Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Yellow-billed Cuckoo Willet* Band-rumped Storm-Petrel Northern Flicker Bewick's Wren Fulvous Whistling-Duck Black-billed Cuckoo Greater Yellowlegs Wood Stork Pileated Woodpecker Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Snow Goose* Common Nighthawk Wilson's Phalarope Magnificent Frigatebird American Kestrel Golden-crowned Kinglet Ross's Goose Chuck-will's-widow Red-necked Phalarope Northern Gannet Merlin* Ruby-crowned Kinglet Greater White-fronted Goose Eastern Whip-poor-will Red Phalarope Anhinga Peregrine Falcon Eastern Bluebird Brant Chimney Swift Great Skua Great Cormorant Monk Parakeet Veery Cackling Goose Ruby-throated Hummingbird Pomarine Jaeger Double-crested Cormorant Ash-throated Flycatcher Gray-cheeked Thrush Canada Goose Rufous Hummingbird Parasitic Jaeger American White Pelican Great Crested Flycatcher Bicknell's Thrush Mute Swan Clapper Rail Long-tailed Jaeger Brown Pelican Western Kingbird Swainson's Thrush Trumpeter Swan King Rail Dovekie American Bittern Eastern Kingbird Hermit Thrush

Tundra Swan Virginia Rail Thick-billed Murre Least Bittern Gray Kingbird Wood Thrush

Wood Duck Sora Razorbill Great Blue Heron* Scissor-tailed Flycatcher American Robin Atlantic Puffin Great Egret Blue-winged Teal Common Gallinule Fork-tailed Flycatcher Varied Thrush Black-legged Kittiwake Snowy Egret Northern Shoveler American Coot Olive-sided Flycatcher Gray Catbird Sabine's Gull Little Blue Heron Gadwall Purple Gallinule Eastern Wood-Pewee Brown Thrasher Bonaparte's Gull Tricolored Heron Eurasian Wigeon Yellow Rail Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Northern Mockingbird Black-headed Gull Cattle Egret American Wigeon Black Rail Acadian Flycatcher European Starling Little Gull Green Heron Mallard Sandhill Crane Alder Flycatcher Cedar Waxwing Laughing Gull Black-crowned Night-Heron American Black Duck Black-necked Stilt Willow Flycatcher House Sparrow Franklin's Gull Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Northern Pintail American Avocet Least Flycatcher American Pipit Ring-billed Gull White Ibis Green-winged Teal* American Oystercatcher Eastern Phoebe Evening Grosbeak California Gull Glossy Ibis Canvasback Black-bellied Plover Say's Phoebe Pine Grosbeak Herring Gull White-faced Ibis Redhead American Golden-Plover Loggerhead Shrike House Finch Iceland Gull* Black Vulture Ring-necked Duck Killdeer Northern Shrike Purple Finch Lesser Black-backed Gull Turkey Vulture Greater Scaup Semipalmated Plover White-eyed Vireo Common Redpoll Glaucous Gull Osprey Lesser Scaup Piping Plover Yellow-throated Vireo Red Crossbill Great Black-backed Gull Swallow-tailed Kite King Eider Wilson’s Plover Blue-headed Vireo White-winged Crossbill Sooty Tern Golden Eagle Common Eider Upland Sandpiper Bridled Tern Northern Harrier Philadelphia Vireo Pine Siskin Harlequin Duck Whimbrel* Least Tern Sharp-shinned Hawk Warbling Vireo American Goldfinch Surf Scoter Long-billed Curlew Gull-billed Tern Cooper's Hawk Red-eyed Vireo Lapland Longspur White-winged Scoter Hudsonian Godwit Caspian Tern Northern Goshawk Blue Jay Snow Bunting Black Scoter Marbled Godwit Black Tern Bald Eagle American Crow Bachman’s Sparrow Long-tailed Duck Ruddy Turnstone White-winged Tern Mississippi Kite Fish Crow Grasshopper Sparrow Bufflehead Red Knot Roseate Tern Red-shouldered Hawk Common Raven Lark Sparrow Common Goldeneye Ruff Common Tern Broad-winged Hawk Horned Lark Chipp ing Sparrow Hooded Merganser Stilt Sandpiper Arctic Tern Swainson's Hawk Bank Swallow Clay-colored Sparrow Common Merganser Curlew Sandpiper Forster's Tern Red-tailed Hawk* Tree Swallow Field Sparrow Northern Rough-winged Red-breasted Merganser Sanderling Royal Tern Rough-legged Hawk Fox Sparrow* Swallow Ruddy Duck Dunlin Sandwich Tern Barn Owl Purple Martin American Tree Sparrow Northern Bobwhite Purple Sandpiper Black Skimmer Eastern Screech-Owl Barn Swallow Dark-eyed Junco* Wild Turkey Baird's Sandpiper Red-throated Loon Great Horned Owl Cliff Swallow White-crowned Sparrow* Ruffed Grouse Least Sandpiper Pacific Loon Snowy Owl Cave Swallow Harris's Sparrow American Flamingo White-rumped Sandpiper Common Loon Barred Owl Carolina Chickadee White-throated Sparrow Pied-billed Grebe Buff-breasted Sandpiper Northern Fulmar Long-eared Owl Black-capped Chickadee Vesper Sparrow Horned Grebe Pectoral Sandpiper Black-capped Petrel Short-eared Owl Tufted Titmouse LeConte's Sparrow Red-necked Grebe Semipalmated Sandpiper Cory's Shearwater Northern Saw-whet Owl Red-breasted Nuthatch Seaside Sparrow Eared Grebe Western Sandpiper Sooty Shearwater Belted Kingfisher White-breasted Nuthatch Nelson's Sparrow* Western Grebe Short-billed Dowitcher* Great Shearwater Red-headed Woodpecker Brown-headed Nuthatch Saltmarsh Sparrow Clark's Grebe Long-billed Dowitcher Manx Shearwater Red-bellied Woodpecker Brown Creeper Henslow's Sparrow Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) American Woodcock Audubon's Shearwater Yellow-bellied Sapsucker House Wren Savannah Sparrow* Eurasian Collared-Dove Wilson's Snipe Wilson's Storm-Petrel Downy Woodpecker Winter Wren Song Sparrow Common Ground Dove Spotted Sandpiper White-faced Storm-Petrel Red-cockaded Woodpecker Leach's Storm-Petrel Hairy Woodpecker Sedge Wren Lincoln's Sparrow White-winged Dove Solitary Sandpiper Marsh Wren Swamp Sparrow Mourning Dove Lesser Yellowlegs Carolina Wren Eastern Towhee

Yellow-breasted Chat Bay-breasted Warbler Yellow-nosed Albatross Violet-green Swallow Yellow-headed Blackbird Blackburnian Warbler Black-browed Albatross Brown-chested Martin Bobolink Yellow Warbler Trindade Petrel Boreal Chickadee FIELD LIST -- BIRDS OF VIRGINIA Eastern Meadowlark Chestnut-sided Warbler Bermuda Petrel Rock Wren Fea's Petrel Northern Wheatear Orchard Oriole Blackpoll Warbler Bulwer's Petrel Mountain Bluebird OBSERVER______Bullock's Oriole Black-throated Blue Warbler Brown Booby Townsend's Solitaire Baltimore Oriole Palm Warbler* Neotropic Cormorant Sage Thrasher LOCALITY______Red-winged Blackbird Pine Warbler Little Egret Bohemian Waxwing Brown-headed Cowbird Yellow-rumped Warbler* Reddish Egret Sprague's Pipit DATE______Rusty Blackbird Yellow-throated Warbler Roseate Spoonbill Hoary Redpoll Brewer's Blackbird Prairie Warbler White-tailed Kite Lesser Goldfinch Common Grackle Black-throated Green Warbler Western Marsh Harrier Chestnut-collared Longspur This list is in the order given in the 7th edition of Checklist of Boat-tailed Grackle Canada Warbler Zone-tailed Hawk Smith's Longspur North and Middle American Birds, AOS 1998 and Supplements Ovenbird Wilson's Warbler Ferruginous Hawk Black-throated Sparrow 42-61.

Worm-eating Warbler Summer Tanager Burrowing Owl Lark Bunting The Virginia Avian Records Committee (VARCOM) has Louisiana Waterthrush Scarlet Tanager Lewis's Woodpecker Brewer's Sparrow Crested Caracara Green-tailed Towhee established six categories describing the status of species in the Northern Waterthrush Western Tanager Gyrfalcon Spotted Towhee state. All wild bird species with six or more records over the past Golden-winged Warbler** Northern Cardinal Prairie Falcon Scott’s Oriole fifty years are included in the checklist. Those with five or fewer Blue-winged Warbler** Rose-breasted Grosbeak Tropical/Couch’s Kingbird Shiny Cowbird records are listed in the Table on the back of this field list. Black-and-white Warbler Black-headed Grosbeak Western Wood-Pewee Lucy’s Warbler Category 1. Any bird that has occurred in Virginia and has been Prothonotary Warbler Blue Grosbeak Dusky Flycatcher MacGillivray’s Warbler accepted by VARCOM as a wild bird on the basis of an Swainson's Warbler Indigo Bunting Pacific-slope/Cordilleran Flycatcher Kirtland’s Warbler observation accompanied by a clearly identifiable photograph, Tennessee Warbler Painted Bunting Vermilion Flycatcher Black-throated Gray Warbler specimen, audio or video recording, or band (for bands, only in Orange-crowned Warbler Dickcissel Bell’s Vireo Townsend’s Warbler cases where proof of identification is extant and compelling). Nashville Warbler Black-whiskered Vireo Lazuli Bunting Connecticut Warbler Black-billed Magpie Category 2. Sight records without physical evidence or with Mourning Warbler physical evidence that is not sufficient for Category 1, but for Kentucky Warbler which there is written documentation from one or more observers Common Yellowthroat accepted by VARCOM. Category 3 birds: Hooded Warbler West Indian Whistling -Duck American Redstart Category 3. Identity accepted by VARCOM but provenance of Barnacle Goose the individual bird is uncertain. Cape May Warbler

Cerulean Warbler Category 4 birds: Category 4. Records that are judged to be acceptable by Northern Parula Passenger Pigeon historical standards but that may not meet current standards of Magnolia Warbler Eskimo Curlew acceptance, including extinct species that once occurred in Carolina Parakeet Virginia, for which there is no clear written or physical evidence.

Category 1 or 2 birds for which there are fewer than six records over Bachman’s Warbler the past fifty years: Category 5. Species introduced into the Commonwealth of Garganey Snowy Plover Category 5 birds: Virginia or into other parts of North America that are currently Cinnamon Teal Bar-tailed Godwit Mute Swan maintaining self-sustaining wild populations within Virginia. Mottled Duck Black-tailed Godwit Trumpeter Swan White-cheeked Pintail Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) Category 6. Species introduced into the Commonwealth of Tufted Duck Red-necked Stint Eurasian Collared -Dove Virginia or into other parts of North America that are not currently Barrow's Goldeneye Eurasian Woodcock European Starling maintaining self-sustaining wild populations within Virginia (but not species deemed by VARCOM to be most likely White-crowned Pigeon Terek Sandpiper House Sparrow escaped/released former captives). Groove-billed Ani South Polar Skua House Finch

Rivoli's Hummingbird Common Murre Black-chinned Hummingbird Black Guillemot VSO Website: www.virginiabirds.org Category 6 birds: Anna’s Hummingbird Ancient Murrelet Ring -necked Pheasant Calliope Hummingbird Black-tailed Gull *Denotes occurrence of recognizable subspecies Monk Parakeet **Denotes occurrence of recognizable hybrids Allen’s Hummingbird Heermann's Gull Violet-crowned Hummingbird Mew Gull* Copies of this list may be downloaded from www.virginiabirds.org Paint-billed Crake Yellow-legged Gull Copyright July 27, 2020 by the Virginia Society of Ornithology Limpkin Brown Noddy Northern Lapwing Elegant Tern Lesser/Greater Sand-Plover White-tailed Tropicbird Mountain Plover Red-billed Tropicbird