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For a page with photos of some birds found in the Doug go to Birds.
It also has an Alphabetical Checklist and a Bird list by Location.

This is not an exhaustive list of the birds you might see in the Doug, but it includes most of them. It is slightly different than the Alphabetical Checklist mentioned above. Each search for birds will be different. For a most complete list that might include overflying migrants see the Case Statement.

To be frank, you may not see many birds, not because they are not there, but because they are in the tops of the trees, or hiding in the bushes just out of sight. Still, hunting to see any of the birds is fun, because it is challenging and the rewards are often great.

You may have more luck hearing birds, and maybe you will come to identify some of the songs, or maybe identifying with some of them. To Milo Mecham, the author of these pages, the song of the Swainson’s Trush epitomizes the deep woods of the Northwest. Probably because you can hear its bubbling twill whenever you visit the old-growth woods, but you may never actually see the bird.

One great innovation of the digital age is Merlin; an app for your phone from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. This app can listen through your phone and identify most birds by their song, and provide you with a picture of the bird you are hearing. It is becoming a must app for anybody at all interested in birds in the wild.

With luck and persistence, you may see a Swainsons Thrush. You may also hear and see Chickadees, Robins, or a Pacific Wren or a Bewick’s Wren, or some other hidden or partially hidden songster.

Given below is a list of what might be the most likely of the birds present in the Doug, based on reports of birds common to the central Cascades, as shown on the maps in the Atlas of Oregon Wildlife (Csuti, et al). The list is sort of organized by common birding taxonomies, except when that does not assist in presenting the list.

The birds in this list that have their own page are a smaller and more arbitrary group: those that I have been able to photograph (apologies and excuses), or get a photo of (submissions welcome) or have some notes about the bird relevant to the Doug. Because, as noted, it is hard to see birds in the forest, and even harder to get a picture, most of these photos were not taken within the Doug, but the birds can be seen there, if you are lucky. The pictures are here not to serve as a means of identification, but like all the pictures on this web site, to share some of the beauty that you can find in the Doug.

DUCKS AND OTHER BIRDS NEAR THE WATER American Dipper Brrow’s Goldeneye Blue-winged Teal Bufflehead Cinnamon Teal Common Merganser Hooded Merganser American Coot Harlequin Duck Mallard Ring-necked Duck Wood Duck Belted Kingfisher Great Blue Heron	HAWKS AND SIMILAR BIRDS (RAPTORS) Bald Eagle Cooper’s Hawk Golden Eagle Turkey Vulture Goshawk Kestrel Osprey Peregrine Falcon Red-tailed Hawk Sharp-shinned Hawk	GROUND BIRDS California Quail Common Snipe Killdeer Mountain Quail Ruffed Grouse Sooty Grouse DOVES AND PIGEONS Band-tailed Pigeon Mourning Dove
OWLS Barred Owl Great Gray Owl Great Horned Owl Northern Pygmy Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Northern Spotted Owl Western Screech-Owl	SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS Spotted Towhee Dark-eyed Junco Chipping Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow	WOODPECKERS Red-breasted Sapsucker Williamson’s Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Three-toed Woodpecker Black-backed Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker
FLYCATCHERS Olive-sided Flycatcher Western Wood-Pewee Willow Flycatcher Hammond’s Flycatcher Dusky Flycatcher Pacific-slope Flycatcher	CORVIDS Gray Jay Steller’s Jay Clark’ Nutcracker American Crow Common Raven Scrub Jay	WRENS House Wren Pacific Wren Winter Wren Marsh Wren
SWALLOWS Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow HUMMINGBIRDS Anna’s Hummingbird Calliope Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird	VIREOS AND WARBLERS MacGillivray’s Warbler Nashville Warbler Common Yellowthroat Solitary Vireo Hutton’s Vireo Warbling Vireo Yellow-rumped Warbler Hermit Warbler Townsend’s Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow Warbler Wilson’s Warbler	THRUSH FAMILY Hermit Thrush Swainson’s Thrush American Robin Varied Thrush Mountain Bluebird Western Bluebird
FINCH-LIKE BIRDS Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Cassin’s Finch Purple Finch House Finch Red Crossbill Pine Siskin Lesser Goldfinch American Goldfinch	BUSY LITTLE BIRDS (obviously not a formal category) Black-capped Chickadee Chestnut-backed Chickadee Mountain Chickadee Bushtit Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Gold-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet	MISCELLANEOUS BIRDS Common Nighthawk Vaux’s Swift American Pipet Cedar Waxwing Western Tanager Black-headed Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting Red-winged Blackbird Bullock’s Oriole

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