RECENT ADDITIONS TO LIST: December 31, 2000
The total for 2000 was 289 birds. As expected December did not add many birds, only two. But one, a BLACK-BACKED WAGTAIL found by David McIntyre on the San Jose CBC, was new for the county list. The other new birds was an AMERICAN REDSTART found by Mike Mammoser. For the composite list I've also changed the first record of Summer Tanager to be 11/1 for the bird Kristie Nelson found along San Francisquito Creek.The year's list of 289 is well below the 1993-2000 average of 296 and may reflect the absence of Mike Rogers' cheerleading or, more likely, Steve Rottenborn's move to Virginia. Interestingly, although the total is down, there were four new species added to the county list in 2000 which is quite a total: ARCTIC WARBLER, GRAY CATBIRD, BLACK-BACKED WAGTAIL, and PAINTED BUNTING. Three of these were "flash" birds, they were here a moment and then gone. The Black-backed Wagtail has hung around, but only behind "No Trespassing" signs.
My candidates for the biggest misses of the year are Snowy Plover and Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow.
DATE OBSERVER* RARITY**
Red-throated Loon 1/1/00 m.ob. 4
Pacific Loon 5/7/00 SEM 5
Common Loon 4/15/00 DLSu 4
Pied-billed Grebe 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Horned Grebe 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Red-necked Grebe 5
Eared Grebe 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Western Grebe 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Clark's Grebe 1/2/00 MMR 2
Northern Fulmar 6
Sooty Shearwater 6
Ashy Storm-Petrel 6
Brown Booby 6
American White Pelican 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Brown Pelican 7/3/00 WGB 3
Brandt's Cormorant 6
Double-crested Cormorant 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Pelagic Cormorant 6
Magnificent Frigatebird 6
American Bittern 1/2/00 m.ob. 4
Least Bittern 6
Great Blue Heron 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Great Egret 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Snowy Egret 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Little Blue Heron 7/4/00 PJM 5
Cattle Egret 4/22/00 AME 5
Green Heron 1/1/00 MMR 3
Black-crowned Night Heron 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
White-faced Ibis 5/26/00 AJ 5
Turkey Vulture 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
California Condor 6
Fulvous Whistling-Duck 6
Greater White-fronted Goose 1/1/00 SCR 5
Snow Goose 1/1/00 m.ob. 5
Ross' Goose 1/1/00 m.ob. 5
Canada Goose 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Brant 3/21/00 LT 6
Tundra Swan 11/7/00 CI 4
Wood Duck 1/12/00 TRy 3
Gadwall 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Eurasian Wigeon 1/3/00 MCM 4
American Wigeon 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Mallard 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Blue-winged Teal 1/1/00 MMR 4
Cinnamon Teal 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Northern Shoveler 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Northern Pintail 1/4/00 m.ob. 1
Garganey 6
Green-winged Teal 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Canvasback 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Redhead 1/1/00 MMR 3
Ring-necked Duck 1/2/00 m.ob. 3
Tufted Duck 1/29/00 MMR 6
Greater Scaup 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Lesser Scaup 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Surf Scoter 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
White-winged Scoter 4
Black Scoter 6
Oldsquaw 6
Bufflehead 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Common Goldeneye 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Barrow's Goldeneye 1/2/00 JDa 4
Hooded Merganser 1/1/00 JAC, MMR 4
Red-breasted Merganser 1/6/00 KPa 2
Common Merganser 1/2/00 SCR 2
Ruddy Duck 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Osprey 1/2/00 m.ob. 4
White-tailed Kite 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Bald Eagle 1/2/00 JDa 4
Northern Harrier 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1/2/00 m.ob. 2
Cooper's Hawk 1/1/00 WGB 2
Northern Goshawk 6
Red-shouldered Hawk 1/1/00 m.ob. 3
Broad-winged Hawk 4/20/00 MMR 6
Swainson's Hawk 4/22/00 MJM 5
Red-tailed Hawk 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Ferruginous Hawk 1/20/00 SCR 4
Rough-legged Hawk 11/4/00 JMa 5
Golden Eagle 1/2/00 m.ob. 2
American Kestrel 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Merlin 1/1/00 m.ob. 3
Peregrine Falcon 1/1/00 WGB 3
Prairie Falcon 1/2/00 MMR 3
Ring-necked Pheasant 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Wild Turkey 1/2/00 MMR 3
Mountain Quail 5/18/00 MMR 5
California Quail 1/2/00 m.ob. 1
Yellow Rail 6
Black Rail 1/21/00 GLeB, SEM 4
Clapper Rail 1/2/00 MMR 2
Virginia Rail 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Sora 1/1/00 WGB 2
Common Moorhen 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
American Coot 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Sandhill Crane 1/31/00 MKv 6
Black-bellied Plover 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
American Golden-Plover 9/5/00 SEM 5
Pacific Golden-Plover 9/25/00 MMR 5
Snowy Plover 5
Semipalmated Plover 1/1/00 WGB 2
Killdeer 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Mountain Plover 6
Black Oystercatcher 6
Black-necked Stilt 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
American Avocet 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Greater Yellowlegs 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 2/22/00 DLSu 3
Solitary Sandpiper 4/25/00 KPa 5
Willet 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Wandering Tattler 9/12/00 KN 6
Spotted Sandpiper 1/13/00 SCR, JDa 3
Whimbrel 1/8/00 MJM 2
Long-billed Curlew 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Hudsonian Godwit 5/26/00 AJ 6
Bar-tailed Godwit 6
Marbled Godwit 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Ruddy Turnstone 8/6/00 MMR 5
Black Turnstone 9/24/00 MMR 6
Red Knot 8/6/00 MMR 5
Sanderling 1/6/00 KPa 4
Semipalmated Sandpiper 7/29/00 MJM 5
Western Sandpiper 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Least Sandpiper 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
White-rumped Sandpiper 6
Baird's Sandpiper 9/4/00 NL 5
Pectoral Sandpiper 8/20/00 AME 4
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 6
Dunlin 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Curlew Sandpiper 6
Stilt Sandpiper 4/16/00 PJM 5
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 6
Ruff 1/17/00 AJ 5
Short-billed Dowitcher 1/4/00 SCR 1
Long-billed Dowitcher 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Common Snipe 1/2/00 MMR 2
Wilson's Phalarope 5/12/00 RWR, FV 2
Red-necked Phalarope 5/6/00 m.ob. 2
Red Phalarope 5
Pomarine Jaeger 6
Parasitic Jaeger 9/24/00 MMR 5
Long-tailed Jaeger 6
Laughing Gull 6
Franklin's Gull 5
Little Gull 6
Black-headed Gull 6
Bonaparte's Gull 1/1/00 MMR 2
Heermann's Gull 6
Mew Gull 1/1/00 MMR 2
Ring-billed Gull 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
California Gull 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Herring Gull 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Thayer's Gull 1/1/00 m.ob. 3
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1/1/00 m.ob. 6
Western Gull 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Glaucous-winged Gull 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Glaucous Gull 1/28/00 AJ 5
Sabine's Gull 6
Black-legged Kittiwake 6
Caspian Tern 4/3/00 TRy 2
Elegant Tern 8/27/00 TRy, JC 5
Common Tern 7/19/00 TRy 5
Arctic Tern 6
Forster's Tern 1/1/00 MMR 1
Least Tern 7/15/00 FV 4
Black Tern 8/5/00 MMR 5
Black Skimmer 1/1/00 m.ob. 5
Common Murre 6
Ancient Murrelet 6
Cassin's Auklet 6
Rock Dove 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Band-tailed Pigeon 1/1/00 JMa 2
White-winged Dove 6
Mourning Dove 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 6
Greater Roadrunner 1/18/00 JMa 4
Barn Owl 1/5/00 JMa 2
Flammulated Owl 6
Western Screech-Owl 1/1/00 JMa 2
Great Horned Owl 1/1/00 JMa 1
Northern Pygmy-Owl 1/1/00 JMa 4
Burrowing Owl 1/7/00 m.ob. 2
Long-eared Owl 4/26/00 MDo 5
Short-eared Owl 1/1/00 MMR 4
Northern Saw-whet Owl 1/1/00 JMa 4
Lesser Nighthawk 6
Common Nighthawk 6
Common Poorwill 4/3/00 JMa 3
Black Swift 5/10/00 DLSu 5
Chimney Swift 6
Vaux's Swift 4/15/00 DLSu 4
White-throated Swift 1/1/00 KPa 2
Black-chinned Hummingbird 5/12/00 RWR, FV 5
Anna's Hummingbird 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Costa's Hummingbird 5
Calliope Hummingbird 4/6/00 RCo 5
Broad-tailed Hummingbird 6
Rufous Hummingbird 3/11/00 MDo 4
Allen's Hummingbird 2/19/00 LCh 3
Belted Kingfisher 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Lewis' Woodpecker 1/22/00 JH 3
Acorn Woodpecker 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Williamson's Sapsucker 6
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 6
Red-naped Sapsucker 9/28/00 RCo 5
Red-breasted Sapsucker 1/2/00 m.ob. 2
Nuttall's Woodpecker 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Downy Woodpecker 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Hairy Woodpecker 1/1/00 JMa 2
Northern Flicker 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1/29/00 DLSu 5
Olive-sided Flycatcher 4/14/00 JMa 2
Western Wood-Pewee 4/23/00 JMa, MJM 2
Willow Flycatcher 8/20/00 CCFS 4
Least Flycatcher 6
Hammond's Flycatcher 4/9/00 MMR 5
Gray Flycatcher 5
Dusky Flycatcher 5
Pacific-slope Flycatcher 3/11/00 MDo 2
Black Phoebe 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Eastern Phoebe 6
Say's Phoebe 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Ash-throated Flycatcher 4/14/00 DL 2
Tropical Kingbird 11/26/00 DSt 6
Cassin's Kingbird 3/18/00 RWR, FV 5
Western Kingbird 3/26/00 MW 2
Eastern Kingbird 6
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 6
Loggerhead Shrike 1/1/00 WGB 2
Northern Shrike 6
Bell's Vireo 6
Plumbeous Vireo 6
Cassin's Vireo 4/2/00 JY, AL 2
Blue-headed Vireo 6
Hutton's Vireo 1/2/00 m.ob. 2
Warbling Vireo 3/18/00 RWR, FV 2
Red-eyed Vireo 6
Steller's Jay 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Western Scrub-Jay 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Clark's Nutcracker 6
Black-billed Magpie 6
Yellow-billed Magpie 1/2/00 MMR 2
American Crow 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Common Raven 1/1/00 m.ob. 3
Horned Lark 1/2/00 m.ob. 3
Purple Martin 5/10/00 DLSu 5
Tree Swallow 1/2/00 MMR, JDa 2
Violet-green Swallow 2/5/00 MJM 1
Nor. Rough-winged Swallow 2/22/00 m.ob. 2
Bank Swallow 4/12/00 MiD 5
Cliff Swallow 2/22/00 DLSu 1
Barn Swallow 1/2/00 MMR 1
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 1/1/00 SCR 1
Oak Titmouse 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Bushtit 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1/29/00 DLSu 4
White-breasted Nuthatch 1/2/00 MMR 2
Pygmy Nuthatch 1/1/00 JMa 4
Brown Creeper 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Rock Wren 1/2/00 m.ob. 4
Canyon Wren 1/5/00 MMR 5
Bewick's Wren 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
House Wren 3/19/00 JY, AL 2
Winter Wren 1/1/00 JMa 3
Marsh Wren 1/2/00 SCR 1
American Dipper 1/2/00 GHt et al. 4
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1/1/00 JMa 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Arctic Warbler 9/7/00 MMR 6
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3/21/00 ER 3
Western Bluebird 1/2/00 m.ob. 2
Mountain Bluebird 1/2/00 BR, MS 6
Townsend's Solitaire 4/20/00 DE, CV 5
Swainson's Thrush 4/29/00 m.ob. 2
Hermit Thrush 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
American Robin 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Varied Thrush 1/1/00 JMa 2
Wrentit 1/1/00 WGB 1
Gray Catbird 8/24/00 JVM 6
Northern Mockingbird 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Sage Thrasher 6
Brown Thrasher 9/30/00 RCo 6
California Thrasher 1/2/00 m.ob. 1
European Starling 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Black-backed Wagtail 12/17/00 DMcI
Red-throated Pipit 6
American Pipit 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Bohemian Waxwing 6
Cedar Waxwing 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Phainopepla 1/22/00 JH 4
Tennessee Warbler 6
Orange-crowned Warbler 1/4/00 WGB 1
Nashville Warbler 4/9/00 MMR 4
Virginia's Warbler 6
Northern Parula 6
Yellow Warbler 1/6/00 MMR 2
Chestnut-sided Warbler 6
Magnolia Warbler 6
Black-throated Blue Warbler 6
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Black-throated Gray Warbler 4/9/00 m.ob. 3
Black-throated Green Warbler 6
Townsend's Warbler 1/1/00 JMa 2
Hermit Warbler 1/29/00 DLSu 4
Blackburnian Warbler 6
Prairie Warbler 6
Palm Warbler 3/4/00 LCh 5
Blackpoll Warbler 9/26/00 m.ob. 5
Black-and-White Warbler 5
American Redstart 12/30/00 MJM 5
Prothonotary Warbler 6
Worm-eating Warbler 6
Ovenbird 6/12/00 JiD 6
Northern Waterthrush 9/9/00 MMR 5
Kentucky Warbler 6
Connecticut Warbler 6
MacGillivray's Warbler 4/23/00 AV 4
Common Yellowthroat 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Hooded Warbler 6
Wilson's Warbler 3/10/00 MJM 1
Yellow-breasted Chat 4/29/00 m.ob. 5
Summer Tanager 11/1/00 KN 6
Scarlet Tanager 6
Western Tanager 3/27/00 KPa 3
Green-tailed Towhee 1/28/00 AJ 6
Spotted Towhee 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
California Towhee 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Rufous-crowned Sparrow 1/1/00 SCR 3
Am. Tree Sparrow 6
Chipping Sparrow 4/2/00 JY, AL 3
Clay-colored Sparrow 2/3/00 SCR 5
Brewer's Sparrow 9/30/00 DK 5
Black-chinned Sparrow 5/6/00 NL 4
Vesper Sparrow 2/9/00 SCR 5
Lark Sparrow 1/2/00 m.ob. 2
Black-throated Sparrow 6
Sage Sparrow 1/22/00 JH 4
Lark Bunting 6
Savannah Sparrow 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Grasshopper Sparrow 2/9/00 SCR 4
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow 5
Fox Sparrow 1/1/00 m.ob. 2
Song Sparrow 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Lincoln's Sparrow 1/4/00 m.ob. 3
Swamp Sparrow 1/6/00 MMR 4
White-throated Sparrow 1/1/00 GLeB 4
Harris' Sparrow 6
White-crowned Sparrow 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Golden-crowned Sparrow 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Dark-eyed Junco 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Lapland Longspur 10/7/00 MMR, MJM 6
Chestnut-collared Longspur 6
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 5/13/00 MCM 5
Black-headed Grosbeak 1/25/00 SB 1
Blue Grosbeak 4/30/00 DG 5
Lazuli Bunting 4/15/00 GHa 2
Indigo Bunting 5/24/00 RLe 6
Painted Bunting 9/30/00 RCo 6
Dickcissel 6
Bobolink 9/8/00 MJM 6
Red-winged Blackbird 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Tricolored Blackbird 1/2/00 DWi 2
Western Meadowlark 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Yellow-headed Blackbird 9/22/00 DLSu 5
Brewer's Blackbird 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Great-tailed Grackle 6/22/00 TRy 6
Brown-headed Cowbird 1/1/00 MMR 2
Hooded Oriole 3/21/00 LY 3
Baltimore Oriole 6
Bullock's Oriole 1/4/00 SCR 1
Scott's Oriole 6
Purple Finch 1/1/00 JMa 2
Cassin's Finch 6
House Finch 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Red Crossbill 1/29/00 DLSu 5
Pine Siskin 1/12/00 JAC 3
Lesser Goldfinch 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
Lawrence's Goldfinch 4/9/00 MMR 3
American Goldfinch 1/1/00 MMR 2
Evening Grosbeak 5
House Sparrow 1/1/00 m.ob. 1
* OBSERVER CODES:
ACa-Anne Campbell, AGu-Arnel Guanlao, AJ-Al Jaramillo, AJb-Alberta Jasberg, AL-Amy Lauterbach, AME-Al Eisner, AV-Ann Verdi, AWa-Alan Walther,BBr-Barry Breckling, BMcK-Bert McKee, BR-Bob Roadcap, BWe-Bruce Webb,
CH-Caralisa Hughes, ChW-Chris Wolfe, CJC-Chuck Coston, CKS-Chris Salander, ClW-Claire Wolfe, CV-Connie Vigno, CWh-Clark White,
DB-Dusty Bleher, DE-David Ekdahl, DG-Don Ganton, DHa-David Haveman, DJ-Dave Johnston, DJC-Don & Jill Crawford, DK-Dan Keller, DLSu-David Suddjian, DPo-David Powell, DR-Don Roberson, DSt-Dick Stovel, DWe-Dave Weber, DWi-David Wimpfheimer,
EA-Ernie Abeles, ER-Ed Rooks
FB-Florence Bennett, FV-Frank Vanslager,
GFi-George Finger, GHa-Garth Harwood, GHt-Grant Hoyt, GLeB-Gloria LeBlanc,
HGe-Harriet Gerson, HLR-Heather Rottenborn,
JAC-Jack Cole, JC-Jeff Cossins, JCS-John Sterling, JDa-Jim Danzenbaker, JGa-Jim Gain, JH-Jan Hintermeister, JLa-Jolene Lange, JLi-Jim Liskovec, JLu-John Luther, JMa-John Mariani, JMe-John Meyer, JML-Jeanne Leavitt, JMM-John & Maria Meyer, JMS-J-M Spoelman, JSa-June Santoro, JVM-John Moore, JY-James Yurchenco,
KCo-Kitty Collins, KF-Karl Fowler, KG-Ken Goss, KN-Kristie NelsonKPa-Kathy Parker, KVV-Kent Van Vuren,
LBG-Leda Beth Gray, LCh-Les Chibana, LSp-Larry Spear, LT-Linda Terrill, LY-Lou Young
m.ob.-Many Observers, MCM-Mark C. Miller, MDo-Matthew Dodder, MH-Matt Heindel, MHa-Merry Haveman, MJM-Mike Mammoser, MK-Michele Kveck, MLF-Mike Feighner, MMR-Mike Rogers, MPL-Marjorie Plant, MS-Mary Simpson, MW-Michael Wienholt, MWr-Marti Wright,
NL-Nick Lethaby,
PCu-Pat Curtis, PJM-Peter Metropulos, PLat-Peter LaTourrette, PMB-Phyllis M. Browning,
RCa-Rita Caratello, RCi-Rich Cimino, RCo-Rita Colwell, RGJ-Richard Jeffers, RHu-Ralph Hunter, RiC-Richard Carlson, RLe-Rosalie Lefkowitz, RPR-Rebecca P Rottenborn, RWR-Bob Reiling,
SB-Sally Baumwell, SBT-Scott Terrill, SCR-Steve Rottenborn, SEM-Steve Miller, SGu-Stephan Gunn, SRo-Steve Rovell, SSA-Susan Sandstrom,
TGr-Tom Grey, TRy-Tom Ryan,
VTi-Vivek Tiwari,
WCa-William Cabot, WGB-Bill Bousman
** RARITY CODES:
1 = common, always seen in habitat in season.
2 = fairly common, usually in habitat in season, but missed sometimes.
3 = uncommon, always around, but sometimes you can't find.
4 = rare, occurs yearly in the county, but not always in same places.
5 = very rare, does not occur every year.
6 = casual or vagrant, generally fewer than 10 records.