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Oct 19, 2017 | by Greg Miller
Dawn on the Rio Grande River at Salineño, TX – photo by Greg Miller
Here is a big list of all 435 “possible” species listed in eBird format. By possible I mean any species that has been submitted to eBird, an online database of checklists, between 2006 and 2016 as of mid September 2016. I have further filtered the data so that what is listed are all possible. But not all species are likely. Some are far less common than others. All target species have an eBird Frequency of Checklists that is greater than or equal to 3% on at least one of the trips. Here is list of priorities I am going to use for the master list:
1 – Species is a year target. This is not only the best location to find this species. It is the only location where one can expect to see this bird on this tour schedule.
2 – Species is a year target. This is the best location to find this species. But it can also be found on other trips.
3 – Species is a year target. But some other location has a better probability of adding this bird to your year list.
4 – Bonus birds. This uncommon species is not a year target. But this is the best location on this year’s trip schedule to see this species.
| Species | April 22-30 Cameron County, TX | May 1-7 Clallam County, WA | May 8-14 Cochise County, AZ | December 15-21 Cameron County, LA |
| Black-bellied Whistling-Duck | 2 | 3 | ||
| Fulvous Whistling-Duck | 1 | |||
| Greater White-fronted Goose | 1 | |||
| Snow Goose | 1 | |||
| Ross’s Goose | 1 | |||
| Brant | 1 | |||
| Cackling Goose | 3 | 2 | ||
| Canada Goose | 1 | |||
| Wood Duck | 3 | 2 | ||
| Gadwall | 3 | 2 | ||
| American Wigeon | 3 | 2 | ||
| Mallard | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Mottled Duck | 3 | 2 | ||
| Blue-winged Teal | 3 | 2 | ||
| Cinnamon Teal | 2 | 3 | ||
| Northern Shoveler | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Northern Pintail | 3 | 2 | ||
| Green-winged Teal | 3 | 2 | ||
| Canvasback | 1 | |||
| Redhead | 3 | 2 | ||
| Ring-necked Duck | 1 | |||
| Greater Scaup | 2 | 3 | ||
| Lesser Scaup | 1 | |||
| Harlequin Duck | 1 | |||
| Surf Scoter | 1 | |||
| White-winged Scoter | 1 | |||
| Black Scoter | 4 | |||
| Long-tailed Duck | 1 | |||
| Bufflehead | 2 | 3 | ||
| Common Goldeneye | 1 | |||
| Hooded Merganser | 3 | 2 | ||
| Common Merganser | 1 | |||
| Red-breasted Merganser | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Ruddy Duck | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Plain Chachalaca | 1 | |||
| Scaled Quail | 1 | |||
| California Quail | 1 | |||
| Gambel’s Quail | 1 | |||
| Northern Bobwhite | 1 | |||
| Montezuma Quail | 4 | |||
| Sooty Grouse | 1 | |||
| Wild Turkey | 1 | |||
| Red-throated Loon | 1 | |||
| Pacific Loon | 1 | |||
| Common Loon | 2 | 3 | ||
| Yellow-billed Loon | 1 | |||
| Least Grebe | 1 | |||
| Pied-billed Grebe | 3 | 2 | ||
| Horned Grebe | 1 | |||
| Red-necked Grebe | 1 | |||
| Eared Grebe | 1 | |||
| Western Grebe | 1 | |||
| Black-footed Albatross | 1 | |||
| Pink-footed Shearwater | 1 | |||
| Sooty Shearwater | 1 | |||
| Brandt’s Cormorant | 1 | |||
| Pelagic Cormorant | 1 | |||
| Neotropic Cormorant | 3 | 2 | ||
| Double-crested Cormorant | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Anhinga | 1 | |||
| American White Pelican | 1 | |||
| Brown Pelican | 3 | 2 | ||
| American Bittern | 1 | |||
| Least Bittern | 1 | |||
| Great Blue Heron | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Great Egret | 3 | 2 | ||
| Snowy Egret | 3 | 2 | ||
| Little Blue Heron | 3 | 2 | ||
| Tricolored Heron | 3 | 2 | ||
| Reddish Egret | 1 | |||
| Cattle Egret | 2 | 3 | ||
| Green Heron | 2 | 3 | ||
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | 3 | 2 | ||
| Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | 1 | |||
| White Ibis | 3 | 2 | ||
| Glossy Ibis | 1 | |||
| White-faced Ibis | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Roseate Spoonbill | 3 | 2 | ||
| Black Vulture | 3 | 2 | ||
| Turkey Vulture | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Osprey | 2 | 3 | 3 | |
| White-tailed Kite | 3 | 2 | ||
| Golden Eagle | 4 | |||
| Northern Harrier | 3 | 2 | ||
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 3 | 2 | ||
| Cooper’s Hawk | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Bald Eagle | 2 | 3 | ||
| Harris’s Hawk | 1 | |||
| White-tailed Hawk | 1 | |||
| Gray Hawk | 1 | |||
| Red-shouldered Hawk | 1 | |||
| Broad-winged Hawk | 1 | |||
| Swainson’s Hawk | 3 | 2 | ||
| Zone-tailed Hawk | 1 | |||
| Red-tailed Hawk | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| King Rail | 1 | |||
| Clapper Rail | 3 | 2 | ||
| Virginia Rail | 1 | |||
| Sora | 3 | 2 | ||
| Common Gallinule | 3 | 2 | ||
| American Coot | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Sandhill Crane | 4 | |||
| Black-necked Stilt | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| American Avocet | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| American Oystercatcher | 2 | 3 | ||
| Black Oystercatcher | 1 | |||
| Black-bellied Plover | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| American Golden-Plover | 4 | |||
| Snowy Plover | 1 | |||
| Wilson’s Plover | 1 | |||
| Semipalmated Plover | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Piping Plover | 1 | |||
| Killdeer | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Whimbrel | 2 | 3 | 3 | |
| Long-billed Curlew | 3 | 2 | ||
| Marbled Godwit | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | 2 | 3 | ||
| Stilt Sandpiper | 3 | 2 | ||
| Sanderling | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Dunlin | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Least Sandpiper | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | 1 | |||
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | 1 | |||
| Western Sandpiper | 3 | 2 | ||
| Short-billed Dowitcher | 2 | 3 | 3 | |
| Long-billed Dowitcher | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Wilson’s Snipe | 1 | |||
| American Woodcock | 1 | |||
| Wilson’s Phalarope | 1 | |||
| Red-necked Phalarope | 4 | |||
| Spotted Sandpiper | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Solitary Sandpiper | 1 | |||
| Greater Yellowlegs | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Willet | 3 | 2 | ||
| Lesser Yellowlegs | 3 | 2 | ||
| Common Murre | 1 | |||
| Pigeon Guillemot | 1 | |||
| Marbled Murrelet | 1 | |||
| Ancient Murrelet | 4 | |||
| Cassin’s Auklet | 4 | |||
| Rhinoceros Auklet | 1 | |||
| Tufted Puffin | 1 | |||
| Sabine’s Gull | 1 | |||
| Bonaparte’s Gull | 3 | 2 | ||
| Laughing Gull | 2 | 3 | ||
| Franklin’s Gull | 1 | |||
| Mew Gull | 1 | |||
| Ring-billed Gull | 3 | 2 | ||
| Western Gull | 1 | |||
| California Gull | 1 | |||
| Herring Gull | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Thayer’s Gull | 1 | |||
| Glaucous-winged Gull | 1 | |||
| Least Tern | 1 | |||
| Gull-billed Tern | 2 | 3 | ||
| Caspian Tern | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Common Tern | 1 | |||
| Forster’s Tern | 3 | 2 | ||
| Royal Tern | 3 | 2 | ||
| Sandwich Tern | 1 | |||
| Black Skimmer | 2 | 3 | ||
| Rock Pigeon | 2 | 3 | 3 | |
| Band-tailed Pigeon | 2 | 3 | ||
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Inca Dove | 2 | 3 | 3 | |
| Common Ground-Dove | 2 | 3 | ||
| White-tipped Dove | 1 | |||
| White-winged Dove | 3 | 2 | 3 | |
| Mourning Dove | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Groove-billed Ani | 4 | |||
| Greater Roadrunner | 3 | 2 | ||
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 1 | |||
| Barn Owl | 1 | |||
| Western Screech-Owl | 4 | |||
| Eastern Screech-Owl | 1 | |||
| Whiskered Screech-Owl | 4 | |||
| Great Horned Owl | 3 | 2 | ||
| Northern Pygmy-Owl | 4 | |||
| Elf Owl | 1 | |||
| Spotted Owl | 4 | |||
| Short-eared Owl | 4 | |||
| Lesser Nighthawk | 2 | 3 | ||
| Common Nighthawk | 1 | |||
| Common Poorwill | 1 | |||
| Chuck-will’s-widow | 4 | |||
| Mexican Whip-poor-will | 1 | |||
| Chimney Swift | 1 | |||
| Vaux’s Swift | 1 | |||
| White-throated Swift | 1 | |||
| Magnificent Hummingbird | 1 | |||
| Blue-throated Hummingbird | 1 | |||
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 1 | |||
| Black-chinned Hummingbird | 1 | |||
| Anna’s Hummingbird | 2 | 3 | ||
| Broad-tailed Hummingbird | 1 | |||
| Rufous Hummingbird | 1 | |||
| Broad-billed Hummingbird | 1 | |||
| Buff-bellied Hummingbird | 1 | |||
| White-eared Hummingbird | 4 | |||
| Elegant Trogon | 1 | |||
| Ringed Kingfisher | 4 | |||
| Belted Kingfisher | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Green Kingfisher | 1 | |||
| Acorn Woodpecker | 1 | |||
| Gila Woodpecker | 1 | |||
| Golden-fronted Woodpecker | 1 | |||
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 1 | |||
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 1 | |||
| Red-breasted Sapsucker | 1 | |||
| Ladder-backed Woodpecker | 3 | 2 | ||
| Downy Woodpecker | 3 | 2 | ||
| Hairy Woodpecker | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Arizona Woodpecker | 1 | |||
| Northern Flicker | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Pileated Woodpecker | 1 | |||
| Crested Caracara | 3 | 2 | ||
| American Kestrel | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Merlin | 3 | 2 | ||
| Aplomado Falcon | 1 | |||
| Peregrine Falcon | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Red-crowned Parrot | 1 | |||
| Green Parakeet | 4 | |||
| Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet | 4 | |||
| Olive-sided Flycatcher | 3 | 2 | ||
| Greater Pewee | 1 | |||
| Western Wood-Pewee | 1 | |||
| Eastern Wood-Pewee | 1 | |||
| Acadian Flycatcher | 1 | |||
| Least Flycatcher | 1 | |||
| Hammond’s Flycatcher | 3 | 2 | ||
| Gray Flycatcher | 1 | |||
| Dusky Flycatcher | 1 | |||
| Pacific-slope Flycatcher | 1 | |||
| Cordilleran Flycatcher | 1 | |||
| Buff-breasted Flycatcher | 1 | |||
| Black Phoebe | 1 | |||
| Eastern Phoebe | 1 | |||
| Say’s Phoebe | 1 | |||
| Vermilion Flycatcher | 2 | 3 | ||
| Dusky-capped Flycatcher | 1 | |||
| Ash-throated Flycatcher | 1 | |||
| Great Crested Flycatcher | 1 | |||
| Brown-crested Flycatcher | 3 | 2 | ||
| Great Kiskadee | 1 | |||
| Tropical Kingbird | 1 | |||
| Couch’s Kingbird | 1 | |||
| Cassin’s Kingbird | 1 | |||
| Western Kingbird | 3 | 2 | ||
| Eastern Kingbird | 1 | |||
| Scissor-tailed Flycatcher | 1 | |||
| Loggerhead Shrike | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| White-eyed Vireo | 3 | 2 | ||
| Bell’s Vireo | 1 | |||
| Hutton’s Vireo | 3 | 2 | ||
| Cassin’s Vireo | 1 | |||
| Blue-headed Vireo | 3 | 2 | ||
| Plumbeous Vireo | 1 | |||
| Philadelphia Vireo | 1 | |||
| Warbling Vireo | 2 | 3 | 3 | |
| Red-eyed Vireo | 1 | |||
| Gray Jay | 4 | |||
| Green Jay | 1 | |||
| Steller’s Jay | 2 | 3 | ||
| Blue Jay | 1 | |||
| Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay | 1 | |||
| Mexican Jay | 1 | |||
| American Crow | 1 | |||
| Northwestern Crow | 1 | |||
| Chihuahuan Raven | 3 | 2 | ||
| Common Raven | 2 | 3 | ||
| Horned Lark | 3 | 2 | ||
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow | 3 | 2 | 3 | |
| Purple Martin | 2 | 3 | ||
| Tree Swallow | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Violet-green Swallow | 2 | 3 | ||
| Bank Swallow | 2 | 3 | ||
| Barn Swallow | 3 | 2 | 3 | |
| Cliff Swallow | 3 | 2 | ||
| Cave Swallow | 1 | |||
| Carolina Chickadee | 1 | |||
| Black-capped Chickadee | 1 | |||
| Mexican Chickadee | 4 | |||
| Chestnut-backed Chickadee | 1 | |||
| Bridled Titmouse | 1 | |||
| Tufted Titmouse | 1 | |||
| Black-crested Titmouse | 1 | |||
| Verdin | 1 | |||
| Bushtit | 3 | 2 | ||
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | 2 | 3 | ||
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 1 | |||
| Pygmy Nuthatch | 4 | |||
| Brown Creeper | 2 | 3 | 3 | |
| Rock Wren | 1 | |||
| Canyon Wren | 1 | |||
| House Wren | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Pacific Wren | 1 | |||
| Winter Wren | 1 | |||
| Sedge Wren | 1 | |||
| Marsh Wren | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Carolina Wren | 3 | 2 | ||
| Bewick’s Wren | 3 | 2 | ||
| Cactus Wren | 1 | |||
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 3 | 2 | ||
| American Dipper | 1 | |||
| Golden-crowned Kinglet | 3 | 2 | ||
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Eastern Bluebird | 1 | |||
| Townsend’s Solitaire | 1 | |||
| Veery | 1 | |||
| Gray-cheeked Thrush | 1 | |||
| Swainson’s Thrush | 2 | 3 | ||
| Hermit Thrush | 3 | 2 | ||
| Wood Thrush | 1 | |||
| Clay-colored Thrush | 4 | |||
| American Robin | 2 | 3 | 3 | |
| Varied Thrush | 1 | |||
| Gray Catbird | 2 | 3 | ||
| Curve-billed Thrasher | 3 | 2 | ||
| Brown Thrasher | 1 | |||
| Long-billed Thrasher | 1 | |||
| Northern Mockingbird | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| European Starling | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| American Pipit | 3 | 2 | ||
| Cedar Waxwing | 3 | 2 | ||
| Phainopepla | 1 | |||
| Olive Warbler | 4 | |||
| Ovenbird | 1 | |||
| Worm-eating Warbler | 1 | |||
| Northern Waterthrush | 1 | |||
| Golden-winged Warbler | 1 | |||
| Blue-winged Warbler | 1 | |||
| Black-and-white Warbler | 1 | |||
| Prothonotary Warbler | 1 | |||
| Swainson’s Warbler | 1 | |||
| Tennessee Warbler | 1 | |||
| Orange-crowned Warbler | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Lucy’s Warbler | 1 | |||
| Nashville Warbler | 1 | |||
| Virginia’s Warbler | 4 | |||
| MacGillivray’s Warbler | 1 | |||
| Mourning Warbler | 4 | |||
| Kentucky Warbler | 1 | |||
| Common Yellowthroat | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Hooded Warbler | 1 | |||
| American Redstart | 1 | |||
| Cape May Warbler | 1 | |||
| Cerulean Warbler | 1 | |||
| Northern Parula | 1 | |||
| Magnolia Warbler | 1 | |||
| Bay-breasted Warbler | 1 | |||
| Blackburnian Warbler | 1 | |||
| Yellow Warbler | 2 | 3 | ||
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | 1 | |||
| Blackpoll Warbler | 1 | |||
| Palm Warbler | 1 | |||
| Pine Warbler | 1 | |||
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Grace’s Warbler | 1 | |||
| Black-throated Gray Warbler | 3 | 2 | ||
| Townsend’s Warbler | 3 | 2 | ||
| Hermit Warbler | 1 | |||
| Black-throated Green Warbler | 1 | |||
| Canada Warbler | 1 | |||
| Wilson’s Warbler | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Red-faced Warbler | 1 | |||
| Painted Redstart | 1 | |||
| Yellow-breasted Chat | 3 | 2 | ||
| Botteri’s Sparrow | 4 | |||
| Cassin’s Sparrow | 1 | |||
| Le Conte’s Sparrow | 1 | |||
| Nelson’s Sparrow | 1 | |||
| Seaside Sparrow | 1 | |||
| Olive Sparrow | 1 | |||
| Chipping Sparrow | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Clay-colored Sparrow | 4 | |||
| Field Sparrow | 1 | |||
| Black-throated Sparrow | 1 | |||
| Lark Sparrow | 3 | 2 | ||
| Fox Sparrow | 1 | |||
| Dark-eyed Junco | 2 | 3 | ||
| Yellow-eyed Junco | 1 | |||
| White-crowned Sparrow | 2 | 3 | 3 | |
| Golden-crowned Sparrow | 1 | |||
| Harris’s Sparrow | 1 | |||
| White-throated Sparrow | 1 | |||
| Vesper Sparrow | 1 | |||
| Savannah Sparrow | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Song Sparrow | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Lincoln’s Sparrow | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Swamp Sparrow | 1 | |||
| Canyon Towhee | 1 | |||
| Abert’s Towhee | 1 | |||
| Rufous-crowned Sparrow | 1 | |||
| Green-tailed Towhee | 1 | |||
| Spotted Towhee | 3 | 2 | ||
| Eastern Towhee | 1 | |||
| Hepatic Tanager | 1 | |||
| Summer Tanager | 2 | 3 | ||
| Scarlet Tanager | 1 | |||
| Western Tanager | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Northern Cardinal | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Pyrrhuloxia | 1 | |||
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 1 | |||
| Black-headed Grosbeak | 3 | 2 | ||
| Blue Grosbeak | 2 | 3 | ||
| Lazuli Bunting | 1 | |||
| Indigo Bunting | 1 | |||
| Painted Bunting | 1 | |||
| Dickcissel | 1 | |||
| Bobolink | 4 | |||
| Red-winged Blackbird | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Eastern Meadowlark | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Yellow-headed Blackbird | 1 | |||
| Rusty Blackbird | 1 | |||
| Brewer’s Blackbird | 2 | 3 | ||
| Common Grackle | 1 | |||
| Boat-tailed Grackle | 1 | |||
| Great-tailed Grackle | 2 | 3 | 3 | |
| Bronzed Cowbird | 1 | |||
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Orchard Oriole | 1 | |||
| Hooded Oriole | 2 | 3 | ||
| Bullock’s Oriole | 1 | |||
| Altamira Oriole | 1 | |||
| Baltimore Oriole | 1 | |||
| Scott’s Oriole | 1 | |||
| House Finch | 3 | 2 | ||
| Purple Finch | 1 | |||
| Red Crossbill | 1 | |||
| Pine Siskin | 2 | 3 | ||
| Lesser Goldfinch | 3 | 2 | ||
| American Goldfinch | 3 | 2 | ||
| Evening Grosbeak | 1 | |||
| House Sparrow | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |