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Birding Howard County, Maryland

Checklist of the Birds of Howard County

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Gtr White-fronted Goose § Snow Goose Ross’s Goose † § Brant § Cackling Goose Canada Goose * Mute Swan * Tundra Swan Wood Duck * Gadwall * Eurasian Wigeon § American Wigeon American Black Duck * Mallard * Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Long-tailed Duck Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser * Common Merganser * Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Ring-necked Pheasant * Wild Turkey * Northern Bobwhite * Red-throated Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe

Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Eared Grebe § Western Grebe § Double-crested Cormorant Anhinga § American Bittern Least Bittern Great Blue Heron * Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron § Cattle Egret Green Heron * Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron White Ibis § Glossy Ibis Black Vulture * Turkey Vulture * Osprey Mississippi Kite § Bald Eagle * Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk * Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk * Broad-winged Hawk * Red-tailed Hawk * Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle American Kestrel * Merlin Peregrine Falcon King Rail Virginia Rail ** Sora **

Common Moorhen * American Coot Limpkin § Sandhill Crane § Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Piping Plover § Killdeer * Black-necked Stilt § American Avocet § Spotted Sandpiper * Solitary Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Upland Sandpiper Whimbrel § Ruddy Turnstone § Red Knot § Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Baird’s Sandpiper § Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper § Buff-breasted Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher § Wilson’s Snipe American Woodcock * Wilson’s Phalarope § Red Phalarope § Laughing Gull Bonaparte’s Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull

Thayer’s Gull § Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull Least Tern † § Caspian Tern Black Tern Common Tern § Forster’s Tern Rock Pigeon * Eurasian Collared Dove § Mourning Dove * Black-billed Cuckoo ** Yellow-billed Cuckoo * Barn Owl Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Snowy Owl § Barred Owl * Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Common Nighthawk Chuck-will's-widow Whip-poor-will ** Chimney Swift * Ruby-throated Hummingbird * Rufous Hummingbird § Belted Kingfisher * Red-headed Woodpecker * Red-bellied Woodpecker * Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker * Hairy Woodpecker * Northern Flicker * Pileated Woodpecker * Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee * Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

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Acadian Flycatcher * Alder Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher * Least Flycatcher * Eastern Phoebe * Great Crested Flycatcher * Eastern Kingbird * Loggerhead Shrike § Northern Shrike § White-eyed Vireo * Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo * Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo * Blue Jay * American Crow * Fish Crow * Common Raven Horned Lark * Purple Martin * Tree Swallow * N Rough-winged Swallow * Bank Swallow * Cliff Swallow * Barn Swallow * Carolina Chickadee * Black-capped Chickadee § Tufted Titmouse * Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch * Brown Creeper Carolina Wren * House Wren * Winter Wren Sedge Wren Marsh Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher * Eastern Bluebird * Verry * Gray-cheeked Thrush Bicknell’s Thrush § Swainson’s Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush * American Robin * Varied Thrush § Gray Catbird * Northern Mockingbird * Brown Thrasher * European Starling * American Pipit Cedar Waxwing * Blue-winged Warbler * Golden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula * Yellow Warbler * Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler 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 Cerulean Warbler * Black-and-white Warbler * American Redstart * Prothonotary Warbler * Worm-eating Warbler * Ovenbird * Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush * Kentucky Warbler * Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat * Hooded Warbler * Wilson’s Warbler Canada Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat * Eastern Towhee * Bachman’s Sparrow § American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow * Clay-colored Sparrow § Field Sparrow * Vesper Sparrow ** Lark Sparrow § Savannah Sparrow ** Grasshopper Sparrow ** Henslow’s Sparrow § Nelson’s Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow * Lincoln’s Sparrow Swamp Sparrow ** White-throated Sparrow Harris’s Sparrow § White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager * Northern Cardinal * Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak * Indigo Bunting * Painted Bunting § Dickcissel * Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird * Eastern Meadowlark * Yellow-headed Blackbird § Rusty Blackbird Brewer’s Blackbird § Common Grackle * Brown-headed Cowbird * Orchard Oriole * Baltimore Oriole * Purple Finch House Finch * Red Crossbill White-winged Crossbill § Common Redpoll Pine Siskin American Goldfinch * Evening Grosbeak House Sparrow * ———— Brewster’s Warbler Lawrence’s Warbler § ———— Historical Swallow-tailed Kite (specimen 1879) § ———— Extirpated Ruffed Grouse Passenger Pigeon Bewick’s Wren *   LEGEND § Written details and photos (if possible) are required for these or any species not on this checklist. Details may be requested for other species depending on season and circumstance. * Breeding record established by eggs or young in nest or adult on nest. ** Evidence of breeding, but no active nest found (nest building, distraction display, used nest, recently fledged or downy young, adult bird carrying fecal sac, adult carrying food for young) † Indicates a species which is being evaluated by the Maryland/DC Records Committee.