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Updated Thursday, November 12, 2015
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Burlington County, NJ - Bird List

Compiled by Ward Dasey and Tom Bailey (updated 11/15)

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Report any bold-faced categories or birds not on the list. For historical purposes and to keep the list clean, please include the usual rare bird details with any report, such as a description, location, the date and time, etc.

Of interest is also any large concentrations of a species such as 150 Am. Golden-Plovers, etc. Reports of numbers help increase our understanding of the value of a particular habitat and geographic location. This can be a conservation issue.

Codes:

• B - breeder
• RB – rare breeder
• TB – threatened breeder
• EB - endangered breeder
• PB - possible breeder
• FB - former breeder
• O - annual – usually one or two seen each year
• R - rare – not seen every year
• A – accidental – no more than 5 records
• X - extirpated

Birds in Bold - report all occurrences
Endangered and Possible Breeders - please report all occurrences

To report Burlington Co. birds:

Tom Bailey
4 Cramer Road
Tabernacle, NJ 08088
[email protected]

To report to New Jersey
Bird Record Committee

Bill Boyle, Secretary, NJBRC
14 Crown Drive
Warren, NJ 07059
[email protected]

Pink-footed Goose – A
Greater White-fronted Goose – R
Snow Goose
Ross' Goose – A
Brant
Barnacle Goose – A
Cackling Goose - A

Canada Goose – B
Mute Swan – B
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck - B
Gadwall
Eurasian Wigeon – A
American Wigeon
American Black Duck - B
Mallard - B
Blue-winged Teal – PB
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal – RB
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Surf Scoter - R
White-winged Scoter - R
Black Scoter – R
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Barrow's Goldeneye – A
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser - PB
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Northern Bobwhite – X, FB
Ring-necked Pheasant – X, FB
Ruffed Grouse – EB
Greater Prairie Chicken – X, FB
Wild Turkey - B
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe - EB
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe - R
Western Grebe – A
Leach’s Storm-Petrel – A

Double-crested Cormorant – PB
Great Cormorant
Anhinga - A
American White Pelican – A
Brown Pelican – A

American Bittern - EB
Least Bittern – B
Great Blue Heron - TB
Great Egret - PB
Snowy Egret - PB
Little Blue Heron - PB
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret - R
Green Heron - B
Black-crowned Night-Heron - EB
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - A
White Ibis - A

Glossy Ibis
Black Vulture - B
Turkey Vulture – B
Osprey – EB
Swallow-tailed Kite - A 19th century record
Mississippi Kite - A

Bald Eagle - E – RB
Northern Harrier - E - RB
Sharp-shinned Hawk - PB
Cooper's Hawk - B
Goshawk – RB
Red-shouldered Hawk - E - EB
Broad-winged Hawk - TB
Swainson's Hawk - A
Red-tailed Hawk - B
Rough-legged Hawk
Golden Eagle
Yellow Rail - A - 19th century
Black Rail - PB, FB, now A

Clapper Rail - B
King Rail – EB, O
Virginia Rail - B
Sora - RB
Common Gallinule - PB
American Coot - PB
Sandhill Crane - R
Black-necked Stilt - A
American Avocet - A

Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer - B
American Oystercatcher - A
Black-necked Stilt - A
American Avocet – A
Spotted Sandpiper – B
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet – B
Lesser Yellowlegs
Upland Sandpiper - EB
Whimbrel - R
Hudsonian Godwit - A
Ruddy Turnstone - R
Red Knot - A
Sanderling - O

Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper - O
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
Curlew Sandpiper - A
Stilt Sandpiper - O
Buff-breasted Sandpiper - O
Ruff - A
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson’s Snipe
American Woodcock – B
Wilson's Phalarope – A
Red-necked Phalarope - A
Red Phalarope - A
Black-legged Kittiwake – A
Sabine’s Gull - A

Bonaparte's Gull
Com. Black-headed Gull – A
Little Gull - A

Laughing Gull - PB
Franklin's Gull – A
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull – A
Herring Gull
Thayer's Gull - A
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Glaucous Gull
Greater Black-backed Gull
Sooty Tern – A
Bridled Tern – A
Least Tern – R

Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern - O
Common Tern - R
Arctic Tern – A

Forster's Tern
Royal Tern – A
Black Skimmer – R
Pomarine Jaeger - A
Long-tailed Jaeger – A
Dovekie - A
Thick-billed Murre - A - 19th century

Rock Pigeon - B
Mourning Dove – B
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - B
Black-billed Cuckoo - B
Barn Owl - RB
Eastern Screech-Owl - B
Great Horned Owl - B
Snowy Owl - R
Barred Owl - TB
Long-eared Owl - EB
Short-eared Owl - FB
Northern Saw-whet Owl - RB

Common Nighthawk - EB
Chuck-wills-widow - PB
Eastern Whip-poor-will - B
Chimney Swift - B
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - B
Rufous Hummingbird - A
Belted Kingfisher – B
Red-headed Woodpecker - EB
Red-bellied Woodpecker - B
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker - B
Hairy Woodpecker - B
Northern Flicker - B
Pileated Woodpecker – R, PB
Crested Caracara – A

American Kestrel - TB
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon - RB
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee - B
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher - B
Alder Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher - B
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe - B
Ash-throated Flycatcher - A
Great-crested Flycatcher - B
Western Kingbird – R
Eastern Kingbird - B
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher – A
Loggerhead Shrike – R
Northern Shrike – R

White-eyed Vireo - B
Yellow-throated Vireo - RB
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo - B
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo - B
Blue Jay - B
American Crow - B
Fish Crow - B
Common Raven – R, PB
Horned Lark – EB
Purple Martin - B
Tree Swallow - B
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - B
Bank Swallow - TB
Cliff Swallow - RB
Cave Swallow - A
Barn Swallow – B
Carolina Chickadee – B
Black-capped Chickadee - R
Tufted Titmouse - B
Red-breasted Nuthatch - RB
White-breasted Nuthatch - B
Brown Creeper – RB
House Wren – B
Winter Wren
Sedge Wren – FB, PB
Marsh Wren - B
Carolina Wren - B
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - B
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird - B
Veery - B
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Bicknell's Thrush - R
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush - RB
Wood Thrush - B
American Robin - B
Varied Thrush - A
Gray Catbird - B
Northern Mockingbird - B
Brown Thrasher – B
European Starling - B
American Pipit
Bohemian Waxwing - A
Cedar Waxwing - B
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting
Ovenbird – B
Worm-eating Warbler - B
Louisiana Waterthrush – B
Northern Waterthrush - RB
Golden-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler - B
Black-and-white Warbler – B
Prothonotary Warbler – B
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Kentucky Warbler - RB
Common Yellowthroat - B
Hooded Warbler – B
American Redstart – B
Cape May Warbler
Cerulean Warbler - R
Northern Parula – RB
Magnolia Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow Warbler - B
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler - B
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler – R, PB
Prairie Warbler – B
Black-throated Gray Warbler – A
Townsend's Warbler - A

Black-throated Green Warbler – B
Canada Warbler – PB
Wilson's Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat - RB
Spotted Towhee - A
Eastern Towhee – B
Bachman's Sparrow - A
American Tree Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow - B
Clay-colored Sparrow - O
Field Sparrow - B
Vesper Sparrow - E, FB, PB
Lark Sparrow - R
Savannah Sparrow - EB
Grasshopper Sparrow - EB
Henslow's Sparrow - A, FB
LeConte's Sparrow – A
Nelson's Sparrow - O

Saltmarsh Sparrow - B
Seaside Sparrow - B
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow - B
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow - B
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Summer Tanager - RB
Scarlet Tanager – B
Western Tanager - A
Northern Cardinal – B
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - B
Black-headed Grosbeak – A
Blue Grosbeak - B
Indigo Bunting - B
Painted Bunting – A
Dickcissel - EB

Bobolink - EB
Red-winged Blackbird - B
Eastern Meadowlark- EB
Western Meadowlark - A
Yellow-headed Blackbird - R

Rusty Blackbird
Common Grackle – B
Boat-tailed Grackle - RB
Brown-headed Cowbird - B
Orchard Oriole - B
Baltimore Oriole - B
Pine Grosbeak - A
Purple Finch
House Finch - B
Red Crossbill – FB
White-winged Crossbill
Common Redpoll

Pine Siskin - RB
American Goldfinch - B
Evening Grosbeak
House Sparrow – B



Hypothetical List

Birds that have been reported at least once, and while they may be correct lack documentation, or the documentation is equivocal. In New Jersey gulls may require photographic evidence.

  • Mew Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, Eurasian Collared-Dove, Hermit Warbler, Swainson's Warbler, Harris' Sparrow, Brewer's Blackbird, Hoary Redpoll.