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Washington Rare Bird Reports

Field Notes & Washington Field Notes Field Notes is published in North American Birds by the American Birding Association.   Washington Field Notes appears in each issue of WOSNews.   Report rare, unusual, out-of-area, out-of-season, high-count, or other interesting sightings to: 


Tom Aversa
305 NW 75th St.
 Seattle, WA 98117
 FieldNotes AT wos.org 

                    

Deadlines:
WINTER (Dec-Feb) -  March 15
SPRING (Mar-May) -  June 15
SUMMER (Jun-Jul) -  Aug 15
FALL (Aug-Nov) -  Dec 15

Washington Review Species – Reports of review species (italicized birds in the Check-List of Washington Birds, as listed below) may be sent to:

Washington Bird Records Committee, P.O. Box 31783, Seattle, WA 98103

or use the

Rare Bird Reporting Form

Please submit detailed descriptions and drawings or photographs, if possible, of unusual birds:

Bean Goose

Emperor Goose

Falcated Duck

Garganey

Tufted Duck

Steller’s Eider

King Eider

Common Eider

Smew

Arctic Loon

Shy Albatross

Short-tailed Albatross

Murphy’s Petrel

Mottled Petrel

Cook’s Petrel

Wedge-tailed Shearwater

Manx Shearwater

Wilson’s Storm-Petrel

Brown Booby

Red-faced Cormorant

Magnificent Frigatebird

Snowy Egret

Little Blue Heron

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

White Ibis

White-faced Ibis

Red-shouldered Hawk

Broad-winged Hawk

Eurasian Kestrel

Eurasian Hobby

Yellow Rail

Piping Plover

Mountain Plover

Eurasian Dotterel

Gray-tailed Tattler

Upland Sandpiper

Little Curlew

Bristle-thighed Curlew

Hudsonian Godwit

Bar-tailed Godwit

Little Stint

White-rumped Sandpiper

Curlew Sandpiper

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Ruff

Laughing Gull

Black-headed Gull

Black-tailed Gull

Iceland Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Slaty-backed Gull

Great Black-backed Gull

Red-legged Kittiwake

Ross’s Gull

Least Tern

Thick-billed Murre

Long-billed Murrelet

Kittlitz’s Murrelet

Xantus’s Murrelet

Parakeet Auklet

Whiskered Auklet

Horned Puffin

Eurasian Collared-Dove

White-winged Dove

Black-billed Cuckoo

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Northern Hawk Owl

Costa’s Hummingbird

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Alder Flycatcher

Black Phoebe

Eastern Phoebe

Vermilion Flycatcher

Tropical Kingbird

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Fork-tailed Flycatcher

Yellow-throated Vireo

Philadelphia Vireo

Pinyon Jay

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Gray-cheeked Thrush

Dusky Thrush

Redwing

Brown Thrasher

Siberian Accentor

Eastern Yellow Wagtail

White Wagtail

Red-throated Pipit

Blue-winged Warbler

Golden-winged Warbler

Tennessee Warbler

Northern Parula

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Magnolia Warbler

Cape May Warbler

Black-throated Blue Warbler

Black-throated Green Warbler

Blackburnian Warbler

Yellow-throated Warbler

Blackpoll Warbler

Black-and-white Warbler

Prothonotary Warbler

Ovenbird

Mourning Warbler

Hooded Warbler

Summer Tanager

Lark Bunting

Le Conte’s Sparrow

Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow

Chestnut-collared Longspur

Rustic Bunting

McKay’s Bunting

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Indigo Bunting

Dickcissel

Tricolored Blackbird

Common Grackle

Great-tailed Grackle

Orchard Oriole

Hooded Oriole

Baltimore Oriole

Scott’s Oriole

Brambling

Hoary Redpoll

In addition to these species, 11 species are represented in Washington by single-person sight records which the Committee believes are valid:

Great Knot
Jack Snipe
Ivory Gull
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Phainopepla
White-eyed Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Black-throated Green Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Kentucky Warbler

Five more species, though recorded historically in Washington, have not been documented in the state for over 50 years (date of most recent record in parentheses)

Red-billed Tropicbird (1941)
Blue-footed Booby (1935)
California Condor (1897)
Fulvous Whistling-Duck (1905)
Allen's Hummingbird (1894)

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