Rare Birds

Plumas Audubon Society works across a large region with very diverse bird populations.  There are many Audubon Important Bird Areas nearby and with many valleys, riparian corridors, lakes, and other diverse habitats in close proximity, many migrant birds also frequent the area.  Fall and Spring can be some of the most exciting birding locally and many rare species may be sighted.  Plumas Audubon would like to keep records of rare species observed in and around our area.  If you see any of the following species please report it to Plumas Audubon by email as this can help in future projects and enable PAS to alert local birders so they can enjoy trying to see them as well.

Snow Goose
Ross's Goose
Brant
Cackling Goose
Trumpeter Swan
Eurasian Wigeon
Greater Scaup
Tufted Duck
Harlequin Duck
Surt Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Barrow's Goldeneye
Red-breasted Merganser
Chukar
Red-throated Loon
Pacific Loon
Brown Pelican
Least Bittern
Little Blue Heron
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
White-tailed Kite
Northern Goshawk
Merlin
Common Moorhen
Black-bellied Plover
Snowy Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Mountain Plover
Solitary Plover
Lesser Yellowlegs
Whimbrel
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Purple Martin

Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-billed Dowitcher
Red-necked Phalarope
Franklin's Gull
Mew Gull
Herring Gull
Thayer's Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Sabine's Gull
Common Tern
Parasitic Jaeger
Long-tailed Jaeger
Western Screech-owl
Barred Owl
Northern Spotted Owl
Great Gray Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Black Swift
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Costa's Hummingbird
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Red-naped Sapsucker
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Black-backed Woodpecker
Least Flycatcher
Cordilleran Flycatcher
Say's Phoebe
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
Northern Shrike
Plumbeous Vireo
Hutton's Vireo
Gray Jay
Yellow-billed Magpie

​Juniper Titmouse
Northern Mockingbird
Bohemian Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing
Northern Parula
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Northern Waterthrush
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
American Tree Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Black-throated Sparrow
Sage Sparrow
Lark Bunting
Fox Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Harris's Sparrow
McCown's Longspur
Lapland Longspur
Chestnut-sided Longspur
Snow Bunting
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Bobolink
Tri-colored Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Hooded Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
Pine Grosbeak
Common Redpoll
Lawrence's Goldfinch