A GUIDE TO THE BIRDS
OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY

Jump to Family LOONS GREBES ALBATROSSES ALBATROSSES BOOBIES AND GANNETS PELICANS CORMORANTS BITTERNS, HERONS AND ALLIES IBISES AND SPOONBILLS VULTURES GEESE, SWANS, AND DUCKS KITES, EAGLES, HAWKS, AND ALLIES CARACARAS AND FALCONS PARTRIDGES, GROUSE AND TURKEYS NEW WORLD QUAILS RAILS, GALLINULES, AND COOTS CRANES PLOVERS AND LAPWINGS OYSTERCATCHERS STILTS AND AVOCETS SANDPIPERS, PHALAROPES, AND ALLIES SKUAS, GULLS, TERNS, AND SKIMMERS AUKS, MURRES, AND PUFFINS PIGEONS AND DOVES PARROTS CUCKOOS, ROADRUNNERS, AND ANIS BARN OWLS TYPICAL OWLS GOATSUCKERS SWIFTS HUMMINGBIRDS KINGFISHERS WOODPECKERS TYRANT FLYCATCHERS SHRIKES VIREOS JAYS, MAGPIES, AND CROWS LARKS SWALLOWS CHICKADEES AND TITMICE NUTHATCHES CREEPERS WRENS KINGLETS GNATCATCHERS THRUSHES MOCKINGBIRDS, THRASHERS, AND ALLIES STARLINGS AND ALLIES PIPITS WAXWINGS WOOD WARBLERS TANAGERS NEW WORLD SPARROWS GROSBEAKS AND BUNTINGS ICTERIDS FRINGILLINE AND CARDUELINE FINCHES OLD WORLD SPARROWS

Jump to Species Red-throated Loon Arctic/Pacific Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Eared Grebe Yellow-nosed Albatross Northern Fulmar Sooty Shearwater Manx/Audubon Shearwater Wilson's Storm Petrel Leach's Storm Petrel Northern Gannet American White Pelican Brown Pelican Double-crested Cormorant * Great Cormorant American Bittern Least Bittern * Great Blue Heron Great Egret * Snowy Egret * Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Cattle Egret Green Heron * Black-crowned Night-Heron * Yellow-crowned Night-Heron * White Ibis Glossy Ibis * Black Vulture Turkey Vulture * Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Canada Goose * Brant Mute Swan * Tundra Swan Wood Duck * Gadwall Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon American Black Duck * Mallard * Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Tufted Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup King Eider Common Eider Harlequin Duck Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Oldsquaw Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Barrow's Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Osprey * Swallow-tailed Kite Mississippi Kite Bald Eagle * Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk * Northern Goshawk * Red-shouldered Hawk * Broad-winged Hawk * Swainson's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk * Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle American Kestrel * Merlin Gyrfalcon Peregrine Falcon * Ring-necked Pheasant * Ruffed Grouse * Wild Turkey * Northern Bobwhite * Yellow Rail Black Rail Clapper Rail * King Rail * Virginia Rail * Sora Purple Gallinule Common Moorhen American Coot Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Piping Plover Killdeer * American Oystercatcher * American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Wood Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Willet Spotted Sandpiper * Upland Sandpiper Whimbrel Hudsonian Godwit Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Red-necked Stint Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Purple Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Ruff Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Common Snipe American Woodcock * Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Red Phalarope Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Laughing Gull Franklin's Gull Little Gull Black-headed Gull Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull * Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull * Sabine's Gull Caspian Tern Gull-billed Tern Royal Tern Roseate Tern Common Tern * Forster's Tern Least Tern Sooty Tern Black Tern Black Skimmer Dovekie Thick-billed Murre Razorbill Black Guillemot Rock Dove * Mourning Dove * Passenger Pigeon Monk Parakeet Black-billed Cuckoo * Yellow-billed Cuckoo * Barn Owl * Eastern Screech-Owl * Great Horned Owl * Snowy Owl Barred Owl * Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Common Nighthawk * Chuck-will's Widow Whip-poor-will Chimney Swift * Ruby-throated Hummingbird * Belted Kingfisher * Lewis' Woodpecker Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker * Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker * Hairy Woodpecker * Three-toed Woodpecker Black-backed Woodpecker Northern Flicker * Pileated Woodpecker * Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee * Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher * Alder Flycatcher * Willow Flycatcher * Least Flycatcher * Eastern Phoebe * Ash-throated Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher * Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird * Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Loggerhead Shrike * Northern Shrike White-eyed Vireo * Blue-headed Vireo * Yellow-throated Vireo * Warbling Vireo * Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo * Gray Jay Blue Jay * Black-billed Magpie American Crow * Fish Crow * Common Raven * Horned Lark Purple Martin * Tree Swallow * N. Rough-winged Swallow * Bank Swallow * Barn Swallow * Cliff Swallow * Black-capped Chickadee * Boreal Chickadee Tufted Titmouse * Red-breasted Nuthatch * White-breasted Nuthatch * Brown Creeper * Carolina Wren * Bewick's Wren House Wren * Winter Wren * Sedge Wren Marsh Wren * Golden-crowned Kinglet * Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher * Northern Wheatear Eastern Bluebird * Mountain Bluebird Veery * Gray-cheeked Thrush Bicknell's Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush * Wood Thrush * Fieldfare American Robin * Varied Thrush Gray Catbird * Northern Mockingbird * Brown Thrasher * European Starling * American Pipit Bohemian Waxwing Cedar Waxwing * 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 Gray Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler * Blackburnian Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler * Prairie Warbler * Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Black-and-white Warbler * American Redstart * Prothonotary Warbler Worm-eating Warbler * Swainson's Warbler Ovenbird * Northern Waterthrush * Louisiana Waterthrush * Kentucky Warbler * Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat * Hooded Warbler * Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler * Yellow-breasted Chat * Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager * Western Tanager Green-tailed Towhee Eastern Towhee * American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow * Clay-colored Sparrow Field Sparrow * Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Lark Bunting Savannah Sparrow * Grasshopper Sparrow * Henslow's Sparrow * Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow * Seaside Sparrow * Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow * Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow * White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Northern Cardinal * Rose-breasted Grosbeak * Black-headed Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting * Dickcissel Bobolink * Red-winged Blackbird * Eastern Meadowlark * Yellow-headed Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Common Grackle * Boat-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird * Orchard Oriole * Baltimore Oriole * Bullock's Oriole * Pine Grosbeak Purple Finch * House Finch * White-winged Crossbill Red Crossbill Common Redpoll Hoary Redpoll Pine Siskin * American Goldfinch * European Goldfinch Evening Grosbeak House Sparrow *