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1996-2009 Spring Nature Festivals combined trips list.

Bird List: 294 total species; 284 Non-introduced birds (NIB).

1996 – 185 (179 Non-Introduced Birds (NIB))
1997 – 182 (Big Day – 165 species) (177 NIB)
1998 – 197 (Big Day – 165 species) (193 NIB)
1999 – 214 (Big Day – 175 species) (208 NIB)
2000 – 192 (Big Day - 169 species) (185 NIB)
2001 - 227 (Big Day - 196 species) (218 NIB)
2002 - 217 (Big Day - 198 species) (207 NIB)
2003 - 226 (Big Day - 187 species) (217 NIB)
2004 - 234 (225 NIB)
2005 - 226 (218 NIB)
2006 - 237 (229 NIB)

2007 - 245 (235 NIB)

2008 - 246 (237 NIB)

2009 - 241 (232 NIB) (247 species including pre-festival trip species)

Key: Introduced Species-(I)

SPECIES

# Festivals Seen

Snow Goose

1

Ross’s Goose

11

Brant

1

Cackling Goose

1

Canada Goose

10

Tundra Swan

4

Wood Duck

14

Gadwall

14

American Wigeon

11

Mallard

14

Blue-winged Teal

10

Cinnamon Teal

14

Northern Shoveler

10

Northern Pintail

14

Green-winged Teal

12

Canvasback

6

Redhead

13

Ring-necked Duck

9

Greater Scaup

4

Lesser Scaup

12

Bufflehead

10

Common Goldeneye

1

Common Merganser

12

Red-breasted Merganser

1

Ruddy Duck

14

Chukar

12

Ring-necked Pheasant

14

Greater Sage Grouse

0

Sooty Grouse

3

Wild Turkey

11

Mountain Quail

14

California Quail

14

Gambel’s Quail

2

Pacific Loon

3

Common Loon

8

Pied-billed Grebe

14

Horned Grebe

3

Eared Grebe

13

Western Grebe

14

Clark’s Grebe

14

American White Pelican

12

Double-crested Cormorant

14

American Bittern

9

Least Bittern

1

Great Blue Heron

14

Great Egret

13

Snowy Egret

13

Cattle Egret

13

Green Heron

11

Black-crowned Night-Heron 

12

White-faced Ibis

12

Turkey Vulture

14

California Condor

1

Osprey

14

White-tailed Kite

10

Bald Eagle

3

Northern Harrier

14

Sharp-shinned Hawk

11

Cooper’s Hawk

14

Northern Goshawk

5

Red-shouldered Hawk

14

Swainson’s Hawk

14

Zone-tailed Hawk

1

Red-tailed Hawk

14

Ferruginous Hawk

1

Rough-legged Hawk

1

Golden Eagle

14

American Kestrel

14

Merlin

5

Peregrine Falcon

6

Prairie Falcon

13

Virginia Rail

14

Sora

14

Common Moorhen

11

American Coot

14

Sandhill Crane

1

Black-bellied Plover

9

American Golden Plover

1

Snowy Plover

6

Semipalmated Plover

12

Killdeer

14

Black-necked Stilt

13

American Avocet

13

Spotted Sandpiper

14

Solitary Sandpiper

12

Greater Yellowlegs

14

Willet

4

Lesser Yellowlegs

6

Whimbrel

11

Long-billed Curlew

7

Marbled Godwit

6

Red Knot

1

Sanderling

2

Semipalmated Sandpiper

1

Western Sandpiper

14

Least Sandpiper

14

Pectoral Sandpiper

3

Dunlin

9

Stilt Sandpiper

1

Short-billed Dowitcher

2

Long-billed Dowitcher

11

Wilson’s Snipe

13

Wilson’s Phalarope

9

Red-necked Phalarope

7

Bonaparte’s Gull

13

Franklin’s Gull

7

Ring-billed Gull

13

California Gull

14

Herring Gull

5

Glaucous-winged Gull

1

Least Tern

1

Caspian Tern

14

Black Tern

7

Forster’s Tern

13

Rock Pigeon

14

Band-tailed Pigeon

14

Eurasian Collared-Dove

8

Spotted Dove

7

White-winged Dove

1

Mourning Dove

14

Inca Dove

3

Common Ground Dove

3

Rose-ringed Parakeet

9

Greater Roadrunner

14

Barn Owl

14

Flammulated Owl

5

Western Screech-Owl

14

Great Horned Owl

14

Northern Pygmy-Owl

8

Burrowing Owl

12

Spotted Owl

8

Long-eared Owl

7

Northern Saw-whet Owl

8

Lesser Nighthawk

9

Common Poorwill

10

Black Swift

1

Vaux’s Swift

14

White-throated Swift

14

Black-chinned Hummingbird

14

Anna’s Hummingbird

14

Costa’s Hummingbird

14

Calliope Hummingbird

11

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

1

Rufous Hummingbird

10

Belted Kingfisher

12

Lewis’s Woodpecker

6

Acorn Woodpecker

14

Williamson's Sapsucker

3

Red-breasted Sapsucker

12

Ladder-backed Woodpecker

14

Nuttall's Woodpecker

14

Downy Woodpecker

14

Hairy Woodpecker

14

White-headed Woodpecker

14

Northern Flicker

14

Pileated Woodpecker

8

Olive-sided Flycatcher

13

Western Wood-Pewee

14

Willow Flycatcher

10

Least Flycatcher

1

Hammond's Flycatcher

14

Gray Flycatcher

14

Dusky Flycatcher

14

Pacific-slope Flycatcher

14

Black Phoebe

14

Say's Phoebe

14

Vermilion Flycatcher

10

Ash-throated Flycatcher

14

Brown-crested Flycatcher

11

Cassin's Kingbird

12

Western Kingbird

14

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

1

Loggerhead Shrike

14

Bell’s Vireo

4

Plumbeous Vireo

6

Cassin's Vireo

14

Hutton’s Vireo

11

Warbling Vireo

14

Steller’s Jay

14

Western Scrub-Jay

14

Pinyon Jay

14

Clark’s Nutcracker

5

Black-billed Magpie

0

American Crow

12

Common Raven

14

Horned Lark

14

Purple Martin

1

Tree Swallow

14

Violet-green Swallow

14

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

14

Bank Swallow

11

Cliff Swallow

14

Barn Swallow

14

Mountain Chickadee

14

Oak Titmouse

14

Verdin

11

Bushtit

14

Red-breasted Nuthatch

14

White-breasted Nuthatch

14

Pygmy Nuthatch

13

Brown Creeper

14

Cactus Wren

14

Rock Wren

14

Canyon Wren

14

Bewick’s Wren

14

House Wren

14

Winter Wren

9

Marsh Wren

13

American Dipper

12

Golden-crowned Kinglet

14

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

14

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

14

Western Bluebird

14

Mountain Bluebird

3

Townsend’s Solitaire

12

Swainson’s Thrush

12

Hermit Thrush

14

American Robin

14

Varied Thrush

3

Wrentit

14

Northern Mockingbird

14

Sage Thrasher

6

Bendire’s Thrasher

1

California Thrasher

14

Le Conte’s Thrasher

12

European Starling

14

American Pipit

12

Cedar Waxwing

14

Phainopepla

14

Orange-crowned Warbler

14

Nashville Warbler

14

Virginia's Warbler

1

Northern Parula

1

Yellow Warbler

14

Yellow-rumped Warbler

14

Black-throated Gray Warbler

14

Townsend’s Warbler

14

Hermit Warbler

14

Black-and-white Warbler

4

Northern Waterthrush

1

MacGillivray’s Warbler

14

Common Yellowthroat

14

Wilson’s Warbler

14

Painted Redstart

1

Yellow-breasted Chat

14

Summer Tanager

14

Western Tanager

14

Green-tailed Towhee

14

Spotted Towhee

14

California Towhee

14

Rufous-crowned Sparrow

13

Chipping Sparrow

14

Brewer’s Sparrow

14

Black-chinned Sparrow

13

Vesper Sparrow

4

Lark Sparrow

14

Black-throated Sparrow

14

Sage Sparrow

14

Savannah Sparrow

14

Grasshopper Sparrow

2

Fox Sparrow

14

Song Sparrow

14

Lincoln’s Sparrow

14

Swamp Sparrow

1

White-throated Sparrow

5

Harris’s Sparrow

3

White-crowned Sparrow

12

Golden-crowned Sparrow

12

Dark-eyed Junco

14

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

1

Black-headed Grosbeak

14

Blue Grosbeak

14

Lazuli Bunting

14

Indigo Bunting

5

Red-winged Blackbird

14

Tricolored Blackbird

14

Western Meadowlark

14

Yellow-headed Blackbird

14

Brewer’s Blackbird

14

Great-tailed Grackle

13

Brown-headed Cowbird

14

Hooded Oriole

14

Bullock's Oriole

14

Scott’s Oriole

14

Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch

0

Purple Finch

14

Cassin’s Finch

13

House Finch

14

Red Crossbill

9

Pine Siskin

14

Lesser Goldfinch

14

Lawrence’s Goldfinch

14

American Goldfinch

14

Evening Grosbeak

3

House Sparrow

14


THIS FESTIVAL HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

Within a 15 mile radius the highest diversity of flora and fauna found anywhere in California

350 species of birdsOver 200 nesting

138 species of butterflies - Highest in California

2000+ species of plants - Highest in California

105 species of mammals - Highest in U.S. & Canada

Biological diversity at its best

Spring Nature Festival Yearly Bird Count - ± 230 species     Spectacular Wildflowers


Five Ecological Habitats Converge in the Kern River Valley

Chaparral | Great Valley Grassland | Great Basin Desert | Mojave Desert | Sierran Forest


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