Here at Willamette View we have many folks who love to bird watch. They have compiled a list of over 70 birds that have been spotted on our grounds, in the sky above, or in the Willamette River river below. Scroll down to see this amazing list. Restricted items are marked with an asterisk (*), you must be logged in to view them. Contact David Kohnstamm if you would like to add to this page.
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Bald Eagle (common)
Blue Heron (common)
Crow (common)
Osprey (common)
Red-Winged Blackbird
Rufous Hummingbird (spring and fall migration)
Turkey Vulture (common)
Dark-Eyed Junco (common)
Gold Finches
Mallard Ducks (Making their home in the Terrace Ponds, common)
Common Ravens (common)
Red-Breasted Sapsucker
Stellers' Jay
Spotted Towhee (common)
Black-capped Chickadee (common)
Brown headed cowbird
Flicker
House Finch (common)
Coopers Hawk
Creeper
Anna Hummingbird (common)
Red-Breasted Nuthatch
American Robin (common)
House Sparrow (common)
Downy Woodpecker
Winter Wren
Canada Geese (common)
Red Tailed Hawk
Cedar Waxwing (common, winter)
White-Breasted Nuthatch
Peregrine Falcon
Ring-Billed Gull (common)
Mourning Dove (common)
Rock Dove (pigeon)
Western Scrub Jay (common)
Violet Green Swallow (common)
Barn Swallow
Bushtit (common)
House Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
European Starling
Townsend's Warbler
Western Tanager (spring)
White-crowned Sparrow (common)
Song Sparrow (common)
American Goldfinch (common)
Pied-billed Grebe
Western Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Green Heron
Great Egret
Gadwall
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
American Wigeon
Wood Duck
Lessor Scaup
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Northern Shoveler
American Coot
Herring Gull
Belted Kingfisher
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Great Horned Owl
Yellow-rumped Warbler