Species List

All birds detected during the 2015 Backyard Big Year.   Click on the name of each species to see more about this yard bird, as well as images and audio files (for those recorded for the photo and/or audio big year).

  1. Eastern Screech Owl (1 Jan 12:42am)
  2. White-throated Sparrow (1 Jan 6:50am)
  3. American Crow (1 Jan 6:55am)
  4. Dark-eyed Junco (1 Jan 6:56am)
  5. Carolina Wren (1 Jan 7:09am)
  6. Tufted Titmouse (1 Jan 7:12am)
  7. White-breasted Nuthatch (1 Jan 7:12am)
  8. American Goldfinch (1 Jan 7:13am)
  9. Eastern Bluebird (1 Jan 7:14am)
  10. Mourning Dove (1 Jan 7:23am)
  11. Downy Woodpecker (1 Jan 7:24am)
  12. Red-bellied Woodpecker (1 Jan 7:27am)
  13. Black-capped Chickadee (1 Jan 7:31am)
  14. Blue Jay (1 Jan 7:32am)
  15. European Starling (1 Jan 7:33am)
  16. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (1 Jan 7:33am)
  17. Northern Flicker (1 Jan 7:43am)
  18. Ring-billed Gull (1 Jan 7:45am)
  19. Herring Gull (1 Jan 7:48am)
  20. House Finch (1 Jan 7:52am)
  21. Canada Goose (1 Jan 7:53am)
  22. Lesser Black-backed Gull (1 Jan 7:59)
  23. Great Black-backed Gull (1 Jan 8:01am)
  24. Song Sparrow (1 Jan 8:17am)
  25. Northern Cardinal (1 Jan 8:18am)
  26. House Sparrow (1 Jan 8:38am)
  27. Snow Goose (1 Jan 8:57am)
  28. Hairy Woodpecker (1 Jan 9:10am)
  29. Northern Mockingbird (1 Jan 9:37am)
  30. Pileated Woodpecker (1 Jan 9:45am)
  31. Turkey Vulture (1 Jan 10:17am)
  32. Gadwall (1 Jan 10:25am)
  33. Black Vulture (1 Jan 10:45am)
  34. American Black Duck (1 Jan 11:19am)
  35. Red-tailed Hawk (1 Jan 11:26am)
  36. Carolina Chickadee (1 Jan 2:30pm)
  37. Common Merganser (2 Jan 8:23am)
  38. Mallard (2 Jan 8:26am)
  39. American Robin (2 Jan 8:30am)
  40. Bald Eagle (2 Jan 11:20am)
  41. Brown-headed Cowbird (13 Jan 8:40am)
  42. Sharp-shinned Hawk (16 Jan 8:20am)
  43. Cackling Goose (20 Jan 7:45am)
  44. Red-shouldered Hawk (24 Jan 9:50am)
  45. American Tree Sparrow (27 Jan 8:35am)
  46. Common Raven (31 Jan 7:45am)
  47. Cooper’s Hawk (31 Jan 9:00am)
  48. Pine Siskin (31 Jan 9:28am)
  49. Common Grackle (6 Feb 7:55am)
  50. Brown Creeper (17 Feb 1:30pm)
  51. Merlin (2 Mar 2:30pm)
  52. Purple Finch (5 March 8:40am)
  53. Common Redpoll (5 March 1:31pm)
  54. Red-winged Blackbird (10 March 9:25am)
  55. Rock Pigeon (13 March 8:10am)
  56. Ring-necked Duck (13 March 8:40am)
  57. Fish Crow (16 March)
  58. Killdeer (17 March)
  59. Rusty Blackbird (17 March)
  60. Green-winged Teal (17 March)
  61. Fox Sparrow (17 March)
  62. Great Blue Heron (17 March)
  63. American Woodcock (19 March)
  64. Wood Duck (23 March)
  65. Tundra Swan (25 March, 10:00am)
  66. Eastern Phoebe (26 March)
  67. American Wigeon (28 March)
  68. Northern Pintail (28 March)
  69. Mute Swan (30 March)
  70. Tree Swallow (31 March)
  71. Field Sparrow (3 April)
  72. Double-crested Cormorant (3 April)
  73. Belted Kingfisher (3 April)
  74. Chipping Sparrow (3 April)
  75. Savannah Sparrow (NFC-3 April)
  76. Bonaparte’s Gull (4 April)
  77. Golden Eagle (4 April)
  78. Hooded Merganser (6 April)
  79. Palm Warbler (NFC-7 April)
  80. American Bittern (NFC-7 April)
  81. Glaucous Gull (7 April)
  82. Eastern Towhee (7 April)
  83. Little Gull (8 April)
  84. Ruby-crowned Kinglet (13 April)
  85. Brown Thrasher (13 April)
  86. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (14 April)
  87. Osprey (21 April)
  88. House Wren (21 April)
  89. Northern Harrier (21 April)
  90. Broad-winged Hawk (22 April)
  91. Eastern Kingbird (23 April)
  92. Wild Turkey (23 April)
  93. Gray Catbird (27 April)
  94. Barn Swallow (28 April)
  95. Cedar Waxwing (29 April)
  96. Ovenbird (NFC-30 April)
  97. Great Crested Flycatcher (30 April)
  98. Baltimore Oriole (30 April)
  99. Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler (30 April)
  100. Black-throated Green Warbler (30 April)
  101. Yellow Warbler (30 April)
  102. Northern Parula (30 April)
  103. Black-and-White Warbler (1 May)
  104. Wood Thrush (2 May)
  105. Ruby-throated Hummingbird (2 May)
  106. Blue-winged Warbler (2 May)
  107. Common Yellowthroat (4 May)
  108. Rose-breaste Grosbeak (NFC-4 May)
  109. Black-crowned Night Heron (NFC-4 May)
  110. Veery (NFC-4 May)
  111. Least Flycatcher (5 May)
  112. Indigo Bunting (NFC-5 May)
  113. Black-billed Cuckoo (NFC-5 May)
  114. Chestnut-sided Warbler (NFC-5 May)
  115. Pine Warbler (NFC-5 May)
  116. American Redstart (NFC -5 May)
  117. Bay-breasted Warbler (6 May)
  118. Swanson’s Thrush (NFC-6 May)
  119. Yellow-billed Cuckoo (NFC-9 May)
  120. Least Sandpiper (NFC -10 May)
  121. Spotted Sandpiper (NFC-10 May)
  122. Blackpoll Warbler (NFC-11 May)
  123. Green Heron (NFC-11 May)
  124. Hermit Thrush (NFC-11 May)
  125. Solitary Sandpiper (NFC-11 May)
  126. Scarlet Tanager (11 May)
  127. Eastern Wood Pewee (12 May)
  128. Common Loon (12 May)
  129. Red-eyed Vireo (14 May)
  130. White-eyed Vireo (18 May)
  131. Canada Warbler (18 May)
  132. Common Nighthawk (19 May)
  133. Magnolia Warbler (22 May)
  134. Mourning Warbler (25 May)
  135. Purple Martin (25 May)
  136. Willow Flycatcher (25 May, 11:43pm)
  137. Gray-cheeked Thrush (NFC-26 May)
  138. Dickcissel (NFC-28 May)
  139. American Kestrel (6 July)
  140. Warbling Vireo (25 Aug)
  141. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (25 Aug)
  142. Blackburnian Warbler (29 Aug)
  143. Bobolink (30 Aug)
  144. Wilson’s Warbler (1 Sep)
  145. Yellow-throated Vireo (3 Sep)
  146. Cape May Warbler (4 Sep)
  147. Tennessee Warbler (4 Sep)
  148. Philadelphia Vireo (10 Sep)
  149. Peregrine Falcon (10 Sep)
  150. Pied-billed Grebe (17 Sep)
  151. Black-throated Blue Warbler (18 Sep)
  152. Prairie Warbler (21 Sep NFC)
  153. Greater Yellowlegs (1 Oct)
  154. Golden-crowned Kinglet (1 Oct)
  155. Blue-headed Vireo (5 Oct)
  156. Winter Wren (5 Nov)

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