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King County Bird Guide

A guide to identifying the wide variety of birds in King County of Washington State.

Rock Sandpiper 1
Calidris ptilocnemis
Red Knot 2
Calidris canutus
Sanderling 3
Calidris alba
Western Sandpiper 4
Calidris mauri
Dunlin 5
Calidris alpina
Semipalmated Sandpiper 3
Calidris pusilla
Least Sandpiper 6
Calidris minutilla
Pectoral Sandpiper 7
Calidris melanotos
Short-billed Dowitcher 8
Limnodromus griseus
Long-billed Dowitcher 9
Limnodromus scolopaceus
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Tringa melanoleuca
Lesser Yellowlegs 10
Tringa flavipes
Whimbrel 7
Numenius phaeopus
Long-billed Curlew 11
Numenius americanus
Common Snipe 12
Gallinago gallinago
Black Turnstone 13
Arenaria melanocephala
Large White-headed Gulls 14
Larus
Western Gull 15
Larus occidentalis
Heermann's Gull
Larus heermanni
Mew Gull 16
Larus canus
Iceland Gull 17
Larus glaucoides
Ring-billed Gull 18
Larus delawarensis
Slaty-backed Gull 19
Larus schistisagus
Herring Gull 20
Larus argentatus
California Gull 21
Larus californicus
Glaucous-winged Gull 22
Larus glaucescens
Pigeon Guillemot 11
Cepphus columba
Arctic Tern 23
Sterna paradisaea
Common Tern 24
Sterna hirundo
Black Tern 25
Chlidonias niger
Common Murre 11
Uria aalge
Marbled Murrelet 26
Brachyramphus marmoratus
Rhinoceros Auklet 27
Cerorhinca monocerata
Swallow-tailed Gull 28
Creagrus furcatus
Killdeer 29
Charadrius vociferus
Semipalmated Plover 30
Charadrius semipalmatus
Black Oystercatcher 11
Haematopus bachmani
American Avocet 31
Recurvirostra americana
Black-bellied Plover 32
Pluvialis squatarola
American Golden Plover 33
Pluvialis dominica
Pacific Golden Plover 34
Pluvialis fulva
Spotted Sandpiper 35
Actitis macularius
Wandering Tattler 32
Tringa incana
Wilson's Snipe 36
Gallinago delicata
Wilson's Phalarope 37
Phalaropus tricolor
Bonaparte's Gull 2
Chroicocephalus philadelphia
Franklin's Gull 38
Leucophaeus pipixcan
Caspian Tern 39
Hydroprogne caspia
Olympic Gull 40
Larus glaucescens × occidentalis
Surfbird 41
Calidris virgata
American Mew Gull 32
Larus canus brachyrhynchus
Thayer's Gull 42
Larus glaucoides thayeri

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