Double-crested Cormorant (Everywhere, NY-area, ) Canada Goose (Everywhere, NY-area, ) Mute Swan (Everywhere, NY-area, ) Snow Goose (Jamaica Bay NWR, NY, 2008 early Spring) Brant (Jamaica Bay NWR, NY 10/20/2007) Mallard (Everywhere, NY-area, ) Wood Duck (Jamaica Bay NWR, NY, 2007, or HongKong 2007/11-12) Herring Gull (Everywhere, NY-area, ) Great Black-Backed Gull (Fire Island, 2007, Jun. 30; Breezy Point 7/19/2008; etc.) Laughing Gull (Jamaica Bay NWR, 7/28/2007; Breezy Point 7/19/2008) Ring-billed Gull (Jamaica Bay NWR, NY or Fire Island, 2007, Jun. 30) Rock Pigeon (Everywhere, NY-area, ) Mourning Dove (Everywhere, NY-area, ) Blue Jay (Everywhere, NY-area, ) American Crow (Westchester, NY; 150 St near home 6/2008 ) American Robin (Everywhere, NY-area, ) European Starling (Everywhere, NY-area, ) Song Sparrow (Jamaica Bay NWR, NY, 7/4/2008; Breezy Point 7/19/2008 ) White-throated Sparrow (forest park, or Alley Pond Nature Center) White-crowned Sparrow (forest park, or Alley Pond Nature Center) House Sparrow (Everywhere, NY-area, ) Northern Cardinal (Everywhere, NY-area, ) Red-winged Blackbird (Everywhere, NY-area, ) Black-crowned Night-Heron (HongKong 2007/11-12; Marine Study Center, Oceanside, 6/14/2008) Bald Eagle (Maryland, 2006 Labor Day) Hairy Woodpecker (forest park, 6/24/2007?, etc.) - Hairy is larger Downy Woodpecker (forest park, 6/24/2007?) Northern Flicker (Jamaica Bay NWR, NY, 6/7/2007) Tufted Titmouse (forest park) American Redstart (Jamaica Bay NWR, NY, 2007-05-16, 2010-09-06) Baltimore Oriole (forest park trip with BirdClub 5/10/2008 Sat) Common Grackle (Jewel Ave. & Van Wick Entry, 2007 & 6/7/2008) Northern Mockingbird () Gray Catbird (Jewel Ave. & Van Wick Entry, 5/31/2008 Sat; Fire Island, 2007, Jun. 30 ) Scarlet Tanager (Jamaica Bay NWR, NY, 5/9/2007 ) Tree Swallow (Jamaica Bay NWR, NY, 2007-04-28) Black-capped Chickadee (GCBC Summer Camp site, Montrose Conference Center , 2007/08-09) Brown-headed Cowbird (Alley Pond Nature Center, 2008-05 ) House Finch (Jewel Ave. & Van Wick Entry, 5/31/2008 Sat) Common Yellowthroat (forest park trip with BirdClub 5/10/2008 Sat; Jamaica Bay NWR, NY, 7/4/2008) Great Egret (Jamaica Bay NWR, NY or HongKong 2007/11-12) Snowy Egret (Jamaica Bay NWR, 7/4/2008 & 7/26/2008) Cattle Egret (HongKong 2007/11-12; Grand Turk Island 3/16/2010) Green Heron (forest park's pond 2008-05) Glossy Ibis (Jamaica Bay NWR, NY, 5/6/2007) Eastern Towhee (forest park) Common Tern (Fire Island, 2007, Jun. 30; Breezy Point 7/19/2008 ) White-breasted Nuthatch (forest park) Killdeer (Jamaica Bay NWR, NY, 2007 Jun. 7; Breezy Point 7/19/2008) Eastern Kingbird (forest park trip with BirdClub 5/10/2008 Sat) Semipalmated Plover (Jamaica Bay NWR, NY, 8/2007 & 7/26/2008) Lesser Yellowlegs (Jamaica Bay NWR, NY, 7/26/2008 & 7/28/2012) ; Greater Yellowlegs (Jamaica Bay NWR, NY, 7/28/2012 ) Least Sandpiper (Jamaica Bay NWR, NY, 7/26/2008 & 8/2007? ) Semipalmated Sandpiper (Jamaica Bay NWR, NY, 7/26/2008 & 8/2007?; Southern Caribbean cruise 3/2008) Fish Crow (Fire Island, 2007, Jun. 30; Jamaica Bay NWR, NY, 7/4/2008 ) American Oystercatcher (Jamaica Bay NWR, NY, 7/28/2007; Marine Study Center, Oceanside, 6/14/2008) Piping Plover (Fire Island, 2007, Jun. 30; Breezy Point 7/19/2008 ) Black-and-white Warbler (Alley Pond Nature Center, 2007-05-06 & 2008-05) Yellow Warbler (Jamaica Bay NWR, NY, 2007 Spring & Jewel Ave. & Van Wick Entry, 5/31/2008 Sat) Kentucky warbler (forest park trip with BirdClub 5/10/2008 Sat) Blackburnian Warbler, known as the firethroat (forest park trip with BirdClub 5/10/2008 Sat) Dark-eyed Junco (front door of Jamaica Bay NWR, NY, 2008 Spring; 10/30/2010) Yellow-rumped Warbler (forest park) Lesser or Greater? Scaup (Jamaica Bay NWR, NY) Greater Flamingo (Southern Caribbean cruise 3/2008) yellow-shouldered parrot - National Park, bonaire (Southern Caribbean cruise 3/2008) brown-throated parakeet - Tierra del Sol Golf Course, aruba (Southern Caribbean cruise 3/2008) tropical mockingbird (Southern Caribbean cruise 3/2008) Troupial (like Baltimore Oriole) - pier, bonaire; photoed (Southern Caribbean cruise 3/2008) Bananaquit (Southern Caribbean cruise 3/2008; <1> at Bonaire photoed; <2> Grenada and St. Vincent race (completely black) - Grenada; Punta Cana, 4/2011) pearly-eyed thrasher (Southern Caribbean cruise 3/2008) Brown pelican (Southern Caribbean cruise, St. Thomas, 3/2008) Royal or Sandwich Tern (Southern Caribbean cruise, St. Thomas, 3/2008) Royal Tern (Cayman Islands, 3/18/2010) Belted Kingfisher (Southern Caribbean cruise, St. Thomas, 3/2008) Willet (Marine Study Center, Oceanside, 6/14/2008; Breezy Point 7/19/2008) Yellow-crowned night herons (Marine Study Center, Oceanside, 6/14/2008) Clapper Rail (Marine Study Center, Oceanside, 6/14/2008, 7/24/2010 Sat photoed, 7/21/2012 Sat - 2 chicks) osprey (Marine Study Center, Oceanside, 6/14/2008) tricolored heron (Marine Study Center, Oceanside, 6/14/2008) Froster's tern (Marine Study Center, Oceanside, 6/14/2008) Cedar waxwing (Rouge Park, Toronto, 6/28/2008; Jamaica Bay NWR, 7/4/2008) American Goldfinch (Jamaica Bay NWR, 7/4/2008; 3/2011 at feeder) black skimmer (Breezy Point 7/19/2008) sanderling (Breezy Point 7/19/2008) Short-billed Dowitcher (Jamaica Bay NWR, 7/26/2008) Little Blue Heron (Jamaica Bay NWR, 7/26/2008; 10/9/2010; both adult and immature at Punta Cana, 4/2011) Red-bellied Woodpecker (Forest Park, 5/16/2009 and before but no record) Peregrine Falcon (Lido Beach Passive Nature Area, 8/14/2010 Sat;Jamaica Bay NWR, 9/6/2010 Mon) White-eyed Vireo (Jamaica Bay NWR, 9/6/2010 Mon) Barn Swallow Waterthrush (Forest Park, 9/4/2010 Sat) Louisiana Waterthrush (Jamaica Bay NWR, 8/7/2010 Sat) Budgie Parakeet / Budgerigar (Forest Park, 9/4/2010 Sat; Kissena Corridor Park, 10/8/2011 Sat) White Pelican (Jamaica Bay NWR, 8/8/2010 Sun) Great Blue Heron (Jamaica Bay NWR, 8/8/2010 Sun) Boat-tailed Grackle (Jamaica Bay NWR, 8/7/2010 Sat) Wilson's Phalarope - photoed savannah sparrow of Ipswich race - photoed Brown thrasher Black-throated Green Warbler - videoed Northern Parula (9/5/2009, Alley Pond Park) Tennessee Warbler (9/5/2009, Alley Pond Park) Ruby-throated Hummingbird monk parakeet (8/15/2009, Forest Park) Eastern phoebe golden-crowned kinglet rusty blackbird palm warbler Red-tailed Hawk (10/11/2010, Jonathan's school, Valhalla) Great-tailed Grackle brewer's blackbird Carolina wren Domestic Muscovy northern shoveler African Collared-Doves (formerly called Ringed Turtle-Doves) (Grand Turk Island, 3/16/2010) Eurasian Collared Dove (Fort Lauderdale, FL, 3/2010) Ruddy Turnstone (Cayman Islands, 3/18/2010; Isla Cozumel, Mexico. evening - along the walking way to Downtown by sea shore, 3/19/2010) Turkey Vulture (Fort Lauderdale, FL, 3/13/2010) Black Vulture (Everglades National Park, FL, 3/21/2010) American Coot (Everglades National Park, FL, 3/21/2010) Common Moorhen (Everglades National Park, FL, 3/21/2010) Northern Harrier (10/30/2010, West Pond, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge) Masked Booby (11/17/2010, Caribbean Sea) Common Ground-dove (11/18/2010, Half Moon Cay) American Kestrel (11/19/2010, John U. Lloyd Beach State Park, FL) American White Ibis (11/19/2010, Anne Kolb Nature Center, FL) Bahama Mockingbird (11/18/2010, Half Moon Cay) Broad-winged Hawk (12/18/2010, Sat, Around home) Barn Owl (Jamaica Bay NWR, 3/2011, 4/8/2012) Canvasback (Jamaica Bay NWR, 3/6/2011) Ruddy Duck (Jamaica Bay NWR, 3/6/2011) Bufflehead (Jamaica Bay NWR, 3/6/2011) least tern (Jamaica Bay NWR, 7/3/2010) Spotted Sandpiper (Punta Cana, 4/2011) Tricoloured Heron (Punta Cana, 4/2011) White-winged Dove (Punta Cana, 4/2011) Zenaida Dove (Punta Cana, 4/2011) Hispaniola Lizard Cuckoo (Punta Cana, 4/2011) Smooth Billed Ani (Punta Cana, 4/2011) Antillean Palm Swift (Punta Cana, 4/2011) Antillean Mango (Punta Cana, 4/2011) Vervain Hummingbird (Mellisuga minima) (Punta Cana, 4/2011) Hispaniola Woodpecker (Punta Cana, 4/2011) Palmchat (Punta Cana, 4/2011) Greater Antillean Grackle (Quiscalus niger) (11/15/2010, Old San Juan; Hispaniola subspecies: Q.n. niger at Punta Cana, 4/2011) Gray Kingbird (Punta Cana, 4/2011) Red-legged Thrush (Punta Cana, 4/2011) Black-crowned Palm Tanager (Punta Cana, 4/2011) Hispaniolan Oriole (Icterus dominicensis; formerly called Greater Antillean Oriole, Black-cowled Oriole) (Punta Cana, 4/2011) Yellow-faced Grassquit (Punta Cana, 4/2011) Village Weaver (Punta Cana, 4/2011) Greater Antillean Bullfinch (Punta Cana, 4/2011) Cape May Warbler (Punta Cana, 4/2011) Loggerhead Kingbird (Punta Cana, 4/2011) Gadwall (4/30/2011, East Pond, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (4/30/2011, West side, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge) Rose-breasted Grosbeak (5/7/2011, Forest Park) Blue-headed Vireo (5/7/2011, Forest Park) Bay-breasted Warbler (5/7/2011, Forest Park) -------------------------------------------------------------- At least 21 new birds (most are lifers) added after 5/7/2011 : Purple Martin (5/ 29/2011, Lemon Creek Park) House Wren (6/4/2011, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge) Chimney Swift (7/10/2011, Fort Tilden) HK birds (7/12 (Tue) - 8/1 (Mon)) Blue-winged teal (8/20/2011, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge) Solitary Sandpiper (8/27/2011, Kissena Park) 9/2011 - 1/2012: Have not systematic search. But the following are a partial (or even nearly complete) list: American Wigeon Hermit Thrush Ruby-crowned Kinglet Indigo Bunting Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Yellow-billed Cuckoo American Black Duck Pied-billed Grebe Hooded Merganser Greater Scaup Horned Grebe White-winged Scoter Red-breasted Merganser Green-winged Teal Ring-necked Duck Wilson's Snipe Yellow-throated Warbler (4/7/2012) Pine Warbler Brown Creeper Clipping Sparrow Ring-necked Pheasant Long-tailed Duck Common Loon Great Horned Owl (5/5/2012) Great Crested Flycatcher (5/5/2012) Eastern Wood-Pewee (10/6/2012) Black-throated Blue Warbler (10/20/2012) Vesper Sparrow (10/27/2012) Pine Siskin (10/27/2012) 2008 Southern Caribbean cruise - Place: puerto rico, St. thomas, St. Kitts, Grenada, Bonaire and Aruba 2009 HK/Taiwan/China trip 2010 Mar-Apr HK trip 2010 Mar and Nov Caribbean cruise (I think I recorded all here already) 2012 Costa Rica 2012 Netherlands, UK, Scotland, Norway, Denmark many birds (HongKong 2007/11-12) Little Egret White-breasted Kingfisher Chinese Pond Heron Black-winged Stilt