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
| 2018 | J | F | M | Ap | My | Jn | Jy | Au | S | O | N | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greater White-fronted Goose | ||||||||||||
| Snow Goose | X | |||||||||||
| Snow Goose (blue morph) | 1/29 | |||||||||||
| Brant | ||||||||||||
| Cackling Goose | 2/14 | |||||||||||
| Canada Goose | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Mute Swan | ||||||||||||
| Tundra Swan | 4/12 | |||||||||||
| Wood Duck | 10/30 | |||||||||||
| Gadwall | 10/30 | |||||||||||
| American Wigeon | ||||||||||||
| American Black Duck | 9/25 | X | ||||||||||
| Mallard | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Blue-winged Teal | ||||||||||||
| Northern Shoveler | ||||||||||||
| Northern Pintail | ||||||||||||
| Green-winged Teal | ||||||||||||
| Canvasback | ||||||||||||
| Redhead | ||||||||||||
| Ring-necked Duck | 1/24 | X | ||||||||||
| Greater Scaup | 2/9 | |||||||||||
| Lesser Scaup | ||||||||||||
| Surf Scoter | ||||||||||||
| Bufflehead | X | X | X | X | ||||||||
| Common Goldeneye | X | X | ||||||||||
| Hooded Merganser | 3/18 | |||||||||||
| Common Merganser | X | X | X | X | X | 8/18 | ||||||
| Red-breasted Merganser | 3/25 | X | ||||||||||
| Ruddy Duck | ||||||||||||
| Ruffed Grouse | ||||||||||||
| Wild Turkey | 4/1 | X | ||||||||||
| Red-throated Loon | 3/6 | X | ||||||||||
| Common Loon | 3/23 | X | 8/3 | |||||||||
| Pied-billed Grebe | 4/9 | |||||||||||
| Horned Grebe | ||||||||||||
| Double-crested Cormorant | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| Great Cormorant | X | |||||||||||
| Great Blue Heron | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Great Egret | 4/10 | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||
| Snowy Egret | 5/4 | 10/14 | ||||||||||
| Little Blue Heron | ||||||||||||
| Cattle Egret | ||||||||||||
| Green Heron | ||||||||||||
| Blk-crowned Night Heron | ||||||||||||
| Yellow-crowned Night Heron | ||||||||||||
| Glossy Ibis | ||||||||||||
| Black Vulture | X | 4/5 | X | X | X | X | ||||||
| Turkey Vulture | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Osprey | 4/1 | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||
| Bald Eagle | X | X | X | X | X | 8/28 | X | X | ||||
| Northern Harrier | 1/16 | X | ||||||||||
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | X | X | X | 10/25 | ||||||||
| Cooper's Hawk | X | X | X | X | X | 8/9 | X | |||||
| Northern Goshawk | ||||||||||||
| Red-shouldered Hawk | ||||||||||||
| Broad-winged Hawk | 10/30 | |||||||||||
| Red-tailed Hawk | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| Rough-legged Hawk | ||||||||||||
| American Coot | ||||||||||||
| American Oystercatcher | ||||||||||||
| Semipalmated Plover | ||||||||||||
| Killdeer | 3/22 | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||
| Spotted Sandpiper | 5/4 | X | X | |||||||||
| Solitary Sandpiper | ||||||||||||
| Greater Yellowlegs | ||||||||||||
| Lesser Yellowlegs | ||||||||||||
| Least Sandpiper | 7/31 | X | ||||||||||
| White-rumped Sandpiper | ||||||||||||
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | ||||||||||||
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | ||||||||||||
| Western Sandpiper | ||||||||||||
| Short-billed Dowitcher | ||||||||||||
| Wilson's Snipe | ||||||||||||
| American Woodcock | ||||||||||||
| Bonaparte's Gull | ||||||||||||
| Laughing Gull | X | 9/7 | X | |||||||||
| Ring-billed Gull | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| Herring Gull | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Iceland Gull | ||||||||||||
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | ||||||||||||
| Great Black-backed Gull | X | X | X | X | X | 9/7 | ||||||
| Least Tern | ||||||||||||
| Caspian Tern | ||||||||||||
| Common Tern | ||||||||||||
| Forster's Tern | ||||||||||||
| Black Skimmer | ||||||||||||
| Rock Pigeon | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Mourning Dove | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 5/15 | |||||||||||
| Black-billed Cuckoo | ||||||||||||
| Eastern Screech-Owl | ||||||||||||
| Great Horned Owl | ||||||||||||
| Barred Owl | ||||||||||||
| Common Nighthawk | 6/6 | |||||||||||
| Chimney Swift | 5/4 | X | X | X | X | |||||||
| Ruby-thr. Hummingbird | 6/14 | |||||||||||
| Belted Kingfisher | 4/1 | X | 9/25 | X | ||||||||
| Red-headed Woodpecker | ||||||||||||
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 10/10 | |||||||||||
| Downy Woodpecker | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Hairy Woodpecker | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 10/2 | ||||
| Northern Flicker | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Pileated Woodpecker | ||||||||||||
| American Kestrel | 10/4 | |||||||||||
| Merlin | X | X | 10/2 | |||||||||
| Gyrfalcon | ||||||||||||
| Peregrine Falcon | X | X | X | X | X | X | 9/7 | X | ||||
| Eastern Wood-Pewee | 5/24 | 10/12 | ||||||||||
| Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | ||||||||||||
| Acadian Flycatcher | ||||||||||||
| Alder Flycatcher | ||||||||||||
| Willow Flycatcher | 5/20 | X | X | |||||||||
| Least Flycatcher | 8/8 | X | ||||||||||
| Eastern Phoebe | 4/5 | X | 10/2 | |||||||||
| Ash-throated Flycatcher | ||||||||||||
| Great Crested Flycatcher | 5/2 | X | X | X | ||||||||
| Eastern Kingbird | 5/3 | X | X | X | ||||||||
| White-eyed Vireo | ||||||||||||
| Yellow-throated Vireo | ||||||||||||
| Blue-headed Vireo | 10/18 | |||||||||||
| Warbling Vireo | 5/3 | X | X | X | ||||||||
| Philadelphia Vireo | ||||||||||||
| Red-eyed Vireo | 5/2 | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||
| Blue Jay | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| American Crow | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Fish Crow | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Common Raven | 3/6 | 6/5 | ||||||||||
| Horned Lark | ||||||||||||
| Purple Martin | ||||||||||||
| Tree Swallow | 3/15 | X | X | X | X | 10/19 | ||||||
| No. Rough-winged Swallow | 4/8 | X | X | X | ||||||||
| Bank Swallow | 8/19 | |||||||||||
| Cliff Swallow | 5/12 | |||||||||||
| Barn Swallow | 4/5 | X | X | X | X | |||||||
| Carolina Chickadee | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Blk-capped Chickadee | X | X | X | X | 10/11 | |||||||
| Tufted Titmouse | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | 9/16 | X | ||||||||||
| White-breasted Nuthatch | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Brown Creeper | X | 10/24 | ||||||||||
| House Wren | 4/27 | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||
| Winter Wren | X | 10/26 | ||||||||||
| Sedge Wren | ||||||||||||
| Marsh Wren | 10/10 | |||||||||||
| Carolina Wren | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 4/18 | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||
| Golden-crowned Kinglet | X | X | X | X | 10/19 | |||||||
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | X | 4/12 | 10/12 | |||||||||
| Eastern Bluebird | ||||||||||||
| Veery | ||||||||||||
| Gray-cheeked Thrush | ||||||||||||
| Swainson's Thrush | 10/17 | |||||||||||
| Hermit Thrush | 3/30 | X | 10/24 | |||||||||
| Wood Thrush | 5/2 | |||||||||||
| American Robin | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Gray Catbird | 4/29 | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||
| Brown Thrasher | ||||||||||||
| Northern Mockingbird | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| European Starling | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| American Pipit | ||||||||||||
| Cedar Waxwing | 4/17 | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||
| Ovenbird | 5/2 | |||||||||||
| Worm-eating Warbler | ||||||||||||
| Louisiana Waterthrush | ||||||||||||
| Northern Waterthrush | 4/27 | X | ||||||||||
| Blue-winged Warbler | ||||||||||||
| Black & white Warbler | 4/29 | X | 8/8 | X | X | |||||||
| Prothonotary Warbler | ||||||||||||
| Tennessee Warbler | 10/24 | |||||||||||
| Orange-crowned Warbler | 10/24 | |||||||||||
| Nashville Warbler | 10/12 | |||||||||||
| Kentucky Warbler | 5/18 | |||||||||||
| Common Yellowthroat | 5/2 | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||
| Hooded Warbler | ||||||||||||
| American Redstart | 5/6 | X | X | X | ||||||||
| Cape May Warbler | ||||||||||||
| Cerulean Warbler | ||||||||||||
| Northern Parula | 5/2 | |||||||||||
| Magnolia Warbler | 9/20 | X | ||||||||||
| Bay-breasted Warbler | ||||||||||||
| Blackburnian Warbler | 5/15 | |||||||||||
| Yellow Warbler | 5/2 | X | X | X | X | |||||||
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | 5/15 | |||||||||||
| Blackpoll Warbler | 5/3 | 9/19 | X | |||||||||
| Blk-throat. Blue Warbler | 5/15 | |||||||||||
| Palm Warbler | 10/5 | |||||||||||
| Pine Warbler | 4/21 | |||||||||||
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | 4/1 | X | 10/5 | |||||||||
| Prairie Warbler | 4/27 | |||||||||||
| Blk-throat. Gray Warbler | 10/25 | |||||||||||
| Blk-throat. Green Warbler | 5/15 | |||||||||||
| Canada Warbler | ||||||||||||
| Wilson's Warbler | ||||||||||||
| Yellow-breasted Chat | ||||||||||||
| Eastern Towhee | 4/12 | X | 10/8 | |||||||||
| Amer. Tree Sparrow | X | X | X | |||||||||
| Chipping Sparrow | 4/1 | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||
| Clay-colored Sparrow | ||||||||||||
| Field Sparrow | 4/1 | 10/18 | ||||||||||
| Vesper Sparrow | 10/24 | |||||||||||
| Lark Sparrow | ||||||||||||
| Savannah Sparrow | 4/5 | X | 10/12 | |||||||||
| Grasshopper Sparrow | ||||||||||||
| Fox Sparrow | ||||||||||||
| Song Sparrow | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Lincoln's Sparrow | 10/5 | |||||||||||
| Swamp Sparrow | X | 4/12 | X | 10/5 | ||||||||
| White-throated Sparrow | X | X | X | X | X | 10/5 | ||||||
| White-crowned Sparrow | 10/10 | |||||||||||
| Dark-eyed Junco | X | X | X | X | ||||||||
| Summer Tanager | ||||||||||||
| Scarlet Tanager | 5/15 | |||||||||||
| Northern Cardinal | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 5/14 | |||||||||||
| Blue Grosbeak | ||||||||||||
| Indigo Bunting | 5/15 | X | 10/2 | |||||||||
| Painted Bunting | ||||||||||||
| Dickcissel | ||||||||||||
| Bobolink | ||||||||||||
| Red-winged Blackbird | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Eastern Meadowlark | ||||||||||||
| Rusty Blackbird | ||||||||||||
| Common Grackle | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 2/21 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| Orchard Oriole | 5/2 | X | X | X | ||||||||
| Baltimore Oriole | 5/2 | X | X | |||||||||
| House Finch | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Purple Finch | 10/25 | |||||||||||
| Common Redpoll | ||||||||||||
| Pine Siskin | 10/26 | |||||||||||
| Amer. Goldfinch | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Evening Grosbeak | ||||||||||||
| House Sparrow | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Bar-headed Goose | ||||||||||||
| Egyptian Goose | ||||||||||||
| # of species | 54 | 50 | 52 | 74 | 85 | 61 | 53 | 58 | 54 | 88 |