2008 Year List

my goal for 2008 was 250 species, and I made exactly that. Thanks in part to a small trip to Las Vegas, that was for the most part non birding related. 16 lifers this year, almost half coming from the vegas trip, the rest were rarities, or birds that have been nemesis' for me, like Long-eared Owl.
Then there was the Cackling Goose which I hadn't realized was a separate species until this year.



1. Greater White-fronted Goose
2. Snow Goose
* 3. Ross's Goose
4. Brant
* 5. Cackling Goose
6. Canada Goose
7. Mute Swan
8. Trumpeter Swan
9. Wood Duck
10. Gadwall
11. Eurasian Wigeon
12. American Wigeon
13. Mallard
14. Blue-winged Teal
15. Cinnamon Teal
16. Northern Shoveler
17. Northern Pintail
18. Green-winged Teal
19. Canvasback
20. Redhead
21. Ring-necked Duck
* 22. Tufted Duck
23. Greater Scaup
24. Lesser Scaup
25. Harlequin Duck
26. Surf Scoter
27. White-winged Scoter
28. Black Scoter
29. Bufflehead
30. Common Goldeneye
31. Barrow's Goldeneye
32. Hooded Merganser
33. Common Merganser
34. Red-breasted Merganser
35. Ruddy Duck
36. Chukar
37. Ring-necked Pheasant
38. Ruffed Grouse
39. Sooty Grouse
40. Dusky Grouse
41. Wild Turkey
42. California Quail
* 43. Gambel's Quail
44. Pacific Loon
45. Common Loon
46. Red-throated Loon
47. Pied-billed Grebe
48. Horned Grebe
49. Red-necked Grebe
50. Eared Grebe
51. Western Grebe
* 52. Clark's Grebe
53. American White Pelican
54. Brandt's Cormorant
55. Double-crested Cormorant
56. Pelagic Cormorant
57. American Bittern
58. Great Blue Heron
59. Green Heron
60. Black-crowned Night-Heron
61. Turkey Vulture
62. Osprey
63. Bald Eagle
64. Northern Harrier
65. Sharp-shinned Hawk
66. Cooper's Hawk
67. Red-tailed Hawk
68. Rough-legged Hawk
69. American Kestrel
70. Merlin
71. Gyrfalcon
72. Peregrine Falcon
73. Prairie Falcon
74. Virginia Rail
75. Sora
76. American Coot
77. Sandhill Crane
78. Black-bellied Plover
79. American Golden-Plover
80. Pacific Golden-Plover
81. Semipalmated Plover
82. Killdeer
83 Black Oystercatcher
84. Spotted Sandpiper
85. Greater Yellowlegs
86. Willet
87. Lesser Yellowlegs
89. Whimbrel
90. Long-billed Curlew
91. Marbled Godwit
92. Ruddy Turnstone
93. Black Turnstone
94. Red Knot
95. Sanderling
96. Semipalmated Sandpiper
97. Western Sandpiper
98. Least Sandpiper
99. Baird's Sandpiper
100. Pectoral Sandpiper
101. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
102. Dunlin
103. Short-billed Dowitcher
104. Long-billed Dowitcher
105. Wilson's Snipe
106. Wilson's Phalarope
107. Red-necked Phalarope
108. Mew Gull
109. Ring-billed Gull
110. Western Gull
Western x Glaucous-winged Gull (hybrid)
111. California Gull
112. Herring Gull
113. Thayer's Gull
114. Glaucous-winged Gull
115. Glaucous Gull
116. Caspian Tern
*117. Forster's Tern
118. Rock Pigeon
119. Band-tailed Pigeon
*120. Eurasian Collared-Dove
121. Mourning Dove
122. Barn Owl
123. Great Horned Owl
*124. Northern Hawk Owl
125. Barred Owl
*126. Long-eared Owl
127. Short-eared Owl
128. Common Nighthawk
129. Common Poorwill
130. Black Swift
131. Vaux's Swift
132. White-throated Swift
133. Anna's Hummingbird
134. Calliope Hummingbird
135. Rufous Hummingbird
136. Belted Kingfisher
137. Lewis's Woodpecker
138. Red-breasted Sapsucker
139. Downy Woodpecker
140. Hairy Woodpecker
141. Northern Flicker
142. Pileated Woodpecker
143. Olive-sided Flycatcher
144. Western Wood-Pewee
145. Willow Flycatcher
146. Least Flycatcher
147. Hammond's Flycatcher
148. Gray Flycatcher
149. Dusky Flycatcher
150. Pacific-slope Flycatcher
151. Say's Phoebe
*152. Tropical Kingbird
153. Western Kingbird
154. Eastern Kingbird
155. Northern Shrike
156. Cassin's Vireo
157. Warbling Vireo
158. Red-eyed Vireo
159. Gray Jay
160. Steller's Jay
161. Blue Jay
162. Clark's Nutcracker
163. Black-billed Magpie
164. American Crow
165. Northwestern Crow
166. Common Raven
167. Horned Lark
168. Purple Martin
169. Tree Swallow
170. Violet-green Swallow
171. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
172. Bank Swallow
173. Cliff Swallow
174. Barn Swallow
175. Black-capped Chickadee
176. Mountain Chickadee
177. Chestnut-backed Chickadee
*178. Verdin
179. Bushtit
180. Red-breasted Nuthatch
181. Brown Creeper
182. Rock Wren
183. Canyon Wren
184. Bewick's Wren
185. House Wren
186. Winter Wren
187. Marsh Wren
188. American Dipper
189. Golden-crowned Kinglet
190. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
*191. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
192. Western Bluebird
193. Mountain Bluebird
194. Townsend's Solitaire
195. Swainson's Thrush
196. Hermit Thrush
197. American Robin
198. Varied Thrush
199. Northern Mockingbird
*200. Crissal Thrasher
201. European Starling
202. American Pipit
203. Cedar Waxwing
204. Bohemian Waxwing
205. Orange-crowned Warbler
206. Nashville Warbler
207. Yellow Warbler
208. Yellow-rumped Warbler
209. Black-throated Gray Warbler
210. Townsend's Warbler
211. MacGillivray's Warbler
212. Common Yellowthroat
213. Wilson's Warbler
214. Western Tanager
215. Spotted Towhee
*216. Abert's Towhee
217. American Tree Sparrow
218. Chipping Sparrow
219. Clay-colored Sparrow
220. Brewer's Sparrow
221. Vesper Sparrow
222. Lark Sparrow
223. Savannah Sparrow
224. Fox Sparrow
225. Song Sparrow
226. Lincoln's Sparrow
227. White-crowned Sparrow
228. Golden-crowned Sparrow
229. Dark-eyed Junco
230. Black-headed Grosbeak
231. Lazuli Bunting
232. Bobolink
233. Red-winged Blackbird
234. Western Meadowlark
235. Yellow-headed Blackbird
236. Brewer's Blackbird
*237. Great-tailed Grackle
238. Brown-headed Cowbird
239. Bullock's Oriole
240. Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
241. Purple Finch
242. Cassin's Finch
243. House Finch
244. Pine Grosbeak
245. Red Crossbill
246. Pine Siskin
*247. Lesser Goldfinch
248. American Goldfinch
249. Evening Grosbeak
250. House Sparrow

Total Species: 250
New Species: 16