Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Kansas
This list was complied by the Kansas Birds Records Committee (KBRC) of the Kansas Ornithological Society. The KBRC solicits written documentation of unusual bird sightings in the state of Kansas, especially for any species listed hypothetically (in brackets) or not at all, or denoted with an asterisk (*), signifying that it has been reported fewer than ten times. Addtional physical evidence, such as recognizable photographs, is also highly desireable.
LOONS STORKS
___ Red-throated ___ Wood Stork*
___ Pacific
___ Common FLAMINGOS
___ [Yellow-billed]* ___ Greater Flamingo*
GREBES WHISTLING-DUCKS
___ Pied-billed ___ Fulvous
___ Horned ___ Black-bellied*
___ Red-necked
___ Eared SWANS
___ Western ___ Tundra
___ [Clark's]* ___ Trumpeter
PELICANS GEESE
___ White ___ Greater White-fronted
___ Brown ___ Snow
___ Ross'
CORMORANTS ___ Brant
___ Double-crested ___ Canada
___ Neotropic
DUCKS
DARTERS ___ Wood Duck
___ Anhinga ___ Green-winged Teal
___ American Black Duck
FRIGATEBIRDS ___ Mottled Duck
___ Magnificent Frigatebird* ___ Mallard
___ Northern Pintail
HERONS ___ Garganey*
___ Blue-winged Teal
___ American Bittern ___ Cinnamon Teal
___ Least Bittern ___ Northern Shoveler
___ Great Blue ___ Gadwall
___ Great Egret ___ [Eurasian Wigeon]*
___ Snowy Egret ___ American Wigeon
___ Little Blue ___ Canvasback
___ Tricolored ___ Redhead
___ Cattle Egret ___ Ring-necked Duck
___ Green ___ Greater Scaup
___ Black-crnd. Night-Heron ___ Lesser Scaup
___ Yellow-crnd. Night-Heron ___ Common Eider*
___ King Eider*
IBISES ___ Oldsquaw
___ White ___ Black Scoter
___ Glossy* ___ Surf Scoter
___ White-faced ___ White-winged Scoter
___ Roseate Spoonbill* ___ Common Goldeneye
___ Barrow's Goldeneye*
VULTURES ___ Bufflehead
___ Black ___ Hooded Merganser
___ Turkey ___ Common Merganser
___ Red-breasted Merganser
HAWKS, KITES, EAGLES ___ Ruddy Duck
___ Osprey
___ Swallow-tailed Kite CRANES
___ White-tailed Kite* ___ Sandhill
___ Mississippi Kite ___ Whooping
___ Bald Eagle
___ Northern Harrier PLOVERS
___ Sharp-shinned Hawk ___ Black-bellied Plover
___ Cooper's Hawk ___ American Golden Plover
___ Northern Goshawk ___ Snowy Plover
___ Harris' Hawk* ___ [Wilson's Plover]*
___ Red-shouldered Hawk ___ Semipalmated Plover
___ Broad-winged Hawk ___ Piping Plover
___ Swainson's Hawk ___ Killdeer
___ Red-tailed Hawk ___ Mountain Plover
___ Ferruginous Hawk
___ Rough-legged Hawk STILTS, AVOCETS
___ Golden Eagle ___ Black-necked Stilt
___ American Avocet
FALCONS
___ American Kestrel SANDPIPERS
___ Merlin ___ Greater Yellowlegs
___ Prairie Falcon ___ Lesser Yellowlegs
___ Peregrine Falcon ___ Spotted Redshank*
___ Gyrfalcon* ___ Solitary Sandpiper
___ Willet
PHEASANTS ___ Spotted Sandpiper
___ Ring-necked Pheasant ___ Upland Sandpiper
___ Eskimo Curlew
PRAIRIE CHICKENS, GROUSE ___ Whimbrel
___ Ruffed Grouse ___ Long-billed Curlew
___ Greater Prairie Chickens ___ Hudsonian Godwit
___ Lesser Prairie Chickens ___ Marbled Godwit
___ Sharp-tailed Grouse ___ Ruddy Turnstone
___ Red Knot
TURKEYS ___ Sanderling
___ Wild Turkey ___ Semipalmated Sandpiper
___ Western Sandpiper
QUAIL ___ Least Sandpiper
___ Northern Bobwhite ___ White-rumped Sandpiper
___ Scaled Quail ___ Baird's Sandpiper
___ Pectoral Sandpiper
RAILS,GALLINULES ___ Dunlin
___ Yellow Rail ___ Curlew Sandpiper*
___ Black Rail ___ Stilt Sandpiper
___ King Rail ___ Buff-breasted Sandpiper
___ Virginia Rail ___ Ruff*
___ Sora ___ Short-billed Dowitcher
___ Purple Gallinule ___ Long-billed Dowitcher
___ Common Moorhen ___ Common Snipe
___ American Coot ___ American Woodcock
___ Wilson's Phalarope
GULLS ___ Red-necked Phalarope
___ Laughing ___ Red Phalarope
___ Franklin's
___ Little JAEGERS
___ Black-headed* ___ Pomarine*
___ Bonaparte's ___ Parasitic
___ Ring-billed ___ Long-tailed*
___ California
___ Herring HUMMINGBIRDS
___ Thayer's ___ Magnificent*
___ [Lesser Black-backed]* ___ Ruby-throated
___ Glaucous ___ Black-chinned*
___ [Great Black-backed]* ___ Anna's*
___ Black-legged Kittiwake ___ Costa's*
___ Sabine's ___ Calliope*
___ Broad-tailed*
TERNS ___ Rufous
___ Caspian ___ Allen's*
___ Common
___ [Arctic]* KINGFISHERS
___ Forster's ___ Belted Kingfisher
___ Least
___ Black WOODPECKERS
___ Lewis'*
SKIMMERS ___ Red-headed
___ Black Skimmer* ___ Red-bellied
___ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
PIGEONS, DOVES ___ Red-naped Sapsucker*
___ Rock Dove ___ [Williamson's Sapsucker]*
___ Band-tailed Pigeon* ___ Ladder-backed
___ White-winged Dove* ___ Downy
___ Mourning Dove ___ Hairy
___ Inca Dove ___ Northern Flicker
___ Common Ground Dove ___ Pileated
CUCKOOS FLYCATCHERS
___ Black-billed ___ Olive-sided
___ Yellow-billed ___ Western Wood-Pewee
___ Great Roadrunner ___ Eastern Wood-Pewee
___ Grove-billed Ani ___ Yellow-bellied
___ Acadian
BARN-OWLS ___ Alder
___ Common Barn-Owl ___ Willow
___ Least
OWLS ___ Hammond's*
___ Eastern Screech-Owl ___ Dusky
___ [Western Screech-Owl]* ___ Gray*
___ Great Horned ___ Cordilleran*
___ Snowy ___ [Black Phoebe]*
___ Burrowing ___ Eastern Phoebe
___ Barred ___ Say's Phoebe
___ Long-eared ___ Vermilion
___ Short-eared ___ Ash-throated
___ Northern Saw-whet Owl ___ Great Crested
___ Great Kiskadee*
GOATSUCKERS ___ Cassin's Kingbird
___ Common Nighthawk ___ Western Kingbird
___ Common Poorwill ___ Eastern Kingbird
___ Chuck-will's-widow ___ Scissor-tailed
___ Whip-poor-will ___ [Fork-tailed]*
SWIFTS
___ Chimney Swift LARKS
___ White-throated* ___ Horned Lark
JAYS, MAGPIES, CROWS SWALLOWS
___ Steller's Jay ___ Purple Martin
___ Blue Jay ___ Tree
___ Violet-green
___ Western Scrub Jay ___ Northern Rough-winged
___ Mexican Jay* ___ Bank
___ Pinyon Jay ___ Cliff
___ Clark's Nutcracker ___ Barn
___ Black-billed Magpie
___ American Crow THRASHERS
___ [Fish Crow]* ___ Gray Catbird
___ Chihuahuan Raven ___ Northern Mockingbird
___ Common Raven ___ Sage
___ Brown
CHICKADEES,TITMICE ___ Curved-billed
___ Black-capped Chickadee
___ Carolina Chickadee PIPITS
___ Mountain Chickadee ___ American
___ Tufted Titmouse ___ Sprague's
BUSHTITS WAXWINGS
___ Bushtit ___ Bohemian Waxwing
___ Cedar Waxwing
NUTHATCHES
___ Red-breasted Nuthatch SILKY-FLYCATCHERS
___ White-breasted Nuthatch ___ Phainopepla*
___ Pygmy*
SHRIKES
CREEPERS ___ Northern
___ Brown Creeper ___ Loggerhead
WRENS STARLINGS
___ Rock ___ European Starling
___ Canyon*
___ Carolina VIREOS
___ Bewick's ___ White-eyed
___ House ___ Bell's
___ Winter ___ Solitary
___ Sedge ___ Yellow-throated
___ Marsh ___ Warbling
___ Philadelphia
KINGLETS, GNATCATCHERS ___ Red-eyed
___ Golden-crowned Kinglet
___ Ruby-crowned Kinglet WARBLERS
___ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ___ Blue-winged
___ Golden-winged
THRUSHES ___ Tennessee
___ Eastern Bluebird ___ Orange-crowned
___ [Western Bluebird]* ___ Nashville
___ Mountain Bluebird ___ Virginia's
___ Townsend's Solitaire ___ Northern Parula
___ Veery ___ Yellow
___ Gray-cheeked Thrush ___ Chestnut-sided
___ Swainson's Thrush ___ Magnolia
___ Hermit Thrush ___ Cape May
___ Wood Thrush ___ Black-throated Blue
___ American Robin ___ Yellow-rumped
___ Varied Thrush ___ Black-throated Gray
___ Townsend's
TANAGERS ___ Hermit*
___ Summer ___ Black-throated Green
___ Scarlet ___ Blackburnian
___ Western ___ Yellow-throated
___ Pine
GROSBEAKS, BUNTINGS ___ Prairie
___ Northern Cardinal ___ Palm
___ Pyrrhuloxia* ___ Bay-breasted
___ Rose-breasted Grosbeak ___ Blackpoll
___ Black-headed Grosbeak ___ Cerulean
___ Blue Grosbeak ___ Black-and-White
___ Lazuli Bunting ___ American Redstart
___ Indigo Bunting ___ Prothonotary
___ Painted Bunting ___ Worm-eating
___ Dickcissel ___ Swaison's*
___ Ovenbird
SPARROWS ___ Northern Waterthrush
___ Green-tailed Towhee ___ Louisiana Waterthrush
___ Eastern Towhee ___ Kentucky
___ Spotted Towhee ___ Connecticut
___ Canyon Towhee ___ Mourning
___ Bachman's* ___ MacGillivray's
___ Cassin's ___ Common Yellowthroat
___ Rufous-crowned ___ Hooded
___ American Tree ___ Wilson's
___ Chipping ___ Canada
___ Clay-colored ___ Yellow-breasted Chat
___ Brewer's
___ Field BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES
___ Vesper ___ Bobolink
___ Lark ___ Red-winged Blackbird
___ Black-throated* ___ Eastern Meadowlark
___ Sage* ___ Western Meadowlark
___ Lark Bunting ___ Yellow-headed Blackbird
___ Savannah ___ Rusty Blackbird
___ Baird's ___ Brewer's Blackbird
___ Grasshopper ___ Great-tailed Blackbird
___ Henslow's ___ Common Grackle
___ LeConte's ___ Brown-headed Cowbird
___ Nelson's Sharp-tailed ___ Orchard Oriole
___ Fox ___ Bullock's Oriole
___ Baltimore Oriole
___ Song ___ Scott's Oriole*
___ *Purple Finch
___ Lincoln's NORTHERN FINCHES
___ Swamp ___ Pine Grosbeak
___ White-throated ___ Purple Finch
___ Golden-crowned ___ Cassin's Finch
___ White-crowned ___ House Finch
___ Harris' ___ Red Crossbill
___ Dark-eyed Junco ___ White-winged Crossbill
___ McCown's Longspur ___ Common Redpoll
___ Lapland Longspur ___ Pine Siskin
___ Smith's Longspur ___ Lesser Goldfinch
___ Chestnut-coll. Longspur ___ American Goldfinch
___ Snow Bunting ___ Evening Grosbeak
OLD WORLD SPARROWS
___ House Sparrow
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Galen L. Pittman 12042 258th St. Lawrence, KS 66044 (e-mail: gpitt@falcon.cc.ukans.edu)
Additional copies of this checklist may be purchased from:
Max C. Thompson 1729 E. 11th St. Winfield, KS 67156 (e-mail: maxt@jinx.sckans.edu)Partial funding for this project was provided by the Kansas Chickadee Checkoff program.
Kansas Bird Records Committee of the Kansas Ornithological Society. 1996.
Kansas Ornithological, birds of Kansas. Kansas Ornithological Society.
Unpaginated.
This resource should be cited as:
Kansas Bird Records Committee of the Kansas Ornithological Society. 1996.
Kansas Ornithological, birds of Kansas. Kansas Ornithological Society.
Unpaginated. Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Online.
http://www.npwrc.usgs.govkansorn.htm
(Version 22MAY98).
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