Top Photos of Each Species

This page will house the best photo of each species I am/was able to capture. The page will be updated as the year goes on and better photographs are taken. Birds are in the order that they were encountered in the year. My goal is to end the year with at least a decent photo of each species. At the beginning of my journey there will be lots of "documentation" shots. Bare with me!!

American Wigeon

Eastern Screech-Owl

Great Black-backed Gull 

Common Merganser

Mallard

Northern Pintail

Belted Kingfisher

American Tree Sparrow

Iceland Gull  

Ring-billed Gull

American Coot

Great Blue Heron

Northern Shrike

Ring-necked Duck

Redhead

Common Loon

Gadwall

American Black Duck 

Canada Goose

Hooded Merganser

European Starling

Downy Woodpecker

Mourning Dove

Dark-eyed Junco

Tufted Titmouse

House Sparrow

Northern Cardinal

Black-capped Chickadee

Song Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow

House Finch

Northern Mockingbird

American Goldfinch

American Robin

Carolina Wren

American Crow

Blue Jay

White-breasted Nuthatch

Black Vulture

Wood Duck

Turkey Vulture

Northern Flicker

 Pine Siskin

 Red-bellied Woodpecker

 Brown Creeper

Sharp-shinned Hawk

 Bald Eagle

Hairy Woodpecker

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Common Redpoll

Pileated Woodpecker

Cedar Waxwing

Bohemian Waxwing

Herring Gull

American Kestrel

Rock Pigeon

Wild Turkey

Bufflehead

Common Grackle

Red-winged Blackbird

Horned Lark

Common Goldeneye

Killdeer

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Eastern Bluebird

Great Horned Owl

Peregrine Falcon

Mute Swan

Fish Crow

Red-tailed Hawk

Brown-headed Cowbird

Pied-billed Grebe

American Woodcock

Green-winged Teal

Northern Harrier

Osprey

Barred Owl

Eastern Phoebe

Common Raven

 Wilson's Snipe

Fox Sparrow

Field Sparrow

Snow Goose

Glossy Ibis

Greater White-fronted Goose

Northern Shoveler

Tree Swallow

Greater Scaup

American Bittern

Palm Warbler

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Swamp Sparrow

Chipping Sparrow

Pine Warbler

Red-necked Grebe

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Double-crested Cormorant

Greater Yellowlegs

Hermit Thrush

Horned Grebe

Louisiana Waterthrush

Blue-headed Vireo

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Ruddy Duck

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Great Egret

Brown Thrasher

Virginia Rail

Vesper Sparrow

Eastern Towhee

Purple Finch

Black-and-white Warbler

Barn Swallow

Merlin

Savannah Sparrow

Broad-winged Hawk

House Wren

Eastern Meadowlark

Northern Waterthrush

Eastern Kingbird

Yellow Warbler

Spotted Sandpiper

Lesser Yellowlegs

Blue-winged Teal

Winter's Wren

Chimney Swift

Gray Catbird

Ovenbird

Blue-winged Warbler

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Wood Thrush

Prairie Warbler

Baltimore Oriole

Warbling Vireo

Rusty Blackbird

Yellow-throated Vireo

American Redstart

White-crowned Sparrow

Black-throated Green Warbler

Least Sandpiper

Solitary Sandpiper

Long-tailed Duck

Bonaparte's Gull

Red-headed Woodpecker

Northern Parula

Grasshopper Sparrow

Orchard Oriole

Green Heron

Black-throated Blue Warbler

Blackburnian Warbler

Magnolia Warbler

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Least Flycatcher

Canada Warbler

Scarlet Tanager

Great Crested Flycatcher

Bobolink

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

                                                                       Red-eyed Vireo

 Common Yellowthroat

Bank Swallow

Nashville Warbler

Veery

Black-billed Cuckoo

Indigo Bunting

Willow Flycatcher

Wilson's Warbler

Blackpoll Warbler

Hooded Warbler

Eastern Wood-Pewee

Worm-eating Warbler

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Alder Flycatcher

Eastern Whip-poor-will

Ring-necked Pheasant

Cooper's Hawk

Black-crowned Night Heron

Common Nighthawk

American Golden-Plover

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Stilt Sandpiper

Black-bellied Plover

Pectoral Sandpiper

Semipalmated Plover

Dickcissel

Philadelphia Vireo

Red-shouldered Hawk

Clay-colored Sparrow

Lincoln's Sparrow 

Northern Wheatear

Leach's Storm-petrel

American Pipit

White-winged Scoter

Black Scoter

Brant

Lesser Scaup

Purple Gallinule

White-rumped Sandpiper 

Dunlin

Red-throated Loon

Barrow's Goldeneye

Snow Bunting

Red-breasted Merganser

Lesser Black-backed Gull 

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