Expected Each Year The species in this list will probably be observed at some point each year. The dates given are those on which the particular species is likely to be observed. This list is maintained by the NYCBR editor for Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Red-throated Loon Jan 1 - May 5, Nov 1 - Dec 31 Common Loon Jan 1 - May 31, Oct 25 - Dec 31 Pied-billed Grebe Mar 25 - Apr 25, Oct 25 - Dec 31 Horned Grebe Jan 1 - Apr 30, Nov 10 - Dec 31 Great Cormorant Jan 1 - Mar 25, Nov 20 - Dec 31 Double-crested Cormorant all year round American Bittern Least Bittern Great Blue Heron Mar 15 - Nov 30 Great Egret Mar 15 - Nov 15 Snowy Egret Apr 1 - Oct 15 Little Blue Heron Apr 25 - Sep 15 Tricolored Heron Apr 25 - Oct 5 Cattle Egret Green Heron Apr 25 - Oct 5 Black-crowned Night-Heron all year round Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Apr 25 - Oct 10 Glossy Ibis Apr 10 - Sep 15 Turkey Vulture Snow Goose Jan 1 - Apr 30, Oct 25 - Dec 31 Canada Goose all year round Brant Jan 1 - May 31, Oct 15 - Dec 31 Mute Swan all year round Wood Duck Gadwall all year round Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon Jan 1 - Apr 20, Sep 25 - Dec 31 American Black Duck all year round Mallard all year round Blue-winged Teal Apr 10 - Oct 31 Northern Shoveler all year round Northern Pintail Jan 1 - Apr 15, Sep 25 - Dec 31 Green-winged Teal Jan 1 - Jun 30, Sep 25 - Dec 31 Canvasback Jan 1 - Apr 5, Nov 15 - Dec 31 Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Jan 1 - Apr 30, Oct 15 - Dec 31 Lesser Scaup Mar 15 - Apr 10, Nov 1 - Nov 30 Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Long-tailed Duck Jan 1 - Mar 25, Nov 10 - Dec 31 Bufflehead Jan 1 - Apr 15, Nov 1 - Dec 31 Common Goldeneye Jan 1 - Mar 31, Nov 20 - Dec 31 Hooded Merganser Mar 1 - Mar 31, Oct 10 - Dec 25 Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Jan 1 - May 15, Oct 25 - Dec 31 Ruddy Duck Jan 1 - May 31, Sep 15 - Dec 31 Osprey Apr 10 - Oct 30 Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Jan 1 - Mar 15, Sep 1 - Dec 31 Sharp-shinned Hawk Sep 15 - Nov 15 Cooper's Hawk Oct 1 - Dec 15 Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Ring-necked Pheasant Clapper Rail Apr 25 - Sep 25 Sora Common Moorhen American Coot Mar 15 - Apr 10, Oct 15 - Dec 31 Black-bellied Plover Apr 15 - May 31, Aug 1 - Nov 30 American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover May 1 - May 31, Jul 25 - Oct 10 Killdeer Mar 15 - Sep 30 American Oystercatcher Apr 1 - Nov 15 American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Apr 1 - May 31, Jul 15 - Nov 15 Lesser Yellowlegs May 1 - May 31, Jul 1 - Oct 15 Solitary Sandpiper Willet Apr 15 - Sep 15 Spotted Sandpiper Apr 25 - May 31, Jul 1 - Oct 15 Whimbrel Hudsonian Godwit Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone May 1 - May 31, Sep 1 - Nov 30 Red Knot Sanderling Jan 1 - May 10, Sep 25 - Dec 31 Semipalmated Sandpiper May 5 - May 31, Jul 10 - Oct 20 Western Sandpiper Aug 15 - Oct 15 Least Sandpiper May 5 - Jun 5, Jul 5 - Nov 5 White-rumped Sandpiper Aug 5 - Oct 5 Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Jul 20 - Sep 30 Dunlin May 1 - May 31, Oct 2 - Dec 20 Stilt Sandpiper Aug 1 - Oct 15 Short-billed Dowitcher May 5 - Jun 5, Jul 5 - Oct 5 Long-billed Dowitcher Sep 20 - Oct 31 Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Mar 10 - Apr 30, Jul 15 - Aug 15 Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Laughing Gull Apr 1 - Nov 15 Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Jan 1 - May 31, Jul 15 - Dec 31 Herring Gull all year round Great Black-backed Gull all year round Gull-billed Tern Common Tern May 10 - Sep 30 Forster's Tern May 1 - Oct 20 Least Tern May 10 - Sep 10 Black Tern Black Skimmer May 15 - Oct 15 Rock Pigeon all year round Mourning Dove all year round Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Barn Owl Short-eared Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Common Nighthawk Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Apr 1 - May 10, Sep 10 - Oct 31 Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker all year round Northern Flicker Mar 20 - Apr 30, Sep 25 - Nov 30 Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee May 10 - Jun 10, Aug 20 - Sep 20 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher May 25 - Aug 25 Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Mar 20 - Apr 30, Sep 25 - Oct 31 Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird May 5 - Sep 5 White-eyed Vireo May 5 - Sep 15 Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo May 5 - Jun 5, Sep 5 - Oct 5 Blue Jay American Crow all year round Fish Crow Mar 25 - Jul 15 Horned Lark Tree Swallow Apr 1 - Oct 31 Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Apr 20 - Sep 20 Cliff Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren all year round House Wren May 1 - Oct 5 Winter Wren Marsh Wren May 10 - Oct 10 Golden-crowned Kinglet Apr 1 - May 15, Oct 15 - Dec 31 Ruby-crowned Kinglet Oct 1 - Nov 15 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Apr 15 - May 15, Sep 1 - Sep 30 Veery Aug 25 - Sep 25 Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush May 10 - May 30, Sep 15 - Oct 15 Hermit Thrush Apr 15 - May 15, Oct 15 - Nov 30 Wood Thrush May 5 - May 30, Sep 1 - Sep 30 American Robin all year round Gray Catbird May 1 - Oct 31 Northern Mockingbird all year round Brown Thrasher Apr 20 - Oct 31 European Starling all year round American Pipit Cedar Waxwing Oct 1 - Nov 15 Blue-winged Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Brewster's Warbler Lawrence's Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler May 1 - May 20, Sep 1 - Oct 10 Northern Parula Apr 25 - May 31, Aug 15 - Oct 20 Yellow Warbler May 5 - Aug 31 Chestnut-sided Warbler May 1 - May 31, Aug 20 - Sep 20 Magnolia Warbler May 5 - May 31, Sep 1 - Oct 30 Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler May 5 - May 31, Sep 1 - Oct 15 Yellow-rumped Warbler Jan 1 - May 15, Oct 5 - Dec 31 Black-throated Green Warbler Apr 25 - May 15, Sep 25 - Oct 25 Blackburnian Warbler May 10 - May 31, Aug 15 - Sep 25 Pine Warbler Apr 5 - May 5, Oct 5 - Nov 15 Prairie Warbler May 1 - May 31, Aug 25 - Sep 30 Palm Warbler Apr 15 - May 10, Oct 1 - Nov 5 Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler May 10 - Jun 10, Sep 5 - Oct 20 Black-and-white Warbler Apr 25 - May 25, Aug 10 - Oct 10 American Redstart May 5 - Jun 5, Aug 5 - Sep 30 Prothonotary Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Ovenbird May 5 - May 31, Sep 20 - Oct 20 Northern Waterthrush Apr 25 - May 25, Aug 5 - Oct 5 Louisiana Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat May 5 - Oct 31 Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler May 10 - May 31, Sep 1 - Sep 30 Canada Warbler May 10 - May 31, Aug 15 - Sep 15 Yellow-breasted Chat Scarlet Tanager May 5 - May 31, Sep 5 - Oct 5 Eastern Towhee Apr 20 - Oct 20 American Tree Sparrow Jan 1 - Mar 25, Nov 15 - Dec 31 Chipping Sparrow Apr 15 - May 15, Oct 5 - Nov 5 Field Sparrow Apr 1 - Apr 30, Oct 15 - Nov 25 Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Apr 1 - Apr 30, Oct 1 - Nov 30 Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow May 15 - Nov 5 Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow Oct 5 - Oct 31 Seaside Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow all year round Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Oct 15 - Nov 30 White-throated Sparrow Jan 1 - May 5, Oct 15 - Dec 31 White-crowned Sparrow Oct 1 - Nov 5 Dark-eyed Junco Mar 25 - Apr 30, Oct 1 - Nov 10 Snow Bunting Northern Cardinal all year round Rose-breasted Grosbeak May 5 - May 31, Sep 5 - Oct 5 Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting May 1 - May 25, Oct 1 - Oct 31 Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird all year round Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird Common Grackle Boat-tailed Grackle Mar 15 - Oct 31 Brown-headed Cowbird Apr 1 - Dec 15 Baltimore Oriole May 5 - May 31, Aug 25 - Oct 5 Purple Finch House Finch all year round Common Redpoll Pine Siskin American Goldfinch Mar 15 - Oct 31 House Sparrow all year round 238 species Click on any bird in the list for more information.