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| Birds of the NYC Region |
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Kingfishers |
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Belted Kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon)
Credit: Vicki Bustamante |
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Mute Swans (Cygnus olor) |
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Mixed waterbird flocks Jamaica Bay |
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Mute swans and Canada Geese
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Brants (Branta bernicla) |
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Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos)
Credit: Vicki Bustamante |
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Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis) |
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Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) |
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Common Tern |
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Skimmer (Rynchops niger)
c. Sam Jannazzo |
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Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) |
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Herring Gull |
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Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) |
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Little Blue Heron immature |
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Little Blue Heron & Wood Duck
Credit: Vicki Bustamante |
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Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea) |
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Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) |
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Tri-colored Heron (Egretta tricolor) |
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Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) |
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Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) |
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Great Egret (Ardea alba) |
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Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) |
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Snowy Owl (Nyctea scandiaca)
c. Joe Giunta
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Least Sandpiper (Calidris minitulla) |
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Semipalmated Sandpipers (Calidris pusilla) |
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Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus)
Credit: Vicki Bustamante |
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Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
Credit: Vicki Bustamante |
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Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
Credit: Vicki Bustamante |
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Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus) |
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Credit: Vicki Bustamante |
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Sanderling
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Sanderling (Calidris alba)
Credit: Vicki Bustamante |
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Sanderlings and Short-billed Dowitchers
Credit: Vicki Bustamante |
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Short-billed Dowitcher
Credit: Vicki Bustamante |
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Short-billed Dowitcher
Credit: Vicki Bustamante |
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Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus)
Credit: Vicki Bustamante |
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Bairds Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)
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Buff-breasted sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis)
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Hudsonian godwit (Limosa haemastica)
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Red-necked phalarope (Phalaropes lobatus)
c. Sam Jannazzo |
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Birds of fields, marshes and grasslands |
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American Crow (Corvis brachyrhynchos) |
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Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) |
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Grasshopper Sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum)
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Salt Marsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow (Ammodramus caudacutus) |
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Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) |
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Tree Swallow pair (Tachycineta bicolor) |
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Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea)
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Bluebird Pair (Sialia sialis) |
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Northern Bobwhite pair (Colinus virginianus)
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Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus) |
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Merlin (Falco columbarius)
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Redtail Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) |
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Cedar Waxwing (Bombicylla cedrorum) |
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American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)
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Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
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Pine Warbler (Dendrocia pinus) |
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Black-throated Green Warbler (Fall) |
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Black-throated Green Warbler (Fall)
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Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea) |
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Great-crested Flycatcher (Myiarchus crinitus) |
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Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii)
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Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)
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Long-eared Owl (Asio otus)
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White-breasted nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) |
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House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) |
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Eastern towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) |
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Baltimore Oriole (male) (Icterus galbula) |
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Catbird and female cardinal |
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Catbird (Dumetella carolensis) |
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Northern Mockingbird (Mimus ppolyglottis)
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LAST UPDATED: SEPTEMBER 2007 |
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