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Field Checklist of the Birds of Howard County

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Pink-footed Goose * A   Gtr White-fronted Goose * A   Snow Goose M,WV   Ross’s Goose * A   Brant * H   Cackling Goose * WV • Canada Goose M,PR • Mute Swan * C   Tundra Swan M,WV • Wood Duck M,SR,WV • Gadwall M,WV   Eurasian Wigeon * A   American Wigeon M,WV • American Black Duck M,WV • Mallard M,PR   Blue-winged Teal M   Northern Shoveler M,WV   Northern Pintail M,WV   Green-winged Teal M,WV   Canvasback M,WV   Redhead M,WV   Ring-necked Duck M,WV   Greater Scaup * M,WV   Lesser Scaup M,WV   Surf Scoter * C   White-winged Scoter * C   Black Scoter * C   Long-tailed Duck M,WV   Bufflehead M,WV   Common Goldeneye M,WV • Hooded Merganser M,WV • Common Merganser M,WR   Red-breasted Merganser M,WV   Ruddy Duck M,WV • Northern Bobwhite * PR • Ring-necked Pheasant PR • Wild Turkey PR   Red-throated Loon * C   Common Loon M,WV   Pied-billed Grebe M,WV   Horned Grebe M,WV   Red-necked Grebe * C   Eared Grebe * A   Western Grebe * H   Double-crested Cormorant M,SV,WV   Anhinga * A   American Bittern * M   Least Bittern * C • Great Blue Heron M,PR   Great Egret M,SV   Snowy Egret * C   Little Blue Heron * M,SV   Tricolored Heron * A   Cattle Egret * M,SV • Green Heron M,SR   Black-crowned Night-Heron M,SV   Yellow-crowned Night-Heron * SV	White Ibis * C   Glossy Ibis * C • Black Vulture M,PR • Turkey Vulture M,PR   Osprey M,SV   Mississippi Kite * C • Bald Eagle M,PR   Northern Harrier M,WV   Sharp-shinned Hawk M,WR • Cooper's Hawk M,PR Northern Goshawk * M,WV • Red-shouldered Hawk M,PR • Broad-winged Hawk M,SR • Red-tailed Hawk M,PR   Rough-legged Hawk * M,WV Golden Eagle * C   King Rail * C • Virginia Rail M,SR •  Sora M • Common Galinule * C   American Coot M,WV   Limpkin * A   Sandhill Crane * C   Black-bellied Plover M   American Golden-Plover M   Semipalmated Plover M   Piping Plover * A • Killdeer M,PR   Black-necked Stilt * A   American Avocet * C • Spotted Sandpiper M,SV   Solitary Sandpiper M,SV   Greater Yellowlegs M,SV   Lesser Yellowlegs M,SV   Upland Sandpiper * C   Whimbrel * H   Ruddy Turnstone * H   Red Knot * H   Sanderling C   Semipalmated Sandpiper M,SV   Western Sandpiper * C   Least Sandpiper M,SV   White-rumped Sandpiper * C   Baird's Sandpiper * A   Pectoral Sandpiper M,SV   Dunlin * C   Stilt Sandpiper * A   Buff-breasted Sandpiper * C   Short-billed Dowitcher * C   Long-billed Dowitcher * A   Wilson’s Snipe M,WV • American Woodcock M,SR,WV   Wilson’s Phalarope * A Red Phalarope * A   Sabine’s Gull * A   Bonaparte’s Gull M,WV   Laughing Gull M   Ring-billed Gull M,SV,WR	Herring Gull M,WR   Thayer’s Gull * A   Iceland Gull C   Lesser Black-backed Gull C   Glaucous Gull * C   Great Black-backed Gull M,WV   Least Tern * H   Caspian Tern M,SV   Black Tern C   Common Tern * C Forster's Tern M • Rock Pigeon PR   Eurasian Collared-Dove * A • Mourning Dove PR • Yellow-billed Cuckoo M,SR • Black-billed Cuckoo M,SR • Barn Owl * C • Eastern Screech-Owl PR • Great Horned Owl PR   Snowy Owl * A • Barred Owl PR   Long-eared Owl * C   Short-eared Owl * C   Northern Saw-whet Owl * C   Common Nighthawk M   Chuck-will's-widow * C • Eastern Whip-poor-will * M,SR? • Chimney Swift M,SR   Green Violetear * A • Ruby-throated Hummingbird M,SR   Rufous Hummingbird * A • Belted Kingfisher PR • Red-headed Woodpecker M,WV • Red-bellied Woodpecker PR   Yellow-bellied Sapsucker M,WV • Downy Woodpecker PR • Hairy Woodpecker PR • Northern Flicker M,PR • Pileated Woodpecker PR • American Kestrel M,PR   Merlin M,WV   Peregrine Falcon M,WV   Olive-sided Flycatcher M • Eastern Wood-Pewee M,SR   Yellow-bellied Flycatcher * M • Acadian Flycatcher M,SR   Alder Flycatcher * C • Willow Flycatcher M,SR o Least Flycatcher M,SV • Eastern Phoebe M,SR,WV • Great Crested Flycatcher M,SR • Eastern Kingbird M,SR   Loggerhead Shrike * C   Northern Shrike * A • White-eyed Vireo M,SR • Yellow-throated Vireo M,SR   Blue-headed Vireo M

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• Warbling Vireo M,SR   Philadelphia Vireo M fall • Red-eyed Vireo M,SR • Blue Jay M,PR • American Crow PR • Fish Crow PR • Common Raven * C,PR • Horned Lark M,PR • Purple Martin M,SR • Tree Swallow M,SR • N. Rough-winged Swallow M,SR • Bank Swallow M,SV • Cliff Swallow M,SR • Barn Swallow M,SR • Carolina Chickadee PR   Black-capped Chickadee * WV • Tufted Titmouse PR   Red-breasted Nuthatch M,WV • White-breasted Nuthatch M,PR   Brown Creeper M,WR • House Wren M,SR   Winter Wren M,WR   Sedge Wren * C   Marsh Wren * M • Carolina Wren PR • Blue-gray Gnatcatcher M,SR   Golden-crowned Kinglet M,WR   Ruby-crowned Kinglet M,WV • Eastern Bluebird PR • Veery M,SR   Gray-cheeked Thrush M   Bicknell’s Thrush * A,M   Swainson's Thrush M   Hermit Thrush M,WR • Wood Thrush M,SR • American Robin M,PR   Varied Thrush * A • Gray Catbird M,SR,WV • Northern Mockingbird PR • Brown Thrasher M,SR,WV • European Starling PR

American Pipit M,WV • Cedar Waxwing M,PR   Lapland Longspur * C   Snow Bunting * C • Ovenbird M,SR • Worm-eating Warbler M,SR • Louisiana Waterthrush M,SR Northern Waterthrush M Golden-winged Warbler M • Blue-winged Warbler M,SR • Black-and-white Warbler M,SR • Prothonotary Warbler M,SR   Tennessee Warbler M   Orange-crowned Warbler M   Nashville Warbler M   Connecticut Warbler M fall   Mourning Warbler M,WV • Kentucky Warbler M,SR • Common Yellowthroat M,SR • Hooded Warbler M,SR • American Redstart M,SR   Cape May Warbler M • Cerulean Warbler M,SR   Northern Parula M,SR   Magnolia Warbler M   Bay-breasted Warbler M   Blackburnian Warbler M • Yellow Warbler M,SR   Chestnut-sided Warbler M   Blackpoll Warbler M   Bl-throated Blue Warbler M   Palm Warbler M • Pine Warbler M,SR   Yellow-rumped Warbler M,WV • Yellow-throated Warbler M,SR • Prairie Warbler M,SR   Bl-throated Green Warbler M   Canada Warbler M   Wilson’s Warbler M • Yellow-breasted Chat M,SR • Eastern Towhee M,PR   American Tree Sparrow M,WR • Chipping Sparrow M,SR,WV

Clay-colored Sparrow * C • Field Sparrow M,PR • Vesper Sparrow M,SR   Lark Sparrow * A • Savannah Sparrow M,WR,SR? • Grasshopper Sparrow M,SR   Henslow’s Sparrow * C   LeConte’s Sparrow * A   Nelson’s Sparrow * M   Fox Sparrow M,WR • Song Sparrow M,PR   Lincoln’s Sparrow M   Swamp Sparrow M,WR   White-throated Sparrow M,WR   Harris’s Sparrow * A   White-crowned Sparrow M,WR   Dark-eyed Junco M,WR   Summer Tanager M,SV • Scarlet Tanager M,SR • Northern Cardinal PR   Rose-breasted Grosbeak M • Blue Grosbeak M,SR • Indigo Bunting M,SR   Painted Bunting * A • Dickcissel * M,SV,WV   Bobolink M • Red-winged Blackbird M,PR • Eastern Meadowlark PR   Yellow-headed Blackbird * A   Rusty Blackbird M,WV   Brewer’s Blackbird * A • Common Grackle M,PR • Brown-headed Cowbird M,PR • Orchard Oriole M,SR • Baltimore Oriole M,SR   Purple Finch M,WV • House Finch PR   Red Crossbill * C   White-winged Crossbill * A   Common Redpoll C   Pine Siskin M,WV • American Goldfinch PR   Evening Grosbeak * C • House Sparrow PR

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LEGEND

o Historical breeding evidence prior to 1983 • Breeding evidence (may be a single record) * Asterisk indicates written details or a photograph are required.

PR - Permanent Resident SR - Summer Resident SV - Summer Visitor WR - Winter Resident WV - Winter Visitor

M - Migrant C - Casual - (at least 6 records; highly irregular occurrence) A - Accidental - (1-5 records with photo or specimen; 3-5 without) H - Hypothetical - (1-2 records without a photograph, specimen, or Maryland/District of Columbia Records Committee acceptance)

Spring - March-May Summer - June-July Autumn - August-November Winter - December-February

Copyright © June 2000. Howard County Bird Club, revised August 2012 (AOU 53)