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Howard County Bird Club

A Chapter of the Maryland Ornithological Society (MOS)

Breeding Bird Maps

In previous years, we reported the progress of the Md/CD Breeding Bird Atlas efforts in Howard County. This year we are reporting the prelinimary results for the whole survey for Howard County AND showing a comparison of the 2002-2006, 1983-1987, and 1973-1975 atlases in Howard County.

Below is a list of the birds for which there was breeding evidence in Howard County in one or more of the atlases. The links take you to a page with a picture of the bird (if available) and maps showing evidence of breeding by that species by quarter-block in each of the atlases.

Canada Goose Mute Swan Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon American Black Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Redhead Ring-necked Duck Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Ring-necked Pheasant Wild Turkey Northern Bobwhite Pied-billed Grebe Double-crested Cormorant American Bittern Least Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Glossy Ibis Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel King Rail Virginia Rail Sora Common Moorhen American Coot Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper American Woodcock Least Tern Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo	Barn Owl Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Common Nighthawk Whip-poor-will Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Wood-Pewee Acadian Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Common Raven Horned Lark Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Veery Wood Thrush	American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Cedar Waxwing Blue-winged Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Cerulean Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Ovenbird Louisiana Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Henslow's Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Dickcissel Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow