Greensboro Birds

Birds, Bugs & Blooms in North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad

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Life List

Male Rose-breasted GrosbeakI only recently started keeping a life list, so there are probably birds absent from this list that I forgot about. That doesn’t concern me, as it gives me an opportunity to be excited about them all over again. I keep other notes on my official list, such as gender, location, and if I heard the song, but chose not to include that stuff here.

  1. Common Loon
  2. Pied-billed Grebe
  3. Double-crested Cormorant
  4. Great Blue Heron
  5. Snowy Egret
  6. Green Heron
  7. Black-crowned Night Heron
  8. Turkey Vulture
  9. Mute Swan
  10. Canada Goose
  11. Wood Duck
  12. Mallard
  13. Hooded Merganser
  14. Bald Eagle
  15. Cooper’s Hawk
  16. Red-shouldered Hawk
  17. Red-tailed Hawk
  18. American Kestrel
  19. Northern Bobwhite
  20. Sora
  21. American Coot
  22. Sandhill Crane
  23. Killdeer
  24. Laughing Gull
  25. Herring Gull
  26. Rock Dove (Pigeon)
  27. Mourning Dove
  28. Greater Roadrunner
  29. Groove-billed Ani
  30. Eastern Screech Owl (HEARD)
  31. Great Horned Owl
  32. Barred Owl
  33. Common Nighthawk
  34. Whip-poor-will (HEARD)
  35. Chimney Swift
  36. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
  37. Belted Kingfisher
  38. Red-bellied Woodpecker
  39. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
  40. Downy Woodpecker
  41. Northern Flicker (red-shafted)
  42. Pileated Woodpecker
  43. Eastern Phoebe
  44. Eastern Kingbird
  45. Blue Jay
  46. American Cro
  47. Fish Crow
  48. Purple Martin
  49. Carolina Chickadee
  50. Tufted Titmouse (gray-crested morph)
  51. White-breasted Nuthatch
  52. Brown-headed Nuthatch
  53. Brown Creeper
  54. Carolina Wren
  55. Golden-crowned Kinglet
  56. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  57. Eastern Bluebird
  58. Hermit Thrush
  59. American Robin
  60. Northern Mockingbird
  61. Brown Thrasher
  62. Cedar Waxwing
  63. European Starling
  64. Yellow-rumped Warbler (fall myrtle)
  65. Pine Warbler
  66. Cerulean Warbler
  67. Northern Cardinal
  68. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
  69. Eastern Towhee
  70. Song Sparrow
  71. White-throated Sparrow
  72. Dark-eyed Junco
  73. Red-winged Blackbird
  74. Common Grackle
  75. Boat-tailed Grackle
  76. Brown-headed Cowbird
  77. Baltimore Oriole
  78. House Finch
  79. American Goldfinch
  80. Evening Grosbeak
  81. House Sparrow
  82. Ring-billed Gull
  83. Stellar’s Jay
  84. Western Scrub Jay
  85. Keel-billed Toucan (Caracol, Belize)
  86. Montezuma’s Oropendola (Caracol, Belize)
  87. Blue-crowned Motmot (Tikal, Guatemala)
  88. Oscellated Turkey (Tikal, Guatemala)
  89. Plain Chachalaca (around Belize and Guatemala)
    *NOTE: List from this point forward in chronological order as of date first seen.
  90. Chipping Sparrow
  91. Sharp-shinned Hawk
  92. White-crowned Sparrow
  93. Broad-tailed Hawk
  94. Field Sparrow
  95. Black-throated Blue Warbler
  96. Gray Catbird
  97. Ovenbird
  98. House Wren
  99. Veery
  100. Scarlet Tanager
  101. Black and White Warbler
  102. Wood Thrush
  103. Spotted Sandpiper
  104. Red-eyed Vireo
  105. Common Yellowthroat
  106. Indigo Bunting
  107. Red-headed Woodpecker
  108. Red-eyed Vireo
  109. Barn Swallow
  110. Wild Turkey (not the adult beverage)
  111. Red-breasted Nuthatch
  112. Purple Finch
  113. Black Vulture
  114. Ring-necked Duck
  115. Blue-gray gnatcatcher (April 15, 2008; 6 p.m.; our woods)
  116. Eastern Meadowlark (adult and fledgling! Chinqua-Penn trail)
  117. Worm-eating Warbler (9/11/08, in Southern arrowwood viburnum at edge of woods)
  118. Yellow-billed Cuckoo (9/12/08, our woods)
  119. Magnolia Warbler (9/26/08, in viburnum at edge of woods
  120. Orange-crowned Warbler (10/6/08, briefly came to feeder, also in viburnum for quite a while)
  121. Fox Sparrow (3/3/09, edge of woods outside office window, two-hop scratched on ground and visited feeder)