Category: Birding Highlights 2016

Index of 2016 Water Bird highlights

For non water-birds of 2016, click here:

Water Bird Highlights of 2016 in photos and text:

Part 1: Waders and shorebirds: American Avocets, Black-necked Stilts, Killdeers, Sandpipers (Least, Solitary, Pectoral), Lesser Yellowlegs, Wilson’s Phalaropes.

For Spotted Sandpipers from 2015, click here.

Part 2: More waders and shorebirds: herons—Great Blue and Green

Part 3: Some ducks and coots : American Green-winged Teals, American Coots, American Wigeon, Buffleheads,  Goldeneyes: Barrow’s and Common

Part 4: More ducks: Gadwalls, Hooded Mergansers, Common Mergansers, Common Loon, Mallards

Part 5: More ducks: Northern Shovelers, Pied-billed Grebes, Horned and Red-necked Grebes (briefly), Redheads, Ruddy Ducks, Teals—Blue winged and Cinnamon, and finally, Wood Ducks.

Part 6: Geese and swans: Canada Geese, Snow Geese, White-fronted Geese, Tundra Swans.

Songbirds and perching birds (passerines) of 2016 in photos and text: 

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Lewis’s Woodpecker on the Long Branch. (Technically, NOT a passerine, but read on…).

For Water Bird Highlights of 2016 in photos and text, click here.

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part 1: American Goldfinch, American Redstart, American Robin, Black-billed Magpie, Black-capped Chickadee, Black-headed Grosbeak, Brown-headed Cowbird, Brewer’s Blackbird, Bullock’s Oriole

part 2: California Quail, Cassin’s Finch, Cedar Waxwing, Clark’s Nutcracker, Downy Woodpecker

part 3: Eastern Kingbird, Eurasian Collared Dove, European Starling

part 4: Hairy Woodpecker, House Finch, House Wren

part 5: Lazuli Bunting, Lewis’s Woodpecker

part 6: Mountain Bluebird, Mourning Dove, Northern Cardinal, Northern Flicker

part 7: Orange-crowned Warbler, Pileated Woodpecker, Pine Siskin, Pygmy Nuthatch

part 8: Red Crossbill, Red-winged Blackbird, Rufous Hummingbird

part 9: Savannah Sparrow, Say’s Phoebe, Song Sparrow, Steller’s Jay, Townsend’s Solitaire, Tree Swallow

part 10: Violet Green Swallow, Warbling Vireo, Western Bluebird, Western Kingbird, Western Meadowlark, Western Tanager, White-breasted Nuthatch, White-crowned Sparrow, Willow Flycatcher

part 11: Yellow-headed Blackbirds, Yellow-rumped Warblers, Yellow Warblers