List of Wildlife of The Skagit River Basin - Birds

Birds

Loons

• Common loon

Grebes

• Pied-billed grebe
• Horned grebe
• Eared grebe
• Western grebe

Herons and Bitterns

• Great blue heron
• Green-backed heron

Swans, Geese, Ducks

• Tundra swan
• Trumpeter swan
• Snow goose
• Canada goose
• Wood duck
• Mallard
• Northern pintail
• Green-winged teal
• Cinnamon teal
• Northern shoveler
• Gadwall
• American widgeon
• Redhead
• Ring-necked duck
• Greater scaup
• Lesser scaup
• Harlequin duck
• Common goldeneye
• Barrow's goldeneye
• Bufflehead
• Hooded merganser
• Red-breasted merganser
• Ruddy duck

Raptors

• Turkey vulture
• Osprey
• Bald Eagle
• Northern harrier
• Sharp-shinned hawk
• Cooper's hawk
• Northern goshawk
• Red-tailed hawk
• Rough-legged hawk
• Golden eagle
• American kestrel
• Merlin
• Peregrine falcon
• Prairie falcon

Grouse, Ptarmigan, Quail

• Spruce grouse
• Sooty grouse
• White-tailed ptarmigan
• Ruffled grouse
• California grouse (introduced)

Rails and Coots

• Sora
• American coot

Shorebirds

• Killdeer
• Lesser yellowlegs
• Greater yellowlegs
• Solitary Sandpiper
• Spotted sandpiper
• Pectoral sandpiper
• Western sandpiper
• Least sandpiper
• Dunlin
• Baird's sandpiper
• Common snipe
• Wilson's phalarope
• Red-necked phalarope

Gulls and Terns

• Bonaparte's gull
• Mew gull
• Ring-billed gull
• California gull
• glaucous-winged gull
• Common tern

Alcids

• Marbled murrelet

Pigeons and Doves

• Rock dove
• Band-tailed pigeon
• Mourning dove

Owls

• Vommon barn owl
• Western Screech Owl
• Great horned owl
• Mountain Pygmy Owl
• Northern spotted owl
• Barred owl
• Great grey owl
• Long-eared owl
• Short-eared owl
• Northern saw-whet owl

Nighthawks and Swifts

• Common nighthawk
• Black swift
• Vaux's swift

Hummingbirds

• Calliope hummingbird
• Rufous hummingbird

Kingfishers

• Belted kingfisher

Woodpeckers

• Lewis' woodpecker
• Red-breasted sapsucker
• Downy woodpecker*Hairy woodpecker
• Three-toed woodpecker
• Northern flicker
• Pileated woodpecker

Flycatchers

• Olive-sided flycatcher
• Western wood pewee
• Willow flycatcher
• Hammond's flycatcher
• Dusky flycatcher
• Say's phoebe
• Western kingbird
• Eastern kingbird

Larks

• Horned lark

Swallows

• Tree swallow
• Violet-green swallow
• Northern rough-winged swallow
• Cliff swallow
• Barn swallow

Jays, Crows, Ravens

• Gray jay
• Steller's jay
• Clark's nutcracker
• Black-billed magpie
• American crow
• Common raven

Chickadees, Nuthatches, Creepers

• Black-capped chickadee
• Mountain chickadee
• Boreal chickadee
• Chestnut-backed chickadee
• Bushtit
• Red-breasted nuthatch
• White-breasted nuthatch
• Brown creeper

Wrens

• Bewick's wren
• Marsh wren

Dippers

• American dipper

Kinglets

• Golden crowned kinglet
• Ruby-crowned kinglet

Bluebirds, Robins, Thrushes

• Mountain bluebird
• Townsend's solitaire
• Veery
• Swainson's thrush
• Hermit thrush
• American robin
• Varied thrush

Catbirds

• Gray catbird

Pipits

• American pipit

Waxwings

• Bohemian waxwing
• Cedar waxwing

Shrikes

• Northern shrike

Starlings

• European starling (introduced)

Vireos

• Solitary vireo
• Warbling vireo
• Red-eyed vireo

Warblers

• Orange-crowned warbler
• Nashville warbler
• Yellow warbler
• Yellow-rumped warbler
• Black-throated gray warbler
• Townsend's warbler
• Hermit warbler
• American redstart
• Northern waterthrush
• MacGillivray's warbler
• Common yellowthroat
• Wilson's warbler

Tanagers

• Western tanager

Blackbirds, Meadowlarks, Orioles

• Red-winged blackbird
• Yellow-headed blackbird
• Brewer's blackbird
• Western meadowlark
• Brown-headed cowbird
• Northern oriole

Grosbeaks, Buntings, Sparrows

• Black-headed grosbeak
• Lazuli bunting
• Rufous-sided towhee
• Chipping sparrow
• Savannah sparrow
• Fox sparrow
• Song sparrow
• Lincoln's sparrow
• Golden-crowned sparrow
• White-crowned sparrow
• White-throated sparrow
• Dark-eyed junco
• Rosy finch
• Pine grosbeak
• Purple finch
• House finch
• Red crossbill
• White-winged crossbill
• Common redpoll
• Pine siskin
• American goldfinch
• Evening grosbeak
• House sparrow (introduced)