September 2019
The list of bird sightings in Cooks Butte was compiled by Claire Puchy, a retired professional wildlife biologist, the past Executive Director of the Audubon Society of Portland, and resident on Palisades Crest Drive for over 25 years.
American goldfinch | Myrtle warbler |
Anna’s hummingbird | Nashville warbler |
Audubon’s warbler | Olive-sided flycatcher |
Bald eagle | Orange-crowned warbler |
Band-tailed pigeon | Osprey |
Barred owl (non-native species) | Pacific (winter) wren |
Bewick’s wren | Pileated woodpecker |
Black-capped chickadee | Pine siskin |
Black-headed grosbeak | Raven |
Black-throated gray warbler | Red-breasted nuthatch |
Brown creeper | Red-breasted sapsucker |
Bushtit | Red-tailed hawk |
Cackling goose | Robin |
Canada goose | Ruby-crowned kinglet |
Cedar waxwing | Rufous hummingbird |
Chestnut-backed chickadee | Rufous-sided (spotted) towhee |
Cooper’s hawk | Sandhill crane |
Crow | Scrub jay |
Downy woodpecker | Sharp-shinned hawk |
European Starling (non-native species) | Song sparrow |
Evening grosbeak | Steller’s jay |
Flicker | Swainson’s thrush |
Fox sparrow | Townsend’s warbler |
Golden-crowned kinglet | Tree swallow |
Golden-crowned sparrow | Turkey vulture |
Great horned owl | Varied thrush |
Gull spp. | Vaux’s swift |
Hairy woodpecker | Violet-green swallow |
Hermit thrush | Warbling vireo |
House finch | Western tanager |
Junco | Western wood-pewee |
Killdeer | Western screech owl |
Lesser goldfinch | White-crowned sparrow |
McGillvary’s warbler | Willow flycatcher |
Mourning dove | Wilson’s warbler |
Uncertain, but likely:
Cassin’s vireo |