Corey’s New York State 2007 Year List

This is my year list for birding New York State in 2007. I decided in June, after having had a pretty good run of rarities, to shoot for the elusive 300 mark. Not the best of ideas but having a goal forces me out birding more and that’s not a bad thing, right? Links are to 10,000 Birds posts featuring a picture of the bird or a description of my finding it. One star means the bird was a first in New York for me and two stars denote a lifer. At the end of the list are some birds I’ve missed that sometimes give me the Big Year Blues.

1. Pink-footed Goose**
2. Snow Goose
3. Ross’s Goose*
4. Brant
5. Barnacle Goose*
6. Canada Goose
7. Cackling Goose**
8. Mute Swan
9. Tundra Swan
10. Wood Duck
11. Gadwall
12. Eurasian Wigeon**
13. American Wigeon
14. American Black Duck
15. Mallard
16. Blue-winged Teal
17. Northern Shoveler
18. Northern Pintail
19. Green-winged Teal
20. Canvasback
21. Redhead
22. Ring-necked Duck
23. Greater Scaup
24. Lesser Scaup
25. King Eider**
26. Common Eider
27. Harlequin Duck**
28. Surf Scoter
29. White-winged Scoter
30. Black Scoter
31. Long-tailed Duck
32. Bufflehead
33. Common Goldeneye
34. Barrow’s Goldeneye
35. Hooded Merganser
36. Common Merganser
37. Red-breasted Merganser
38. Ruddy Duck
39. Ring-necked Pheasant
40. Ruffed Grouse
41. Wild Turkey
42. Northern Bobwhite**
43. Red-throated Loon
44. Common Loon
45. Pied-billed Grebe
46. Horned Grebe
47. Red-necked Grebe
48. Eared Grebe*
49. Northern Fulmar**
50. Cory’s Shearwater**
51. Greater Shearwater**
52. Wilson’s Storm-Petrel**
53. Northern Gannet
54. Double-crested Cormorant
55. Great Cormorant*
56. American Bittern
57. Least Bittern
58. Great Blue Heron
59. Western Reef-Heron**
60. Great Egret
61. Snowy Egret
62. Little Blue Heron
63. Tricolored Heron
64. Cattle Egret*
65. Green Heron
66. Black-crowned Night-Heron
67. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
68. Glossy Ibis
69. Black Vulture*
70. Turkey Vulture
71. Osprey
72. Bald Eagle
73. Northern Harrier
74. Sharp-shinned Hawk
75. Cooper’s Hawk
76. Northern Goshawk
77. Red-shouldered Hawk
78. Broad-winged Hawk
79. Red-tailed Hawk
80. Rough-legged Hawk
81. Golden Eagle
82. American Kestrel
83. Merlin
84. Peregrine Falcon
85. Clapper Rail**
86. Virginia Rail
87. Sora
88. Common Moorhen
89. American Coot
90. Sandhill Crane
91. Black-bellied Plover
92. American Golden-Plover**
93. Semipalmated Plover
94. Piping Plover*
95. Killdeer
96. American Oystercatcher
97. American Avocet*
98. Greater Yellowlegs
99. Lesser Yellowlegs
100. Solitary Sandpiper
101. Willet
102. Spotted Sandpiper
103. Upland Sandpiper
104. Hudsonian Godwit**
105. Ruddy Turnstone
106. Red Knot**
107. Sanderling
108. Semipalmated Sandpiper
109. Western Sandpiper
110. Least Sandpiper
111. White-rumped Sandpiper
112. Baird’s Sandpiper
113. Pectoral Sandpiper
114. Purple Sandpiper
115. Dunlin
116. Curlew Sandpiper**
117. Stilt Sandpiper
118. Buff-breasted Sandpiper**
119. Short-billed Dowitcher
120. Long-billed Dowitcher*
121. Wilson’s Snipe
122. American Woodcock
123. Wilson’s Phalarope*
124. Red-necked Phalarope*
125. Laughing Gull
126. Little Gull**
127. Black-headed Gull*
128. Bonaparte’s Gull
129. Ring-billed Gull
130. Herring Gull
131. Iceland Gull
132. Lesser Back-backed Gull
133. Glaucous Gull
134. Great Black-backed Gull
135. Black-legged Kittiwake
136. Ivory Gull**
137. Gull-billed Tern**
138. Caspian Tern
139. Royal Tern*
140. Common Tern
141. Forster’s Tern
142. Least Tern
143. Black Tern**
144. Parasitic Jaeger**
145. Long-tailed Jaeger**
146. Dovekie
147. Razorbill
148. Atlantic Puffin
149. Black Skimmer
150. Rock Pigeon
151. Eurasian Collared-Dove**
152. Mourning Dove
153. Monk Parakeet*
154. Black-billed Cuckoo
155. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
156. Eastern Screech-Owl
157. Great Horned Owl
158. Snowy Owl
159. Barred Owl
160. Long-eared Owl**
161. Short-eared Owl**
162. Northern Saw-whet Owl**
163. Common Nighthawk
164. Chuck-will’s Widow**
165. Whip-poor-will
166. Chimney Swift
167. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
168. Belted Kingfisher
169. Red-headed Woodpecker**
170. Red-bellied Woodpecker
171. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
172. Downy Woodpecker
173. Hairy Woodpecker
174. Northern Flicker
175. Pileated Woodpecker
176. Olive-sided Flycatcher
177. Eastern Wood-Pewee
178. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
179. Acadian Flycatcher**
180. Alder Flycatcher
181. Willow Flycatcher
182. Least Flycatcher
183. Eastern Phoebe
184. Ash-throated Flycatcher
185. Great Crested Flycatcher
186. Western Kingbird*
187. Eastern Kingbird
188. Northern Shrike
189. White-eyed Vireo
190. Yellow-throated Vireo
191. Blue-headed Vireo
192. Warbling Vireo
193. Philadelphia Vireo
194. Red-eyed Vireo
195. Gray Jay
196. Blue Jay
197. American Crow
198. Fish Crow
199. Common Raven
200. Horned Lark
201. Purple Martin
202. Tree Swallow
203. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
204. Bank Swallow
205. Cliff Swallow
206. Barn Swallow
207. Black-capped Chickadee
208. Boreal Chickadee
209. Tufted Titmouse
210. Red-breasted Nuthatch
211. White-breasted Nuthatch
212. Brown Creeper
213. Carolina Wren
214. House Wren
215. Winter Wren
216. Sedge Wren
217. Marsh Wren
218. Golden-crowned Kinglet
219. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
220. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
221. Eastern Bluebird
222. Townsend’s Solitaire**
223. Veery
224. Bicknell’s Thrush
225. Swainson’s Thrush
226. Hermit Thrush
227. Wood Thrush
228. American Robin
229. Gray Catbird
230. Northern Mockingbird
231. Brown Thrasher
232. European Starling
233. American Pipit
234. Bohemian Waxwing
235. Cedar Waxwing
236. Blue-winged Warbler
237. Golden-winged Warbler**
238. Tennessee Warbler**
239. Nashville Warbler
240. Northern Parula
241. Yellow Warbler
242. Chestnut-sided Warbler
243. Magnolia Warbler
244. Cape May Warbler**
245. Black-throated Blue Warbler
246. Yellow-rumped Warbler
247. Black-throated Green Warbler
248. Blackburnian Warbler
249. Pine Warbler
250. Prairie Warbler
251. Palm Warbler
252. Bay-breasted Warbler
253. Blackpoll Warbler
254. Cerulean Warbler
255. Black-and-white Warbler
256. American Redstart
257. Prothonotary Warbler
258. Worm-eating Warbler
259. Ovenbird
260. Northern Waterthrush
261. Louisiana Waterthrush
262. Mourning Warbler
263. Common Yellowthroat
264. Hooded Warbler
265. Wilson’s Warbler
266. Canada Warbler
267. Scarlet Tanager
268. Western Tanager*
269. Eastern Towhee
270. American Tree Sparrow
271. Chipping Sparrow
272. Clay-colored Sparrow
273. Field Sparrow
274. Vesper Sparrow
275. Lark Sparrow*
276. Savannah Sparrow
277. Grasshopper Sparrow
278. Henslow’s Sparrow
279. Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow**
280. Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow**
281. Seaside Sparrow**
282. Fox Sparrow
283. Song Sparrow
284. Lincoln’s Sparrow
285. Swamp Sparrow
286. White-throated Sparrow
287. White-crowned Sparrow
288. Dark-eyed Junco
289. Lapland Longspur**
290. Snow Bunting
291. Northern Cardinal
292. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
293. Blue Grosbeak*
294. Indigo Bunting
295. Dickcissel**
296. Bobolink
297. Red-winged Blackbird
298. Eastern Meadowlark
299. Yellow-headed Blackbird**
300. Rusty Blackbird
301. Common Grackle
302. Boat-tailed Grackle
303. Brown-headed Cowbird
304. Orchard Oriole
305. Bullock’s Oriole*
306. Baltimore Oriole
307. Pine Grosbeak**
308. Purple Finch
309. House Finch
310. Red Crossbill
311. White-winged Crossbill
312. Common Redpoll
313. Pine Siskin
314. American Goldfinch
315. Evening Grosbeak**
316. House Sparrow

Birds I’ve missed:

1. The-bird-that-shall-not-be-named.
2. That Blasted Duck
3. The-goose-that-gave-me-the-slip
4. The Elusive One
5. The-wary-white-faced-wave-hider
6. The Sneaky Striped Shorebird
7. The-gull-that-is-misnamed
8. The Non-collared Dove (I got this one on the second try)