Big Day Checklist
The following is a list of all bird species known from the District of Columbia, with those seen on each Big Day indicated.
| Bird | 5/5 2007 |
5/3 2008 |
|---|---|---|
| Greater White-fronted Goose | ||
| Snow Goose | ||
| Brant | ||
| Canada Goose |  |
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| Mute Swan | ||
| Tundra Swan | ||
| Wood Duck | |
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| Gadwall | ||
| Eurasian Wigeon | ||
| American Wigeon | ||
| American Black Duck | |
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| Mallard | |
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| Blue-winged Teal | ||
| Northern Shoveler | ||
| Northern Pintail | ||
| Green-winged Teal | ||
| Canvasback | ||
| Redhead | ||
| Ring-necked Duck | |
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| Tufted Duck | ||
| Greater Scaup | ||
| Lesser Scaup | ||
| Surf Scoter | ||
| White-winged Scoter | ||
| Black Scoter | ||
| Long-tailed Duck | ||
| Bufflehead | ||
| Common Goldeneye | ||
| Hooded Merganser | ||
| Common Merganser | ||
| Red-breasted Merganser | |
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| Ruddy Duck | |
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| Ruffed Grouse | ||
| Greater Prairie-Chicken | ||
| Wild Turkey | |
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| Northern Bobwhite | |
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| Red-throated Loon | ||
| Pacific Loon | ||
| Common Loon | |
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| Pied-billed Grebe | ||
| Horned Grebe | |
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| Red-necked Grebe | ||
| Eared Grebe | ||
| Leach's Storm-Petrel | ||
| Band-rumped Storm-Petrel | ||
| American White Pelican | ||
| Brown Pelican | ||
| Double-crested Cormorant | |
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| Great Cormorant | ||
| Anhinga | ||
| American Bittern | ||
| Least Bittern | ||
| Great Blue Heron | |
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| Great Egret | |
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| Snowy Egret | ||
| Little Blue Heron | ||
| Tricolored Heron | ||
| Cattle Egret | ||
| Green Heron | |
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| Black-crowned Night-Heron | |
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| Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | ||
| White Ibis | ||
| Glossy Ibis | ||
| Wood Stork | ||
| Black Vulture | |
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| Turkey Vulture | |
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| Osprey | |
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| Bald Eagle | |
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| Northern Harrier | ||
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | ||
| Cooper's Hawk | |
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| Northern Goshawk | ||
| Red-shouldered Hawk | |
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| Broad-winged Hawk | ||
| Red-tailed Hawk | |
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| Rough-legged Hawk | ||
| Golden Eagle | ||
| American Kestrel | ||
| Merlin | ||
| Peregrine Falcon | |
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| Yellow Rail | ||
| Black Rail | ||
| Clapper Rail | ||
| King Rail | ||
| Virginia Rail | ||
| Sora | ||
| Purple Gallinule | ||
| Common Moorhen | ||
| American Coot | |
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| Black-bellied Plover | ||
| American Golden-Plover | ||
| Semipalmated Plover | ||
| Piping Plover | ||
| Killdeer | |
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| Black-necked Stilt | ||
| American Avocet | ||
| Greater Yellowlegs | |
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| Lesser Yellowlegs | |
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| Solitary Sandpiper | |
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| Willet | ||
| Spotted Sandpiper | |
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| Upland Sandpiper | ||
| Whimbrel | ||
| Long-billed Curlew | ||
| Hudsonian Godwit | ||
| Ruddy Turnstone | ||
| Red Knot | ||
| Sanderling | ||
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | ||
| Western Sandpiper | ||
| Least Sandpiper | |
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| White-rumped Sandpiper | ||
| Baird's Sandpiper | ||
| Pectoral Sandpiper | ||
| Dunlin | ||
| Stilt Sandpiper | ||
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | ||
| Ruff | ||
| Short-billed Dowitcher | ||
| Long-billed Dowitcher | ||
| Wilson's Snipe | |
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| American Woodcock | |
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| Wilson's Phalarope | ||
| Red-necked Phalarope | ||
| Red Phalarope | ||
| Parasitic Jaeger | ||
| Laughing Gull | |
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| Franklin's Gull | |
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| Little Gull | ||
| Black-headed Gull | ||
| Bonaparte's Gull | |
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| Ring-billed Gull | |
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| California Gull | ||
| Herring Gull | |
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| Yellow-legged Gull | ||
| Iceland Gull | ||
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | |
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| Glaucous Gull | ||
| Great Black-backed Gull | |
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| Gull-billed Tern | ||
| Caspian Tern | |
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| Royal Tern | ||
| Common Tern | ||
| Forster's Tern | ||
| Least Tern | ||
| Bridled Tern | ||
| Sooty Tern | ||
| Black Tern | ||
| Black Skimmer | ||
| Thick-billed Murre | ||
| Rock Pigeon | |
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| White-winged Dove | ||
| Mourning Dove | |
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| Passenger Pigeon | ||
| Common Ground-Dove | ||
| Black-billed Cuckoo | |
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| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | |
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| Barn Owl | ||
| Eastern Screech-Owl | |
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| Great Horned Owl | ||
| Snowy Owl | ||
| Barred Owl | |
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| Long-eared Owl | ||
| Short-eared Owl | ||
| Northern Saw-whet Owl | ||
| Common Nighthawk | ||
| Chuck-will's-widow | ||
| Whip-poor-will | ||
| Chimney Swift | |
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| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | |
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| Black-chinned Hummingbird | ||
| Rufous Hummingbird | ||
| Belted Kingfisher | |
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| Red-headed Woodpecker | ||
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | |
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| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | ||
| Downy Woodpecker | |
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| Hairy Woodpecker | |
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| Northern Flicker | |
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| Pileated Woodpecker | |
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| Olive-sided Flycatcher | ||
| Eastern Wood-Pewee | |
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| Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | ||
| Acadian Flycatcher | |
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| Alder Flycatcher | ||
| Willow Flycatcher | |
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| Least Flycatcher | ||
| Dusky Flycatcher | ||
| Eastern Phoebe | |
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| Ash-throated Flycatcher | ||
| Great Crested Flycatcher | |
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| Western Kingbird | ||
| Eastern Kingbird | |
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| Loggerhead Shrike | ||
| Northern Shrike | ||
| White-eyed Vireo | |
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| Yellow-throated Vireo | |
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| Blue-headed Vireo | ||
| Warbling Vireo | |
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| Philadelphia Vireo | ||
| Red-eyed Vireo | |
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| Blue Jay | |
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| American Crow | |
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| Fish Crow | |
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| Common Raven | ||
| Horned Lark | ||
| Purple Martin | |
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| Tree Swallow | |
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| Northern Rough-winged Swallow | |
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| Bank Swallow | ||
| Cliff Swallow | ||
| Barn Swallow | |
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| Carolina Chickadee | |
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| Black-capped Chickadee | ||
| Tufted Titmouse | |
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| Red-breasted Nuthatch | ||
| White-breasted Nuthatch | |
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| Brown Creeper | ||
| Carolina Wren | |
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| Bewick's Wren | ||
| House Wren | |
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| Winter Wren | ||
| Sedge Wren | ||
| Marsh Wren | ||
| Golden-crowned Kinglet | ||
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | |
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| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | |
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| Eastern Bluebird | |
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| Veery | |
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| Gray-cheeked Thrush | |
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| Swainson's Thrush | |
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| Hermit Thrush | ||
| Wood Thrush | |
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| American Robin | |
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| Gray Catbird | |
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| Northern Mockingbird | |
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| Brown Thrasher | |
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| European Starling | |
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| American Pipit | ||
| Bohemian Waxwing | ||
| Cedar Waxwing | |
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| Blue-winged Warbler | |
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| Golden-winged Warbler | ||
| Tennessee Warbler | |
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| Orange-crowned Warbler | ||
| Nashville Warbler | |
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| Northern Parula | |
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| Yellow Warbler | |
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| Chestnut-sided Warbler | |
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| Magnolia Warbler | |
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| Cape May Warbler | |
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| Black-throated Blue Warbler | |
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| Yellow-rumped Warbler | |
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| Black-throated Green Warbler | |
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| Blackburnian Warbler | |
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| Yellow-throated Warbler | ||
| Pine Warbler | |
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| Prairie Warbler | |
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| Palm Warbler | |
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| Bay-breasted Warbler | ||
| Blackpoll Warbler | |
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| Cerulean Warbler | ||
| Black-and-white Warbler | |
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| American Redstart | |
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| Prothonotary Warbler | |
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| Worm-eating Warbler | |
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| Ovenbird | |
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| Northern Waterthrush | |
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| Louisiana Waterthrush | |
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| Kentucky Warbler | ||
| Connecticut Warbler | ||
| Mourning Warbler | ||
| Common Yellowthroat | |
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| Hooded Warbler | |
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| Wilson's Warbler | ||
| Canada Warbler | |
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| Yellow-breasted Chat | |
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| Summer Tanager | |
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| Scarlet Tanager | |
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| Eastern Towhee | |
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| Bachman's Sparrow | ||
| American Tree Sparrow | ||
| Chipping Sparrow | |
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| Clay-colored Sparrow | ||
| Field Sparrow | |
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| Vesper Sparrow | ||
| Lark Sparrow | ||
| Savannah Sparrow | |
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| Grasshopper Sparrow | ||
| Henslow's Sparrow | ||
| Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow | ||
| Seaside Sparrow | ||
| Fox Sparrow | ||
| Song Sparrow | |
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| Lincoln's Sparrow | |
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| Swamp Sparrow | |
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| White-throated Sparrow | |
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| White-crowned Sparrow | |
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| Dark-eyed Junco | ||
| Lapland Longspur | ||
| Snow Bunting | ||
| Northern Cardinal | |
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| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | |
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| Black-headed Grosbeak | ||
| Blue Grosbeak | |
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| Indigo Bunting | |
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| Dickcissel | ||
| Bobolink | |
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| Red-winged Blackbird | |
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| Eastern Meadowlark | ||
| Yellow-headed Blackbird | ||
| Rusty Blackbird | ||
| Common Grackle | |
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| Brown-headed Cowbird | |
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| Orchard Oriole | |
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| Baltimore Oriole | |
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| Purple Finch | ||
| House Finch | |
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| Red Crossbill | ||
| White-winged Crossbill | ||
| Common Redpoll | ||
| Pine Siskin | ||
| American Goldfinch | |
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| Evening Grosbeak | ||
| House Sparrow | |
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| 325 species | 122 | 128 |
| 2007 | 2008 | |
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