Composite List of the Species of Birds Observed by Members of the Nebraska's Ornithologists' Union at the Salt Basin

May 22, 1904.

The Salt Basin, near Lincoln, Nebraska, is a lake-bed about a mile and a half in length and a mile in width. The greater portion of this area is covered with shallow salt water, the depth being so inconsiderable that shore-birds alight to feed at almost any point. The water is rich in the minute life which serves as food for many of these birds, and during the spring and autumn the shoals and flats become the resting-place of innumerable shore-birds, the number of species to be observed on a favorable day being remarkable for so limited an area.

Ring-billed Gull	Bobolink
Franklin's Gull	Cowbird
Forster's Tern	Yellow-headed Blackbird
Black Tern	Red-winged Blackbird
Blue-winged Teal	Western Meadowlark
Shoveller	Orchard Oriole
Ruddy Duck	Baltimore Oriole
American Coot	Bronzed Grackle
Wilson's Phalarope	American Goldfinch
Dowitcher	Pine Siskin
Pectoral Sandpiper	Savanna Sparrow
White-rumped Sandpiper	Grasshopper Sparrow
Baird's Sandpiper	Chipping Sparrow
Least Sandpiper	Towhee
Red-backedSandpiper	Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Semipalmated Sandpiper	Indigo Bunting
Sanderling	Dickcissel
Yellowlegs	Purple Martin
Western Willet	Cliff Swallow
Spotted Sandpiper	Barn Swallow
Black-bellied Plover	Tree Swallow
Killdeer	Bank Swallow
Semipalmated Plover	Rough-winged Swallow
Belted Piping Plover	Red-eyed Vireo
Turnstone	Warbling Vireo
Mourning Dove	Bell's Vireo
Marsh Hawk	Yellow Warbler
Yellow-billed Cuckoo	Northern Yellowthroat
Red-headed Woodpecker	Yellow-breasted Chat
Flicker	Catbird
Chimney Swift	Brown Thrasher
Kingbird	Western House Wren
Phoebe	Long-tailed Chickadee
Traill's Flycatcher	Wood Thrush
Prairie Horned Lark	American Robin
Blue Jay	Bluebird
American Crow