This checklist is for Salton Sea NWR, CA. It is from their 1970 checklist available at the refuge and augmented from other sources. This checklist is not copyrighted nor from a copyrighted source. Roy Carlson San Carlos, CA CHECKLIST Salton Sea NWR Checklist - 300 species GREBES Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe FRIGATEBIRDS Magnificent Frigatebird GANNETS AND BOOBIES Blue-footed Booby Brown Booby CORMORANTS Neotropic Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant PELICANS American White Pelican Brown Pelican DUCKS, SWANS, GEESE Fulvous Whistling-Duck Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Ruddy Duck Tundra Swan Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross's Goose Canada Goose Brant Wood Duck Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon Gadwall Baikal Teal Green-winged Teal Mallard Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Oldsquaw Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Common Merganser HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS Reddish Egret Tricolored Heron Little Blue Heron Snowy Egret Great Blue Heron Great Egret Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Least Bittern American Bittern IBIS AND SPOONBILLS White-faced Ibis Roseate Spoonbill STORKS Wood Stork NEW WORLD VULTURES Turkey Vulture OSPREY Osprey HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Harris's Hawk Swainson's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle FALCONS AND CARACARAS American Kestrel Merlin Prairie Falcon Peregrine Falcon PHEASANTS, GROUSE, QUAIL AND TURKEYS Ring-necked Pheasant WOOD-PARTRIDGES Gambel's Quail RAILS AND COOTS Black Rail Clapper Rail Virginia Rail Sora Common Moorhen American Coot CRANES Sandhill Crane SANDPIPERS Common Snipe Marbled Godwit Whimbrel Long-billed Curlew Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Wandering Tattler Willet Ruddy Turnstone Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Red Phalarope AVOCETS AND STILTS Black-necked Stilt American Avocet PLOVERS AND LAPWINGS Pacific Golden-Plover Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Snowy Plover Mountain Plover GULLS AND TERNS Heermann's Gull Mew Gull Ring-billed Gull California Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Western Gull Yellow-footed Gull Glaucous Gull Herring Gull Bonaparte's Gull Laughing Gull Franklin's Gull Sabine's Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Black Tern Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Least Tern JAEGERS AND SKUAS Parasitic Jaeger SKIMMERS Black Skimmer LOONS Common Loon PIGEONS AND DOVES Rock Dove Band-tailed Pigeon Mourning Dove White-winged Dove Common Ground-Dove NEW WORLD CUCKOOS Yellow-billed Cuckoo GROUND-CUCKOOS AND ALLIES Greater Roadrunner BARN-OWLS Barn Owl OWLS Western Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Burrowing Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Short-eared Owl NIGHTJARS Lesser Nighthawk Common Poorwill SWIFTS Black Swift Vaux's Swift White-throated Swift HUMMINGBIRDS Black-chinned Hummingbird Anna's Hummingbird Costa's Hummingbird Calliope Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird KINGFISHERS Belted Kingfisher WOODPECKERS Lewis's Woodpecker Acorn Woodpecker Gila Woodpecker Red-breasted Sapsucker Ladder-backed Woodpecker Northern Flicker Gilded Flicker TYRANT FLYCATCHERS Olive-sided Flycatcher Western Wood-Pewee Willow Flycatcher Hammond's Flycatcher Gray Flycatcher Dusky Flycatcher Pacific-slope Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Say's Phoebe Black Phoebe Vermilion Flycatcher Ash-throated Flycatcher Brown-crested Flycatcher Cassin's Kingbird Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird CROWS AND JAYS Western Scrub-Jay American Crow Common Raven VIREOS AND ALLIES Bell's Vireo Cassin's Vireo Warbling Vireo SHRIKES Loggerhead Shrike WAXWINGS AND SILKY-FLYCATCHERS Phainopepla Cedar Waxwing THRUSHES Western Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush American Robin MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS Northern Mockingbird Sage Thrasher Bendire's Thrasher Curve-billed Thrasher Le Conte's Thrasher Crissal Thrasher STARLINGS European Starling NUTHATCHES Red-breasted Nuthatch CREEPERS Brown Creeper WRENS Cactus Wren Rock Wren Marsh Wren Bewick's Wren House Wren GNATCATCHERS Verdin Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Black-tailed Gnatcatcher SWALLOWS Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Purple Martin Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow KINGLETS Ruby-crowned Kinglet CHICKADEES, TITS Mountain Chickadee LARKS Horned Lark OLD WORLD SPARROWS House Sparrow WAGTAILS AND PIPITS American Pipit SISKINS, CROSSBILLS AND ALLIES Pine Siskin American Goldfinch Lesser Goldfinch Lawrence's Goldfinch House Finch Red Crossbill NEW WORLD WARBLERS Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Virginia's Warbler Lucy's Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Townsend's Warbler Hermit Warbler Palm Warbler Cerulean Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird MacGillivray's Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat BUNTINGS, SPARROWS, TANAGERS, ALLIES McCown's Longspur Lapland Longspur Chestnut-collared Longspur Lark Bunting Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Harris's Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Brewer's Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Sage Sparrow Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee Abert's Towhee Summer Tanager Western Tanager Dickcissel Black-headed Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting BLACKBIRDS, GRACKLES, ORIOLES Hooded Oriole Baltimore Oriole Bullock's Oriole Orchard Oriole Yellow-headed Blackbird Red-winged Blackbird Western Meadowlark Great-tailed Grackle Brewer's Blackbird Bronzed Cowbird Brown-headed Cowbird Bobolink