We are told that one may expect to see any of 168 bird species at Bonhoeffer Botanical Gardens. The reality is that you can spend a day at the Gardens and not see a native bird of any type. The I-5 Freeway has been planted with non-native grasses and plants to discourage native insects and smaller native animals – all to minimize “road kill.” The Gardens are a small island within a sea of Douglas Fir and noisy vehicles. If you see and photograph a bird, we’d very much like to use the photo. Please send jpegs to bb@plc215.org. 
American Bittern, American Coot, American Crow, American Dipper, American Goldfinch, American Kestrel, American Robin, American Tree Sparrow, American Wigeon, Anna’s Hummingbird, Baird’s Sandpiper, Bald Eagle, Band-Tailed Pigeon, Barn Owl, Barn Swallow, Barred Owl, Barrow’s Goldeneye, Belted Kingfisher, Bewick’s Wren, Black Swift, Black-Capped Chickadee, Black-Headed Grosbeak, Black-Throated Warbler, Blue-Winged Teal, Bonaparte’s Gull, Brant, Brewer’s Blackbird, Brown Creeper, Brown-Headed Cowbird, Bufflehead, Bullock’s Oriole, Bushtit, California Gull, California Quail, Canada Goose, Canvasback, Cassin’s Vireo, Cedar Waxwing, Chestnut-Back Chickadee, Chestnut-Collar Longspur, Cinnamon Teal, Cliff Swallow, Common Goldeneye, Common Loon, Common Merganser, Common Nighthawk, Common Raven, Common Yellowthroat, Cooper’s Hawk, Dark-Eyed Junco, Double-Crested Cormorant, Downy Woodpecker, Dunlin, Eared Grebe, Eurasian Wigeon, European Starling, Evening Grosbeak, Fox Sparrow, Gadwall, Golden-Crowned Kinglet, Golden-Crowned Sparrow, Gray Jay, Great Blue Heron, Great Horned Owl, Greater Yellowlegs, Green Heron, Green-Winged Teal, Gyrfalcon, Hairy Woodpecker, Hammond’s Flycatcher, Harlequin Duck, Hooded Merganser, Horned Grebe, House Finch, House Sparrow, Hutton’s Vireo, Killdeer, Lapland Longspur, Lazuli Bunting, Lesser Scaup, Lesser Yellowlegs, Long-Eared Owl, Long-Tailed Duck, Macgillivray’s Warbler, Mallard, Marsh Wren, Merlin, Mew Gull, Mourning Dove, Northern Flicker, Northern Flicker, Northern Goshawk, Northern Harrier, Northern Pintail, Northern Pygmy-Owl, Northern Saw-Whet Owl, Northern Shoveler, Northern Shrike, Olive-Sided Flycatcher, Orange-Crowned Warbler, Osprey, Pacific Loon, Pacific-Slope Flycatcher, Peregrine Falcon, Pied-Billed Grebe, Pileated Woodpecker, Pine Siskin, Purple Finch, Red Crossbill, Red-Breasted Merganser, Red-Breasted Nuthatch, Red-Breasted Sapsucker, Red-Eyed Vireo, Redhead, Red-Tailed Hawk, Red-Throated Loon, Red-Winged Blackbird, Ring-Billed Gull, Ring-Necked Duck, Ring-Necked Pheasant, Rock Pigeon, Rough-Legged Hawk, Rough-Winged Swallow, Ruby-Crowned Kinglet, Ruddy Duck, Ruffed Grouse, Rufous Hummingbird, Savannah Sparrow, Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Short-Eared Owl, Smith’s Longspur, Snow Bunting, Snow Goose, Solitary Sandpiper, Song Sparrow, Sora, Spotted Sandpiper, Spotted Towhee, Steller’s Jay, Swainson’s Thrush, Townsend’s Warbler, Tree Swallow, Trumpeter Swan, Tundra Swan, Turkey Vulture, Varied Thrush, Vaux’s Swift, Violet-Green Swallow, Virginia Rail, Warbling Vireo, Western Grebe, Western Kingbird, Western Screech-Owl, Western Tanager, Western Wood-Pewee, Whimbrel, White-Crowned Sparrow, White-Fronted Goose, White-Throated Sparrow, White-Winged Scoter, Wild Turkey, Willow Flycatcher, Willow Flycatcher, Wilson’s Snipe, Wilson’s Warbler, Wilson’s Warbler, Winter Wren, Wood Duck, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-Breasted Chat, Yellow-Rumped Warbler
https://wa.audubon.org/news/more-half-washington-state-birds-risk-extinction-due-climate-change
From the list above, how many swallows are native to Cascadia?
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