CHECKLIST Stanislaus Co. Checklist - 289 species GREBES Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clark's Grebe CORMORANTS Double-crested Cormorant PELICANS American White Pelican Brown Pelican DUCKS, SWANS, GEESE Fulvous Whistling-Duck Ruddy Duck Trumpeter Swan Tundra Swan Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross's Goose Emperor Goose Canada Goose Brant Wood Duck Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon Gadwall Green-winged Teal Mallard Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Tufted Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Oldsquaw Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Barrow's Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Common Merganser HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS 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 NEW WORLD VULTURES Turkey Vulture OSPREY Osprey HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES White-tailed Kite Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Swainson's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle FALCONS AND CARACARAS American Kestrel Merlin Prairie Falcon Peregrine Falcon WOOD-PARTRIDGES California Quail RAILS AND COOTS 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 American Golden-Plover Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Snowy Plover Mountain Plover GULLS AND TERNS Mew Gull Ring-billed Gull California Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Western Gull Glaucous Gull Thayer's Gull Herring Gull Bonaparte's Gull Franklin's Gull Sabine's Gull Black Tern Caspian Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern JAEGERS AND SKUAS Long-tailed Jaeger LOONS Common Loon PIGEONS AND DOVES Rock Dove Band-tailed Pigeon Mourning Dove NEW WORLD CUCKOOS Yellow-billed Cuckoo GROUND-CUCKOOS AND ALLIES Greater Roadrunner BARN-OWLS Barn Owl OWLS Western Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Northern Pygmy-Owl Burrowing Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl NIGHTJARS Lesser Nighthawk Common Poorwill SWIFTS Vaux's Swift White-throated Swift HUMMINGBIRDS Black-chinned Hummingbird Anna's Hummingbird Costa's Hummingbird Calliope Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Allen's Hummingbird KINGFISHERS Belted Kingfisher WOODPECKERS Lewis's Woodpecker Acorn Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Red-naped Sapsucker Red-breasted Sapsucker Nuttall's Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern 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 Cassin's Kingbird Western Kingbird CROWS AND JAYS Pinyon Jay Steller's Jay Western Scrub-Jay Yellow-billed Magpie Clark's Nutcracker American Crow Common Raven VIREOS AND ALLIES Bell's Vireo Hutton's Vireo White-eyed Vireo Plumbeous Vireo Cassin's Vireo Warbling Vireo SHRIKES Loggerhead Shrike WAXWINGS AND SILKY-FLYCATCHERS Phainopepla Bohemian Waxwing Cedar Waxwing DIPPERS American Dipper THRUSHES Varied Thrush Western Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush American Robin MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS Northern Mockingbird Sage Thrasher Brown Thrasher California Thrasher STARLINGS European Starling NUTHATCHES Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch CREEPERS Brown Creeper WRENS Rock Wren Canyon Wren Marsh Wren Bewick's Wren Winter Wren House Wren GNATCATCHERS Blue-gray Gnatcatcher LONG-TAILED TITS Bushtit SWALLOWS Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Purple Martin Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow KINGLETS Ruby-crowned Kinglet Golden-crowned Kinglet OLD WORLD WARBLERS Wrentit CHICKADEES, TITS Chestnut-backed Chickadee Oak Titmouse 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 Purple Finch Cassin's Finch House Finch Red Crossbill NEW WORLD WARBLERS Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Virginia's Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Townsend's Warbler Hermit Warbler MacGillivray's Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat BUNTINGS, SPARROWS, TANAGERS, ALLIES Lark Bunting Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Brewer's Sparrow Black-chinned Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Sage Sparrow Rufous-crowned Sparrow Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee California Towhee Summer Tanager Western Tanager Rose-breasted Grosbeak Black-headed Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting Indigo Bunting BLACKBIRDS, GRACKLES, ORIOLES Hooded Oriole Bullock's Oriole Yellow-headed Blackbird Red-winged Blackbird Tricolored Blackbird Western Meadowlark Great-tailed Grackle Rusty Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird