Bird Observation Form Common Name: Scientific Name:

Observation Date: Time:

Distance from bird:

Location: Number of birds: Weather:

Habitat: Was it in a garden, at a forest edge, in the woods, on a lake, on the beach?

Description of bird: Include the colors, patterns, marking of the plumage, size of the bird, shape of the bird, details of the bird’s bill, feet, and eyes. You might also want to include a drawing of the bird or take a picture of the bird to help you identify it later.

Behavior of this bird: What was the bird doing? If it was feeding, what was it eating? If it was in flight, how did it fly? Was it hop- ping? Was it interacting with other birds? Include as many observations as you can.

Vocalizations of the bird: If the bird was vocalizing, what did it sound like? What was it doing when it was vocalizing? Was it perched on a branch, flying, swimming, etc.

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