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Abert's Towhee1
Acorn Woodpecker17
agouti2
Akekee1
Altamira Oriole1
Amazon Kingfisher1
American alligator2
American Avocet13
American Bittern35
American Black Duck4

American Coot30
American Crow36
American Dipper18
American Golden-Plover3
American Goldfinch38
American Kestrel49
American Oystercatcher3
American Pipit32
American Pygmy Kingfisher1
American Redstart1
American Robin34
American Three-toed Woodpecker1
American Tree Sparrow5
American Wigeon17
American Wigeon X Mallard hybrid1
American Woodcock2
Ancient Murrelet2
Anhinga4
Anna's Hummingbird36
Apapane1
Aplomado Falcon2
Arctic Loon1
Arctic Tern3
Arizona Woodpecker2
Armadillo1
Ash-throated Flycatcher7
Ashy Storm-Petrel1
Atlantic Puffin1
Audubon's Oriole1
Bachman's Sparrow2
Badger4
Baird's Sandpiper7
Baird's Sparrow1
Bald Eagle90
Baltimore Oriole7
Band-tailed Pigeon21
Bank Swallow5
Bar-tailed Godwit2
Bare-throated Tiger-Heron1
Barn Owl23
Barn Swallow18
Barnyard Goose1
Barred Owl14
Barrow's Goldeneye21
Bat Falcon1
bats2
Beaver3
Belding's ground squirrel2
Belding's Yellowthroat1
Bell's Vireo1
Belted Kingfisher27
Bewick's Wren31
Bicolored Antbird1
Bighorn Sheep3
Birdathon1
Bison7
Black and White Warbler2
Black Bear7
Black Guillemot1
Black Noddy1
Black Oystercatcher23
Black Phoebe26
Black Scoter7
Black Skimmer3
Black Storm-Petrel1
Black Swift1
Black Tern5
Black Turnstone21
Black-and-white Owl1
Black-backed Woodpecker6
Black-bellied Plover15
Black-bellied Whistling Duck4
Black-billed Magpie21
Black-capped Chickadee32
Black-cheeked Woodpecker1
Black-chinned Hummingbird4
Black-chinned Sparrow1
Black-crested Coquette1
Black-crested Titmouse1
Black-crowned Antshrike1
Black-crowned Night-Heron16
Black-faced Grassquit1
Black-faced Grosbeak1
Black-faced Solitaire1
Black-footed Albatross7
Black-headed Grosbeak25
Black-headed Gull1
Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush1
Black-legged Kittiwake3
Black-necked Stilt18
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher2
Black-throated Blue Warbler3
Black-throated Gray Warbler19
Black-throated Green Warbler2
Black-throated Magpie-Jay1
Black-throated Shrike-Tanager1
Black-throated Sparrow4
Black-throated Trogon1
Black-vented Oriole1
Black-vented Shearwater1
Blackpoll Warbler1
Blue Bunting1
Blue Grosbeak2
Blue Jay7
Blue Mockingbird1
Blue-black Grosbeak1
Blue-footed Booby1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher6
Blue-headed Vireo4
Blue-vented Hummingbird1
Blue-winged Teal12
Boat-billed Flycatcher3
Boat-billed Heron1
Boat-tailed Grackle3
Bobcat2
Bobolink3
Bohemian Waxwing3
Bonaparte's Gull14
Brambling1
Brandt's Cormorant9
Brant19
Brewer's Blackbird10
Brewer's Sparrow6
Bridled Titmouse1
Bright-rumped Attila1
Broad-billed Hummingbird2
Broad-winged Hawk2
Bronzed Cowbird1
Brown Booby4
Brown Creeper25
Brown Jay2
Brown Noddy1
Brown Pelican22
Brown Thrasher2
Brown-headed Cowbird14
Brown-headed Nuthatch1
Brown-hooded Parrot1
Buff-bellied Hummingbird1
Buff-breasted Sandpiper1
Buff-fronted Foliage-Gleaner1
Buff-fronted Quail-Dove1
Bufflehead17
Buffy Tuftedcheek1
Buller's Shearwater5
Bullfrog1
Bullock's Oriole17
Bunny2
Burrowing Owl13
Bushtit29
Cabanis's Wren1
Cackling Goose15
Cactus Wren3
caiman1
California Condor1
California Gnatcatcher1
California ground squirrel3
California Gull17
California Quail17
California Scrub-Jay7
California sea lion1
California Thrasher3
California Towhee8
Calliope Hummingbird4
Canada Goose36
Canada Goose Hybrid5
Canada Jay6
Canvasback16
Canyon Towhee1
Canyon Wren7
Cape May Warbler1
Capuchin monkey1
Carolina Wren7
Caspian Tern21
Cassin's Auklet1
Cassin's Finch7
Cassin's Kingbird3
Cassin's Vireo9
Cattle Egret5
Cave Swallow1
Cedar Waxwing42
Central American Pygmy-Owl1
Chestnut Munia1
Chestnut-backed Chickadee21
Chestnut-collared Longspur2
Chestnut-colored Woodpecke1
Chestnut-sided Warbler3
Chicken1
Chimney Swift1
chipmunk4
Chipping Sparrow20
Chuck-will's-widow1
Chukar10
Cinnamon Becard1
Cinnamon Hummingbird1
Cinnamon Teal32
Cinnamon-bellied Flowerpiercer1
Citreoline Trogon2
Clapper Rail2
Clark's Grebe10
Clark's Nutcracker11
Clay-colored Sparrow3
Clay-colored Thrush1
Cliff Swallow13
coati1
Collared Aracari1
collared peccary1
Columbian ground squirrel1
Columbian White-Tailed Deer1
Common Black Hawk2
common dolphin1
Common Eider9
Common Gallinule3
Common Goldeneye26
Common Goldeneye X Hooded Merganser1
Common Grackle4
Common Ground-Dove2
Common Loon27
Common Merganser32
Common Moorhen1
Common Murre11
Common Myna2
Common Nighthawk14
Common Pauraque1
Common Potoo1
Common Raven32
Common Redpoll2
Common Scoter1
Common Tern8
Common Waxbill1
Common Yellowthroat31
Cooper's Hawk45
Cory's Shearwater2
Costa's Hummingbird5
Couch's Kingbird1
cow1
Coyote37
Crane Hawk1
Crested Caracara4
Crested Guan1
Crimson-collared Tanager1
Crowned Woodnymph1
Curve-billed Thrasher3
Dall's porpoise1
Dark-eyed Junco39
Deer11
Dickcissel1
Domestic Duck2
Domestic Goose1
Domestic Mallard3
Double-crested Cormorant20
Double-toothed Kite1
Douglas squirrel4
Downy Woodpecker20
Dunlin26
Dusky Antbird1
Dusky Flycatcher2
Dusky Grouse1
Eared Grebe16
Eastern Bluebird7
Eastern Kingbird11
Eastern Meadowlark1
Eastern newt1
Eastern Phoebe4
Eastern Screech-Owl2
Eastern Towhee3
Eastern Whip-poor-will1
Eastern Wood-Pewee1
Egyptian Goose2
Elegant Tern5
Elegant Trogon1
Elephant Seal1
Elf Owl1
Elk20
Emperor Goose3
Ensatina salamander1
Erckel's Francolin1
Eurasian Collared-Dove14
Eurasian Wigeon12
Eurasian x American Wigeon1
European Starling14
Evening Grosbeak13
Eye-ringed Flatbill1
Fasciated Antshrike1
Ferruginous Hawk8
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl1
Field Sparrow2
fin whale1
Fish Crow1
Flame-colored Tanager1
Flesh-footed Shearwater2
Florida Scrub-Jay2
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel2
Forster's Tern8
Fox Sparrow37
Franklin's Gull5
Fulvous Whistling-Duck1
Gadwall11
garter snake2
Gartered Trogon1
Gila Woodpecker3
Gilded Flicker1
Glaucous Gull6
Glaucous-winged Gull11
Glossy Ibis1
Golden Eagle15
Golden-bellied Flycatcher1
Golden-browed Chlorophonia1
Golden-browed Warbler1
Golden-cheeked Warbler1
Golden-cheeked Woodpecker1
Golden-crowned Kinglet18
Golden-crowned Sparrow25
Golden-fronted Woodpecker1
Gosling1
Grasshopper Sparrow6
Gray Catbird11
Gray Flycatcher3
Gray Hawk3
Gray Jay17
Gray Kingbird1
Gray seal1
Gray Silky-flycatcher1
Gray Thrasher2
gray whale6
Gray-barred Wren1
Gray-cowled Wood-Rail1
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch6
Gray-headed Dove1
Gray-headed Swamphen1
Grayish Saltator1
Great Black Hawk1
Great Black-backed Gull8
Great Blue Heron63
Great Cormorant3
Great Crested Flycatcher5
Great Curassow1
Great Egret37
Great Frigatebird2
Great Gray Owl1
Great Horned Owl65
Great Kiskadee1
Great Potoo1
Great Shearwater2
Great-tailed Grackle3
Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush1
Greater Pewee1
Greater Roadrunner2
Greater Sage-Grouse2
Greater Scaup6
Greater White-fronted Goose22
Greater Yellowlegs28
Green Hermit2
Green Heron19
Green Honeycreeper1
Green Jay1
Green Kingfisher2
Green Parakeet1
Green Thorntail1
Green-crowned Briiliant1
Green-tailed Towhee8
Green-winged Teal13
Grizzly Bear3
Groove-billed Ani1
ground squirrel2
Gull6
Gull-billed Tern2
Gyrfalcon2
Hairy Woodpecker31
Hammond's Flycatcher4
Harbor porpoise1
Harbor Seal10
Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk3
Harlequin Duck16
Harris's Hawk2
Harris's Sparrow7
Hawaiian Coot2
Hawaiian Duck2
Heermann's Gull13
Hepatic Tanager2
Hermit Thrush28
Hermit Warbler9
Herring Gull15
hoary marmot6
Hooded Merganser41
Hooded Oriole4
Hook-billed Kite1
Horned Grebe24
Horned Lark35
House Finch17
House Sparrow13
House Wren23
howler monkey1
Hudsonian Godwit1
Hummingbird2
Humpback whale4
Hutton's Vireo13
Hybrid Duck2
hybrid sapsucker1
hybrid sparrow1
Iceland Gull3
Inca Dove3
Indigo Bunting3
Ivory-billed Woodcreeper1
Jabiru2
Jackrabbit1
Japanese White-eye2
Java Sparrow2
Kauai Elepaio1
Keel-billed Motmot1
Keel-billed Toucan2
Kentucky Warbler1
Killdeer21
King Eider3
King Vulture1
Ladder-backed Woodpecker4
Lapland Longspur2
Lark Bunting1
Lark Sparrow13
Laughing Falcon1
Laughing Gull5
Lawrence's Goldfinch1
Laysan Albatross4
Lazuli Bunting24
Least Bittern2
Least Flycatcher1
Least Grebe2
Least Sandpiper16
Least Tern3
lesser anteater1
Lesser Black-backed Gull2
Lesser Goldfinch38
Lesser Nighthawk1
Lesser Scaup8
Lesser Violetear1
Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture1
Lesser Yellowlegs8
Lesson's Motmot2
Lewis's Woodpecker12
Lilac-crowned Parrot1
Limpkin5
Lincoln's Sparrow14
Little Blue Heron2
Loggerhead Shrike21
Long-billed Curlew13
Long-billed Dowitcher9
Long-billed Hermit1
Long-billed Thrasher1
Long-eared Owl3
Long-tailed Duck6
Long-tailed Jaeger3
Long-tailed Manakin1
Long-tailed Tyrant1
Louisiana Waterthrush1
MacGillivray's Warbler16
Magnificent Frigatebird3
Magnificent Hummingbird1
Magnolia Warbler1
Mallard33
Mangrove Swallow1
Mangrove Warbler1
Manx Shearwater1
Marbled Godwit13
Marbled Murrelet2
Marsh Wren26
Masked Booby1
Masked Tityra1
Mayan Antthrush1
McCown's Longspur1
Mealy Parrot2
Merlin29
Mew Gull19
Mexican Jay1
Mexican Parrotlet1
Military Macaw1
Mink3
Monk Parakeet2
Montezuma Oropendola1
Moose4
Morelet's Seedeater1
Mottled Duck1
Mottled Owl1
Mountain Bluebird30
Mountain Chickadee15
Mountain Goat6
Mountain Plover3
Mountain Quail4
Mountain Trogon1
Mourning Dove15
Mule Deer4
Muscovy Duck2
Muskrat10
Mute Swan5
Nanday Parakeet1
Nashville Warbler14
Nene2
Neotropic Cormorant1
Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet2
Northern Cardinal10
Northern Flicker39
Northern Fulmar5
northern fur seal2
Northern Gannet5
Northern Goshawk2
Northern Harrier41
Northern Hawk Owl1
Northern Mockingbird16
Northern Parula1
Northern Pintail17
Northern Potoo2
Northern Pygmy-Owl5
Northern Rough-winged Swallow9
Northern Saw-whet Owl10
Northern Schiffornis1
Northern Shoveler17
Northern Shrike17
Northern Wheatear1
nudibranch1
Nutria14
Nuttall's Woodpecker4
Oak Titmouse3
Ocellated Turkey1
ocelot1
Olivaceous Piculet1
Olivaceous Woodcreeper1
Olive Sparrow1
Olive-sided Flycatcher11
Olive-throated Parakeet2
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush1
Orange-crowned Warbler27
Orange-fronted Parakeet1
orca1
Orchard Oriole5
oriole snake1
Ornate Hawk-Eagle1
Osprey52
Ovenbird5
Pacific Golden-Plover3
Pacific Loon9
Pacific Screech-Owl1
Pacific white-sided dolphin1
Pacific Wren19
Pacific-slope Flycatcher6
Painted Bunting1
Painted Redstart2
Pale-billed Woodpecker1
Palm Warbler4
Parasitic Jaeger9
Pectoral Sandpiper5
Pelagic Cormorant13
Peregrine Falcon24
Phainopepla1
Philadelphia Vireo1
Pied-billed Grebe31
pig1
Pigeon Guillemot15
pika5
Pileated Woodpecker22
Pine Grosbeak3
Pine Siskin23
Pine Warbler3
Pink-footed Shearwater5
Pinnated Bittern1
Pinyon Jay4
Piping Plover5
Piratic Flycatcher1
Plain Chachalaca2
Plain Xenops1
Plain-capped Starthroat1
Plumbeous Vireo1
Pocket Gopher1
Pomarine Jaeger2
Porcupine4
possum2
Prairie Falcon14
Prairie Warbler2
Pronghorn11
Prothonotary Warbler1
Purple Finch22
Purple Gallinule1
Purple Martin14
Purple Sandpiper2
Purple-throated Mountain-gem1
Pygmy Nuthatch10
pygmy short horned lizard1
Pyrrhuloxia4
Raccoon16
racer1
rat1
Razorbill3
Red Avadavat1
Red brocket deer1
Red Crossbill16
Red Fox3
Red Knot2
Red Phalarope5
red squirrel1
Red Warbler1
Red-bellied Woodpecker8
Red-billed Pigeon1
Red-breasted Merganser11
Red-breasted Nuthatch14
Red-breasted Sapsucker38
Red-capped Manakin1
Red-cockaded Woodpecker1
Red-crested Cardinal3
Red-crowned Parrot1
Red-eyed Vireo6
Red-faced Warbler1
Red-footed Booby1
Red-headed Barbet1
Red-headed Tanager1
Red-headed Woodpecker1
red-legged frog1
Red-lored Parrot1
Red-naped Sapsucker5
Red-necked Grebe14
Red-necked Phalarope9
Red-shouldered Hawk26
Red-tailed Hawk79
Red-tailed Tropicbird2
Red-throated Loon11
Red-vented Bulbul1
Red-winged Blackbird32
Reddish Egret3
Redhead15
Resplendent Quetzal1
Rhinoceros Auklet8
Ring-billed Gull10
Ring-necked Duck19
Ring-necked Pheasant10
Risso's dolphin1
River Otter13
Rock Dove1
Rock Pigeon7
Rock Sandpiper3
Rock Wren14
Rose-ringed Parakeet1
Rose-throated Becard1
Rose-throated Tanager1
Roseate Spoonbill3
Roseate Tern1
Ross's Goose6
Rosy Thrush-Tanager1
Rosy-faced Lovebird1
Rough-legged Hawk33
rough-skinned newt3
Royal Flycatcher1
Royal Tern5
Ruby-crowned Kinglet23
Ruby-throated Hummingbird4
Ruddy Duck18
Ruddy Ground-Dove1
Ruddy Pigeon1
Ruddy Treerunner1
Ruddy Turnstone7
Ruddy-breasted Seedeater1
Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush1
Ruffed Grouse7
Rufous Hummingbird29
Rufous Motmot1
Rufous Mourner1
Rufous-backed Robin1
Rufous-bellied Chachalaca1
Rufous-collared Sparrow1
Rufous-tailed Jacamar1
Rufous-winged Sparrow1
Rufous-winged Woodpecker1
Russet Antshrike1
Russet-naped Wood-Rail1
Rustic Bunting1
Rusty Blackbird3
Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow1
Sabine's Gull8
Saffron Finch1
Sage Thrasher10
Sagebrush Sparrow4
salamander1
San Blas Jay1
Sanderling24
Sandhill Crane44
Sandwich Tern2
Savannah Sparrow20
Say's Phoebe25
Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant1
Scaled Quail1
Scaly-breasted Hummingbird1
Scaly-breasted Munia2
Scarlet Macaw1
Scarlet Tanager1
Scaup2
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher3
Scott's Oriole1
Scripps's Murrelet1
Sea Lion14
Sea Otter3
sea turtle1
Semipalmated Plover19
Semipalmated Sandpiper5
Semiplumbeous Hawk1
Sharp-shinned Hawk18
Sharp-tailed Grouse1
Short-billed Dowitcher2
Short-eared Owl20
Short-tailed Hawk2
Short-tailed Shearwater1
skunk2
Slate-throated Redstart1
Slaty-backed Gull1
Slaty-tailed Trogon1
Snail Kite3
Snapping turtle2
Snow Bunting8
Snow Goose31
Snowy Egret13
Snowy Owl7
Snowy Plover8
Social Flycatcher1
Solitary Sandpiper8
Song Sparrow33
Sooty Grouse6
Sooty Shearwater7
Sooty Tern1
Sora9
South Polar Skua3
spider monkey2
Spinner dolphin1
Spotted Antbird1
Spotted Barbtail1
Spotted Owl1
Spotted Sandpiper17
Spotted Towhee38
Sprague's Pipit1
Spruce Grouse3
Squirrel3
Squirrel Cuckoo1
Steller sea lion1
Steller's Jay31
Stilt Sandpiper2
Streak-backed Oriole1
Streak-breasted Treehunter1
Streak-crowned Antvireo1
Stripe-headed Sparrow1
Striped Owl1
striped skunk1
Sunbittern1
Sungrebe1
Surf Scoter18
Surfbird13
Swainson's Hawk15
Swainson's Thrush14
Swallow-tailed Gull1
Swallow-tailed Kite1
Swamp Sparrow9
Tawny-capped Euphonia1
Tawny-winged Woodcreeper1
Tennessee Warbler1
Thayer's Gull9
three-toed sloth1
Three-wattled Bellbird1
Townsend's Solitaire18
Townsend's Warbler20
Tree Swallow31
Tricolored Blackbird5
Tricolored Heron4
Tropical Kingbird1
Tropical Mockingbird1
Tropical Pewee1
Trumpeter Swan12
Tufted Duck7
Tufted Flycatcher1
Tufted Puffin10
Tufted Titmouse7
Tule Elk1
Tundra Bean-Goose2
Tundra Swan28
Turkey Vulture24
Turtle6
two-toed sloth1
Uniform Crake1
Upland Sandpiper2
Varied Bunting1
Varied Thrush39
varying hare2
Vaux's Swift5
Verdin4
Vermilion Flycatcher4
Vesper Sparrow12
Violet Sabrewing1
Violet-crowned Hummingbird1
Violet-Green Swallow14
Virginia Rail15
Virginia's Warbler1
Wandering Tattler5
Warbling Vireo11
weasel3
Wedge-tailed Shearwater3
Western Bluebird31
western fence lizard1
Western Grebe17
Western Gull19
Western Kingbird20
Western Meadowlark36
Western rattlesnake2
Western redback salamander1
Western Sandpiper12
Western Screech-Owl9
Western Scrub-Jay23
Western Tanager31
Western Wood-Pewee18
Whimbrel14
White Hawk1
White Ibis3
White Pelican22
White Tern1
White Wagtail1
White-bellied Emerald1
White-bellied Wren1
White-breasted Nuthatch27
White-breasted Wood-Wren1
White-collared Seedeater3
White-crowned Pigeon1
White-crowned Sparrow42
White-eared Ground-Sparrow1
White-eared Hummingbird1
White-eyed Vireo3
White-faced Ibis15
White-fronted Nunbird1
White-headed Woodpecker10
White-necked Jacobin1
White-necked Puffbird1
White-ruffed Manakin2
White-rumped Shama1
white-tailed deer1
White-tailed Hawk1
White-tailed jackrabbit1
White-tailed Kite5
White-tailed Tropicbird1
White-throated Shrike-Tanager1
White-throated Sparrow24
White-throated Swift5
White-whiskered Puffbird1
White-winged Crossbill3
White-winged Dove1
White-winged Scoter14
Whooping Crane1
Wild Turkey15
wildflowers1
Willet12
Williamson's Sapsucker7
Willow Flycatcher12
Wilson's Phalarope10
Wilson's Plover2
Wilson's Snipe34
Wilson's Storm-Petrel2
Wilson's Warbler12
Winter Wren3
Wood Duck31
Wood Stork1
Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay1
Wrentit9
Xantus's Hummingbird1
Yellow Grosbeak1
Yellow Warbler17
Yellow-bellied Cuckoo1
Yellow-bellied Marmot7
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker5
Yellow-billed Loon2
Yellow-billed Magpie1
Yellow-breasted Chat7
Yellow-breasted Crake1
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron2
Yellow-eyed Junco1
Yellow-faced Grassquit1
Yellow-footed Gull1
Yellow-fronted Canary1
Yellow-headed Blackbird22
Yellow-headed Caracara1
Yellow-olive Flycatcher1
Yellow-rumped Warbler42
Yellow-throated Euphonia1
Yellow-throated Toucan1
Yellow-throated Warbler2
Yellow-winged Cacique1
Yellow-winged Tanager1
Yellowish Flycatcher1
Zebra Dove1
Zone-tailed Hawk2

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