Tentative Bird List for Ornithology
HSU Wildlife 365; Spring '01
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CLASS: AVES
Superorder: Palaeognathae (ratites and tinamous)
Order: Tinamiformes (tinamous)
Order: Rheiformes (rheas)
Order: Struthioniformes (ostrich)
Order: Casuariiformes (emu, cassowaries)
Order: Dinornithiformes (kiwis)
Superorder: Neognathae (modern birds)
Order: Gaviiformes (loons)
Gaviidae (loons)
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Pacific Loon
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Red-throated Loon
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Common Loon
Order: Podicipediformes (grebes)
Podicipedidae
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Pied-billed Grebe
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Horned Grebe
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Eared Grebe
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Western Grebe
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Clark's Grebe
Order: Sphenisciformes (penguins)
Order: Procellariiformes (tube-nosed seabirds)
Diomedeidae (albatrosses)
Procellariidae (shearwaters, petrels, fulmars)
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Northern Fulmar
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Pink-footed Shearwater
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Sooty Shearwater
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Buller's Shearwater
Hydrobatidae (storm-petrels)
Order: Pelecaniformes (pelicans and allies)
Pelecanidae (pelicans)
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Brown Pelican
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American White Pelican
Phalacrocoracidae (cormorants)
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Brandt's Cormorant
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Double-crested Cormorant
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Pelagic Cormorant
Order: Ciconiiformes (herons, storks, and allies)
Ardeidae (herons, bitterns, egrets)
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American Bittern
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Great Blue Heron
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Great Egret
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Snowy Egret
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Cattle Egret
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Green Heron
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Black-crowned Night-Heron
Threskiornithidae (ibises)
Cathartidae (new world vultures)
Order: Phoenicopteriformes (flamingos)
Order: Anseriformes (waterfowl) does not follow latest
AOU checklist
Anatidae (swans, geese, ducks)
Geese and Swans:
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Tundra Swan
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Greater White-fronted Goose
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Snow Goose
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Ross's Goose
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Canada Goose
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Brant
Ducks:
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Wood Duck
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Gadwall
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American Wigeon
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Mallard
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Blue-winged Teal
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Cinnamon Teal
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Northern Shoveler
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Northern Pintail
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Green-winged Teal
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Canvasback
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Redhead
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Ring-necked Duck
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Greater Scaup
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Lesser Scaup
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Harlequin Duck
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Surf Scoter
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White-winged Scoter
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Black Scoter
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Bufflehead
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Common Goldeneye
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Hooded Merganser
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Common Merganser
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Red-breasted Merganser
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Ruddy Duck
Order: Falconiformes (hawks and falcons)
Accipitridae
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Osprey
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White-tailed Kite
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Bald Eagle
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Northern Harrier
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Sharp-shinned Hawk
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Cooper's Hawk
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Northern Goshawk
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Red-shouldered Hawk
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Red-tailed Hawk
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Ferruginous Hawk
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Rough-legged Hawk
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Golden Eagle
Falconidae (falcons, caracaras)
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American Kestrel
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Peregrine Falcon
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Prairie Falcon
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Merlin
Order: Galliformes (upland fowl)
Phasianidae (pheasants, grouse, turkeys)
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Chukar (I)
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Ring-necked Pheasant (I)
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Ruffed Grouse
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Sage Grouse
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Blue Grouse
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Wild Turkey
Odontophoridae (new world quail)
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Mountain Quail
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California Quail
Order: Gruiformes (cranes, rails, and allies)
Rallidae (rails, coots)
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Virginia Rail
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Sora
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American Coot
Gruidae (cranes)
Order: Charadriiformes (shorebirds, gulls, lots of allies)
Charadriidae (plovers, lapwings)
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Black-bellied Plover
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Pacific Golden-Plover
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Snowy Plover
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Semipalmated Plover
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Killdeer
Haematopodidae (oystercatchers)
Recurvirostridae (avocets, stilts)
Scolopacidae (sandpipers and allies)
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Greater Yellowlegs
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Lesser Yellowlegs
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Willet
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Wandering Tattler
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Spotted Sandpiper
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Whimbrel
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Long-billed Curlew
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Marbled Godwit
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Ruddy Turnstone
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Black Turnstone
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Surfbird
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Red Knot
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Sanderling
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Western Sandpiper
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Least Sandpiper
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Pectoral Sandpiper
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Dunlin
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Short-billed Dowitcher
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Long-billed Dowitcher
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Common Snipe
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Red-necked Phalarope
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Red Phalarope
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Wilson's Phalarope
Laridae (gulls and allies)
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Parasitic Jaeger
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Bonaparte's Gull
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Heermann's Gull
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Mew Gull
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Ring-billed Gull
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California Gull
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Western Gull
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Glaucous-winged Gull
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Sabine's Gull
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Black-legged Kittiwake
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Elegant Tern
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Caspian Tern
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Forster's Tern
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Black Skimmer
Alcidae (auks, murres, puffins, guillemots)
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Common Murre
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Pigeon Guillemot
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Marbled Murrelet
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Cassin's Auklet
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Rhinoceros Auklet
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Tufted Puffin
Order: Columbiformes (pigeons and allies)
Columbidae (pigeons and doves)
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Rock Dove (I)
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Band-tailed Pigeon
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Mourning Dove
Order: Psittaciformes (parrots and allies)
Order: Coliiformes (mousebirds)
Order: Musophagiformes (turacos, plantain-eaters)
Order: Cuculiformes (cuckoos and allies)
Cuculidae (new world cuckoos)
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo
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Greater Roadrunner
Order: Strigiformes (owls)
Tytonidae (barn-owls)
Strigidae (owls)
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Western Screech-Owl
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Great Horned Owl
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Northern Pygmy-Owl
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Burrowing Owl
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Spotted Owl
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Barred Owl
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Short-eared Owl
Order: Caprimulgiformes (goatsuckers)
Caprimulgidae (nighthawks and poorwills)
Order: Apodiformes (swifts and hummingbirds)
Apodidae (swifts)
Trochilidae (hummingbirds)
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Anna's Hummingbird
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Allen's Hummingbird
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Rufous Hummingbird
Order: Trogoniformes (trogons)
Order: Upupiformes (hoopoes)
Order: Coraciiformes (kingfishers and allies)
Alcedinidae (kingfishers)
Order: Piciformes (woodpeckers and allies)
Picidae (woodpeckers)
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Acorn Woodpecker
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Red-breasted Sapsucker
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Downy Woodpecker
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Hairy Woodpecker
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White-headed Woodpecker
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Northern Flicker
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Pileated Woodpecker
Order: Passeriformes (perching birds)
Suborder: Tyranni (suboscines; 15 families)
Tyrannidae (tyrant flycatchers, only American family)
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Olive-sided Flycatcher
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Western Wood-Pewee
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Willow Flycatcher; Know all Empidonax only to genus
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Hammond's Flycatcher
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Dusky Flycatcher
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Pacific-slope Flycatcher
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Black Phoebe
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Ash-throated Flycatcher
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Western Kingbird
Suborder: Passeres (oscines; 69 families, NA families listed below)
Crow relatives:
Laniidae (shrikes)
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Northern Shrike
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Loggerhead Shrike
Virionidae (vireos)
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Cassin's Vireo
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Hutton's Vireo
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Warbling Vireo
Corvidae (crows, jays, magpies)
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Gray Jay
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Steller's Jay
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Western Scrub-Jay
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Clark's Nutcracker
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American Crow
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Common Raven
Old world insect eaters
Alaudidae (larks)
Hirundinidae (swallows, martins)
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Purple Martin
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Tree Swallow
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Violet-green Swallow
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Northern Rough-winged Swallow
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Cliff Swallow
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Barn Swallow
Paridae (chickadees and titmice)
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Oak Titmouse
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Black-capped Chickadee
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Mountain Chickadee
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Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Aegithalidae (long-tailed tits)
Sittidae (nuthatches)
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Red-breasted Nuthatch
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White-breasted Nuthatch
Certhiidae (creepers)
Troglodytidae (wrens)
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Bewick's Wren
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House Wren
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Winter Wren
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Marsh Wren
Cinclidae (dippers)
Regulidae (kinglets)
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Golden-crowned Kinglet
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Sylviidae (old world warblers)
Muscicapidae (old world flycatchers)
Thrush relatives:
Turdidae (thrushes)
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Western Bluebird
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Swainson's Thrush
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Hermit Thrush
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American Robin
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Varied Thrush
Timaliidae (wrentit)
Mimidae (mimic thrushes, thrashers)
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Northern Mockingbird
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California Thrasher
Sturnidae (starlings)
Motacillidae (wagtails, pipits)
Bombycillidae (waxwings)
Weaver relatives:
Parulidae (new world warblers)
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Orange-crowned Warbler
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Nashville Warbler
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Yellow Warbler
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Yellow-rumped Warbler
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Black-throated Gray Warbler
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Townsend's Warbler
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Hermit Warbler
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MacGillivray's Warbler
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Common Yellowthroat
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Wilson's Warbler
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Yellow-breasted Chat
Thraupidae (tanagers)
Emberizidae (sparrows, towhees, longspurs)
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Spotted Towhee
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California Towhee
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Chipping Sparrow
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Lark Sparrow
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Savannah Sparrow
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Fox Sparrow
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Song Sparrow
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Lincoln's Sparrow
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White-crowned Sparrow
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Golden-crowned Sparrow
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Dark-eyed Junco
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Lapland Longspur
Cardinalidae (Cardinal-grosbeaks)
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Black-headed Grosbeak
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Lazuli Bunting
Icteridae (new world orioles and blackbirds)
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Red-winged Blackbird
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Western Meadowlark
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Brewer's Blackbird
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Brown-headed Cowbird
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Bullock's Oriole
Fringillidae (carduelline finches)
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Purple Finch
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Cassin's Finch
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House Finch
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Red Crossbill
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Pine Siskin
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Lesser Goldfinch
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American Goldfinch
Passeridae (old world sparrows)