Bird Identification List
Be able to identify each of the following species &, in addition, know the Order, Family, &, if provided, Subfamily of each.
For useful information about these birds, see the Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter & other links provided below.
Slide Tray #1 (Common Loon - Ruddy Duck) | Slide Tray #2 (Osprey - Wilson's Phalarope) | Slide Tray #3 (Laughing Gull - Barn Swallow)
Slide Tray #4 (Carolina Chickadee - Scarlet Tanager) | Slide Tray #5 (Eastern Towhee - House Sparrow)
| Anseriformes |
Keith Rutz March 3 |
| Northern Shoveler |
Brad McLeod March 5 |
Common Merganser Galliformes Gaviiformes Podicipediformes |
Jared Sims |
Pelicaniformes Ciconiiformes |
Christy Martin March 17 |
Threskiornithidae Cathartidae Falconiformes
|
Kelsey Hostetler March 17 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle Falconidae Falconinae American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon |
Eric Smith March 19 |
Gruiformes Charadriiformes |
Charanda Fugate March 19 |
Haematopodidae Scolopacidae |
March 24 |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Short-billed Dowitcher Wilson's (Common) Snipe American Woodcock Phalaropodinae Wilson's Phalarope Laridae |
Keith Rutz March 24 |
| Sterninae Columbiformes Cuculiformes Strigiformes |
Adam Campbell March 26 |
| Strigidae Caprimulgiformes Apodiformes |
Dennis Burkett March 26 |
Coraciiformes Piciformes Passeriformes |
Lindsay Thompson April 2
|
Vireonidae Corvidae
|
Ed Simpson April 7 |
American Crow Paridae |
Rachel Meyers April 7 |
Regulidae |
George Terrizzi April 9 |
Mimidae |
Cory Stringfield April 9 |
| Motacillidae |
Micah Martin April 14 |
Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler |
Brad McLeod April 16 |
Cerulean Warbler Black-and-White Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler |
Chris Campbell April 16 |
Common Yellowthroat Thraupidae |
Merle Hacker April 21 |
| Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Henslow's Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Lapland Longspur |
Ed Simpson April 21 |
Snow Bunting Cardinalidae Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Dickcissel Icteridae Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird |
Matt O'Brien April 23 |
Common Grackle Fringillidae |
Shay Tribble April 23 |
Useful links:
The A.O.U. Checklist of North American Birds, 7th Edition
Kentucky Ornithological Society: Bird Identification and Bird Biology
Kentucky Ornithological Society: Checklist of Kentucky Birds