Birds at Holcomb Farm

Compiled by Bird Enthusiast John Weeks

To download a PDF of this list, click here: Holcomb Farm Birds.

☐  Canada Goose

☐  Wood Duck

☐  Mallard

☐  Common Merganser

☐  Wild Turkey

☐  Double-crested Cormorant

☐  Great Blue Heron

☐  Green Heron

☐  Black Vulture

☐  Turkey Vulture

☐  Osprey

☐  Bald Eagle

☐  Northern Harrier (M)

☐  Sharp-shinned Hawk (M)

☐  Cooper's Hawk

☐  Red-shouldered Hawk

☐  Broad-winged Hawk

☐  Red-tailed Hawk

☐  Killdeer

☐  Solitary Sandpiper (M)

☐  American Woodcock

☐  Rock Pigeon

☐  Mourning Dove

☐  Yellow-billed Cuckoo (U)

☐  Black-billed Cuckoo (U)

☐  Great Horned Owl

☐  Barred Owl

☐  Common Nighthawk (M)

☐  Chimney Swift

☐  Ruby-throated Hummingbird

☐  Belted Kingfisher

☐  Red-bellied Woodpecker

☐  Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

☐  Downy Woodpecker

☐  Hairy Woodpecker

☐  Northern Flicker

☐  Pileated Woodpecker

☐  American Kestrel

☐  Olive-sided Flycatcher (M, U)

☐  Eastern Wood-Pewee

☐  Willow Flycatcher

☐  Least Flycatcher (M)

☐  Eastern Phoebe

☐  Great Crested Flycatcher

☐  Eastern Kingbird

☐  Yellow-throated Vireo

☐  Blue-headed Vireo

☐  Warbling Vireo

☐  Red-eyed Vireo

☐  Blue Jay

☐  American Crow

☐  Common Raven

☐  Tree Swallow

☐  Barn Swallow

☐  Black-capped Chickadee

☐  Tufted Titmouse

☐  Red-breasted Nuthatch

☐  White-breasted Nuthatch

☐  Brown Creeper

☐  House Wren

☐  Winter Wren

☐  Carolina Wren

☐  Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

☐  Golden-crowned Kinglet (W)

☐  Ruby-crowned Kinglet (M)

☐  Eastern Bluebird

☐  Veery

☐  Swainson's Thrush (M)

☐  Hermit Thrush

☐  Wood Thrush

☐  American Robin

☐  Gray Catbird

☐  Brown Thrasher

☐  Northern Mockingbird

☐  European Starling

☐  Cedar Waxwing

☐  Bohemian Waxwing (R)

☐  Ovenbird

☐  Worm-eating Warbler

☐  Louisiana Waterthrush

☐  Northern Waterthrush (M)

☐  Blue-winged Warbler

☐  Black-and-white Warbler

☐  Tennessee Warbler (M)

☐  Nashville Warbler (M)

☐  Mourning Warbler (M)

☐  Common Yellowthroat

☐  Hooded Warbler

☐  American Redstart

☐  Cape May Warbler (U)

☐  Northern Parula (M)

☐  Magnolia Warbler (M)

☐  Bay-breasted Warbler (M)

☐  Blackburnian Warbler

☐  Yellow Warbler

☐  Chestnut-sided Warbler

☐  Blackpoll Warbler (M)

☐  Black-throated Blue Warbler

☐  Palm Warbler (M)

☐  Pine Warbler

☐  Yellow-rumped Warbler

☐  Prairie Warbler

☐  Black-throated Green Warbler

☐  Canada Warbler (M)

☐  Wilson's Warbler (M)

☐  Eastern Towhee

☐  Chipping Sparrow

☐  Field Sparrow

☐  Fox Sparrow (M)

☐  White-throated Sparrow (W)

☐  White-crowned Sparrow (M)

☐  Dark-eyed Junco (W)

☐  Scarlet Tanager

☐  Northern Cardinal

☐  Rose-breasted Grosbeak

☐  Indigo Bunting

☐  Bobolink

☐  Red-winged Blackbird

☐  Eastern Meadowlark (M)

☐  Common Grackle

☐  Brown-headed Cowbird

☐  Orchard Oriole

☐  Baltimore Oriole

☐  House Finch

☐  Purple Finch (W)

☐  American Goldfinch

☐  House Sparrow

KEY

Italics denote species known or likely to nest at Holcomb Farm or close by

M = migrant; seen passing through in the spring or fall

U = uncommon species; seen only occasionally

R = Rare

W = species present during the winter months only