January Bird Sightings for C&O Canal--Great Falls

Complete bird list for January, 2015

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Sightings are listed in order of most to least common.

Canada Goose

Branta canadensis

Bufflehead

Bucephala albeola

Mallard

Anas platyrhynchos

Redhead

Aythya americana

Ring-necked Duck

Aythya collaris

Carolina Chickadee

Poecile carolinensis

Downy Woodpecker

Picoides pubescens

Common Merganser

Mergus merganser

Tufted Titmouse

Baeolophus bicolor

Pileated Woodpecker

Dryocopus pileatus

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Melanerpes carolinus

Black Vulture

Coragyps atratus

Gadwall

Anas strepera

American Coot

Fulica americana

White-breasted Nuthatch

Sitta carolinensis

American Crow

Corvus brachyrhynchos

American Wigeon

Anas americana

Pied-billed Grebe

Podilymbus podiceps

Northern Cardinal

Cardinalis cardinalis

Turkey Vulture

Cathartes aura

Dark-eyed Junco

Junco hyemalis

Carolina Wren

Thryothorus ludovicianus

White-throated Sparrow

Zonotrichia albicollis

Eastern Bluebird

Sialia sialis

Bald Eagle

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

Ruddy Duck

Oxyura jamaicensis

Song Sparrow

Melospiza melodia

Blue Jay

Cyanocitta cristata

Eastern Screech-Owl

Megascops asio

Fish Crow

Corvus ossifragus

Winter Wren

Troglodytes hiemalis

Hairy Woodpecker

Picoides villosus

Red-shouldered Hawk

Buteo lineatus

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Regulus satrapa

Greater/Lesser Scaup

Aythya marila/affinis

Mourning Dove

Zenaida macroura

American Goldfinch

Spinus tristis

American Robin

Turdus migratorius

Belted Kingfisher

Megaceryle alcyon

Lesser Scaup

Aythya affinis

Northern Mockingbird

Mimus polyglottos

Great Blue Heron

Ardea herodias

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Sphyrapicus varius

Horned Grebe

Podiceps auritus

Cedar Waxwing

Bombycilla cedrorum

European Starling

Sturnus vulgaris

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Setophaga coronata

Northern Flicker

Colaptes auratus

Red-tailed Hawk

Buteo jamaicensis

American Black Duck

Anas rubripes