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| REPORTABLE SPECIES: |
| A) Species New to the Nova Scotia list; |
| B) Species occurring out-of-season;
(including record-early or late-departing migrants) |
| C) Exceptional numbers of any species; and |
| D) All species on the following list |
| LIST OF REPORTABLE SPECIES |
WATERFOWL Fulvous Whistling-Duck Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Pink-footed Goose Greater White-fronted Goose Greylag Goose Snow Goose Barnacle Goose Cackling Goose Mute Swan Tundra Swan Eurasian Wigeon Cinnamon Teal Garganey Canvasback Redhead Tufted Duck King Eider Harlequin Duck Barrow's Goldeneye Ruddy Duck GROUSE AND PTARMIGAN Gray Partridge Willow Ptarmigan Rock Ptarmigan LOONS AND GREBES Pacific Loon Eared Grebe Western Grebe ALBATROSSES Yellow-nosed Albatross Black-browed Albatross SHEARWATERS, PETRELS, AND STORM-PETRELS Fea's Petrel Bermuda Petrel Black-capped Petrel Cory's Shearwater Manx Shearwater Little Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater White-faced Storm-Petrel European Storm-Petrel Band-rumped Storm-Petrel TROPICBIRDS AND BOOBIES White-tailed Tropicbird Red-billed Tropicbird Masked Booby Brown Booby PELICANS American White Pelican Brown Pelican FRIGATEBIRDS Magnificent Frigatebird BITTERNS, HERONS, AND IBISES Least Bittern Great Egret Little Egret Western Reef-Heron Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Reddish Egret Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron White Ibis Glossy Ibis VULTURES Black Vulture Turkey Vulture DIURNAL RAPTORS Swallow-tailed Kite Mississippi Kite Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk Swainson's Hawk Zone-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle Eurasian Kestrel Gyrfalcon RAILS, GALLINULES, AND COOTS Yellow Rail Black Rail Corn Crake Clapper Rail King Rail Virginia Rail Purple Gallinule Common Moorhen American Coot LIMPKIN AND CRANES Limpkin Sandhill Crane SHOREBIRDS Northern Lapwing European Golden-Plover Snowy Plover Wilson's Plover Common Ringed Plover Piping Plover American Oystercatcher Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Redshank Common Greenshank Upland Sandpiper Eskimo Curlew Eurasian Curlew Long-billed Curlew Black-tailed Godwit Bar-tailed Godwit Marbled Godwit Red Knot Western Sandpiper Little Stint Baird's Sandpiper Curlew Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Broad-billed Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Ruff Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Red Phalarope GULLS, TERNS, AND SKIMMERS Ivory Gull Sabine's Gull Black-headed Gull Little Gull Ross's Gull Laughing Gul Franklin's Gull Black-tailed Gull Mew "Common" Gull California Gull Thayer's Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Slaty-backed Gull Sooty Tern Bridled Tern Least Tern Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Black Tern Roseate Tern Forster's Tern Royal Tern Sandwich Tern Black Skimmer SKUAS AND JAEGERS Great Skua South Polar Skua Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Long-tailed Jaeger ALCIDS Dovekie Common Murre Thick-billed Murre PIGEONS AND DOVES Band-tailed Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove White-winged Dove Common Ground-Dove CUCKOOS Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo OWLS Barn Owl Eastern Screech-Owl Snowy Owl Northern Hawk Owl Great Gray Owl Long-eared Owl Boreal Owl Short-eared Owl NIGHTJARS AND ALLIES Chuck-will's-widow Eastern Whip-poor-will HUMMINGBIRDS Black-chinned Hummingbird Callliope Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird WOODPECKERS Lewis's Woodpecker Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker American Three-toed Woodpecker Black-backed Woodpecker FLYCATCHERS Western Wood-Pewee Acadian Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Dusky Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Say's Phoebe Vermilion Flycatcher Ash-throated Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Couch's Kingbird Cassin's Kingbird Western Kingbird Gray Kingbird Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Fork-tailed Flycatcher SHRIKES Brown Shrike Loggerhead Shrike VIREOS White-eyed Vireo Bell's Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Plumbeous Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo CORVIDS Black-billed Magpie Eurasian Jackdaw Fish Crow SWALLOWS Purple Martin Violet-green Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Cave Swallow WRENS Rock Wren Carolina Wren Bewick's Wren House Wren Sedge Wren Marsh Wren GNATCATCHERS Blue-gray Gnatcatcher OLD WORLD FLYCATCHERS Northern Wheatear THRUSHES AND ALLIES Eastern Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire Gray-cheeked Thrush Bicknell's Thrush Wood Thrush Fieldfare Redwing Varied Thrush MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher WARBLERS Blue-winged Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Virginia's Warbler "Western" Nashville Warbler (V.r. ridgwayi) Cape May Warbler "Audubon's" Yellow-rumped Warbler (D.c. auduboni) Black-throated Gray Warbler Townsend's Warbler Hermit Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler "Western" Palm Warbler (D.p. palmarum) Cerulean Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Swainson's Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Connecticut Warbler MacGillivray's Warbler Hooded Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat BUNTINGS, SPARROWS, AND ALLIES Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee Eastern Towhee Cassin's Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Brewer's Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Sage Sparrow Lark Bunting Grasshopper Sparrow Henslow's Sparrow Le Conte's Sparrow Saltmarsh Sparrow Seaside Sparrow Harris's Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Smith's Longspur Chestnut-collared Longspur TANAGERS, CARDINALS, AND ALLIES Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Western Tanager Black-headed Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting Indigo Bunting Painted Bunting Dickcissel MEADOWLARKS, BLACKBIRDS, AND ORIOLES Eastern Meadowlark Western Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Boat-tailed Grackle Great-tailed Grackle Shiny Cowbird Bronzed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Bullock's Oriole FINCHES AND ALLIES Chaffinch Brambling House Finch Hoary Redpoll |