Chincoteague, Birds, and Coffee
Posted on May 16, 2011
The Smithsonian Associates and the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center teamed up to celebrate International Migratory Bird Day by observing a plethora of migratory birds from an urban songbird oasis, Rock Creek Park, to a coastal waterbird sanctuary, Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge.
Tour leader Andy Sprenger leading us to the birds at Chincoteague NWR, VA on May 15, 2011
Feel free to leave a comment at the bottom of the page and note that there is another bird walk and bird festival at Rock Creek Park on May 21 and a lecture on May 26.
The List
The group found 115 different kinds of birds!
Northern Gannet
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Glossy Ibis
White Ibis
Snow Goose
Canada Goose
America Black Duck
Mallard
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Clapper Rail
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Killdeer
American Oystercatcher
Black-necked Stilt
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Stilt Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Royal Tern
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Least Tern
Black Skimmer
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eastern Kingbird
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Acadian Flycatcher
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Cedar Waxwing
European Starling
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Northern Parula
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Pine Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
American Redstart
Prothonotary Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Ovenbird
Louisiana Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler
Canada Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Boat-tailed Grackle
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
