Birding - Winter Bird Festival - Morro Bay, CA

		Sightings at Festival 2003
		MORRO BAY WINTER Bird Festival Sightings in 2003 * 202 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 7th Annual Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival, January 17-20, 2003. 202 was the total species count for the 2003 Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival!! (Here's 2002, Here's 2001, & here's 2000) LIST OF SPECIES SEEN IN 2003
		Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clark's Grebe Northern Fulmar Black-footed Albatross Pink-footed Shearwater Black-vented Shearwater American White Pelican Brown Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Brandt's Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant American Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Greater White-fronted Goose Ross's Goose Brant Canada Goose Green-winged Teal Mallard Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon Canvasback Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck 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 222Northern 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 Sandhill Crane	Black-bellied Plover Snowy Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Mountain Plover 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 Dowitcher Species 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 Black Skimmer Forster's Tern Common Murre Marbeled Murrelet Xantu's Murrelet Ancient Murrelet Cassin's Auklet Rhinoceros Auklet Rock Dove Band-tailed Pigeon Mourning Dove Great Horned Owl Burrowing Owl Short-eared Owl White-throated Swift Anna's Hummingbird Allen's Hummingbirf Belted Kingfisher Acorn Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Red-breasted Sapsucker Nuttall's Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Black Phoebe Say's Phoebe Horned Lark Tree 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 Rock Wren Canyon Wren Bewick's Wren House Wren Winter Wren Marsh Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Western Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Hermit Thrush American Robin Varied Thrush 444Wrentit Northern Mockingbird California Thrasher American Pipit Cedar Waxwing Phainopepla Loggerhead Shrike European Starling Hutton's Vireo Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow-rumped 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 Golden-crowned Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Red-winged Blackbird Tricolored Blackbird Western Meadowlark Brewer's Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Purple Finch House Finch Pine Siskin Lesser Goldfinch Lawrence's Goldfinch American Goldfinch House Sparrow ADDITIONAL SPECIES Eurasian Collared Dove Barn Swallow Mute Swan
		June 29, 2003