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Tuesday, 21 July 2009 13:49

Bird sightings list on Elbow Lake

This is an Elbow Lake bird list from Sue Bagley and Gil and Will Lewis (mainly Will), with additions from Pete Ralston and Linn Van Dyne. Key is at end. Order corresponds to the order in Birds of Eastern and Central North America, fifth edition, by Roger Tory Peterson.

Please contact Gil Lewis if you would like to add to this list.

Common Loon *
Pied-billed grebe %
American White Pelican *
Double-crested Cormorant *
Great Blue Heron *
American Bittern *
Sandhill Crane %
Trumpeter Swan #
Tundra Swan %
Canada Goose *
American Black Duck #
Mallard *
Wood Duck #
Lesser Scaup *
Common Goldeneye *
Bufflehead *
Common Merganser *
Hooded Merganser ***
Turkey Vulture *
Osprey *

Sharp-shinned Hawk #
Northern Goshawk %
Red-Tailed Hawk %
Red-Shouldered Hawk %
Broad-winged Hawk *
Bald Eagle *
American Kestrel %
Merlin *
Ruffed Grouse *
Sora #
Killdeer #
American Woodcock #
Common (Wilson’s) Snipe #
Spotted Sandpiper ***
Herring Gull *
Ring-billed Gull *
Caspian Tern %
Barred Owl *
Great Gray Owl #
Northern Saw-whet Owl %
Whip-poor-will %
Common Nighthawk *
Ruby-throated Hummingbird *
Belted Kingfisher *
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker *
Downy Woodpecker *
Hairy Woodpecker *
Black-backed Woodpecker *
Northern Flicker *
Pileated Woodpecker *
Great-crested Flycatcher ***
Eastern Phoebe *
Eastern Wood-pewee %
Olive-sided Flycatcher **
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher *
Least Flycatcher *
Alder Flycatcher **
Tree Swallow %%
Northern Rough-Winged Swallow %
Black-capped Chickadee *
Brown Creeper *
White-breasted Nuthatch *
Red-breasted Nuthatch *
Winter Wren %
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Golden-crowned Kinglet
American Robin *
Gray-cheeked Thrush %
Swainson’s Thrush *
Hermit Thrush *
Veery *
Wood Thrush *
Blue Jay *
Gray Jay *
American Crow *
Common Raven *
Cedar Waxwing *
Red-eyed Vireo *
Warbling Vireo %
Philadelphia Vireo %

Blue-headed Vireo *
Northern Parula *
Black-throated Green Warbler *
Black-and-white Warbler *
Blackpoll Warbler *
Magnolia Warbler *
Yellow-rumped Warbler *
Canada Warbler *
Cape May Warbler %
Chestnut-sided Warbler *
Bay-breasted Warbler *
Blackburnian Warbler *
American Redstart *
Pine Warbler *
Palm Warbler *
Yellow Warbler ***
Tennessee Warbler %
Orange-crowned Warbler %
Golden-winged Warbler *
Nashville Warbler *
Connecticut Warbler *
Mourning Warbler *
Common Yellowthroat ***
Northern Waterthrush %
Ovenbird *
Scarlet Tanager %
Rose-breasted Grosbeak %
Indigo Bunting %
Evening Grosbeak %
American Goldfinch *
Pine Siskin *
Common Redpoll %
Hoary Redpoll %
Purple Finch *
Pine Grosbeak %
White-throated Sparrow *
White-crowned Sparrow %
Harris’ Sparrow %%%
Chipping Sparrow *
Swamp Sparrow ***
American Tree Sparrow %
Fox Sparrow %
Song Sparrow *
Vesper Sparrow #
Lincoln’s Sparrow %
Dark-eyed Junco %
Lapland Longspur %
Rusty Blackbird %
Brewer’s Blackbird %
Common Grackle %
Red-winged Blackbird ***
European Starling %
Baltimore Oriole %
House Sparrow %




Key
* Bagley  Point, section 28, lot 8
** Elbow River
*** Susan River
# Reported by Pete Ralston
% Reported by Linn Van Dyne
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