Birdathon 2010

On Saturday, Sarah and I led a Birdathon fundraising trip for the Audubon Society of Portland. It was our fourth year as trip leaders and the 3oth year of Birdathon.


We started the day at Cooper Mountain Nature Park, then drove to coastal town of Newport and back.
During the 13-hour trip, we found 92 species of birds, several of which we had never found on previous Birdathon trips.
As always, we had a great time birding with and getting to know our participants. We are already planning and looking forward to next year's expedition.

Bird species list:

1. Pacific Loon

2. Common Loon

3. Western Grebe

4. Red-necked Grebe

5. Brown Pelican

6. Brandt’s Cormorant

7. Pelagic Cormorant

8. Double-crested Cormorant

9. Great Blue Heron

10. Green Heron

11. Canada Goose

12. Brant

13. Greater White-fronted Goose

14. Mallard

15. Northern Pintail

16. Gadwall

17. Northern Shoveler

18. Green-winged Teal

19. Greater Scaup

20. Surf Scoter

21. Ring-necked Duck

22. Harlequin Duck

23. Bufflehead

24. Red-breasted Merganser

25. Bald Eagle

26. Turkey Vulture

27. Cooper’s Hawk

28. Red-tailed Hawk

29. American Kestrel

30. Sooty Grouse

31. American Coot

32. Killdeer

33. Black Oystercatcher

34. Greater Yellowlegs

35. Lesser Yellowlegs

36. Solitary Sandpiper

37. Western Sandpiper

38. Least Sandpiper

39. Dunlin

40. Western Gull

41. California Gull

42. Glaucous-winged Gull

43. Caspian Tern

44. Pigeon Guillemot

45. Common Murre

46. Rock Pigeon

47. Band-tailed Pigeon

48. Mourning Dove

49. Vaux’s Swift

50. Anna’s Hummingbird

51. Belted Kingfisher

52. Hairy Woodpecker

53. Downy Woodpecker

54. Northern Flicker

55. Pacific Slope Flycatcher

56. Steller’s Jay

57. Western Scrub Jay

58. American Crow

59. Common Raven

60. Violet Green Swallow

61. Tree Swallow

62. Cliff Swallow

63. Barn Swallow

64. Black-capped Chickadee

65. Chestnut-backed Chickadee

66. Bushtit

67. Red-breasted Nuthatch

68. Brown Creeper

69. Winter Wren

70. Bewick’s Wren

71. Golden-crowned Kinglet

72. Western Bluebird

73. American Robin

74. European Starling

75. Yellow-rumped Warbler

76. Orange-crowned Warbler

77. Wilson’s Warbler

78. Common Yellowthroat

79. Spotted Towhee

80. Chipping Sparrow

81. Savannah Sparrow

82. White-crowned Sparrow

83. Dark-eyed Junco

84. Song Sparrow

85. Brown-headed Cowbird

86. Red-winged Blackbird

87. Brewer’s Blackbird

88. Evening Grosbeak

89. House Finch

90. Lesser Goldfinch

91. American Goldfinch

92. House Sparrow