2022 Reported Bird Sightings on Fishers Island
(There were 181 different species reported by observers this year. Of those, seven were new and added to our overall list of historic sightings. That list now contains 252 species.)
The data are collected by a group of knowledgeable Fishers Islanders. eBird reports and Audubon Seasonal Bird Counts also provide additional sightings.
● indicates a reported sighting
| 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ⚫ | ⚫ |
| ⚫ | Harlequin Duck | ||
| ⚫ | 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 | ⚫ | ||
| MURRES, PUFFINS, AND ALLIES | |||
| ⚫ | Razorbill | ||
| 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 | ⚫ | ||
| ⚫ | Manx's 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 | ⚫ | ⚫ |
| ⚫ | Vesper 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 | ⚫ | ⚫ |
| ⚫ | Rusty Blackbird | ||
| ⚫ | 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 | ⚫ | ⚫ |
| ⚫ | Hooded Warbler | ||
| ⚫ | 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 | |||
| ⚫ | Summer Tanager | ||
| ⚫ | Scarlet Tanager | ⚫ | ⚫ |
| Western Tanager | ⚫ | ||
| ⚫ | Northern Cardinal | ⚫ | ⚫ |
| ⚫ | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | ⚫ | ⚫ |
| Blue Grosbeak | ⚫ | ⚫ | |
| ⚫ | Indigo Bunting | ⚫ | |
| 181 | 252 | 186 | 170 |
