Birds of the List Coding s S F W Most birds are migratory, therefore their ___ Great Egret...... u c a r Patuxent River— occurrence is coded by season: ___ Great Blue Heron*...... c c c c ___ Wood Stork...... X Jug Bay Area (s) Spring March–May ___ Glossy Ibis...... u r o (S) Summer June–August ___ White Ibis...... X X The Jug Bay area on the (F) Fall September–November (W) Winter December–February Swans, Geese, Patuxent River provides and Ducks some of the most outstanding Relative Abundance: birding to be found in Maryland. The (*) Nesting has been confirmed in the area. s S F W (a) Abundant—very numerous species. ___ Tundra Swan...... c c u National Audubon Society designated Jug (c) Common—present in suitable habitat. ___ Mute Swan...... o o o o Bay a “Nationally Important Bird Area” (u) Uncommon—present, not always seen. (o) Occasional—only a few sightings/sea- ___ Greater White-fronted Goose...... X X because of its high numbers and diversity son. ___ Ross’s Goose...... r of birds. This valuable region contains (r) Rare—seen every two to five years. ___ Snow Goose (white & blue)...... o o o a variety of habitats: open water, tidal (X) Recorded sighting but very rare. ___ Canada Goose*...... c u a a freshwater marshes and mudflats, shrub– ___ Cackling Goose...... r r r ___ Black-bellied Whistling Duck X scrub swamps, forested uplands, and ___ Fulvous Whistling Duck...... X X open fields. The Jug Bay area includes the Loons, Grebes, Cormorant, Herons, ___ Wood Duck*...... a a a o Patuxent River Park and Merkle Wildlife and Ibises ___ Mallard*...... a c a a Sanctuary in Prince George’s County, ___ American Black Duck*...... a o a a the Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary in Anne s S F W ___ Gadwall...... u u o Arundel County and is a component of ___ Red-throated Loon...... r r r ___ Green-winged Teal...... c a u ___ Common Loon...... o X o o ___ American Wigeon...... u u o the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine ___ Eurasian Wigeon...... X X Research Reserve in Maryland. ___ Horned Grebe...... u u o ___ Pied-billed Grebe*...... c o c u ___ Northern Pintail...... u c u ___ Northern Shoveler...... u u o More than 300 species have been identified ___ Red-necked Grebe...... X X with over 100 confirmed as nesting. ___ Blue-winged Teal*...... c o c ___ Eared Grebe...... X ___ Canvasback...... o o o Known for its highly productive freshwater ___ American White Pelican...... X X X ___ Redhead...... r r r tidal marshes, Jug Bay attracts large ___ Brown Pelican...... X ___ Ring-necked Duck...... o u o concentrations of waterfowl and marsh ___ Great Cormorant...... X ___ Greater Scaup...... o o o birds and provides a critical stopover for ___ Double-crested Cormorant...... c u c o ___ Lesser Scaup...... o u o many neo-tropical migrants. ___ Least Bittern*...... u u u ___ Surf Scoter...... X X ___ American Bittern...... u o o ___ Black Scoter...... X Staff and volunteers combined resources to ___ Black-crowned Night Heron...... o o o o ___ White-winged Scoter...... X produce this checklist. Additional species ___ Yellow-crowned Night Heron...... r r r ___ Long-tailed Duck...... o o not included are always possible. Please ___ Green Heron*...... u u c ___ Common Goldeneye...... o o o record all nesting and any new sightings ___ Tricolored Heron...... r r o ___ Bufflehead...... u r u o ___ Common Merganser...... c o c at either visitor center’s bird sightings list. ___ Little Blue Heron...... o o o ___ Red-breasted Merganser...... u o o ___ Cattle Egret...... o o ___ Hooded Merganser...... u o o ___ Snowy Egret...... o o u ___ Ruddy Duck...... u u u Plovers, Snipe, s S F W Vultures, Hawks, and Sandpipers Eagles, Bobwhite, ___ Black-headed Gull...... X and Rails s S F W ___ Ring-billed Gull...... a u a a ___ Black-bellied Plover...... o o r ___ Herring Gull...... a o c a s S F W ___ American Golden Plover...... X ___ Glaucous Gull...... X ___ Turkey Vulture*...... c c c c ___ Semipalmated Plover...... u o o ___ Thayers’ Gull...... X ___ Black Vulture*...... c c c c ___ Killdeer*...... c c c u ___ Iceland Gull...... X ___ American Avocet...... X X ___ Lesser Black-backed Gull...... o o u ___ Osprey*...... c c u ___ Black-necked Stilt...... X X ___ Great Black-backed Gull...... u u c ___ Mississippi Kite...... X X ___ Willet...... X X ___ Royal Tern...... r r X ___ Northern Harrier...... u r u c ___ Hudsonian Godwit...... X ___ Caspian Tern...... u o u ___ Golden Eagle...... X ___ Greater Yellowlegs...... c r c r ___ Forster’s Tern...... c o c r ___ Lesser Yellowlegs...... c r u X ___ Common Tern...... r r r ___ Bald Eagle*...... u u u c ___ Solitary Sandpiper...... u o u ___ Least Tern...... r r ___ Sharp-shinned Hawk...... u c u ___ Spotted Sandpiper...... c u c ___ Black Tern...... o o ___ Cooper’s Hawk*...... u o c u ___ Upland Sandpiper...... X ___ Bridled Tern...... X ___ Ruddy Turnstone...... X X ___ Northern Goshawk...... r r ___ Black Skimmer...... X X X ___ Red Knot...... X ___ Rock Dove*...... u u u u ___ Broad-winged Hawk*...... o r o ___ Sanderling...... X X ___ Mourning Dove*...... a a a a ___ Red-shouldered Hawk*...... c u u c ___ Dunlin...... u u o ___ Yellow-billed Cuckoo*...... c c c ___ Red-tailed Hawk*...... c u c c ___ Semipalmated Sandpiper...... o u o ___ Western Sandpiper...... r o ___ Black-billed Cuckoo...... r X r ___ Rough-legged Hawk...... r o ___ Least Sandpiper...... o o u ___ Barn Owl*...... u u u u ___ American Kestrel*...... u u u c ___ White-rumped Sandpiper...... r r ___ Short-eared Owl...... r X X ___ Merlin...... o o o ___ Baird’s Sandpiper...... X ___ Long-eared Owl...... X ___ Great Horned Owl*...... c c c c ___ Peregrine Falcon...... r o r ___ Pectoral Sandpiper...... o o ___ Ruff...... X ___ Barred Owl*...... c c c c ___ Ring-necked Pheasant...... X ___ Stilt Sandpiper...... X X ___ Eastern Screech Owl*...... o o o o ___ Wild Turkey*...... u u u u ___ Long-billed Dowitcher...... X ___ Northern Saw-whet Owl...... r u u ___ Northern Bobwhite*...... o o o o ___ Short-billed Dowitcher...... r r ___ Common Nighthawk...... u r u ___ American Woodcock*...... c c c u ___ Limpkin...... X X ___ Chuck-will’s Widow...... r X r ___ Common Snipe...... c X c c ___ Whip-poor-will*...... o o o ___ King Rail*...... r r u u ___ Wilson’s Phalarope...... X ___ Chimney Swift*...... c c a ___ Clapper Rail...... X ___ Red Phalarope...... X ___ Red-necked Phalarope...... X ___ Virginia Rail*...... o o c o Hummingbird, ___ Sora...... u r a o Gulls, Terns, Kingfisher, Woodpeckers, ___ Yellow Rail...... X Doves, Cuckoos, Flycatchers, Vireos, and Shrike ___ Black Rail...... X X Owls, and s S F W ___ Purple Gallinule...... X Nighthawks ___ Ruby-throated Hummingbird*...... c c c ___ Common Moorhen*...... o o u s S F W ___ Belted Kingfisher*...... c c c u ___ American Coot...... u r u u ___ Franklin’s Gull...... X ___ Red-headed Woodpecker*...... o o o o ___ Laughing Gull...... c u c o ___ Sandhill Crane...... X X ___ Red-bellied Woodpecker*...... c c c c ___ Bonaparte’s Gull...... u o r ___ Northern Flicker*...... c u c c s S F W s S F W ___ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker...... u c u ___ Cave Swallow...... X Warblers and Tanagers ___ Downy Woodpecker*...... c c c c ___ Rough-winged Swallow...... u u o ___ Hairy Woodpecker*...... u u u u ___ Barn Swallow*...... a a a ___ Pileated Woodpecker*...... u u u u s S F W ___ Tufted Titmouse*...... a a a a ___ Olive-sided Flycatcher...... X ___ Prothonotary Warbler*...... u u u ___ Eastern Wood Pewee*...... c c c ___ Black-capped Chickadee...... r ___ Blue-winged Warbler...... o o ___ Acadian Flycatcher*...... c c u ___ Carolina Chickadee*...... a a a a ___ Golden-winged Warbler...... r r ___ Yellow-bellied Flycatcher..... r ___ Brown Creeper...... o u u ___ Tennessee Warbler...... u u ___ Alder Flycatcher...... o r ___ White-breasted Nuthatch*...... c u c c ___ Orange-crowned Warbler...... X ___ Willow Flycatcher...... o r o ___ Red-breasted Nuthatch...... o o o ___ Nashville Warbler...... o u ___ Least Flycatcher...... o r u ___ House Wren*...... u r u X ___ Northern Parula Warbler*...... c c c ___ Chestnut-sided Warbler...... u u ___ Eastern Phoebe*...... c c c o ___ Winter Wren...... o u u ___ Cape May Warbler...... u u ___ Great Crested Flycatcher*...... c c u ___ Carolina Wren*...... a a a a ___ Gray Kingbird...... X ___ Magnolia Warbler...... u c ___ Marsh Wren*...... c c u o ___ Eastern Kingbird*...... c c c ___ Yellow-rumped Warbler...... c c u ___ Western Kingbird...... X ___ Sedge Wren...... X ___ Black and White Warbler*...... c u c ___ Scissor-tailed Flycatcher...... X ___ Golden-crowned Kinglet...... u u u ___ Black-throated Blue Warbler...... u c ___ Loggerhead Shrike...... X X ___ Ruby-crowned Kinglet...... u c u ___ Cerulean Warbler...... r r ___ White-eyed Vireo*...... c c u X ___ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher*...... c c u ___ Blackburnian Warbler...... o o ___ Yellow-throated Vireo*...... u u u ___ Black-throated Green Warbler...... u u ___ Blue-headed Vireo...... o u Mimids, ___ Yellow-throated Warbler*...... u u u ___ Prairie Warbler*...... c u c ___ Red-eyed Vireo*...... a a a Thrushes, Pipit, ___ Bay-breasted Warbler...... o o ___ Philadelphia Vireo...... r o and Waxwing ___ Blackpoll Warbler...... c X u ___ Warbling Vireo...... o o ___ Pine Warbler*...... u u u r s S F W ___ Palm Warbler...... u c r ___ Eastern Bluebird*...... c c c u Jay, Crows, Lark, ___ Yellow Warbler*...... c u u Swallows, Titmouse, ___ Wood Thrush*...... a a a ___ Mourning Warbler...... o o Nuthatches, Wrens, ___ Veery...... u X u ___ Connecticut Warbler...... o Kinglets, and Gnatcatcher ___ Gray-cheeked Thrush...... u u ___ Kentucky Warbler*...... u o u ___ Bicknell’s Thrush...... r r ___ Canada Warbler...... u o u s S F W ___ Swainson’s Thrush...... c c ___ Wilson’s Warbler...... o o ___ Blue Jay*...... a c a a ___ Hermit Thrush...... u c c ___ Hooded Warbler*...... u u u ___ Common Raven...... X ___ Worm-eating Warbler*...... u o u ___ American Robin*...... a a a c ___ American Crow*...... a a a a ___ Ovenbird*...... c c c ___ Gray Catbird*...... c u a o ___ Fish Crow*...... c c c c ___ Louisiana Waterthrush*...... c u r ___ Northern Mockingbird*...... a a a a ___ Horned Lark*...... u r r o ___ Northern Waterthrush...... u o u ___ Brown Thrasher*...... c c c u ___ Common Yellowthroat*...... c c c u ___ Tree Swallow*...... a c a ___ European Starling*...... c c c a ___ Yellow-breasted Chat*...... c u u X ___ Purple Martin*...... u u u ___ American Pipit...... o u u ___ American Redstart*...... c u c ___ Bank Swallow*...... o u o ___ Cedar Waxwing*...... c u u c ___ Summer Tanager*...... u u o ___ Cliff Swallow*...... o r o ___ Scarlet Tanager*...... c c c s S F W Sparrows, ___ Baltimore Oriole*...... u u u r Grosbeaks, ___ Purple Finch...... u o u Buntings, and Blackbirds ___ House Finch*...... c c c c Bird ___ Red Crossbill...... r r s S F W ___ White-winged Crossbill...... r ___ Eastern Towhee*...... c c c u ___ Pine Siskin...... o o o Checklist ___ American Tree Sparrow...... o o u ___ American Goldfinch*...... c c c c ___ Field Sparrow*...... c c c u ___ Common Redpoll...... X r ___ Chipping Sparrow*...... c c c r ___ Evening Grosbeak...... r r r ___ Lark Sparrow...... X X ___ House Sparrow*...... u u u u of the ___ Grasshopper Sparrow*...... u u u X ___ Lapland Longspur...... r ___ Sharp-tailed Sparrow ...... X X ___ Seaside Sparrow...... r Patuxent ___ Fox Sparrow...... r u u Chesapeake Bay ___ Savannah Sparrow...... u c u National Estuarine ___ Lincoln’s Sparrow...... r u X Research Reserve–MD A program of the Maryland Department River ___ Song Sparrow*...... c u a c of Natural Resources. ___ Vesper Sparrow...... r r r ___ Swamp Sparrow...... c X c u ___ Harris’s Sparrow...... X ___ White-throated Sparrow...... a a a ___ White-crowned Sparrow...... o u o ___ Dark-eyed Junco...... a u a ___ Rose-breasted Grosbeak...... u u 1361 Wrighton Road, Lothian, MD 20711-9740 ___ Northern Cardinal*...... a a a a 410-741-9330 ___ Dickcissel...... X X ___ Blue Grosbeak*...... c c c ___ Indigo Bunting*...... a a a ___ Bobolink...... o r u ___ Eastern Meadowlark*...... u o u o ___ Yellow-headed Blackbird...... X Patuxent River Park ___ Red-winged Blackbird*...... a a a a 16000 Croom Airport Road ___ Common Grackle*...... a a a c Upper Marlboro, MD 20772-8395 ___ Brewer’s Blackbird...... X 301-627-6074 Jug Bay ___ Rusty Blackbird...... u u u TTY: 301-699-2544 ___ Brown-headed Cowbird*...... c u c u Area ___ Orchard Oriole*...... c c o PPC-PR-NHR-3/13