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Down East Spring Birding Festival Birdlist

Revised 20 October 2003

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LOONS - GREBES
Common Loon
Red-throated Loon - Unlikely
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe - Possibly
Red-necked Grebe
SHEARWATERS - STORM-PETRELS
Manx Shearwater - Unlikely
Greater Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater - Possibly
Wilson's Storm-Petrel - Possibly
Leach's Storm-Petrel
GANNETS - CORMORANTS
Northern Gannet - Possibly
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Cormorant
BITTERNS - HERONS
American Bittern
Least Bittern - Unlikely
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret - Possibly
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
GEESE - DUCKS
Snow Goose - Possibly
Canada Goose
Brant - Possibly
Wood Duck
Mallard
American Black Duck
Gadwall - Possibly
Northern Pintail - Possibly
American Wigeon - Possibly
Northern Shoveler - Unlikely
Blue-winged Teal
Green-winged Teal
Lesser Scaup - Possibly
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup - Unlikely
Common Eider
King Eider - Unlikely
Long-tailed Duck - Possibly
White-winger Scoter - Possibly
Surf Scoter - Possibly
Black Scoter - Possibly
Common Goldeneye - Possibly
Bufflehead - Possibly
Hooded Merganser
Red Breasted Merganser
Common Merganser
OSPREY - EAGLES - HAWKS - FALCONS
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Northern Goshawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Northern Harrier
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk - Unlikely
Bald Eagle (threatened species)
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon (threatened species) - Possibly
GROUSE - RAILS - COOTS
Ruffed Grouse
Spruce Grouse
Virginia Rail
Sora
Yellow Rail - Unlikely
PLOVERS - SANDPIPERS - PHALAROPES
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plover - Unlikely
Killdeer
Semipalmated Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Willet
Whimbrel - Unlikely
Upland Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Purple Sandpiper - Unlikely
Sanderling - Possibly
Red Knot
Dunlin
Pectoral Sandpiper - Possibly
White-rumped Sandpiper - Unlikely
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
American Woodcock
Wilson's Phalarope - Unlikely
Red-necked Phalarope (threatened species) - Unlikely
Red Phalarope - Unlikely
SKUAS - JAEGERS - GULLS
Parasitic Jaeger - Unlikely
Black-legged Kittiwake
Black-headed Gull - Unlikely
Bonaparte's Gull
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Iceland Gull - Unlikely
Glaucous Gull - Unlikely
Great Black-backed Gull
TERNS
Black Tern - Possibly
Common Tern
Arctic Tern
Roseate Tern (threatened species)
ALCIDS
Razorbill
Common Murre
Thick-billed Murre - Unlikely
Black Guillemot
Atlantic Puffin
DOVES - CUCKOOS
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Black-billed Cuckoo
OWLS
Long-eared Owl - Possibly
Short-eared Owl - Possibly
Eastern Screech-Owl - Possibly
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
NIGHTHAWKS - SWIFTS - KINGFISHERS
Common Nighthawk
Whip-poor-will
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
WOODPECKERS
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Three-toed Woodpecker
Black-backed Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
FLYCATCHERS
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Willow Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
SHRIKES AND VIREOS
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
White-eyed Vireo - Unlikely
Red-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo - Unlikely
Blue-headed Vireo
JAYS - CROWS - LARKS - SWALLOWS
Blue Jay
Gray Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Tree Swallow
Purple Martin
CHICKADEES - NUTHATCHES - WRENS
Black-capped Chickadee
Boreal Chickadee
Brown Creeper
White-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Marsh Wren
House Wren
Winter Wren
KINGLETS - THRUSHES - THRASHERS
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
Swainson's Thrush
Veery
Bicknell's Thrush
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
STARLINGS - WAXWINGS
Cedar Waxwing
European Starling
WARBLERS
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler - Possibly
Blackburnian Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler - Unlikely
Blackpoll Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Black and White Warbler
American Redstart
Common Yellowthroat
Mourning Warbler - Possibly
Northern Waterthrush
Ovenbird
Canada Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
TANAGERS - SPARROWS - TOWHEES
Scarlet Tanager
Blue Grosbeak - Unlikely
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Northern Cardinal - Possibly
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
American Tree Sparrow - Unlikely
Vesper Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow - Unlikely
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow - Possibly
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
ORIOLES - BLACKBIRDS - GRACKLES
Baltimore Oriole
Eastern Meadowlark - Possibly
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird - Possibly
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
FINCHES
House Sparrow
Evening Grosbeak - Possibly
American Goldfinch
Pine Siskin
Common Redpoll - Unlikely
House Finch - Possibly
Purple Finch
Pine Grosbeak - Possibly
White-winged Crossbill
Red Crossbill
NOTES

A listing without qualification means that species representatives are here during late May.

"Possibly" - representatives usually here in late May, depending on migration timing or population status.

"Unlikely" - representatives infrequently here in late May.

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