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Bird Species List PIGEONS AND Common Tern WOODPECKERS DOVES Forster’s Tern Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Faville Grove Sanctuary’s Rock Pigeon Red-headed Woodpecker Mourning Dove LOONS Red-bellied Woodpecker BIRD SPECIES LIST Common Loon Downy Woodpecker CUCKOOS Hairy Woodpecker Updated April 2020 Yellow-billed Cuckoo CORMORANTS Black-billed Cuckoo Double-crested Cormorant Pileated Woodpecker Protecting, supporting, and enjoying birds are what make our Northern Flicker organization sing! Madison Audubon’s Faville Grove Sanctuary NIGHTJARS PELICANS American White Pelican FALCONS was established in 1998 with the goal of conserving and reestab- Common Nighthawk Eastern Whip-poor-will American Kestrel lishing native habitats for the benefit of birds, mammals, plants, Merlin insects, and people. The wide range of habitats that you find at SWIFTS HERONS, IBIS, AND Faville Grove are a result of fascinating and diverse geology, burn Chimney Swift ALLIES FLYCATCHERS history, and microclimates. This 171-species bird list was pulled American Bittern Eastern Wood-Pewee from eBird on April 22, 2020. HUMMINGBIRDS Great Blue Heron Willow Flycatcher Ruby-throated Hummingbird Great Egret Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe You’re invited to explore the sanctuary. How many species will Green Heron Great Crested Flycatcher you find? RAILS THROUGH CRANES VULTURES, HAWKS, AND Eastern Kingbird Alder/Willow Flycatcher Virginia Rail ALLIES (Traill’s) madisonaudubon.org/faville-grove Sora Turkey Vulture Olive-sided Flycatcher American Coot Osprey Alder Flycatcher Sandhill Crane Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk VIREOS WATERFOWL Hooded Merganser SHOREBIRDS Cooper’s Hawk Yellow-throated Vireo Greater White-fronted Common Merganser Killdeer Bald Eagle Blue-headed Vireo Goose Lesser Scaup Least Sandpiper Red-tailed Hawk Warbling Vireo Cackling Goose Common Goldeneye Pectoral Sandpiper Rough-legged Hawk Canada Goose Ruddy Duck Short-billed Dowitcher Red-eyed Vireo Tundra Swan Horned Grebe American Woodcock OWLS Wood Duck Wilson’s Snipe Eastern Screech-Owl SHRIKES Blue-winged Teal GROUSE, QUAIL, AND Spotted Sandpiper Great Horned Owl Northern Shrike Northern Shoveler ALLIES Solitary Sandpiper Burrowing Owl Gadwall Ring-necked Pheasant Greater Yellowlegs Barred Owl JAYS, MAGPIES, CROWS, Mallard Greater Prairie-Chicken Lesser Yellowlegs Short-eared Owl AND RAVENS American Black Duck Wild Turkey Blue Jay Northern Pintail GULLS, TERNS, AND KINGFISHERS American Crow Green-winged Teal GREBES SKIMMERS Belted Kingfisher Redhead Pied-billed Grebe Bonaparte’s Gull Ring-necked Duck Ring-billed Gull Bufflehead Herring Gull TITS, CHICKADEES, AND CATBIRDS, MOCKING- Le Conte’s Sparrow CARDINALS, TITMICE BIRDS, AND THRASHERS Savannah Sparrow GROSBEAKS, AND ALLIES Black-capped Chickadee Gray Catbird Henslow’s Sparrow Scarlet Tanager Tufted Titmouse Brown Thrasher Song Sparrow Northern Cardinal Lincoln’s Sparrow Rose-breasted Grosbeak LARKS THRUSHES Swamp Sparrow Indigo Bunting Horned Lark Eastern Bluebird Eastern Towhee Dickcissel Swainson’s Thrush Grasshopper Sparrow MARTINS AND Hermit Thrush SWALLOWS American Robin BLACKBIRDS Northern Rough-winged Wood Thrush Bobolink Swallow Veery Eastern Meadowlark Purple Martin Gray-cheeked Thrush Orchard Oriole Tree Swallow Baltimore Oriole Bank Swallow WAXWINGS Red-winged Blackbird Barn Swallow Cedar Waxwing Brown-headed Cowbird Cliff Swallow Rusty/Brewer’s Blackbird OLD WORLD SPARROWS Common Grackle KINGLETS House Sparrow Golden-crowned Kinglet WOOD-WARBLERS Ruby-crowned Kinglet PIPIT Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush American Pipit Black-and-white Warbler NUTHATCHES Tennessee Warbler Red-breasted Nuthatch FINCHES Orange-crowned Warbler White-breasted Nuthatch House Finch Nashville Warbler Pine Siskin Common Yellowthroat American Goldfinch TREECREEPERS American Redstart Brown Creeper Cape May Warbler LONGSPURS AND SNOW Northern Parula GNATCATCHER BUNTING Magnolia Warbler Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Lapland Longspur Bay-breasted Warbler Snow Bunting Yellow Warbler WRENS Chestnut-sided Warbler House Wren NEW WORLD SPARROW Blackpoll Warbler Sedge Wren Chipping Sparrow Palm Warbler Marsh Wren Clay-colored Sparrow Yellow-rumped Warbler Field Sparrow Black-throated Green Warbler STARLINGS AND MYNAS American Tree Sparrow Wilson’s Warbler Fox Sparrow European Starling Golden-winged Warbler Dark-eyed Junco Blue-winged Warbler madisonaudubon.org/faville-grove White-crowned Sparrow Blackburnian Warbler White-throated Sparrow Pine Warbler Vesper Sparrow .
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