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Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge
Bird Check List

Bird Check List
JAEGERS-GULLS -TERNS-AUKS	BITTERNS-HERONS -IBISES
Laughing Gull Black-headed Gull* Bonaparte’s Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull* Great Black-backed Gull Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Royal Tern Sandwich Tern Roseate Tern Common Tern Arctic Tern* Forster’s Tern Least Tern Black Tern Black Skimmer	American Bittern Least Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron White Ibis* Glossy Ibis
GROUSE-QUAIL-TURKEY	RAILS-CRANES
Northern Bobwhite	Yellow Rail* Black Rail* Clapper Rail King Rail Virginia Rail Sora Purple Gallinule* Common Moorhen American Coot
GANNET-PELICANS-CORMORANTS	SWANS-GEESE-DUCKS
Northern Gannet American White Pelican Brown Pelican Great Cormorant* Double-crested Cormorant	Tundra Swan Mute Swan Greater White-fronted Goose* Greater Snow Goose Brant Canada Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Teal American Black Duck Mallard Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Common Eider Oldsquaw Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser* Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck
SHEARWATERS-STORM-PETRELS	PLOVERS-SANDPIPERS
Cory’s Shearwater* Greater Shearwater* Sooty Shearwater* Wilson’s Storm-Petrel*	Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Wilson’s Plover Semipalmated Plover Piping Plover Killdeer American Oystercatcher Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Willet Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper* Whimbrel Hudsonian Godwit Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Baird’s Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Curlew Sandpiper* Stilt Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper* Ruff* Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Common Snipe American Woodcock Wilson’s Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope
LOONS - GREBES	WOODPECKERS -FLYCATCHERS
Red-throated Loon Common Loon Piled-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Eared Grebe*	Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker* Olive-sided Flycatcher* Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher* Acadian Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher* Least Flycatcher* Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Western Kingbird* Eastern Kingbird
WAXWINGS-SHRIKES -STARLINGS	DOVES-CUCKOOS -OWLS-SWIFTS -HUMMINGBIRDS
American Pipit Cedar Waxwing European Starling	Rock Dove Mourning Dove Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Barn Owl* Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Snowy Owl* Long-eared Owl* Short-eared Owl Common Nighthawk Chuck-will’s Widow Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher
LARKS-SWALLOWS -JAYS-CROWS	KINGLETS-THRUSHES -THRASHERS
Horned Lark Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow* Bank Swallow* Barn Swallow Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow	Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Veery Bicknell’s Thrush Swainson’s Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher
VULTURES-HAWKS -FALCONS	TITMICE-NUTHATCHES -WRENS
Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper’s Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon	Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown-headed Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren* Sedge Wren Marsh Wren
BLACKBIRDS-FINCHES	TANAGERS-SPARROWS
Bobolink* Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird* Rusty Blackbird* Boat-tailed Grackle Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch House Finch Red Crossbill* Common Redpoll* Pine Siskin* American Goldfinch Evening Grosbeak*	Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Dickcissel* Eastern Towhee American Tree Sparrow* Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow* Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow* Lark Sparrow* Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow* Henslow’s Sparrow* Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow* Seaside Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow* Dark-eyed Junco Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting
VIREOS-WOOD WARBLERS	ACCIDENTAL SPECIES (These additional 30 species have been seen only once or twice on the refuge.)
White-eyed Vireo 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 Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Swainson’s Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Connecticut Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson’s Warbler Canada Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat	White-faced Ibis Ross’ Goose Fulvous Whistling Duck Broad-winged Hawk Swainson’s Hawk Golden Eagle Mountain Plover Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Purple Sandpiper Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Long-tailed Jaeger Little Gull Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Elegant Tern Dovekie Atlantic Puffin Common Ground Dove Ash-throated Flycatcher Gray Kingbird Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Northern Rough-winged Swallow Cliff Swallow Northern Wheatear Northern Shrike Black-headed Grosbeak Le Conte’s Sparrow Chestnut-collared Longspur House Sparrow
* = Very rare species on Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge

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