2016 Year List

My list of species for my (latest) Big(gish) Year.

Legend

* = Lifer   ^ = NJ Lifer   (#) ABA Rarity

1/1 – 1/2 Haddonfield, NJ

1. Carolina Chickadee
2. Tufted Titmouse
3. Northern Cardinal
4. House Sparrow
5. Blue Jay
6. House Finch
7. Mourning Dove
8. White-throated Sparrow
9. Red-bellied Woodpecker
10. Downy Woodpecker
11. American Crow
12. Purple Finch
13. White-breasted Nuthatch

1/3 Cape May, NJ

14. Rock Pigeon
15. Canada Goose
16. Common Grackle
17. European Starling
18. Ring-billed Gull
19. Great Black-backed Gull
20. American Robin
21. Herring Gull

1/3 Sunset Beach – Cape May, NJ

22. Surf Scoter

1/3 CMBO – Cape May, NJ

23. Carolina Wren
24. Mallard
25. Mute Swan
26. Bufflehead
27. Gadwall
28. Ring-necked Duck
29. American Wigeon

1/3 Lighthouse Pond @Cape May Point State Park – Cape May, NJ

30. American Coot
31. Northern Shoveler
32. Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler
33. Eurasian Wigeon

34. Blue-winged Teal
35. Northern Pintail
36. Green-winged Teal
37. Great Blue Heron
38. Turkey Vulture

1/3 Cape May Point State Park – Cape May, NJ

39. Hooded Merganser
40. Double-crested Cormorant
41. Ruddy Duck
42. Sharp-shinned Hawk
43. Red-shouldered Hawk
44. Northern Mockingbird
45. Cedar Waxwing
46. Field Sparrow
47. Dark-eyed Junco
48. American Goldfinch
49. Song Sparrow
50. Swamp Sparrow

1/3 Miami Ave. @ The Villas – Cape May, NJ

51. Black-bellied Plover
52. Red Knot
53. Sanderling
54. Dunlin
55. Bonaparte’s Gull
56. Lesser Black-backed Gull
57. Forster’s Tern

1/3 Villas-Cox Hall Creek WMA – Cape May, NJ

58. Red-tailed Hawk
59. Red-headed Woodpecker
60. Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)
61. Eastern Towhee

1/7 – 1/8 Haddonfield, NJ

62. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
63. Cooper’s Hawk
64. Wild Turkey
65. Red-winged Blackbird

1/9 Tinicum Township, PA

66. Mountain Bluebird* ABA 3
67. Eastern Bluebird
68. Common Merganser

1/16 Haddonfield, NJ

69. Brown-headed Cowbird

1/17 Barnegat Lighthouse – Barnegat, NJ

70. Laughing Gull
71. Long-tailed Duck
72. Black Scoter
73. Harlequin Duck
74. Great Cormorant
75. Common Eider
76. Northern Gannet
77. Common Loon
78. Ruddy Turnstone
79. Red-breasted Merganser

1/17 Riverfront Landing & Marshall’s Pond – Tom’s River, NJ

80. Canvasback
81. Lesser Scaup
82. Greater Scaup
83. Redhead
84. Hairy Woodpecker (@ home)

1/22 Trenton Sewer Works

85. Bald Eagle
86. Golden-crowned Kinglet
87. Nashville Warbler
88. Orange-crowned Warbler
89. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
90. Pine Warbler
91. Palm Warbler
92. Yellow-throated Warbler

1/30 John Heinz NWR (Tinicum NWR)

93. Savannah Sparrow
94. American Tree Sparrow
95. Fox Sparrow

2/6 Cape May Pelagic Trip

96. Black-legged Kittiwake
97. Razorbill
98. Kumlien’s Iceland Gull*
99. Northern Fulmar*
100. Dovekie*
101. Atlantic Puffin*
102. Great Skua* ABA 3
103. Common Murre

2/13 FDR Park, Philadelphia PA

104. Barnacle Goose* ABA 4

2/20 John Heinz NWR, Tinicum PA

105. American Black Duck
106. Brown Thrasher
107. Great Horned OWl
108. Brown Creeper

2/20 – 2/25 Haddonfield NJ

109. Belted Kingfisher
110. Killdeer
111. Fish Crow

3/12 Westmont, NJ

112. Eastern Kingbird

3/12 Forsythe NWR, Brigantine NJ + Church Ave, Absecon NJ

113. Snow Goose
114. Tundra Swan
115. Wood Duck
116. Horned Grebe
117. Peregrine Falcon
118. American Avocet
119. Lesser Yellowlegs
120. Boat-tailed Grackle

3/24 Barnegat Light + Island Beach State Park, NJ

121. Black Vulture (AC Expressway)
122. Brant
123. American Oystercatcher
124. Purple Sandpiper
125. Red-throated Loon
126. Eastern Phoebe
127. Merlin
128. Osprey

Nemesis List

A list of 10 11 birds I have been searching for over a period of years without success.

Photo Year List

You can see photos of all of the species I’ve captured images for on my 2016 Photo Year List.