A Checklist of the Birds of
Churchill and Southern Manitoba
Bold-faced species are rare, unusual or local species.
h = heard only
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Jun |
Jun |
Jun |
Jun |
Jun |
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2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2006 |
2007 |
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Greater White-fronted Goose |
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x |
x |
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Snow Goose |
x |
x |
x |
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x |
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Ross's Goose |
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x* |
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(*included 3 blue morphs)
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Brant |
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Cackling Goose |
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Canada Goose |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Mute Swan |
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Trumpeter Swan |
x |
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x |
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Tundra Swan |
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x |
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x |
x |
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Wood Duck |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Gadwall |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Eurasian Wigeon |
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American Wigeon |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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American Black Duck |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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American Black Duck x Mallard |
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x |
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Mallard |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Blue-winged Teal |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Cinnamon Teal |
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Northern Shoveler |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Northern Pintail |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Garganey |
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Green-winged Teal |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Canvasback |
x |
x |
x |
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x |
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Redhead |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Ring-necked Duck |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Greater Scaup |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Lesser Scaup |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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King Eider |
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x |
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x |
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Common Eider |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Harlequin Duck |
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Surf Scoter |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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White-winged Scoter |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Black Scoter |
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x |
x |
x |
x |
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Long-tailed Duck |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Bufflehead |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Common Goldeneye |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Barrow's Goldeneye |
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Hooded Merganser |
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x |
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x |
x |
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Common Merganser |
x |
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x |
x |
x |
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Red-breasted Merganser |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Ruddy Duck |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Gray Partridge |
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x |
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x |
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Ring-necked Pheasant |
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Ruffed Grouse |
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x |
x |
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h |
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Spruce Grouse |
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x |
x |
x |
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Willow Ptarmigan |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Rock Ptarmigan |
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Sharp-tailed Grouse |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Greater Prairie-Chicken |
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Wild Turkey |
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Red-throated Loon |
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x |
x |
x |
x |
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Pacific Loon |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Common Loon |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Yellow-billed Loon |
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Pied-billed Grebe |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Horned Grebe |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Red-necked Grebe |
x |
x |
x |
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x |
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Eared Grebe |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Western Grebe |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Clark's Grebe |
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Northern Gannet |
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American White Pelican |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Double-crested Cormorant |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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American Bittern |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Least Bittern |
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x |
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Great Blue Heron |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Great Egret |
x |
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x |
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Snowy Egret |
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x |
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Little Blue Heron |
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x |
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Tricolored Heron |
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Cattle Egret |
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x |
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x |
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Green Heron |
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x |
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Black-crowned Night-Heron |
x |
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x |
x |
x |
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Yellow-crowned Night-Heron |
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White Ibis |
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Glossy Ibis |
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White-faced Ibis |
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x |
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x |
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Turkey Vulture |
x |
x |
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x |
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Osprey |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Bald Eagle |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Northern Harrier |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Sharp-shinned Hawk |
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x |
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Cooper's Hawk |
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x |
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x |
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Northern Goshawk |
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x |
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Red-shouldered Hawk |
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x |
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Broad-winged Hawk |
x |
x |
x |
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x |
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Swainson's Hawk |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Red-tailed Hawk |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Ferruginous Hawk |
x |
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x |
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x |
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Rough-legged Hawk |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Golden Eagle |
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x |
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American Kestrel |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Merlin |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Gyrfalcon |
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Peregrine Falcon |
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x |
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x |
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Prairie Falcon |
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Yellow Rail |
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x |
h |
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h |
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King Rail |
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Virginia Rail |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Sora |
x |
x |
x |
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x |
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Common Moorhen |
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American Coot |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Sandhill Crane |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Whooping Crane |
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Black-bellied Plover |
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x |
x |
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x |
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American Golden-Plover |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Semipalmated Plover |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Piping Plover |
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Killdeer |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Black-necked Stilt |
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American Avocet |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Greater Yellowlegs |
x |
x |
x |
|
x |
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Lesser Yellowlegs |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Solitary Sandpiper |
x |
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x |
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Willet |
x |
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x |
x |
x |
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Wandering Tattler |
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Spotted Sandpiper |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Upland Sandpiper |
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x |
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x |
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Eskimo Curlew |
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Whimbrel |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Long-billed Curlew |
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Hudsonian Godwit |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Marbled Godwit |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Ruddy Turnstone |
x |
x |
x |
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x |
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Red Knot |
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x |
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Sanderling |
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x |
x |
x |
x |
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Semipalmated Sandpiper |
|
x |
x |
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x |
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Western Sandpiper |
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Least Sandpiper |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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White-rumped Sandpiper |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Baird's Sandpiper |
|
x |
x |
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x |
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Pectoral Sandpiper |
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x |
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Purple Sandpiper |
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Dunlin |
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x |
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x |
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Curlew Sandpiper |
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Stilt Sandpiper |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
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Ruff |
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Short-billed Dowitcher |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Long-billed Dowitcher |
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Wilson's Snipe |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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American Woodcock |
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Wilson's Phalarope |
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x |
x |
x |
x |
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Red-necked Phalarope |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Red Phalarope |
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x |
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Pomarine Jaeger |
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Parasitic Jaeger |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Long-tailed Jaeger |
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Laughing Gull |
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Franklin's Gull |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Little Gull |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Black-headed Gull |
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Bonaparte's Gull |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Black-tailed Gull |
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Mew Gull |
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Ring-billed Gull |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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California Gull |
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Herring Gull |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Thayer's Gull |
x |
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x |
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Iceland Gull |
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Lesser Black-backed Gull |
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Glaucous-winged Gull |
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Glaucous Gull |
x |
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x |
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Great Black-backed Gull |
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Sabine's Gull
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x |
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x |
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Black-legged Kittiwake |
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Ross's Gull |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Ivory Gull |
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Caspian Tern |
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x |
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Common Tern |
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x |
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Arctic Tern |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Forster's Tern |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Least Tern |
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White-winged Tern |
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Black Tern |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Dovekie |
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Black Guillemot |
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Ancient Murrelet |
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Rock Pigeon |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Band-tailed Pigeon |
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White-winged Dove |
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Mourning Dove |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Black-billed Cuckoo |
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h |
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x |
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
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Barn Owl |
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Eastern Screech-Owl |
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Great Horned Owl |
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x |
x |
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Snowy Owl |
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Northern Hawk Owl |
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x |
x |
x |
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Burrowing Owl |
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Barred Owl |
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Great Gray Owl |
x |
x |
x |
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Long-eared Owl |
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Short-eared Owl |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Boreal Owl |
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Northern Saw-whet Owl |
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Common Nighthawk |
x |
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x |
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Whip-poor-will |
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Chimney Swift |
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x |
x |
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x |
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Rufous Hummingbird |
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Belted Kingfisher |
x |
x |
x |
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x |
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Lewis's Woodpecker |
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Red-headed Woodpecker |
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Red-bellied Woodpecker |
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
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x |
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x |
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Downy Woopecker |
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x |
x |
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Hairy Woodpecker |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Amer. Three-toed Woodpecker |
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x |
x |
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Black-backed Woodpecker |
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x |
x |
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Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Pileated Woodpecker |
|
x |
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|
x |
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Olive-sided Flycatcher |
|
x |
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x |
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Western Wood-Pewee |
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|
x |
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Eastern Wood-Pewee |
|
x |
x |
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x |
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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher |
x |
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Alder Flycatcher |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Willow Flycatcher |
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Least Flycatcher |
|
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Eastern Phoebe |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Say's Phoebe |
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Great Crested Flycatcher |
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x |
x |
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Western Kingbird |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Eastern Kingbird |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Scissor-tailed Flyctcher |
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Loggerhead Shrike |
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x |
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Northern Shrike |
|
x |
x |
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x |
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White-eyed Vireo |
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Yellow-throated Vireo |
x |
x |
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Blue-headed Vireo |
x |
x |
x |
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h |
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Warbling Vireo |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Philadelphia Vireo |
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Red-eyed Vireo |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Gray Jay |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Blue Jay |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Western Scrub-Jay |
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Clark's Nutcracker |
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x |
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Black-billed Magpie |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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American Crow |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Common Raven |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Horned Lark |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Purple Martin |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Tree Swallow |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Violet-green Swallow |
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Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
|
x |
x |
|
x |
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Bank Swallow |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Cliff Swallow |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Barn Swallow |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Black-capped Chickadee |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Boreal Chickadee |
|
x |
x |
|
x |
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Red-breasted Nuthatch |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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White-breasted Nuthatch |
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|
x |
x |
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Brown Creeper |
|
x |
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x |
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Rock Wren |
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Carolina Wren |
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House Wren |
x |
x |
x |
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x |
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Winter Wren |
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Sedge Wren |
x |
x |
x |
|
x |
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Marsh Wren |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Golden-crowned Kinglet |
x |
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|
x |
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
x |
x |
x |
|
x |
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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
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Northern Wheatear |
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Eastern Bluebird |
x |
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x |
x |
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Mountain Bluebird |
x |
x |
x |
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x |
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Townsend's Solitaire |
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Veery |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Gray-cheeked Thrush |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Swainson's Thrush |
|
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Hermit Thrush |
x |
x |
x |
|
x |
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Wood Thrush |
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American Robin |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Varied Thrush |
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Gray Catbird |
|
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Northern Mockingbird |
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Sage Thrasher |
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Brown Thrasher |
|
x |
x |
|
x |
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Curve-billed Thrasher |
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European Starling |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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American Pipit |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Sprague's Pipit |
|
x |
x |
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Bohemian Waxwing |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Cedar Waxwing |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Blue-winged Warbler |
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Golden-winged Warbler |
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Tennessee Warbler |
x |
x |
|
x |
x |
|
Orange-crowned Warbler |
x |
x |
x |
|
x |
|
Nashville Warbler |
|
x |
x |
|
h |
|
Northern Parula |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yellow Warbler |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
|
Chestnut-sided Warbler |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
|
Magnolia Warbler |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cape May Warbler |
x |
|
|
|
x |
|
Black-throated Blue Warbler |
x |
|
|