Life List Official

Its about time I have my complete birding life list somewhere - I combined my ebird, this website, and personal memory to compile the most complete list of birds i have seen in order-ish one being oldest.

  1. American Robin
  2. Brown-headed Cowbird
  3. Barn Swallow
  4. Canada Goose
  5. Mallard
  6. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
  7. Carolina Chickadee
  8. American Crow
  9. Blue Jay
  10. Northern Mockingbird
  11. House Finch
  12. Northern Cardinal
  13. Eurasian Collared-Dove
  14. Great-tailed Grackle
  15. Brown Thrasher
  16. House Sparrow
  17. Downy Woodpecker
  18. Red-tailed Hawk
  19. Killdeer
  20. Great Blue Heron
  21. Mississippi Kite
  22. Yellow-crowned Night Heron
  23. Ring-billed Gull
  24. Great Egret
  25. Barred Owl
  26. Red-winged Blackbird
  27. Franklin's Gull
  28. Carolina Wren
  29. Western Kingbird
  30. Eastern Kingbird
  31. Common Grackle
  32. Turkey Vulture
  33. Nashville Warbler
  34. Cooper's Hawk
  35. Eastern Meadowlark
  36. Bald Eagle
  37. White-throated Sparrow
  38. White-breasted Nuthatch
  39. Eastern Bluebird
  40. Tufted Titmouse
  41. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  42. Red-bellied Woodpecker
  43. Northern Flicker
  44. Cedar Waxwing
  45. Eastern Phoebe
  46. American Goldfinch
  47. Spotted Sandpiper
  48. Red-shouldered Hawk
  49. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  50. Painted Bunting
  51. Louisiana Waterthrush
  52. Wild Turkey
  53. Blue-headed Vireo
  54. Eastern Towhee
  55. Black-and-white Warbler
  56. Hooded Warbler
  57. Black-throated Blue Warbler
  58. Indigo Bunting
  59. Chimney Swift
  60. Bewick's Wren
  61. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
  62. European Starling
  63. American Coot
  64. American Kestrel
  65. Harris's Sparrow
  66. Northern Harrier
  67. Song Sparrow
  68. Pied-billed Grebe
  69. Spotted Towhee
  70. Pileated Woodpecker
  71. Swainson's Thrush
  72. Yellow-throated Warbler
  73. White-crowned Sparrow
  74. Summer Tanager
  75. Common Nighthawk
  76. Red-headed Woodpecker
  77. Black Vulture
  78. Brown Creeper
  79. Wood Duck
  80. California Quail
  81. Band-tailed Pigeon
  82. Acorn Woodpecker
  83. Steller's Jay
  84. California Scrub-Jay
  85. Tree Swallow
  86. Purple Finch
  87. Golden-crowned Sparrow
  88. Pacific Wren
  89. Orange-crowned Warbler
  90. Cackling Goose
  91. Northern Shoveler
  92. Ring-necked Duck
  93. Tundra Swan
  94. Double-crested Cormorant
  95. Red-breasted Sapsucker
  96. Black Phoebe
  97. Hutton's Vireo
  98. American Wigeon
  99. Northern Pintail
  100. Harlequin Duck
  101. Black Oystercatcher
  102. Pelagic Cormorant
  103. Brown Pelican
  104. Lesser Scaup
  105. Surf Scoter
  106. Bufflehead
  107. Common Goldeneye
  108. Ruddy Duck
  109. Western Gull
  110. Anna's Hummingbird
  111. Hairy Woodpecker
  112. Black-capped Chickadee
  113. Bushtit
  114. Lesser Goldfinch
  115. Dark-eyed Junco
  116. Yellow-rumped Warbler
  117. Common Merganser
  118. Violet-green Swallow
  119. Red-eyed Vireo
  120. Western Meadowlark
  121. Fox Sparrow
  122. Green Heron
  123. Northern Paraula
  124. Pine Warbler
  125. Belted Kingfisher

My Trip to the Westcoast

Hello my dedicated and valued followers (perhaps I should call you something else... deciples perhaps?) I have recently returned to my homebase after a trip to Oregon that I have been planning for months now!! I went to visit my older sister who loves somewhere in those deep dark woods for an entire week! Ihough the main purpose of this visit was to see my sis - I also had two secondary goalz: one was to eat a crab and an oyster, and the socond was to see as many birds as possible. As some of my observant followers could deduce: I live in a landlocked state that honestly is kind of a poo poo area for birders such as myself. I think OR has more birds than OK cause there are sooooo many different types of habitats - not to mention the ocean birds that you just dont see here!

In total on this trip I recorded 59 new lifers (which almost doubles my life list on Merlin - but thats not totally accurate cause I lost my account for a long time... and didn't try to get it back... and don't record a lot of new lifers.) about half were waterbirds and half were landbirds (normal birds?). We explored the coast, wetlands, sand flats, whatever kinds of old/new growth forests they got there, and a river area. my favorite is haaaard to place. I really liked the ocean though we didn't see many birds (I saw a lot of tidepool creatures tho - see pic!) I saw my favorite bird of the trip there: the black oystercatcher!

If you were wodering, I ate exactly ONE oyster and felt like I was choking on it cause Cortney told me not to chew and just gulp it down... perhaps this is what a the oystercatcher feels like all the time. I also ate some clam chowder that was so good I had a foodgasm. OOH! I also had some sablefish in some kind of mushroomie stirfry - the sign on the dock says that they catch it via longline which reminded me of one of my favorite movies Captain's Courageous! I think in that movie they catch sablefish (black cod) and halibut. We also bought two crabs from a ship called the Chelsea Rose. I hate to say it, but their deaths were at my hand (I was brave enough to grab them even with their pinching claws and throw them in the boiling pot) and I even learned how to clean them and scoop out their gutz n stuff! Sooooo delish! I liked the meat in the head more than the big claw.

I will probably post about the birding highlights of my trip but it would be a LOT to post every single one of the birds I saw. I'll link here a list of the posts I make, and maybe a list of all the specific birds I saw too... eventually. Also I will be making a seperate dedicated post on my feminist blog about the enchanted forest so keep an eye out for that as well! Hover your mouse over the pics to the side to see a little description!! CYA!