Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Whitesbog Photo: Shari Zirlin |
The year for me only yielded 10 life birds. As I've said, it gets harder and harder, and you have to travel farther and farther, to add to the life list the larger it gets. Our trip Ohio probably added the most birds, with the KIRTLAND'S WARLBER, the holy grail of warblers, the greatest sighting. Actually 2 sightings of 2 possibly 3 different birds, which makes it all the more amazing. Other happy sightings, closer to home, were the PARASITIC JAEGER at Island Beach and just the other day, the ICELAND GULL at Manasquan Inlet.
For the year I totaled 305 species, down slightly from last years 311, but we didn't range as far (Alaska, Puerto Rico) as we did last year. We birded in NJ, NY, DE, OH, FL and Ontario. A look at the list below gives an idea of all the different areas we birded. We got around. In all, we had a great deal of fun. And tomorrow it starts all over again.
The full year's list:
(Underlined species were rarities. BOLD ALL CAPS the lifers)
Species First Sighting
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Pink-footed Goose St Joe's Soccer Field
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Greater White-fronted Goose New Egypt
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Snow Goose Jones Beach
SP
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Brant Jones Beach SP
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Barnacle Goose
Assunpink WMA
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Cackling Goose Duke Island Park
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Canada Goose Jones
Beach SP
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Mute Swan Assunpink
WMA
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Trumpeter Swan Ottawa
NWR
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Tundra Swan White's
Bogs
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Wood Duck Central Park
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Gadwall Manasquan
Reservoir IBA
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Eurasian Wigeon Brigantine
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American Wigeon Shark
River
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American Black Duck
Assunpink WMA
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Mallard Crestwood
Village
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Mottled Duck J. N.
Ding Darling NWR
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Blue-winged Teal Lighthouse
Pond
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Northern Shoveler
Barnegat Beach
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Northern Pintail Cedar
Run Dock Rd.
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Green-winged Teal Mercer
Corporate Park
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Canvasback Riverfront
Landing
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Redhead Brigantine
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Ring-necked Duck
Riverfront Landing
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Tufted Duck
Thundergust Lake
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Greater Scaup
Riverfront Landing
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Lesser Scaup
Riverfront Landing
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Common Eider Barnegat
Lighthouse SP
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Harlequin Duck
Barnegat Lighthouse SP
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Surf Scoter Barnegat
Lighthouse SP
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White-winged Scoter
Avalon--8th St. Jetty
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Black Scoter Barnegat
Lighthouse SP
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Long-tailed Duck Jones
Beach SP
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Bufflehead Horicon
Lake
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Common Goldeneye
Cattus Island County Park
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Hooded Merganser
Horicon Lake
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Common Merganser
Assunpink WMA
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Red-breasted Merganser
Jones Beach SP
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Ruddy Duck Assunpink
WMA
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Northern Bobwhite
Colliers Mills WMA
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Wild Turkey Crestwood Village
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Red-throated Loon
Jones Beach SP
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Common Loon Jones
Beach SP
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Pied-billed Grebe
Riverfront Landing
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Horned Grebe Jones
Beach SP
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Wood Stork J. N. Ding
Darling NWR
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Magnificent Frigatebird
Song of the Sea Beach
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Northern Gannet Avalon
Seawatch
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Double-crested Cormorant
Jones Beach SP
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Great Cormorant Cattus
Island County Park
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Anhinga J. N. Ding
Darling NWR
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American White Pelican
Magee Marsh Wildlife Area
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Brown Pelican Barnegat
Lighthouse SP
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American Bittern Brigantine
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Great Blue Heron Duke
Island Park
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Great Egret Great Bay
Blvd.
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Snowy Egret Great Bay
Blvd.
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Little Blue Heron Brigantine
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Tricolored Heron
Bayview Ave Park
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Reddish Egret J. N.
Ding Darling NWR
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Cattle Egret Brigantine
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Green Heron Pearson
Metropark
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Black-crowned Night-Heron
Jakes Landing
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Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Brigantine
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White Ibis J. N. Ding
Darling NWR
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Glossy Ibis Brigantine
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Roseate Spoonbill J.
N. Ding Darling NWR
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Black Vulture New
Egypt
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Turkey Vulture
Crestwood Village
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Osprey Manasquan
Reservoir IBA
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Golden Eagle Brigantine
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Snail Kite Harns Marsh
Preserve
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MISSISSIPPI
KITE Cemetery of the
Resurrection
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Northern Harrier
Mercer Sod Farm IBA
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Sharp-shinned Hawk GSP
MM 95
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Cooper's Hawk 35
Sunset Rd
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Bald Eagle Rt 539 New
Egypt
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Red-shouldered Hawk
Assunpink WMA
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Broad-winged Hawk Brigantine
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Short-tailed Hawk
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
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Red-tailed Hawk
Randolph Rd
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Clapper Rail Jakes
Landing
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Virginia Rail Great
Bay Blvd.
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Sora Magee Marsh
Boardwalk
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Common Gallinule Metzger
Marsh
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American Coot
Manasquan Reservoir IBA
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Limpkin Harns Marsh
Preserve
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Sandhill Crane New
Egypt
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Black-necked Stilt
Manahawkin WMA
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American Avocet Brigantine
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American Oystercatcher
Jones Beach SP
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Black-bellied Plover Higbees
Beach
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American Golden-Plover
Bombay Hook NWR
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êNorthern Lapwing New Egypt
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Wilson's Plover Bunche
Beach
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Semipalmated Plover Barnegat
Impoundments
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Piping Plover Barnegat
Lighthouse SP
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Killdeer Duke Island
Park
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Spotted Sandpiper
Pearson Metropark
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Solitary Sandpiper
Pearson Metropark
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Greater Yellowlegs
Stafford Forge WMA
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Willet Great Bay Blvd.
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Lesser Yellowlegs Brigantine
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Upland Sandpiper
Lakehurst NAES
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Whimbrel Great Bay
Blvd.
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Hudsonian Godwit
Bombay Hook NWR
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Marbled Godwit Brigantine
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Ruddy Turnstone Ottawa
NWR
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Red Knot Brigantine
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Stilt Sandpiper Brigantine
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Sanderling Seven
Presidents Park
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Dunlin Great Bay Blvd.
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Purple Sandpiper
Barnegat Lighthouse SP
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Baird's Sandpiper Brigantine
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Least Sandpiper
Heislerville WMA
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White-rumped Sandpiper
Brigantine
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Buff-breasted Sandpiper Brigantine
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Pectoral Sandpiper New
Egypt
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Semipalmated Sandpiper
Brigantine
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Western Sandpiper Brigantine
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Short-billed Dowitcher
Great Bay Blvd.
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Long-billed Dowitcher Heislerville
WMA
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Wilson's Snipe New
Egypt
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American Woodcock
Horicon Lake
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Wilson's Phalarope
Heislerville WMA
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PARASITIC
JAEGER Island Beach SP
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Razorbill Shark River
Inlet
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Bonaparte's Gull Seven
Presidents Park
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Laughing Gull Higbees
Beach
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Ring-billed Gull Jones
Beach SP
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Herring Gull Jones
Beach SP
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ICELAND
GULL Manasquan Inlet North
Side
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Lesser Black-backed Gull
Holgate
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Glaucous Gull
Heislerville WMA
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Great Black-backed Gull
Jones Beach SP
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Least Tern Brigantine
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Gull-billed Tern Brigantine
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Caspian Tern Brigantine
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Black Tern Point Pelee
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Common Tern
Leamington--Harbour
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Forster's Tern
Villas--Miami Ave. beach
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Royal Tern Brigantine
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Sandwich Tern Song of
the Sea Beach
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Black Skimmer Brigantine
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Rock Pigeon Jones
Beach SP
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Eurasian Collared-Dove Lincoln Ave, Cape May Pt
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Mourning Dove Utterby
Rd, Malverne
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Common Ground-Dove
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo Colliers
Mills WMA
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Black-billed Cuckoo
Forest Hill Rd
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Great Horned Owl
Palmyra Cove Nature Park
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Snowy Owl Brigantine
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Burrowing Owl Cape
Coral Public Library
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Barred Owl Lakehurst
NAES
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Long-eared Owl
Assunpink WMA
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Short-eared Owl Jakes
Landing
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Common Nighthawk Magee
Marsh Parking Lot
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Chuck-will's-widow E.
Bay Ave, Barnegat
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Eastern Whip-poor-will
35 Sunset Rd
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Chimney Swift Portage
River--Oak Harbor
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird
35 Sunset Rd
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Rufous Hummingbird Palmyra Cove Nature Park
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Belted Kingfisher
Horicon Lake
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Red-headed Woodpecker Point
Pelee
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Red-bellied Woodpecker
Utterby Rd, Malverne
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Heritage Park
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Downy Woodpecker 35
Sunset Rd
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Hairy Woodpecker Scherman-Hoffman
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Northern Flicker
Assunpink WMA
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Pileated Woodpecker Scherman-Hoffman
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Crested Caracara Featherbed Lane WMA
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American Kestrel New
Egypt
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Merlin Crestwood
Village
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Peregrine Falcon Great
Bay Blvd.
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Olive-sided Flycatcher
Magee Marsh Boardwalk
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Eastern Wood-Pewee Magee
Marsh Boardwalk
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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Ottawa NWR
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Acadian Flycatcher
Double Trouble State Park
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Willow Flycatcher Great
Bay Blvd.
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Least Flycatcher
Pearson Metropark
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Eastern Phoebe Double
Trouble State Park
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Great Crested Flycatcher
Crestwood Village
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Eastern Kingbird
Horicon Lake
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êScissor-tailed Flycatcher White's Bogs
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Loggerhead Shrike
Charlotte Harbor Buffer Preserve
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NORTHERN
SHRIKE Assunpink WMA
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White-eyed Vireo
Horicon Lake
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YELLOW-THROATED
VIREO Magee Marsh Boardwalk
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Blue-headed Vireo
Belleplain State Forest
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Warbling Vireo Point
Pelee
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Red-eyed Vireo Magee
Marsh Boardwalk
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Blue Jay Utterby Rd,
Malverne
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American Crow Jones
Beach SP
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Fish Crow Heritage
Park
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Horned Lark Lakehurst
NAES
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Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Salem River WMA
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Purple Martin Brigantine
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Tree Swallow White's
Bogs
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Bank Swallow Lakehurst
NAES
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Barn Swallow Sharptown-Auburn
Road
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Cliff Swallow Port
Clinton--Put in Bay Ferry
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Carolina Chickadee 35
Sunset Rd
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Black-capped Chickadee
Scherman-Hoffman
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Tufted Titmouse 35
Sunset Rd
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Red-breasted Nuthatch
Whiting WMA
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White-breasted Nuthatch
35 Sunset Rd
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Brown Creeper
Assunpink WMA
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House Wren Belleplain
State Forest
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Winter Wren Assunpink
WMA
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Marsh Wren Pickerel
Creek Wildlife Area
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Carolina Wren
Crestwood Village
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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Double Trouble State Park
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Golden-crowned Kinglet
Crestwood Village
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Assunpink WMA
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Eastern Bluebird
Crestwood Village
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Veery Ottawa NWR
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Gray-cheeked Thrush
White's Bogs
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Swainson's Thrush Ottawa
NWR
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Hermit Thrush
Crestwood Village
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Wood Thrush Pearson
Metropark
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American Robin Utterby
Rd, Malverne
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Gray Catbird Horicon
Lake
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Brown Thrasher White's
Bogs
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Northern Mockingbird
Jones Beach SP
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European Starling
Utterby Rd, Malverne
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American Pipit Brigantine
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Cedar Waxwing Brigantine
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Snow Bunting Island
Beach SP
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Ovenbird Whiting WMA
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Worm-eating Warbler
Belleplain State Forest
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Louisiana Waterthrush Magee
Marsh Boardwalk
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Northern Waterthrush Ottawa
NWR
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Blue-winged Warbler Point
Pelee
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GOLDEN-WINGED
WARBLER Oak Openings Preserve
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Black-and-white Warbler
Horicon Lake
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Prothonotary Warbler
Belleplain State Forest
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TENNESSEE
WARBLER Pearson Metropark
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Nashville Warbler
Pearson Metropark
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Mourning Warbler Magee
Marsh Boardwalk
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Common Yellowthroat
Horicon Lake
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Hooded Warbler
Belleplain State Forest
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American Redstart Ottawa
NWR
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KIRTLAND'S
WARBLER Magee Marsh Wildlife
Area
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Cape May Warbler Ottawa
NWR
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Northern Parula Ottawa
NWR
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Magnolia Warbler
Pearson Metropark
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Bay-breasted Warbler Magee
Marsh Boardwalk
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Blackburnian Warbler Point
Pelee
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Yellow Warbler Brigantine
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Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magee Marsh Boardwalk
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Blackpoll Warbler Magee
Marsh Boardwalk
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Black-throated Blue Warbler
Pearson Metropark
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Palm Warbler Bayview
Ave Park
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Pine Warbler Cattus
Island County Park
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Yellow-rumped Warbler Assunpink
WMA
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Yellow-throated Warbler
Belleplain State Forest
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Prairie Warbler
Horicon Lake
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Black-throated Green Warbler
Point Pelee
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Wilson's Warbler Magee
Marsh Boardwalk
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Yellow-breasted Chat
Assunpink WMA
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Eastern Towhee Whiting
WMA
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American Tree Sparrow
Jones Beach SP
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Chipping Sparrow 35
Sunset Rd
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CLAY-COLORED
SPARROW Ottawa NWR
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Field Sparrow
Assunpink WMA
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Vesper Sparrow White's
Bogs
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Lark Sparrow Oak
Openings Preserve
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Savannah Sparrow Stafford
Forge WMA
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Grasshopper Sparrow
Negri-Nepote Grasslands
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NELSON'S
SPARROW Brigantine
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Saltmarsh Sparrow Great
Bay Blvd.
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Seaside Sparrow Jakes
Landing
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Fox Sparrow Stafford
Forge WMA
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Song Sparrow Jones
Beach SP
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Lincoln's Sparrow Magee
Marsh Boardwalk
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Swamp Sparrow Central
Park
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White-throated Sparrow
Utterby Rd, Malverne
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White-crowned Sparrow
Assunpink WMA
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Dark-eyed Junco Jones
Beach SP
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Summer Tanager
Belleplain State Forest
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Scarlet Tanager Magee
Marsh Parking Lot
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Western Tanager W. Cape May
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Northern Cardinal
Utterby Rd, Malverne
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Point Pelee
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Blue Grosbeak Mt.
Loretto Unique Area
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Indigo Bunting Pearson
Metropark
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Painted Bunting Corkscrew
Swamp Sanctuary
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Dickcissel
Negri-Nepote Grasslands
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Bobolink Harder
grasslands
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Red-winged Blackbird
Jones Beach SP
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Eastern Meadowlark
Featherbed Lane WMA
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Yellow-headed Blackbird Sharptown-Auburn Road
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Rusty Blackbird Oros
Preserve
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Common Grackle
Manasquan Reservoir IBA
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Boat-tailed Grackle
Bayview Marina
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Brown-headed Cowbird New
Egypt
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Orchard Oriole Point
Pelee
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Baltimore Oriole Point
Pelee
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House Finch Whiting
WMA
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Purple Finch Oak
Openings Preserve
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White-winged Crossbill Washington Road, Princeton
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Common Redpoll
Manasquan Reservoir IBA
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Pine Siskin Whiting
WMA
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American Goldfinch 35
Sunset Rd
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House Sparrow Utterby
Rd, Malverne
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