Birds in Kansas

Preface

Introduction

A Brief History of Ornithology in Kansas

Bird Distribution and Vegetation

Explanation of Species Accounts Species Accounts:

Loons and Grebes

-Red-throated Loon

-Pacific Loon

-Common Loon

-Pied-billed Grebe

-Horned Grebe

-Red-Necked Grebe

-Eared Grebe

-Western Grebe

-Clark’s Grebe

Pelicans

-American White Pelican

-Brown Pelican

Cormorants and Anhingas

-Double-crested Cormorant

-Olivaceous Cormorant

-Aninga

Frigatebirds

-Magnificent Frigatebird

Herons

-American Bittern

-Least Bittern

-Great Blue Heron

-Great Egret

-Snowy Egret

-Little Blue Heron

-Tricolored Heron

-Cattle Egret

-Green-backed Heron

-Black-crowned Night Heron

-Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Ibis

-White Ibis

White-faced Ibis

-Roseate Spoonbill

-Wood Stork

Flamingos

-Greater Flamingo

Whistling-Ducks-Fulvous Whistling-Cuck

-Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

Swans

-Tundra Swan

-Trumpeter Swan

Geese

-Greater White-fronted Goose

-Snow/Blue Goose

-Ross’ Goose

-Brant

-Canada Goose

Ducks

-Wood Duck

-Green-winged Teal

-American Black Duck

-Mottled Duck

-Mallard

-Northern Pintail

-Gargeney

-Blue-winged Teal

-Cinnamon Teal

-Northern Shoveler

-Gadwall

-Eurasian Wigeon

-Canvashack

-Redhead

-Ring-necked Duck

-Greater Scaup

-Lesser Scaup

-Common Eider

-King Eider

-Oldsquaw

-Black Scoter

-Surf Scoter

-White-winged Scoter

-Common Goldeneye

-Barrow’s Goldeneye

-Bufflehead

-Hooded Merganser

-Common Merganser

-Red-breasted Merganser

-Ruddy Duck

Vultures

-Black Fulture

-Turkey Vulture

Ospreys

-Ospreys

Kites

-American Swallow-tailed Kite

-Mississippi Kite

Hawks and Eagles

-Bald Eagle

-Northern Harrier -Sharp-shinned Hawk

-Cooper’s Hawk

-Northern Goshawk -Harris’ Hawk

-Red-shouldered Hawk

-Broad-winged Hawk

-Swainson’s Hawk

-Red-tailed Hawk

-Ferruginous Hawk

-Rough-legged Hawk

-Golden Eagle

-American Kestrel

-Merlin

-Peregrine Falcon

-Gyrfalcon

-Prairie Falcon

Pheasants

-Ring-necked Pheasant

Grouse and Prairie-Chickens

-Ruffled Grouse

-Sage Grouse

-Greater Prairie-Chicken

-Lesser Prairie-Chicken

-Sharp-tailed Grouse

Turkeys

-Turkey

Quail

-Northern Bobwhite

-Scaled Quail

Rails

-Yellow Rail

-Black Rail

-King Rail

-Virginia Rail

-Sora

Gallinules

-Purple Gallinule

-Common Moorhen -American Coot

>Cranes

-Sandhill Crane

-Whooping Crane

Plovers

-Black-bellied Plover

-Lesser Golden Plover

-Snowy Plover

-Semipalmated Plover

-Piping Plover

-Killdeear

-Mountain Plover

Stilts

-Black-necked Stilt

Avocets

-American Avocet

Sandpipers

-Greater Yellowlegs

-Lesser Yellowlegs

-Solitary Sandpiper

-Willet

-Spotted Sandpiper

-Upland Sandpiper

-Eskimo Curlew

-Whimbrel

-Long-billed Curlew

-Whimbrel

-Long-billed Curlew

-Hudsonian Godwit

-Marbled Godwit

-Ruddy Turnstone

-Red Knot

-Sanderling

-Semipalmated Sandpiper

-Western Sandpiper

-Least Sandpiper

-White-rumped Sandpiper

-Baird’’s Sandpiper

-Pectoral Sandpiper

-Dunlin

-Curlew Sandpiper

-Stilt Sandpiper

-Buff-breasted Sandpiper

-Ruff

-Short-billed Dowitcher

-Long-billed Dowitcher

-Common Snipe

-American Woodcock

Phalaropes

-Wilson’s Phalarope

-Red-necked Phalarope

-Red Phalarope

Jaegers

-Pomarine Jaeger

-Parasitic Jaeger

-Long-tailed Jaeger

Gulls

-Laughing Gull

-Franklin’s Gull

-Little Gull

-Common Black-headed Gull

-Bonaparte’s Gull

-Ring-billed Gull

-California Gull

-Herring Gull

-Thayer’ Gull

-Glaucous Gull

-Great Black-backed Gull

-Black-legged Kittiwake

-Sabine’s Gull

Terns

-Caspian Tern

-Common Tern

-Forster’s Tern

-Least Tern -Black Tern

Skimmers

-Black Skimmer

Pigeons

-Rock Dove

-Band-tailed Pigeon

Doves

-White-winged Dove

-Mourning Dove -Passenger Pigeon

-Inca Dove

-Common Ground-Dove

Parakeets

-Carolina Parakeet

Cuckoos

-Black-billed Cuckoo

-Yellow-billed Cuckoo

-Greater Roadrunner

-Groove-billed Ani

Owls

-Common Barn-Owl

-Eastern Screech-Owl

-Western Screech-Owl

-Great Horned Owl

-Snowy Owl

-Burrowing Owl

-Barred Owl

-Long-eared Owl

-Short-eared Owl

-Northern Saw-whet Owl

Goatsuckers

-Common Nighthawk

-Common Poorwill

-Chuck-will’s-widow

-Whip-poor-will

Swifts

-Chimney Swift

-White-throated Swift

Hummingbirds

-Magnificent Hummingbird

-Ruby-throated Hummingbird

-Black-chinned Hummingbird

-Calliope Hummingbird

-Broad-tailed Hummingbird

-Rufous Hummingbird

Kingfishers

-Belted Kingfisher

Woodpeckers

-Lewis’ Woodpecker

-Red-headed Woodpecker

-Red-bellied Woodpecker

-Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

-Red-naped Sapsucker

-Williamson’s Sapsucker

-Ladder-backed Woodpecker

-Downy Woodpecker

-Hairy Woodpecker

-Northern Flicker

-Pleated Woodpecker

Bibliography

Index