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High Line Canal - Bird Guide

This is a guide to probable common birds on the High Line Canal.
Note, this guide was created from baseline data collected from areas near to or on the High Line Canal. There may be some inaccurate data.

Thick-billed Kingbird 1
Tyrannus crassirostris
Townsend's Solitaire 2
Myadestes townsendi
Tree Swallow 3
Tachycineta bicolor
Vesper Sparrow 4
Pooecetes gramineus
Violet-green Swallow 5
Tachycineta thalassina
Virginia's Warbler 4
Oreothlypis virginiae
Warbling Vireo 6
Vireo gilvus
Western Bluebird 7
Sialia mexicana
Western Grebe 8
Aechmophorus occidentalis
Western Kingbird 9
Tyrannus verticalis
Western Meadowlark 10
Sturnella neglecta
Western Scrub Jay 11
Aphelocoma californica
Western Tanager 4
Piranga ludoviciana
White-crowned Sparrow 12
Zonotrichia leucophrys
White-throated Swift 13
Aeronautes saxatalis
Willow Flycatcher 14
Empidonax traillii
Wilson's Snipe 15
Gallinago delicata
Wilson's Warbler 13
Cardellina pusilla
Wood Thrush 16
Hylocichla mustelina
Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay 4
Aphelocoma woodhouseii
Woodpeckers 17
Piciformes
Worm-eating Warbler 4
Helmitheros vermivorum
Yellow Warbler 18
Setophaga petechia
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 19
Coccyzus americanus
Yellow-breasted Chat 9
Icteria virens
Yellow-headed Blackbird 20
Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
Yellow-rumped Warbler 21
Setophaga coronata
Yellow-throated Warbler 22
Setophaga dominica
American White Pelican 23
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
Bald Eagle 24
Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Barn Owl 25
Tyto alba
Broad-winged Hawk 26
Buteo platypterus
Burrowing Owl 27
Athene cunicularia
Cooper's Hawk 28
Accipiter cooperii
Eastern Screech Owl 29
Megascops asio
Ferruginous Hawk 30
Buteo regalis
Golden Eagle 31
Aquila chrysaetos
Great Horned Owl 32
Bubo virginianus
Harris's Hawk 4
Parabuteo unicinctus
Killdeer 33
Charadrius vociferus
Northern Pygmy-Owl 34
Glaucidium gnoma
Prairie Falcon 14
Falco mexicanus
Rough-legged hawk 35
Buteo lagopus
Sharp-shinned Hawk 36
Accipiter striatus
Turkey Vulture 9
Cathartes aura
American Avocet 37
Recurvirostra americana
American Coot 27
Fulica americana
American Widgeon 3
Mareca americana
Barrow's Goldeneye 38
Bucephala islandica
Black-necked Stilt 38
Himantopus mexicanus
Blue-winged Teal 3
Spatula discors
Bonaparte's Gull 5
Chroicocephalus philadelphia
Bufflehead 3
Bucephala albeola
California Gull 39
Larus californicus
Canada Goose 40
Branta canadensis
Canvasback 4
Aythya valisineria
Cinnamon Teal 41
Spatula cyanoptera
Clark's Grebe 5
Aechmophorus clarkii
Common Loon 4
Gavia immer
Common Merganser 42
Mergus merganser
Eared Grebe 43
Podiceps nigricollis
Forster's Tern 44
Sterna forsteri
Franklin's Gull 45
Leucophaeus pipixcan
Gadwall 42
Mareca strepera
Great Blue Heron 8
Ardea herodias
Great Egret 8
Ardea alba
Greater White-fronted Goose 46
Anser albifrons
Herring Gull 47
Larus argentatus
Hooded Merganser 6
Lophodytes cucullatus
Lesser Scaup 48
Aythya affinis
Lesser Yellowlegs 49
Tringa flavipes
Mallard 50
Anas platyrhynchos
Northern Pintail 51
Anas acuta
Northern Shoveler 3
Spatula clypeata
Ring-necked Duck 3
Aythya collaris
Ruddy Duck 43
Oxyura jamaicensis
Sandhill Crane
Antigone canadensis
Snow Goose
Anser caerulescens
Snowy Egret 52
Egretta thula
Sora 8
Porzana carolina
Spotted Sandpiper 53
Actitis macularius
Virginia Rail 54
Rallus limicola
Willet 4
Tringa semipalmata
Wilson's Phalarope 34
Phalaropus tricolor
Wood Duck 55
Aix sponsa
Chukar 56
Alectoris chukar
Northern Bobwhite 57
Colinus virginianus
Ring-necked pheasant 58
Phasianus colchicus
Wild Turkey 59
Meleagris gallopavo

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