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Day by Day New Birds, 2003

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2013 South Dakota - Pennington County - Big Years "A" and "B"
2013 BIG YEAR B - Pennington Co. - Day-by-Day- begins July 1
2013 BIG YEAR A - Pennington Co. Day-by-day - begins January 1
2013 - Big Year C (Sept 1, 2013 to August 31, 2014)
2013 - where I birded (goes into 2014 for big year B)
2013 - photos, South Dakota
Honduras - February 2013
2014 Birds Seen in SD (Pennington Co.)
2014 - day by day
2014 - 2015 - Alaska!
2016 AK bird checklist
2016 Day-by-day AK BIG YEAR
2016 Where I birded
2017 - Birds Seen in AK (NOT a big year)

Birds listed by first date seen in Texas during 2003

(485 countable species for the year)

Thanks to many people--and a special thanks to Eric Carpenter!

On 1/1-Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snow Goose
Ross’ Goose
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
American Kestrel
Prairie Falcon
American Coot
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Wilson’s Snipe
Bonaparte’s Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Forster’s Tern
Rock Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove
Monk Parakeet
Short-eared Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay
American Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
American Pipit
Sprague’s Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Loggerhead Shrike
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Pine Warbler
Northern Cardinal
Spotted Towhee
Vesper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Le Conte’s Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Smith’s Longspur
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Brewer’s Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
On Jan.2-Western Grebe
Clark’s Grebe
Canada Goose
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Sandhill Crane
Greater Roadrunner
Black Phoebe
Say’s Phoebe
Tree Swallow
Rock Wren
Bewick’s Wren
Lark Bunting
Yellow-headed Blackbird
On 1/3-Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Greater White-fronted Goose
White-winged Scoter
Lewis’ Woodpecker
Western Scrub-Jay
Black-crested Titmouse
Verdin
Townsend’s Solitaire
Phainopepla
Pyrrhuloxia
Canyon Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Black-throated Sparrow
House Finch
On ¼-Rough-legged Hawk
Burrowing Owl
White-throated Swift
Cactus Wren
Mountain Bluebird
Curve-billed Thrasher
Sage Sparrow
On 1/5-Rufous Hummingbird
On 1/7-Field Sparrow
On 1/8-Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Brown Thrasher
On 1-9-Northern Gannet
Brown Pelican
Neotropic Cormorant
American Bittern
Tricolored Heron
White Ibis
White-faced Ibis
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Osprey
White-tailed Kite
White-tailed Hawk
Crested Caracara
King Rail
Common Moorhen
Black-bellied Plover
American Oystercatcher
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Lesser Yellowlegs
Willet
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Western Sandpiper
Purple Sandpiper
Dunlin
Long-billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Black Skimmer
Barn Owl
Sedge Wren
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Common Yellowthroat
Seaside Sparrow
On 1/10-Cattle Egret
Harris’ Hawk
Plain Chachalaca
Snowy Plover
Long-billed Curlew
Wilson’s Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Common Ground-Dove
Green Parakeet
Buff-bellied Hummingbird
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Greater Pewee
Vermilion Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee
Green Jay
Hermit Thrush
Blue Mockingbird
Blue-headed Vireo
Golden-crowned Warbler
Lark Sparrow
On 1/11-Mountain Plover
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Horned Lark
Harris’ Sparrow
McCown’s Longspur
Lapland Longspur
On 1/13-Wood Duck
American Woodcock
Brown Creeper
Rusty Blackbird
Pine Siskin
On 1/16-American Tree Sparrow
On 1/17- Common Goldeneye
Golden Eagle
Ring-necked Pheasant
Great Horned Owl
Chihuahuan Raven
On 1/18-Northern Shrike
On 1/20-Greater Scaup
On 1/21-Red-shouldered Hawk
Sora
On 2/15-Canyon Wren
On 2/16-Scott’s Oriole
On 2/21-Calliope Hummingbird
Boat-tailed Grackle
Roseate Spoonbill
Purple Martin
Little Blue Heron
Reddish Egret
Mottled Duck
On 2/22-Brown-headed Nuthatch
Henslow’s Sparrow
Hairy Woodpecker
White-breasted Nuthatch
Winter Wren
Common Loon
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
On 2/23-Bachman’s Sparrow
Pileated Woodpecker
On 2/27-White-tipped Dove
Altamira Oriole
Indigo Bunting
Clay-colored Robin
Ringed Kingfisher
White-eyed Vireo
Couch’s Kingbird
Lesser Goldfinch
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Peregrine Falcon
On 2/28-Olive Sparrow
Northern Beardless Tyrannulet
Tropical Parula
On 3/7-Barred Owl
On 3/10-Acorn Woodpecker
Montezuma Quail
On 3/11-Cassin’s Sparrow
Green-tailed Towhee
Western Bluebird
Bushtit
Violet-green Swallow
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Cassin’s Finch
On 3/12-Williamson’s Sapsucker
On 3/13-Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
Mexican Jay
Common Raven
On 3/14-Brewer’s Sparrow
Scissortailed Flycatcher
On 3/15-Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Parula
Sandwich Tern
On 3/16-Yellow-crowned Night-heron
Gray Catbird
Northern Waterthrush
Short-billed Dowitcher
Virginia Rail
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Redhead
On 3/17-Anhinga
Whooping Crane
On 3/18-Yellow-throated Warbler
Chuck-will’s Widow
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
On 3/19-Grasshopper Sparrow
House Wren
Summer Tanager
Wild Turkey
Long-billed Thrasher
Hooded Oriole
Swainson’s Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Solitary Sandpiper
On 3/20-Great Crested-Flycatcher
Black-chinned Hummingbird
On 3/21-Chimney Swift
American Golden-Plover
Yellow-throated Vireo
On 3/22-Eastern Towhee
Hooded Warbler
Semipalmated Plover
On 3/23-Merlin
On 3/26-Chestnut-collared Longspur
On 3/28-Upland Sandpiper
Eastern Kingbird
On 3/29-Greater Prairie-Chicken (Attwater)
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
On 3/30-Green Heron
On 4/2-Franklin’s Gull
On 4/3-Surf Scoter
On 4/5-Lesser Prairie-Chicken
On 4/6-Whimbrel
Least Tern
Common Tern
Prairie Warbler
Black Rail
Yellow Rail
Clapper Rail
Purple Gallinule
Least Bittern
Stilt Sandpiper
On 4/7-Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Swallow-tailed Kite
On 4/10-Baird’s Sandpiper
On 4/11-Northern Bobwhite
On 4/12-Golden-cheeked Warbler
On 4/15-Western Kingbird
On 4/16-Common Poorwill
Plumbeous Vireo
Steller’s Jay
Juniper Titmouse
On 4/17-Black-chinned Sparrow
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Gambel’s Quail
On 4/18-Virginia’s Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Gray Flycatcher
Townsend’s Warbler
On 4/19-Scaled Quail
Bullock’s Oriole
Cave Swallow
On 4/21-Worm-eating Warbler
Common Nighthawk
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Baltimore Oriole
Fish Crow
Blackburnian Warbler
Wood Thrush
Prothonotary Warbler
Orchard Oriole
Swainson’s Thrush
Cerulean Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Ovenbird
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Eastern Wood-pewee
Magnolia Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Acadian Flycatcher
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Willow Flycatcher
Painted Bunting
Wilson’s Plover
Piping Plover
On 4/22-Red-headed Woodpecker
American Redstart
Blackpoll Warbler
Warbling Vireo
Blue Grosbeak
Yellow-breasted Chat
Least Flycatcher
Veery
Swainson’s Warbler
Palm Warbler
Yellow Warbler
On 4/23-Gull-billed Tern
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Hudsonian Godwit
Black Tern
On 4/24-Philadelphia Vireo
Magnificent Frigatebird
Bobolink
On 4/25-Red-eyed Vireo
Dickcissel
On 4/26-Mississippi Kite
On 5/2-Olive-sided Flycatcher
White-rumped Sandpiper
On 5/5-Eastern Screech-Owl
Pectoral Sandpiper
Lazuli Bunting
On 5/9-Glossy Ibis
On 5/13-Alder Flycatcher
On 5/15-Bronzed Cowbird
Botteri’s Sparrow
On 5/16-Brown-crested Flycatcher
Groove-billed Ani
On 5/20-Bank Swallow
On 5/21-Black-capped Vireo
Bay-breasted Warbler
Bell’s Vireo
On 5/22-Cassin’s Kingbird
Black-headed Grosbeak
On 5/23-Hepatic Tanager
Western Wood-Pewee
Pygmy Nuthatch
On 5/24-Tropical Kingbird
On 5/25-Band-tailed Pigeon
Colima Warbler
Blue-throated Hummingbird
Hutton’s Vireo
Painted Redstart
Whip-poor-will
On 5/26-Varied Bunting
Common Black-Hawk
On 5/27-White-collared Seedeater
On 5/28-Canada Warbler
Gray Hawk
Lesser Nighthawk
On 5/29-Audubon’s Oriole
Green Kingfisher
Brown Jay
On 5/31-Green Violet-Ear
On 6/19-Zone-tailed Hawk
On 6/20-Bridled Tern
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
Leach’s Storm-Petrel
Sooty Tern
Audubon’s Shearwater
On 6/21-Muscovy Duck
Short-tailed Hawk
Least Grebe
On 6/30-Lucifer Hummingbird
Lucy’s Warbler
On 7/1-Crissal Thrasher
Elf Owl
Western Screech-Owl
On 7/2-Magnificent Hummingbird
Gray Vireo
On 7/14-Wood Stork
On 7/24-Red-billed Pigeon
On 7/25-Aplomado Falcon
On 7/26-Pauraque
Hook-billed Kite
Red-crowned Parrot
On 7/30-Mountain Chickadee
On 7/31-Western Tanager
Cordilleran Flycatcher
Spotted Owl
On 8/1-Grace’s Warbler
On 8/13-Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
On 8/16-Allen’s Hummingbird
On 8/17-Buff-breasted Flycatcher
On 8/18-Dusky Flycatcher
On 8/21-Hermit Warbler
On 8/23-White-eared Hummingbird
On 8/23-Flammulated Owl
On 8/29-Broad-billed Humingbird
On 9/5-Mourning Warbler
On 9/25-Black-billed Cuckoo
Red Knot
On 9/26-Cory’s Shearwater
Masked Booby
Yellow-nosed Albatross
On 10/4-Northern Goshawk
On 10/11-Jaeger species
On 10/21-Black-throated Blue Warbler
MacGillivray’s Warbler
On 10/31-Red-naped Sapsucker
On 11/2-Sage Thrasher
On 11/10-Thayer’s Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
On 11/14-Tundra Swan
On 11/16-California Gull
On 11/24-Pacific Loon
On 12/4-Glaucous Gull
On 12/10-Slaty-backed Gull
On 12/11-Anna's Hummingbird
On 12/17-Long-tailed Duck
On 12/22-Thick-billed Kingbird
On 12/24-Purple Finch
On 12/29-Red-breasted Nuthatch
Red Crossbill
On 12/31-Red-throated Loon