A Checklist of the Birds of
CHINCOTEAGUE & the DELMARVA PENINSULA

Bold-faced species are rare, unusual or local species.
  Dec 1993 Dec 1994 Dec 1995 Dec 1996 Dec 1997 Nov 2000 Dec 2005
Greater White-fronted Goose     x        
Snow Goose x x x x x x x
Ross's Goose       x      
Canada Goose x x x x x x x
Brant x x x   x x x
Mute Swan x x   x x    
Tundra Swan x x x x x x x
Wood Duck   x          
Gadwall x x x x x x x
Eurasian Wigeon             x
American Wigeon x x x x x x x
American Black Duck x x x x x x x
Mallard x x x x x x x
Blue-winged Teal       x      
Northern Shoveler x x x x x x x
Northern Pintail x x x x x x x
Green-winged Teal x x x x x x x
Canvasback x x x x x x x
Redhead     x x     x
Ring-necked Duck   x x x     x
Greater Scaup   x   x x   x
Lesser Scaup x x   x x   x
King Eider       x x    
Common Eider x x x x x   x
Harlequin Duck x x   x x   x
Surf Scoter x x x x x x x
White-winged Scoter x x x       x
Black Scoter x x x x x x x
Long-tailed Duck x x x x x x x
Bufflehead x x x x x x x
Common Goldeneye x x x x x   x
Hooded Merganser x x x x x x x
Common Merganser   x x x     x
Red-breasted Merganser x x x x x x x
Ruddy Duck x x x x x x x
Ring-necked Pheasant           x  
Wild Turkey             x
Northern Bobwhite x x   x x x  
Red-throated Loon x x x x x x x
Common Loon x x x x x x x
Pied-billed Grebe x x x x x x x
Horned Grebe x x x x x   x
Red-necked Grebe x x x x x    
Northern Gannet x x x x x x x
American White Pelican x x   x      
Brown Pelican   x   x   x x
Double-crested Cormorant x x x x x x x
Great Cormorant x x x x x x x
Great Blue Heron x x x x x x x
Great Egret x x x x x x x
Snowy Egret x x     x x x
Little Blue Heron           x  
Tricolored Heron x x   x x x  
Cattle Egret           x  
Black-crowned Night-Heron x x x   x x x
Glossy Ibis x         x  
Black Vulture   x x x x x x
Turkey Vulture x x x x x x x
Osprey           x  
Bald Eagle x x x x x x x
Northern Harrier x x x x x x x
Sharp-shinned Hawk x x x x   x x
Cooper's Hawk x x x x x x x
Northern Goshawk x            
Red-shouldered Hawk x x x       x
Red-tailed Hawk x x x x x x x
Rough-legged Hawk   x       x  
American Kestrel x x x x x x x
Merlin     x   x    
Peregrine Falcon x x   x x x  
Clapper Rail x x x x x x  
King Rail x x          
Virginia Rail x            
American Coot x x x x x x x
Black-bellied Plover x x x x   x x
Semipalmated Plover     x x   x x
Piping Plover           x  
Killdeer x x x   x x  
American Oystercatcher x x x x x x x
American Avocet           x  
Greater Yellowlegs x x x x x x x
Lesser Yellowlegs x x x x   x  
Willet           x x
Whimbrel   x          
Marbled Godwit     x x   x x
Ruddy Turnstone x x x x x x x
Red Knot   x x        
Sanderling x x x x x x x
Semipalmated Sandpiper           x  
Western Sandpiper   x x x      
Pectoral Sandpiper           x  
Purple Sandpiper x x x x x x x
Dunlin x x x x x x x
Short-billed Dowitcher     x x      
Long-billed Dowitcher     x x      
dowitcher sp.             x
Wilson's Snipe x            
American Woodcock x x x x x x x
Laughing Gull   x x x x x x
Little Gull   x   x      
Black-headed Gull   x          
Bonaparte's Gull x x x x x   x
Ring-billed Gull x x x x x x x
Herring Gull x x x x x x x
Iceland Gull       x      
Lesser Black-backed Gull   x x x x    
Glaucous Gull   x          
Great Black-backed Gull x x x x x x x
Black-legged Kittiwake   x          
Royal Tern x         x  
Forster's Tern x x x x x x x
Common Murre       x      
Rock Pigeon x x x x x x x
Eurasian Collared-Dove             x
Mourning Dove x x x x x x x
Monk Parakeet x x     x    
Eastern Screech-Owl x   x     x  
Great Horned Owl x x x x x x  
Snowy Owl x            
Barred Owl   x          
Long-eared Owl     x        
Short-eared Owl     x        
Belted Kingfisher x x x x x x x
Red-bellied Woodpecker x x x x x x x
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker x   x        
Downy Woodpecker x x x x x x x
Hairy Woodpecker     x        
Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker x x x x x x x
Pileated Woodpecker x x x x x    
Eastern Phoebe x   x x x    
Blue Jay x x x x x x x
American Crow x x x x x x x
Fish Crow x x x   x   x
Horned Lark x x x x x x x
Tree Swallow x x     x x  
Carolina Chickadee x x x x x   x
Tufted Titmouse x x x x x   x
Red-breasted Nuthatch     x   x x  
White-breasted Nuthatch         x    
Brown-headed Nuthatch   x x x   x x
Brown Creeper         x x x
Carolina Wren x x x x x x x
House Wren           x  
Winter Wren x   x x   x  
Marsh Wren             x
Golden-crowned Kinglet x x   x x x x
Ruby-crowned Kinglet x x x   x x x
Eastern Bluebird x x x x x x x
Hermit Thrush x x x x x x x
American Robin x x x x x x x
Gray Catbird x x x x   x x
Northern Mockingbird x x x x x x x
Brown Thrasher   x x x x x  
European Starling x x x x x x x
American Pipit   x x       x
Cedar Waxwing   x   x x   x
Magnolia Warbler           x  
Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler x x x x x x x
Pine Warbler x x     x    
Palm Warbler     x     x  
Ovenbird           x  
Eastern Towhee x   x x x x x
Chipping Sparrow     x x   x  
Field Sparrow x x   x   x  
Vesper Sparrow           x  
Savannah Sparrow x x x x   x x
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow           x  
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow         x x  
Seaside Sparrow           x  
Fox Sparrow x   x        
Song Sparrow x x x x x   x
Lincoln's Sparrow           x  
Swamp Sparrow x x x x x x x
White-throated Sparrow x x x x x x x
White-crowned Sparrow         x x  
Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco x   x x x x x
Lapland Longspur x         x  
Snow Bunting       x x x  
Northern Cardinal x x x x x x x
Dickcissel       x      
Red-winged Blackbird x x x x x x x
Eastern Meadowlark x   x x x x x
Yellow-headed Blackbird   x          
Common Grackle x x x x x x x
Boat-tailed Grackle x x x x x x x
Brown-headed Cowbird x x x   x x x
House Finch x x x x x x x
Pine Siskin x            
American Golfinch x x x x x x x
House Sparrrow x x x x x x x
               
Total Species 122 128 125 123 116 127 113

x = observed     d = dead     s = sign (e.g. house, shell, call, tunnel)
  Dec 1993 Dec 1994 Dec 1995 Dec 1996 Dec 1997 Nov 2000 Dec 2005
MAMMALS              
Harbor Seal     x       x
White-tailed Deer x x x x x x x
Sika Deer (introduced) x x   x x x x
Wild Pony (introduced) x x   x x x x
River Otter x x          
Red Fox     x   s x  
Raccoon       d   d d
Striped Skunk       d   d  
Virginia Opossum       d   d  
Muskrat     s s s    
Eastern Cottontail x x d x x x x
Groundhog           d  
Delmarva Fox Squirrel x       x   x
Eastern Gray Squirrel x x x x x x x
Meadow Vole x x          
mole sp       s   s  
               
REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS              
Northern Diamondback Terrapin     s        
Eastern Painted Turtle       x   x  
Eastern Box Turtle     s        
tree frog sp.   s   s      
               
FISH              
Skate           x  
Sea Bass           x  
American Eel           x  
               
INVERTEBRATES              
Praying Mantis           x  
Blue Crab             s
Horseshoe Crab             s
               

A Checklist of the Birds of CHINCOTEAGUE & the DELMARVA PENINSULA
Compiled by Robert M. Schutsky, Mike Haldeman, John Puschock
Bird Treks, 216 Spring Lane
Peach Bottom, PA USA 17563-4008
717-548-3303 info@birdtreks.com
www.birdtreks.com
Created by Valerie K. M. Schutsky

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