Bird Checklist
This checklist, compiled over a thirty-year period, lists birds identified on the Union College Grounds by competent observers. Those marked with asterisks (*) are nesting species. .
Visitors may also want to look at Professor of Biology Carl George's Collins Lake Waterbird Study, which contains a searchable list of birds found in the area.
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A checklist of birds seen on the Union College Grounds:
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- Wood duck*
- Black and white warbler
- Great blue heron
- Tennessee warbler
- Canada goose
- Parula warbler
- Eastern kestrel*
- Yellow warbler*
- Peregrine falcon
- Cape May warbler
- Eastern red-tailed hawk
- Magnolia warbler
- Broad-winged hawk
- Black-throated blue warbler
- Ruffed grouse
- Ring-necked pheasant
- Yellow-rumped warbler
- Killdeer
- Blackburnian warbler
- Spotted sandpiper
- Chestnut-sided warbler
- Herring gull
- Bay-breasted warbler
- Rock dove*
- Black-poll warbler
- Mourning dove*
- Oven-bird*
- Yellow-billed cuckoo
- Yellow-throat
- Canada warbler
- Screech owl*
- American redstart*
- Snowy owl
- House sparrow*
- Saw-whet owl
- Red-wing
- Barred owl
- Eastern oriole*
- Nighthawk
- Purple grackle*
- Chimney swift*
- Cowbird
- Ruby-throated hummingbird
- Scarlet tanager
- Belted kingfisher
- Cardinal*
- Flicker*
- Rose-breasted grosbeak*
- Pileated woodpecker
- Evening grosbeak
- Yellow-bellied sapsucker
- Hairy woodpecker*
- Purple finch
- Downy woodpecker*
- House finch*
- Eastern kingbird*
- Pine grosbeak
- Crested flycatcher
- Redpoll
- Eastern phoebe*
- Pine siskin
- Wood peewee*
- Goldfinch*
- Barn swallow
- Slate-colored junco
- Blue jay*
- Tree sparrow
- Crow*
- Chipping sparrow*
- Black-capped chickadee*
- Field sparrow
- Tufted titmouse
- Towhee
- White-breasted nuthatch*
- White-crowned sparrow
- Red-breasted nuthatch
- White-throated sparrow
- Brown creeper*
- Fox sparrow
- House wren*
- Song sparrow*
- Mockingbird
- Brown Thrasher
- Catbird*
- Robin*
- Wood thrush*
- Eastern hermit thrush
- Olive-backed thrush
- Ruby-crowned kinglet
- Cedar waxwing
- Starling*
- Red-eyed vireo
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