Here’s the list of birds we saw at the 2017 Owens Lake Bird Festival:
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallad
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Redhead
Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
California Quail
Eared Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
White-faced Ibis
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Swainson’s Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Sora
American Coot
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Back-bellied plover
Snowy Plover
Semipalmated plover
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Willet
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Sanderling
Dunlin
Least Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson’s Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Bonaparte’s Gull
Franklin’s Gull
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Caspian Tern
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
Greater Roadrunner
Great Horned Owl
Vaux’s Swift
White-throated Swift
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Western Wood-pewee
Gray Flycatcher
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Black Phoebe
Say’s Phoebe
Vermillion Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
Cassin’s Vireo
California Scrub Jay
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Northern rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Rock Wren
Marsh Wren
House Wren
Bewick’s Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
American Pipit
Phainopepla
Orange-crowned Warbler
MacGillivray’s Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend’s Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Black-chinned Sparrow
Bell’s Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Western Tanager
Black-headed Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewer’s Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Bullock’s Oriole
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
House Sparrow