Boreal Birds of the Adirondacks: Bicknell's Thrush. Photo by Larry Master. Used by permission

Great Adirondack Birding Celebration 2015
Bird List *


Key
Birding Across the Adirondacks BAA
Birding the St. Lawrence Valley BSL
Beginning Birder Workshop BBW
Bloomingdale Bog BB
Heaven Hill Farm/Henry's Woods/John Brown Farm HHF
Intervale Lowlands IL
Madawaska Flow MF
Whiteface Mountain WM



Bird BAA BSL BBW BB HHF IL MF WM Total
Snow Goose                  
Canada Goose x x x   x x x   x
Wood Duck             x   x
Gadwall                  
American Black Duck                  
Mallard    x     x x     x
Blue-winged Teal                  
Green-winged Teal                  
Ring-necked Duck   x x           x
Greater Scaup                  
White-winged Scoter                  
Bufflehead                  
Common Goldeneye                  
Hooded Merganser                  
Common Merganser           x x   x
Red-breasted Merganser                  
                   
Ring-necked Pheasant                  
Ruffed Grouse                  
Wild Turkey             x   x
                   
Common Loon x x         x   x
                   
Red-necked Grebe                  
Double-crested Cormorant   x             x
American Bittern   x             x
Great Blue Heron x x         x   x
Great Egret                  
Green Heron   x             x
                   
Turkey Vulture x x         x   x
                   
Osprey x x       x   x x
Bald Eagle             x   x
Northern Harrier x x         x   x
Sharp-shinned Hawk   x       x     x
Cooper's Hawk             x   x
Northern Goshawk                  
Red-shouldered Hawk     x           x
Broad-winged Hawk x   x x     x   x
Red-tailed Hawk x               x
Golden Eagle                  
                   
American Kestrel x x       x     x
Merlin                   
Peregrine Falcon                  
                   
Virginia Rail                  
Sora                   
                   
Black-bellied Plover                  
Killdeer    x             x
                   
Spotted Sandpiper           x     x
Solitary Sandpiper                  
Greater Yellowlegs                  
Lesser Yellowlegs                  
Semipalmated Sandpiper                  
Least Sandpiper                  
Wilson's Snipe                  
American Woodcock                  
                   
Ring-billed Gull x x             x
Herring Gull x         x     x
Caspian Tern   x             x
Rock Pigeon x x             x
Mourning Dove x x       x x   x
                   
Black-billed Cuckoo                  
                   
Eastern Screech-Owl                  
Great Horned Owl                  
Barred Owl                  
Long-eared Owl                  
Northern Saw-whet Owl                  
                   
Common Nighthawk                  
Whip-poor-will                   
                   
Chimney Swift   x x     x x   x
                   
Ruby-throated Hummingbird   x     x x x   x
                   
Belted Kingfisher           x x   x
                   
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker x x       x x   x
Downy Woodpecker x               x
Hairy Woodpecker           x x   x
American Three Toed Woodpecker                  
Black-backed Woodpecker               x x
Northern Flicker   x x x   x x   x
Pileated Woodpecker x x             x
                   
Olive-sided Flycatcher             x   x
Eastern Wood-Pewee                  
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher       x     x x x
Alder Flycatcher x     x   x x   x
Least Flycatcher           x x   x
Eastern Phoebe x x       x x   x
Great Crested Flycatcher   x       x     x
Eastern Kingbird   x       x     x
Willow Flycatcher   x             x
Northern Shrike                  
                   
Blue-headed Vireo     x x     x   x
Warbling Vireo x x             x
Red-eyed Vireo x   x x x x x   x
Philadelphia Vireo                  
Yellow-throated Vireo                  
Gray Jay x     x     x   x
Blue Jay x   x x x x x x x
American Crow x x   x x x x   x
Common Raven x x   x x x x x x
                   
Horned Lark                  
                   
Tree Swallow x x     x x     x
Northern Rough-winged Swallow                  
Bank Swallow                  
Cliff Swallow                  
Barn Swallow x x     x   x   x
                   
Black-capped Chickadee x x x x x x x x x
Boreal Chickadee             x x x
                   
Red-breasted Nuthatch     x x x x x   x
White-breasted Nuthatch       x         x
                   
Brown Creeper       x x   x   x
                   
House Wren                  
Winter Wren       x     x x x
                   
Golden-crowned Kinglet x           x   x
Ruby-crowned Kinglet             x x x
                   
Eastern Bluebird x         x x   x
Veery x x   x   x     x
Swainson's Thrush   x         x x x
Hermit Thrush x   x x     x   x
Wood Thrush   x             x
American Robin x x x x   x x   x
Bicknell's Thrush               x x
Gray Catbird x x       x x   x
Northern Mockingbird                  
Brown Thrasher x x             x
European Starling x x             x
                   
American Pipit                  
                   
Bohemian Waxwing                  
Cedar Waxwing x x   x x x x x x
                   
Golden-winged Warbler x               x
Blue-winged Warbler   x             x
Tennessee Warbler                  
Nashville Warbler x     x x x x   x
Northern Parula     x x x x x   x
Yellow Warbler x x       x     x
Chestnut-sided Warbler x x   x   x x   x
Magnolia Warbler     x x x x x   x
Cape May Warbler                  
Black-throated Blue Warbler   x x     x x   x
Yellow-rumped Warbler   x x x x x x x x
Black-throated Green Warbler       x x x x   x
Blackburnian Warbler       x x   x   x
Pine Warbler x           x   x
Palm Warbler x   x x     x   x
Bay-breasted Warbler                  
Blackpoll Warbler               x x
Black-and-white Warbler   x       x x   x
American Redstart x x   x x x x   x
Ovenbird  x x x x x x x x x
Northern Waterthrush             x   x
Mourning Warbler           x x   x
Common Yellowthroat x x x x   x x   x
Wilson's Warbler                  
Canada Warbler       x   x x   x
                   
Scarlet Tanager             x   x
                   
Eastern Towhee   x             x
American Tree Sparrow                  
Chipping Sparrow x x   x   x x   x
Field Sparrow                  
Vesper Sparrow                  
Savannah Sparrow x x     x       x
Fox Sparrow                  
Song Sparrow x x     x x x x x
Lincoln's Sparrow x   x x   x x   x
Swamp Sparrow   x x       x   x
White-throated Sparrow x x x x   x x x x
White-crowned Sparrow                  
Dark-eyed Junco         x   x x x
Snow Bunting                  
                   
Northern Cardinal x x             x
Rose-breasted Grosbeak   x             x
Indigo Bunting x x       x     x
                   
Red-winged Blackbird x x x     x x   x
Eastern Meadowlark                  
Common Grackle x x       x x   x
Brown-headed Cowbird x x             x
Baltimore Oriole x x             x
Bobolink x x     x       x
Pine Grosbeak                  
Purple Finch       x   x x   x
House Finch                  
Red Crossbill                  
White-winged Crossbill                  
Common Redpoll                  
Pine Siskin           x     x
American Goldfinch x x   x   x x   x
Evening Grosbeak                  
Trumpeter Swan   x             x
  58 66 24 36 25 56 71 18 115

 

Participants in the 2015 Great Adirondack Birding Celebration observed a total of 115 birds during the three-day birding festival.

 

 

Explore the VIC

The Paul Smiths VIC offers a wide variety of programs throughout the year to educate and inform Adirondack Park residents and visitors about the natural wonders of the Adirondack Mountains. You can help support these programs by joining the Friends of the VIC. More information on Friends of the VIC memberships

Explore the Trails

The VIC trails are free and open to the public, from dawn to dusk, spring through fall. In winter, the trails are open to cross-country skiers and snowshoers for a fee. Day or season passes may be purchased.