Hello folks!
We had another great year for the Ornithology May term course at Houghton
College. It was a fantastic group of students and we had a blast. This year
we were not at the campus in Star Lake (Adirondacks), but were based on the
main campus in Allegany County instead. We had our misses as usual, but the
list isn't our focus anyway. That said, we had 151 species during the course,
which brought our total class list over the past few years to 193 species.
Maybe next year we'll hit 200!
The list is below, but some of the highlights for the students were as
follows:
Displaying woodcock, watching/listening to hidden Virginia rails and sora,
watching an American bittern calling at Iroquois NWR, great-horned owl being
mobbed by crows at Letchworth SP, spot on looks at an E. screech owl, and any
other raptor or owl we encountered.
The students have been busy emailing everyone in the class birds they've seen
since the course ended. Great group - I'm already looking forward to next year!
Alan Belford
Syracuse
Saranac Lake
Houghton College Ornithology Bird List
May 11 – June 2, 2010
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Wood Duck
Mallard
American Black Duck
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ring-necked Pheasant
Ruffed Grouse
Wild Turkey
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Green Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Bald Eagle
Osprey
American Kestrel
Virginia Rail
Sora
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Semi-palmated Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
American Woodcock
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Mourning Dove
Rock Pigeon
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Eastern Screech Owl
Great-horned Owl
Barred Owl
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Red-eyed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Blue Jay
Common Raven
American Crow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Purple Martin
Tufted Titmouse
Black-capped Chickadee
Brown Creeper
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Marsh Wren
House Wren
Winter Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
Swainson’s Thrush
Veery
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Tennessee Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black and White Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Canada Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Eastern Towhee
Field Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Eastern Meadowlark
Bobolink
Brown-headed Cowbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Baltimore Oriole
Orchard Oriole
Purple Finch
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Some Mammals:
Eastern Chipmunk
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Red Squirrel
Muskrat
Woodchuck
Beaver
Eastern Cottontail
White-tailed Deer
Raccoon
Striped Skunk
Red Fox
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