Kitty Brigham's photo of Brown Pelicans flying south

Lincoln County (Oregon) Bird Information

by Yaquina Birders & Naturalists
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Table of Contents


Lincoln County Bird Notes during 1993-2015; None Thereafter

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Lincoln County Birding Site Guides and Checklists

Last Update: 18 January 2010

Site Guides and Checklists for Lincoln County as a Whole

Site Guides and Checklists for Single Sites in Lincoln County (arranged from north to south)


Lincoln County Bird Records Pooled for All of Lincoln County


Lincoln County Important Bird Areas (IBA): Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area, Yaquina Bay, Salmon River Estuary, and Siletz and Alsea Bays.


Lincoln County Birds Records for Christmas Bird Counts (CBC), Breeding Bird Surveys (BBS), Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC), and Breeding Bird Atlas


Lincoln County Semimonthly Bird Checklists Project for Individual Sites by Yaquina Birders & Naturalists


Lincoln County Bird Records for Coastal Sites within about 5 miles of the Shoreline

Last Update: 3 August 2009

Sites are arranged approximately from north to south. If known, the habitat, elevation (Elev.) above sea level, and years of observations (Obs.) are given within parentheses.

Pelagic Bird Records for Lincoln County
Last Update: 3 August 2009

Beached Bird Records for Lincoln County
Last Update: 3 August 2009

Salmon River/Lincoln City Area.
Last Update: 28 June 2008

Boiler Bay
Last Update: 28 June 2008

Depoe Bay and Mooloch Beach/Otter Rock
Last Update: 20 May 2007

Yaquina Head Last Update: 11 August 2009

Newport/South Beach
Last Update: 25 December 2016

Yaquina Estuary
Last Update: 9 November 2014

Beaver Creek

Seal Rocks.

Alsea Bay/Waldport.
Last Update: 28 June 2008

Yachats/Cape Perpetua.
Last Update: 28 June 2008


Lincoln County Bird Records Compiled for Inland Sites about 5 miles or more from the Shoreline Available On-Line

Last Update: 8 August 2009

Sites are arranged approximately from north to south. If known, the habitat, elevation (Elev.) above sea level, and years of observations (Obs.) are given within parentheses.

Saddle Bag Mountain/Lost Prairie

Siletz/Logsden Area

Newton Hill

Thornton Creek

Toledo

Salado & Waldport Inland Breeding Bird Surveys


Bibliographies that Include References for Lincoln County Birds

Last Update: 17 February 2013

Lincoln Co. Data Forms that Can Be Adapted for Elsewhere

Last Update: 8 August 2009


General Tips for Birding

Also see specific information in Recent Bird Sightings in Lincoln County,
Lincoln County Birding Site Guides and Checklists

A Beginner's Guide to Bird Watching for Couch Potatoes.

Tips for Young Birders

Last Update: 17 February 2013 Also see Tips for Beginning Birders, Other Tips, Lincoln County Birding Site Guides and Checklists, Bird Calls and Songs Available Online to Use in Identifying Birds, and Optics for Viewing Birds: Shopping, Tips for Using, and Cleaning/Care.

Tips for Adults to Help Young Birders


Tips for Beginning Birders

Last Update: 17 February 2013

A field guide is essential to identify birds. The easiest to use are those with a distribution map and description of a bird species on one page and drawings or photos on the same or on the facing page. The distribution map is useful because it indicates whether a bird species is likely to occur here or not. If not, it is still possible, but it is much more likely to be a similarly appearing bird that regularly occurs here. For birds likely to be seen in Lincoln County, see Lincoln County Birding Site Guides and Checklists.

A field guide should be easy to carry into the field, where it can best be used to identify and to study details of a bird. After seeing a bird, a field guide can reveal more details to look for to identify the bird while it is still visible. The National Geographic or Golden Guides to North American birds or the Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America are good to take birding. Many birders have two or more field guides for reference because a bird may appear slightly different in different guides. Sibley's Guide to Birds is excellent but is bulky for field use. The Peterson's western guide can be helpful as a supplementary guide, even though the distribution maps are separated from the pictures.

Binoculars are very helpful in identifying birds and essential to see details of plumage. A new pair of binoculars costing about $80-100 can be satisfactory. See Optics for Viewing Birds: Shopping, Tips for Using, and Cleaning/Care for details and guidelines.

Birding with experienced birdwatchers is very helpful. Field guides, books, CDs, and videos are helpful, but going out with experienced birders makes a big difference in learning how to bird watch. Going on half-day field trips is a good way to start. Full day field trips, such as Christmas Bird Counts, can be overwhelming, frustrating, and confusing because it can be too much information at one time for a beginner.

Also see A Beginner's Guide to Bird Watching for Couch Potatoes, Other Tips, Lincoln County Birding Site Guides and Checklists, Bird Calls and Songs Available Online to Use in Identifying Birds, and Optics for Viewing Birds: Shopping, Tips for Using, and Cleaning/Care.

Other Tips


Bird Calls and Songs Available Online to Use in Identifying Birds

Last Update: 8 August 2009

Optics and Tripods for Viewing Birds: Shopping, Tips for Using, and Cleaning/Care

Last Update: 8 August 2009

Binoculars are very helpful in identifying birds and essential to see details of plumage. Look for a pair of affordable binoculars that fit well in your hands, that are easy for your fingers to focus, that have a good field of view (it is frustratingly difficult to find birds in binoculars or a spotting scope with a narrow field of view), and, if wearing eye glasses, with eye cups that adjust. Buying a pair of binoculars without actually trying them can miss whether they feel and work comfortably for you. Very expensive binoculars are available, but an experienced birder with $80 binoculars will see much more than an inexperienced birder with $800 binoculars.

7-8X binoculars work well for most people. 10-12X binoculars are more powerful but are too hard for many of us to hold steady enough to take advantage of the extra power. I have not tried 10-12X binoculars with image stabilizing to see how well they work. 10-12X binoculars also have a narrower field of view, which can make finding and following birds more difficult.

In general, zoom lenses for binoculars or spotting scopes sacrifice field of view, image quality, and image brightness compared to a fixed lens. But there are exceptions, so shop carefully. Sometimes a small image of an unidentifiable bird will only become a large image of a still unidentifiable bird with a zoom or higher power lens. Heat waves and fog can diminish the ability to identify distant birds, even with high power lenses.

Guides for Buying Binoculars, Spotting Scopes, and Tripods:

Binoculars

Scopes

Tripods. A high quality scope on an a low quality tripod will give low quality or frustrating results.

Tips for Using and Adjusting Binoculars:

Care and Cleaning of Optics:


Digiscoping for Photography of Birds

Last Update: 15 August 2009

Go to Lincoln Co. Bird Information Table of Contents or
See the Lincoln Co. Natural History Information Table of Contents

Wildlife Viewing Ethics and Etiquette--Respect Wildlife and Other People


Reporting Banded Birds

Last Update: 17 February 2013

Analyzing Bird Sounds

Last Update: 3 August 2009

[Acoustical] Software by Cornell Bioacoustics Research Program.


Human Interactions with Wildlife

Bird Feeders & Ways to Reduce Bird Collisions with Windows

Last Update: 26 March 2010

Bird Feeding

Ways to Reduce Birds Striking Windows

Acknowledgments for This Web Page

Links Updated: 28 June 2008

A Very Special Thanks to Lucy Biggs of Eugene, who hosted the precursor to this web page from March 1995 through November 2001 on her Oregon Birders On-Line web page! Lucy also HTML coded bird field note columns from the Sandpiper (a publication of Yaquina Birders & Naturalists) from September 1994 through February 1997 and the Data Form files, so that they could be put on the Internet. Although I have redone the HTML coding for the these field notes and inserted section numbers to use in future indexing, Lucy's work was essential in having made these files available for so many years. Lucy's work and interest has been an inspiration!

Many thanks also to the many birders who shared their sightings! Without sharing, we would not know as much! As of January 1995, 120 individuals or couples have shared 100 or more records each (see p. 369 in Background of the Birds of Lincoln County Project and Recommendations for Others Planning Similar Projects. By R. D. Bayer. Journal of Oregon Ornithology 4:353-394). 51% of these major contributors lived in Lincoln County when they made their observations, but my impression is that residents contributed about 55-70% of the total records.

Thanks to Kitty Brigham for her photo at the top of this web page. The photo is of a "squadron" of Brown Pelicans flying south and overhead along the coastline near Seal Rocks on 24 November 2006.


Other Links Related to Oregon Coast Natural History

Links Updated: 27 January 2010

Other Lincoln County Web Sites Related to Birds or Natural History

Some Blogs about Oregon Birds

Other Oregon Web Sites of Interest

Charters or Guided Field Trips in Lincoln County

Go to Top of Lincoln County (Oregon) Bird Information, the Lincoln County (Oregon) Natural History Information, or
or Yaquina Birders & Naturalists Home Page

Email the Webmaster: Range Bayer or see Yaquina.info Page.


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