Birdathon Checklist

This checklist includes all species for which acceptable specimen, photographic, or written documentation exists for Vermont. The list has been approved by the Vermont Bird Records Committee and includes 386 species representing 21 orders and 61 families of birds. The names of the birds and their taxonomic arrangement follow the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds Seventh Edition (1998),55th supplement (July2014).

Ducks, Geese, and Swans _____ Black Scoter Storm-Petrels _____ Fulvous Whistling-Duck _____ Long-tailed Duck _____ Wilson's Storm-Petrel _____ Pink-footed Goos _____ Bufflehead _____ Leach's Storm-Petrel _____ Greater White-fronted Goose _____ Common Goldeneye _____ Band-rumped Storm-Petrel _____ Snow Goose _____ Barrow's Goldeneye Tropicbirds _____ Ross's Goose _____ Hooded Merganser _____ White-tailed Tropicbird _____ Brant _____ Common Merganser Storks _____ Barnacle Goose _____ Red-breasted Merganser _____ Wood Stork _____ Cackling Goose _____ Ruddy Duck Boobies and Gannets _____ Canada Goose New World Quail _____ Brown Booby _____ Mute Swan _____ Northern Bobwhite _____ Northern Gannet _____ Trumpeter Swan Pheasants, Partridges, Grouse, Turkeys, Old World Cormorants _____ Tundra Swan Quail, and Guineafowl _____ Double-crested Cormorant _____ Wood Duck _____ Gray Partridge _____ Great Cormorant _____ Gadwall _____ Ring-necked Pheasant Anhingas _____ Eurasian Wigeon _____ Ruffed Grouse _____ Anhinga _____ American Wigeon _____ Spruce Grouse Pelicans _____ American Black Duck _____ Willow Ptarmigan _____ American White Pelican _____ Mallard _____ Wild Turkey _____ Brown Pelican _____ Blue-winged Teal Loons Herons, Bitterns, and Allies _____ Northern Shoveler _____ Red-throated Loon _____ American Bittern _____ Northern Pintail _____ Arctic Loon _____ Least Bittern _____ Garganey _____ Pacific Loon _____ Great Blue Heron _____ Green-winged Teal _____ Common Loon _____ Great Egret _____ Canvasback Grebes _____ Snowy Egret _____ Redhead _____ Pied-billed Grebe _____ Little Blue Heron _____ Ring-necked Duck _____ Horned Grebe _____ Tricolored Heron _____ Tufted Duck _____ Red-necked Grebe _____ Cattle Egret _____ Greater Scaup _____ Eared Grebe _____ Green Heron _____ Lesser Scaup _____ Western/Clark's Grebe _____ Black-crowned Night-Heron _____ King Eider Shearwaters, Fulmars, and Petrels _____ Yellow-crowned Night-Heron _____ Common Eider _____ Northern Fulmar Ibises and Spoonbills _____ Harlequin Duck _____ Cory's Shearwater _____ White Ibis _____ Surf Scoter _____ Great Shearwater _____ Glossy Ibis _____ White-winged Scoter New World Vultures _____ Whimbrel _____ Little Gull _____ Black Vulture _____ Black-tailed Godwit _____ Laughing Gull _____ Turkey Vulture _____ Hudsonian Godwit _____ Franklin's Gull Osprey _____ Marbled Godwit _____ Black-tailed Gull _____ Osprey _____ Ruddy Turnstone _____ Ring-billed Gull Hawks, Kites, Eagles, and Allies _____ Red Knot _____ Herring Gull _____ Swallow-tailed Kite _____ Ruff _____ Thayer's Gull _____ Bald Eagle _____ Stilt Sandpiper _____ Iceland Gull _____ Northern Harrier _____ Curlew Sandpiper _____ Lesser Black-backed Gull _____ Sharp-shinned Hawk _____ Sanderling _____ Slaty-backed Gull _____ Cooper's Hawk _____ Dunlin _____ Glaucous Gull _____ Northern Goshawk _____ Purple Sandpiper _____ Great Black-backed Gull _____ Red-shouldered Hawk _____ Baird's Sandpiper _____ Sooty Tern _____ Broad-winged Hawk _____ Least Sandpiper _____ Caspian Tern _____ Swainson's Hawk _____ White-rumped Sandpiper _____ Black Tern _____ Red-tailed Hawk _____ Buff-breasted Sandpiper _____ White-winged Tern _____ Rough-legged Hawk _____ Pectoral Sandpiper _____ Common Tern _____ Golden Eagle _____ Semipalmated Sandpiper _____ Arctic Tern Rails, Gallinules, and Coots _____ Western Sandpiper _____ Forster's Tern _____ Yellow Rail _____ Short-billed Dowitcher Pigeons and Doves _____ Clapper Rail _____ Long-billed Dowitcher _____ Rock Pigeon _____ Virginia Rail _____ Wilson's Snipe _____ Eurasian Collared-Dove _____ Sora _____ American Woodcock _____ Passenger Pigeon _____ Common Gallinule _____ Wilson's Phalarope _____ White-winged Dove _____ American Coot _____ Red-necked Phalarope _____ Mourning Dove Cranes _____ Red Phalarope Cuckoos, Roadrunners, and Anis _____ Sandhill Crane Skuas and Jaegers _____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo Stilts and Avocets _____ Pomarine Jaeger _____ Black-billed Cuckoo _____ American Avocet _____ Parasitic Jaeger Barn Owls Lapwings and Plovers _____ Long-tailed Jaeger _____ Barn Owl _____ Black-bellied Plover Auks, Murres, and Puffins Typical Owls _____ American Golden-Plover _____ Dovekie _____ Eastern Screech-Owl _____ Pacific Golden-Plover _____ Common Murre _____ Great Horned Owl _____ Semipalmated Plover _____ Thick-billed Murre _____ Snowy Owl _____ Piping Plover _____ Black Guillemot _____ Northern Hawk Owl _____ Killdeer _____ Ancient Murrelet _____ Barred Owl Sandpipers, Phalaropes, and Allies _____ Atlantic Puffin _____ Great Gray Owl _____ Spotted Sandpiper Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers _____ Long-eared Owl _____ Solitary Sandpiper _____ Black-legged Kittiwake _____ Short-eared Owl _____ Greater Yellowlegs _____ Ivory Gull _____ Boreal Owl _____ Willet _____ Sabine's Gull _____ Northern Saw-whet Owl _____ Lesser Yellowlegs _____ Bonaparte's Gull _____ Upland Sandpiper _____ Black-headed Gull

2 Goatsuckers Shrikes Old World Warblers and Gnatcatchers _____ Common Nighthawk _____ Loggerhead Shrike _____ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher _____ Eastern Whip-poor-will _____ Northern Shrike Kinglets Swifts Vireos _____ Golden-crowned Kinglet _____ Chimney Swift _____ White-eyed Vireo _____ Ruby-crowned Kinglet Hummingbirds _____ Yellow-throated Vireo Old World Flycatchers _____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird _____ Cassin's Vireo _____ Northern Wheatear _____ Rufous Hummingbird _____ Blue-headed Vireo Thrushes Kingfishers _____ Warbling Vireo _____ Eastern Bluebird _____ Belted Kingfisher _____ Philadelphia Vireo _____ Mountain Bluebird Woodpeckers and Allies _____ Red-eyed Vireo _____ Townsend's Solitaire _____ Lewis's Woodpecker Crows, Jays, and Magpies _____ Veery _____ Red-headed Woodpecker _____ Gray Jay _____ Gray-cheeked Thrush _____ Red-bellied Woodpecker _____ Steller's Jay _____ Bicknell's Thrush _____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker _____ Blue Jay _____ Swainson's Thrush _____ Downy Woodpecker _____ American Crow _____ Hermit Thrush _____ Hairy Woodpecker _____ Fish Crow _____ Wood Thrush _____ American Three-toed Woodpecker _____ Common Raven _____ American Robin _____ Black-backed Woodpecker Larks _____ Varied Thrush _____ Northern Flicker _____ Horned Lark Mockingbirds and Thrashers _____ Pileated Woodpecker Swallows _____ Gray Catbird Falcons and Caracaras _____ Purple Martin _____ Brown Thrasher _____ American Kestrel _____ Tree Swallow _____ Northern Mockingbird _____ Merlin _____ Northern Rough-winged Swallow Starlings _____ Gyrfalcon _____ Bank Swallow _____ European Starling _____ Peregrine Falcon _____ Cliff Swallow Wagtails and Pipits _____ Prairie Falcon _____ Cave Swallow _____ American Pipit Tyrant Flycatchers or New World Flycatchers _____ Barn Swallow Waxwings _____ Olive-sided Flycatcher Chickadees and Titmice _____ Bohemian Waxwing _____ Eastern Wood-Pewee _____ Black-capped Chickadee _____ Cedar Waxwing _____ Yellow-bellied Flycatcher _____ Boreal Chickadee Longspurs and Snow Buntings _____ Acadian Flycatcher _____ Tufted Titmouse _____ Lapland Longspur _____ Alder Flycatcher Nuthatches _____ Smith's Longspur _____ Willow Flycatcher _____ Red-breasted Nuthatch _____ Snow Bunting _____ Least Flycatcher _____ White-breasted Nuthatch _____ Eastern Phoebe Creepers _____ Say's Phoebe _____ Brown Creeper _____ Great Crested Flycatcher Wrens _____ Western Kingbird _____ House Wren _____ Eastern Kingbird _____ Winter Wren _____ Scissor-tailed Flycatcher _____ Sedge Wren _____ Fork-tailed Flycatcher _____ Marsh Wren _____ Carolina Wren _____ Bewick's Wren 3 New World Warblers or Wood-Warblers _____ Clay-colored Sparrow Finches and Hawaiian Honeycreepers _____ Ovenbird _____ Field Sparrow _____ Pine Grosbeak _____ Worm-eating Warbler _____ Vesper Sparrow _____ House Finch _____ Louisiana Waterthrush _____ Lark Sparrow _____ Purple Finch _____ Northern Waterthrush _____ Lark Bunting _____ Red Crossbill _____ Golden-winged Warbler _____ Savannah Sparrow _____ White-winged Crossbill _____ Blue-winged Warbler _____ Grasshopper Sparrow _____ Common Redpoll _____ Black-and-white Warbler _____ Henslow's Sparrow _____ Hoary Redpoll _____ Prothonotary Warbler _____ Le Conte's Sparrow _____ Pine Siskin _____ Tennessee Warbler _____ Nelson's Sparrow _____ American Goldfinch _____ Orange-crowned Warbler _____ Fox Sparrow _____ Evening Grosbeak _____ Nashville Warbler _____ Song Sparrow Old World Sparrows _____ Connecticut Warbler _____ Lincoln's Sparrow _____ House Sparrow _____ Mourning Warbler _____ Swamp Sparrow _____ Kentucky Warbler _____ White-throated Sparrow _____ Common Yellowthroat _____ Harris's Sparrow _____ Hooded Warbler _____ White-crowned Sparrow _____ American Redstart _____ Golden-crowned Sparrow _____ Cape May Warbler _____ Dark-eyed Junco _____ Cerulean Warbler Cardinals and Allies _____ Northern Parula _____ Summer Tanager _____ Magnolia Warbler _____ Scarlet Tanager _____ Bay-breasted Warbler _____ Western Tanager _____ Blackburnian Warbler _____ Northern Cardinal Total Species Counted: ______Yellow Warbler _____ Rose-breasted Grosbeak _____ Chestnut-sided Warbler _____ Black-headed Grosbeak _____ Blackpoll Warbler _____ Blue Grosbeak _____ Black-throated Blue Warbler _____ Indigo Bunting Team Name: ______Palm Warbler _____ Painted Bunting _____ Pine Warbler _____ Dickcissel Your Name: ______Yellow-rumped Warbler Blackbirds and New World Orioles Address: ______Yellow-throated Warbler _____ Bobolink _____ Prairie Warbler _____ Red-winged Blackbird Town, City, Zip: ______Black-throated Green Warbler _____ Eastern Meadowlark _____ Canada Warbler _____ Western Meadowlark Telephone: ______Wilson's Warbler _____ Yellow-headed Blackbird _____ Yellow-breasted Chat _____ Rusty Blackbird E-mail: ______Towhees and New World Sparrows _____ Brewer's Blackbird _____ Green-tailed Towhee _____ Common Grackle _____ Spotted Towhee _____ Brown-headed Cowbird _____ Eastern Towhee _____ Orchard Oriole _____ American Tree Sparrow _____ Bullock's Oriole Don’t forget to enter your list into eBird! _____ Chipping Sparrow _____ Baltimore Oriole