ZO 501 Ornithology - Spring 2009

Birds seen or heard in the field

We will keep a list of birds seen during our Friday field labs and weekend field trips. 

For the lists below: * = heard only, Bold = new species in lab.

 

1/24/2009 - 1/25/2009 Coastal Field Trip

Tundra Swan Snow Goose Canada Goose Green-winged Teal
American Black Duck Mallard Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Widgeon Redhead
Greater Scaup Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter
Buffledhead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Northern Gannet
Brown Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Great-blue Heron Tri-colored Heron
Great Egret Snowy Egret Black-crowned Night-heron White Ibis
Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon
American Coot Black-bellied Plover Killdeer American Oystercatcher
American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Willet Sanderling
Dunlin Short-billed Dowitcher Common Snipe American Woodcock
Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull
Great Black-backed Gull Forster's Tern Rock Pigeon Morning Dove

Belted Kingfisher

Northern Flicker Tree Swallow Barn Swallow
Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Carolina Wren
Marsh Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird American Robin
Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler Palm Warbler Northern Cardinal Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Boat-tailed Grackle
Eastern Meadowlark House Finch House Sparrow  

87 species, 62 new

1/16/2009 Yates Mill Pond

Canada Goose Bufflehead Ring-necked Duck Ruddy Duck
Mallard Great Blue Heron Coopers Hawk Red-tailed Hawk
Turkey Vulture Black Vulture Killdeer Rock Pigeon
Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Eastern Pheobe American Crow Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse Brown-headed Nuthatch Carolina Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird Brown Thrasher Cedar Waxwing Yellow-rumped Warbler
Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Field Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal American Goldfinch  

35 species, 10 new

1/9/2009 Raleigh - NCSU farm ponds, Lake Wheeler

Canada Goose Bufflehead Ring-necked Duck Ruddy Duck
Mallard Great Blue Heron Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot Killdeer Ring-billed Gull Mourning Dove
Rock Pigeon Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Eastern Pheobe Loggerhead Shrike Crow Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse Brown-headed Nuthatch Ruby-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird
Northern Mockingbird European Starling Cedar Waxwing Yellow-rumped Warbler
Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal  

31 species

 

 

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