Birding - Winter Bird Festival - Morro Bay, CA

		Sightings at Festival 2001
		MORRO BAY WINTER Bird Festival Sightings in 2001 * 207 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 5th Annual Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival, January 12-15, 2001. 207 was the total species count for the 2001 Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival!! (Here's 2002, Here's 2003, & here's 2000) LIST OF SPECIES SEEN IN 2001
		Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clark's Grebe Black-footed Albatross Laysan Albatross Northern Fulmar Pink-footed Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Short-tailed Shearwater Black-vented Shearwater American White Pelican Brown Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Brandt's Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Cattle Egret Black-crowned Night-Heron Ross's Goose Brant Canada Goose Tundra Swan Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Mallard Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Turkey Vulture Osprey 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 Common Moorhen American Coot Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover Snowy Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Black Oystercatcher American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Willet Spotted Sandpiper Whimbrel Long-billed Curlew Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Black Turnstone Surfbird Sanderling Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dunlin Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Red Phalarope Pomarine 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 Cassin's Auklet Rhinoceros Auklet Rock Dove Band-tailed Pigeon Mourning Dove Eurasian Collared-Dove Greater Roadrunner Barn Owl Western Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Burrowing Owl 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 Cassin's Kingbird Horned Lark Tree Swallow Violet-green 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 House 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 Plumbeous Vireo Orange-crowned 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 Nelson's Sharp-tailed 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 Purple Finch House Finch Lesser Goldfinch American Goldfinch House Sparrow
		June 29, 2003