Oxbow NWR (Worcester County), Worcester, Massachusetts, US
May 21, 2017 7:00 AM – 10:50 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
Comments: Brookline Bird Club trip led by Jonathan Center.
39 species (+2 other taxa)
Canada Goose 2
Wood Duck 2
Great Blue Heron 1
Green Heron 2
Mourning Dove 2
Black-billed Cuckoo 1
Yellow-billed/Black-billed Cuckoo 1
Chimney Swift 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 3
Least Flycatcher 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 4
Eastern Kingbird 2
Yellow-throated Vireo 2
Warbling Vireo 3
Red-eyed Vireo 2
Common Raven 1
Tree Swallow 5
Barn Swallow 1
Black-capped Chickadee 1
Tufted Titmouse 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
House Wren 1
Veery 2
Catharus sp. 1
American Robin 7
Gray Catbird 4
Cedar Waxwing 4
Northern Waterthrush 1
Common Yellowthroat 4
American Redstart 4
Yellow Warbler 3
Song Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 3
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 15
Baltimore Oriole 3
American Goldfinch 4
View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S37146113
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Arthur C. Bent (in Life Histories of North American Blackbirds, Orioles, Tanagers and Allies, (New York: Dover, 1965), 294) described flocks of Rusty Blackbirds stretching as far as the eye could see that once migrated
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Brookline Bird Club has shout out in Wicked Local Cambridge edition! Here is the link to a wonderful article found in the Wicked Local Cambridge edition at birding at Mt. Auburn. It
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Arthur C. Bent (in Life Histories of North American Blackbirds, Orioles, Tanagers and Allies, (New York: Dover, 1965), 294) described flocks of Rusty Blackbirds stretching as far as the eye could see that once migrated
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