International Migratory Bird Day, May 9

International Migratory Bird Day (in the northern hemisphere) is typically the second Saturday in May.  This year, the Nevada Bird Count crew was surveying at Warm Springs Natural Area, Moapa, Nevada.  Here’s an incomplete list of the birds we recorded today:

1. Abert’s Towhee
2. American Kestrel
3. Bell’s Vireo
4. Bewick’s Wren (including nestlings)
5. Black Phoebe
6. Black-headed Grosbeak
7. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
8. Blue Grosbeak
9. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
10. Brewer’s Sparrow
11. Brown-crested Flycatcher
12. Brown-headed Cowbird
13. Bullock’s Oriole
14. Common Raven
15. Common Yellowthroat
16. Crissal Thrasher
17. Eurasian Collared-Dove
18. Gambel’s Quail
19. Gray Flycatcher
20. Great-tailed Grackle
21. Greater Roadrunner
22. Green-tailed Towhee
23. Hammond’s Flycatcher
24. House Finch (including fledglings)
25. Ladder-backed Woodpecker (including fledglings)
26. Lazuli Bunting
27. Lesser Goldfinch
28. Lucy’s Warbler (including fledglings)
29. MacGillivray’s Warbler
30. Mourning Dove
31. Northern Mockingbird
32. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
33. Orange-crowned Warbler
34. Pacific-slope Flycatcher
35. Phainopepla (including nestlings)
36. Red-tailed Hawk
37. Red-winged Blackbird
38. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
39. Song Sparrow
40. Summer Tanager
41. Turkey Vulture
42. Townsend’s Warbler
43. Verdin (including fledglings)
44. Vermilion Flycatcher
45. Violet-green Swallow
46. Warbling Vireo
47. Western Kingbird
48. Western Wood-Pewee
49. White-crowned Sparrow (all of the ones that I saw were dark-lored).
50. Wilson’s Warbler
51. Yellow Warbler
52. Yellow-breasted Chat
53. Yellow-headed Blackbird
54. Yellow-rumped Warbler

 

A great day!  Happy birding,

Jen