FIELD CHECKLIST (1998) OF THE BIRDS OF CODROY VALLEY
This checklist of the birds observed in Codroy Valley is based on confirmed reports from residents, tourists, birders and professional ornithologists. The area included is focused on the Codroy Valley and includes the region from Cape Anguille to Port-aux-Basques. Also, because many important Newfoundland bird records have been made on the Port-aux-Basques ferry and because many visitors to the Codroy Valley travel on the ferry, birds observed on the Newfoundland half of crossings are also included on the checklist. A total of 243 species are included on this list. A checklist is a dynamic source of information that is expected to change as new knowledge is acquired. Clearly, owing to incomplete information, many of the species recorded on this checklist have occurred in seasons other than those listed, and many species that have occurred in the Codroy Valley area are not recorded on this checklist, If you observe birds in the Codroy Valley area, your sightings are important. It is best to document unusual sightings with photographs and detailed descriptions, preferably provided by multiple observers. This checklist was prepared for the Codroy Valley Area Development Association by Bill Montevecchi.
OCCURRENCE [based on an experienced observer birding regularly and widely]:
C = COMMON likely to be found daily in appropriate season/habitat.
U = UNCOMMON likely to be found monthly in appropriate season/habitat; may be locally uncommon.
U * = VERY UNCOMMON likely to be found annually in appropriate season/habitat; may be locally uncommon.
X = RARE not likely to be found annually; though apparently occurs regularly in very small numbers.
X* = VERY RARE recorded three times or less.
STATUS:
B = BREEDER known to breed ["b" if nesting abundance is significantly lower than indicated by occurrence designation].
R = RESIDENT non-migratory, or maintains a significant year-round population.
V = VAGRANT occurrence outside usual range.
I = INTRODUCED introduced to Newfoundland.
SEASONAL DATES
SP =SPRING 21 Mar - 20 June F = FALL 11 Sept - 20 Dec
S = SUMMER 21 June - 20 Sept W = WINTER 21 Dec - 20 Mar
Seasons during which a species has been recorded - a lower case entry indicates that a species is less common during that season than indicated by the overall occurrence designation:
LOONS |
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GEESE |
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Red-throated Loon |
UBSPSFW |
Snow Goose |
UVF |
Common Loon |
CBR |
Canada Goose |
CSFw |
GREBES |
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DUCKS |
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Pied-billed Grebe |
U*SF |
Wood Duck |
U*SPSF |
Horned Grebe |
XSPFW |
Green-winged Teal |
CBSPSFw |
Red-necked Grebe |
UFW |
American Black Duck |
CBSPSFw |
FULMARS & SHEARWATERS |
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Mallard |
CBSPSFw |
Northern Fulmar |
CSPSFW |
Northern Pintail |
CBSPSFw |
Cory's Shearwater |
XS |
Blue-winged Teal |
UBSPSF |
Greater Shearwater |
CSPSF |
Northern Shoveler |
U*BSPSF |
Sooty Shearwater |
CSPSF |
Gadwall |
XVSPS |
Manx Shearwater |
USPS |
Eurasian Wigeon |
U*SPSFw |
STORM-PETRELS |
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American Wigeon |
CBSPSFw |
Wilson 's Storm-Petrel |
USPS |
Ring-necked Duck |
UBSPSF |
Leach's Storm-Petrel |
CSPSF |
Greater Scaup |
CBSPSFw |
GANNETS |
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Lesser Scaup |
XVF |
Northern Gannet |
CSPSF |
Common Eider |
CbR |
CORMORANTS |
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King Eider |
USPFW |
Great Cormorant |
UBSPSFw |
Common Goldeneye |
USPSFW |
Double-crested |
USPSF |
Oldsquaw |
CFW |
Cormorant |
UBSPSF |
Black Scoter |
USPFW |
HERONS |
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White-winged Scoter |
USPSFW |
American Bittern |
XVSF |
Surf Scoter |
USPFW |
Least Bittern |
USPSF |
Bufflehead |
U*SPFW |
Great Blue Heron |
XVSPS |
Hooded Merganser |
XVF |
Great Egret |
XVSF |
Common Merganser |
USPSFW |
Little Blue Heron |
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Red-breasted Merganser |
CBR |
FALCONS |
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Ruddy Duck |
U*VSPSF |
American Kestrel |
UBSPSFw |
OSPREYS, EAGLES, & HAWKS |
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Merlin |
UBSPSFw |
Osprey |
CBSPSF |
Peregrine Falcon |
U*SPSF |
Bald Eagle |
UBR |
Gyrfalcon |
U*SPFW |
Northern Harrier |
CBSPSF |
GROUSE & PTARMIGAN |
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Sharp-shinned Hawk |
UbSPSFW |
Spruce Grouse |
X*IBR |
Northern Goshawk |
U*bSPSFW |
Willow Ptarmigan |
CBR |
Rough-legged Hawk |
USPSFW |
Rock Ptarmigan |
UBR |
SANDPIPERS |
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Ruffed Grouse |
CBRI |
Greater Yellowlegs |
CBSPSF |
RAILS |
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Lesser Yellowlegs |
USF |
Virginia Rail |
XBSPSF |
Willet |
XSPSF |
Sora |
U*BSPSF |
Solitary Sandpiper |
XSPS |
American Coot |
U*VSPSF |
Spotted Sandpiper |
CBSPS |
CRANES |
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Eskimo Curlew |
Extinct? |
Sandhill Crane |
X*F |
Whimbrel |
USF |
PLOVERS |
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Hudsonian Godwit |
U*SF |
Black-bellied Plover |
CSF |
Ruddy Turnstone |
CSF |
Lesser Golden Plover |
CSF |
Red Knot |
USF |
Semipalmated Plover |
CSF |
Sanderling |
CSF |
Piping Plover |
U*BSPSF |
Semipalmated Sandpiper |
USF |
Killdeer |
U*S |
Least Sandpiper |
CBSPSF |
AUKS |
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White-rumped Sandpiper |
CSF |
Dovekie |
CFW |
Pectoral Sandpiper |
USF |
Common Murre |
UFW |
Purple Sandpiper |
USPFW |
Thick-billed Murre |
CFW |
Dunlin |
USF |
Razorbill |
USPSFW |
Curlew Sandpiper |
X*SP |
Black Guillemot |
CBR |
Short-billed Dowitcher |
USF |
Atlantic Puffin |
USPSFW |
Common Snipe |
CBSPSF |
DOVES |
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American Woodcock |
XBSPSF |
Rock Dove |
UBR |
Red-necked Phalarope |
US |
Mourning Dove |
USPSFW |
Red Phalarope |
US |
GOATSUCKERS |
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SKUAS, GULLS & TERNS |
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Common Nighthawk |
XSF |
Pomarine Jaeger |
USF |
SWIFTS |
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Parasitic Jaeger |
USF |
Chimney Swift |
U*SPS |
Great Skua |
USF |
HUMMINGBIRDS |
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Laughing Gull |
XVSPSF |
Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
UbSPSF |
Franklin 's Gull |
XVSPSF |
KINGFISHERS |
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Common Black-headed Gull |
USFW |
Belted Kingfisher |
CBSPSFw |
Bonaparte's Gull |
XSF |
WOODPECKERS |
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Ringed-billed Gull |
CBSPSF |
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
U*SPSF |
Herring Gull |
CBR |
Downy Woodpecker |
CBR |
Thayer's Gull |
XVWSP |
Hairy Woodpecker |
CBR |
Iceland Gull |
CSPSFW |
Three-toed Woodpecker |
U*BR |
Glaucous Gull |
CSFW |
Black-backed Woodpecker |
UBR |
Great Black-backed Gull |
CBR |
Northern Flicker |
CBR |
Black-legged Kittiwake |
CSPSFW |
CUCKOOS |
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Sabine's Gull |
X*F |
Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
XVF |
Caspian Tern |
USPSF |
Block-billed Cuckoo |
XVSF |
Common Tern |
CBSPSf |
OWLS |
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Arctic Tern |
CSPSf |
Great Horned Owl |
U*BR |
Black Tern |
XVSP |
Snowy Owl |
U*W |
FLYCATCHERS |
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Northern Hawk Owl |
XBR |
Olive-sided Flycatcher |
UBSPS |
Short-eared Owl |
U*BSPSF |
Eastern Wood-pewee |
XbSPS |
Boreal Owl |
U*BR |
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher |
CBSPSf |
Northern Saw-whet Owl |
XSF |
Alder Flycatcher |
UBSPS |
LARKS |
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Least Flycatcher |
U*BSPSf |
Horned Lark |
CBSPSFw |
Eastern Phoebe |
XVSPS |
SWALLOWS |
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Great Crested Flycatcher |
XVS |
Purple Martin |
XVSPS |
Western Kingbird |
XVSF |
Tree Swallow |
CBSPSf |
Eastern Kingbird |
UBSPSF |
Rough-winged Swallow |
XVSP |
MOCKINGBIRDS & THRASHERS |
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Bank Swallow |
UBSPSf |
Gray Catbird |
USPSF |
Cliff Swallow |
XSPSF |
PIPITS |
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Barn Swallow |
UBSPSF |
American Pipit |
CBSPSF |
JAYS AND CROWS |
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WAXWINGS |
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Gray Jay |
CBR |
Bohemian Waxwing |
U*FW |
Blue Jay |
CBR |
Cedar Waxwing |
UBSPS |
American Crow |
CBR |
SHRIKES |
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Common Raven |
CBR |
Northern Shrike |
U*F |
CHICKADEES |
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STARLINGS |
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Black-capped Chickadee |
CBR |
European Starling |
CBR |
Boreal Chickadee |
CBR |
NUTHATCHES |
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CREEPER |
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Red-breasted Nuthatch |
UBR |
Brown Creeper |
U*BR |
VIREOS |
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OLD WORLD WARBLERS &THRUSHES |
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Solitary Vireo |
UBSPSF |
Golden-crowned Kinglet |
CBR |
Warbling Vireo |
XVF |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
CBSPSF |
Philadelphia Vireo |
UBSPSF |
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
XVSF |
Red-eyed Vireo |
UBSPSF |
Northern Wheatear |
XVSPSF |
White-eyed Vireo |
X*VF |
Veery |
UBSPS |
WREN |
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Gray-cheeked Thrush |
CBSPS |
Winter Wren |
UBSPSFw |
Swainson's Thrush |
CBSPS |
WOOD WARBLERS |
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Hermit Thrush |
CBSPS |
Tennessee Warbler |
CBSPSF |
American Robin |
CBSPSFw |
Orange-crowned Warbler |
XSF |
TANAGERS |
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Nashville Warbler |
XbSPSF |
Scarlet Tanager |
X*F |
Northern Parula |
XBSPS |
SPARROWS |
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Yellow Warbler |
CBSPSf |
Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
UBSPSF |
Chestnut-sided Warbler |
XVF |
Indigo Bunting |
XVSPFS |
Magnolia Warbler |
CBSPSF |
Dicksissel |
XF |
Cape May Warbler |
XSPSF |
American Tree Sparrow |
UBSPSFw |
Yellow -rumped Warbler |
CBSPSF |
Chipping Sparrow |
CBSPSF |
Black-throated Green |
CBSPSF |
Lark Sparrow |
XVS |
Warbler |
U*BS |
Savannah Sparrow |
CBSPSF |
Blackburnian Warbler |
XVF |
Grasshopper Sparrow |
XVF |
Pine Warbler |
U*BSPSF |
Fox Sparrow |
CBSPSFw |
Bay-breasted Warbler |
UBSPSF |
Song Sparrow |
CBSPSFw |
Blackpoll Warbler |
CBSPSF |
Lincoln 's Sparrow |
CBSPSF |
Black-and-white Warbler |
CBSPSF |
Swamp Sparrow |
CBSPSFw |
American Redstart |
CBSPSf |
White-throated Sparrow |
CBSPSFw |
Ovenbird |
UBSPSf |
White-crowned Sparrow |
USF |
Northern Waterthrush |
CBSPSf |
Dark-eyed Junco |
CBR |
Mourning Warbler |
CBSPSf |
Lapland Longspur |
U*FW |
Common Yellowthroat |
CBSPSf |
Snow Bunting |
CFW |
Wilson's Warbler |
CBSPSf |
BLACKBIRDS |
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Canada Warbler |
XBSPS |
Bobolink |
CBSPSF |
Yellow-breasted Chat |
XVF |
Red-winged Blackbird |
UBSPSF |
FINCHES |
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Rusty Black Bird |
CBSPSFw |
Pine Grosbeak |
CBR |
Common Grackle |
CBSPSF |
Purple Finch |
CBR |
Brown-headed Cowbird |
UbSPSF |
Red Crossbill |
U*BR |
Baltimore Oriole |
UVF |
White-winged Crossbill |
UBR |
EURASIAN SPARROWS |
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Common Redpoll |
UBR |
House Sparrow |
CBR |
Pine Siskin |
UBR |
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American Goldfinch |
CBSPSFW |
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Evening Grosbeak |
USPSFW |
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