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