Year List (2004) Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Sooty Shearwater * Wilson's Storm-Petrel Northern Gannet Brown Pelican Great Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Black-crowned Night-Heron Glossy Ibis Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Brant Gadwall American Wigeon American Black Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Green-winged Teal Greater Scaup King Eider Common Eider Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Long-tailed Duck Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Ring-necked Pheasant * Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Piping Plover Killdeer American Oystercatcher Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Willet Spotted Sandpiper Whimbrel Hudsonian Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Purple Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Parasitic Jaeger Laughing Gull Little Gull Black-headed Gull Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull Royal Tern Roseate Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Least Tern Black Tern Black Skimmer Razorbill Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Short-eared Owl Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Willow Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Horned Lark Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Carolina Wren House Wren Marsh Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Hermit Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling American Pipit Cedar Waxwing Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Palm Warbler American Redstart Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Snow Bunting Northern Cardinal Indigo Bunting Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle Boat-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole House Finch Common Redpoll American Goldfinch House Sparrow 163 species (excluding hybrids and reported with full confidence) * Less than a 50% chance this species will be observed at this site in any given year (in the opinion of this site's NYCBR editor). Click on any bird in the list for more information.