The Year in Birds, 2011.
(These are in Brooklyn unless otherwise noted. Birds marked with * are life species.)
Jan 1
House sparrow (Cobble Hill)
Cardinal
Ring-billed gull (Clinton Hill)
Rock dove
Starling
Crow
Black-capped chickadee (Prospect Park)
White-breasted nuthatch
Tufted titmouse
Dark-eyed junco
White-throated sparrow
Red-tailed hawk
Mourning dove
Mallard
Great blue heron
Cooper’s hawk
Kestrel (Union & Hoyt)
Jan. 9 (Clinton Hill)
Northern Mockingbird
Jan. 10 (Prospect Park)
American coot
Northern shoveller
Mute swan
Great black backed gull
Herring gull
Downy woodpecker
Red-winged blackbird
American Goldfinch
House finch
Pine siskin*
Brown-headed cowbird
Red-breasted nuthatch
Yellow-bellied sapsucker
Song sparrow
American robin
Jan. 13 (Prospect Park)
Canada goose
Carolina wren
Fox sparrow
Jan 16 (Prospect Park)
American black duck
Jan 20 (Dead Horse Bay)
Greater scaup
Horned grebe
Rudy duck
Brant
Red-breasted merganser
January 30 (Brooklyn Bridge Park)
Bufflehead
DC Cormorant
Gadwell
Canvasback
January 31 (Floyd Bennett Field)
Horned lark
Chipping sparrow
American tree sparrow
Hairy woodpecker
February 6 (NY harbor)
Great cormorant
Peregrine
Common loon
American wigeon
Long-tailed duck
February 10
Common goldeneye (Gravesend Bay)
Monk Parakeet (Park Slope)
Februrary 13 (Coney Island Creek)
Redhead*
February 14 (JBWR)
Hooded merganser
Snow goose
Barn owl
Common merganser
Northern harrier
Common grackle
February 15 (Central Park)
Long-eared owl
February 20-26, Virgin Gorda, BVI
Brown booby*
Brown pelican
Magnificent frigatebird*
Greater flamingo*
American oystercatcher
Spotted sandpiper
Zenaida dove*
Common ground-dove*
Smooth-billed ani*
Green-throated Carib*
Antillean crested hummingbird*
Belted kingfisher
Gray kingbird*
Pearly-eyed thrasher*
Bananaquit*
Black-faced grassquit*
March 2 (JBWR)
Green-winged teal
Northern pintail
March 8 (Prospect Park)
Ring-necked duck
March 13 (Calvert Vaux Park)
Red-shouldered hawk
Killdeer
March 15
Turkey vulture (Buzzard’s Bay, MA)
Surf scoter (Nantucket Sound)
White-winged scoter
Black scoter
Common eider
Purple sandpiper (Nantucket, MA)
March 17 (Nantucket, MA)
Yellow-rumped warbler
American woodcock
Ruddy turnstone
March 22 (Prospect Park)
Tree swallow
Eastern phoebe
Cedar waxwing
March 30 (Green-Wood)
Golden-crowned kinglet
April 7 (JBWR)
Glossy ibis
Blue-winged teal
Little blue heron
Snowy egret
Great egret
Black-crowned night heron
Osprey
Wilson’s snipe
Laughing gull
April 14 (Prospect Park)
Black and white warbler
Pine warbler
Palm warbler
Yellow-throated warbler
Northern waterthrush
Louisiana waterthrush
Eastern Towhee
Swamp sparrow
Ruby-crowned kinglet
Northern flicker
April 15 (Prospect Park)
Barn swallow
Aril 17 (Highland Park, Queens)
Blue-headed vireo
April 21 (Prospect Park)
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Black-throated green warbler
Ovenbird
Yellow warbler
Rusty blackbird
Great crested flycatcher
Chimney swift
Sharp-shinned hawk
Rough-winged swallow
Field sparrow
April 22 (Prospect Park)
Gray catbird
Winter wren
Eastern kingbird
Common yellowthroat
Worm-eating warbler
April 26 (Prospect)
Prothonotary warbler
Prairie warbler
Northern parula
Wood thrush
April 30 (Prospect)
Marsh wren
Least sandpiper
Green heron
Scarlet tanager
Blackburnian warbler
Canada
Nashville warbler
Black-throated blue warbler
Chestnut-sided warbler
May 3 (Prospect Park)
American redstart
Magnolia warbler
Red-breasted grosbeak
Indigo bunting
House wren
Veery
May 5 (Prospect Park)
Wood duck
May 6 (Prospect Park)
Cape May warbler
Blackpoll warbler
May 8 (Prospect Park)
Red-eyed vireo
Hooded warbler
Ruby-throated hummingbird
May 20 (Nantucket)
Bank swallow
May 25 (Bradford, MA)
Red-necked grebe*
May 26 (Bradford)
Bobolink*
Pileated woodpecker
May 27 (Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary)
Blue bird
June 11 (Kaaterskill Falls)
Common raven
June 26 (Four Sparrow Marsh)
Willet
July 4 (JBWR)
Black skimmer
Forster’s tern
Common tern
Least tern
Yellow-crowned night heron
Tricolored heron
Brown thrasher
July 13 (Nantucket)
Savannah sparrow
July 31 (Coney Island)
Grey-headed gull*
August 17 (NY Bight)
Wilson’s Storm-petrel*
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The Year in Birds, 2010.
Jan 1 (Washington Ave./Clinton Hill)
Rock dove
Mourning dove
House sparrow
European starling
Ring-billed gull
Jan 6 (Dumbo/Brooklyn Bridge Park)
Brant
Gadwell
Red-breasted merganser
Double-crested cormorant
American wigeon
Jan 7 (Prospect Park)
Canada goose
Mute swan
Mallard
Northern shoveller
Red-tailed hawk
Coot
Herring gull
Black-backed gull
Downy woodpecker
Hairy woodpecker
Red-bellied woodpecker
Blue Jay
American crow
Black capped chickadee
Brown creeper
Tufted titmouse
White breasted nuthatch
Carolina wren
Golden-crowned kinglet
American robin
Northern mockingbird
Northern cardinal
Song sparrow
White-throated sparrow
Red-winged blackbird
American Goldfinch
House finch
Jan. 12 (Prospect)
Rusty blackbird
Wood duck
Dark-eyed junco
American black duck
Yellow-bellied sapsucker (Green-Wood)
Monk parrot (Green-Wood)
Jan 13 (Bay Ridge/Narrows)
Common goldeneye*
Bufflehead
Mew (Common) Gull
Bonaparte’s Gull*
Purple sandpiper*
Greater scaup
Jan 14 (Floyd Bennett Field)
Northern flicker
Cooper’s hawk
Yellow-rumped warbler
Jan. 15 (Prospect Park)
Northern Goshawk*
Hermit thrush
Jan 20 (Fort Tilden/Dead Horse Bay)
Long-tailed duck
Common loon
Peregrine falcon
Horned grebe
Canvasback
Jan 21 (Prospect)
American pipit*
Ruddy duck
Great blue heron
Red-breasted nuthatch
Jan 24 (Prospect)
Merlin
February 8 (Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge)
Hooded merganser
Pintail duck
Common grackle
February 14 (Croton Point Park, Westchester Co.)
Bald eagle
February 21 (Prospect)
Fox sparrow
Towhee
March 5 (Prospect)
Ring-neck duck
Swamp sparrow
Cedar waxwing
March 16 (Green-Wood)
Belted kingfisher
March 21 (JBWR)
Tree swallow
Osprey
Snow goose
Eastern phoebe
Barn owl *
March 23 (Prospect)
Pied-billed grebe
Great egret
March 25 (Green-Wood)
Kestrel
March 27 (JBWR)
American woodcock
Laughing gull
April 1 (Four Sparrow Marsh)
Wilson’s snipe
April 2 (Green-Wood)
Pine warbler
April 3 (Dead Horse Bay)
American oystercatcher
April 5 (Prospect)
Ruby-crowned kinglet
April 6 (Nantucket Sound)
Northern gannett
Surf scoter
White-winged scoter
Black scoter
Common eider
Red-throated loon
April 7 (Nantucket, MA)
Chipping sparrow
April 8 (Nantucket)
Savannah sparrow
Brown-headed cowbird
Turkey vullture
April 10 (Nantucket)
Piping plover
April 11 (Nantucket)
Iceland gull*
Lesser black-backed gull*
Northern harrier
Greater Yellowlegs
April 12 (Hyannis, MA)
Wild turkey
April 15 (Prospect)
Winter wren
Blue-headed vireo
Palm warbler
Louisiana waterthrush
April 18 (Prospect)
Brown thrasher
April 22 (Prospect)
Hooded warbler
Chimney swift
April 23 (JBWR)
Glossy ibis
Tricolored heron
Snowy egret
Little blue heron
Least tern
Barn swallow
Fish crow
April 28 (Prospect)
Rough-winged swallow
Black-crowned night heron
Spotted sandpiper
House wren
April 29 (Prospect)
Orange-crowned warbler*
Black-throated blue warbler
American redstart
Northern waterthrush
Black and white warbler
Ovenbird
Northern parula
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Wood thrush
April 30 (Prospect)
Worm-eating warbler
Blue-winged warbler
Yellow warbler
Black-throated green warbler
Great crested flycatcher
Rose-breasted grosbeak
Cat bird
May 2 (Wolfe’s Pond Park, SI)
Eastern kingbird
Orchard oriole
Warbling vireo
May 4 (Prospect)
Blackpoll warbler
Common yellowthroat
Green heron
Whip-poor-will*
Baltimore oriole
May 5 (Central Park)
Wilson’s warbler
Nashville warbler
Magnolia warbler
Red-eyed vireo
Scarlet tanager
Yellow-billed cuckoo
May 7
Prothonotary warbler (Prospect)
May 8 (Doodletown)
Rudy-throated hummingbird
Black vulture
May 10 (Prospect)
Chestnut-sided warbler
Blackburnian warbler
Cape May warbler*
May 14 (Prospect)
Bay-breasted warbler
Canada warbler
Veery
Indigo bunting
May 15 (Prospect)
Mourning warbler*
Tennessee warbler*
May 16 (Dead Horse Bay)
Black-bellied plover
Ruddy turnstone
White-crowned sparrow
May 17 (Plumb Beach)
Sanderling
Willet
May 29 (Haverhill, MA)
Pileated woodpecker*
May 30 (Newton Junction, NH)
Great horned owl
June 8 (JBWR)
Yellow-crowned night heron
Semipalmated sandpiper
Common tern
Forster’s tern
June 12 (JBWR)
Short-billed dowitcher
Semipalmated plover
July 1-11, Iceland
Whooper swan*
Greylag goose*
Tufted duck*
Harlequin duck*
Barrow’s Goldeneye*
Northern fulmar
Gyrfalcon*
Eurasian oystercatcher
Ringed plover
European Golden plover*
Common snipe*
Black-tailed godwit
Whimbrel
Common redshank
Red-necked phalarope*
Red phalarope*
Parasitic jaeger*
Great skua
Black-headed gull
Glaucous gull
Black-legged kittiwake
Arctic tern
Murre
Black gullermot
Puffin
Short-eared owl*
Meadow pipit
White wagtail
Northern wheatear
Redwing*
Raven
Common redpoll*
Snow bunting*
August 14 (JBWR)
Wilson’s phalarope*
Least sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
August 19 (JBWR)
American white pelican*
September 16 (Prospect Park)
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher*
Prairie warbler
Green-winged teal
October 21 (Prospect Park)
Field sparrow
October 24 (Green-Wood)
Vesper sparrow*
Sharp-shinned hawk
November 30 (Central park)
Varied Thrush
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