Stanford Golf Course Bird List

Last updated: 7/9/02.

Latest Bird news

We continue to receive new reports of additional species that have been sighted at the golf course. We believe there are numerous others that have yet to be reported; particularly in the areas of migratory songbirds such as warblers, flycatchers, vireos, and sparrows.

87 total species


Species:                                Source:

Mallard Duck [1,3,5] Northern Pintail [10] Wood Duck [1,3,5] Hooded Merganser [1,3,10] Common Merganser [9] Double-Crested Cormorant [1] Forster's Tern [8] Great Blue Heron [1,3,5] Green Heron [9] Great Egret [1,2,3] Snowy Egret [10] Black-Crowned Night Heron [1,11] American Bittern [8] Killdeer [1,3,5] Wild Turkey [7,10] California Quail [1,2,3,5] White Tailed (Black Shouldered) Kite [1] Northern Harrier [1] Sharp-Shinned Hawk [1,5] Coopers Hawk [1,3,5] Red Tailed Hawk [1,3,5] Red Shouldered Hawk [1,3,5] Merlin [1,6] Turkey Vulture [1] American Kestrel [1] Golden Eagle [9,10] Barn Owl [12,13,14,15] Great Horned Owl [1] Belted Kingfisher [1,5] Mourning Dove [1,2,3,5] Band-Tailed Pigeon [1,5] Rock Dove [1,3,5] Anna's Hummingbird [1,5] Acorn Woodpecker [1,3,5] Downy Woodpecker [1,3,5] Hairy Woodpecker [1,5] Northern Flicker [1] Nuttall's Woodpecker [1,5] Western (Pacific-slope) Flycatcher [5] Black Phoebe [1,3,5] Tree Swallow [1,3] Violet-Green Swallow [1,5] Northern Rough-winged Swallow [9] Barn Swallow [1,3] American Crow [2] Common Raven [2,3] Scrub Jay [1,3,5] Steller's Jay [1,3,5] Chestnut-Backed Chickadee [1,5] Oak Titmouse [1,5] Bushtit [1,5] White-Breasted Nuthatch [1,3,5] Red-Breasted Nuthatch [4] Brown Creeper [1] Bewick's Wren [1,5] Wrentit [5] Ruby-crowned Kinglet [1,5] Northern Mockingbird [1,5] California Thrasher [1] American Robin [1,3,5] Varied Thrush [1] Hermit Thrush [5] Western Bluebird [1,3,4,5] European Starling [1,5] Cedar Waxwing [1,8] Hutton's Vireo [5] Warbling Vireo [5] Yellow Rumped (Audubon's) Warbler [1,5] Townsend's Warbler [1] Yellow Warbler [5] Orange-crowned Warbler [5] Wilson's Warbler [5] Brewer's Blackbird [2] Red Winged Blackbird [2,3] Western Meadowlark [1,3] Brown-headed Cowbird [5] Bullock's Oriole [1,9] White-Crowned Sparrow [1] Golden-Crowned Sparrow [1,5] Rufous-Sided (Spotted) Towhee [1,3,5] California Towhee [1,5] Dark Eyed Junco (Oregon) [1,5] House Finch [1,5] Purple Finch [5] Lesser Goldfinch [1,5] House Sparrow [1,3] Song Sparrow [1,5]

Contributors:

[1] - Fred L. Templin
[2] - Lyman Van Slyke
[3] - David E. Wilkins
[4] - Red Pendleton
[5] - Ruth Troetschler
[6] - Lew Keller
[7] - Phil Kelly
[8] - Bill Kirk
[9] - Rob Colwell
[10]- Bob Nolte
[11]- Melanie Templin
[12] - Ken Williams
[13] - Ruben 
[14] - Joyce Bartlett
[15] - Jan LaFetra

Fred L. Templin and David E. Wilkins, email:
Last modified: Tue Dec 17 13:53:57 2002