The Business Birder®
Birds
of the Coastal
GEESE, SWANS, & DUCKS
Brant
Ross's Goose (Uncommon Winter)
Snow Goose (White and Dark Morphs)
Mute Swan
Tundra Swan
American Black Duck
American Wigeon
Black Scoter
Blue-winged Teal
Bufflehead
Canvasback
Common Eider (First Winter Male) (Rare
Winter)
Common Eider (2009) (Rare Winter)
Common Eider (2010) (Rare Winter)
Common Goldeneye (Rare Winter)
Greater Scaup
Green-winged Teal
Harlequin Duck (1st Winter Male &
Adult Pair) (Rare Winter)
Hooded Merganser
Lesser Scaup
Lesser Scaup (Female)
Long-tailed Duck
Mallard
Mottled Duck (Second North Carolina
Record)
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Red-breasted Merganser
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Ruddy Duck
Surf Scoter
Wood Duck
TURKEY & QUAIL
Northern Bobwhite
Wild Turkey
LOONS, GREBES, & GANNET
Common Loon
Red-throated Loon
Horned Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Northern Gannet
PELICANS, CORMORANTS & ANHINGA
Anhinga
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican Non-breeding Study
Double-crested Cormorant
WADERS
American Bittern
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Cattle Egret
Glossy Ibis
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Great Egret (In Flight)
Great Egret (Foraging)
Green Heron
Green Heron (2009 with Juvenile)
Reddish Egret (Rare Late Summer/Early
Fall)
Roseate Spoonbill (Sunset Beach; Rare
Late Summer/Early Fall)
Snowy Egret
Tricolored Heron
White Ibis
Wood Stork
Wood Stork Nestling
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Juvenile)
VULTURES
Black Vulture
Black & Turkey Vulture
Comparison
Turkey Vulture
RAPTORS
American Kestrel
Bald Eagle
Cooper's Hawk
Merlin
Northern Harrier
Northern Harrier (Male)
Osprey
Peregrine Falcon
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk (Backyard January
2010)
Swallow-tailed Kite
RAILS, MOORHEN, & CRANES
American Coot
Clapper Rail
Clapper Rail (2010)
Sandhill Crane (Rare Migration)
Sora
SHOREBIRDS
American Avocet
American Oystercatcher
American Oystercatcher (2008)
American Woodcock
Black-bellied Plover
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (2007)
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (2009)
Dunlin
Greater Yellowlegs
Greater Yellowlegs (2008)
Hudsonian Godwit (Rare Fall Migrant)
Killdeer
Killdeer (Juvenile 2010)
Long-billed Dowitcher
Marbled Godwit
Marbled & Hudsonian Godwit
Comparison
Pectoral Sandpiper
Piping Plover
Purple Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Sanderling
Short-billed Dowitcher
Snowy Plover (Extreme Vagrant)
Spotted Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Willet
Wilson's Snipe
GULLS, TERNS, SKIMMER, & SKUAS
Black-headed Gull (Rare Winter)
Bonaparte's Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Herring Gull
Laughing Gull
Laughing Gull Plumages
Laughing Gull Mating
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Ring-billed Gull (Flight)
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Gull-billed Tern
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Black Skimmer
PIGEONS & DOVES
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
Rock Pigeon
White-winged Dove (Rare Vagrant
Fall/Winter)
CUCKOOS
Black-billed Cuckoo (Rare Migration)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
OWLS
Great Horned Owl
Great Horned Owl (Nestling March 2007)
Great Horned Owl (Nestlings April
2009)
NIGHTHAWKS & NIGHTJARS
SWIFTS
HUMMINGBIRDS
Broad-billed Hummingbird (Extreme Vagrant
Fall/Winter)
Broad-billed Hummingbird Capture
(Extreme Vagrant Fall/Winter)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Ruby-throated Hummingbird Nestlings
Ruby-throated Hummingbird Sub-adult
Male (Breeder/Rare Fall & Winter)
Rufous Hummingbird (Rare Overwinter)
KINGFISHER & WOODPECKERS
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker (Dogwood Tree)
Pileated Woodpecker (Foraging Upside
down)
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Red-Headed Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Male)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Female)
FLYCATCHERS
Ash-throated Flycatcher (Extreme
Vagrant Late Fall)
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Say's Phoebe (Extreme Vagrant Late
Fall/Winter)
Western Kingbird (Extreme Vagrant Late
Fall)
Western Kingbird in Flight (Extreme
Vagrant Late Fall)
SHRIKES
Loggerhead Shrike
VIREOS
Blue-headed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
White-eyed Vireo
JAYS, CROWS, & RAVENS
American Crow
Blue Jay
Fish Crow
LARKS
Horned Lark
SWALLOWS
Purple Martin
CHICKADEES, TITMICE, NUTHATCHES, & CREEPERS
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Brown-headed Nuthatch (2010)
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
WRENS, KINGLETS, & GNATCATCHERS
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
THRUSHES
American Robin
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Bluebird (2010)
Eastern Bluebird (Backyard 2010)
Hermit Thrush
MIMIDS
Brown Thrasher
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Mockingbird (Defending Winter
Territory)
STARLINGS
PIPITS & WAXWINGS
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing (February 2010)
Cedar Waxwing (Also February 2010)
WARBLERS
American Redstart (Male)
American Redstart (Sub-adult Male)
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler (Fall
Migrant)
Magnolia Warbler
Northern Parula
Orange-crowned Warbler
Ovenbird
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler Nest Predation by
Cowbird
Swainson's Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
TANAGERS
TOWHEES, SPARROWS, & JUNCOS
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow (2008)
Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Henslow's Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Nelson's & Saltmarsh
Sharp-tailed Sparrow Comparison
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow Enjoys Cricket
Seaside Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow (2008)
White-throated Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow (Tan Male)
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)
CARDINALS & BUNTINGS
Northern Cardinal
Northern Cardinal (2010)
Dickcissel
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Painted Bunting (Breeder/Rare Fall
& Winter)
Painted Bunting Banding June 2010
BLACKBIRDS & ORIOLES
Baltimore Oriole
Baltimore Oriole (1st Fall Male)
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Bobolink
Orchard Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird (Leucistic)
Rusty Blackbird
FINCHES & HOUSE SPARROW
American Goldfinch
Purple Finch
Purple Finch (Female)
Pine Siskin (Rare Late Fall/Winter)
House Sparrow
Canon EOS 20D and 40D cameras with a 500
mm f4 IS USM lens were used for many telephoto images and a 1.4X extender was
added for many.
Many images were also taken with Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 IS USM and Canon
100mm f/2.8 USM Macro lenses.
For landscapes, birders, and some birds, I used a Sony Cyber-shot DSC 828 (8
mpx) digital camera with a 28-200 mm Zeiss lens.
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