The Birds of Eastern New York

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)