2016 Year List

I am doing a statewide big year in 2016, and my goal is 250 species (which I reached on November 30th!). The species that I have seen so far are listed below.

  1. Snow Goose (January)
  2. Ring-Billed Gull
  3. Blue Jay
  4. Carolina Chickadee
  5. American Robin
  6. Northern Mockingbird
  7. European Starling
  8. Canada Goose
  9. Tundra Swan
  10. Carolina Wren
  11. Mallard
  12. Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
  13. American Crow
  14. White-Throated Sparrow
  15. Northern Cardinal
  16. Common Grackle
  17. Turkey Vulture
  18. Mourning Dove
  19. House Finch
  20. House Sparrow
  21. Great Blue Heron
  22. Black Vulture
  23. Cooper's Hawk
  24. Bald Eagle
  25. Belted Kingfisher
  26. Red-Bellied Woodpecker
  27. Downy Woodpecker
  28. Dark-eyed Junco
  29. Double-crested Cormorant
  30. Sharp-shinned Hawk
  31. Song Sparrow
  32. Tufted Titmouse
  33. Golden-crowned Kinglet
  34. Rock Pigeon
  35. Field Sparrow
  36. Red-tailed Hawk
  37. Red-winged Blackbird
  38. Gadwall
  39. American Black Duck
  40. Northern Shoveler
  41. Pied-billed Grebe
  42. Northern Harrier
  43. American Avocet
  44. Lesser Yellowlegs
  45. Herring Gull
  46. Great Black-backed Gull
  47. Swamp Sparrow
  48. Brown-headed Cowbird
  49. Common Eider
  50. Harlequin Duck
  51. Surf Scoter
  52. Black Scoter
  53. Long-tailed Duck
  54. Red-breasted Merganser
  55. Red-throated Loon
  56. Common Loon
  57. Northern Gannet
  58. Great Cormorant
  59. Clapper Rail
  60. Greater Yellowlegs
  61. Ruddy Turnstone
  62. Sanderling
  63. Dunlin
  64. Bonaparte's Gull
  65. Glaucous Gull
  66. Marsh Wren
  67. Nelson's Sparrow
  68. Saltmarsh Sparrow
  69. Seaside Sparrow
  70. Boat-tailed Grackle
  71. Canvasback
  72. Hooded Merganser
  73. Ruddy Duck
  74. Lesser Black-backed Gull
  75. Black-bellied Plover
  76. Hairy Woodpecker
  77. Pileated Woodpecker
  78. Fish Crow
  79. Brown-headed Nuthatch
  80. Brown Creeper
  81. Sedge Wren
  82. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  83. Eastern Towhee
  84. Northern Pintail
  85. Green-winged Teal
  86. Red-shouldered Hawk
  87. Eastern Screech Owl
  88. Horned Lark
  89. American Kestrel
  90. Northern Flicker
  91. Eastern Bluebird
  92. Short-eared Owl
  93. Northern Saw-whet Owl
  94. Black-capped Chickadee
  95. Peregrine Falcon
  96. White-breasted Nuthatch
  97. American Goldfinch
  98. Fox Sparrow
  99. Common Merganser
  100. Snowy Owl (February)
  101. Cedar Waxwing
  102. Lesser Scaup
  103. Barn Owl
  104. Yellow-rumped Warbler
  105. Long-eared Owl
  106. Bufflehead
  107. Black-crowned Night-heron
  108. Savannah Sparrow
  109. Merlin
  110. Great Horned Owl
  111. Killdeer
  112. Pine Warbler
  113. Brant
  114. Common Goldeneye
  115. Horned Grebe
  116. Greater Scaup
  117. Red-breasted Nuthatch
  118. Purple Finch
  119. Pine Siskin
  120. American Wigeon
  121. Ring-necked Duck
  122. American Woodcock
  123. Eastern Meadowlark
  124. Wild Turkey (March)
  125. Osprey
  126. Laughing Gull
  127. Eastern Phoebe
  128. Iceland Gull
  129. Chipping Sparrow
  130. Brown Thrasher
  131. American Pipit
  132. Purple Martin
  133. Wood Duck
  134. Barred Owl
  135. Winter Wren
  136. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
  137. Tree Swallow (April)
  138. Blue-grey Gnatcatcher
  139. Hermit Thrush
  140. Palm Warbler
  141. Snowy Egret
  142. Great Egret
  143. Little Blue Heron
  144. Cattle Egret
  145. Glossy Ibis
  146. Barn Swallow
  147. House Wren 
  148. Chimney Swift
  149. Blue-headed Vireo
  150. Black-and-white Warbler
  151. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
  152. Gray Catbird
  153. Ovenbird
  154. Common Yellowthroat
  155. Grasshopper Sparrow
  156. Eastern Kingbird
  157. White-crowned Sparrow
  158. Green Heron (May)
  159. White-eyed Vireo
  160. Red-eyed Vireo
  161. Veery
  162. Wood Thrush
  163. Blue-winged Warbler
  164. Prairie Warbler
  165. Scarlet Tanager
  166. Blue Grosbeak
  167. Indigo Bunting
  168. Baltimore Oriole
  169. Solitary Sandpiper
  170. Northern Waterthrush
  171. Yellow Warbler
  172. Warbling Vireo
  173. Northern Parula
  174. Caspian Tern
  175. Orchard Oriole
  176. Semipalmated Plover
  177. Least Sandpiper
  178. Pectoral Sandpiper
  179. Spotted Sandpiper
  180. Bank Swallow
  181. Northern Bobwhite
  182. Forster's Tern
  183. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  184. Eastern Wood-pewee
  185. American Redstart
  186. Cape May Warbler
  187. Blackburnian Warbler
  188. Chestnut-sided Warbler
  189. Blackpoll Warbler
  190. Black-throated Blue Warbler
  191. Black-throated Green Warbler
  192. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
  193. Great Crested Flycatcher
  194. Louisiana Waterthrush
  195. Hooded Warbler
  196. Lincoln's Sparrow
  197. Bobolink
  198. Magnolia Warbler
  199. Gray-cheeked Thrush
  200. Swainson's Thrush
  201. Wilson's Warbler
  202. Common Nighthawk
  203. Short-billed Dowitcher
  204. Willet
  205. Yellow-breasted Chat
  206. Canada Warbler
  207. Prothonotary Warbler
  208. Acadian Flycatcher
  209. King Rail
  210. Mute Swan
  211. Black-necked Stilt
  212. White-rumped Sandpiper
  213. Semipalmated Sandpiper
  214. Virginia Rail
  215. American Oystercatcher
  216. Black Skimmer
  217. Red knot
  218. Wilson's Phalarope
  219. Least Tern (June)
  220. Royal Tern
  221. Worm-eating Warbler
  222. Common Raven
  223. American White Pelican
  224. Willow Flycatcher
  225. Least Bittern
  226. Yellow-crowned Night-heron (July)
  227. Western Sandpiper
  228. Common Tern
  229. Dickcissel
  230. Piping Plover
  231. Tricolored Heron
  232. Long-billed Dowitcher (August)
  233. Stilt Sandpiper
  234. Gull-billed Tern
  235. Summer Tanager
  236. Yellow-throated Warbler
  237. White Ibis
  238. Blue-winged Teal
  239. Ring-necked Pheasant
  240. Red-necked Phalarope
  241. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (September)
  242. Upland Sandpiper
  243. Mourning Warbler
  244. Least Flycatcher
  245. Broad-winged Hawk
  246. Nashville Warbler (October)
  247. Marbled Godwit
  248. Rough-legged Hawk
  249. Greater White-fronted Goose (November)
  250. Snow Bunting 
  251. Ross's Goose (December)
  252. Orange-crowned Warbler
  253. American Tree Sparrow
  254. Cackling Goose
  255. Crested Caracara
I also have twenty-six additional species seen out of state, bringing my nationwide total up to 281:
  1. Purple Sandpiper (NJ, March)
  2. Eastern Whip-poor-will (MD, June)
  3. Chuck-will's-widow (MD, June)
  4. Yellow-throated Vireo (MD, June)
  5. Cliff Swallow (MD, July)
  6. Red-headed Woodpecker (NJ, October)
  7. Parasitic Jaeger (NJ, October)
  8. Black-headed Gull (VA, November)
  9. Brown Pelican (VA, November)
  10.  Tropical Kingbird (PA, November)
  11. Trumpeter Swan (MD, December)
  12. Black Guillemot (SC, December)
  13. Wood Stork (SC, December)
  14. Anhinga (SC, December)
  15. Eurasian Collared-dove (SC, December)
  16. Mottled Duck (SC, December)
  17. Common Gallinule (SC, December)
  18. Sora (SC, December)
  19. Loggerhead Shrike (GA, December)
  20. Wilson's Snipe (GA, December)
  21. Western Kingbird (GA, December)
  22. Limpkin (FL, December)
  23. Muscovy Duck (FL, December)
  24. American Coot (GA, December)
  25. Roseate Spoonbill (GA, December)
  26. Lark Sparrow (VA, December)

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