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The Natural Environment: List of Birds Seen At Essex Meadows By Residents

Compiled by Dexter Chafee, Essex Meadows Resident

  • Ruby-Throated
        Hummingbird
  • American Bittern
  • Great Blue Heron
  • Great Egret
  • Green-Backed Heron
  • Glossy Ibis
  • Mute Swan
  • Canada Goose
  • Wood Duck
  • Mallard
  • Turkey Vulture
  • Osprey
  • Harrier
  • Sharp-Shinned Hawk
  • Coopers Hawk
  • Northern Goshawk
  • Red-Shouldered Hawk
  • Broad-Winged Hawk
  • Red-Tailed Hawk
  • American Kestrel
  • Ring-Necked
        Pheasant
  • Ruffed Grouse
  • Wild Turkey
  • Bob White
  • Killdeer
  • King Rail
  • Solitary Sandpiper
  • Spotted Sandpiper
  • Dowitcher
  • Common Snipe
  • American Woodcock
  • Ring-Billed Gull
  • Herring Gull
  • Great Black-Backed
        Gull
  • Rock Dove
  • Mourning Dove
  • Black-Billed Cuckoo
  • Screech Owl
  • Saw-Whet Owl
  • Great Horned Owl
  • Chimney Swift
  • Double-Breasted
        Cormorant
  • Belted Kingfisher
  • Red-Bellied
        Woodpecker
  • Downy Woodpecker
  • Orhard Oriole
  • Black-Backed
        Woodpecker
  • Hairy Woodpecker
  • Northern Flicker
  • Pileated Woodpecker
  • Wood Pewee
  • Acadian Flycatcher
  • Phoebe
  • Great Crested
        Flycatcher
  • Kingbird
  • Horned Lark
  • Purple Martin
  • Tree Swallow
  • Barn Swallow
  • Blue Jay
  • American Crow
  • Chickadee
  • Tufted Titmouse
  • White-Breasted
        Nut Hatch
  • Brown Creeper
  • Carolina Wren
  • House Wren
  • Marsh Wren
  • Golden-Crowned
        Kinglet
  • Ruby-Crowned
        Kinglet
  • Blue-Gray Gnatcatch
  • Eastern Bluebird
  • Veery
  • Swainsons' Thrust
  • Hermit Thrush
  • Wood Thrush
  • American Robin
  • Gray Catbird
  • Mockingbird
  • Brown Thrasher
  • American Pipit
  • Cedar Waxwing
  • Starling
  • White-Eyed Vireo
  • Solitary Vireo
  • Yellow-Throated Vireo
  • Warbling Vireo
  • Red-Eyed Vireo
  • Blue-Winged Warbler
  • Nashville Warbler
  • Northern Parula
  • Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
  • Common Yellow-Throat
        Warbler
  • Chestnut-Sided Warbler
  • Magnolia Warbler
  • Black-Throated Blue
        Warbler
  • Yellow-Rumpled
        Warbler
  • Black-Throated Green
        Warbler
  • Pine Warbler
  • Prairie Warbler
  • Palm Warbler
  • Blackpoll Warbler
  • Black and White
        Warbler
  • American Redstart
  • Worm-Eating Warbler
  • Ovenbird
  • Northern Waterthrash
  • Yellow Warbler
  • Hooded Warbler
  • Canada Warbler
  • Scarlet Tanager
  • Cardinal
  • Rose-Breasted
        Grosbeak
  • Indigo Bunting
  • Rufous-Sided Towhee
  • Tree Sparrow
  • Chipping Sparrow
  • Field Sparrow
  • Savannah Sparrow
  • Fox Sparrow
  • Song Sparrow
  • White-Throated
        Sparrow
  • Dark-Eyed Junco
  • Bobolink
  • Red-Winged Blackbird
  • Eastern Meadowlark
  • Rusty Blackbird
  • Common Grackle
  • Brown-Headed Cowbird
  • Northern Oriole
  • House Finch
  • American Goldfinch
  • Evening Grosbeak
  • House Sparrow
  • Ring-Necked Duck
  • Buffle-Head Duck
  • White Crowned Sparrow

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