Birding - Winter Bird Festival - Morro Bay, CA

		Sightings at Festival 2004
		MORRO BAY WINTER Bird Festival Sightings in 2004 * 213 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 8th Annual Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival, January 16-19 2004. 213 was the total species count for the 2004 Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival. This is our highest festival count yet! (Here's 2003, Here's 2002, Here's 2001, & Here's 2000) LIST OF SPECIES SEEN IN 2004
		Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clark's Grebe Northern Fulmar Pink-footed Shearwater Sooty 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 Cattle Egret Black-crowned Night-Heron Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross's Goose Brant Canada Goose 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 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 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 Sandhill Crane	Black-bellied Plover Snowy Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Mountain Plover Black Oystercatcher Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Willet Wandering Tattler 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 Western Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Caspian Tern Royal Tern Forster's Tern Common Murre Ancient Murrelet Cassin's Auklet Rhinoceros Auklet Rock Dove Mourning Dove Greater Roadrunner Barn Owl Great Horned Owl Burrowing Owl Short-eared Owl White-throated Swift Anna's Hummingbird Allen's Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Acorn Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Red-naped Sapsucker 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 Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Rock Wren Bewick's Wren House Wren Winter Wren Marsh Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Western Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Hermit Thrush American Robin Wrentit 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 Chipping 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 UNUSUAL FOR FESTIVAL Flesh-footed Shearwater Least Bittern Laughing Gull Glaucous Gull Eurasian Collared Dove Hammond’s Flycatcher Barn Swallow Nashville Warbler Summer Tanager
		February 29, 2004