Onondaga Cave SP

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Checklist of Birds

159 species recorded in this park (Updated: 10/4/2022)

           Pied-billed Grebe            Chipping Sparrow
           Black Vulture            Mourning Dove
           Osprey            Hairy Woodpecker
           Common Nighthawk            Olive-sided Flycatcher
           Chimney Swift            Wood Thrush
           Belted Kingfisher            Black-and-white Warbler
           Great Crested Flycatcher            Baltimore Oriole
           White-eyed Vireo            Canada Goose
           Bank Swallow            Bald Eagle
           Carolina Chickadee            Northern Flicker
           Red-breasted Nuthatch            American Robin
           Brown Creeper            Prothonotary Warbler
           Ruby-crowned Kinglet            Field Sparrow
           Eastern Bluebird            Red-winged Blackbird
           Gray Catbird            Mute Swan
           European Starling            Pileated Woodpecker
           Ovenbird            Eastern Wood-Pewee
           Yellow-breasted Chat            Fox Sparrow
           House Sparrow            Pine Siskin
           Wild Turkey            Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
           Turkey Vulture            Tennessee Warbler
           Eastern Screech-Owl            American Tree Sparrow
           Red-headed Woodpecker            Brown-headed Cowbird
           Blue Jay            Green Heron
           Tree Swallow            Red-shouldered Hawk
           White-breasted Nuthatch            Acadian Flycatcher
           Bewick's Wren            Orange-crowned Warbler
           Golden-crowned Kinglet            Dark-eyed Junco
           Brown Thrasher            Rusty Blackbird
           Cedar Waxwing            American Goldfinch
           Worm-eating Warbler            Wood Duck
           Bobolink            Broad-winged Hawk
           Snow Goose            Nashville Warbler
           Ruffed Grouse            White-crowned Sparrow
           Eurasian Collared-Dove            Common Grackle
           Yellow-billed Cuckoo            Blue-winged Teal
           Great Horned Owl            Red-tailed Hawk
           Chuck-will's-widow            Least Flycatcher
           Red-bellied Woodpecker            Eastern Phoebe
           Yellow-throated Vireo            White-throated Sparrow
           Tufted Titmouse            Northern Shoveler
           Carolina Wren            Kentucky Warbler
           Louisiana Waterthrush            Gadwall
           Eastern Meadowlark            Common Yellowthroat
           Yellow-bellied Sapsucker            Hooded Warbler
           Eastern Kingbird            American Redstart
           Blue-headed Vireo            Mallard
           Northern Rough-winged Swallow            Cerulean Warbler
           House Wren            Song Sparrow
           Veery            Northern Parula
           Northern Mockingbird            Lincoln's Sparrow
           Northern Waterthrush            Green-winged Teal
           House Finch            Magnolia Warbler
           Great Blue Heron            Swamp Sparrow
           Peregrine Falcon            Bay-breasted Warbler
           Killdeer            Blackburnian Warbler
           Ruby-throated Hummingbird            Ring-necked Duck
           Philadelphia Vireo            Yellow Warbler
           American Crow            Eastern Towhee
           Purple Martin            Chestnut-sided Warbler
           Winter Wren            Palm Warbler
           Gray-cheeked Thrush            Pine Warbler
           Orchard Oriole            American Woodcock
           Purple Finch            Yellow-rumped Warbler
           Great Egret            Yellow-throated Warbler
           Sharp-shinned Hawk            Prairie Warbler
           Barred Owl            Solitary Sandpiper
           Downy Woodpecker            Hooded Merganser
           Warbling Vireo            Black-throated Green Warbler
           Fish Crow            Canada Warbler
           Barn Swallow            Wilson's Warbler
           Swainson's Thrush            Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
           Golden-winged Warbler            Summer Tanager
           Snowy Egret            Scarlet Tanager
           Cooper's Hawk            Northern Cardinal
           Red-eyed Vireo            Rose-breasted Grosbeak
           Cliff Swallow            Blue Grosbeak
           Marsh Wren            Indigo Bunting
           Hermit Thrush            Dickcissel
           Blue-winged Warbler

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