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October 2013 Summary (Night Heron, Coot, migrants)

The following is the October 2013 summary of bird species seen in Salem

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October was a month of change for Salem's birds, lots of our winter visitors arriving and many more migrants heading back to their wintering grounds. 

Number of species: 97
Highlights include: Red-necked Grebe, Black-crowned Night Heron

Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Wood Duck
Mallard
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-necked Grebe*
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Cormorant
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Virginia Rail
Sora
American Coot
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Eastern Phoebe
Blue-headed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Marsh Wren
Carolina Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Ovenbird
Black-and-white Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Palm Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

* my first sighting in Salem

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