Checklist of birds observed at (or from) Calvert Vaux Park, aka Dreier-Offerman Park, Brooklyn, NY, King’s County
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Northern Gannet
Great Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
WESTERN REEF-HERON
Little Blue Heron
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Glossy Ibis
Turkey Vulture*
Snow Goose
Canada Goose
Brant
Mute Swan
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback*
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Common Eider
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser*
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Osprey
Bald Eagle*
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk*
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
American Coot
Ring-necked Pheasant
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
American Oystercatcher
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper *
Purple Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
American Woodcock
Laughing Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Least Tern
Black Skimmer
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Monk Parakeet
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker*
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER*
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
White-eyed Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo*
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow*
Barn Swallow
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch*
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Winter Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Veery
Gray-cheeked Thrush*
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Tennessee Warbler*
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Connecticut Warbler*
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Eastern Towhee
American Tree Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
LARK SPARROW *
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow*
Seaside Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Purple Finch
House Finch
Common Redpoll
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Birds marked with an asterisk were reported by other observers. The remainder of the list represents (at the end of 2007) about a year’s worth of my sightings, and the full list currently stands at 165 species. Personal matters prevented me from doing much birding during the fall of ’07, and while several good birds were added lately, I expect there are more yet to come.
I had to close the comments due to spam, but I’m still accepting email submissions.
(12/25/07)
Original post:
Most of these species were seen in a few visits made in the winter and summer of 2007. The birds marked with an asterisk were observed by other birders presumed to be trustworthy, mostly during the summer of ’07 as adjuncts to Reef-Heron observations. Relatively little data has been collected during the better part of spring and fall migration, so many species may be expected to be added. Additions may be submitted via the comments block, which I will edit (no anonymous submissions please) or by emailing me at
alex@digitalmediatree.com
The goal is to compile a thorough checklist for the site, as a matter of basic curiosity, and for possible use in advocacy for protecting wildlife habitat in the face of the park’s upcoming renovation.
Alex Wilson
Seaside Sparrow, May 2007
Semipalmated Plover & Willet, June 2007
Bobolink, September 2007