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Team Information: Rio Salado Sitters
Team Checklist
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus
- Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Green-winged Teal Anas crecca
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Cinnamon Teal Anas cyanoptera
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Gadwall Anas strepera
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Northern Harrier Circus cyaneus
- Cooper's Hawk Accipiter cooperii
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Common Black-Hawk Buteogallus anthracinus
- Harris's Hawk Parabuteo unicinctus
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Prairie Falcon Falco mexicanus
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Gambel's Quail Callipepla gambelii
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) Columba livia
- Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto
- White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- Inca Dove Columbina inca
- Peach-faced Lovebird Agapornis roseicollis
- Greater Roadrunner Geococcyx californianus
- Barn Owl Tyto alba
- Western Screech-Owl Megascops kennicottii
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Common Poorwill Phalaenoptilus nuttallii
- Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna
- Costa's Hummingbird Calypte costae
- Broad-tailed Hummingbird Selasphorus platycercus
- Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Gila Woodpecker Melanerpes uropygialis
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker Picoides scalaris
- Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
- Hammond's Flycatcher Empidonax hammondii
- Say's Phoebe Sayornis saya
- Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans
- Ash-throated Flycatcher Myiarchus cinerascens
- Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
- Hutton's Vireo Vireo huttoni
- Common Raven Corvus corax
- Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
- Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
- Violet-green Swallow Tachycineta thalassina
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Verdin Auriparus flaviceps
- Rock Wren Salpinctes obsoletus
- Marsh Wren Cistothorus palustris
- Black-tailed Gnatcatcher Polioptila melanura
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
- Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
- Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
- Curve-billed Thrasher Toxostoma curvirostre
- European Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Phainopepla Phainopepla nitens
- Orange-crowned Warbler Oreothlypis celata
- Yellow-rumped Warbler Setophaga coronata
- Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Black-throated Gray Warbler Setophaga nigrescens
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- Abert's Towhee Melozone aberti
- Brewer's Sparrow Spizella breweri
- Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
- Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus
- Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus
- Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
- Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
- White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
- Brewer's Blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus
- Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
- Bronzed Cowbird Molothrus aeneus
- House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
- Lesser Goldfinch Spinus psaltria
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
Team Notes
Participants: Tom Gaskill, Frank Insana, Mike Clinton, Nicolas Alexandre, Terry Brodner
Weather: 57-70 degrees and sunny all day! Beautiful and cool for AZ.
Location: Rio Salado Habitat Restoration Project: Under Central Avenue Bridge
Time At Location: 0430-1730 hours
Notes:
Tom and Frank began owling before sunrise and did well with Barn, Great Horned and Western Screech and stayed on site until 5:30 pm getting us an additional 12 species! Thanks, Guys! Mike joined us shortly after daylight and stayed till afternoon and I had to leave about l:00 pm from 5:30 am. Nicolas joined the group in the afternoon. The morning highlight was dueling male Belted Kingfishers rattling their castinettes round and round the Demo Wetland for seemingly hours chasing each other. The afternoon highlight was a Red-tailed Hawk being tag-team harassed by a Merlin and a Raven. We had 66 species by 0830 hours and 81 species by 1210 hrs. What a spectacular day! The best finds were 2 new species to the Rio: a Common Black Hawk and a Rufous Hummingbird. Great finds, Frank!
Anecdotes:
We have never encountered so many Yellow-rumped Warblers in one place. The storm that missed us must have brought them all in at once. They were everywhere! First a Red-tailed Hawk perched on an abutment under the west side of the bridge and then an Osprey came and perched right on the same abutment! We decided it was their Big Sit Day too to people watch!
