Foreword to the Second EditionIntroduction Using This Guide Organization of Species Species Profiles Birding Basics Optics and Field Guides Birding Techniques Where to Find Birds Kansas Geography and Ecosystems Calendar of Kansas Bird Activity Species Accounts Waterfowl Canada Goose Cackling Goose Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross’s Goose Trumpeter Swan Tundra Swan Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon Mallard Northern Shoveler Green-winged Teal Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon TealNorthern Pintail Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Greater Scaup Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Long-tailed Duck Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Other Swimming Birds Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clark’s Grebe Common Gallinule American Coot American White Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Neotropic Cormorant Wading Birds Whooping Crane Sandhill Crane Great Blue Heron Little Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Western Cattle Egret Green Heron Least Bittern American Bittern Black-crowned Night Heron Yellow-crowned Night Heron White-faced Ibis Glossy Ibis King Rail Virginia Rail Sora Black Rai Shorebirds Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Snowy Plover Piping Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Willet Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Long-billed Curlew Whimbrel Hudsonian Godwit Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird’s Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Long-billed Dowitcher Short-billed Dowitcher Wilson’s Snipe American Woodcock Wilson’s Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Gulls & Terns Franklin’s Gull Bonaparte’s Gull Sabine’s Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Glaucous Gull Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Great Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern Forster’s Tern Common Tern Least Tern Black Tern Upland Game Birds Ring-necked Pheasant Greater Prairie-Chicken Lesser Prairie-Chicken Wild Turkey Northern Bobwhite Scaled Quail Diurnal Raptors Turkey Vulture Black Vulture Osprey Mississippi Kite Bald Eagle Golden Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper’s Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Swainson’s Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Prairie Falcon Owls & Nightjars American Barn Owl Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Snowy Owl Burrowing Owl Common Nighthawk Common Poorwill Chuck-will’s-widow Whip-poor-will Doves & Cuckoos Rock Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove White-winged Dove Mourning Dove Inca Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo Greater Roadrunner Woodpeckers & Kingfishers Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated WoodpeckerAerialists Chimney Swift Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Ruby-throated Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Insect Catchers Great Crested Flycatcher Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Western Wood-Pewee Eastern Phoebe Say’s Phoebe Acadian Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Dusky Flycatcher Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Bell’s Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Warblers Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Wilson’s Warbler Kentucky Warbler Common Yellowthroat Yellow Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Northern Parula Yellow-throated Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Louisiana Waterthrush Northern Waterthrush Other Migratory Warblers Worm-eating Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Blue-winged Warbler Mourning Warbler Hooded Warbler Cape May Warbler Magnolia Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Palm Warbler Pine Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Townsend’s Warbler Canada Warbler Small Active Songbirds Carolina Chickadee Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Rock Wren Carolina Wren Bewick’s Wren Northern House Wren Winter Wren Sedge Wren Marsh Wren Thrushes & Others Eastern Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Swainson’s Thrush Gray-cheeked Thrush Veery Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Brown Thrasher Curve-billed Thrasher American Robin Gray Catbird Townsend’s Solitaire Northern Mockingbird Loggerhead Shrike Northern Shrike Cedar Waxwing Yellow-breasted Chat Ground Dwellers & Sparrows Horned Lark American Pipit Sprague’s Pipit Lapland Longspur Smith’s Longspur Thick-billed Longspur Chestnut-collared Longspur Spotted Towhee Eastern Towhee Cassin’s Sparrow American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Brewer’s Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Lark Bunting Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Henslow’s Sparrow LeConte’s Sparrow Nelson’s Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Harris’s Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco House Sparrow Blackbirds, Corvids,& Allies Blue Jay Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay Black-billed Magpie American Crow Fish Crow Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Western Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Brewer’s Blackbird Common Grackle Great-tailed Grackle European Starling Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Bullock’s Oriole Colorful Songbirds Scarlet Tanager Western Tanager Summer Tanager Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Black-headed Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Lazuli Bunting Painted Bunting Dickcissel Purple Finch House Finch Pine Siskin American Goldfinch Red Crossbill Kansas Birding Hotspots Western Region 1. St. Francis Area 2. Rural Cheyenne County 3. Atwood Area 4. Oberlin Area 5. Soldiers Memorial Park 6. Colby Area 7. Sheridan State Fishing Lake 8. Sheridan Wildlife Area 9. Historic Lake Scott State Park 10. Little Jerusalem Badlands StatePark and Smoky Valley Ranch 11. Arkansas River Scenic Drive 12. Hamilton County Wildlife Area 13. Garden City Area 14. Manter Dam Recreation Area 15. Ulysses Area 16. Cimarron National Grassland 17. Hugoton Area 18. Arkalon Park 19. Meade State Park 20. Lakeview Playa North-Central Region 21. Keith Sebelius Reservoir 22. Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge 23. Lovewell Reservoir 24. Jamestown Wildlife Area 25. Talmo Wildlife Area 26. Antelope Lake 27. Webster Reservoir 28. Rooks State Fishing Lake 29. Waconda/Glen Elder Reservoir 30. Gurley Salt Marsh 31. Ottawa State Fishing Lake 32. Cedar Bluff Reservoir 33. Hays Area 34. Wilson Reservoir 35. Kanopolis Reservoir 36. Salina Area South-Central Region 37. Cheyenne Bottoms 38. McPherson Valley Wetlands 39. McPherson State Fishing Lake and Maxwell Wildlife Refuge 40. Jetmore Area 41. Quivira National Wildlife Refuge 42. Sandhills State Park and Dillon Nature Center 43. Harvey County West Park 44. Harvey County East Park 45. Ford State Fishing Lake 46. Hain Wildlife Area 47. Herron Playa Wildlife Area 48. Texas Lake Wildlife Area and Pratt Sandhills Wildlife Area 49. Pratt Area 50. Kingman State Fishing Lake and Byron Walker Wildlife Area 51. Cheney Reservoir 52. Lake Afton 53. Wichita Area 54. Clark State Fishing Lake 55. Coldwater Lake 56. Red Hills Scenic Drive 57. Anthony City Lake 58. Wellington Lake 59. Slate Creek Wetlands East-Central Region 60. Alcove Spring Park 61. Milford Reservoir 62. Konza Prairie 63. Tuttle Creek Reservoir 64. Echo Cliff Park and LakeWabaunsee 65. Herington City Lakes 66. Council Grove Reservoir 67. Marion Reservoir 68. Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve 69. Chase State Fishing Lake 70. Lyon State Fishing Lake 71. El Dorado Reservoir 72. Fall River Reservoir 73. Toronto Reservoir 74. Woodson State Fishing Lake 75. Augusta City Lake 76. Chaplin Nature Center 77. Kaw Wildlife Area 78. Winfield City Lake 79. Cross Timbers Scenic Drive Eastern Region 80. Nemaha Wildlife Area 81. Pony Creek Lake 82. Wathena Area 83. Banner Creek Lake 84. Atchison State Fishing Lake 85. Perry Reservoir 86. Kansas City Area 87. Topeka Area 88. Lawrence Area 89. Flint Hills Trail State Park 90. Hillsdale Reservoir 91. Melvern Reservoir 92. John Redmond Reservoirand Flint Hills NationalWildlife Refuge 93. Marais des Cygnes Wildlife Area and Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge 94. Lehigh Portland State Park 95. Elm Creek Lake 96. Neosho Wildlife Area 97. Bone Creek Lake 98. Crawford State Park 99. Elk City Lake 100. Cherokee County Area Birding Resources Seasonal Distribution of Kansas Warblers Seasonal Distribution of Kansas Sparrows Complete Species List for Kansas Acknowledgments Index to Place Names Index to Bird Names Quick Index

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