Lower Columbia Basin Audubon Society

The following birds are not typically seen in the Lower Columbia Basin except during spring and/or fall migration. For the likelihood of seeing these migrants and relative abundance, refer to our Birds of the Tri-Cities Checklist. The checklist also notes other migrants that become summer residents. Click on the name of each bird for the Cornell Bird Guide page (including photo, sound, habits). For species not included in the Cornell Bird Guide, marked with an *, we have linked to Seattle Audubon's Bird Web.
Hummingbirds Rufous Calliope Black-chinned Woodpeckers Lewis’s Woodpecker Red-naped Sapsucker Flycatchers Olive-sided Western Wood-Pewee Willow Hammond’s Gray Dusky Pacific-slope Say’s Phoebe Eastern and Western Kingbirds Pipits American Pipit	Sparrows Chipping Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swift Vaux's Swift Thrush Western and Mountain Bluebirds Vireos Cassin’s Warbling Red-eyed Warblers Yellow-rumped Townsend’s Wilson’s Nashville Yellow Orange-crowned MacGillivray’s Tanagers Western Tanager
Shorebirds - complete list Some are very rare; for relative abundance refer to our Annotated Checklist
Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Willet Lesser Yellowlegs Long-billed Curlew Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper	Baird’s Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Sharp-tailed Sandpiper * Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson’s Snipe Wilson’s Phalarope * Red-necked Phalarope* Red Phalarope * Other rarities (less than 5 sightings) Snowy Plover Whimbrel Hudsonian Godwit Black Turnstone Little Stint* Ruff*