GLACIER VIEW MEADOWS - BIRDLIST

This represents a list of reported birds for the Glacier View Meadows area.   It follows the order in the Golden's, "A Guide to Field Identification, Birds of North America".   Total count: 139   R=Resident,  S=Summer, W=Winter,  M=Migrant, C=Common, O=Occasional, A=Accidental

Canada Goose O   Hairy Woodpecker RC   Common Yellowthroat S
Mallard S   Downy Woodpecker R   Yellow-breasted Chat S
Gadwall S   Three-toed Woodpecker O   MacGillivray's Warbler S
Blue-winged Teal SO   Eastern Kingbird S   House Sparrow R
Ring-necked Duck M   Say's Phoebe S   Western Meadowlark S
Barrow's Goldeneye O   Dusky Flycatcher S   Red-winged Blackbird SC
Common Merganser O   West.(Cordilleran) Flycatcher S   Rusty Blackbird O
Turkey Vulture SC   Western Wood-pewee SC   Brewer's Blackbird S
Northern Goshawk R   Olive-sided Flycatcher S   Common Grackle S
Coopers Hawk S   Horned Lark O   Brown-headed Cowbird S
Sharp-shinned Hawk M   Barn Swallow S   Northern Oriole (Bullock's) S
Northern Harrier O   Cliff Swallow S   Western Tanager S
Rough-legged Hawk O   Violet-green Swallow SC   Rose-breasted Grosbeak SO
Ferruginous Hawk O   Tree Swallow S   Black-headed Grosbeak SC
Red-tailed Hawk RC   Blue Jay O   Evening Grosbeak R
Swainson's Hawk S   Stellar's Jay RC   Indigo Bunting SO
Golded Eagle R   Scrub Jay O   Lazuli Bunting S
Bald Eagle O   Pinyon Jay O   House Finch O
Osprey SO   Black-billed Magpie R   Purple Finch WO
Prairie Falcon O   Clark's Nutcracker R   Cassin's Finch RC
Peregrine Falcon O   Common Raven RC   Pine Grosbeak WO
American Kestrel S   American Crow RC   Rosy Finch W
Wild Turkey O   Black-capped Chickadee O   Common Redpoll WO
Blue Grouse R   Mountain Chicadee RC   Pine Siskin RC
Great Blue Heron S   White-breasted Nuthatch RC   American Goldfinch SC
White-faced Ibis O   Red-breasted Nuthatch R   Lesser Goldfinch ** S
Sandhill Crane M   Pygmy Nuthatch RC   Red Crossbill RC
Killdeer S   Brown Creeper W   Green-tailed Towhee S
Spotted Sandpiper S   House Wren SC   Rufous-sided Towhee S
Common Snipe S   Rock Wren S   Savannah Sparrow M
Ring-billed Gull O   Canyon Wren S   Lark Bunting SO
Band-tailed Pigeon O   Gray Catbird S   Vesper Sparrow S
Rock Dove RC   American Robin RC   Lark Sparrow SO
Mourning Dove S   Townsend's Solitaire RC   Dark-eyed Junco * RC
Great-horned Owl RC   Hermit Thrush M   American Tree Sparrow WO
Nothern Saw-whet Owl R   Veery M   Chipping Sparrow S
Northern Pygmy Owl R   Eastern Bluebird SO   White-crowned Sparrow M
Boreal Owl S   Western Bluebird S   Song Sparrow R
Common Poorwill S   Mountain Bluebird SC      
Common Nighthawk SC   Ruby-crowned Kinglet S      
White-throated Swift S   Bohemian Waxwing W      
Broad-tailed Hummingbird SC   Northern Shrike WO      
Caliope Hummingbird O   European Starling R      
Rufous Hummingbird SC   Solitary Vireo S      
Magnificent Hummingbird A   Warbling Vireo S      
Belted Kingfisher S   Orange-crowned Warbler SO      
Common Flicker (red shaft) RC   Virginia's Warbler SO      
Red-Headed Woodpecker SO   Yellow Warbler S      
Lewis' Woodpecker S   Yellow-rumped Warble (Aud) SC      
Red-naped Sapsucker S   Townsend's Warbler M      
Williamson's Sapsucker S            
               
               
               

* Four races or forms of the Dark-eyed Junco have been sighted and identified on multiple occasions  in GVM by the author, viz.:  The Oregon, Gray-headed, Slate-colored, and the White-winged forms.

** Two races of the Lesser Goldfinch have been sighted and identified by the author.   The Green-backed race has been seen regularly since 2001.  The Black-backed race (a male) was seen regularly since 2003.

This list was compiled and formatted for Web usage by Jim Chisholm on  6/27/00 and has been updated many times as additions have been included.  It has leveraged and upgraded the excellent list that was published and maintained by Howard and Mary Alice Evans for many years at Glacier View Meadows.