Bird species Eva Casey photographed and identified on
Nantucket in the 21st Century on a weekend near New Year’s. and
published with explicit identification on http://theworld.com/~eva/nantucket.html
The ones marked with a “*” are newly added to the list in
January 2012.
- Common loon
- *Red-throated loon
- *Red-necked grebe
- Pied-billed grebe
- Northern gannet
- Great cormorant
- Double-crested cormorant
- Great blue heron
- *Snowy egret
- Canada goose
- Snow Goose
- Ross’s Goose
- Mute swan
- Tundra swan
- Gadwall
- American wigeon
- Eurasian wigeon
- Mallard
- Northern shoveler
- Northern pintail
- Canvasback
- Ring-necked duck
- Greater scaup
- Lesser scaup
- Common eider
- Surf scoter
- White-winged scoter
- Black scoter
- Long-tailed duck
- Bufflehead
- Common goldeneye
- Hooded merganser
- Red-breasted merganser
- Northern harrier
- Sharp-shinned hawk
- Cooper's hawk
- Red-tailed hawk
- Merlin
- Common Galinule
- American coot
- Ruddy turnstone
- Sanderling
- Black-headed gull
- Bonaparte's gull
- Herring gull
- Iceland gull
- Lesser black-backed gull
- Glaucous gull
- Great black-backed gull
- California gull
- Black-legged kittiwake
- Razorbill
- Thick-billed Murre
- Mourning dove
- Rock Pigeon
- *Belted Kingfisher
- Red-bellied woodpecker
- Yellow-bellied sapsucker
- Downy woodpecker
- Northern flicker
- Blue jay
- American crow
- Black-capped chickadee
- White-breasted nuthatch
- Red-breasted nuthatch
- *Carolina wren
- American robin
- Gray catbird
- Northern mockingbird
- Cedar waxwing
- Yellow-rumped warbler
- Redwinged blackbird
- Savannah sparrow
- Lark sparrow
- Song sparrow
- Snow bunting
- Northern cardinal
- Evening grossbeak
- House finch
- Common redpoll
- Goldfinch
- House sparrow