Birding - Winter Bird Festival - Morro Bay, CA

		Sightings at Festival 2000
		MORRO BAY WINTER Bird Festival Sightings in 2000 * 201 SPECIES SEEN * These sightings (especially the unusual sightings) were not verified as is done for the Christmas count but all were seen by our expert leaders during the 4th Annual Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival, January 14-17, 2000. 201 was the total species count for the 2000 Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival!! (Here's 2002, Here's 2001, & here's 2003) The list of unusual sightings includes: Short-tailed Albatross, Black-footed Albatross, Laysan Albatross; Flesh-footed Shearwater; 8 Eurasian Wigeon; and not just one but FIVE California Condors. In addition, some Sei Whale, Gray Whale, Risso's Dolphin, and Northern Right Whale Dolphin were also spotted last year. LIST OF SPECIES SEEN IN 2000
		Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clark's Grebe Short-tailed Albatross Black-footed Albatross Laysan Albatross Northern Fulmar Flesh-footed Shearwater Pink-footed Shearwater Sooty Shearwater American White Pelican Brown Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Brandt's Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Black-crowned Night-Heron Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross' Goose Brant Canada Goose Green-winged Teal Mallard Northern Pintail Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon Canvasback Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Turkey Vulture California Condor White-tailed Kite Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Prairie Falcon Wild Turkey	California Quail Virginia Rail Sora American Coot Black-bellied Plover Snowy Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Black Oystercatcher Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Willet Spotted Sandpiper Whimbrel Long-billed Curlew Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Black Turnstone Surfbird Red Knot Sanderling Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dunlin Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Common Snipe Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Bonaparte's Gull Heermann's Gull Mew Gull Ring-billed Gull California Gull Herring Gull Thayer's Gull Western Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Caspian Tern Royal Tern Forster's Tern Black Skimmer Common Murre Pigeon Guillemot Cassin's Auklet Rhinoceros Auklet Rock Dove Band-tailed Pigeon Mourning Dove Barn Owl Western Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Northern Pygmy-Owl Burrowing Owl Long-eared White-throated Swift Anna's Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Acorn Woodpecker Red-breasted Sapsucker Nuttall's Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker	Black Phoebe Say's Phoebe Horned Lark Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Steller's Jay Western Scrub-Jay Yellow-billed Magpie American Crow Common Raven Chestnut-backed Chickadee Oak Titmouse Bushtit White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Canyon Wren Bewick's Wren Marsh Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Western Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Hermit Thrush American Robin Varied Thrush Wrentit Northern Mockingbird California Thrasher American Pipit Cedar Waxwing Phainopepla Loggerhead Shrike European Starling Hutton's Vireo Orange-crowned Warbler Magnolia Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Townsend's Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Spotted Towhee California Towhee Rufous-crowned Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Sage Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Red-winged Blackbird Tricolored Blackbird Western Meadowlark Brewer's Blackbird Great-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Bullock's Oriole Purple Finch House Finch Lesser Goldfinch American Goldfinch House Sparrow
		June 29, 2003