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Each week you will be required to know about 15-20 new species for field quizzes and lab practicals. You will be required to know these birds by the date listed. The following is a list of the species you will have to know by week. This list is cumulative, therefore you will be responsible for all new birds each week, as well as, all birds you learned in the prior weeks.

Weekly Species List

Remember you must learn these birds by the date specified!

To view a picture of any North American bird for which the link is not working go to http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/pictlist.html

Week 1 - Jan 21, 23 - Learning how to identify birds

Week 2- Jan 28, 30 - Winter birds one might see in Southern Virginia
1) Common raven, 2) Red-tailed hawk, 3) Mallard, 4) Canada goose, 5) Northern Pintail, 6) Eastern meadowlark, 7) European starling, 8)  American crow, 9) Red-bellied woodpecker, 10) Eastern bluebird, 11) Horned lark, 12) Golden eagle, 13) Merlin, 14) Northern harrier, 15) Red-headed woodpecker 16) American Pipit 17) Bald eagle 18) Snow bunting 19) Rough-legged hawk

Week 3 - February 4, 6- Local backyard birds (Birds you are most likely to see at a feeder in Blacksburg)
1) Northern Cardinal, 2)Blue Jay, 3) Carolina Wren, 5) Downy Woodpecker, 6) Hairy Woodpecker, 7) Carolina Chickadee, 8) Tufted Titmouse, 9) White-breasted Nuthatch, 10) Song Sparrow, 11) White-throated Sparrow, 12) Dark-eyed Junco, 13) House Sparrow, 14) American Goldfinch, 15) Mourning Dove 16) Purple Finch

Week 4 - February 11, 13 - Winter birds one might see at the Outer Banks
1) Common loon, 2) White ibis, 3) Tundra Swan, 4) Snow Goose, 5) American Oystercatcher, 6) Great black-backed gull, 7) Common Tern, 8) Brant, 9) Least Tern, 10) Peregrine Falcon,11) Lesser Yellowlegs, 12) American Avocet, 13) Laughing gull, 14) Northern Gannett, 15) Brown Pelican, 16) American Bittern, 17) Herring Gull  18) Green winged teal, 19) Northern Shoveler  20) Long-tail duck

Week 5 - February 18, 20 -  Birds around the New River (McCoy Falls area)
1) Great blue heron, 2) Hooded mergansers, 3) Ring-billed gull,  4) Golden-crowned kinglet, 5) Bufflehead, 6) Yellow-bellied sapsucker, 7) Killdeer 8) American robin, 9) Eastern phoebe, 10) Red-bellied woodpecker, 11) Wild turkey, 12) Hermit thrush, 13)  Fox sparrow, 14) Belted Kingfisher 15) Common merganser, 16) Northern Gadwall

Week 6 - February 25, 27- Birds around the New River (Eggleston)
1)Turkey vulture, 2) Black vulture, 3) Brown creeper, , 4) Pileated woodpecker, 5) Wood duck, 6) Red-winged blackbird, 7) Northern flicker, 8) American black duck, 9) Cedar waxwing, 10) Cooper’s hawk, 11) Black scoter, 12) Barred owl, 13) Mute Swan, 14) Blue-winged teal, 15) American Coot

Week 7 - March 3, 5 -  Birds around White Thorn and Kentland Farm
1) Winter wren, 2) House Finch, 3) Yellow-rumped warbler,  4) Common grackle, 5) Lesser Scaup, 6) White-crowned sparrow,  7) Eastern towhee, 8) Rock dove, 9) Ring-necked duck, 10) Northern Mockingbird, 11) Greater Scaup 12) Eastern screech owl, 13) Virginia Rail 14) Spotted Sandpiper,

Week 9 - March 17,19 - Birds found at the Brown Farm
1) American kestrel, 2) Swamp Sparrow,  3)Tree Swallow, 4) Sharp-shinned hawk 5) Common Snipe, 6) Great-horned owl, 7) Barn owl, 8) Green heron, 9) Loggerhead Shrike, 10) Gray Catbird, 11) Ring-necked Pheasant, 13) Northern Bobwhite, 14) Northern Rough-winged Swallow  15) American Woodcock 16) Cliff Swallow,

Week 10 -March 24, 26 -  Birds found around Pandapas Pond and White thorn
1) Red-breasted nuthatch,  2) Blue-headed vireo,  3) Red shouldered hawk,  4) Pied-billed grebe, 5) Brown Thrasher, 6) Pine Warbler, 7) Brown Headed cowbird, 8) Louisiana Waterthrush, 9) Blue-gray gnatcatcher, 10) Red-breasted merganser, 11) Common goldeneye, 12) Ruffed grouse 13) Black-capped chickadee White thorn: 14) Ring-necked ducks, 15) Redhead ducks, 16) Yellow-rumped Warbler 18) Double-crested cormorant

Week 11 - March 31,  April 2 - Birds found near the Kelly's knob trail off of route 42
1) Chipping sparrow  2) Field Sparrow,  3) Barn Swallow,  4) Broad-winged Hawk, 5) American Tree Sparrow, 6) Purple Martin, Outer Banks Species:  7) Black-bellied plover, 8) Greater yellowlegs, 9) Sanderling, 10) Dunlin, 11) Great egret,  12) Snowy egret, 13) Boat-tailed grackle, 14) Osprey, 15 ) Common Yellow throat, 16) Glossy ibis 17) Piping Plover, 18) Wood Thrush , 19) Veery 20) Least Sandpiper

Week 12 - April 7, 9 - Birds found along the Deerfield Park trail
1) White-eyed vireo, 2) Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 3) Eastern Kingbird, 4) Blue-winged Warbler,
5) Red-eyed vireo, 6) Scarlet Tanager, 7) Oven bird  8) Baltimore Oriole
9) Chimney Swift,  10) Eastern Wood pewee, 11) Rose-breasted Grosbeak,
Other: 12) Common Nighthawk, 13) Ruby-throated hummingbird, 14) Yellow Billed Cuckoo, 15)  Whip-poor-will,  16) Olive-sided flycatcher,17) Willow Flycatcher, 18) Great-crested Flycatcher, 19) Red-cockaded Woodpecker
20) Acadian Flycatcher,

Week 13 - April 14, 16- Falls ridge trail: Spring Warblers
1) Yellow-throated vireo, 2) Warbling vireo, 3) Prairie Warbler, 4) Black and white warbler, 5) Chestnut-sided warbler, 6) Black-throated blue warbler, 7) Black-throated green warbler, 8) American Redstart, 9) Cape-may warbler,  10) Golden-winged Warbler,  11) Northern Parula,   12) Yellow Warbler,  13) Blackburnian Warbler,  14)Yellow-throated Warbler, 15) Cerulean Warbler, 16) Worm-eating Warbler,  17) Kentucky Warbler, 18) Hooded Warbler, 19) Yellow-breasted Chat  20) Palm Warbler
BIRDS FROM OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA (learn this week): 21) Blue-hooded Euphonia 22) Bat Falcon 23) Sunbittern 24) Imperial Shag (King Cormorant) 25) Grey-necked Wood Rail 26) Blue and Gold Macaw 27) Indian Cuckoo 28) Turqoise-browed Motmot 29) White-bellied Go-away-bird 30) Golden Pheasant 31) Northern Lapwing 32) Montezuma Oropendola 33) Violaceous Trogon 34) Jamaican Tody 35) Cordon Bleu 36) White-throated Swift 37) Scaled Antpitta 38) Long-tailed Sylph 39) Pompadour Pigeon