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WINGS Birding Tours – Bird List

Nebraska: The Platte River

Cranes, Waterfowl and Prairie-Chickens

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Cumulative Birdlist

with Paul Lehman as leader

  • Column A = Number of years out of seven species seen
  • Column B = Number of days seen on the 2010 tour
  • Column C = Maximum daily total seen on the 2010 tour
  • Column D = H=Heard Only, N=Nest/Young, X=Seen in 2010

This list has taxonomic notes.

A B C D
7 Greater White-fronted Goose 4 200 Anser albifrons
7 Snow Goose 4 5000 Chen caerulescens
7 Ross's Goose 4 50 Chen rossii
7 Cackling Goose 4 600 Branta hutchinsii
7 Canada Goose 5 200 Branta canadensis
2 Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator
7 Wood Duck 2 5 Aix sponsa
7 Gadwall 5 300 Anas strepera
7 American Wigeon 4 500 Anas americana
7 Mallard 5 500 Anas platyrhynchos
6 Blue-winged Teal Anas discors
1 Cinnamon Teal Anas cyanoptera
7 Northern Shoveler 5 200 Anas clypeata
7 Northern Pintail 2 200 Anas acuta
7 Green-winged Teal 4 1500 Anas crecca
6 Canvasback 3 70 Aythya valisineria
7 Redhead 4 700 Aythya americana
7 Ring-necked Duck 5 400 Aythya collaris
5 Greater Scaup Aythya marila
7 Lesser Scaup 5 250 Aythya affinis
7 Bufflehead 5 45 Bucephala albeola
7 Common Goldeneye 3 20 Bucephala clangula
7 Hooded Merganser 2 3 Lophodytes cucullatus
7 Common Merganser 4 125 Mergus merganser
7 Red-breasted Merganser 2 40 Mergus serrator
7 Ruddy Duck 3 20 Oxyura jamaicensis
5 Northern Bobwhite 1 8 Colinus virginianus
7 Ring-necked Pheasant 2 10 Phasianus colchicus
5 Sharp-tailed Grouse 1 1 Tympanuchus phasianellus
7 Greater Prairie-Chicken 2 17 Tympanuchus cupido
7 Wild Turkey 3 20 Meleagris gallopavo
1 Common Loon Gavia immer
6 Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
5 Horned Grebe Podiceps auritus
1 Eared Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
6 American White Pelican 1 14 Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
6 Double-crested Cormorant 1 9 Phalacrocorax auritus
7 Great Blue Heron 1 1 Ardea herodias
2 Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
7 Bald Eagle 4 30 Haliaeetus leucocephalus
7 Northern Harrier 4 8 Circus cyaneus
3 Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
5 Cooper's Hawk 2 2 Accipiter cooperii
7 Red-tailed Hawk 5 30 Buteo jamaicensis
3 Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk 2 1 Buteo jamaicensis harlani
4 Rough-legged Hawk Buteo lagopus
7 American Kestrel 5 12 Falco sparverius
2 Merlin Falco columbarius
7 American Coot 3 30 Fulica americana
7 Sandhill Crane 4 400K Grus canadensis
1 Common Crane 1 1 Grus grus
1 Whooping Crane 1 1 Grus americana
1 American Golden-Plover Pluvialis dominica
7 Killdeer 5 30 Charadrius vociferus
7 Greater Yellowlegs 1 4 Tringa melanoleuca
3 Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
3 Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
6 Baird's Sandpiper 1 4 Calidris bairdii
2 Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
3 Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
3 Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
7 American Woodcock 1 4 Scolopax minor
1 Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
3 Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
5 Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan
7 Ring-billed Gull 5 2000 Larus delawarensis
7 Herring Gull 3 40 Larus argentatus
2 Thayer's Gull Larus thayeri
2 Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
2 Glaucous Gull 1 1 Larus hyperboreus
7 Rock Pigeon 5 80 Columba livia
6 Eurasian Collared-Dove 4 12 Streptopelia decaocto
7 Mourning Dove 2 2 Zenaida macroura
6 Eastern Screech-Owl 1 1 Megascops asio
4 Great Horned Owl 1 1 Bubo virginianus
2 Barred Owl Strix varia
7 Belted Kingfisher 1 1 Megaceryle alcyon
5 Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
7 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 2 Melanerpes carolinus
7 Downy Woodpecker 3 3 Picoides pubescens
7 Hairy Woodpecker 2 1 Picoides villosus
7 Northern Flicker 5 8 Colaptes auratus
3 Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
4 Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
4 Loggerhead Shrike 1 2 Lanius ludovicianus
1 Northern Shrike Lanius excubitor
7 Blue Jay 2 6 Cyanocitta cristata
5 Black-billed Magpie Pica hudsonia
7 American Crow 5 100 Corvus brachyrhynchos
7 Horned Lark 5 10 Eremophila alpestris
3 Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
7 Black-capped Chickadee 1 10 Poecile atricapillus
1 Mountain Chickadee Poeile gambeli
7 Tufted Titmouse 1 2 Baeolophus bicolor
2 Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
7 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 7 Sitta carolinensis
2 Brown Creeper Certhia americana
6 Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
2 Winter Wren Troglodytes troglodytes
1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 2 Regulus satrapa
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet Regulus calendula
6 Eastern Bluebird 1 2 Sialia sialis
7 American Robin 5 700 Turdus migratorius
7 European Starling 5 400 Sturnus vulgaris
3 American Pipit Anthus rubescens
4 Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
7 American Tree Sparrow 4 15 Spizella arborea
1 Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla
4 Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
4 Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca
7 Song Sparrow 2 3 Melospiza melodia
1 Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
7 Harris's Sparrow 1 6 Zonotrichia querula
5 White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
7 Slate-colored Dark-eyed Junco 5 75 Junco hyemalis hyemalis
6 Oregon dark-eyed Junco 2 3 Junco hyemalis oreganus
4 Pink-sided Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis mearnsi
3 Lapland Longspur 1 1 Calcarius lapponicus
7 Northern Cardinal 5 10 Cardinalis cardinalis
7 Red-winged Blackbird 5 3000 Agelaius phoeniceus
6 Eastern Meadowlark 1 2 Sturnella magna
7 Western Meadowlark 5 50 Sturnella neglecta
2 Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
1 Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus
1 Brewer's Blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus
7 Common Grackle 5 25 Quiscalus quiscula
6 Great-tailed Grackle 2 125 Quiscalus mexicanus
7 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 30 Molothrus ater
1 Purple Finch Carpodacus purpureus
7 House Finch 4 3 Carpodacus mexicanus
3 Pine Siskin Spinus pinus
7 American Goldfinch 4 60 Spinus tristis
7 House Sparrow 5 75 Passer domesticus

Mammals

1 Virginia Opossum Didelphis virginiana
7 Eastern Cottontail x x Silvilagus auduboni
1 Black-tailed Jackrabbit Lepus californicus
1 Striped Skunk Mephitis mephitis
2 Muskrat Ondatra zibethicus
1 American Beaver Castor canadensis
6 Black-tailed Prairie-Dog x x Cynomys ludovicianus
7 Eastern Fox Squirrel x x Sciurus niger
3 Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel Spermophilus tridecemlineatus
7 White-tailed Deer x x Odocoileus virginianus
1 Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus
2 American Mink x x Mustela vison
4 Coyote x x Canus latrans

Amphibians and Reptiles

4 Western/Boreal Chorus Frog x x Pseudacris triseriata/maculata
1 Painted Turtle Chrysemys picta bellii

Odonates

1 Variegated Meadowhawk Sympetrum corruptum

Taxonomic Notes