Birds Reported in Allegheny County – 2005
(Mike Fialkovich)

Birders found 236 species plus one hybrid Brewster’s Warbler in Allegheny County in 2005, the second highest total since this list was first generated in 1991. Highlights include the first record of Greater White-fronted Goose since 1895, first county records of Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Laughing Gull, and Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow, third county record of Iceland Gull, fifth county record of Lesser Black-backed Gull, eighth and ninth county records of American Golden Plover, fifth county record of Western Sandpiper, and rarities such as Common Moorhen, Red Phalarope, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Red-headed Woodpecker, Fish Crow, Prothonotary Warbler, Dickcissel, and Brewer’s Blackbird.

1. Greater White-fronted Goose
2. Snow Goose
3. Canada Goose
4. Mute Swan
5. Tundra Swan
6. Wood Duck
7. Gadwall
8. American Wigeon
9. American Black Duck
10. Mallard
11. Blue-winged Teal
12. Northern Shoveler
13. Northern Pintail
14. Green-winged Teal
15. Canvasback
16. Redhead
17. Ring-necked Duck
18. Greater Scaup
19. Lesser Scaup
20. Surf Scoter
21. Long-tailed Duck
22. Bufflehead
23. Common Goldeneye
24. Hooded Merganser
25. Common Merganser
26. Red-breasted Merganser
27. Ruddy Duck
28. Ring-necked Pheasant
29. Ruffed Grouse
30. Wild Turkey
31. Common Loon
32. Pied-billed Grebe
33. Horned Grebe
34. Red-necked Grebe
35. Double-crested Cormorant
36. Great Blue Heron
37. Great Egret
38. Green Heron
39. Turkey Vulture
40. Osprey
41. Bald Eagle
42. Northern Harrier
43. Sharp-shinned Hawk
44. Cooper’s Hawk
45. Northern Goshawk
46. Red-shouldered Hawk
47. Broad-winged Hawk
48. Red-tailed Hawk
49. Rough-legged Hawk
50. American Kestrel
51. Merlin
52. Peregrine Falcon
53. Virginia Rail
54. Sora
55. Common Moorhen
56. American Coot
57. Sandhill Crane
58. Black-bellied Plover
59. American Golden Plover
60. Semipalmated Plover
61. Killdeer
62. Greater Yellowlegs
63. Lesser Yellowlegs
64. Solitary Sandpiper
65. Spotted Sandpiper
66. Upland Sandpiper
67. Ruddy Turnstone
68. Semipalmated Sandpiper
69. Western Sandpiper
70. Least Sandpiper
71. White-rumped Sandpiper
72. Baird’s Sandpiper
73. Pectoral Sandpiper
74. Dunlin
75. Stilt Sandpiper
76. Buff-breasted Sandpiper
77. Short-billed Dowitcher
78. Wilson’s Snipe
79. American Woodcock
80. Red Phalarope
81. Laughing Gull
82. Bonaparte’s Gull
83. Ring-billed Gull
84. Herring Gull
85. Iceland Gull
86. Great Black-backed Gull
87. Lesser Black-backed Gull
88. Caspian Tern
89. Common Tern
90. Forster’s Tern
91. Black Tern
92. Rock Pigeon
93. Mourning Dove
94. Black-billed Cuckoo
95. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
96. Eastern Screech-Owl
97. Great Horned Owl
98. Barred Owl
99. Short-eared Owl
100. Northern Saw-whet Owl
101. Common Nighthawk
102. Whip-poor-will
103. Chimney Swift
104. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
105. Belted Kingfisher
106. Red-headed Woodpecker
107. Red-bellied Woodpecker
108. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
109. Downy Woodpecker
110. Hairy Woodpecker
111. Northern Flicker
112. Pileated Woodpecker
113. Olive-sided Flycatcher
114. Eastern Wood-Pewee
115. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
116. Acadian Flycatcher
117. Alder Flycatcher
118. Willow Flycatcher
119. Least Flycatcher
120. Eastern Phoebe
121. Great Crested Flycatcher
122. Eastern Kingbird
123. White-eyed Vireo
124. Blue-headed Vireo
125. Yellow-throated Vireo
126. Warbling Vireo
127. Philadelphia Vireo
128. Red-eyed Vireo
129. Blue Jay
130. American Crow
131. Fish Crow
132. Common Raven
133. Horned Lark
134. Purple Martin
135. Tree Swallow
136. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
137. Bank Swallow
138. Cliff Swallow
139. Barn Swallow
140. Black-capped Chickadee
141. Carolina Chickadee
142. Tufted Titmouse
143. Red-breasted Nuthatch
144. White-breasted Nuthatch
145. Brown Creeper
146. Carolina Wren
147. House Wren
148. Winter Wren
149. Golden-crowned Kinglet
150. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
151. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
152. Eastern Bluebird
153. Veery
154. Gray-cheeked Thrush
155. Swainson’s Thrush
156. Hermit Thrush
157. Wood Thrush
158. American Robin
159. Gray Catbird
160. Northern Mockingbird
161. Brown Thrasher
162. European Starling
163. American Pipit
164. Cedar Waxwing
165. Blue-winged Warbler
166. Golden-winged Warbler
167. Tennessee Warbler
168. Orange-crowned Warbler
169. Nashville Warbler
170. Northern Parula
171. Yellow Warbler
172. Chestnut-sided Warbler
173. Magnolia Warbler
174. Cape May Warbler
175. Black-throated Blue Warbler
176. Yellow-rumped Warbler
177. Black-throated Green Warbler
178. Blackburnian Warbler
179. Yellow-throated Warbler
180. Pine Warbler
181. Prairie Warbler
182. Palm Warbler
183. Bay-breasted Warbler
184. Blackpoll Warbler
185. Cerulean Warbler
186. Black-and-white Warbler
187. American Redstart
188. Prothonotary Warbler
189. Worm-eating Warbler
190. Ovenbird
191. Northern Waterthrush
192. Louisiana Waterthrush
193. Kentucky Warbler
194. Connecticut Warbler
195. Mourning Warbler
196. Common Yellowthroat
197. Hooded Warbler
198. Wilson’s Warbler
199. Canada Warbler
200. Yellow-breasted Chat
201. Scarlet Tanager
202. Eastern Towhee
203. American Tree Sparrow
204. Chipping Sparrow
205. Field Sparrow
206. Vesper Sparrow
207. Savannah Sparrow
208. Grasshopper Sparrow
209. Henslow’s Sparrow
210. Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow
211. Fox Sparrow
212. Song Sparrow
213. Lincoln’s Sparrow
214. Swamp Sparrow
215. White-throated Sparrow
216. White-crowned Sparrow
217. Dark-eyed Junco
218. Northern Cardinal
219. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
220. Indigo Bunting
221. Dickcissel
222. Bobolink
223. Red-winged Blackbird
224. Eastern Meadowlark
225. Rusty Blackbird
226. Brewer’s Blackbird
227. Common Grackle
228. Brown-headed Cowbird
229. Orchard Oriole
230. Baltimore Oriole
231. Purple Finch
232. House Finch
233. Common Redpoll
234. Pine Siskin
235. American Goldfinch
236. House Sparrow

Addition: One hybrid - Brewster’s Warbler