Ornithology
Birds of Upstate New York
Introduction
The following is mostly a list, but we are adding new birds to it every week. Please send us photos, drawings, water colors, paintings, stories, written descriptions, and alike, we will expand the list by creating a Web page for each bird. Contact Max Lent .
LOONS-GREBES--CORMORANTS
- Red-throated Loon
- Common Loon
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Horned Grebe
- Red-necked Grebe
- Double-crested Cormorant
BITTERNS-HERONS--IBIS
- American Bittern
- Least Bittern
-
Great Blue Heron
- Great Egret
- Snowy Egret
- Little Blue Heron
- Cattle Egret
- Green-backed Heron
- Black-crowned Night-Heron
- Glossy Ibis
SWANS-GEESE--DUCKS
- Tundra Swan
-
Mute Swan
- Snow Goose
- Brant
-
Canada Goose
- Wood Duck
- Green-winged Teal
- American Black Duck
-
Mallard
- Northern Pintail
- Blue-winged Teal
- Northern Shoveler
- Gadwall
- Eurasian Wigeon
- American Wigeon
- Canvasback
- Redhead
- Ring-necked Duck
- Greater Scaup
- Lesser Scaup
- Oldsquaw
- Black Scoter
- Surf Scoter
- White-winged Scoter
- Common Goldeneye
- Bufflehead
- Hooded Merganser
- Common Merganser
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Ruddy Duck
VULTURES-HAWKS--FALCONS
- Turkey Vulture
- Osprey
- Bald Eagle
- Northern Harrier
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Cooper's Hawk
- Northern Goshawk
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Rough-legged Hawk
- Golden Eagle
- American Kestrel
- Merlin
- Peregrine Falcon
PHEASANT--GROUSE
- Ringnecked Pheasant
- Ruffed Grouse
- RAILS CRANES
- King Rail
- Virginia Rail
- Sora
- Common Moorhen
- American Coot
PLOVERS--SANDPIPERS
- Black-bellied Plover
- Lesser Golden-Plover
- Semipalmated Plover
- Killdeer
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Upland Sandpiper
- Whimbrel
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Red Knot
- Sanderling
- SemipaumaLISemipalmated Sandpiper
- Western Sandpiper
- Least Sandpiper
- WSandpiper
- Baird's Sandpiper
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Dunlin
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Ruff
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Common Snipe
- American Woodcock
- Wilson's Phalarope
- Red-necked Phalarope
GULLS--TERNS
- Bonaparte's Gull
- Ring-billed Gull
- Herring Gull
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Caspian Tern
- Common Tern
- Black Tern
DOVES-OWLS--HUMMINGBIRDS
- Rock Dove
- Mourning Dove
- Black-billed Cuckoo
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Barn Owl
- Eastern Screech-Owl
- Great Horned Owl
- Snowy Owl
- Barred Owl
- Short-eared Owl
- Northern Saw-whet Owl
- Common Nighthawk
- Whip-poor-will
- Chimney Swift
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Belted Kingfisher
WOODPECKERS--FLYCATCHERS
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Downy Woodpecker
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Northern Flicker
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Redheaded Woodpecker
- Olive-sided Flycatcher
- Eastern Wood-Pewee
- Alder Flycatcher
- Willow Flycatcher
- Least Flycatcher
- Eastern Phoebe
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Eastern Kingbird
LARKS-SWALLOWS--JAYS CROWS
- Horned Lark
- Purple Martin
- Tree Swallow
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Bank Swallow
- Cliff Swallow
- Barn Swallow
- Blue Jay
- American Crow
TlTMICE-NUTHATCHES--WRENS
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Tufted Titmouse
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- Brown Creeper
- Carolina Wren
- House Wren
- Winter Wren
- Sedge Wren
- Marsh Wren
KINGLETS-HRUSHES--THRASHERS
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Bluegray Gnatcatcher
- Eastern Bluebird
- Veery
- Gray-cheeked Thrush
- Swainson's Thrush
- Hermit Thrush
- Wood Thrush
- American Robin
- Gray Catbird
- Northern Mockingbird
- Brown Thrasher
WAXWINGS-SHRIKES--STARLINGS
- Water Pipit
- Cedar Waxwing
- Northern Shrike
- Loggerhead Shrike
- European Starling
VIREOS-WOOD--WARBLERS
- Solitary Vireo
- yellow-throated Vireo
- Warbling Vireo
- Philadelphia Vireo
- Red-eyed Vireo
- 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
- Pine Warbler
- Prairie Warbler
- Palm Warbler
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Cerulean Warbler
- Black-and-white Warbler
- American Redstart
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Ovenbird
- Northern Waterthrush
- Louisiana Waterthrush
- Connecticut Warbler
- Mourning Warbler
- Common Yellowthroat
- Hooded Warbler
- Wilson's Warbler
- Canada Warbler
- Yellow-breasted Chat
TANAGERS--SPARROWS
- Scarlet Tanager
- Northern Cardinal
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Indigo Bunting
- Rufous-sided Towhee
- American Tree Sparrow
- Chipping Sparrow
- Field Sparrow
- Vesper Sparrow
- Savannah Sparrow
- Grasshopper Sparrow
- Henslow's Sparrow
- Fox Sparrow
- Song Sparrow
- Lincoln's Sparrow
- Swamp Sparrow
- White-throated Sparrow
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Lapland Longspur
- Snow Bunting
BLACKBIRDS--FINCHES
- Bobolink
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Eastern Meadowlark
- Rusty Blackbird
- Common Grackle
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Northern Oriole
- Purple Finch
- House Finch
- Common Redpoll
- Pine Siskin
- American Goldfinch
- Evening Grosbeak
- House Sparrow
ACCIDENTALS-Birds that seen rarely in Rochester and Upstate New York
- Western Grebe
- Eared Grebe
- Leach's Storm-Petrel
- Wilson's Storm-Petrel
- American White Pelican
- Northern Gannet
- Black Swan
- Pink-footed Goose
- White-fronted Goose
- Bar-Headed Goose
- Egyptian Goose
- Cinnamon Teal
- Shelduck
- Fulvous Whistling Duck
- Barrow's Goldeneye
- King Eider
- Red-crested Pochard
- Masked Duck
- Gyrfalcon
- Turkey
- Northern Bobwhite
- Tricolored Heron
- Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
- White Ibis
- Greater Flamingo
- Sandhill Crane
- Yellow Rail
- Black Rail
- Purple Gallinule
- American Avocet
- Black-necked Stilt
- Northern Lapwing
- Piping Plover
- Marbled Godwit
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Red Phalarope
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Glaucous Gull
- Iceland Gull
- Little Gull
- Least Tern
- Arctic Tern
- Roseate Tern
- Forster's Tern
- Gull-billed Tern
- Razorbill
- Thick-billed Murre
- Dovekie
- Black Guillemot
- White-winged Dove
- Long-eared Owl
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
- Western Kingbird
- Say's Phoebe
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
- Acadian Flycatcher
- Gray Jay
- Common Raven
- Boreal Chickadee
- Sprague's Pipit
- Bohemian Waxwing
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Brewer's Blackbird
- Boat-tailed Grackle
- Blue Grosbeak
- Pine Grosbeak
- European Goldfinch
- White-winged Crossbill
- Dickcissel
- Sharp-tailed Sparrow
- Lark Sparrow
- Clay-colored Sparrow
Other birding Web sites of interest
- The Raptor Conservation Web Site. Although this site is located in England, it is still worth a visit.
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