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Valley Nature Center Birds |
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| This list was compiled by Martin Hagne of the VNC's staff. It represents all sightings of birds at the VNC reported since 1995 and is presented using a color-coded scheme to show when the species may be expected. |
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The following codes apply: Green - Year round resident and breeding Brown - Not present in winter Violet - Not present in summer Red - Spring and Fall (Migration) only Blue - Winter only * - New record for Valley Underlined - nesting observed in VNC
PLEASE SUBMIT SIGHTINGS TO THE STAFF OR VIA EMAIL SO THAT WE CAN UPDATE THIS LIST. THANK YOU! |
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Pelicans, Gannets and Boobies American White Pelican Anhinga and Cormorants Double-crested Cormorant Anhinga Wading Birds Great Egret Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Sandhill Crane Vultures Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Ducks, Geese and Swans Black-bellied
Whistling-Duck Greater White-fronted
Goose Snow Goose Mottled Duck Hawks, Kites, Eagles and Allies White-tailed Kite Mississippi Kite Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper’s Hawk Gray Hawk Harris’ Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Swainson’s Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Gamebirds Plain Chachalaca Northern Bobwhite Virginia Rail Shorebirds Killdeer Gulls, Terns, & Skimmers Laughing Gull Franklin’s Gull Pigeons and Doves Rock Dove White-winged Dove Mourning Inca Dove Common Ground-Dove White-tipped Dove Parakeets and Parrots Green Parakeet Red-crowned Parrot Red-lored Parrot Cuckoos, Roadrunners and Anis Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Groove-billed Ani Owls Eastern Screech-Owl
Goatsuckers Lesser Nighthawk Common Nighthawk Pauraque Chuck-will’s-widow Whip-poor-will Swifts Chimney Swift Hummingbirds Buff-bellied Hummingbird Ruby-throated
Hummingbird Black-chinned
Hummingbird Anna’s Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Kingfishers Green
Kingfisher
Woodpeckers Golden-fronted
Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Ladder-backed Woodpecker Tyrant Flycatchers Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied
Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Alder
Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Cordilleran Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great-crested Flycatcher Brown-crested Flycatcher Great Kiskadee Tropical Kingbird Couch’s Kingbird Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird Scissor-tailed
Flycatcher Vireos White-eyed Vireo Bell’s Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo |
Shrikes Loggerhead Shrike
Jays & Crows Green Jay
Swallows Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged
Swallow Cliff Swallow Cave Swallow Barn Swallow Chickadees and Titmice Black-crested Titmouse Wrens Carolina Wren Bewick’s Wren House Wren Kinglets Ruby-crowned Kinglet Gnatcatchers Blue-gray Gnatcatchers Thrushes Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson’s Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Clay-colored Robin American Robin Mockingbirds and Thrashers Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Long-billed Thrasher Curve-billed Thrasher Starlings European Starling Waxwings Cedar Waxwing Wood Warblers Blue-winged Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Tropical Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Gray
Warbler Black-throated Green
Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Cerulean Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Swainson’s Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Mourning Warbler
MacGillivary's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson’s Warbler Canada Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Tanagers Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Sparrows and Allies Olive Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Lark Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow Cardinals and Allies Northern Cardinal Pyrrhuloxia Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Painted Bunting Blackbirds Red-winged Blackbird Great-tailed Grackle Bronzed Cowbirds Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Hooded Oriole Altamira Oriole Audubon’s Oriole Baltimore Oriole Finches House Finch Lesser Goldfinch American Goldfinch Old World Sparrows House Sparrow |
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