April bird count

Hello Friends,

Birds are slowly trickling into Magee Marsh right now. The boardwalk was a little slow, but the usual early migrants (Yellow-rumped warbler, hermit thrush, blue-gray gnatcatcher, ruby-crowned kinglet, pine warbler) were seen. The most numerous waterfowl species was blue-winged teal, with rafts of ruddy ducks seen off of the beach. Thanks to Shane Roberts for helping us with the count! Here is our species list.

Mallard
Blue-winged teal
Green-winged teal
Gadwall
Wood duck
Northern pintail
Pied-billed grebe
Ruddy duck
Lesser scaup
Hooded merganser
Ring-necked duck
Canada goose
Trumpeter swan
American coot
Great egret
Great blue heron
Double-crested cormorant
Herring gull
Bonaparte’s gull
Common tern
Greater yellowlegs
Lesser yellowlegs
Pectoral sandpiper
Killdeer
Wilson’s snipe
Bald eagle
Red-tailed hawk
Barn swallow
Tree swallow
Purple martin
Downy woodpecker
Red-bellied woodpecker
Northern flicker
Northern cardinal
American robin
Hermit thrush
House wren
Winter wren
Mourning dove
Rock pigeon
Golden-crowned kinglet
Ruby-crowned kinglet
Yellow-rumped warbler
Pine warbler
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Eastern phoebe
Chipping sparrow
Song sparrow
Swamp sparrow
White-throated sparrow
House sparrow
Eastern towhee
Brown thrasher
European starling
Common grackle
Red-winged blackbird
Rusty blackbird
Brown-headed cowbird
American goldfinch
House finch