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- Canada Goose
- year round and wintering residents
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- Mallard
- year round and wintering residents
- Anas playrhynchos
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- Ring-necked Pheasant
- year round resident
- ground nester
- omnivore (seed, insects, roots)
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- Wild Turkey
- year round resident
- ground nester
- omnivore (seed, insects)
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- Northern Bobwhite
- Colinus virginianus
- year round resident
- ground nester
- ground forager
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- Great Blue Heron
- year round
- tree nester
- wading bird (fish, amphibians)
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- Cooper's Hawk
- ROUNDED tail
- year round resident
- Accipiter cooperi
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- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- SQUARE tail
- small head
- winter resident
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- Red-tailed hawk
- year round resident
- dark leading edge of wing
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- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Buteo lineatusyear round resident
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- Rock Pigeon
- year round resident
- ground forager
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- Mourning Dove
- diamond shaped tail, white edges
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- Greater Roadrunner
- year round
- tree nester
- ground forager (insects, larger prey beaten against rocks)
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- Eastern Screech-Owl
- year round resident
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- Barred Owl
- cavity nester
- Strix varia
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- Great Horned Owl
- Bubo virginianus
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- Hairy Woodpecker
- year round
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woodpecker with crest
Pileated Woodpecker
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Tree perching upside down
White-breasted Nuthatch
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- Carolina Wren
- year round resident
- cavity nester
- ground forager
- beige belly
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- Eastern Bluebird
- Cavity nester
- year round resident
- insectivore
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- Field Sparrow
- ground nesting
- year round
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black bird with red shoulder patches
- Red-winged Blackbird
- nest in marshes (ground nester)
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Meadowlarks
- Eastern and Western
- year round
- ground nesters
- GRASSLANDS
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- House Finch
- tree nester
- year round resident
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- House Sparrow
- cavity nester
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Wood duck
- nests in cavities in large trees near water or in nest boxes
- dabbler
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- Gadwall
- Dabbler
- Mallard-sized
- gray sides, black undertail in drake
- common winter resident
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- Blue-winged Teal
- dabbler
- SMALL (much smaller than Mallard)
- white crescent on face of drake
- common in early spring
- Anas discors
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- Canvasback
- diver
- winter resident
- Aythya valisineria
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- Diver
- winter resident
- Aythya collaris
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- Greater Scaup
- diver
- winter
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- Bufflehead
- winter resident
- Diver
- tiny in size
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- Hooded Merganser
- nests in tree cavities
- dives (to catch fish)
- winter resident
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- Pied-billed Grebe
- year round resident
- unable to walk on land with lobed toes
- small
- dives
- white rump
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- Horned Grebe
- green head with golden tufts in summer
- lobed toes
- unable to walk on land
- winter resident
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American White Pelican
migratory
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Double-crested Cormorant
- V-formation migration
- often bask
- WINTER resident
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- Northern Harrier
- holds wings in shallow V
- WHITE RUMP
- year round resident
- Grassland and marsh hunter
- ground nester
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- American Kestrel (male)
- males have slate blue wings, females have brown
- year round resident
- blue-jay sized
- open country
- cavity nester
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- Peregrine Falcon
- Crow-sized falcon of open country
- almost extince from DDT exposure
- uncommon here (maybe migrations?)
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- American Coot
- lobbed toes
- bobs head
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- Wilson's Snipe
- grasslands near water
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- American Woodcock
- open woodlands
- spring display
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- Bonaparte's Gull winter plumage
- dark eye spots, white edge on outer part of wing.
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- Ring-billed Gull
- yellow legs
- white tail, black wing tips
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