Waterfowl Shorebirds Perching Perching Herons, Vultures American Black Duck Royal Tern Northern Rough-winged Swallow American Bittern American Wigeon American Woodcock Tree Swallow Birds Black-crowned Night Heron Barrow’s Goldeneye Baird’s Sandpiper Purple Martin American Pipit Cattle Egret Black Scoter Buff-breasted Sandpiper American Tree Sparrow Black-capped Chickadee Great Blue Heron Blue-winged Teal Common Snipe Chipping Sparrow Boreal Chickadee Great Egret Brant Dunlin Clay-colored Sparrow Tufted Titmouse Green Heron Bufflehead Greater Yellowlegs Dark-eyed Junco House Sparrow Least Bittern Canada Goose Hudsonian Godwit Eastern Towhee Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Little Blue Heron Canvasback Least Sandpiper Field Sparrow Golden-crowned Kinglet Snowy Egret Common Eider Lesser Yellowlegs Fox Sparrow Ruby-crowned Kinglet Tricolored Heron Common Goldeneye Long-billed Dowitcher Grasshopper Sparrow Red-breasted Nuthatch Yellow-crowned Night Heron Common Merganser Marbled Godwit Henslow’s Sparrow White-breasted Nuthatch Black Vulture Eurasian Wigeon Pectoral Sandpiper Lapland Longspur European Starling Turkey Vulture Gadwall Purple Sandpiper Lark Sparrow Scarlet Tanager Glossy Ibis Green-winged Teal Red Knot Lincoln’s Sparrow American Robin Greater Scaup Red Phalarope Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow Bicknell’s Thrush Nightbirds Harlequin Duck Red-necked Phalarope Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow Eastern Bluebird Common Nighthawk Hooded Merganser Ruddy Turnstone Savannah Sparrow Gray-cheeked Thrush Whip-poor-will King Eider Sanderling Seaside Sparrow Hermit Thrush Lesser Scaup Semipalmated Sandpiper Snow Bunting Mountain Bluebird Swainson’s Thrush Loons Long-tailed Duck Solitary Sandpiper Song Sparrow Common Loon Varied Thrush Mallard Spotted Sandpiper Swamp Sparrow Red-throated Loon Mute Swan Stilt Sandpiper Vesper Sparrow Wood Thrush Northern Pintail Upland Sandpiper White-crowned Sparrow Veery Alder Flycatcher Turkeys, Quails Northern Shoveler Western Sandpiper White-throated Sparrow Ring-necked Pheasant Eastern Kingbird Red-breasted Merganser Whimbrel American Redstart Ruffed Grouse Eastern Phoebe Redhead White-rumped Sandpiper Bay-breasted Warbler Spruce Grouse Eastern Wood-Pewee Ring-necked Duck Willet Black-and-white Warbler Wild Turkey Great Crested Flycatcher Ruddy Duck Wilson’s Phalarope Black-throated Blue Warbler Northern Bobwhite Snow Goose Black-throated Green Warbler Least Flycatcher Surf Scoter Blackburnian Warbler Carolina Wren Perching Birds House Wren Rails Tundra Swan Blue-winged Warbler American Coot Horned Lark Marsh Wren White-winged Scoter Canada Warbler Common Moorhen New Hampshire Birds Hampshire New Bohemian Waxwing Sedge Wren Wood Duck Cedar Waxwing Cape May Warbler King Rail Blue Grosbeak Cerulean Warbler Hawks, Falcons Sora Cormorants Dickcissel Chestnut-sided Warbler Bald Virginia Rail Evening Grosbeak Common Yellowthroat Broad-winged Hawk Double-crested Cormorant Connecticut Warbler Great Cormorant Indigo Bunting Cooper’s Hawk Cuckoos Northern Cardinal Golden-winged Warbler Golden Eagle Northern Gannet Louisiana Waterthrush Black-billed Cuckoo Pine Grosbeak Northern Goshawk Magnolia Warbler Yellow-billed Cucko Rose-breasted Grosbeak Northern Harrier Shorebirds Mourning Warbler Brown Creeper Osprey Black Guillemot Nashville Warbler Storm-petrel American Crow Red-shouldered Hawk Common Murre Northern Parula Leach’s Storm-petrel Blue Jay Red-tailed Hawk Dovekie Northern Waterthrush Wilson’s Storm-petrel Common Raven Rough-legged Hawk Razorbill Orange-crowned Warbler Cory’s Shearwater Fish Crow Sharp-shinned Hawk American golden-plover Ovenbird Greater Shearwater Gray Jay American Kestrel Black-bellied Plover Palm Warbler Manx Shearwater American Goldfinch Gyrfalcon Killdeer Pine Warbler Northern Fulmar Common Redpoll Merlin Piping Plover Prairie Warbler House Finch Peregrine Falcon Semipalmated Plover Tennessee Warbler Pine Siskin Arctic Tern Wilson’s Warbler Black-backed Purple Finch Black Tern Yellow Warbler Downy Woodpecker Barred Black-headed Gull Red Crossbill Yellow-breasted Chat Hairy Woodpecker Boreal Owl Black-legged Kittiwake White-winged Crossbill Yellow-rumped Warbler Northern Flicker Eastern Screech Owl Bonaparte’s Gull Baltimore Oriole Yellow-throated Warbler Pileated Woodpecker Great Gray Owl Caspian Tern Bobolink Philadelphia Vireo Red-bellied Woodpecker Great Horned Owl Common Tern Brown-headed Cowbird Red-eyed Vireo Red-headed Woodpecker Long-eared Owl Forster’s Tern Common Grackle Solitary Vireo Three-toed Woodpecker Eastern Meadowlark Northern Hawk Owl Glaucous Gull Warbling Vireo Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Northern Saw-whet Owl Great Black-headed Gull Orchard Oriole White-eyed Vireo Short-eared Owl Herring Gull Red-winged Blackbird Yellow-throated Vireo Iceland Gull Olive-sided Flycatcher Rusty Blackbird Snowy Owl Laughing Gull Western Kingbird Yellow-headed Blackbird Least Tern Willow Flycatcher Loggerhead Shrike Hummingbirds, Little Gull Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Northern Shrike Parasitic Jaeger Bank Swallow Brown Thrasher Swifts Pomarine Jaeger Barn Swallow Gray Catbird Chimney Swift Ring-billed Gull Cliff Swallow Northern Mockingbird Ruby-throated Hummingbird Roseate Tern Rufous Hummingbird Grebes Doves, Pigeons Pied-billed Grebe Mourning Dove Kingfishers nhptv.org/birds Red-necked Grebe Rock Pigeon Belted Kingfisher COUNTING ON Below is a list of some of the birds featured in BIRDS COUNTING ON BIRDS, in the order they appear. KEY Black-mandibled Toucan New Hampshire Club-winged Manikin Cuba Golden-winged Manikin Ecuador Crimson-rumped Toucanet Tufted Titmouse Orange-bellied-Euphonia Cedar Waxwing Bananaquit Black-capped Chickadee Palm Tanager Red Breasted Nuthatch Common Redpoll Image Credit: Arnstein Rønning Mallard Bee Hummingbird Downy Woodpecker Cuban Rufous Motmot Green Heron Cuban Pygmy-owl Cuban Amazon Cuban Trogon Cuban Trogon Cuban Green Woodpecker Cuban Black Hawk Common Merganser Cattle Egret Common Redpoll White Ibis Blue Jay Cuban Green Woodpecker Gray Jay Prairie Warbler Eastern Bluebird Eastern Meadowlark Pine Grosbeak Cuban Tody Common Loon Olive-capped Warbler Bobolink Yellow-headed Warbler Northern Cardinal Northern Flicker Bananaquits Image Credit: Leon-bojarczuk Wood Duck Cuban Sparrow Broad-winged Hawk Cuban Nightjar Dark-eyed Junco Mangrove Cuckoo Mourning Dove Cuban Gnat Catcher Orange-billed Sparrow Great Lizard Cuckoo Plate-billed Mountain Toucan Black-necked Stilt

Cuban Amazon Image Credit: Donar Reiskoffer MORE ABOUT BIRDS! NH Birds nhptv.org/wild/animals6.asp Cuban Birds nhptv.org/wild/cubanbirds.asp Ecuadorian Birds nhptv.org/broadwinged/ecuadorbirds.asp

Rufous Motmot Image Credit: Dominic Sherony, CC 2.0 Generic License nhptv.org/birds OUNTING ON Cuban Birds Seen in C Bee Hummingbird BIRDS There are only two of hummingbird found in Cuba, the bee hummingbird and the Cuban emerald. The bee hummingbird is the smallest species of in the world and is only found in Cuba. It is the size of a large bee. Listed as a Near Threatened species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Image Credit: Rainer Jung Cuban Emerald The Cuban emerald is found in the Bahamas, Cuba, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. The Cuban emerald is a common bird in Cuba where it is known as the zun-zun. Males are green and females are green with a gray breast and belly. Image Credit: Ruestz

Cuban Pygmy Owl The Cuban pygmy owl is a tiny owl found in forests and woodlands across Cuba. It comes in two color morphs - reddish brown and gray. Unlike most pygmy owls, the Cuban pygmy owl is active in the day. The Cuban pygmy owl nests in empty woodpecker holes. There are three subspecies of the Cuban pygmy owl.

Image Credit: Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Marty Parsons

Cuban Trogon The Cuban trogon is 10-11 inches in length and is the national bird of Cuba. It is a colorful bird with a green back, a blue head, a bright red belly, and a white chest and throat. It has a long scalloped tail, black and white barred wings, and reddish-brown eyes. It is found in forested areas across Cuba. In Cuba, it is known as the tocororo, or tocoloro.

Image Credit: Laura Gooch

Cuban Black Hawk The Cuban black hawk is found in mangrove swamps and on the banks of large rivers. Until 2007, it was considered a subspecies of the . Listed as a Near Threat- ened species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

Image Credit: Laura Gooch

For people who love to observe birds, the annual Christmas bird count is a time to note their migratory habits and health. More than a century ago, ornithologist Frank Chapman redirected a Christmas-time tradition of revelers shooting birds to a new Yuletide recreation: counting birds. In NHPTV’s documentary COUNTING ON BIRDS, the National Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count and its scope in New England is explored. Host Will Lange travels to Cuba, Ecuador, Keene and Errol, NH, and Maine to uncover the history of this bird census which now has 60,000 people participating in it. A Windows to the Wild Special nhptv.org nhptv.org/birds