January Bird Sightings for C&O Canal--Fletcher's Cove (Fletcher's Boathouse) | Waxwing Eco Tourism

January Bird Sightings for C&O Canal--Fletcher's Cove (Fletcher's Boathouse)

Complete bird list for January, 2015

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Sightings are listed in order of most to least common.

Mallard

Anas platyrhynchos

Northern Cardinal

Cardinalis cardinalis

Downy Woodpecker

Picoides pubescens

Belted Kingfisher

Megaceryle alcyon

Great Blue Heron

Ring-billed Gull

Larus delawarensis

Common Merganser

Mergus merganser

Song Sparrow

Melospiza melodia

White-throated Sparrow

Zonotrichia albicollis

Tufted Titmouse

Baeolophus bicolor

Pied-billed Grebe

Podilymbus podiceps

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Melanerpes carolinus

Canada Goose

Branta canadensis

Carolina Chickadee

Poecile carolinensis

Hairy Woodpecker

Picoides villosus

American Goldfinch

European Starling

Sturnus vulgaris

American Crow

Corvus brachyrhynchos

American Robin

Turdus migratorius

Dark-eyed Junco

Carolina Wren

Thryothorus ludovicianus

White-breasted Nuthatch

Sitta carolinensis

House Sparrow

Passer domesticus

Mourning Dove

Zenaida macroura

Herring Gull

Larus argentatus

Hooded Merganser

Lophodytes cucullatus

Turkey Vulture

Winter Wren

Troglodytes hiemalis

Brown Creeper

Certhia americana

Pileated Woodpecker

Dryocopus pileatus

American Black Duck

Black Vulture

Coragyps atratus

Eastern Bluebird

Northern Flicker

Colaptes auratus

Great Black-backed Gull

House Finch

Haemorhous mexicanus

Eastern Phoebe

Sayornis phoebe

Northern Mockingbird

Mimus polyglottos

Common Grackle

Quiscalus quiscula

Field Sparrow

Spizella pusilla

Brown-headed Cowbird

Bufflehead

Bucephala albeola

Peregrine Falcon

Falco peregrinus

Merlin

Falco columbarius

Red-tailed Hawk

Buteo jamaicensis

Double-crested Cormorant

Phalacrocorax auritus

Bald Eagle

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Regulus calendula

Fish Crow

Corvus ossifragus

Blue Jay

Cyanocitta cristata

Hermit Thrush

Catharus guttatus