Klickitat County Bird Count Information and Results

Officially Designated Important Bird Areas (IBA's) of Klickitat County

• Columbia Hills' photos and Winter Raptor Counts

• Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge Description and Checklist and
  Joe Engler's recent report The Status of Nesting Greater Sandhill Cranes in Washington

• Trout Lake. The Trout Lake Marsh Checklist compiled, coordinated and in all respects made possible by the combined efforts of Cathy Flick, Orin Pearson, Cindy Henchell, and Carol Lagodich.

Other Interesting or Critical Birding Areas

• Bickleton, Bluebird Capital of the World

• Bingen Pond and Columbia River front

• Old Highway 8, including Rowland Lake, Catherine Creek, and the area around Balch Lake.

• Dallesport including The Dalles Dam, Spearfish Lake and when there is water, the Tidyman Road wetlands.

• Lyle Point, and Klickitat River mouth Lyle, Washington, site of several rare or accidental bird sightings including Black-bellied Plover, Great Egret, White-winged Scoter, American Avocet and Thayer's Gull.

• Horsethief Lake

• Mary Hill State Park, both near the museum, as well as on the Columbia River.

• Brooks Memorial State Park

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Related Resources

• Oregon Birders on Line(OBOL)

• Tweeters Digests

• BirdWeb Seattle Audubon's Online Guide to the Birds of Washington State.

• BirdNote Listen online to past episodes of Seattle Audubon's radio series about the intriguing ways of birds.

• CHIRP! The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library’s Web site is now making available over 65,000 sound clips and about 18,000 video clips of birds and animals. You can do a simple search by keyword, or you can do an advanced search for marine vs terrestrial beings as well as searching by location and recording information (at the moment the catalog has a North American emphasis but the site promises to continue to put more clips online.) Be prepared to spend 45 minutes downloading and installing sound and video software prior to use this resource.

• The Columbia Gorge Ecology Institute provides an array of multi-sensory and educational programs promote understanding and appreciation of the ecological underpinnings of the local forest and shrub-steppe communities and how these ecosystems operate in connection to the human world. Included within their web site is a page called Birding the Columbia Gorge, complete with a checklist of over 301 species which have been observed in the Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area.

• Birding and Ecological Sites in Cascadia

• Mike Patterson's Home Page

• 2003 GREATER SANDHILL CRANE NESTING SEASON AT CONBOY LAKE NWR.
  prepared by Joe Engler, US Department of Fish and Wildlife. An articulate, comprehensive and comprehensible description of Washington's remaining breeding population of Greater Sandhill Cranes, found primarily in Klickitat County.

• Seasonal Phenologies, 2005-2007 Between 2005 and 2007, Stuart Johnston, with the cooperation of an informal group called the Larks, and other Gorge birders, created quarterly phenologies observed bird life in the Columbia Gorge.

• Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

• Is this weather for the birds (and birding)?

• Washington Department of Transportation web cameras in Klickitat County

• Want a break from this weather? Consider Birding Costa Rica by Public Buses

• How I was robbed in Guatemala and the lessons I learned by Bob Hansen

• Visiting a different part of the world and want to find a local birder to share some birding experiences or want to share your part of the world with fellow birders? Consider joining Global Birdingpal Club

• Have you found an injured bird or abandoned chick? If so, please contact Rowena Wildlife Clinic, Dr. Jean Cypher, 541.478.2584. Donations for their work are always appreciated.

• Bickleton Area Mountain Bluebird with Incomplete Albinism