International Migratory Bird Day
Data from 1999 and 2000 (Second week of May)

International Migratory Bird Day is conducted as part of an international effort to track migration dynamics. For details and results see their website.

 Species/numbers seen  1999  2000
     
 Red-throated Loon  2  -
 Pacific Loon  23  8
 Common Loon  64  56
 Yellow-billed Loon  3  -
 Horned Grebe  2  15
 Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel  -  1
 Double-crested Cormorant  13  1
 Pelagic Cormorant  118  97
 Red-faced Cormorant  16  24
 Trumpeter Swan  4  -
 Greater White-fronted  Goose  163  61
 Snow Goose  -  1
 Brant  19  18
 Canada Goose  102  6
 Green-winged Teal  57  68
 Mallard  51  111
 Northern Pintail  127  28
 Northern Shoveler  30  38
 Gadwall  -  3
 Eurasian Wigeon  2  1
 American Wigeon  15  80
 Canvasback  6  -
 Greater Scaup  95  229
 Lesser Scaup  -  24
Common Eider  30  86
 King Eider  1  1
 Steller's Eider  3  -
 Harlequin Duck  105  84
 Long-tailed Duck  27  154
 Black Scoter  266  37
 Surf Scoter  485  59
 White-winged Scoter  763  364
 Common Goldeneye  28  9
 Barrow's Goldeneye  118  40
 Bufflehead  6  -
 Common Merganser  50  2
 Red-breasted Merganser  45  14
 Bald Eagle  115  216
 Northern Harrier  3  1
 Sharp-shinned Hawk  -  1
 Red-tailed Hawk  2  -
 Rough-legged Hawk  -  1
 Ring-necked Pheasant  25  23
 Spruce Grouse  2  12
 Sandhill Crane  54  75
 Black-bellied Plover  177  -
 Pacific Golden-plover  9  -
 Semipalmated Plover  12  -
 Black Oystercatcher  1  4
 Greater Yellowlegs  30  22
 Lesser Yellowlegs  2  12
 Solitary Sandpiper  -  4
 Wandering Tattler  -  5
 Whimbrel  25  15
 Bar-tailed Godwit  6  -
 Marbled Godwit  3  -
 Ruddy Turnstone  3  2
 Black Turnstone  21  27
 Surfbird  280  90
 Red Knot  2  -
 Western Sandpiper  2152  957
 Rufous-necked Stint  1  0
 Least Sandpiper  9  22
 Pectoral Sandpiper  -  6
 Dunlin  329  120
 Short-billed Dowitcher  100  87
 Common Snipe  23  43
 Red-necked Phalarope  2090  750
 Red Phalarope  -  31
 Bonaparte's Gull  32  6
 Mew Gull  564  36
 Herring Gull  20  46
 Glaucous-winged Gull  434  1539
 Glaucous Gull  55  1
 Black-legged Kittiwake  9121  8269
 Arctic Tern  3  8
 Aleutian Tern  -  5
 Common Murre  9141  7576
 Pigeon Guillemot  73  273
 Marbled Murrelet  217  154
 Kittlitz's Murrelet  20  30
 Tufted Puffin  2  74
 Rock Dove  9  -
 Great Horned Owl  1  -
 Short-eared Owl  -  1
 Boreal Owl  1  -
 Northern Saw-whet Owl  -  1
 Belted Kingfisher  2  6
 Downy Woodpecker  4  5
 Hairy Woodpecker -  8
 Three-toed Woodpecker  12  13
 Horned Lark  1  -
 Tree Swallow  3  27
 Violet-green Swallow  -  61
 Cliff Swallow  -  2
 Gray Jay  17  25
 Steller's Jay  36  23
 Black-billed Magpie  54  115
 Northwestern Crow  235  151
 Common Raven  41  103
 Black-capped Chickadee  53  66
 Boreal Chickadee  14  8
 Red-breasted Nuthatch  33  18
 Brown Creeper  -  1
 Winter Wren  2  1
 American Dipper  2  -
 Golden-crowned Kinglet  14  6
 Ruby-crowned Kinglet  38  60
 Swainson's Thrush  1  -
 Hermit Thrush  9  45
 American Robin  113  101
 Varied Thrush  42  98
 American Pipit  2  -
 Northern Shrike  4  -
 Orange-crowned Warbler  6  73
 Yellow-rumped (Myrtle)  -  22
 Townsend's Warbler  -  14
 Wilson's Warbler  -  2
 Savannah Sparrow  1  13
 Fox Sparrow  17  113
 Song Sparrow  6  2
 Lincoln's Sparrow  -  9
 Golden-crowned Sparrow  11  58
 White-crowned Sparrow  2  10
 Dark-eyed Junco  22  31
 Lapland Longspur  26  -
 Brambling  1  -
 Pine Grosbeak  11  -
 Red Crossbill  2  -
 White-winged Crossbill  58  1
 Common Redpoll  30  43
 Pine Siskin  1170  66


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