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point pelee, ontario spring migration trip list

2007-05-10 - 7:15 p.m.

Here's my Point Pelee, Ontario trip list. If at least one individual was not seen on the park grounds, I've tried to note where we did get that species. These warblers were glorious spring males, so please, no drooling.

  1. Double-crested Cormorant
  2. Great Blue Heron
  3. Great Egret
  4. Mute Swan -- Hillman Marsh
  5. Canada Goose
  6. Wood Duck
  7. Mallard -- Hillman Marsh
  8. Northern Shoveler--Hillman Marsh
  9. Red-breasted Merganser
  10. Turkey Vulture
  11. Bald Eagle
  12. Northern Harrier
  13. Cooper's Hawk
  14. Red-shouldered Hawk
  15. Red-tailed Hawk
  16. American Kestrel
  17. Wild Turkey
  18. Ring-necked Pheasant--Onion Fields and Pelee Island
  19. American Coot
  20. Black-bellied Plover--Hillman
  21. Killdeer
  22. American Woodcock
  23. Marbled Godwit--Onion Fields
  24. Willet--Hillman
  25. Least Sandpiper--Pelee Island
  26. Dunlin--Hillman
  27. Ring-billed Gull
  28. American Herring Gull
  29. Bonaparte's Gull--Hillman
  30. Caspian Tern
  31. Common Tern--Hillman
  32. Forster's Tern
  33. Rock Dove--Leamington
  34. Mourning Dove
  35. Great Horned Owl
  36. Red-headed Woodpecker--official sponsor of the 2007 migration
  37. Red-bellied Woodpecker
  38. Downy Woodpecker
  39. Northern Flicker
  40. Eastern Phoebe
  41. Great Crested Flycatcher
  42. Eastern Kingbird
  43. Empidonax
  44. Tree Swallow
  45. Barn Swallow
  46. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  47. Carolina Wren
  48. House Wren
  49. Gray Catbird
  50. Brown Thrasher
  51. Veery
  52. Hermit Thrush
  53. American Robin
  54. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  55. Black-capped Chickadee
  56. Brown Creeper
  57. Blue Jay
  58. European Starling
  59. White-eyed Vireo
  60. Blue-headed Vireo
  61. Warbling Vireo
  62. Blue-winged Warbler
  63. Tennessee Warbler
  64. Nashville Warbler
  65. Northern Parula
  66. Yellow Warbler
  67. Chestnut-sided Warbler
  68. Magnolia Warbler
  69. Black-throated Blue Warbler
  70. Yellow-rumped Warbler
  71. Black-throated Green Warbler
  72. Blackburnian Warbler
  73. Palm Warbler
  74. Bay-breasted Warbler
  75. Black-and-white Warbler
  76. Worm-eating Warbler
  77. Swainson's Warbler
  78. Common Yellowthroat
  79. Hooded Warbler
  80. Canada Warbler
  81. Scarlet Tanager
  82. Eastern Towhee
  83. Chipping Sparrow
  84. Field Sparrow
  85. Henslow's Sparrow
  86. Song Sparrow
  87. Lincoln's Sparrow
  88. Swamp Sparrow
  89. White-crowned Sparrow
  90. White-throated Sparrow
  91. Northern Cardinal
  92. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
  93. Indigo Bunting
  94. Red-winged Blackbird
  95. Rusty Blackbird
  96. Common Grackle
  97. Brown-headed Cowbird
  98. Baltimore Oriole
  99. Orchard Oriole
  100. House Finch
  101. American Goldfinch

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