Year List (2005) Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Cory's Shearwater * Greater Shearwater * Sooty Shearwater * Northern Gannet Great Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Tricolored Heron Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Glossy Ibis Turkey Vulture Snow Goose Canada Goose Brant Mute Swan Tundra Swan Gadwall American Wigeon American Black Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Common Eider Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Long-tailed Duck Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Red-breasted Merganser Osprey Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer American Oystercatcher Greater Yellowlegs Willet Spotted Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Purple Sandpiper Dunlin Red-necked Phalarope Red Phalarope Pomarine Jaeger * Parasitic Jaeger Laughing Gull Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Great Black-backed Gull Royal Tern Roseate Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Least Tern Black Skimmer Thick-billed Murre * Black Guillemot * Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Barn Owl Great Horned Owl * Short-eared Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Horned Lark Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Cave Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren Marsh Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Northern Wheatear Eastern Bluebird 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 Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle Boat-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch House Finch Common Redpoll Pine Siskin American Goldfinch House Sparrow 203 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.