SueO’s 2009 Year List

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St. Lucia, West Indies

1. Royal Terns
2. Carib Grackles
3. Cattle Egrets
4. Spotted Sandpiper
5. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
6. Black-faced Grassquits
7. American Kestrels
8. Zenaida Doves
9. Gray Kingbirds
10. Scaly-breasted Thrasher* (ID thanks to Mark Sutton)
11. Tropical Mockingbirds
12. Green-throated Carib
13. Lesser Antillean Bullfinch
14. Less Antillean Saltator
15. Antillean Crested Hummingbird

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16. Caribbean Elaenia
17. St. Lucia Warbler
18. Shiny Cowbird

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19. Mangrove Cuckoo

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20. Great Egret
21. Magnificent Frigatebird

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22. Broad-winged Hawk
23. Purple-throated Carib

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24. Common Ground Dove
25. Bananaquit

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26. Osprey
27. Little Blue Heron

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28. St. Lucia Oriole

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29. Green Heron
30. Ruddy Turnstone

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31. Lesser Antillean Swift

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32. Gray Trembler
33. St. Lucia Parrot

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34. Brown Booby
35. Yellow Warbler
36. Black-whiskered Vireo
37. Common Moorhen
38. Snowy Egret

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39. Laughing Gull
40. Belted Kingfisher
41. Caribbean Martin
In Waters Between St. Lucia and St. Vincent
42. Audubon's Shearwater
43. Red-fotted Booby
St. Vincent
44. Bananaquit (St. Vincent race)
45. Smooth-billed Ani
Bequia
46. Eared Dove

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Bequia Island, West Indies:
47. Collared Dove
At Sea:
48. Brown Noddy
Canouan Island, West Indies:
49. Grenada Flycatcher
50. Semipalmated Plover
Union Island, West Indies:
51. Brown Pelican
52. Willet
53. Whimbrel
54. Greater Yellowlegs

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Carriacou Island, Grenada, W.I.
55. Scaly-naped Pigeon
56. Tricolored Heron

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GRENADA:

57. House Wren-- Grenada race Lifer #646

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Grenada:

58. Roseate Tern Lifer #647

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Grenada:

59. Bare-eyed Robin Lifer #648

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GRENADA:

60. Yellow-bellied Elaenia Lifer#649
61. Wilson's Plover (cinnamominus)#650
62. Gray-rumped Swift #651

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GRENADA:

63. Hook-billed Kite #652
64. Grenada Dove #653

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AT SEA BETWEEN GRENADA AND BONAIRE:
65. Masked Booby
66. Sooty Tern #654
67. Red-billed Tropicbird Lifer#655

BONAIRE:
68. Least Tern
69. House Sparrow
70. Saffron Finch #656
71. Troupial #657
72. Bare-eyed Pigeon #658
73. Ruby-topaz Hummingbird #659
74. Caribbean Parakeet #660
75. Snowy Plover
76. Lesser Yellowlegs #661
77. Black-winged Stilt
78. Semipalmated Sandpiper #662

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BONAIRE:
79. Smooth or Scrub Flycatcher (Sublegatus modestus)#663
80. Yellow Oriole (Icterus nigrogularis)#664
81. White-tipped or White-faced Dove (Leptotila verreauxi)#665
82. Yellow-shouldered or Yellow-winged Parrot (Amazona barbedensis)#666

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Bonaire:
83. Flamingo
84. Olivaceous Cormorant Lifer#667
85. White-cheeked Pintail #668
86. Pearly-eyed Thrasher #669
87. Blue-tailed Emerald #670
88. Reddish Egret
89. Barn Swallow
90. Black-bellied (Grey) Plover

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I came here to fix an error and saw that I had five stars. I don't know if they've been here awhile and I just didn't notice or if they're new. Thanks to whoever put them there.

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CURACAO:
91. Caracara (Polyborus plancus) #671

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92. Groove-billed Ani #672

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93. Rufous-collared Sparrow #673
94. Common Tern

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Curacao
95. Caribbean Coot Lifer#674
96. Least Grebe #675
97. Pied-billed Grebe
98. White-tailed Hawk #676

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99. Brown-crested Flycatcher #677

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CALIFORNIA:
100. House Finch
101. European Starling
102. Northern Mockingbird
103. American Crow
104. Mourning Dove
105. Hooded Oriole
106. Turkey Vulture
107. Red-tailed Hawk
108. Marbled Godwit
109. Great Horned Owl
110. American Robin
111. Black Phoebe
112. Common Yellowthroat

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CALIFORNIA:
113. Killdeer
114. Raven
115. Western Meadowlark
116. California Towhee
117. Lark Sparrow (#678)
118. Lesser Goldfinch
119. Cassin’s Kingbird
120. Elegant Tern
121. Black Skimmer
122. Forster’s Tern
123. Long-billed Curlew

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124. American Goldfinch
125. Black-chinned Hummingbird
126. Song Sparrow
127. Nuttall's Woodpecker
128. Lincoln's Sparrow

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129. Double-crested Cormorant
130. Least Sandpiper
131. House Wren (T. aedon parkmanii)
132. Western Grebe
133. Savannah Sparrow (Belding’s)
134. Peregrine
135. California Least Tern (Sternula antillarum brownii)

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136. Great Blue Heron

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137. Ash-throated Flycatcher
138. California Quail
139. American Coot
140. Orange-crowned Warbler
141. Red-winged Blackbird
142. Great-tailed Grackle

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143. Western Sandpiper
144. Short-billed Dowitcher#684
145. Black-crowned Heron
146. Western Bluebird
147. Downy Woodpecker

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From my house in San Diego County California:
148. Acorn Woodpecker
149. Western Tanager
150. Western Scrub Jay
151. Greater Roadrunner
152. Rufous-crowned Sparrow (679)
153. Oak Titmouse
154. Black-headed Grosbeak (680)
155. Red-shouldered Hawk
156. Anna’s Hummingbird
157. Spotted Towhee
Removed what was listed as 158. Scott’s Oriole Would have been lifer #681--I have doubts about my ID so I'm taking this off. I think I might have seen a female Western Tanager rather than a female Scott's oriole.
158. Bush Tits
159. Bewick’s Wren
160. Golden Eagle

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CALIFORNIA (Back Bay in Newport Beach):

161. Northern Harrier (Hen Harrier)

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California (Seal Beach and Bolsa Chica)
162. Cooper’s Hawk #682
163. Heerman’s Gull
164. Western Gull
165. Caspian Tern

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California
166. Cinnamon Teal
167. Ruddy Duck
168. Green-winged Teal
169. American Avocet
170. Allen’s Hummingbird
171. Eurasian Collared Dove
172. Tree Swallow

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Temecula, California:
173. Barn Owl#681
Salton Sea, California:
174. Black Tern
175. Brandt Goose
176. Eared Grebe
177. Sharp-shinned Hawk
178. American White Pelican
179. Wilson’s Phalarope#683
180. Verdin
181. Aberts’s Towhee
182. Gambel’s Quail
183. Long-billed Dowitcher #685
184. Western Kingbird

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California
Bolsa Chica (Huntington Beach):
185. Ring-billed Gull
186. White-faced Ibis
San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary (Irvine):
187. Say’s Phoebe
188. California Thrasher
189. Northern Shoveler
Lake Skinner (Temecula):
190. White-crowned Sparrow
191. Yellow-rumped Warbler
192. Black-throated Gray Warbler

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193. Horned Lark

Huntington Beach Central Park:
194. Northern Flicker

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San Diego Creek, Upper Newport Bay, and a small park in Huntington Beach:
195. American Wigeon
196. Blue-winged Teal
197. Canada Goose
198. Wilson’s Warbler
199. White-tailed Kite
200. Dunlin
201. Brewer’s Blackbird

A few Gulls and a bit of surprise in a neighborhood park in Huntington Beach.

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Agua Tibia, Cleveland National Forest, Southern California and surrounding areas:

202. Loggerhead Shrike
203. White-breasted Nuthatch
204. Hutton’s Vireo#686

Huntington Beach Central Park:

205. Chipping Sparrow

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My Home Near Dulzura, CA
206. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
207. Rock Wren#687
208. Canyon Wren
209. Hermit Thrush
210. Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon)
212. Red-breasted Sapsucker#688

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Back Bay, Newport Beach:
213. Northern Pintail
Huntington Beach:
214. California Gull

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Bolsa Chica Wetlands, Huntington Beach, California:

215. Lesser Scaup
216. American Bittern

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Lake Elsinore, California:
216. Bonaparte’s Gull
217. Gadwall
Casper's Regional Park on Ortega Hwy:
218. Wrentit

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Bolsa Chica Wetlands
219. Common Loon#689
220. Horned Grebe#690
221. Bufflehead

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Bolsa Chica Wetlands, Huntington Beach, California:

222. Red-breasted Merganser#691

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Huntington Beach Central Park:
223. Fox Sparrow

San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, Irvine, California:
224. Virginia Rail#692
225. Cedar Waxwing
226. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
227. American Pipit