Ornithology

Birds of Upstate New York

Introduction

The following is mostly a list, but we are adding new birds to it every week. Please send us photos, drawings, water colors, paintings, stories, written descriptions, and alike and we will expand the list by creating a Web page for each bird. 

If you are a birder, chances are that you have been photographing birds for year or decades.  All of those photos sitting in slide boxes or stored on your computer are rarely if ever seen by anyone else. By contributing your birding images to this project they will have a world-wide audience.  If you contribute numerous photos, I will create pages with your name on them.  The title of the page would read something like "Cathy Smith's Blue Winged Teal Photographs."  You can help make this directory better through your contribution.

We are also seeking sponsorship and grants to expand the Nature of Rochester. 

An online discussion about the Nature of Rochester is located at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/natureofrochester. 

Contact Max Lent.

LOONS-GREBES--CORMORANTS

• Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata
• Common Loon Gavia immer
• Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
• Horned Grebe
• Red-necked Grebe
• Double-crested Cormorant

BITTERNS-HERONS--IBIS

• American Bittern
• Least Bittern
• Great Blue Heron
• Great Egret
• Snowy Egret
• Little Blue Heron
• Cattle Egret
• Green-backed Heron
• Black-crowned Night-Heron
• Glossy Ibis

SWANS-GEESE--DUCKS

• American Black Duck Anas rubripes
• American Wigeon Anas americana
• Black Scoter Melanitta nigra
• Blue-winged Teal Anas discors
• Brant Branta bernicla
• Bufflehead Bucephala albeola
• Canada Goose Branta canadensis
• Canvasback Aythya valisineria 
• Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
• Common Merganser Mergus merganser
• Eurasian Wigeon Anas penelope
• Gadwall Anas strepera
• Greater Scaup Anas strepera
• Green-winged Teal Anas crecca
• Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
• Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
• Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
• Mute Swan Cygnus olor
• Northern Pintail Anas acuta
• Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata
• Oldsquaw Clangula hyemalis
• Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
• Redhead Aythya americana
• Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
• Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
• Snow Goose Chen caerulescens
• Surf Scoter  Melanitta perspicillata
• Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus
• White-winged Scoter Melanitta fusca
• Wood Duck Aix sponsa

VULTURES-HAWKS--FALCONS

• Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
• Osprey
• Bald Eagle
• Northern Harrier
• Sharp-shinned Hawk
• Cooper's Hawk
• Northern Goshawk
• Red-shouldered Hawk
• Broad-winged Hawk
• Red-tailed Hawk
• Rough-legged Hawk
• Golden Eagle
• American Kestrel
• Merlin
• Peregrine Falcon

PHEASANT--GROUSE

• Ring-necked Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
• Ruffed Grouse

RAILS CRANES

• King Rail
• Virginia Rail
• Sora
• Common Moorhen
• American Coot

PLOVERS--SANDPIPERS

• Black-bellied Plover
• Lesser Golden-Plover
• Semipalmated Plover
• Killdeer
• Greater Yellowlegs
• Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
• Solitary Sandpiper
• Spotted Sandpiper
• Upland Sandpiper
• Whimbrel
• Hudsonian Godwit
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Red Knot
• Sanderling
• Semipalmated Sandpiper
• Western Sandpiper
• Least Sandpiper
• Baird's Sandpiper
• Pectoral Sandpiper
• Dunlin
• Stilt Sandpiper
• Short-billed Dowitcher
• Long-billed Dowitcher
• Common Snipe
• American Woodcock
• Wilson's Phalarope
• Red-necked Phalarope

GULLS--TERNS

• Bonaparte's Gull
• Ring-billed Gull
• Herring Gull
• Great Black-backed Gull
• Caspian Tern
• Common Tern
• Black Tern

DOVES-OWLS--HUMMINGBIRDS

• Rock Pigeon
• Mourning Dove
• Black-billed Cuckoo
• Yellow-billed Cuckoo
• Barn Owl
• Eastern Screech-Owl
• Great Horned Owl or Barred Owl.
• Snowy Owl
• Barred Owl
• Short-eared Owl
• Northern Saw-whet Owl
• Common Nighthawk
• Whip-poor-will
• Chimney Swift
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird
• Belted Kingfisher

WOODPECKERS--FLYCATCHERS

• Red-bellied Woodpecker
• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
• Downy Woodpecker
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Northern Flicker
• Pileated Woodpecker
• Redheaded Woodpecker
• Olive-sided Flycatcher
• Eastern Wood-Pewee
• Alder Flycatcher
• Willow Flycatcher
• Least Flycatcher
• Eastern Phoebe
• Great Crested Flycatcher
• Eastern Kingbird

LARKS-SWALLOWS--JAYS CROWS

• Horned Lark
• Purple Martin
• Tree Swallow
• Northern Rough-winged Swallow
• Bank Swallow
• Cliff Swallow
• Barn Swallow
• Blue Jay
• American Crow

TlTMICE-NUTHATCHES--WRENS

• Black-capped Chickadee
• Tufted Titmouse
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• White-breasted Nuthatch
• Brown Creeper
• Carolina Wren
• House Wren
• Winter Wren
• Sedge Wren
• Marsh Wren

KINGLETS-HRUSHES--THRASHERS

• Golden-crowned Kinglet
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet
• Bluegray Gnatcatcher
• Eastern Bluebird
• Veery
• Gray-cheeked Thrush
• Swainson's Thrush
• Hermit Thrush
• Wood Thrush
• American Robin
• Gray Catbird
• Northern Mockingbird
• Brown Thrasher

WAXWINGS-SHRIKES--STARLINGS

• Water Pipit
• Cedar Waxwing
• Northern Shrike
• Loggerhead Shrike
• European Starling

VIREOS-WOOD--WARBLERS

• Solitary Vireo
• yellow-throated Vireo
• Warbling Vireo
• Philadelphia Vireo
• Red-eyed Vireo
• Blue-winged Warbler
• Golden-winged Warbler
• Tennessee Warbler
• Orange-crowned Warbler
• Nashville Warbler
• Northern Parula
• Yellow Warbler
• Chestnut-sided Warbler
• Magnolia Warbler
• Cape May Warbler
• Black-throated Blue Warbler
• Yellow-rumped Warbler
• Black-throated Green Warbler
• Blackburnian Warbler
• Pine Warbler
• Prairie Warbler
• Palm Warbler
• Bay-breasted Warbler
• Blackpoll Warbler
• Cerulean Warbler
• Black-and-white Warbler
• American Redstart
• Prothonotary Warbler
• Ovenbird
• Northern Waterthrush
• Louisiana Waterthrush
• Connecticut Warbler
• Mourning Warbler
• Common Yellowthroat
• Hooded Warbler
• Wilson's Warbler
• Canada Warbler
• Yellow-breasted Chat

TANAGERS--SPARROWS

• Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
• Northern Cardinal
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak
• Indigo Bunting
• Rufous-sided Towhee
• American Tree Sparrow
• Chipping Sparrow
• Field Sparrow
• Vesper Sparrow
• Savannah Sparrow
• Grasshopper Sparrow
• Henslow's Sparrow
• Fox Sparrow
• Song Sparrow
• Lincoln's Sparrow
• Swamp Sparrow
• White-throated Sparrow
• White-crowned Sparrow
• Dark-eyed Junco
• Lapland Longspur
• Snow Bunting

BLACKBIRDS--FINCHES

• Bobolink
• Red-winged Blackbird
• Eastern Meadowlark
• Rusty Blackbird
• Common Grackle
• Brown-headed Cowbird
• Northern Oriole
• Purple Finch
• House Finch
• Common Redpoll
• Pine Siskin
• American Goldfinch
• Evening Grosbeak
• House Sparrow

ACCIDENTALS-Birds that are seen rarely in Rochester and Upstate New York

• Western Grebe
• Eared Grebe
• Leach's Storm-Petrel
• Wilson's Storm-Petrel
• American White Pelican
• Northern Gannet
• Black Swan
• Pink-footed Goose
• White-fronted Goose
• Bar-Headed Goose
• Egyptian Goose
• Cinnamon Teal
• Shelduck
• Fulvous Whistling Duck
• Barrow's Goldeneye
• King Eider
• Red-crested Pochard
• Masked Duck
• Gyrfalcon
• Turkey
• Northern Bobwhite
• Tricolored Heron
• Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
• White Ibis
• Greater Flamingo
• Sandhill Crane
• Yellow Rail
• Black Rail
• Purple Gallinule
• American Avocet
• Black-necked Stilt
• Northern Lapwing
• Piping Plover
• Marbled Godwit
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper
• Red Phalarope
• Parasitic Jaeger
• Glaucous Gull
• Iceland Gull
• Little Gull
• Least Tern
• Arctic Tern
• Roseate Tern
• Forster's Tern
• Gull-billed Tern
• Razorbill
• Thick-billed Murre
• Dovekie
• Black Guillemot
• White-winged Dove
• Long-eared Owl
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
• Western Kingbird
• Say's Phoebe
• Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
• Acadian Flycatcher
• Gray Jay
• Common Raven
• Boreal Chickadee
• Sprague's Pipit
• Bohemian Waxwing
• Yellow-headed Blackbird
• Brewer's Blackbird
• Boat-tailed Grackle
• Blue Grosbeak
• Pine Grosbeak
• European Goldfinch
• White-winged Crossbill
• Dickcissel
• Sharp-tailed Sparrow
• Lark Sparrow
• Clay-colored Sparrow

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