West Virginia First Sightings
by Matt Orsie - Summit Point, WV wvbirder@comcast.net
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Red-throated Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Red-necked Grebe Horned Grebe Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Tricolored Heron Little Blue Heron Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron American Bittern Least Bittern Glossy Ibis Mute Swan Trumpeter Swan Tundra Swan Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross's Goose Cackling Goose Canada Goose Brant Wood Duck American Wigeon Gadwall Green-winged Teal Mallard American Black Duck Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Osprey Swallow-tailed Kite Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey Ruffed Grouse Northern Bobwhite Ring-necked Pheasant Sandhill Crane King Rail Virginia Rail Sora Common Moorhen American Coot American Golden-Plover Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer American Avocet Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Greater Yellowlegs Willet Lesser Yellowlegs Ruddy Turnstone Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Red Phalarope Long-tailed Jaeger Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull Bonaparte's Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Black Tern Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Inca Dove Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Barn Owl Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Northern Long-eared Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Common Nighthawk Whip-poor-will Chimney Swift Green Violet-ear Ruby-throated Hummingbird Black-chinned Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Horned Lark Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow American Pipit Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Cedar Waxwing Carolina Wren Winter Wren House Wren Sedge Wren Marsh Wren Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Eastern Bluebird Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Carolina Chickadee Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Loggerhead Shrike Northern Shrike Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Common Raven European Starling White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Virginia's Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Swainson's Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Scarlet Tanager Summer Tanager Eastern Towhee American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Henslow's Sparrow Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Dickcissel Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole Orchard Oriole Purple Finch House Finch Red Crossbill White-winged Crossbill Common Redpoll Pine Siskin American Goldfinch Evening Grosbeak House Sparrow
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