Ok, I’ve decided to change this up a bit. 1/14/10.
* Breeds in Region 8
(N) A New York State Avian Records Committee Review Species
(D) Rare for the Region and should be documented, but is not a NYSARC Review Species
(I) Introduced Species
(E) Extinct
(EX) Extirpated, a species which once occurred in the region, but no longer does.
- Greater White-fronted Goose (D)
- Snow Goose
- Ross’s Goose (D)
- Brant
- Barnacle Goose
- Cackling Goose (D)
- Canada Goose*
- Mute Swan*
- Tundra Swan
- Wood Duck*
- Gadwall*
- Eurasian Wigeon (D)
- American Wigeon
- American Black Duck*
- Mallard*
- Blue-winged Teal*
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Pintail
- Green-winged Teal
- Canvasback
- Redhead*
- Ring-necked Duck*
- Tufted Duck (N)
- Greater Scaup
- Lesser Scaup
- King Eider (D)
- Harlequin Duck (D)
- Surf Scoter
- White-winged Scoter
- Black Scoter
- Long-tailed Duck
- Bufflehead
- Common Goldeneye*
- Barrow’s Goldeneye (D)
- Hooded Merganser*
- Common Merganser*
- Red-breasted Merganser*
- Ruddy Duck
- Ring-necked Pheasant* (I)
- Ruffed Grouse*
- Greater Prairie-Chicken* (E) (Heath Hen)
- Wild Turkey*
- Northern Bobwhite* (EX)
- Red-throated Loon
- Pacific Loon (N)
- Common Loon*
- Pied-billed Grebe*
- Horned Grebe*
- Red-necked Grebe
- Eared Grebe (N)
- Great Shearwater (N)
- White-tailed Tropicbird (N)
- Northern Gannet (D)
- American White Pelican
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Great Cormorant
- Magnificent Frigatebird (N)
- American Bittern*
- Least Bittern*
- Great Blue Heron*
- Great Egret
- Snowy Egret
- Little Blue Heron (D)
- Tricolored Heron (D)
- Cattle Egret (D)
- Green Heron*
- Black-crowned Nightheron
- Yellow-crowned Nightheron (D)
- Glossy Ibis (D)
- Wood Stork (N)
- Black Vulture*
- Turkey Vulture*
- Osprey*
- Swallow-tailed Kite (N)
- Mississippi Kite* (N)
- Bald Eagle*
- Northern Harrier*
- Sharp-shinned Hawk*
- Cooper’s Hawk*
- Northern Goshawk*
- Red-shouldered Hawk*
- Broad-winged Hawk*
- Swainson’s Hawk (N)
- Red-tailed Hawk*
- Rough-Legged Hawk
- Golden Eagle
- American Kestrel*
- Merlin*
- Gyrfalcon
- Peregrine Falcon*
- Yellow Rail (N)
- Corn Crake (N)
- King Rail* (D)
- Virginia Rail*
- Sora*
- Common Moorhen*
- American Coot*
- Sandhill Crane
- Northern Lapwing (N)
- Black-bellied Plover
- American Golden-Plover
- Semipalmated Plover
- Killdeer*
- Spotted Sandpiper*
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Willet (D)
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Upland Sandpiper
- Whimbrel (D)
- Hudsonian Godwit (D)
- Marbled Godwit (D)
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Red Knot
- Sanderling
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Western Sandpiper
- Least Sandpiper
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- Baird’s Sandpiper (D)
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Purple Sandpiper (D)
- Dunlin
- Stilt Sandpiper (D)
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Ruff (N)
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Long-billed Dowitcher (D)
- Wilson’s Snipe*
- American Woodcock*
- Red-necked Phalarope (D)
- Red Phalarope (D)
- Laughing Gull (D)
- Franklin’s Gull (N)
- Bonaparte’s Gull
- Ring-billed Gull*
- Herring Gull*
- Thayer’s Gull (N)
- Iceland Gull
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Glaucous Gull
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Ivory Gull (N)
- Sooty Tern (N)
- Least Tern (N)
- Caspian Tern
- Black Tern*
- Common Tern
- Forster’s Tern (D)
- Royal Tern (N)
- Black Skimmer (N)
- Pomarine Jaeger (D)
- Parasitic Jaeger (D)
- Dovekie (N)
- Thick-billed Murre (N)
- Rock Pigeon* (I)
- Mourning Dove*
- Passenger Pigeon* (E)
- Monk Parakeet* (D)
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo*
- Black-billed Cuckoo*
- Barn Owl* (D)
- Eastern Screech-Owl*
- Great Horned Owl*
- Snowy Owl
- Northern Hawk Owl (N)
- Barred Owl*
- Great Gray Owl (N)
- Long-eared Owl* (D)
- Short-eared Owl* (D)
- Northern Saw-Whet Owl*
- Common Nighthawk*
- Whip-poor-will*
- Chimney Swift*
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird*
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Belted Kingfisher*
- Lewis’s Woodpecker
- Red-headed Woodpecker* (EX)
- Red-bellied Woodpecker*
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker*
- Downy Woodpecker*
- Hairy Woodpecker*
- American Three-toed Woodpecker (N)
- Black-backed Woodpecker (N)
- Northern Flicker*
- Pileated Woodpecker*
- Olive-sided Flycatcher*
- Eastern Wood-Pewee*
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher*
- Acadian Flycatcher* (D)
- Alder Flycatcher*
- Willow Flycatcher*
- Least Flycatcher*
- Eastern Phoebe*
- Say’s Phoebe (N)
- Great Crested Flycatcher*
- Western Kingbird (N)
- Eastern Kingbird*
- Gray Kingbird (N)
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (N)
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher (N)
- Loggerhead Shrike* (EX)
- Northern Shrike
- White-eyed Vireo* (D)
- Yellow-throated Vireo*
- Blue-headed Vireo*
- Warbling Vireo*
- Philadelphia Vireo
- Red-eyed Vireo*
- Gray Jay (N)
- Blue Jay*
- Black-billed Magpie (I?)
- American Crow*
- Fish Crow*
- Common Raven*
- Horned Lark*
- Purple Martin* (D)
- Tree Swallow*
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow*
- Bank Swallow*
- Cliff Swallow*
- Barn Swallow*
- Black-capped Chickadee*
- Boreal Chickadee (N)
- Tufted Titmouse*
- Red-breasted Nuthatch*
- White-breasted Nuthatch*
- Brown Creeper*
- Carolina Wren*
- House Wren*
- Winter Wren*
- Sedge Wren* (D)
- Marsh Wren*
- Golden-crowned Kinglet*
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher*
- Northern Wheatear (N)
- Eastern Bluebird*
- Mountain Bluebird (N)
- Townsend’s Solitaire (N)
- Veery*
- Gray-cheeked Thrush (D)
- Bicknell’s Thrush* (D)
- Swainson’s Thrush*
- Hermit Thrush*
- Wood Thrush*
- American Robin*
- Varied Thrush (N)
- Gray Catbird*
- Northern Mockingbird*
- Brown Thrasher*
- European Starling* (I)
- American Pipit
- Bohemian Waxwing (D)
- Cedar Waxwing*
- Blue-winged Warbler*
- Golden-winged Warbler* (D)
- Tennessee Warbler
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Nashville Warbler*
- Northern Parula*
- Yellow Warbler*
- Chestnut-sided Warbler*
- Magnolia Warbler*
- Cape May Warbler*
- Black-throated Blue Warbler*
- Yellow-rumped Warbler*
- Black-throated Green Warbler*
- Blackburnian Warbler*
- Yellow-throated Warbler* (D)
- Pine Warbler*
- Prairie Warbler*
- Palm Warbler
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Blackpoll Warbler*
- Cerulean Warbler (D, away from known areas)
- Black-and-white Warbler*
- American Redstart*
- Prothonotary Warbler (D)
- Worm-eating Warbler*
- Ovenbird*
- Northern Waterthrush*
- Louisiana Waterthrush*
- Kentucky Warbler (N)
- Connecticut Warbler (D)
- Mourning Warbler*
- Common Yellowthroat*
- Hooded Warbler*
- Wilson’s Warbler
- Canada Warbler*
- Yellow-breasted Chat* (EX)
- Scarlet Tanager*
- Western Tanager (N)
- Eastern Towhee*
- American Tree Sparrow
- Chipping Sparrow*
- Clay-colored Sparrow* (D)
- Field Sparrow*
- Vesper Sparrow*
- Savannah Sparrow*
- Grasshopper Sparrow*
- Henslow’s Sparrow* (D)
- Nelson’s Sparrow (D)
- Fox Sparrow
- Song Sparrow*
- Lincoln’s Sparrow
- Swamp Sparrow*
- White-throated Sparrow*
- Harris’s Sparrow (N)
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Dark-eyed Junco*
- Lapland Longspur
- Smith’s Longspur (N)
- Snow Bunting
- Northern Cardinal*
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak*
- Blue Grosbeak (D)
- Indigo Bunting*
- Painted Bunting (N)
- Dickcissel* (D)
- Bobolink*
- Red-winged Blackbird*
- Eastern Meadowlark*
- Western Meadowlark (N)
- Yellow-headed Blackbird (N)
- Rusty Blackbird*
- Common Grackle*
- Brown-headed Cowbird*
- Orchard Oriole*
- Bullock’s Oriole (N)
- Baltimore Oriole*
- Pine Grosbeak
- Purple Finch*
- House Finch* (I)
- Red Crossbill*
- White-winged Crossbill*
- Common Redpoll
- Hoary Redpoll (D)
- Pine Siskin*
- American Goldfinch*
- Evening Grosbeak* (D)
- House Sparrow* (I)