A Checklist of the Birds of
CAPE MAY & DELAWARE BAY, NJ and DE

Bold-faced species are rare, unusual or local species.
  May May May May
  1996 1997 1998 2004
Snow Goose x x x  
Canada Goose x x x x
Brant     x  
Mute Swan x x x x
Wood Duck x x x  
Gadwall x x x x
American Black Duck x x x x
Mallard x x x x
Blue-winged Teal x x x  
Northern Pintail   x x  
Green-winged Teal x x x x
Surf Scoter x   x  
Black Scoter x x x x
Long-tailed Duck     x  
Bufflehead x      
Red-breasted Merganser     x  
Ring-necked Pheasant x x x  
Wild Turkey     x  
Northern Bobwhite x x x x
Red-throated Loon x   x  
Common Loon x x x x
Pied-billed Grebe x x x  
Wilson's Storm-Petrel x x    
Northern Gannet x x x x
Double-crested Cormorant x x x x
Great Cormorant x   x  
Least Bittern x x x  
Great Blue Heron x x x x
Great Egret x x x x
Snowy Egret x x x x
Little Blue Heron x     x
Tricolored Heron x x x x
Cattle Egret x   x  
Green Heron x x   x
Black-crowned Night-Heron x x x  
Glossy Ibis x x x x
Black Vulture x x x x
Turkey Vulture x x x x
Osprey x x x x
Mississippi Kite     x  
Bald Eagle x x x  
Northern Harrier x x x x
Red-shouldered Hawk   x x  
Broad-winged Hawk   x x  
Red-tailed Hawk x x x  
American Kestrel x x    
Clapper Rail x x x x
King Rail x   x  
Virginia Rail x x x  
Sora   x x  
American Coot x x x  
Black-bellied Plover x x x x
Semipalmated Plover x x x x
Piping Plover x x x  
Killdeer x x x x
American Oystercatcher       x
Black-necked Stilt x x x x
American Avocet x x x x
Greater Yellowlegs x x x  
Lesser Yellowlegs x x x x
Solitary Sandpiper     x  
Willet x x x x
Spotted Sandpiper x x x x
Whimbrel   x x  
Ruddy Turnstone x x x x
Red Knot x x x x
Sanderling x x x x
Semipalmated Sandpiper x x x x
Least Sandpiper x x x x
White-rumped Sandpiper   x x x
Purple Sandpiper x x x  
Dunlin x x x x
Curlew Sandpiper     x  
Stilt Sandpiper   x    
Ruff     x  
Short-billed Dowitcher x x x x
Wilson's Phalarope   x x  
Red-necked Phalarope   x x x
Laughing Gull x x x x
Little Gull x      
Ring-billed Gull x x x x
Herring Gull x x x x
Glaucous Gull x      
Great Black-backed Gull x x x x
Caspian Tern   x x  
Royal Tern x x x x
Common Tern   x x  
Arctic Tern   x    
Forster's Tern x x x x
Least Tern x x x x
Black Tern   x    
Black Skimmer   x x x
Rock Pigeon x x x x
Mourning Dove x x x x
Black-billed Cuckoo x x    
Yellow-billed Cuckoo x x x  
Common Nighthawk   x    
Chimney Swift x x x x
Ruby-throated Hummingbird x x x  
Belted Kingfisher x x x  
Red-bellied Woodpecker x x x x
Downy Woodpecker x x x x
Hairy Woodpecker x      
Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker x x x x
Olive-sided Flycatcher x      
Eastern Wood-Pewee x x x x
Acadian Flycatcher x x    
Willow Flycatcher x x x  
Eastern Phoebe x x   x
Great Crested Flycatcher x x x x
Eastern Kingbird x x x x
White-eyed Vireo x x x x
Yellow-throated Vireo   x    
Warbling Vireo x      
Red-eyed Vireo x x x x
Blue Jay x x x x
American Crow x x x x
Fish Crow x x x x
Horned Lark x     x
Purple Martin x x x x
Tree Swallow x x x x
Northern Rough-winged Swallow x x x  
Bank Swallow x   x  
Cliff Swallow x   x  
Barn Swallow x x x x
Carolina Chickadee x x x x
Tufted Titmouse x x x x
White-breasted Nuthatch x      
Carolina Wren x x x x
House Wren x x x x
Marsh Wren x x x x
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher x x x  
Eastern Bluebird x x x x
Gray-cheeked Thrush       x
Wood Thrush x x x  
American Robin x x x x
Gray Catbird x x x x
Northern Mockingbird x x x x
Brown Thrasher x x x x
European Starling x x x x
Cedar Waxwing x x x  
Tennessee Warbler   x    
Northern Parula       x
Yellow Warbler x x x x
Magnolia Warbler     x  
Cape May Warbler x      
Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler x      
Black-throated Green Warbler x   x  
Yellow-throated Warbler x x x  
Pine Warbler x x x x
Prairie Warbler   x x x
Bay-breasted Warbler   x x  
Blackpoll Warbler x   x  
Black-and-white Warbler x x x  
American Redstart x x x  
Prothonotary Warbler x x x  
Worm-eating Warbler x      
Ovenbird x x x x
Northern Waterthrush   x x  
Louisiana Waterthrush   x    
Kentucky Warbler   x    
Mourning Warbler     x  
Common Yellowthroat x x x x
Hooded Warbler x x x  
Yellow-breasted Chat x x x  
Summer Tanager x x x  
Scarlet Tanager x x x  
Eastern Towhee x x x x
Chipping Sparrow x x x x
Field Sparrow x x x  
Seaside Sparrow x x x x
Song Sparrow x x x x
Swamp Sparrow x x x x
White-throated Sparrow   x x  
Northern Cardinal x x x x
Blue Grosbeak x x x  
Indigo Bunting x x x x
Dickcissel x   x  
Red-winged Blackbird x x x x
Eastern Meadowlark x x x x
Common Grackle x x x x
Boat-tailed Grackle x x x x
Brown-headed Cowbird x x x x
Orchard Oriole x x x x
Baltimore Oriole x x x  
House Finch x x x x
American Goldfinch x x x x
House Sparrow x x x x
         
Total Species 151 154 156 *103
         
*May 2004 was a short 2.5-day tour        

x = observed     s = smelled     d = dead
  May May May May
  1996 1997 1998 2004
MAMMALS        
Red Fox     x  
Opossum d d d d
Raccoon x x d d
Mink x      
Striped Skunk s d d d
Eastern Gray Squirrel x x x x
Red Squirrel     d  
Muskrat x x x  
Eastern Cottontail x x x x
Whitetail Deer x   x  
Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin x x x x
         
REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS        
Snapping Turtle   x x  
Stinkpot   x x x
Eastern Painted Turtle x x x x
N. Diamond-backed Terrapin       x
Northern Water Snake   x    
Five-lined Skink   x    
Green Frog   x x  
Fowler's Toad   x x x
         
INVERTEBRATES        
Horseshoe Crab x x x x
Fiddler Crab x x    
         
ORCHIDS        
Pink Lady's-Slipper x      
         

A Checklist of the Birds of
CAPE MAY & DELAWARE BAY, NJ and DE
Compiled by Robert M. Schutsky
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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