Seasonality
The season with the highest #s of ducks in the Palouse
What is Winter?
The least documented owl species to regularly occur in Washington. Bird is long-tailed with shrike-like behavior.
What is the Northern Hawk Owl?
A uniform white owl with variable amounts of black mottling and barring. Very rare in the Palouse.
What is a Snowy Owl?
"Butterbutt."
What's a nickname for the Yellow-rumped Warbler?
An irruptive family of passerines that show up in the Palouse sporadically during the winter months
What are finches?
The month which winter migration kicks off. The month where wintering species start migrating in force.
What is October?
A scarce wintering subspecies of an otherwise common Palouse raptor species. This subspecies occurs in two distinct morphs
What is a Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk?
This small black water bird is frequently found in flocks of thousands mixed duck species such as American Wigeon, Common Goldeneye, and Mallard
What is the American Coot?
A Washington bird species with "Snow" in it's name that summers in the state
What is a Snowy Plover?
To the Lower 48, a scarce winter raptor species that rarely occurs in a white morph
What is a Gyrfalcon?
The only species of winter Palouse warbler
What is the Yellow-rumped Warbler?
A gray species that just recently had it's first winter Palouse record
What is a Gray Catbird?
A miniature Canada Goose with a short bill
What is a Cackling Goose?
This tubenose shares a name with a particularly popular Winter holiday
What's a fun fact about the Christmas Shearwater?
Skagit Valley, located in western Washington, is known for a massive wintering population of this goose species
Where do Snow Geese winter?
This dabbler species winters in the thousands at various spots along the shore of the Snake River
Where does the Mallard winter?
Despite wintering in numbers on the west side of Washington state, this warbler has zero Whitman county winter eBird records
What are the winter records of Townsend's Warbler in Whitman county?
A species of diving duck that can be distinguished from it's near-identical counterpart in flight, based on the presence of white extending into the primaries
What is the Greater Scaup?
A winter-themed raptor banding code
What is SNOW (Snowy Owl)?
"a state of physical or mental inactivity; lethargy." Sometimes seen in species of hummingbird or nightjar
What is torpor?
The only two loon species not resident to Washington can be found in Washington during this season
What is the significance of the Winter?
A "Winter" species that has been recorded in Washington state 3 times
What is a Winter Wren?
A family of diving ducks with the lowest frequency wing whistle
What are Scoters?
"of a dull grayish-green or blue color."
What is the definition of Glaucous?
Occurring March of 2004, this passerine species' Whitman county high count is (surprisingly) the highest high count ever recorded in the county.
When did the Whitman county high count for American Robins occur?