Review List

Compiled through October 2012
by the Washington Bird Records Committee
Written reports of any observations of these species, or of species not on the Checklist of Washington Birds, should be submitted together with supporting evidence by email or by using the Report Form.

The Review List consists of birds with 20 or fewer records during the previous 10-year period.

Also included at the end are subspecies and morphs that are sufficiently rare to meet the same standards as full species and are reliably identifiable in the field.



Fulvous Whistling-Duck (1905) Lesser Sand-Plover Black-billed Cuckoo Ovenbird
Taiga Bean Goose Wilson's Plover Ruby-throated Hummingbird (s) Golden-winged Warbler
Emperor Goose Common Ringed Plover (s) Costa's Hummingbird Blue-winged Warbler
Whooper Swan Piping Plover Broad-tailed Hummingbird Black-and-white Warbler
Falcated Duck Mountain Plover Allen's Hummingbird (1894) Prothonotary Warbler
Garganey Eurasian Dotterel Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Tennessee Warbler
Baikal Teal Gray-tailed Tattler Crested Caracara Mourning Warbler (s)
Tufted Duck Wood Sandpiper Eurasian Kestrel Kentucky Warbler (s)
Steller's Eider Upland Sandpiper Eurasian Hobby Hooded Warbler
King Eider Little Curlew (s) Greater Pewee (s) Cape May Warbler
Common Eider Bristle-thighed Curlew Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Northern Parula
Smew Great Knot (s) Alder Flycatcher Magnolia Warbler
Arctic Loon Red-necked Stint Eastern Phoebe Bay-breasted Warbler
Shy Albatross Little Stint Vermilion Flycatcher Blackburnian Warbler (s)
Short-tailed Albatross Temminck's Stint Variegated Flycatcher Chestnut-sided Warbler
Murphy's Petrel White-rumped Sandpiper Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Blackpoll Warbler
Solander's Petrel Curlew Sandpiper Fork-tailed Flycatcher Black-throated Blue Warbler
Mottled Petrel Jack Snipe (s) White-eyed Vireo (s) Yellow-throated Warbler
Hawaiian Petrel Red-legged Kittiwake Bell's Vireo Prairie Warbler (s)
Cook's Petrel Ivory Gull Yellow-throated Vireo Black-thr Green Warbler
Great Shearwater Black-headed Gull Blue-headed Vireo Canada Warbler
Wedge-tailed Shearwater Little Gull Philadelphia Vireo Lark Bunting
Wilson's Storm-Petrel Ross's Gull Pinyon Jay Le Conte's Sparrow
Ashy Storm-Petrel Laughing Gull Sky Lark (I) Nelson's Sparrow
Red-billed Tropicbird (1941) Black-tailed Gull Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Rustic Bunting
Magnificent Frigatebird Iceland Gull Northern Wheatear (s) Summer Tanager
Blue-footed Booby Slaty-backed Gull Gray-cheeked Thrush Indigo Bunting
Brown Booby Great Black-backed Gull Dusky Thrush (s) Painted Bunting
Red-faced Cormorant (s) Least Tern Redwing Dickcissel
Snowy Egret Thick-billed Murre Brown Thrasher Eastern Meadowlark
Little Blue Heron Long-billed Murrelet Siberian Accentor Common Grackle
Yellow-cr Night-Heron Kittlitz's Murrelet Eastern Yellow Wagtail Great-tailed Grackle
White Ibis Scripps's Murrelet White Wagtail Orchard Oriole
Glossy Ibis Guadalupe Murrelet Red-throated Pipit Hooded Oriole
California Condor (1897) Whiskered Auklet (s) Phainopepla (s) Baltimore Oriole
Broad-winged Hawk Horned Puffin Chestnut-collared Longspur Scott's Oriole
Yellow Rail White-winged Dove Smith's Longspur Brambling
  Yellow-billed Cuckoo McKay's Bunting Hoary Redpoll
      Lawrence's Goldfinch

Subspecies and forms:

Blue morph Ross's Goose
Bewick's Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus bewickii)
Krider's Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis kriderii)
Prairie Merlin (Falco columbarius richardsonii)
Eurasian Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus variegatus)
nominate Rock Sandpiper (Calidris p. ptilocnemis)
Kamchatka Mew Gull (Larus canus kamtschatschensis)
Vega Herring Gull (Larus argentatus vegae)
Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma californica woodhouseii group)
Eurasian Barn Swallow (Hirundo r. rustica group)
Interior Bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus plumbeus)
Japonicus American Pipit (Anthus rubescens japonicus)
"eastern" Nashville Warbler (Oreothlypis ruficapilla ruficapilla)
Timberline Brewer's Sparrow (Spizella breweri taverneri)
Red Fox Sparrow (Passerella i. iliaca group)
Pink-sided Junco (Junco hyemalis mearnsi)
Gray-headed Junco (Junco hyemalis caniceps group)
Eastern Purple Finch (Carpodacus purpureus purpureus)


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