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Birds Seen at PNC

List compiled by Susan Bagby

photo of baby bluebirds on PNC campus

HERONS
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron

VULTURES
Turkey Vulture

GEESE
Canada Goose

SWANS
Mute Swan

DUCKS
Wood Duck
Mallard

HAWKS
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk

CRANES
Sandhill Crane

PLOVERS
Killdeers

SANDPIPERS
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
American Woodcock

GULLS
Bonaparte’s Gull
Ring-billed Gull

PIGEONS, DOVES
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove

CUCKOOS
Black-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Cuckoo

OWLS
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl

GOATSUCKERS
Common Nighthawk

SWIFTS
Chimney Swift

HUMMINGBIRDS
Ruby-throated Hummingbird

KINGFISHERS
Belted Kingfisher

WOODPECKERS
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker

FLYCATCHERS
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird

VIREOS
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo

JAYS, MAGPIES, CROWS
Blue Jay
American Crow

LARKS
Horned Lark

SWALLOWS
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow

CHICKADEES, TITMOUSE
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse

NUTHATCHES
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch

CREEPERS
Brown Creeper

WRENS
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Winter Wren
Sedge Wren

KINGLETS
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet

GNATCATCHERS
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

THRUSHES
Eastern Bluebird
Veery
Swainson’s Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin

MIMICS
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Byron Thrasher

STARLINGS
European Starling

WAXWINGS
Cedar Waxwing

WARBLERS
Blue-winged Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
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
Palm Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson’s Warbler
Canada Warbler

TANAGERS
Scarlet Tanager

SPARROWS
Eastern Towhee
American Tree Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Hite-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Snow Bunting

GROSBEAKS, BUNTINGS
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting

BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Baltimore Oriole

FINCHES
House Finch
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
Evening Grosbeak

OLD WORLD SPARROWS
House Sparrow


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