2022 Little Big Year
Guidelines for this project (subject to change on a whim):
- Not "big year" rules. Hearing a bird doesn't count... and just seeing a bird doesn't count. Plus, I may include some feral birds, like parrots, if I want to.
- Bird must be well-captured in a photograph. "Well-captured" is totally dependent on my opinion and subject to change (pictures will likely be replaced throughout the year). Standards will be lowered for harder-to-find or harder-to-photograph birds.
- Goal is 365, so I can make a new page-a-day calendar
Photographed in 2022 total: 454
12/26-12/31: Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
12/31: Hacienda Mexicana
12/30: Zona Arqueológica de Muyil
450. Greenish Elaenia
448. Green Jay
447. Magnolia Warbler
445. Palm Warbler
12/29: Hacienda Mexicana
441. Rufous-Browed Peppershrike
440. Yellow-Throated Warbler
438. Black-Crowned Tityra
436. Yellow-Backed Oriole
435. Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
12/28: Rio Lagartos
430. Long-Billed Curlew
427. Lesser Yellow-Headed Vulture
12/27: Chichen Itza and Xocen
426. Golden-Fronted Woodpecker
12/26: Zona arqueológica de Coba
423. Black-Headed Saltator
418. Eye-Ringed Flatbill
12/18: Theler Wetlands
12/10: Steigerwald Lake NWR
10/29: Nisqually NWR
10/24: Tokeland, WA
9/16: Costa Rica, Day 7
Cahuita (Limon Province)
Cahuita National Park
Cahuita (Limon Province)
9/14: Costa Rica, Day 5
Veragua Rainforest Park
Tortuguero
9/12: Costa Rica, Day 3
Dave & Dave's Costa Rica Nature Park
371. Bronze-Tailed Plumeleteer
369. Scaly-Breasted Hummingbird
Arenal Observatory Lodge
9/11: Costa Rica, Day 2
Arenal Observatory Lodge
349. Rufous-Tailed Hummingbird
9/10: Costa Rica, Day 1
Arenal Observatory Lodge
Mistico Arenal Hanging Bridges
Guanacaste Province
8/20: Protection Island (Jefferson, WA)
8/13-8/15: New England Trip
Race Point Beach (Barnstable, MA)
East Point Sanctuary (York, ME)
Gisland Farm Audubon Center (Cumberland, ME)
319. Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
Eastern Egg Rock (Knox, ME)
Plum Island NWR (Essex, MA)
Marblehead Neck Wildlife Sanctuary (Essex, MA)
8/8: Jefferson, WA
7/8: My neighborhood (Thurston, WA)
7/3: Whale Watching (Skagit, WA)
6/19: Swampy Lakes Sno-Park (Deschutes, OR)
6/18: Cottonwood Canyon SP (Sherman, OR)
6/5: West-Rocky Prairie (Thurston, WA)
5/31: Central Washington
Quilomene Wildlife Area (Kittitas, WA)
Ginkgo Petrified Forest (Kittitas, WA)
Gloyd Seeps Wetland (Grant, WA)
5/30: Spokane County, WA
Willow Lake
Turnbull NWR
Saltese Flats
5/29: Icicle Ridge Trail (Chelan, WA)
5/23: West Rocky Prairie (Thurston, WA)
5/22: Central Washington
Wenas Wildlife Area (Yakima, WA)
Umtanum Creek (Kittitas, WA)
Quilomene Wildlife Area (Kittitas, WA)
5/21: Harder Spring (Franklin, WA)
5/16: Tieton State Airport Marsh (Yakima, WA)
5/10: Summer Lake Wildlife Area (Lake, OR)
5/6-5/7: Tonaquint Nature Center (Washington, UT)
5/4: Camas Centennial Marsh (Camas, ID)
4/25: Backyard and Replacements
Backyard (Thurston, WA)
Replacements
136. Tree Swallow (4/24; Skagit, WA)
4/18: Texas Trip, Day 3
Smith Oaks Sanctuary (Galveston, TX)
258. Black-Throated Green Warbler
Bolivar Flats (Galveston, TX)
248. Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher
Smith Oaks Sanctuary (Galveston, TX)
4/17: Texas Trip, Day 2
Smith Oaks Sanctuary (Galveston, TX)
Bolivar Flats (Galveston, TX)
Bolivar Peninsula (Galveston, TX)
Sabine Woods (Jefferson, TX)
4/16: Texas Trip, Day 1
Anahuac NWR (Chambers, TX)
Corps Woods (Galveston, TX)
Lafitte's Cove (Galveston, TX)
205. Black-Bellied Whistling Duck
El Franco Lee Park (Harris, TX)
3/29: Arizona Trip, Day 4
Sweetwater Wetlands (Pima, AZ)
Madera Canyon (Santa Cruz, AZ)
De Anza Trail - Tubac (Santa Cruz, AZ)
3/28: Arizona Trip, Day 3
Ramsey Canyon Preserve (Cochise, AZ)
Beatty's Guest Ranch (Cochise, AZ)
Ash Canyon Bird Sanctuary (Cochise, AZ)
San Pedro House (Cochise, AZ)
3/27: Arizona Trip, Day 2
Riparian Preserve (Maricopa, AZ)
Desert Botanical Garden (Maricopa, AZ)
Glendale Recharge Ponds (Maricopa, AZ)
Tres Rios Overbank Wetlands
151. Black-Chinned Hummingbird
3/26: Arizona Trip, Day 1
Sweetwater Wetlands (Pima, AZ)
Sam Lena Park (Pima, AZ)
3/21: Nisqually NWR (Thurston, WA)
3/19: Shillapoo Lake (Clark, WA)
3/13: Sundial Bridge Area (Shasta, CA)
3/12: Sacramento NWR (Glenn, CA)
3/12: Sundial Bridge Area (Shasta, CA)
3/11: Row River Nature Park (Lane, OR)
3/7: Fernhill Wetlands (Washington, OR)
3/6: Ocean Shores (Grays Harbor, WA)
3/2: Backyard (Thurston, WA)
2/22: Tri-Cities Day 2
McNary NWR (Walla Walla, WA)
Two Rivers Park (Benton, WA)
Columbia Park (Benton, WA)
2/21: Tri-Cities Trip
Millet Pond (Walla Walla, WA)
Riverview Park (Franklin, WA)
Tyson Ponds (Walla Walla, WA)
McNary NWR (Walla Walla, WA)
2/20: Toppenish NWR (Yakima, WA)
2/13: Backyard (Thurston, WA)
2/12: Hawk's Prairie Ponds (Thurston, WA)
2/7: Skagit & Kitsap
Port Gamble (Kitsap, WA)
Coupeville to Port Townsend Ferry
Deception Pass
1/31: Thurston/Kitsap
Point No-Point
Port Orchard Marina
Nisqually NWR
1/23: Fernhill Wetlands (Washington, OR)
1/22: Sequim/Port Angeles (Clallam, WA)
Ediz Hook
Three Crabs
John Wayne Marina
1/21: Ridgefield NWR (Clark, WA)
1/20: Home (Thurston, WA)
1/17-1/18: Eastern Washington
Two Rivers Park (Benton, WA)
68. Greater White-Fronted Goose
Riverview Park (Franklin, WA)
McNary NWR (Walla Walla, WA)
Clover Island (Benton, WA)
Bateman Island (Benton, WA)
Oak Creek Wildlife Area (Yakima, WA)
1/16: Ocean Shores (Grays Harbor, WA)
1/12: Grays Harbor, WA
Tokeland Marina
Westport Marina
Bottle Beach SP
1/9-1/11: Minnesota
Dunlap Island Park (Carlton, MN)
Sax Zim Bog (St. Louis, MN)
1/3: Kitsap, WA
Point No Point Lighthouse
Port Orchard Marina
1/1: Thurston, WA
Home
Nisqually NWR
Home
Checklist (photographed in bold):
Abert's Towhee
Acorn Woodpecker
Alder Flycatcher
Altamira Oriole
Am. Three-toed Woodpecker
American Avocet
American Bittern
American Coot
American Crow
American Dipper
American Flamingo
American Golden-Plover
American Goldfinch
American Kestrel
American Oystercatcher
American Pipit
American Redstart
American Robin
American Tree Sparrow
American White Pelican
American Wigeon
Ancient Murrelet
Anna's Hummingbird
Anhinga
Aplomado Falcon
Arctic Tern
Arizona Woodpecker
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Atlantic Puffin
Audubon's Oriole
Baikal Teal
Baird's Sandpiper
Bald Eagle
Bananaquit
Band-tailed Pigeon
Bank Swallow
Bare-Throated Tiger-Heron
Barn Owl
Barn Swallow
Barred Owl
Barrow's Goldeneye
Bar-tailed Godwit
Bat Falcon
Bay-Headed Tanager
Bell's Vireo
Belted Kingfisher
Bewick's Wren
Black Catbird
Black Guillemot
Black Oystercatcher
Black Phoebe
Black Scoter
Black Skimmer
Black Swift
Black Tern
Black Turnstone
Black Vulture
Black-and-white Warbler
Black-backed Woodpecker
Black-bellied Plover
Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Black-Billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Magpie
Black-capped Chickadee
Black-cheeked Woodpecker
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Black-Cowled Oriole
Black-Crested Titmouse
Black-Crowned Antshrike
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Black-Crowned Tityra
Black-footed Albatross
Black-headed Grosbeak
Black-Headed Saltator
Black-Headed Trogon
Black-legged Kittiwake
Black-necked Stilt
Black-Striped Sparrow
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-throated Sparrow
Blackburnian Warbler
Blue Jay
Blue Grosbeak
Blue-Black Grosbeak
Blue-Chested Hummingbird
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
Blue-Gray Tanager
Blue-Headed Vireo
Blue-Winged Teal
Blue-Winged Warbler
Boat-Billed Flycatcher
Boat-Tailed Grackle
Bobolink
Bohemian Waxwing
Bonaparte's Gull
Boreal Chickadee
Boreal Owl
Brandt's Cormorant
Brant
Brewer's Blackbird
Brewer's Sparrow
Bridled Titmouse
Bright-Rumped Attila
Broad-Billed Hummingbird
Broad-Tailed Hummingbird
Broad-winged Hawk
Bronze-Tailed Plumeleteer
Bronzed Cowbird
Brown Booby
Brown Creeper
Brown Jay
Brown Pelican
Brown Thrasher
Brown-headed Cowbird
Brown-Headed Nuthatch
Buff-Breasted Hummingbird
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Buff-Rumped Warbler
Buff-Throated Saltator
Bufflehead
Buller's Shearwater
Bullock's Oriole
Burrowing Owl
Bushtit
Cackling Goose
Cactus Wren
California Gull
California Quail
California Scrub-Jay
California Towhee
Calliope Hummingbird
Canada Goose
Canada Jay
Canvasback
Canyon Towhee
Canyon Wren
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina Wren
Caspian Tern
Cassin's Auklet
Cassin's Finch
Cassin's Kingbird
Cassin's Vireo
Cattle Egret
Cedar Waxwing
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Chestnut-Fronted Macaw
Chestnut-Headed Oropendola
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Chipping Sparrow
Chukar
Cinnamon Teal
Clark's Grebe
Clark's Nutcracker
Clapper Rail
Clay-colored Sparrow
Clay-colored Thrush
Cliff Swallow
Collared Aracari
Common Black Hawk
Common Eider
Common Gallinule
Common Goldeneye
Common Ground Dove
Common Grackle
Common Loon
Common Merganser
Common Murre
Common Myna
Common Nighthawk
Common Poorwill
Common Raven
Common Redpoll
Common Tern
Common Tody-Flycatcher
Common Yellowthroat
Cooper's Hawk
Cory's Shearwater
Costa's Hummingbird
Couch's Kingbird
Crested Caracara
Crested Guan
Crowned Woodnymph
Curve-Billed Thrasher
Dark-eyed Junco
Double-crested Cormorant
Downy Woodpecker
Dunlin
Dusky Antbird
Dusky-Capped Flycatcher
Dusky Flycatcher
Dusky Grouse
Dusky Thrush
Eared Grebe
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Towhee
Eastern Wood Pewee
Emerald Tanager
Egyptian Goose
Elegant Tern
Emperor Goose
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Eurasian Wigeon
European Starling
Evening Grosbeak
Eye-Ringed Flatbill
Fasciated Tiger-Heron
Ferruginous Pygmy Owl
Ferruginous Hawk
Fish Crow
Flammulated Owl
Flesh-footed Shearwater
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel
Forster's Tern
Fox Sparrow
Franklin's Gull
Fulvous Whistling Duck
Gambel's Quail
Gadwall
Gartered Trogon
Gila Woodpecker
Gilded Flicker
Glaucous Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Glossy Ibis
Golden Eagle
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Golden-Fronted Woodpecker
Golden-Hooded Tanager
Gr. White-fronted Goose
Grasshopper Sparrow
Gray-Cheeked Thrush
Gray-cowled Wood-rail
Gray Catbird
Gray Flycatcher
Gray Hawk
Gray Partridge (I)
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
Great Black-Backed Gull
Great Blue Heron
Great Crested Flycatcher
Great Curassow
Great Egret
Great Gray Owl
Great Green Macaw
Green Honeycreeper
Great Horned Owl
Great Kiskadee
Great-Tailed Grackle
Greater Roadrunner
Greater Sage-Grouse
Greater Scaup
Greater Yellowlegs
Green Heron
Green Jay
Green Kingfisher
Greenish Elaenia
Green-tailed Towhee
Green-winged Teal
Groove-billed Ani
Gyrfalcon
Hairy Woodpecker
Hammond's Flycatcher
Harlequin Duck
Harris's Sparrow
Heermann's Gull
Hepatic Tanager
Hermit Thrush
Hermit Warbler
Herring Gull
Hooded Merganser
Hooded Oriole
Hooded Warbler
Horned Grebe
Horned Lark
Horned Puffin
House Finch
House Sparrow
House Wren
Hudsonian Godwit
Hutton's Vireo
Iceland Gull
Inca Dove
Indigo Bunting
Ivory-Billed Woodcreeper
Keel-billed Toucan
Kentucky Warbler
Killdeer
King Vulture
Ladder-Backed Woodpecker
Lapland Longspur
Lark Sparrow
Laughing Gull
Laysan Albatross
Lazuli Bunting
Leach's Storm-Petrel
Least Bittern
Least Flycatcher
Least Grebe
Least Sandpiper
Least Tern
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Lesser Goldfinch
Lesser Scaup
Lesser Yellow-Headed Vulture
Lesser Yellowlegs
Lesson's Motmot
Lewis's Woodpecker
Lincoln's Sparrow
Limpkin
Lincoln's Sparrow
Lineated Woodpecker
Little Blue Heron
Loggerhead Shrike
Long-billed Curlew
Long-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Gnatwren
Long-billed Thrasher
Long-eared Owl
Long-tailed Duck
Long-tailed Jaeger
Louisiana Waterthrush
Lucifer Hummingbird
Lucy's Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Magnificent Frigatebird
Magnolia Warbler
Mallard
Manx Shearwater
Marbled Godwit
Marbled Murrelet
Marsh Wren
Masked Tityra
Melodious Blackbird
Merlin
Mew Gull
Mexican Jay
Mistletoe Tyrannulet
Monk Parakeet
Montezuma Oropendola
Mottled Duck
Mottled Owl
Mottled Petrel
Mountain Bluebird
Mountain Chickadee
Mountain Quail
Mourning Dove
Murphy's Petrel
Muscovy Duck
Mute Swan
N. Rough-winged Swallow
Nanday Parakeet
Nashville Warbler
Neotropic Cormorant
Northern Bobwhite (I)
Northern Cardinal
Northern Flicker
Northern Fulmar
Northern Goshawk
Northern Harrier
Northern Hawk Owl
Northern Jacana
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Parula
Northern Pintail
Northern Pygmy-Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Northern Shoveler
Northern Shrike
Northern Waterthrush
Northern-barred Woodcreeper
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Oak Titmouse
Olive Sparrow
Olive-backed Euphonia
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Orange Oriole
Orange-crowned Warbler
Olive-throated Parakeet
Orange-Winged Parrot
Orchard Oriole
Osprey
Ovenbird
Pacific Golden-Plover
Pacific Loon
Pacific Wren
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Painted Bunting
Painted Redstart
Pale-billed Woodpecker
Palm Tanager
Palm Warbler
Parakeet Auklet
Parasitic Jaeger
Pectoral Sandpiper
Pelagic Cormorant
Peregrine Falcon
Phainopepla
Pied-billed Grebe
Pigeon Guillemot
Pileated Woodpecker
Pine Grosbeak
Pine Siskin
Pine Warbler
Pink-footed Shearwater
Piping Plover
Plain Chachalaca
Pomarine Jaeger
Prairie Falcon
Prairie Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Purple Finch
Purple Gallinule
Purple Martin
Pygmy Nuthatch
Pyrrhuloxia
Red Crossbill
Red Knot
Red Phalarope
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-Billed Pigeon
Red-breasted Merganser
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Red-eyed Vireo
Red-legged Honeycreeper
Red-lored Parrot
Redhead
Red-Faced Warbler
Red-naped Sapsucker
Red-necked Grebe
Red-necked Phalarope
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-Throated Ant-Tanager
Red-throated Loon
Red-Whiskered Bulbul
Red-winged Blackbird
Reddish Egret
Rhinoceros Auklet
Ring-billed Gull
Ring-necked Duck
Ring-necked Pheasant
Ringed Kingfisher
Rivoli's Hummingbird
Roadside Hawk
Rock Pigeon (I)
Rock Sandpiper
Rock Wren
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Rose-Throated Becard
Roseate Spoonbill
Roseate Tern
Ross's Goose
Rough-legged Hawk
Royal Tern
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Ruddy Duck
Ruddy Ground-Dove
Ruddy-Tailed Flycatcher
Ruddy Turnstone
Ruff
Ruffed Grouse
Rufous-Browed Peppershrike
Rufous Hummingbird
Rufous Motmot
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
Rusty Blackbird
Sabine's Gull
Sage Thrasher
Sagebrush Sparrow
Sanderling
Sandhill Crane
Sandwich Tern
Savannah Sparrow
Say's Phoebe
Scaly-breasted Hummingbird
Scaly-Breasted Munia
Scarlet Tanager
Scarlet-rumped Tanager
Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis
Scott's Oriole
Scripps's Murrelet
Seaside Sparrow
Semipalmated Plover
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Sharp-tailed Grouse
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Short-billed Gull
Short-eared Owl
Short-tailed Albatross
Short-tailed Shearwater
Snail Kite
Snow Bunting
Snow Goose
Snowy Egret
Snowy Owl
Snowy Plover
Social Flycatcher
Solitary Sandpiper
Song Sparrow
Sooty Grouse
Sooty Shearwater
Sora
South Polar Skua
Southern Lapwing
Spotted Owl
Spotted Sandpiper
Spotted Towhee
Spruce Grouse
Squirrel Cuckoo
Steller's Jay
Stilt Sandpiper
Summer Tanager
Surf Scoter
Sulphur-Bellied Flycatcher
Surfbird
Swainson's Hawk
Swainson's Thrush
Swamp Sparrow
Tawny-crested Tanager
Tennessee Warbler
Thick-billed Seed-finch
Townsend's Solitaire
Townsend's Warbler
Tree Swallow
Tricolored Blackbird
Tricolored Heron
Tropical Kingbird
Tropical Mockingbird
Trumpeter Swan
Tufted Duck
Tufted Puffin
Tundra Swan
Tufted Titmouse
Turquoise-Browed Motmot
Turkey Vulture
Variable Seedeater
Varied Bunting
Varied Thrush
Vaux's Swift
Veery
Verdin
Vermilion Flycatcher
Vesper Sparrow
Violet-Crowned Hummingbird
Violet-green Swallow
Virginia Rail
Wandering Tattler
Warbling Vireo
Western Bluebird
Western Grebe
Western Gull
Western Kingbird
Western Meadowlark
Western Sandpiper
Western Screech-Owl
Western Tanager
Western Wood-Pewee
Whimbrel
White-breasted Nuthatch
White-collared Swift
White-crowned Sparrow
White-Eared Hummingbird
White-eyed Vireo
White-faced Ibis
White-fronted Nunbird
White Hawk
White-headed Woodpecker
White Necked Jacobin
White-tailed Hawk
White-tailed Kite
White-tailed Ptarmigan
White-throated Magpie Jay
White-throated Sparrow
White-throated Swift
White-tipped Dove
White-winged Crossbill
White-Winged Dove
White-winged Scoter
White Ibis
Wild Turkey
Willet
Williamson's Sapsucker
Willow Flycatcher
Wilson's Phalarope
Wilson's Plover
Wilson's Snipe
Wilson's Warbler
Wood Duck
Wood Stork
Wood Thrush
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-Backed Oriole
Yellow-Billed Cacique
Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Loon
Yellow-Billed Magpie
Yellow-breasted Chat
Yellow-breasted Sapsucker
Yellow-chevroned parakeet
Yellow-Crowned Night Heron
Yellow-Eyed Junco
Yellow-faced Grassquit
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Yellow-headed Caracara
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-throated Euphonia
Yellow-throated Toucan
Yellow-Throated Vireo
Yellow-Throated Warbler
Yucatan Jay
Zone-Tailed Hawk