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Checklist of Grays Harbor County Birds

Season	Spring	March, April, May

Frequency	C - Common	likely to be found on any trip to suitable habitat
	U - Uncommon	likely to be found on 25-75% of trips to suitable habitat
	R - Rare	likely to be found on less than 25% of trips to suitable habitat
	X - Accidental	fewer than 15 records
	I - Irregular	occurs on irregular basis in suitable habitat
	L - Local	occurs locally
	P - Pelagic	pelagic species (rarely seen from shore)

Species	S
___ Red-throated Loon	C
___ Pacific Loon	C
___ Common Loon	C
___ Yellow-billed Loon	X

___ Pied-billed Grebe	C
___ Horned Grebe	C
___ Red-necked Grebe	U
___ Eared Grebe	R
___ Western Grebe	C
___ Clark's Grebe	X

___ Laysan Albatross (P)	R
___ Black-footed Albatross (P)	C
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___ Northern Fulmar (P)	C
___ Murphy's Petrel (P) -	X
___ Pink-footed Shearwater (P)	C
___ Flesh-footed Shearwater (P)	U
___ Sooty Shearwater	C
___ Short-tailed Shearwater (P)	U
___ Manx Shearwater (P)	X
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___ Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel (P)	C
___ Leach's Storm-Petrel (P)	U

___ Brown Pelican	R

___ Brandt's Cormorant	C
___ Double-crested Cormorant	C
___ Pelagic Cormorant	C

___ American Bittern	U
___ Great Blue Heron	C
___ Great Egret	X
___ Snowy Egret	X
___ Green Heron	U

___ Turkey Vulture	C

___ Gr. White-fronted Goose	U
___ Emperor Goose	X
___ Snow Goose	R
___ Canada Goose	C
___ Brant	C
___ Trumpeter Swan	C
___ Tundra Swan (L)	U
___ Wood Duck	U
___ Gadwall	C
___ Eurasian Wigeon	U
___ American Wigeon	C
___ Mallard	C
___ Blue-winged Teal (L)	U
___ Cinnamon Teal	U
___ Northern Shoveler	C
___ Northern Pintail	C
___ Green-winged Teal	C
___ Canvasback	C
___ Redhead	R
___ Ring-necked Duck	C
___ Greater Scaup	C
___ Lesser Scaup	C
___ Harlequin Duck (L)	R
___ Surf Scoter	C
___ White-winged Scoter	C
___ Black Scoter (L)	C
___ Long-tailed Duck (L)	R
___ Bufflehead	C
___ Common Goldeneye	C
___ Barrow's Goldeneye (L)	R
___ Hooded Merganser	U
___ Common Merganser	C
___ Red-breasted Merganser	C
___ Ruddy Duck	C

___ Osprey	C
___ White-tailed Kite	X
___ Bald Eagle	C
___ Northern Harrier	C
___ Sharp-shinned Hawk	U
___ Cooper's Hawk	U
___ Northern Goshawk	R
___ Red-tailed Hawk	C
___ Rough-legged Hawk	U
___ Golden Eagle (L)	X
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___ American Kestrel	R
___ Merlin	U
___ Gyrfalcon (I)	X
___ Peregrine Falcon	U

___ Ring-necked Pheasant	C
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___ Ruffed Grouse	U
___ Blue Grouse	U
___ Wild Turkey (L, Introduced)	R
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___ Mountain Quail (L)	R

___ Virginia Rail	C
___ Sora	R
___ American Coot	C
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___ Sandhill Crane	R

___ Black-bellied Plover	C
___ Pacific Golden-Plover	R
___ American Golden-Plover	X
___ Snowy Plover (L)	R
___ Semipalmated Plover	C
___ Killdeer	C
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___ Black Oystercatcher (L)	U
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___ American Avocet	X
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___ Greater Yellowlegs	C
___ Lesser Yellowlegs	R
___ Willet	R
___ Wandering Tattler	C
___ Spotted Sandpiper (L)	U
___ Whimbrel	C
___ Long-billed Curlew	R
___ Bar-tailed Godwit	X
___ Marbled Godwit	U
___ Ruddy Turnstone	C
___ Black Turnstone	C
___ Surfbird	C
___ Red Knot	C
___ Sanderling	C
___ Semipalmated Sandpiper	X
___ Western Sandpiper	C
___ Least Sandpiper	C
___ Baird's Sandpiper	R
___ Pectoral Sandpiper	R
___ Rock Sandpiper (L)	U
___ Dunlin	C
___ Short-billed Dowitcher	C
___ Long-billed Dowitcher	C
___ Common Snipe	C
___ Wilson's Phalarope	X
___ Red-necked Phalarope	C
___ Red Phalarope (P)	U
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___ Pomarine Jaeger (P)	C
___ Parasitic Jaeger	C
___ Long-tailed Jaeger (P)	X
___ Franklin's Gull	X
___ Bonaparte's Gull	U
___ Heermann's Gull	R
___ Mew Gull	C
___ Ring-billed Gull	C
___ California Gull	R
___ Herring Gull	U
___ Thayer's Gull	U
___ Western Gull	C
___ Glaucous-winged Gull	C
___ Glaucous Gull	R
___ Sabine's Gull (P)	C
___ Black-legged Kittiwake (L)	U
___ Caspian Tern	C
___ Common Tern	U
___ Arctic Tern (P)	U
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___ Common Murre	C
___ Pigeon Guillemot	C
___ Marbled Murrelet	U
___ Xantus' Murrelet (P)	X
___ Ancient Murrelet (P)	R
___ Cassin's Auklet (P)	U
___ Parakeet Auklet (P)	X
___ Rhinoceros Auklet	C
___ Horned Puffin (P)	X
___ Tufted Puffin (L)	U

___ Rock Dove	C
___ Band-tailed Pigeon	C
___ Mourning Dove	U

___ Barn Owl	C
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___ Western Screech-Owl	C
___ Great Horned Owl	C
___ Snowy Owl (I)	R
___ Northern Pygmy-Owl	U
___ Spotted Owl (L)	R
___ Barred Owl (L)	R
___ Short-eared Owl	R
___ Northern Saw-whet Owl	R

___ Vaux's Swift	C
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___ Anna's Hummingbird	X
___ Rufous Hummingbird	C

___ Belted Kingfisher	C

___ Red-breasted Sapsucker	U
___ Downy Woodpecker	C
___ Hairy Woodpecker	C
___ Northern Flicker	C
___ Pileated Woodpecker	U

___ Olive-sided Flycatcher	C
___ Western Wood-Pewee	C
___ Willow Flycatcher	U
___ Hammond's Flycatcher	C
___ Pacific-slope Flycatcher	C
___ Western Kingbird	R
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___ Northern Shrike (I)	U
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___ Cassin? Vireo	U
___ Hutton's Vireo	U
___ Warbling Vireo	C
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___ Gray Jay (L)	C
___ Steller's Jay	C
___ Western Scrub-Jay	U
___ Crow species	C
___ Common Raven	C
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___ Horned Lark (L)	U
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___ Purple Martin (L)	R
___ Tree Swallow	C
___ Violet-green Swallow	C
___ N. Rough-winged Swallow	U
___ Bank Swallow	X
___ Cliff Swallow	C
___ Barn Swallow	C
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___ Black-capped Chickadee	C
___ Chestnut-backed Chickadee	C
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___ Bushtit	C
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___ Red-breasted Nuthatch (I)	U
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___ Brown Creeper	U
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___ Bewick's Wren	C
___ House Wren (L)	U
___ Winter Wren	C
___ Marsh Wren	C
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___ American Dipper (L)	U
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___ Golden-crowned Kinglet	C
___ Ruby-crowned Kinglet	C
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___ Mountain Bluebird	X
___ Townsend's Solitaire	R
___ Swainson's Thrush	C
___ Hermit Thrush	U
___ American Robin	C
___ Varied Thrush	C
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___ European Starling	C
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___ American Pipit	C
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___ Cedar Waxwing	C
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___ Orange-crowned Warbler	C
___ Yellow Warbler	C
___ Yellow-rumped Warbler
Myrtle	C
Audubon?	C
___ Black-throated Gray Warbler	C
___ Townsend's Warbler	C
___ Hermit Warbler (L)	U
___ MacGillivray's Warbler	C
___ Common Yellowthroat	C
___ Wilson's Warbler	C
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___ Western Tanager	C
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___ Spotted Towhee	C
___ Chipping Sparrow (L)	U
___ Vesper Sparrow (L)	R
___ Savannah Sparrow	C
___ Fox Sparrow	C
___ Song Sparrow	C
___ Lincoln's Sparrow	U
___ White-throated Sparrow	X
___ White-crowned Sparrow	C
___ Golden-crowned Sparrow	C
___ Dark-eyed Junco	C
___ Lapland Longspur	U
___ Snow Bunting	R
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___ Black-headed Grosbeak	C
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___ Red-winged Blackbird	C
___ Western Meadowlark	U
___ Yellow-headed Blackbird	X
___ Brewer's Blackbird	C
___ Brown-headed Cowbird	C
___ Bullock? Oriole (L)	U
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___ Pine Grosbeak (L)	R
___ Purple Finch	C
___ House Finch	C
___ Red Crossbill (I)	U
___ Pine Siskin (I)	C
___ American Goldfinch	C
___ Evening Grosbeak	C
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___ House Sparrow	C