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Neotropical Migratory Birds Recorded in the SourlandMountain Region

Note: These are not lists of all birds recorded in the Sourlands. Rather, they are lists of birds that breed or stop over in the Sourlands and migrate to Mexico and/or Central and South America in winter.

Neotropical migrants breeding in Sourlands forested habitat

American redstart

blue-gray gnatcatcher

common yellowthroat

eastern wood pewee

flycatcher, Acadian

flycatcher, great crested

hawk, broad-winged*

hawk, cooper’s*

hawk, sharp shinned*

ovenbird

ruby throated hummingbird

scarlet tanager

veery

vireo, red-eyed

vireo, yellow-throated

warbler, black and white

warbler, hooded

warbler, Kentucky

warbler, pine

warbler, worm-eating

wood thrush

Neotropical migrants breeding in Sourlands forest edge habitat

Baltimore oriole

cedar waxwing

cuckoo, black-billed

cuckoo, yellow-billed

indigo bunting

rose-breasted grosbeak

warbling vireo

Neotropical migrants breeding in Sourlands early successional areas, and/or open shrublands

blue-gray gnatcatcher

blue grosbeak

Chimney swift

common yellowthroat

eastern kingbird

flycatcher, alder

flycatcher, least

flycatcher, willow

gray catbird

orchard oriole

purple martin

ruby throated hummingbird

swallow, barn (open area)

swallow, northern rough winged

swallow, tree (open area)

warbler, blue-winged

warbler, chestnut-sided

warbler, prairie

warbler, yellow

white-eyed vireo

yellow-breasted chat

Neotropical migrants breeding in Sourlands grasslands, hayfields

American kestrel*

Bobolink

eastern meadowlark

sparrow, grasshopper

sparrow, Henslow’s

sparrow, savannah

upland sandpiper (now rare)

Neotropical stopover migrants

Neotropical migrants passing through on migration, not breeding in Sourlands

warbler, Tennesse

warbler, bay-breasted

warbler, blackburnian

warbler, black-throated blue

warbler, black-throated green

warbler, Canada

warbler, cerulean

warbler, golden-winged

warbler, magnolia

warbler, Nashville

warbler, northern parula

warbler, palm

warbler, wilson’s

warbler, yellow throated

warbler, yellow-rumped (Myrtle race)

waterthrush, Louisiana

waterthrush, northern

yellow-bellied sapsucker

Various habitats

vulture, black*

vulture, turkey*

*birds with * are cases where more research is needed to understand where individual populations migrate or “shift” during winter. We know that many individuals of these species appear in Mexico and Central America during the fall migration, but other individuals are recorded in breeding areas and elsewhere along the flyway.

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