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Birds |
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Birds at Luhr Beach
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Gaviidae (Loons) Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon Common Loon Podicipedidae (Grebes) Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Western Grebe Pelecanidae (Pelicans) American White Pelican Phalacrocoracidae (Cormorants) Double-crested Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant Ardeidae (Bitterns and Herons) Great Blue Heron Anatidae (Swans, Geese and Ducks) Canada Goose Brant Gadwall American Wigeon Mallard Northern Pintail Green-Winged Teal Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Oldsquaw Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Barrow's Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Accipitridae (Hawks, Kites, Eagles and Allies) Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Red-tailed Hawk Golden Eagle Rallidae (Rails, Gallinules and Coots) American Coot Charadriidae (Lapwings and Plovers) Killdeer Scolopacidae (Sandpipers, Phalaropes and Allies) Greater Yellowlegs Whimbrel Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dunlin Laridae (Skuas, Gulls, Terns and Skimmers) Bonaparte's Gull Mew Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Western Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Glaucous-winged x Western Gull Caspian Tern Alcidae (Auks, Murres and Puffins) Common Murre Pigeon Guillemot Marbled Murrelet Columbidae (Pigeons and Doves) Rock Dove (B) Alcedinidae (Kingfishers) Belted Kingfisher Picidae (Woodpeckers and Allies) Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Vireonidae (Vireos) Hutton's Vireo Corvidae (Crows and Jays) Steller's Jay American Crow Hirundinidae (Swallows) Purple Martin (B) Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Paridae (Chickadees and Titmice) Black-capped Chickadee Troglodytidae (Wrens) Bewick's Wren Turdidae (Thrushes) American Robin Varied Thrush Parulidae (Wood-Warblers) Yellow Warbler Sturnidae (Starlings) European Starling Emberizidae (Emberizids) Song Sparrow Oregon Junco Icteridae (Blackbirds) Red-winged Blackbird Fringillidae (Fringilline and Cardueline Finches and Allies) Pine Siskin American Goldfinch Passeridae (Old World Sparrows) House Sparrow (B) indicates birds confirmed to breed at Luhr Beach. |
The Nisqually Reach Nature Center is a great place to observe birds on
Nisqually Reach and Nisqually Flats. Set up your spotting scope on the pier
under the roof, or in really inclement weather, seek shelter in our
observation lounge with a 180 degree view. Since 1997, we've seen these
birds from Luhr Beach: