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2025 Birding Checklist
This list is a selection drawn from the approximately 150 birds in my ornithology class, divided into two sections: high-priority birds which I will actively seek out, and a more general checklist of birds I would especially like to see this year. I will probably update this last as the year goes on, as I might have the opportunity to visit some other countries and states this year, and will want to choose some specific targets for those trips; we're also still learning to identify more birds as the class goes on.
High-Priority Checklist
- Green-Winged Teal [Seen! 05 March]
- Bufflehead [Seen! 05 March]
- Common Nighthawk
- Green Heron
- Great Horned Owl
- Cooper's Hawk [Seen! 11 March]
- Northern Flicker
- Purple Martin
- Carolina Wren [Seen! 08 March]
- Wood Thrush
- Eastern Meadowlark [Seen! 14 March]
- Indigo Bunting
Other birds I'd like to see:
- Common Goldeneye
- Common Merganser
- Hooded Merganswer
- Wood Duck [Seen! 10 March]
- Ruddy Duck
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Bobwhite
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Sora
- American Golden Plover
- Semipalmated Plover
- Black-bellied Plover
- Piping Plover
- Lesser/Greater Yellowlegs
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Lesser Sandpiper
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Common Loon
- American White Pelican
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black Tern
- Double-Crested Cormorant
- American White Pelican
- Least Bittern
- Great Egret
- Northern Harrier [Seen! 10 March]
- American Kestrel
- Osprey
- Pileated Woodpecker [Seen! 10 March]
- Eastern Phoebe
- Yellow-Throated Vireo
- Horned Lark
- Tree Swallow [Seen! 11 March]
- Bank Swallow
- Barn Swallow
- Cedar Waxwing
- Song Sparrow [Seen! 08 March]
- Field Sparrow
- Baltimore Oriole
- Black-and-White Warbler
- Magnolia Warbler
- Scarlet Tanager
- Rose-Breasted Grosbeak