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Updated Thursday, February 24, 2011
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Burlington County, NJ - Bird List

Compiled by Ward Dasey and Tom Bailey (updated 2/11)

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Report any bold-faced categories or birds not on the list. For historical purposes and to keep the list clean, please include the usual rare bird details with any report, such as a description, location, the date and time, etc.

Of interest is also any large concentrations of a species such as 150 Am. Golden-Plovers, etc. Reports of numbers help increase our understanding of the value of a particular habitat and geographic location. This can be a conservation issue.

Codes:
• B - breeder
• RB – rare breeder
• EB - endangered breeder
• TB – threatened breeder
• PB - possible breeder
• FB - former breeder
• O - annual – usually one or two seen each year
• R - rare – not seen every year
• A – accidental – no more than 5 records

Birds in Bold - report all occurrences

To report Burlington Co. birds:

Tom Bailey
4 Cramer Road
Tabernacle, NJ 08088
ammodramus@comcast.net

To report to New Jersey
Bird Record Committee

Bill Boyle, Secretary, NJBRC
14 Crown Drive
Warren, NJ 07059
report@njbrc.net

Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe - EB
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe - R
Western Grebe - A
Am. White Pelican – A
Brown Pelican – A
Great Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant - PB
Anhinga - A
American Bittern - EB
Least Bittern - B
Great Blue Heron - TB
Great Egret - PB
Snowy Egret - PB
Little Blue Heron - PB
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret - R
Green Heron - B
Black-crowned Night-Heron - EB
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - A
White Ibis - A

Glossy Ibis
Tundra Swan
Mute Swan - B
Greater White-fronted Goose - R
Snow Goose
Ross' Goose - A
Brant
Barnacle Goose - A
Canada Goose - B
Wood Duck - B
Green-winged Teal - RB
American Black Duck - B
Mallard - B
Northern Pintail
American Wigeon
Eurasian Wigeon - A
Blue-winged Teal - PB
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Oldsquaw
Black Scoter - R
Surf Scoter - R
White-winged Scoter - R

Common Goldeneye
Barrow's Goldeneye - A
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Black Vulture - B
Turkey Vulture - B
Swallow-tailed Kite - A 19th century record
Mississippi Kite - A

Bald Eagle - E - RB
Northern Harrier - E - RB
Sharp-shinned Hawk - PB
Cooper's Hawk - B
Goshawk - RB
Red-shouldered Hawk - E - EB
Broad-winged Hawk - TB
Swainson's Hawk - A
Red-tailed Hawk - B
Rough-legged Hawk
Golden Eagle
American Kestrel - TB
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon - RB
Ring-necked Pheasant - FB
Ruffed Grouse - EB
Wild Turkey - B
Northern Bobwhite - EB
Yellow Rail - A - 19th century
Black Rail - PB, FB, now A

Clapper Rail - B
King Rail – EB, O
Virginia Rail - B
Sora - RB
Common Moorhen - PB
American Coot - PB
Sandhill Crane - R
Black-necked Stilt - A
American Avocet - A

Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer - B
American Oystercatcher - A
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet - B
Spotted Sandpiper - B
Upland Sandpiper - EB
Whimbrel - R
Hudsonian Godwit - A
Ruddy Turnstone - R
Red Knot - A
Sanderling - O

Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper - O
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
Curlew Sandpiper - A
Stilt Sandpiper - O
Buff-breasted Sandpiper - O
Ruff - A

Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson’s Snipe
American Woodcock – B
Red-necked Phalarope - A
Wilson's Phalarope - A
Pomarine Jaeger - A
Long-tailed Jaeger - A

Laughing Gull - PB
Franklin's Gull - A
Little Gull - A
Com. Black-headed Gull - R

Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull - A
Herring Gull
Thayer's Gull - A
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Glaucous Gull
Greater Black-backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Common Tern - R
Forster's Tern
Arctic Tern - A
Least Tern - R
Black Tern - O
Dovekie - A
Thick-billed Murre - A - 19th century
Black Skimmer - R

Rock Pigeon - B
Mourning Dove - B
Black-billed Cuckoo - B
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - B
Barn Owl - RB
Eastern Screech-Owl - B
Great Horned Owl - B
Snowy Owl - R
Barred Owl - TB
Long-eared Owl - EB
Short-eared Owl - FB
N. Saw-whet Owl - RB

Common Nighthawk - EB
Chuck-wills-widow
Whip-poor-will - B
Chimney Swift - B
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - B
Rufous Hummingbird - A
Belted Kingfisher – B
Red-headed Woodpecker - EB
Red-bellied Woodpecker - B
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker - B
Hairy Woodpecker - B
Northern Flicker - B
Pileated Woodpecker - PB, R
Olive-sided Flycatcher
E. Wood-Pewee - B
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher - B
Alder Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher - B
Least Flycatcher - FB
Eastern Phoebe - B
Great-crested Flycatcher - B
Ash-throated Flycatcher - A
Western Kingbird - R
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - A

Eastern Kingbird - B
Horned Lark - EB
Purple Martin - B
Tree Swallow - B
N. Rough-winged Swallow - B
Bank Swallow - TB
Cliff Swallow - RB
Cave Swallow - A
Barn Swallow - B
Blue Jay - B
American Crow - B
Fish Crow - B
Common Raven - A
Carolina Chickadee – B
Black-capped Chickadee - R
Tufted Titmouse - B
Red-breasted Nuthatch - RB
White-breasted Nuthatch - B
Brown Creeper - RB
Carolina Wren - B
House Wren - B
Winter Wren
Sedge Wren – FB, PB
Marsh Wren - B
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - B
Eastern Bluebird - B
Veery - B
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Bicknell's Thrush - R
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush - RB
Wood Thrush - B
Am. Robin - B
Varied Thrush - A
Gray Catbird - B
Northern Mockingbird - B
Brown Thrasher - B
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing - B
Bohemian Waxwing - A
Northern Shrike - R
Loggerhead Shrike - R

European Starling - B
White-eyed Vireo - B
Blue-headed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo - RB
Warbling Vireo - B
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo - B
Blue-winged Warbler - B
Golden-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula - RB
Yellow Warbler - B
Chestnut-sided Warbler - PB
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler – B
Black-throated Gray Warbler - A
Townsend's Warbler - A
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler – PB, R
Pine Warbler - B
Prairie Warbler - B
Palm Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Cerulean Warbler - R
Black & White Warbler - B
Am. Redstart - B
Prothonotary Warbler - B
Worm-eating Warbler - B
Ovenbird - B
N. Waterthrush - RB
Louisiana Waterthrush - B
Kentucky Warbler - RB
Connecticut Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat - B
Hooded Warbler - B
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler - PB
Yellow-breasted Chat - RB
Summer Tanager - RB
Scarlet Tanager - B
Western Tanager - A
Northern Cardinal - B
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - B
Black-headed Grosbeak - A
Blue Grosbeak - B
Indigo Bunting - B
Painted Bunting - A
Dickcissel - EB

Eastern Towhee – B
Spotted Towhee - A
Bachman's Sparrow - A
American Tree Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow - B
Clay-colored Sparrow - O
Field Sparrow - B
Vesper Sparrow - E, FB, PB
Lark Sparrow - R

Savannah Sparrow - EB
Grasshopper Sparrow - EB
Henslow's Sparrow - A, FB
LeConte's Sparrow - A
Salt-marsh Sparrow - B
Nelson's Sparrow - O
Seaside Sparrow - B
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow - B
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow - B
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting
Bobolink - EB
Red-winged Blackbird - B
Eastern Meadowlark- EB
Western Meadowlark - A
Yellow-headed Blackbird - R

Rusty Blackbird
Boat-tailed Grackle - RB
Common Grackle - B
Brown-headed Cowbird - B
Orchard Oriole - B
Baltimore Oriole - B
Pine Grosbeak - A

Purple Finch
House Finch - B
Red Crossbill - FB
White-winged Crossbill
Common Redpoll

Pine Siskin - RB
American Goldfinch - B
Evening Grosbeak
House Sparrow - B


Hypothetical List

Birds that have been reported at least once, and while they may be correct lack documentation, or the documentation is equivocal. In New Jersey gulls may require photographic evidence.

  • Mew Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, Eurasian Collored-Dove, Hermit Warbler, Swainson's Warbler, Harris' Sparrow, Brewer's Blackbird, Hoary Redpoll.