Common Name
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Pie-billed Grebe
Northern Gannet
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
American Bittern
Least Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Green-backed Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Black-cr. Night Heron
Tundra Swan
Canada Goose
Snow Goose
Wood Duck
Green-winged Teal
Blue-winged Teal
American Widgeon
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Gadwall
Greater Scaup
Bufflehead
Red-breasted Merganser
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Merlin
American Kestrel
Northern Bobwhite
King Rail
Virginia Rail
Black Rail
Black Bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
American Oystercatcher
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Ruddy Turnstone
Common Snipe
Red Knot
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull
Bonaparte’s Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Greater Bl. –backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Forester’s Tern
Common Tern
Least Tern
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Great Horned Owl
Common Nighthawk
Chuck-will’s widow
Chimney Swift
Ruby-th. Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Willow Flycatcher
Eastern Wood Pewee
Empidonax Sp
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
No. Rough-winged S.
Barn Swallow
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren
Carolina Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Veery
American Robin
Wood Thrush
Northern Mockingbird
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Cedar Waxwing
European Starling
White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Northern Parula
Prothonotary Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Black-th. Blue Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Ovenbird
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow-breasted Chat
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Eastern Towhee
Field Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Boat-tailed Grackle
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Summer Tanager
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Hooded Merganser
House Finch
American Coot
Cooper's Hawk
Glossy Ibis
Whippoorwill
Clapper Rail
White Ibis
Green Heron
Piping Plover
Swallow-tailed Kite
Tufted Titmouse
American Woodcock
Cattle Egret
Lesser Scaup
Common Merganser
Peregrine Falcon
Barred Owl
Hairy Woodpecker
Canvasback
Ring neck Duck
Redhead
Eurasian Collared Dove
How you can help, right now
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