Year List (2004) Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Northern Gannet Great Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Great Egret Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Brant Mute Swan Gadwall American Black Duck Mallard Greater Scaup Surf Scoter Long-tailed Duck Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Red-breasted Merganser Osprey Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Ring-necked Pheasant * Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer American Oystercatcher Greater Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dunlin American Woodcock * Laughing Gull Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Great Black-backed Gull Royal Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Least Tern Black Skimmer Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Monk Parakeet * Yellow-billed Cuckoo Short-eared Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Red-bellied Woodpecker * Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Wood-Pewee Willow Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Red-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Cedar Waxwing Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler American Redstart Common Yellowthroat Yellow-breasted Chat Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Boat-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole House Finch Pine Siskin American Goldfinch House Sparrow 134 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.