Year List (2004) Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Sooty Shearwater * Northern Gannet Great Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant 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 Canada Goose Brant Gadwall American Black Duck Mallard Greater Scaup Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Long-tailed Duck Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Osprey Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Golden Eagle * American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer American Oystercatcher Greater Yellowlegs Willet Spotted Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Purple Sandpiper Dunlin Short-billed Dowitcher Laughing Gull Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Iceland Gull Great Black-backed Gull Royal Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Least Tern Black Tern Black Skimmer Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Long-eared Owl Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker * Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Cedar Waxwing Blue-winged Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May 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 Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Field Sparrow Lark Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned 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 Purple Finch House Finch Pine Siskin American Goldfinch House Sparrow 174 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.