Year List (2005) Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Cory's Shearwater * Greater Shearwater * Sooty Shearwater * Wilson's Storm-Petrel Northern Gannet Great Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant American Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Glossy Ibis Turkey Vulture Snow Goose Canada Goose Brant Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon American Black Duck Mallard Greater Scaup Common Eider Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Long-tailed Duck Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Red-breasted Merganser Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Virginia Rail American Coot Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Piping Plover Killdeer American Oystercatcher Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Willet Spotted Sandpiper Whimbrel Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Purple Sandpiper Dunlin Buff-breasted Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Red-necked Phalarope Red Phalarope Pomarine Jaeger * Parasitic Jaeger Laughing Gull Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Great Black-backed Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Gull-billed Tern Royal Tern Sandwich Tern * Roseate Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Least Tern Black Tern Black Skimmer Thick-billed Murre * Razorbill Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Snowy Owl Short-eared Owl Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Wood-Pewee Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Blue-headed 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 Carolina Wren House Wren Marsh Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling American Pipit Cedar Waxwing Tennessee Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow Seaside Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Snow Bunting Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle Boat-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch House Finch Common Redpoll American Goldfinch House Sparrow 193 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.