Waxwing

      PTILOGONATIDAE
*   Phainopepla

      EMBERIZIDAE [PARULINAE]
**  Blue-winged Warbler
*   Golden-winged Warbler
    Tennessee Warbler
    Orange-crowned Warbler
    Nashville Warbler
*   Virginia's Warbler
*   Lucy's Warbler
*   Northern Parula
    Yellow Warbler
*   Chestnut-sided Warbler
*   Magnolia Warbler
*   Cape May Warbler
    Black-throated Blue Warbler
    Yellow-rumped Warbler
    Black-throated Gray Warbler
    Townsend's Warbler
    Hermit Warbler
*   Black-throated Green Warbler
*   Blackburnian Warbler
*   Yellow-throated Warbler
**  Pine Warbler
*   Prairie Warbler
    Palm Warbler
*   Bay-breasted Warbler
*   Blackpoll Warbler
    Black-and-white Warbler
    American Redstart
*   Prothonotary Warbler
**  Worm-eating Warbler
    Ovenbird
    Northern Waterthrush
*   Kentucky Warbler
**  Mourning Warbler
    MacGillivray's Warbler
    Common Yellowthroat
*   Hooded Warbler
    Wilson's Warbler
*   Canada Warbler
    Yellow-breasted Chat
      [THRAUPINAE]
*   Summer Tanager
*   Scarlet Tanager
    Western Tanager
      [EMBERIZINAE]
    Green-tailed Towhee
    Spotted Towhee
    California Towhee
    American Tree Sparrow
    Chipping Sparrow
    Clay-colored Sparrow
    Brewer's Sparrow
*   Black-chinned Sparrow
    Vesper Sparrow
    Lark Sparrow
    Black-throated Sparrow
    Sage Sparrow
*   Lark Bunting
    Savannah Sparrow
    Grasshopper Sparrow
*   Le Conte's Sparrow
    Fox Sparrow
    Song Sparrow
    Lincoln's Sparrow
    Swamp Sparrow
    White-throated Sparrow
    Harris' Sparrow
    White-crowned Sparrow
    Golden-crowned Sparrow
    Dark-eyed Junco
**  McCown's Longspur
    Lapland Longspur
*   Chestnut-collared Longspur
*   Rustic Bunting
    Snow Bunting
*   McKay's Bunting
      [CARDINALINAE]
*   Rose-breasted Grosbeak
    Black-headed Grosbeak
*   Blue Grosbeak
    Lazuli Bunting
*   Indigo Bunting
*   Painted Bunting
*   Dickcissel
      [ICTERINAE]
    Bobolink
    Red-winged Blackbird
    Tricolored Blackbird
    Western Meadowlark
    Yellow-headed Blackbird
*   Rusty Blackbird
    Brewer's Blackbird
*   Common Grackle
*   Great-tailed Grackle
    Brown-headed Cowbird
*   Orchard Oriole
*   Hooded Oriole
*   Streak-backed Oriole
*   Baltimore Oriole
    Bullock's Oriole
**  Scott's Oriole

      FRINGILLIDAE
*   Brambling
    Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
    Black Rosy-Finch
    Pine Grosbeak
    Purple Finch
    Cassin's Finch
    House Finch
    Red Crossbill
    White-winged Crossbill
    Common Redpoll
**  Hoary Redpoll
    Pine Siskin
    Lesser Goldfinch
*   Lawrence's Goldfinch
    American Goldfinch
    Evening Grosbeak

      PASSERIDAE
I   House Sparrow