In Spring 2006, a group of birders logged their guesses for the next six species to be recorded at Galileo Hill.  Below are those lists, as well as others that have been added in subsequent years. Species listed in bold have been recorded following publication of the initial 2006 checklist.  Distributional data involving the lists and details on post-2006 additions appear at the bottom of this page.  Anyone is free to join the "Pick Six" contest at any time by sending six rank-ordered, currently unrecorded species to the following email address:  howe395@yahoo.com

AUZINS, LIGA

1) Cactus Wren

2) Long-tailed Jaeger

3) Mississipi Kite

4) Arctic Tern

5) Rufous-backed Robin

6) Common Gallinule

BARNES, BOB

1) Whimbrel

2) Black-bellied Plover

3) Franklin’s Gull

4) Common Loon

5) Chimney Swift

6) Zone-tailed Hawk

BENSON, TOM

1) Whimbrel

2) Winter Wren

3) Gray Vireo

4) McCown’s Longspur

5) Prairie Warbler

6) White Wagtail

BRADY, MATT

1) Prairie Warbler

2) Common Gallinule

3) Franklin’s Gull

4) Black-bellied Plover

5) Sabine’s Gull

6) Bendire’s Thrasher

FEENSTRA, JON

1) Glossy Ibis

2) Black-bellied Plover

3) Whimbrel

4) Broad-billed Hummingbird

5) Common Gallinule

6) Black-billed Cuckoo

FILE, GARY

1) Horned Grebe

2) Rough-legged Hawk

3) Short-eared Owl

4) Cactus Wren

5) Bendire’s Thrasher

6) Sprague’s Pipit

FREEMAN, KYRI

1) Bohemian Waxwing

2) Cactus Wren

3) Franklin’s Gull

4) Inca Dove

5) Crested Caracara

6) White Ibis

FREEMAN, MARY

1) Bendire’s Thrasher

2) Crissal Thrasher

3) Red-faced Warbler

4) Streak-backed Oriole

5) LeConte’s Sparrow

6) Bohemian Waxwing

GRAY, STAN

1) Mountain Plover

2) Zone-tailed Hawk

3) Red-faced Warbler

4) Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher

5) Garganey

6) Eurasian Dotterel

HEINDEL, MATT

1) Mississippi Kite

2) Chimney Swift

3) McCown’s Longspur

4) LeConte’s Sparrow

5) Broad-tailed Hummingbird

6) Alder Flycatcher

HOWE, ANDREW

1) Bell’s Vireo

2) Common Loon

3) Oak Titmouse

4) Prairie Warbler

5) Common Poorwill

6) Brown-crested Flycatcher

HOWE, VERNON

1) Prairie Warbler

2) Rusty Blackbird

3) Chimney Swift

4) Yellow-throated Warbler

5) Red-faced Warbler

6) American Woodcock

JOHNSON, OSCAR

1) McCown’s Longspur

2) Prairie Warbler

3) Yellow-throated Warbler

4) Dunlin

5) Rough-legged Hawk

6) Franklin’s Gull

KOONCE, SANDY

1) Franklin’s Gull

2) Prairie Warbler

3) Rough-legged Hawk

4) Broad-tailed Hummingbird

5) Broad-billed Hummingbird

6) Bohemian Waxwing

MARANTZ, CURTIS

1) Franklin's Gull

2) Common Loon

3) Whimbrel

4) Cactus Wren

5) White-headed Woodpecker

6) Prairie Warbler

MCQUERRY, MICHAEL

1) Horned Grebe

2) Black-bellied Plover

3) Black-bellied Whistling Duck

4) Grace's Warbler

5) Bohemian Waxwing

6) Rusty Blackbird

SAN MIGUEL, MIKE

1) Mississippi Kite

2) McCown's Longspur

3) Chimney Swift

4) Rufous-backed Robin

5) Common Poorwill

6) American Woodcock

SHEEHEY, ALI

1) Little Blue Heron

2) Common Gallinule

3) Snowy Plover

4) Franklin’s Gull

5) Broad-tailed Hummingbird

6) Bendire’s Thrasher

STEELE, SUSAN

1) Prairie Warbler

2) Pine Warbler

3) Cactus Wren

4) Mississippi Kite

5) Yellow-throated Warbler

6) Sedge Wren

TERRILL, RYAN

1) Prairie Warbler

2) Little Blue Heron

3) Sabine’s Gull

4) Common Poorwill

5) Bendire’s Thrasher

6) Mississippi Kite

VANDER PLUYM, DAVID

1) Franklin’s Gull

2) Common Loon

3) Mississippi Kite

4) Steller’s Jay

5) Greater Scaup

6) White-headed Woodpecker

WILSON, JOHNNY

1) Arctic Tern

2) Prairie Warbler

3) Mississippi Kite

4) Yellow-throated Warbler

5) Rusty Blackbird

6) Little Blue Heron

WURSTER, TOM

1) Prairie Warbler

2) Red-faced Warbler

3) Common Loon

4) Common Goldeneye

5) Broad-billed Hummingbird

6) American Woodcock