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Bird Checklist
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| Bird Status |
Usual Occurrence |
Code |
| Resident |
Year-round |
R |
| Migrant |
April-May & August-Nov. |
M |
| Breeding |
June/July (also a migrant) |
B |
| Winter |
December-April |
W |
* bold, colored text denotes a bird of conservation concern
| BIRDS |
CODE |
| Loons, Grebes, Cormorants |
|
|
| Red-throated Loon |
M |
|
| Common Loon |
M |
|
| Double-crested Cormorant |
B |
| Bitterns, Egrets, Herons |
|
|
| Great Blue Heron |
R |
|
| Great Egret |
B |
|
| Green Heron |
B |
|
| Black-crowned Night-Heron |
|
| Vultures |
|
|
| Black Vulture |
R |
|
| Turkey Vulture |
R |
| Swans, Geese, Ducks |
|
|
| Snow Goose |
M |
|
| Canada Goose |
R |
|
| Brant |
M |
|
| Mute Swan |
R |
|
| Tundra Swan |
M |
|
| Wood Duck |
B |
|
| Gadwall |
W,M |
|
| American Wigeon |
M |
|
| American Black Duck |
W,M |
|
| Mallard |
R |
|
| Blue-winged Teal |
M |
|
| Green-winged Teal |
M |
|
| Northern Pintail |
M |
|
| Redhead |
M |
|
| Ring-necked Duck |
M |
|
| Lesser Scaup |
M |
|
| Buffle head |
M |
|
| Hooded Merganser |
M |
|
| Common Merganser |
M |
|
| Red-breasted Merganser |
M |
| Hawks, Falcons |
|
|
| Osprey |
M |
|
| Bald Eagle |
B |
|
| Golden Eagle |
M |
|
| Northern Harrier |
M |
|
| Sharp-shinned hawk |
F |
|
| Cooper's Hawk |
B |
|
| Northern Goshawk |
M |
|
| Red-shouldered Hawk |
B |
|
| Broad-winged Hawk |
B |
|
| Red-tailed Hawk |
B |
|
| Rough-legged Hawk |
M |
|
| American Kestrel |
B |
|
| Merlin |
M |
|
| Peregrine Falcon |
M |
| Chicken-like Birds |
|
|
| Ring-necked Pheasant |
R |
|
| Ruffed Grouse |
R |
|
| Wild Turkey |
R |
|
| Northern Bobwhite |
M |
| Rails, Coots, Cranes |
|
|
| Sandhill Crane |
M |
| Plovers, Sandpipers |
|
|
| Killdeer |
B |
|
| Greater Yellowlegs |
M |
|
| Solitary Sandpiper |
M |
|
| Spotted Sandpiper |
B |
|
| Wilson's Snipe |
M |
|
| American Woodcock |
B |
| Gulls, Terns |
|
|
| Bonaparte's Gull |
M |
|
| Ring-billed Gull |
M |
|
| Herring Gull |
M |
|
| Lesser Black-backed Gull |
M |
|
| Greater Black-backed Gull |
M |
|
| Common Tern |
M |
|
| Caspian Tern |
M |
|
| Mourning Dove |
R |
|
| Rock Pigeon |
R |
|
| Black-billed Cuckoo |
B |
|
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
B |
| Owls |
|
|
| Eastern Screech-Owl |
R |
|
| Great Horned Owl |
R |
|
| Barred Owl |
R |
|
| Northern Saw-whet Owl |
M |
| Nightjars |
|
|
| Common Nighthawk |
M |
|
| Whip-poor-will |
B |
| Swifts, Hummingbirds |
|
|
| Chimney Swift |
B |
|
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
B |
|
| Belted Kingfisher |
R |
|
| Red-headed Woodpecker |
M |
|
| Red-bellied Woodpecker |
R |
|
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
W,M |
|
| Downy Woodpecker |
R |
|
| Hairy Woodpecker |
R |
|
| Nothern Flicker |
R |
|
| Pileated Woodpecker |
R |
| Tyrant Flycatchers |
|
|
| Olive-sided Flycatcher |
M |
|
| Eastern Wood-Pewee |
B |
|
| Yellow-bellied Flycatcher |
M |
|
| Acadian Flycatcher |
B |
|
| Willow Flycatcher |
M |
|
| Alder Flycatcher |
M |
|
| Least Flycatcher |
M |
|
| Eastern Phoebe |
B |
|
| Great Crested Flycatcher |
B |
|
| Eastern Kingbird |
B |
| Shrike, Vireos |
|
|
| Northern Shrike |
W |
|
| White-eyed Vireo |
B |
|
| Yellow-throated Vireo |
M |
|
| Blue-headed Vireo |
B |
|
| Warbling Vireo |
B |
|
| Philadelphia Vireo |
M |
|
| Red-eyed Vireo |
B |
| Jays, Crows |
|
|
| Blue Jay |
R |
|
| American Crow |
R |
|
| Fish Crow |
B |
|
| Common Raven |
R |
| Larks, Swallows |
|
|
| Horned Lark |
W,M |
|
| Purple Martin |
M |
|
| Tree Swallow |
B |
|
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
B |
|
| Bank Swallow |
M |
|
| Cliff Swallow |
M |
|
| Barn Swallow |
B |
| Titmice, Nuthatches |
|
|
| Carolina Chickadee |
R |
|
| Black-capped Chickadee |
R |
|
| Tufted Titmouse |
R |
|
| Red-breasted Nuthatch |
W |
|
| White-breasted Nuthatch |
R |
| Creepers, Wrens |
|
|
| Brown Creeper |
R |
|
| Carolina Wren |
R |
|
| House Wren |
B |
|
| Winter Wren |
R |
| Kinglets, Gnatcatchers |
|
|
| Golden-crowned Kinglet |
W,M |
|
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
M |
|
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
B |
| Thrushes |
|
|
| Eastern Bluebird |
R |
|
| Veery |
B |
|
| Gray-cheeked Thrush |
M |
|
| Swainson's Thrush |
M |
|
| Hermit Thrush |
R |
|
| Wood Thrush |
B |
|
| American Robin |
R |
| Mimics, Starlings |
|
|
| Gray Catbird |
B |
|
| Northern Mockingbird |
R |
|
| Brown Thrasher |
B |
|
| European Starling |
R |
| Pipit, Waxwing |
|
|
| American Pipit |
W,M |
|
| Cedar Waxwing |
R |
| Warblers |
|
|
| Blue-winged Warbler |
B |
|
| Golden-winged Warbler |
B |
|
| Brewster's Warbler |
B |
|
| Tennessee Warbler |
M |
|
| Orange-crowned Warbler |
M |
|
| Nashville Warbler |
M |
|
| Northern Parula |
B |
|
| Yellow Warbler |
B |
|
| Chestnut-sided Warbler |
B |
|
| Magnolia Warbler |
M |
|
| Cape May Warbler |
M |
|
| Black-throated Blue Warbler |
B |
|
| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
M |
|
| Black-throated Green Warbler |
B |
|
| Blackburnian Warbler |
M |
|
| Pine Warbler |
B |
|
| Prairie Warbler |
B |
|
| Palm Warbler |
M |
|
| Bay-breasted Warbler |
M |
|
| Blackpoll Warbler |
M |
|
| Cerulean Warbler |
B |
|
| Black-and-white Warbler |
B |
|
| American Redstart |
B |
|
| Worm-eating Warbler |
B |
|
| Ovenbird |
B |
|
| Northern Waterthrush |
M |
|
| Louisiana Waterthrush |
B |
|
| Kentucky Warbler |
B |
|
| Connecticut Warbler |
M |
|
| Mourning Warbler |
M |
|
| Common Yellowthroat |
B |
|
| Hooded Warbler |
B |
|
| Wilson's Warbler |
M |
|
| Canada Warbler |
B |
|
| Yellow-breasted Chat |
B |
| Tanager, Grosbeak, Sparrows |
|
|
| Scarlet Tanager |
B |
|
| Eastern Towhee |
B |
|
| American Tree Sparrow |
W |
|
| Chipping Sparrow |
B |
|
| Field Sparrow |
B |
|
| Savannah Sparrow |
M |
|
| Fox Sparrow |
W,M |
|
| Song Sparrow |
R |
|
| Lincoln's Sparrow |
M |
|
| Swamp Sparrow |
M |
|
| White-throated Sparrow |
W |
|
| White-crowned Sparrow |
M |
|
| Dark-eyed Junco |
W |
|
| Northern Cardinal |
R |
|
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
B |
|
| Blue Grosbeak |
M |
|
| Indigo Bunting |
B |
|
| Snow Bunting |
W |
| Blackbirds, Orioles |
|
|
| Bobolink |
M |
|
| Red-winged Blackbird |
B |
|
| Eastern Meadowlark |
B |
|
| Rusty Blackbird |
M |
|
| Common Grackle |
B |
|
| Brown-headed Cowbird |
B |
|
| Baltimore Oriole |
B |
| Finches, Weavers |
|
|
| Purple Finch |
W |
|
| House Finch |
R |
|
| Red Crossbill |
W |
|
| White-winged Crossbill |
W |
|
| Common Redpoll |
W |
|
| Pine Siskin |
W |
|
| American Goldfinch |
R |
|
| Evening Grosbeak |
W |
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