Sunday, January 2, 2011

LIfe to date list of birds photographed in the Marsh

There are over 260 different confirmed species sightings of birds that live in and pass through the Horicon Marsh.  Here is my list of 123 birds I have been able to photograph so far in the marsh.  I don't count them unless I get a clear picture.  Almost half-way there!

Wood Duck                                         Common Merganser
Mallard                                                Red-Breasted Merganser
American Black Duck                           Hooded Merganser
Blue-winged Teal                                  Buffflehead
Cinnamon Teal                                     Ruddy Duck
Northern Shoveler                                Canada Goose (tough to get that one!)
Gadwall                                                Snow Goose
Green-winged Teal                               Tundra Swan
American Wigeon                                 Mute Swan
Northern Pintail                                    Pie-billed Grebe
Canvasback                                         American White Pelican
Redhead                                               Double Crested Cormorant
Ring-necked Duck                                Ring-billed Gull
Greater Scaup                                      Herring Gull
Lesser Scaup                                        Black Tern
Common Goldeneye                             Forster's Tern
Great Blue Heron                                 Sandhill Crane
Whooping Crane                                  Great Egret
Green Heron                                        American Bittern
Least Bittern                                         Black-crowned Night-Heron
Sora                                                     Common Moorhen
American Coot                                    Wild Turkey
Turkey Vulture                                     Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk                            Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk                             Bald Eagle
American Kestrel                                  Perigrine Falcon
Killdeer                                                Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs                                 Solitary Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper                      Least Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe                                      American Woodcock
American Avocet                                  Black-necked Stilt
Mourning Dove                                    Great Horned Owl
Belted Kingfisher                                  Hairy Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker                            Northern Flicker
Purple Martin                                       Barn Swallow
Tree Swallow                                       Ruby-throated Hummingbird    
Eastern Wood-Pewee                          Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher                                   Willow Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe                                    Eastern Kingbird
Northern Shrike                                    Black-capped Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch                      House Wren
Sedge Wren                                         Marsh Wren
Ruby Crowned Kinglet                         Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Yellow Warbler                                    Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart                                Palm Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler                       Ovenbird
Eastern Bluebird                                   American Robin
Gray Catbird                                        Cedar Waxwing
European Starling                                 Blue Jay
American Crow                                    Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle                                 Red-winged Blackbird (another tough one to get!)
Yellow-headed Blackbird                     Boblink
Eastern Meadowlark                            Baltimore Oriole
Indigo Bunting                                      Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Northern Cardinal                                 House Finch
Pine Sisken                                           American Goldfinch
Chipping Sparrow                                American Tree Sparrow
Field Sparrow                                      Dark-eyed junco
Grasshopper Sparrow                          White-crowed Sparrow
Song Sparrow                                      Snow Bunting
House Sparrow                                    Horned Lark
Ring-necked Pheasant

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