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Alice leads bird hikes at Chippewa Run. See our events page for a list of scheduled hikes.

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One could not expect to see nearly all of these birds on one trip. Most are seasonal, some just fly over, some are there but quite unusual to see... those with an asterisk * in front of some of the more common ones. The list is in taxonomic order. Pictured at right is the American Redstart.

Common Loon (flying over)

American Bittern

Great Blue Heron

*Green Heron

Canada Goose

Wood Duck

*Mallard

*Turkey Vulture (flying over)

Bald Eagle (flying over)

Red-tailed Hawk

American Kestrel

*Wild Turkey

Sora

Ring-billed Gull (flying over)

*Mourning Dove

*Black-billed Cuckoo

Great Horned Owl

Barred Owl

Chimney Swift

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

*Downy Woodpecker

*Hairy Woodpecker

*Northern Flicker

Pileated Woodpecker

*Least Flycatcher

*Eastern Phoebe

*Great-crested Flycatcher

*Eastern Kingbird

Warbling Vireo

*Red-eyed Vireo

*Blue Jay

*American Crow

*Common Raven

Barn Swallow

*Tree Swallow

Rough-winged Swallow

*Black-capped Chickadee

*Tufted Titmouse

*Red-breasted Nuthatch

*White-breasted Nuthatch

*Brown Creeper

*House Wren

Golden-crowned Kinglet

*Ruby-crowned Kinglet (in migration)

*Eastern Bluebird

*American Robin

*Gray Catbird

*Brown Thrasher

Cedar Waxwing

*European Starling

*Yellow Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Black-throated Green Warbler

Pine Warbler

Black and White Warbler

*American Redstart

Common Yellowthroat

*Scarlet Tanager

Northern Cardinal

*Rose-breasted Grosbeak

*Indigo Bunting

*Chipping Sparrow

Vesper Sparrow

Grasshopper Sparrow

*Song Sparrow

*Baltimore Oriole

Orchard Oriole (one summer)

*Eastern Meadowlark

Western Meadowlark

*Red-winged Blackbird

*Brown-headed Cowbird

*Common Grackle

*American Goldfinch

Purple Finch

House Finch

Red Crossbill

This is not nearly a complete list... just the ones I can remember seeing there at one time or another.

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