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Members are encouraged to send along their sightings to Jean Moore at bvsbird@sbcglobal.net. She will compile the list and we'll get it posted here and in the HOOT newsletter each month. Thanks!

Kern / Pixley NWR Sightings
Written by Angela Guy, Field Trip Chairman   
Friday, 20 February 2009 23:00
Total: 70+ species

Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
Clark’s Grebe
American White Pelican (flock in flight)
Double-crested Cormorant
American Bittern (in flight)
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Cattle Egret
White-faced Ibis
Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harrier
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Virginia Rail (heard, not seen)
Sora (heard, not seen)
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Dunlin
Long-billed Dowitcher
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Eurasian Collared Dove
Great Horned Owl
Northern Flicker
Black Phoebe
Say’s Phoebe
Tree Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Marsh Wren
Northern Mockingbird
American Pipit
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Tricolored Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer’s Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
House Sparrow

Varied Thrush (tentative id—Roger and Barbara Coley, Bakersfield)