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New York Birds Photo Gallery |
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Click image to enlarge |
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Note: Birds are arranged by habitats where they are typically found.
Most photos are taken in the New York City region within a hundred-mile radius of Manhattan; in the case of migratory species, photos may be from upstate New York breeding grounds. This photo collection, begun in 2005, continues to grow as more birds are added. These are a representative sampling of the birds you are likely (or lucky) to see in the New York City region. --Betsy McCully |
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Birds of Beaches, Wetlands & Waterways |
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Ospreys (Pandion Heliaetus)
These birds have made a spectacular comeback since the banning of DDT in 1973. They now breed in NYC. |
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Belted Kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon) |
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Widespread breeder, present in small numbers in winters especially along coast. |
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Credit: Vicki Bustamante |
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Ducks, Swans, Geese |
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Mute Swans (Cygnus olor)
introduced; resident |
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Canada Geese (Branta canadensis)and mute swans
common residents
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Mixed waterbird flocks Jamaica Bay |
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Brants (Branta bernicla)
common winter visitor |
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Snow geese (Chen caerulescens)
migrant/occasional winter visitor |
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Tundra swans (Cygnus columbianus)
uncommon migrant |
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Blue morph in flock of snow geese |
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Male common eiders (Somateria mollissima)
winter visitor |
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Common loon (Gavia immer)
eclipse plumage (spring)
common winter visitor |
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King Eider (Somateria spectabilis)
winter visitor
credit: Sam Jannazzo |
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female and young Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos)
resident
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American Widgeon
(Anas americana)
winter vistor |
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Long-tailed Duck "Old Squaw" (Clangula hyemalis)
winter visitor |
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Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata)
winter visitor
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Gadwall (Anas strepera)
winter resident
credit: Sam Jannazzo |
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Greater Scaup (Athya marila)
winter visitor
credit: Sam Jannazzo |
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Redhead (Aythya americana)
uncommon winter visitor
credit: Sam Jannazzo
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Ring-necked ducks (Aythya collaris)
increasingly common winter visitor (coastal Long Island) |
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Canvas-backs (Aythya valisineria)
common winter visitor |
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Common Tern |
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Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
common breeder and migrant |
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Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger)
locally common breeder
c. Sam Jannazzo |
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Roseate terns (center) with common terns
(Sterna dougallii)
locally common breeder (Long Island) |
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Herring Gull
common resident |
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Herring gull with blue crab |
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Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) |
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Great black-backed gull (Larus marinus)
common resident |
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Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus)
uncommon winter visitor |
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Egrets, Ibises, & Herons |
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Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
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Little Blue Heron & Wood Duck
Credit: Vicki Bustamante |
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Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea)
uncommon breeder |
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Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) |
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Tri-colored Heron (Egretta tricolor)
uncommon breeder |
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Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea)
uncommon breeder |
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Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
common resident |
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Green Heron (Butorides virescens)
juvenile; common breedeer |
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Green Heron (Butorides virescens) |
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Great Egret (Ardea alba)
common breeder |
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Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
common breeder |
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Great Egret |
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Snowy Owl immature
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Snowy Owl (Nyctea scandiaca)
winter visitor
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Snowy owl
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Shore Birds |
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sandpipers (mixed species)
common migrants |
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Least Sandpiper (Calidris minitulla)
common migrant |
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Semipalmated Sandpipers
(Calidris pusilla)
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Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
common migrant/winter visitor
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Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus)
breeder
Credit: Vicki Bustamante |
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Semi-palmated plover
(Charadrius semipalmatus)
migrant |
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Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
common migrant/winter visitor
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Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus) |
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Willet
common breeder |
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Sanderlings
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Sanderlings and Short-billed Dowitchers
Credit: Vicki Bustamante |
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Sanderling (Calidris alba)
common winter visitor
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Short-billed Dowitcher
(Limnodromus griseus)
common migrant
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Short-billed Dowitcher
Credit: Vicki Bustamante |
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Short-billed Dowitcher
Credit: Vicki Bustamante |
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Bairds Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)
uncommon fall migrant
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Buff-breasted sandpiper
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rare fall migrant
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Purple sandpipers (Calidiris maritima)
common winter visitors |
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Red-necked phalarope
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uncommon migrant
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Ruddy Turnstones (Arenaria interpres)
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Hudsonian godwit (Limosa haemastica)
uncommon fall migrant
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Birds of Fields, Grasslands and Marshes |
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Red-winged Blackbird
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common resident |
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American Crow (Corvis brachyrhynchos)
common resident |
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Rusty blackbird (Euphagus carolinus)
uncommon migrant/rare winter visitor |
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Grasshopper Sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum)
common breeder
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Salt Marsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
(Ammodramus caudacutus)
common breeder |
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Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)
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Killdeer adult and young
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common breeder |
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Savannah Sparrow (Passerculis sandwichensis)
common breeder, abundant migrant, occasional winter resident on coast |
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winter visitor |
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Prairie warbler (Dendroica discolor)
common breeder |
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Northern shrike (Lanius excubitor)
uncommon winter visitor |
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Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrrorum)
common breeder |
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Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea)
uncommon migrant/breeder
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Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus)
common breeder
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Tree Swallow pair (Tachycineta bicolor)
common breeder |
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Bluebird Pair (Sialia sialis)
uncommon breeder/winter resident |
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Bluebird male (Sialia sialis)
breeder, increasingly common winter resident |
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Northern Bobwhite pair
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uncommon/declining resident
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Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)
uncommon winter visitor |
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Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)
uncommon breeder |
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Redtail Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
common resident |
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Redtail hawk |
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American Kestrel
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breeder
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Merlin (Falco columbarius)
fall migrant
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Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
breeder
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Prothonotary warbler (Protonotaria citrea)
rare breeder
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Hooded Warbler (Wilsonia citrina)
migrant |
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Blue-wing warbler (Vermivora pinus)
fairly common breeder
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Golden-winged warbler
(Vermivora chrysoptera)
rare migrant; increasingly uncommon breeder upstate |
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Pine Warbler (Dendrocia pinus)
common migrant/uncommon breeder |
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Cape May warbler (Dendroica tigrina)
uncommon migrant |
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Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)
common breeder |
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Black-throated Green Warbler (Fall plumage)
(Dendroica virens)
Common migrant, rare breeder |
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Black-throated blue warbler (Dendroica caerulescens)
common migrant |
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Hermit thrush (Catharus guttatus)
common breeder/uncommon winter resident |
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Gray-cheeked Thrush (Catharus minimus)
migrant |
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Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustulatus)
migrant |
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Blue-headed vireo (Vireo solitarius)
common migrant |
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Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus)
abundant breeder |
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Blue-gray gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulia)
common migrant/uncommon breeder |
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Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe)
common breeder |
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Veery (Catharus fuscescens)
migrant |
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Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
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Scarlet Tanager
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Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea)
breeder |
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Eastern towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus)
common breeder |
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Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis)
widespread breeder |
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Northern yellow-shafted Flicker
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common breeder/uncommon winter resident |
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Red-bellied woodpecker
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common resident |
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Pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)
uncommon resident |
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Yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus)
uncommon to fairly common breeder |
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Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)
breeder, occasional winter visitor |
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Great-crested Flycatcher (Myiarchus crinitus)
common breeder |
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Great Crestsed Flycatcher |
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Northern Saw-Whet Owl (Aegolius acadicus)
uncommon migrant/winter visitor |
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Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)
common breeder
credit: Sam Jannazzo |
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Long-eared Owl (Asio otus)
uncommon winter visitor
credit: Sam Jannazzo |
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Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii)
uncommon breeder
digiscoped by Joe Giunta |
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Cooper's hawk
common winter visitor |
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Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
resident |
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Purple finch (Carpodacus purpureus)
uncommon winter visitor |
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Pine siskin (Carduelis pinus)
American goldfinch (Carduelis tristis) - resident
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Purple finch male and female |
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Cardinal family (Cardinalis cardinalis)
common resident |
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Pine Siskins (Carduelis pinus)
occasional winter visitors |
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Chipping sparrow (Spizella passerina) and House finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) |
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male Northern Cardinal
(Cardinalis cardinalis)
credit: Katie Darby 2012 |
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Black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapilla)
resident |
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Tufted titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)
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Bluejay (Cyanocitta cristata)
common resident
c. Katie Darby 2012 |
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House Wren (Troglodytes aedon)
common breeder |
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Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)
common resident |
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Baltimore Oriole (male) (Icterus galbula)
breeder |
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Robin (Turdus migratorius)
common resident |
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Baltimore Oriole (female) |
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Northern Mockingbird (Mimus ppolyglottis)
resident
credit: Shawn Rosvold |
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Catbird (Dumetella carolensis)
common breeder |
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Catbird and female cardinal |
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Northern flicker (Colaptes auratus)
resident |
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Yellow-bellied sapsucker
(Sphyrapicus varius) migrant, uncommon winter visitor
c. Katie Darby 2012 |
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Downy woodpecker (Picoides pubescens)
common resident |
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White-breasted nuthatch
(Sitta carolinensis)
common resident |
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Ruby-throated hummingbird
(Archilochus colubris)
summer breeder |
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LAST UPDATED: March 2013 |
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c. Betsy McCully |
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