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A Visit with the Birds of the
Proposed Douglas Fir National Monument
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| For a page with photos of some birds found in the Doug go to Birds. It also has an Alphabetical Checklist and a Bird list by Location. |
| This is not an exhaustive list of the birds you
might see in the Doug, but it includes most of them. It is slightly
different than the mentioned above. Each search for birds will be different. To be frank, you may not see many birds, not because they are not there, but because they are in the tops of the trees, or hiding in the bushes just out of sight. Still, hunting to see any of the birds is fun, because it is challenging and the rewards are often great. You may have more luck hearing birds, and maybe you will come to identify some of the songs, or at least identifying with some of them. To the author of these pages, the song of the Swainson’s Trush epitomizes the deep woods of the Northwest. Probably because you can hear its bubbling twill whenever you visit the old-growth woods, but you may never actually see the bird. With luck and persistence, you may see a Swainsons Thrush. You may also hear and see Chickadees, Robins, or a Pacific Wren or a Bewick’s Wren, or some other hidden or partially hidden songster. This list is a list of what might be the most likely of the birds present in the Doug, based on reports of birds common to the central Cascades, as shown on the maps in the Atlas of Oregon Wildlife (Csuti, et al). The list is sort of organized by common birding taxonomies, except when that does not assist in presenting the list. The birds in this list that have their own page are a smaller and more arbitrary group: those that I have been able to photograph (apologies and excuses), or get a photo of (submissions welcome) or have some notes about the bird relevant to the Doug. Because, as noted, it is hard to see birds in the forest, and even harder to get a picture, most of these photos were not taken within the Doug, but the birds can be seen there, if you are lucky. The pictures are here not to serve as a means of identification, but like all the pictures on this web site, to share some of the beauty that you can find in the Doug. |
| Great Blue Heron
HAWKS AND SIMILAR LOOKING
BIRDS
GROUND BIRDS Bald Eagle California Quail DUCKS AND RELATED BIRDS Cooper’s Hawk Common Snipe Barrow’s Goldeneye Golden Eagle Killdeer Blue-winged Teal Goshawk Mountain Quail Bufflehead Kestrel Ruffed Grouse Cinnamon Teal Osprey Sooty Grouse Common Merganser Peregrine Falcon Coot, American Red-tailed Hawk DOVES AND PIGEONS Harlequin Duck Sharp-shinned Hawk Band-tailed Pigeon Hooded Merganser Turkey Vulture Mourning Dove Mallard Ring-necked Duck Wood Duck OWLS Common Nighthawk Belted Kingfisher Barred Owl Vaux’s Swift Boreal Owl Great Horned Owl WOODPECKERS Great Gray Owl HUMMINGBIRDS Red-breasted Sapsucker Northern Pygmy-Owl Calliope Hummingbird Williamson’s Sapsucker Northern Saw-whet Owl Rufous Hummingbird Downy Woodpecker Spotted Owl Hairy Woodpecker Western Screech-Owl Three-toed Woodpecker Black-backed Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker FLYCATCHERS CORVIDS BUSY LITTLE BIRDS (obviously not Olive-sided Flycatcher Gray Jay a formal category) Western Wood-Pewee Steller’s Jay Black-capped Chickadee Willow Flycatcher Clark’s Nutcracker Chestnut-backed Chickadee Hammond’s Flycatcher American Crow Mountain Chickadee Dusky Flycatcher Common Raven Bushtit Pacific-slope Flycatcher Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch SWALLOWS Brown Creeper Cliff Swallow American Pipit Gold-crowned Kinglet Barn Swallow Cedar Waxwing Ruby-crowned Kinglet Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow VIREOS AND WARBLERS Solitary Vireo Hutton’s Vireo WRENS THRUSH FAMILY Warbling Vireo House Wren Mountain Bluebird Yellow-rumped Warbler Pacific Wren Western Bluebird Hermit Warbler Winter Wren Townsend’s Solitaire Townsend’s Warbler Marsh Wren American Robin Orange-crowned Warbler Varied Thrush Yellow Warbler American Dipper Swainson's Thrush Wilson’s Warbler Ruby-crowned Kinglet Hermit Thrush MacGillivray’s Warbler Golden-crowned Kinglet Nashville Warbler Common Yellowthroat SPARROWS Black-throated Gray Warbler Spotted Towhee Western Tanager Dark-eyed Junco Black-headed Grosbeak Chipping Sparrow Evening Grosbeak Fox Sparrow Lazuli Bunting FINCHES Song Sparrow Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Lincoln’s Sparrow Cassin’s Finch Golden-crowned Sparrow Purple Finch White-crowned Sparrow House Finch Red Crossbill Red-winged Blackbird Pine Siskin Brewer’s Blackbird Lesser Goldfinch Brown-headed Cowbird American Goldfinch Bullock’s Oriole |