Today's Linnaean Field Trip, under the rubric of "Eastern Long Island Specialties", started at Cupsogue near Moriches Inlet and ended at the ex-Grumman EPCAL grasslands in Manorville. It was a quiet day with relatively few shore- and waterbirds and some of the upland specialties failed to show. Here's my list of 50 species:
Mallard
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Red-tailed Hawk
Black-bellied Plover
Piping Plover
American Oystercatcher
Willet
Ruddy Turnstone
Short-billed Dowitcher (probably; seen at a distance)
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Least Tern
Black Tern
Common Tern
Black Skimmer
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Northern Flicker
Peregrine Falcon (over the marshes at Cupsogue)
Willow Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
American Crow
Fish Crow
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
House Wren
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Common Yellowthroat
Prairie Warbler
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Saltmarsh Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Baltimore Oriole
House Sparrow
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