Green-winged Teal HUMMINGBIRDS Solitary Sandpiper Canvasback Ruby-throated Hummingbird Greater Yellowlegs Goose Pond Sanctuary’s Redhead Willet Ring-necked Duck RAILS THROUGH CRANES Lesser Yellowlegs BIRD SPECIES LIST Greater Scaup * Yellow Rail Wilson’s Phalarope Lesser Scaup King Rail Red-necked Phalarope Updated August 2018 Harlequin Duck * Virginia Rail GULLS AND TERNS Black Scoter * Sora Bonaparte’s Gull Long-tailed Duck * Birds are at the heart of our work. Madison Audubon Society’s Goose Pond Common Gallinule Little Gull * Bufflehead American Coot Laughing Gull Sanctuary was established in 1968, originally to protect the waterfowl that Common Goldeneye Sandhill Crane Franklin’s Gull flocked to the resource-rich prairie pothole for which the sanctuary is named. Hooded Merganser Whooping Crane * Ring-billed Gull Since then, we have expanded our work and vision to include conservation of Common Merganser Herring Gull many species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, and plants. Red-breasted Merganser SHOREBIRDS Black Tern Ruddy Duck Black-necked Stilt * Common Tern Laura Erickson (former MAS board member) took the lead on creating the first American Avocet Forster’s Tern bird checklist for Goose Pond Sanctuary in 1978, with assistance of MAS and BOBWHITE THROUGH TURKEY Black-bellied Plover Northern Bobwhite Wisconsin Society for Ornithology members and records. They documented a American Golden-Plover LOONS Gray Partridge Semipalmated Plover Red-throated Loon * stunning 223 species. To celebrate the sanctuary’s 50th anniversary in 2018, Mark Ring-necked Pheasant Piping Plover Common Loon Martin and Susan Foote-Martin, again with MAS and WSO members and Ruffed Grouse * Killdeer records, and eBird documentation found 38 new species between 1978 and Wild Turkey * Upland Sandpiper CORMORANTS 2018, and another two species in old records from the 1950s. Habitat Whimbrel Double-crested Cormorant * restoration at Goose Pond Sanctuary, along with bird conservation done more GREBES Hudsonian Godwit broadly, have helped increase the number of birds on the checklist to 263. The Pied-billed Grebe Marbled Godwit PELICANS 2018 additions are denoted with an asterisk (*), and 1950s records marked with Horned Grebe Ruddy Turnstone American White Pelican * Red-necked Grebe a double asterisk (**). Red Knot Eared Grebe Ruff * BITTERNS THOUGH HERONS Western Grebe Stilt Sandpiper American Bittern You’re invited to explore the sanctuary. How many species will you find? Sanderling Least Bittern PIGEONS AND DOVES Dunlin madisonaudubon.org/goose-pond Great Blue Heron Rock Pigeon Baird’s Sandpiper Great Egret Eurasian Collared-Dove * Least Sandpiper Little Blue Heron Mourning Dove White-rumped Sandpiper GEESE, SWANS, AND DUCKS Tundra Swan Cattle Egret Buff-breasted Sandpiper Fulvous Whistling-Duck * Wood Duck Green Heron * Pectoral Sandpiper Greater White-fronted Goose Gadwall CUCKOOS Black-crowned Night-Heron Semipalmated Sandpiper Snow Goose Eurasian Wigeon Yellow-billed Cuckoo * Yellow-crowned Night-Heron * Western Sandpiper Ross’s Goose * American Wigeon Black-billed Cuckoo White-faced Ibis * Short-billed Dowitcher Brant * American Black Duck Long-billed Dowitcher Cackling Goose * Mallard NIGHTJARS AND SWIFT RAPTORS Wilson’s Snipe Canada Goose Blue-winged Teal Common Nighthawk Turkey Vulture American Woodcock Mute Swan * Northern Shoveler Chimney Swift Osprey Spotted Sandpiper Trumpeter Swan * Northern Pintail Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Eastern Phoebe KINGLETS LONGSPURS AND SNOW Lincoln’s Sparrow Sharp-shinned Hawk Great Crested Flycatcher Golden-crowned Kinglet BUNTING Swamp Sparrow Cooper’s Hawk Tropical Kingbird Ruby-crowned Kinglet Lapland Longspur White-throated Sparrow Northern Goshawk Eastern Kingbird Snow Bunting Harris’s Sparrow * Red-shouldered Hawk THRUSHES White-crowned Sparrow Broad-winged Hawk SHRIKES Eastern Bluebird WARBLERS Dark-eyed Junco Red-tailed Hawk Loggerhead Shrike * Veery Ovenbird Rough-legged Hawk Northern Shrike Gray-cheeked Thrush Northern Waterthrush TANAGERS THROUGH Golden Eagle Swainson’s Thrush Golden-winged Warbler DICKCISSEL VIREOS Hermit Thrush Blue-winged Warbler * Scarlet Tanager OWLS Philadelphia Vireo Wood Thrush Black-and-white Warbler Northern Cardinal Barn Owl ** Warbling Vireo American Robin Tennessee Warbler Rose-breasted Grosbeak Eastern Screech-Owl Red-eyed Vireo Orange-crowned Warbler Indigo Bunting Great Horned Owl GRAY CATBIRD THROUGH Nashville Warbler Dickcissel Snowy Owl JAYS THROUGH HORNED LARK STARLING Mourning Warbler Great Gray Owl * Blue Jay Gray Catbird Common Yellowthroat BLACKBIRDS Long-eared Owl American Crow Brown Thrasher American Redstart Bobolink Short-eared Owl Horned Lark Northern Mockingbird * Cape May Warbler Red-winged Blackbird Northern Saw-whet Owl * European Starling Magnolia Warbler Eastern Meadowlark SWALLOWS Bay-breasted Warbler Western Meadowlark KINGFISHER Purple Martin WAXWINGS Blackburnian Warbler Yellow-headed Blackbird Belted Kingfisher Tree Swallow Bohemian Waxwing ** Yellow Warbler Rusty Blackbird Northern Rough-winged Swallow Cedar Waxwing Chestnut-sided Warbler Brewer’s Blackbird WOODPECKERS Bank Swallow Blackpoll Warbler Common Grackle Red-headed Woodpecker Cliff Swallow WEAVER FINCHES Palm Warbler Brown-headed Cowbird Red-bellied Woodpecker Barn Swallow House Sparrow Yellow-rumped Warbler Orchard Oriole * Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Black-throated Green Warbler Baltimore Oriole Downy Woodpecker CHICKADEES THROUGH PIPIT Wilson’s Warbler Hairy Woodpecker BROWN CREEPER American Pipit Northern Flicker Black-capped Chickadee TOWHEES AND SPARROWS Pileated Woodpecker * Tufted Titmouse * FINCHES Eastern Towhee

Red-breasted Nuthatch Pine Grosbeak American Tree Sparrow FALCONS White-breasted Nuthatch House Finch * Chipping Sparrow American Kestrel Brown Creeper Purple Finch Clay-colored Sparrow madison Merlin * Common Redpoll Field Sparrow Gyrfalcon * WRENS Pine Siskin Vesper Sparrow AUDUBON Peregrine Falcon House Wren American Goldfinch Savannah Sparrow

Sedge Wren Evening Grosbeak Grasshopper Sparrow FLYCATCHERS Marsh Wren Henslow’s Sparrow * society Eastern Wood-Pewee Le Conte’s Sparrow madisonaudubon.org/goose-pond Alder Flycatcher GNATCATCHER Nelson’s Sparrow Willow Flycatcher Blue-gray Gnatcatcher * Fox Sparrow Least Flycatcher Song Sparrow