I've compiled a list of some of the rare birds that showed up in Central Oregon reports during the fall season (Aug-Nov) of this year. This list does not include late departers or early arrivers. There are 75 species on this list. Good fall for rarities.
Snow Goose Ross's Goose Cackling Goose Trumpeter Swan Eurasian Wigeon Cinnamon Teal Greater Scaup Barrow's Goldeneye Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Long-tailed Duck Red-breasted Merganser Chukar Wild Turkey Mountain Quail Ring-necked Pheasant Ruffed Grouse Sooty Grouse Pacific Loon Red-throated Loon White-faced Ibis Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Clark's Grebe American White Pelican Great Egret Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Black-bellied Plover Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Solitary Sandpiper Long-billed Curlew Semipalmated Sandpiper Sanderling Ruff Red Phalarope Long-tailed Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Thayer's Gull Herring Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Sabine's Gull Common Tern Arctic Tern Black Tern Sandhill Crane Band-tailed Pigeon Barred Owl Great Gray Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Black Swift Costa's Hummingbird Black-chinned Hummingbird Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Three-toed Woodpecker Eastern Kingbird Chestnut-backed Chickadee Black-capped Chickadee Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Bohemian Waxwing Canada Warbler Swamp Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Harris's Sparrow Lapland Longspur Bobolink Tricolored Blackbird Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Purple Finch -- Chuck Gates High School Teacher (Retired) NAMC State Coordinator - East Cascades Audubon Society Online Oregon Birding Site Guide - birdingoregon.info 541-280-4957 -- Chuck Gates High School Teacher (Retired) NAMC State Coordinator - East Cascades Audubon Society Online Oregon Birding Site Guide - birdingoregon.info 541-280-4957
