2021 Reported Bird Sightings on Fishers Island
(There were a total of 186 bird species observed over the calendar year)
The data are collected from a group of knowledgeable birders and updated on a monthly basis.
● indicates a reported sighting
| DUCKS, GEESE,SWANS | |
| ⚫ | Brant |
| ⚫ | Barnacle Goose |
| ⚫ | Canada Goose |
| ⚫ | Mute Swan |
| ⚫ | Wood Duck |
| Blue-winged Teal | |
| Northern Shoveler | |
| Gadwall | |
| ⚫ | American Widgeon |
| ⚫ | Mallard |
| ⚫ | American Black Duck |
| ⚫ | Northern Pintail |
| Green-winged Teal | |
| Canvasback | |
| Redhead | |
| ⚫ | Ring-necked Duck |
| Greater Scaup | |
| ⚫ | Lesser Scaup |
| King Eider | |
| ⚫ | Common Eider |
| ⚫ | Surf Scoter |
| ⚫ | White-winged Scoter |
| ⚫ | Black Scoter |
| Long-tailed Duck | |
| ⚫ | Bufflehead |
| ⚫ | Common Goldeneye |
| ⚫ | Barrow's Goldeneye |
| ⚫ | Hooded Merganser |
| ⚫ | Common Merganser |
| ⚫ | Red-breasted Merganser |
| Ruddy Duck | |
| GALLINACEOUS BIRDS | |
| Northern Bobwhite | |
| ⚫ | Ring-necked Pheasant |
| GREBES | |
| ⚫ | Red-necked Grebe |
| Pied-billed Grebe | |
| ⚫ | Horned Grebe |
| PIGEONS, DOVES | |
| ⚫ | Rock Pigeon |
| ⚫ | Mourning Dove |
| CUCKOOS | |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | |
| NIGHTJARS | |
| ⚫ | Common Nighthawk |
| Eastern Whip-poor-will | |
| SWIFTS | |
| ⚫ | Chimney Swift |
| HUMMINGBIRDS | |
| ⚫ | Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
| RAILS, GALLINULES, & COOTS | |
| Virginia Rail | |
| American Coot | |
| Black Rail | |
| CRANES | |
| ⚫ | Sandhill Crane |
| OYSTERCATCHERS | |
| ⚫ | American Oystercatcher |
| LAPWINGS & PLOVERS | |
| ⚫ | Black-bellied Plover |
| American Golden Plover | |
| ⚫ | Killdeer |
| ⚫ | Semi-palmated Plover |
| ⚫ | Piping Plover |
| SANDPIPERS | |
| ⚫ | Whimbrel |
| ⚫ | Ruddy Turnstone |
| Red Knot | |
| ⚫ | Sanderling |
| ⚫ | Dunlin |
| ⚫ | Purple Sandpiper |
| ⚫ | Least Sandpiper |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | |
| ⚫ | Semi-palmated Sandpiper |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | |
| ⚫ | American Woodcock |
| Wilson's Snipe | |
| ⚫ | Spotted Sandpiper |
| ⚫ | Solitary Sandpiper |
| ⚫ | Lesser Yellowlegs |
| Willet | |
| ⚫ | Greater Yellowlegs |
| SKUAS, JAEGERS | |
| ⚫ | Long-tailed Jaeger |
| GULLS, TERNS, & SKIMMERS | |
| ⚫ | Bonaparte's Gull |
| ⚫ | Laughing Gull |
| ⚫ | Ring-billed Gull |
| ⚫ | Herring Gull |
| ⚫ | Lesser Black-backed Gull |
| ⚫ | Great Black-backed Gull |
| ⚫ | Least Tern |
| ⚫ | Black Tern |
| ⚫ | Roseate Tern |
| ⚫ | Common Tern |
| ⚫ | Foster's Tern |
| ⚫ | Royal Tern |
| ⚫ | Black Skimmer |
| LOONS | |
| ⚫ | Red-throated Loon |
| ⚫ | Common Loon |
| SOUTHERN STORM-PETRALS | |
| ⚫ | Wilson's Storm Petral |
| FULMARS, SHEARWATERS | |
| ⚫ | Cory's Shearwater |
| ⚫ | Sooty Shearwater |
| ⚫ | Great Shearwater |
| ⚫ | Audubon's Shearwater |
| BOOBIES AND GANNETS | |
| ⚫ | Northern Gannet |
| CORMORANTS | |
| ⚫ | Great Cormorant |
| ⚫ | Double-crested Cormorant |
| BITTERNS, HERONS, & ALLIES | |
| American Bittern | |
| ⚫ | Great Blue Heron |
| ⚫ | Great Egret |
| ⚫ | Snowy Egret |
| ⚫ | Little Blue Heron |
| ⚫ | Green Heron |
| ⚫ | Black-crowned Night Heron |
| ⚫ | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron |
| IBISES, SPOONBILLS | |
| ⚫ | Glossy Ibis |
| VULTURES | |
| ⚫ | Turkey Vulture |
| OSPREY | |
| ⚫ | Osprey |
| HAWKS, KITES, EAGLES | |
| ⚫ | Golden Eagle |
| ⚫ | Northern Harrier |
| ⚫ | Sharp-shinned Hawk |
| ⚫ | Cooper's Hawk |
| ⚫ | Northern Goshawk |
| ⚫ | Bald Eagle |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | |
| Broad -winged Hawk | |
| ⚫ | Red-tailed Hawk |
| Rough-legged Hawk | |
| OWLS | |
| Barn Owl | |
| Eastern Screech-Owl | |
| Great Horned Owl | |
| ⚫ | Snowy Owl |
| ⚫ | Barred Owl |
| Short-eared Owl | |
| Northern Saw-whet Owl | |
| KINGFISHERS | |
| ⚫ | Belted Kingfisher |
| WOODPECKERS | |
| Red-headed Woodpecker | |
| ⚫ | Red-bellied Woodpecker |
| ⚫ | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
| ⚫ | Downy Woodpeker |
| ⚫ | Hairy Woodpecker |
| ⚫ | Northern Flicker |
| FALCONS | |
| ⚫ | American Kestrel |
| ⚫ | Merlin |
| ⚫ | Peregrine Falcon |
| FLYCATCHERS | |
| ⚫ | Great Crested Flycatcher |
| ⚫ | Eastern Kingbird |
| Gray Kingbird | |
| ⚫ | Eastern Wood-Pewee |
| ⚫ | Alder Flycatcher |
| Willow Flycatcher | |
| Least Flycatcher | |
| ⚫ | Eastern Phoebe |
| VIREOS | |
| ⚫ | White-eyed Vireo |
| ⚫ | Yellow-throated Vireo |
| ⚫ | Blue-headed Vireo |
| Warbling Vireo | |
| ⚫ | Red-eyed Vireo |
| JAYS, MAGPIES,CROWS | |
| ⚫ | Blue Jay |
| ⚫ | American Crow |
| ⚫ | Fish Crow |
| ⚫ | Common Raven |
| CHICKADEES & TITMICE | |
| ⚫ | Black-capped Chickadee |
| ⚫ | Tufted Titmouse |
| LARKS | |
| ⚫ | Horned Lark |
| MARTINS, SWALLOWS | |
| ⚫ | Bank Swallow |
| ⚫ | Tree Swallow |
| ⚫ | Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
| ⚫ | Purple Martin |
| ⚫ | Barn Swallow |
| KINGLETS | |
| ⚫ | Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
| ⚫ | Golden-crowned Kinglet |
| WAXWINGS | |
| ⚫ | Cedar Waxwing |
| NUTHATCHES | |
| ⚫ | Red-breasted Nuthatch |
| ⚫ | White-breasted Nuthatch |
| CREEPERS | |
| Brown Creeper | |
| GNATCATCHERS | |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | |
| WRENS | |
| ⚫ | House Wren |
| ⚫ | Winter Wren |
| Marsh Wren | |
| ⚫ | Carolina Wren |
| MIMICS | |
| ⚫ | Gray Catbird |
| ⚫ | Brown Thrasher |
| ⚫ | Northern Mockingbird |
| STARLINGS | |
| ⚫ | European Starling |
| THRUSHES | |
| ⚫ | Eastern Bluebird |
| Veery | |
| Gray-Cheeked Thrush | |
| ⚫ | Swainson's Thrush |
| ⚫ | Hermit Thrush |
| ⚫ | Wood Thrush |
| ⚫ | American Robin |
| OLD WORLD SPARROWS | |
| ⚫ | House Sparrow |
| WAGTAILS AND PIPITS | |
| ⚫ | American Pipit |
| FINCHES & CROSSBILLS | |
| ⚫ | Evening Grosbeak |
| ⚫ | Pine Grobeak |
| ⚫ | House Finch |
| ⚫ | Purple Finch |
| ⚫ | Common Redpoll |
| Red Crossbill | |
| ⚫ | Pine Siskin |
| ⚫ | American Goldfinch |
| LONGSPURS & SNOW BUNTINGS | |
| ⚫ | Snow Bunting |
| NEW WORLD SPARROWS & ALLIES | |
| Grasshopper Sparrow | |
| ⚫ | Chipping Sparrow |
| Clay-colored Sparrow | |
| Field Sparrow | |
| ⚫ | Fox Sparrow |
| ⚫ | American Tree Sparrow |
| ⚫ | Dark-eyed Junco |
| ⚫ | White-crowned Sparrow |
| ⚫ | White-throated Sparrow |
| Henslow's Sparrow | |
| ⚫ | Savannah Sparrow |
| ⚫ | Song Sparrow |
| Lincoln's Sparrow | |
| ⚫ | Swamp Sparrow |
| ⚫ | Eastern Towhee |
| BLACKBIRDS | |
| ⚫ | Bobolink |
| ⚫ | Eastern Meadowlark |
| ⚫ | Orchard Oriole |
| ⚫ | Baltimore Oriole |
| ⚫ | Red-winged Blackbird |
| ⚫ | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| ⚫ | Common Grackle |
| WOOD-WARBLERS | |
| ⚫ | Ovenbird |
| ⚫ | Northern Waterthrush |
| Blue-winged Warbler | |
| ⚫ | Black-and-white Warbler |
| Prothonotary Warbler | |
| Tennessee Warbler | |
| ⚫ | Orange-crowned Warbler |
| ⚫ | Nashville Warbler |
| ⚫ | Connecticut Warbler |
| ⚫ | Common Yellowthroat |
| ⚫ | American Redstart |
| Cape May Warbler | |
| ⚫ | Northern Parula |
| ⚫ | Magnolia Warbler |
| Blackburnian Warbler | |
| ⚫ | Yellow Warbler |
| ⚫ | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| Blackpoll Warbler | |
| ⚫ | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| ⚫ | Palm Warbler |
| ⚫ | Pine Warbler |
| ⚫ | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Yellow-throated Warbler | |
| ⚫ | Prarie Warbler |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | |
| Canada Warbler | |
| TANAGERS, CARDINALS, & ALLIES | |
| ⚫ | Scarlet Tanager |
| Western Tanager | |
| ⚫ | Northern Cardinal |
| ⚫ | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| ⚫ | Blue Grosbeak |
| ⚫ | Indigo Bunting |
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Two oyster catchers flying in formation off South Beach near airport, 5/5/20. Photo by Todd McCormack.
