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Wheeler County Oregon

Author(s):  Joel Geier, Linda Fink, Chuck Gates
County Seat: Fossil
County Size: 1,715 Square Miles
High Elevation: Spanish Peak (6,871 feet)
Rarities: Boreal Owl, Broad-tailed Hummingbird, Eastern Phoebe, Blue Jay, Northern Mockingbird, Brown Thrasher, Tennessee Warbler, Black-and-White Warbler, Black- throated Sparrow, Common Grackle, Common Redpoll
Top County Lister: Donna Lusthoff (216)
Year List Record: Craig Corder & Judy Stevens (196)
County Contact Person:  Email Paul Sullivan  

Checklists   Full checklists contain all birds seen in the county.  The brief checklists have all rarities removed and have a larger font to make them easier to use in the field.  To help us better understand bird distribution in the state, report any bird not on the checklists.  Of special interest are birds marked with  (C) or  (S)  on the full checklist.  You can contact the person listed above or report your sightings to birdnotes.net.

 

 

 

Wheeler County Oregon

Author(s):  Joel Geier, Linda Fink, Chuck Gates
County Seat: Fossil
County Size: 1,715 Square Miles
High Elevation: Spanish Peak (6,871 feet)
Rarities: Boreal Owl, Broad-tailed Hummingbird, Eastern Phoebe, Blue Jay, Northern Mockingbird, Brown Thrasher, Tennessee Warbler, Black-and-White Warbler, Black- throated Sparrow, Common Grackle, Common Redpoll
Top County Lister: Donna Lusthoff (216)
Year List Record: Craig Corder & Judy Stevens (196)
County Contact Person:  Email Paul Sullivan  

Checklists   Full checklists contain all birds seen in the county.  The brief checklists have all rarities removed and have a larger font to make them easier to use in the field.  To help us better understand bird distribution in the state, report any bird not on the checklists.  Of special interest are birds marked with  (C) or  (S)  on the full checklist.  You can contact the person listed above or report your sightings to birdnotes.net.

 

 

 

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Introduction: 


Wheeler is Oregon's least populated county, with fewer than 1500 residents.  The only towns with food, gas, and lodging are Fossil, Mitchell, and Spray.

This is a rugged landscape of mountains, canyons, and badlands with scattered agricultural land along some of the valleys. Bird habitats range from dense lodgepole pine at high elevations and ponderosa pine forest at mid-elevations, through juniper woodlands and big sagebrush to sagebrush steppe, basalt rimrock, and nearly barren badlands in the Painted Hills area.

The county has no large lakes, so waterbirds are found mainly along the John Day River, small reservoirs including Painted Cove, Fopiano and Fort Creek reservoirs, or the Fossil sewage ponds.

 

 

 

 

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Introduction: 


Wheeler is Oregon's least populated county, with fewer than 1500 residents.  The only towns with food, gas, and lodging are Fossil, Mitchell, and Spray.

This is a rugged landscape of mountains, canyons, and badlands with scattered agricultural land along some of the valleys. Bird habitats range from dense lodgepole pine at high elevations and ponderosa pine forest at mid-elevations, through juniper woodlands and big sagebrush to sagebrush steppe, basalt rimrock, and nearly barren badlands in the Painted Hills area.

The county has no large lakes, so waterbirds are found mainly along the John Day River, small reservoirs including Painted Cove, Fopiano and Fort Creek reservoirs, or the Fossil sewage ponds.

 

 

 

 

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