View and search bird sightings in Highland Park, NJ from 2002-present.
(Primarily Donaldson and Johnson Parks)
by Joanne Williams
2022 – 2021 – 2020 – 2019 – 2018 – 2017 – 2016 – 2015 – 2014 – 2013 – 2012 – 2011 – 2010 – 2009 – 2008 – 2007 – 2006 – 2005 – 2004 – 2003 – 2002
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| Red-throated Loon | |
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| Common Loon | |
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| Pied-billed Grebe | |
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| Horned Grebe | 11/22 | |
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| Double-crest. Cormorant | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Great Cormorant | X | X | X | X | |
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| Great Blue Heron | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Great Egret | 4/13 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
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| Little Blue Heron | |
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| Snowy Egret | |
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| Cattle Egret | 10/21 | |
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| Green Heron | 8/11 | |
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| Blk-crowned Night Heron | 4/18 | X | X | 10/23 | |
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| Yellow-crowned Night Heron | |
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| Glossy Ibis | |
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| Black Vulture | X | X | 8/26 | X | X | X | X |
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| Turkey Vulture | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Mute Swan | 1/19 | X | X | X | |
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| Snow Goose | 1/14 | 12/13 |
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| Cackling Goose | |
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| Canada Goose | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Brant | 2/1 | |
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| Wood Duck | 2/19 | |
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| American Wigeon | 1/23 | |
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| Gadwall | |
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| Green-winged Teal | |
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| Mallard | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| American Black Duck | 3/3 | 11/1 | X |
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| Northern Pintail | |
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| Blue-winged Teal | |
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| Northern Shoveler | |
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| Canvasback | |
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| Redhead | |
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| Ring-necked Duck | 1/2 | X | |
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| Greater Scaup | |
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| Lesser Scaup | |
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| Surf Scoter | |
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| Common Goldeneye | X | X | X | 12/3 |
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| Bufflehead | X | X | X | 11/7 | X |
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| Hooded Merganser | X | X | X | 11/1 | X |
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| Red-breasted Merganser | 3/18 | |
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| Common Merganser | X | X | X | X | 12/3 |
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| Ruddy Duck | 11/19 | |
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| Osprey | 4/11 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
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| Northern Harrier | 2/13 | |
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| Sharp-shinned hawk | X | X | X | X | 8/26 | X | X | X | X |
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| Cooper's hawk | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
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| Northern Goshawk | 2/27 | |
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| Bald Eagle | X | 7/6 | |
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| Red-shouldered Hawk | 1/21 | 12/13 |
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| Broad-winged Hawk | |
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| Red-tail Hawk | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Rough-legged Hawk | |
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| American Kestrel | |
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| Merlin | 1/12 | 9/20 | X | |
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| Gyrfalcon | |
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| Peregrine Falcon | 1/1 | X | 10/12 | X | X |
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| Ruffed Grouse | |
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| Wild Turkey | |
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| American Coot | |
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| Semipalmated Plover | 8/26 | |
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| Killdeer | 3/2 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
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| American Oystercatcher | |
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| American Woodcock | |
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| Short-billed Dowitcher | |
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| Greater Yellowlegs | 10/2 | |
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| Lesser Yellowlegs | 5/18 | |
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| Solitary Sandpiper | 5/8 | |
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| Spotted Sandpiper | 6/14 | X | |
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| Semipalmated Sandpiper | 8/10 | |
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| Western Sandpiper | |
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| Least Sandpiper | 5/10 | X | X | X | |
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| White-rumped Sandpiper | |
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| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | |
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| Iceland Gull | 1/1 | |
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| Ring-billed Gull | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Herring Gull | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Great Black-backed Gull | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | 2/3 | X | |
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| Laughing Gull | 7/13 | X | X | X | |
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| Bonaparte's Gull | |
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| Caspian Tern | |
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| Common Tern | 7/3 | |
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| Least Tern | |
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| Black Skimmer | |
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| Rock Pigeon | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Mourning Dove | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | 7/14 | |
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| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | |
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| Great Horned Owl | 2/15 | |
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| Common Nighthawk | 6/7 | |
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| Chimney Swift | 5/13 | X | X | X | X | |
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| Ruby-thr. Hummingbird | 5/14 | X | X | X | X | |
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| Belted Kingfisher | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
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| Red-headed Woodpecker | |
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| Red-bellied Woodpecker | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | X | |
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| Downy Woodpecker | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Hairy Woodpecker | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Northern Flicker | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Pileated Woodpecker | |
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| Eastern Wood-Pewee | 5/27 | X | X | |
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| Least Flycatcher | |
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| Eastern Phoebe | 3/22 | 9/20 | X | |
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| Great Crested Flycatcher | 5/1 | X | X | |
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| Eastern Kingbird | 5/6 | X | X | X | |
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| White-eyed Vireo | |
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| Blue-headed Vireo | 9/26 | |
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| Yellow-throated Vireo | |
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| Warbling Vireo | 5/1 | X | X | X | |
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| Red-eyed Vireo | 9/10 | |
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| Blue jay | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| American Crow | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Fish Crow | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
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| Horned lark | |
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| Tree Swallow | 3/22 | X | X | X | X | |
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| No. Rough-winged Swallow | 4/10 | X | X | X | |
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| Cliff Swallow | 5/16 | X | X | X | |
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| Bank Swallow | |
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| Barn Swallow | 4/27 | X | X | X | X | |
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| Carolina Chickadee | 1/17 | X | |
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| Blk-capped Chickadee | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Tufted Titmouse | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | |
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| White-breasted Nuthatch | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Brown Creeper | 12/17 |
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| Carolina Wren | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| House Wren | 4/22 | X | X | X | X | |
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| Winter Wren | |
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| Golden-crowned Kinglet | 4/5 | 10/24 | X |
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| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 4/4 | 10/19 | X | |
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| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 4/18 | X | |
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| Eastern Bluebird | 11/1 | |
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| Veery | |
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| Swainson's Thrush | |
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| Hermit Thrush | 11/5 | |
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| Wood Thrush | 5/2 | |
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| American Robin | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Gray Catbird | 2/13 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
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| Northern Mockingbird | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Brown Thrasher | 9/12 | |
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| European Starling | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| American Pipit | |
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| Cedar Waxwing | 2/14 | X | X | X | X | X | X | 11/7 | |
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| Blue-winged Warbler | |
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| Nashville Warbler | |
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| Northern Parula | 12/7 |
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| Yellow Warbler | 5/9 | X | X | X | |
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| Chestnut-sided Warbler | |
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| Magnolia Warbler | |
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| Blk-throat. Blue Warbler | |
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| Yellow-rumped Warbler | X | X | X | 10/13 | X | |
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| Blk-throat. Green Warbler | |
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| Blackburnian Warbler | |
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| Pine Warbler | |
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| Prairie Warbler | 9/9 | |
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| Palm Warbler | 4/11 | X | 10/23 | X | |
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| Blackpoll Warbler | 5/13 | |
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| Black & white Warbler | 8/28 | |
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| American Redstart | 8/28 | X | |
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| Prothonotary Warbler | |
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| Ovenbird | 10/3 | |
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| Northern Waterthrush | |
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| Common Yellowthroat | 9/9 | X | |
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| Hooded Warbler | |
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| Canada Warbler | |
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| Yellow-breasted Chat | |
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| Scarlet Tanager | |
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| Summer Tanager | |
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| Eastern Towhee | 4/7 | 10/15 | |
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| Amer. Tree Sparrow | 1/21 | X | |
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| Chipping Sparrow | 3/26 | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
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| Field Sparrow | |
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| Savannah Sparrow | 5/3 | 11/3 | X |
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| Fox Sparrow | |
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| Song Sparrow | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Lincoln's Sparrow | |
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| Swamp Sparrow | 1/10 | 11/3 | |
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| White-throated Sparrow | X | X | X | X | 10/3 | X | X |
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| White-crowned Sparrow | |
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| Dark-eyed Junco | X | X | X | X | 10/13 | X | X |
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| Northern Cardinal | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 5/15 | |
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| Indigo Bunting | 5/15 | |
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| Dickcissel | |
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| Red-winged Blackbird | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Eastern Meadowlark | |
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| Rusty Blackbird | |
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| Common Grackle | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
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| Orchard Oriole | 5/13 | |
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| Baltimore Oriole | 5/5 | X | X | X | X | |
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| Purple Finch | 10/4 | X | |
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| House Finch | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Common Redpoll | |
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| Pine Siskin | 1/5 | X | 11/9 | |
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| Amer. Goldfinch | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| House Sparrow | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
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| Bar-headed Goose | |
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| Egyptian Goose | X | X | X | X | |
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| # of species | 59 | 58 | 54 | 56 | 64 | 58 | 57 | 58 | 58 | 57 | 58 | 51 |