"Pick Six" Predictions
In Spring 2006, birders logged their guesses for the next six species to be recorded at Galileo Hill. Below are all of those original lists, as well as others added in subsequent years.
Species listed in bold were recorded following the publication of the initial 2006 Birds of Galileo Hill website. Distributional data involving these lists and details on post-2006 additions to the main list appear at the bottom of this page.
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
Prairie Warbler, considered by many in 2006 to be the
overdue species, remains unrecorded in the park. Photo courtesy of Bob Steele.
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