Naturalization of my Property

Property Bird, Mammal, Reptile & Amphibian List

Last updated: September 2005

Birds

The "rules" for listing a bird is that it has been observed from or heard from this property.

1. blue jay

2. cardinal

3. robin

4. mourning dove

5. pigeon

6. redwing blackbird

7. grackle

8. cowbird

9. crow

10. catbird

11. starling

12. downy woodpecker

13. hairy woodpecker

14. red-bellied woodpecker

15. flicker

16. cedar waxwing

17. rufous-sided towhee

18. eastern meadowlark

19. wood thrush

20. gray-cheeked thrush
21. Swainson's thrush

22. red-tailed hawk (in the winter hawks come to snack on mourning doves and sparrows)

23. Cooper's hawk

24. sharp-shinned hawk

25. bald eagle

26. kestrel
27. screech owl

28. great-crested flycatcher

29. peewee

30. phoebe

31. least flycatcher

32. Baltimore oriole

33. rose-breasted grosbeak

34. black-billed cuckoo

35. indigo bunting

36. chickadee

37. white-breasted nuthatch

38. red-breasted nuthatch

39. brown creeper

40. junco

41. goldfinch

42. house finch (regular and the orange variety)

43. purple finch

44. ruby-throated hummingbird

45. house sparrow

46. chipping sparrow

47. white-crowned sparrow

48. song sparrow

49. American tree sparrow

50. white-throated sparrow

51. fox sparrow

52. field sparrow

53. Caspian tern

54. herring gull

55. ring-billed gull

56. great blue heron

57. black-crowned night heron

58. Canada goose

59. mallard

60. common merganser

61. wood duck

62. tundra swan

63. bufflehead
64. wood duck

65. kingfisher

66. killdeer

67. turkey vulture

68. Carolina wren (2 spent the winter one time)

69. house wren

70. tree swallow

71. barn swallow

72. yellow-rumped warbler

73. yellow warbler

74. red-eyed vireo

75. black and white warbler

76. common redpoll

77. chestnut-sided warbler

78. blackburnian warbler

79. American redstart

80. magnolia warbler

81. blackpoll warbler

82. ruby-crowned kinglet
83. pine siskin

84. nighthawk

85. brown thrasher

86. white-winged crossbill

Mammals

1. grey squirrel (both grey and black varieties) (23 in yard simultaneously one late fall day)

2. chipmunk

3. muskrat

4. mink

5. eastern cottontail rabbit

6. groundhog

7. striped skunk

8. opossum

9. raccoon

10. shrew

11. mouse (uncertain as to exact species - probably white-footed)

12. domestic dog

13. domestic cat

14. Norway rat

15. deer

16. little brown bat

17. human

18. red squirrel

Reptiles, Amphibians, Fish

1. American toad

2. green frog

3. bullfrog (in pond)

4. spring peeper

5. painted turtle

6. goldfish (in pond)

7. snapping turtle

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