Bird Species of Barnegat Bay
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Accipter striatus - Sharp-shinned hawk
Aix sponsa - Wood Duck
Ammodramus savannarum - Grasshopper sparrow
Anas crecca - Green-winged teal
Anas rubripes - American black duck
Ardea alba - Great egret
Aythya affinis - Lesser scaup
Aythya marila - Greater scaup
Branta bernicla - Atlantic brant
Bucephala clangula - Common goldeneye
Butorides virescens - Little green heron
Calidris cautus - Red knot
Calidris pusilla - Semipalmated sandpiper
Cardinalis cardinalis - Northern cardinal
Charadrius melodus - Piping plover
Chordeiles minor - Common nighthawk
Clangula hyemalis - Long-tailed duck
genus Corvus - Crows and ravens
Dumetella carolinensis - Gray catbird
Egretta tricolor - Tricolored heron
Eudocimus albus - White ibis
Fulica americana - American coot
Haemorhous mexicanus - House finch
Hylocichla mustelina - Wood thrush
Larus marinus - Great black-backed gull
Leucophaeus atricilla - Laughing gull
Mareca americana - American wigeon
Melospiza melodia - Song sparrow
Mimus polyglottos - Northern mockingbird
Myiarchus crinitus - Great crested flycatcher
Nycticorax violaceus - Yellow-crowned night-heron
Pandion haliaetus - Osprey
Pelicanus occidentalis - Brown pelican
Plegadis flacinellus - Glossy ibis
Polioptila caerulea - Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Quiscalus quiscula - Common grackle
Rynchops niger - Black skimmer
Seiurus aurocapillus - Ovenbird
Setophaga ruticilla - American redstart
Spinus tristis - American goldfinch
Sterna dougalli - Roseate tern
Sterna nilotica - Gull-billed tern
Sturnus vulgaris - European starling
Tringa melanoleuca - Greater Yellowlegs
Tyrannus tyrannus - Eastern kingbird
Zenaida macroura - Mourning dove
Actitis macularius - Spotted sandpiper
Ammodramus caudacutus - Sharp-tailed sparrow
Anas acuta - Northern pintail duck
Anas discors - Blue-winged teal
Anas strepera - Gadwall
Ardea herodias - Great blue heron
Aythya americana - Redhead
Aythya valisineria - Canvasback
Branta canadensis - Canada goose
Buteo jamicensis - Red-tailed hawk
Calidris alba - Sanderling
Calidris maritima - Purple sandpiper
Caprimulgus carolinensis - Chuck-will's-widow
Catharus guttatus - Hermit thrush
Charadrius semipalmatus - Semipalmated plover
Circus cyaneus - Northern harrier
Colaptes auratus luteus - Northern yellow-shafted flicker
Cyanocitta cristata - Blue jay
Egretta caerulea - Little blue heron
Empidonax traillii - Willow flycatcher
Falco columbarius - Merlin
Gavia immer - Common loon
Haliaeetus leucocephalus - Bald eagle
Icterus spurius - Orchard oriole
Larus smithsonianus - American herring gull
Limnodromus griseus - Short-billed dowitcher
Megaceryle alcyon - Belted kingfisher
Mergus merganser - Common merganser
Mniotilta varia - Black-and-white warbler
Nannopterum auritum - Double-crested cormorant
Oporornis formosus - Kentucky warbler
Passer deomsticus - House sparrow
Pipilo erythrophthalmus - Eastern towhee
Pluvialis squatarola - Black-bellied plover
Progne subis - Purple martin
Rallus limicola - Virginia rail
Sayornis phoebe - Eastern phoebe
Setophaga coronata coronata - Myrtle warbler
Sialia sialis - Eastern bluebird
Spizella passerina - Chipping sparrow
Sterna forsteri - Forster's tern
Strix varia - Barred owl
Tachycineta bicolor - Tree swallow
Tringa semipalmata - Willet
Vermivora cyanoptera - Blue-winged warbler
Agelaius phoeniceus - Red-winged blackbird
Ammospiza maritima - Seaside sparrow
Anas clypeata - Northern shoveler
Anas platyrhynchos - Mallard
Anser caerulescens - Snow goose
Arenaria interpres - Ruddy turnstone
Aythya collaris - Ring-necked duck
Baeolophus bicolor - Tufted titmouse
Bucephala albeola - Bufflehead
Buteo lineatus - Red shouldered hawk
Calidris alpina - Dunlin
Calidris minultilla - Least sandpiper
Caprimulgus vociferus - Whip-poor-will
Chaetura pelagica - Chimney swift
Charadrius vociferus - Killdeer
Cistothorus palustris - Marsh wren
Contopus virens - Eastern wood-pewee
Cygnus olor - Mute swan
Egretta thula - Snowy egret
Empidonax virescens - Acadian flycatcher
Falco peregrinus - Peregrine falcon
Haematopus palliatus - American oystercatcher
Histrionicus histrionicus - Harlequin duck
Larus delawarenis - Ring-billed gull
Laterallus jamaicensis - Black rail
Lophodytes cucullatus - Hooded merganser
Melanerpes carolinus - Red bellied woodpecker
Mergus serrator - Red-breasted merganser
Molothrus ater - Brown-headed cowbird
Nycticorax nycticorax - Black-crowned night heron
Oxyura jamicensis - Ruddy duck
Passerculus sandwichensis princeps - Ipswich sparrow
Plectropenax nivalis - Snow bunting
Poecile carolinensis - Carolina chickadee
Quiscalus major - Boat-tailed grackle
Rallus longirostris - Clapper rail
Scolopax minor - Woodcock
Setophaga pinus - Pine warbler
Somateria mollissima - Common eider
Sterna antillarum - Least tern
Sterna hirundo - Common tern
Sturnella magna - Eastern meadowlark
Thalasseus maximus - Royal tern
Turdus migratorius - American robin
Vireo griseus - White-eyed vireo
