1996-2009
Spring Nature Festivals combined trips list.
Bird List: 294 total species;
284 Non-introduced birds
(NIB).
1996 – 185 (179
Non-Introduced Birds (NIB))
1997 – 182 (Big Day – 165 species) (177 NIB)
1998 – 197 (Big Day – 165 species) (193 NIB)
1999 – 214 (Big Day – 175 species) (208 NIB)
2000 – 192 (Big Day - 169 species) (185 NIB)
2001 - 227 (Big Day - 196 species) (218 NIB)
2002 - 217 (Big Day - 198 species) (207 NIB)
2003 - 226 (Big Day - 187 species) (217 NIB)
2004 - 234 (225 NIB)
2005 - 226 (218 NIB)
2006 - 237 (229 NIB)
2007 -
245 (235 NIB)
2008 - 246 (237 NIB)
2009 - 241 (232 NIB) (247 species including
pre-festival trip species)
Key: Introduced Species-(I)
|
SPECIES |
# Festivals Seen |
|
Snow Goose |
1 |
|
Ross’s Goose |
11 |
|
Brant |
1 |
|
Cackling Goose |
1 |
|
Canada Goose |
10 |
|
Tundra Swan |
4 |
|
Wood Duck |
14 |
|
Gadwall |
14 |
|
American Wigeon |
11 |
|
Mallard |
14 |
|
Blue-winged Teal |
10 |
|
Cinnamon Teal |
14 |
|
Northern Shoveler |
10 |
|
Northern Pintail |
14 |
|
Green-winged Teal |
12 |
|
Canvasback |
6 |
|
Redhead |
13 |
|
Ring-necked Duck |
9 |
|
Greater Scaup |
4 |
|
Lesser Scaup |
12 |
|
Bufflehead |
10 |
|
Common Goldeneye |
1 |
|
Common Merganser |
12 |
|
Red-breasted Merganser |
1 |
|
Ruddy Duck |
14 |
|
Chukar |
12 |
|
Ring-necked Pheasant |
14 |
|
Greater Sage Grouse |
0 |
|
Sooty Grouse |
3 |
|
Wild Turkey |
11 |
|
Mountain Quail |
14 |
|
California Quail |
14 |
|
Gambel’s Quail |
2 |
|
Pacific Loon |
3 |
|
Common Loon |
8 |
|
Pied-billed Grebe |
14 |
|
Horned Grebe |
3 |
|
Eared Grebe |
13 |
|
Western Grebe |
14 |
|
Clark’s Grebe |
14 |
|
American White Pelican |
12 |
|
Double-crested Cormorant |
14 |
|
American Bittern |
9 |
|
Least Bittern |
1 |
|
Great Blue Heron |
14 |
|
Great Egret |
13 |
|
Snowy Egret |
13 |
|
Cattle Egret |
13 |
|
Green Heron |
11 |
|
Black-crowned Night-Heron |
12 |
|
White-faced Ibis |
12 |
|
Turkey Vulture |
14 |
|
California Condor |
1 |
|
Osprey |
14 |
|
White-tailed Kite |
10 |
|
Bald Eagle |
3 |
|
Northern Harrier |
14 |
|
Sharp-shinned Hawk |
11 |
|
Cooper’s Hawk |
14 |
|
Northern Goshawk |
5 |
|
Red-shouldered Hawk |
14 |
|
Swainson’s Hawk |
14 |
|
Zone-tailed Hawk |
1 |
|
Red-tailed Hawk |
14 |
|
Ferruginous Hawk |
1 |
|
Rough-legged Hawk |
1 |
|
Golden Eagle |
14 |
|
American Kestrel |
14 |
|
Merlin |
5 |
|
Peregrine Falcon |
6 |
|
Prairie Falcon |
13 |
|
Virginia Rail |
14 |
|
Sora |
14 |
|
Common Moorhen |
11 |
|
American Coot |
14 |
|
Sandhill Crane |
1 |
|
Black-bellied Plover |
9 |
|
American Golden Plover |
1 |
|
Snowy Plover |
6 |
|
Semipalmated Plover |
12 |
|
Killdeer |
14 |
|
Black-necked Stilt |
13 |
|
American Avocet |
13 |
|
Spotted Sandpiper |
14 |
|
Solitary Sandpiper |
12 |
|
Greater Yellowlegs |
14 |
|
Willet |
4 |
|
Lesser Yellowlegs |
6 |
|
Whimbrel |
11 |
|
Long-billed Curlew |
7 |
|
Marbled Godwit |
6 |
|
Red Knot |
1 |
|
Sanderling |
2 |
|
Semipalmated Sandpiper |
1 |
|
Western Sandpiper |
14 |
|
Least Sandpiper |
14 |
|
Pectoral Sandpiper |
3 |
|
Dunlin |
9 |
|
Stilt Sandpiper |
1 |
|
Short-billed Dowitcher |
2 |
|
Long-billed Dowitcher |
11 |
|
Wilson’s Snipe |
13 |
|
Wilson’s Phalarope |
9 |
|
Red-necked Phalarope |
7 |
|
Bonaparte’s Gull |
13 |
|
Franklin’s Gull |
7 |
|
Ring-billed Gull |
13 |
|
California Gull |
14 |
|
Herring Gull |
5 |
|
Glaucous-winged Gull |
1 |
|
Least Tern |
1 |
|
Caspian Tern |
14 |
|
Black Tern |
7 |
|
Forster’s Tern |
13 |
|
Rock Pigeon |
14 |
|
Band-tailed Pigeon |
14 |
|
Eurasian Collared-Dove |
8 |
|
Spotted Dove |
7 |
|
White-winged Dove |
1 |
|
Mourning Dove |
14 |
|
Inca Dove |
3 |
|
Common Ground Dove |
3 |
|
Rose-ringed Parakeet |
9 |
|
Greater Roadrunner |
14 |
|
Barn Owl |
14 |
|
Flammulated Owl |
5 |
|
Western Screech-Owl |
14 |
|
Great Horned Owl |
14 |
|
Northern Pygmy-Owl |
8 |
|
Burrowing Owl |
12 |
|
Spotted Owl |
8 |
|
Long-eared Owl |
7 |
|
Northern Saw-whet Owl |
8 |
|
Lesser Nighthawk |
9 |
|
Common Poorwill |
10 |
|
Black Swift |
1 |
|
Vaux’s Swift |
14 |
|
White-throated Swift |
14 |
|
Black-chinned Hummingbird |
14 |
|
Anna’s Hummingbird |
14 |
|
Costa’s Hummingbird |
14 |
|
Calliope Hummingbird |
11 |
|
Broad-tailed Hummingbird |
1 |
|
Rufous Hummingbird |
10 |
|
Belted Kingfisher |
12 |
|
Lewis’s Woodpecker |
6 |
|
Acorn Woodpecker |
14 |
|
Williamson's Sapsucker |
3 |
|
Red-breasted Sapsucker |
12 |
|
Ladder-backed Woodpecker |
14 |
|
Nuttall's Woodpecker |
14 |
|
Downy Woodpecker |
14 |
|
Hairy Woodpecker |
14 |
|
White-headed Woodpecker |
14 |
|
Northern Flicker |
14 |
|
Pileated Woodpecker |
8 |
|
Olive-sided Flycatcher |
13 |
|
Western Wood-Pewee |
14 |
|
Willow Flycatcher |
10 |
|
Least Flycatcher |
1 |
|
Hammond's Flycatcher |
14 |
|
Gray Flycatcher |
14 |
|
Dusky Flycatcher |
14 |
|
Pacific-slope Flycatcher |
14 |
|
Black Phoebe |
14 |
|
Say's Phoebe |
14 |
|
Vermilion Flycatcher |
10 |
|
Ash-throated Flycatcher |
14 |
|
Brown-crested Flycatcher |
11 |
|
Cassin's Kingbird |
12 |
|
Western Kingbird |
14 |
|
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher |
1 |
|
Loggerhead Shrike |
14 |
|
Bell’s Vireo |
4 |
|
Plumbeous Vireo |
6 |
|
Cassin's Vireo |
14 |
|
Hutton’s Vireo |
11 |
|
Warbling Vireo |
14 |
|
Steller’s Jay |
14 |
|
Western Scrub-Jay |
14 |
|
Pinyon Jay |
14 |
|
Clark’s Nutcracker |
5 |
|
Black-billed Magpie |
0 |
|
American Crow |
12 |
|
Common Raven |
14 |
|
Horned Lark |
14 |
|
Purple Martin |
1 |
|
Tree Swallow |
14 |
|
Violet-green Swallow |
14 |
|
Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
14 |
|
Bank Swallow |
11 |
|
Cliff Swallow |
14 |
|
Barn Swallow |
14 |
|
Mountain Chickadee |
14 |
|
Oak Titmouse |
14 |
|
Verdin |
11 |
|
Bushtit |
14 |
|
Red-breasted Nuthatch |
14 |
|
White-breasted Nuthatch |
14 |
|
Pygmy Nuthatch |
13 |
|
Brown Creeper |
14 |
|
Cactus Wren |
14 |
|
Rock Wren |
14 |
|
Canyon Wren |
14 |
|
Bewick’s Wren |
14 |
|
House Wren |
14 |
|
Winter Wren |
9 |
|
Marsh Wren |
13 |
|
American Dipper |
12 |
|
Golden-crowned Kinglet |
14 |
|
Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
14 |
|
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
14 |
|
Western Bluebird |
14 |
|
Mountain Bluebird |
3 |
|
Townsend’s Solitaire |
12 |
|
Swainson’s Thrush |
12 |
|
Hermit Thrush |
14 |
|
American Robin |
14 |
|
Varied Thrush |
3 |
|
Wrentit |
14 |
|
Northern Mockingbird |
14 |
|
Sage Thrasher |
6 |
|
Bendire’s Thrasher |
1 |
|
California Thrasher |
14 |
|
Le Conte’s Thrasher |
12 |
|
European Starling |
14 |
|
American Pipit |
12 |
|
Cedar Waxwing |
14 |
|
Phainopepla |
14 |
|
Orange-crowned Warbler |
14 |
|
Nashville Warbler |
14 |
|
Virginia's Warbler |
1 |
|
Northern Parula |
1 |
|
Yellow Warbler |
14 |
|
Yellow-rumped Warbler |
14 |
|
Black-throated Gray Warbler |
14 |
|
Townsend’s Warbler |
14 |
|
Hermit Warbler |
14 |
|
Black-and-white Warbler |
4 |
|
Northern Waterthrush |
1 |
|
MacGillivray’s Warbler |
14 |
|
Common Yellowthroat |
14 |
|
Wilson’s Warbler |
14 |
|
Painted Redstart |
1 |
|
Yellow-breasted Chat |
14 |
|
Summer Tanager |
14 |
|
Western Tanager |
14 |
|
Green-tailed Towhee |
14 |
|
Spotted Towhee |
14 |
|
California Towhee |
14 |
|
Rufous-crowned Sparrow |
13 |
|
Chipping Sparrow |
14 |
|
Brewer’s Sparrow |
14 |
|
Black-chinned Sparrow |
13 |
|
Vesper Sparrow |
4 |
|
Lark Sparrow |
14 |
|
Black-throated Sparrow |
14 |
|
Sage Sparrow |
14 |
|
Savannah Sparrow |
14 |
|
Grasshopper Sparrow |
2 |
|
Fox Sparrow |
14 |
|
Song Sparrow |
14 |
|
Lincoln’s Sparrow |
14 |
|
Swamp Sparrow |
1 |
|
White-throated Sparrow |
5 |
|
Harris’s Sparrow |
3 |
|
White-crowned Sparrow |
12 |
|
Golden-crowned Sparrow |
12 |
|
Dark-eyed Junco |
14 |
|
Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
1 |
|
Black-headed Grosbeak |
14 |
|
Blue Grosbeak |
14 |
|
Lazuli Bunting |
14 |
|
Indigo Bunting |
5 |
|
Red-winged Blackbird |
14 |
|
Tricolored Blackbird |
14 |
|
Western Meadowlark |
14 |
|
Yellow-headed Blackbird |
14 |
|
Brewer’s Blackbird |
14 |
|
Great-tailed Grackle |
13 |
|
Brown-headed Cowbird |
14 |
|
Hooded Oriole |
14 |
|
Bullock's Oriole |
14 |
|
Scott’s Oriole |
14 |
|
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch |
0 |
|
Purple Finch |
14 |
|
Cassin’s Finch |
13 |
|
House Finch |
14 |
|
Red Crossbill |
9 |
|
Pine Siskin |
14 |
|
Lesser Goldfinch |
14 |
|
Lawrence’s Goldfinch |
14 |
|
American Goldfinch |
14 |
|
Evening Grosbeak |
3 |
|
House Sparrow |
14 |
THIS FESTIVAL HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE
Within a 15 mile radius the highest
diversity of flora and fauna found anywhere in California
350 species of
birds - Over
200 nesting
138 species of
butterflies - Highest in California
2000+ species of plants - Highest in California
105 species of
mammals - Highest in U.S. & Canada
Biological diversity at its best
Spring Nature Festival Yearly Bird Count - ± 230 species
Spectacular Wildflowers
Five Ecological
Habitats Converge in the Kern River Valley
Chaparral
|
Great Valley Grassland
|
Great Basin Desert
|
Mojave Desert
|
Sierran Forest
JOIN US FOR FUN IN THE CALIFORNIA SUN
A big thank you to all of the 2009 Festival Sponsors:
(Kern River Preserve),
Bob Barnes & Associates,
Friends of the Kern River Preserve,
Kerncrest Audubon Society,
Kern River Valley Revitalization, Inc.,
Southern Sierra Research Center,
USDA- Forest Service – Sequoia National
Forest,
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