IBRC Species "Review List"

Review Species...

The Idaho Bird Records Committee is charged, in part, with maintaining a scientifically valuable accounting of both species and species' occurrence in the state of Idaho. Our knowledge and understanding of the status and distribution of certain rare or unusual species in the state is very limited. This Committee solicits documentation of sightings of these "Review Species" from the birding community and general population at large. By providing this documentation, you are better able to help the Committee maintain the integrity of the state database. A more accurate picture of the status and distribution of these rarer species within the state will then emerge.

For which species is documentation requested? Sightings of ANY species listed in the list below should be documented as thoroughly as possible, and the resulting Rare Bird Report Form for that sighting should be submitted to the IBRC Secretary.

Many past sightings of species on this review list were not documented sufficiently to be reviewed or endorsed by the IBRC; indeed the Committee was inactive for a period of time. But reports simply deemed "likely valid" can still show valuable occurrence trends within our borders, even if the documention of those reports failed to meet the threshold for IBRC endorsement. Click the species name in the list below to see a comprehensive tally that contains ALL reports -- even those considered "likely valid" as well as those records that have undergone IBRC review.

The sequence of this list is based on the 7th edition of the AOU Checklist, 45th supplement. The Review List was last updated by the Idaho Bird Records Committee on 28 January 2007. More updates are imminent. IBRC members: Chuck Trost, Jay Carlisle, and Cliff Weisse comprise the Checklist Committee.

Please use the following key to interpret the meaning of the abbreviations used in the review list. There was a major revision of this list that was adopted by IBRC in December of 2008. The revision is intended to make more specific requests for data including for some field identifiable subspecies, regionally and or seasonally rare species, and to raise awareness of the possibility that some of these species may be breeding in Idaho despite the fact that it has not yet been confirmed. Although it may take a bit of effort to become familiar with the format of the current list we feel the potential improvement in the quality of the data obtained far outweighs the slight inconvenience involved in learning how to interpret the list. If anything needs clarification please feel free to contact any IBRC member with your questions.

Key to abbreviations used in the Reveiw List
In the list below a species listed with only the species name and nothing following it is a full review species for which reports are requested for any sighting within Idaho. Some species are review species for a limited area or season. For those species there will be one or more qualifiers following the species name in the list. These qualifiers are in parentheses and use the abbreviations listed below separated by a hyphen, for example (W - all).

Seasonal abbreviations:
S = Summer - June 1-July 31
Wi = Winter - December 1-February 29.
M = Migration
All - all seasons
note that all seasonal abbreviations are in capital letters

Regional abbreviations:
c = central
e = east
p = panhandle
w = west
all = all regions
note that all regional abbreviations are in lower case letters
Regional Map

Breeding reports:
B = Breeding
Confirmation of breeding must include at least one of the following:
1- Nest with young seen or heard
2 - Examined specimen of nestling
3 - Nest with viable egg(s)
4 - Fledgling(s) observed (fledgling is defined as young away from nest but without adult-sized flight feathers)
5 - Occupied nest (adults regularly entering and leaving a nest)
6 - Adults attending young (adults carrying fecal sacs or food for young)
7 - Recently used nest with eggshells (must be in good condition and eggshells identifiable)
Many species are suspected of breeding because of circumstantial evidence (a pair on territory during breeding season, etc). Some of these are regularly occurring or even common species. You can help further the understanding of avian species distribution in Idaho by reporting breeding of these species. For more details and comprehensive information on species distribution, visit the Idaho Bird Distribution/Mapping by Latilong section of this web site.

Examples
(S - all), S = Summer season - all = all regions, so reports are requested for any sighting in Idaho during the summer.

(Wi - c,p), Wi = Winter season - c = central, p = panhandle, so Winter reports are requested for the central and panhandle regions.

(All - e), All = All seasons - e = east region, so reports are requested for all sightings in the east region.

(B - p), B = Breeding - p = panhandle, so reports are requested for any sightings that confirm breeding by the species in the panhandle region.

Report all sightings in all regions (B - all), In addition to a report for all sightings of the species, we request that any breeding data be included with the report.

REVIEW LISTCCClC Click on underlined species for list of observations
Greater White-fronted Goose (S - all) Emperor Goose Snow Goose (S - all) Ross's Goose (S - all) Brant Cackling Goose Cackling Goose (all subspecies) Trumpeter Swan (S - c,p,w) (B - c,p,w) Tundra Swan (Bewick's race only) Eurasian Wigeon (S - all) American Black Duck Blue-winged Teal (Wi - all) Cinnamon Teal (Wi - all) Garganey "Eurasian" Green-winged Teal Tufted Duck Harlequin Duck (M,Wi - all) (S - w) Surf Scoter (S - all) White-winged Scoter (S - all) Black Scoter Long-tailed Duck (S - all) Red-breasted Merganser (S - all) Greater Sage Grouse (All - p) Spruce Grouse (All - e) White-tailed Ptarmigan Sharp-tailed Grouse (All - c,p) Mountain Quail Report all sightings (B - all) Gambel's Quail (All - e,p,w) Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon (S - all) Yellow-billed Loon Clark's Grebe (Wi - all) Least Bittern American Bittern (Wi - all) Great Egret (Wi - c,p) Snowy Egret (Wi - all) (All - p) Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Cattle Egret (Wi - all) Green Heron White Ibis White-faced Ibis (Wi - all) Glossy Ibis Wood Stork Turkey Vulture (Wi, Dec. 15 to Feb. 1 only - all) Osprey (Wi, Jan. 1 to Feb. 29 only - all) White-tailed Kite Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk , except in fall at Lucky Peak Swainson's Hawk (Wi - all) Ferruginous Hawk (All - p) Rough-legged Hawk (S - all) Crested Caracara Merlin (S - all) (B - all) Gyrfalcon Yellow Rail Sora (Wi - c,p) Common Moorhen Sandhill Crane (Wi - all, except Feb. in w) Whooping Crane Black-bellied Plover (Wi -all) American Golden Plover (Wi -all) Pacific Golden-Plover Snowy Plover Semipalmated Plover (Wi -all) Mountain Plover American Oystercatcher Black-necked Stilt (Wi -all) American Avocet (Wi -all) Greater Yellowlegs (Wi -all) Lesser Yellowlegs (Wi -all) Solitary Sandpiper (Wi -all) Willet (Wi -all) Spotted Sandpiper (Wi -all) Upland Sandpiper Report all sightings (B - all) Whimbrel Hudsonian Godwit Marbled Godwit (Wi -all) Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling (Wi -all) Semipalmated Sandpiper (Wi -all) Western Sandpiper (Wi -all) Least Sandpiper (Wi -all) White-rumped Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper (Wi -all) Pectoral Sandpiper (Wi -all) Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Dunlin (Wi -all) Stilt Sandpiper (Wi -all) Buff-breasted Sandpiper Ruff Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher (Wi -all) Wilson's Phalarope (Wi -all) Red-necked Phalarope (Wi -all) Red Phalarope Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Long-tailed Jaeger Franklin's Gull (Wi - all) Little Gull Heerman's Gull American Herring Gull (L.a.smithsonianus) (Wi - all) Herring Gull, "Vega" subspecies (L.a.vegae) (Wi - all) Iceland Gull Thayer's Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Slaty-backed Gull Western Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull Sabine's Gull (S,Wi - all) Ross's Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Caspian Tern (Wi - all) Common Tern (Wi - all) Arctic Tern Forster's Tern (Wi - all) Least Tern Black Tern (Wi - all) Ancient Murrelet Band-tailed Pigeon Report all sightings in all regions (B - all) Eurasian Collared-Dove (All - p) (B - all) White-winged Dove Black-billed Cuckoo Report all sightings (B - all) Yellow-billed Cuckoo (S - c,p,w) (M,Wi - all) Flammulated Owl (Wi - all) Snowy Owl (All - c,e,w) Northern Hawk Owl (B - all) Burrowing Owl (Wi - all) Great Gray Owl (All - w) Common Nighthawk (Wi - all) Common Poorwill (S - p) (Wi - all) Black Swift (S,M - c,e,w) (Wi - all) (B - all, except Shadow Falls and Char Falls) Vaux's Swift (S - e,w) (Wi - all) White-throated swift (W- all) Broad-billed Hummingbird Ruby-throated Hummingbird Black-chinned Hummingbird (Wi - all) Anna's Hummingbird Costa's Hummingbird Calliope Hummingbird (Wi - all) Broad-tailed hummingbird (Wi - all) (All - p) Rufous Hummingbird) (Wi - all) Lewis's Woodpecker (Wi - all) Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Red-naped Sapsucker (Wi - all) Red-breasted Sapsucker Williamson's Sapsucker (S - p,w) (Wi - all) White-headed Woodpecker (All - e) Pileated Woodpecker (All - e)	Olive-sided Flycatcher (Wi - all) Western Wood-Pewee) (Wi - all) Alder Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher (Wi - all) Least Flycatcher (S - w) (Wi - all) (B - all) Hammond's Flycatcher (Wi - all) Gray Flycatcher (S - c,p) (Wi - all) Dusky Flycatcher (Wi - all) Cordilleran Flycatcher (Wi - all) Black Phoebe Eastern Phoebe Say's Phoebe (Wi - c,e,p) Ash-throated Flycatcher (S - c,p) (Wi - all) Tropical Kingbird Cassin's Kingbird Eastern Kingbird (Wi - all) Western Kingbird (Wi - all) Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Fork-tailed Flycatcher Loggerhead Shrike (Wi - c,p) Northern Shrike (S - all) Bell's Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Plumbeous Vireo (S - c,p) (Wi - all) Cassin's Vireo (Wi - all) Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo (Wi - all) Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo (Wi - all) Blue Jay (S - all) (B - all) Western Scrub Jay (All - c,p,w) Pinion Jay (All - c,p,w) Purple Martin Tree Swallow (Wi - all) Violet-green Swallow (Wi - all) Northern Rough-winged Swallow (Wi - all) Bank Swallow (Wi - all) Cliff Swallow (Wi - all) Barn Swallow (Wi - all) Chestnut-backed Chickadee (All - e,w) Boreal Chickadee (All - c,e,w) Juniper Titmouse (All - c,p,w) Bushtit (All-c,p) Pygmy Nuthatch (All - e,w) Rock Wren (Wi - c) Bewick's Wren (All - e,w) (B - all) House Wren (Wi - all) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (S - c,p) (Wi - all) Mountain Bluebird (Wi - c,e) Veery (Wi - all) Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush (Wi - all) Wood Thrush Varied Thrush (S - e) Gray Catbird (Wi - all) Northern Mockingbird (Wi - all) (B - all) Sage Thrasher (S - p) (Wi - all) Brown Thrasher Curve-billed Thrasher Siberian Accentor American Pipit (Wi - c,p) Bohemian Waxwing (S - c,e,w) Blue-winged Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler (Wi - c,e,p) Nashville Warbler (S - e) (Wi - all) Virginia's Warbler (S - c,p,w) (Wi - all) Lucy's Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler (Wi - all) Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler (S - c,p) (Wi - all) Black-throated Green Warbler Townsend's Warbler (S - e) (Wi - all) Hermit Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler (S,Wi - all) American Redstart (S - e) (Wi - all) Prothonotary Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Ovenbird (S,Wi - all) (All - c,p) Northern Waterthrush (S - w) (Wi - all) Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler MacGillivray's Warbler (Wi - all) Common Yellowthroat (Wi - all) Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler (Wi - all) Canada Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat (Wi - all) Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Western Tanager (Wi - all) Green-tailed Towhee (S - p) (Wi - all) Spotted Towhee (Wi - c) Eastern Towhee Cassin's Sparrow American Tree Sparrow (S - all) Chipping Sparrow (Wi - all) Clay-colored Sparrow Brewer's Sparrow (Wi - all) Vesper Sparrow (Wi - all) Lark Sparrow (Wi - all) Black-throated Sparrow (S - c,p) (Wi - all) Sage Sparrow (S - c,p) (Wi - all, Dec. 1 to Jan. 31 only) Lark Bunting (S - p) (Wi - all) Savannah Sparrow (Wi - c,e,p) Grasshopper Sparrow (Wi - all) LeConte's Sparrow Fox Sparrow (Wi - all) Fox SparroWi, all non-Slate-colored groups Lincoln's Sparrow (Wi - c,e,p) Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow (S - all) Harris's Sparrow (S - all) Golden-crowned Sparrow (S - all) (All - e,p) McCown's Longspur Lapland Longspur (S - all) Chestnut-collared Longspur Snow Bunting (S - all) Rose-breasted Grosbeak Black-headed Grosbeak (Wi - all) Blue Grosbeak Report all sightings in all regions (B - all) Lazuli Bunting (Wi - all) Indigo Bunting Painted Bunting Dickcissel Bobolink (Wi - all) Yellow-headed Blackbird (Wi - p) Rusty Blackbird Common Grackle (S - p,w) (Wi - all) Great-tailed Grackle (M,S - c,p) (Wi - all) Brown-headed Cowbird (Wi - c,p) Orchard Oriole Hooded Oriole Bullock's Oriole (Wi - all) Baltimore Oriole Scott's Oriole (S - c,p,w) (Wi - all) (B - all) Brambling Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (S - e,p,w) (B - all) Black Rosy-Finch (All - p) (B - all) Pine Grosbeak (B - all) Purple Finch White-winged Crossbill (S - e,w) (B - all) Common Redpoll (S - all) Hoary Redpoll Lesser Goldfinch (All - c)

ADDITIONAL SPECIES REPORTED Not Accepted or Votes Pending
Mute Swan Whooper Swan Barnacle Goose Ruddy Shelduck Red-legged Partridge Brown Pelican	Red-faced Cormorant Reddish Egret Harris's Hawk Vermilion Flycatcher Yellow-billed Magpie	Smith's Longspur Northern Cardinal Tricolored Blackbird