Virginia Ornithology
2019 Clarifications
1. Is there a list of which birds the students should be able to identify like division B?
- A word of caution that this event will not try to cover all of the bird species in Virginia. It is too exhaustive of a list.
- The competition:
Teams may
● Rotate through stations to identify Virginia bird species.
And/or
● Teams may answer questions about the following topics:
- How habitat and environmental conditions impact ornithological life.
- How bird species use adaptation to survive.
- Land management to support ornithological species.
- Birds that Frequent Virginia. This is not a total listing.
- Acadian Flycatcher
- Alder Flycatcher
- American Avocet
- American Black Duck
- American Coot
- American Crow
- American Flamingo
- American Goldfinch
- American Kestrel
- American Oystercatcher
- American Pipit
- American Redstart
- American Robin
- American Tree Sparrow
- American White Pelican
- American Wigeon
- American Woodcock
- Anhinga
- Arctic Tern
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Atlantic Puffin
- Audubon's Shearwater
- Bachman's Sparrow
- Baird's Sandpiper
- Bald Eagle
- Baltimore Oriole
- Bank Swallow
- Barn Owl
- Barn Swallow
- Barred Owl
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Belted Kingfisher
- Bewick's Wren
- Bicknell's Thrush
- Bittern
- Black Rail
- Black Scoter
- Black Skimmer
- Black Tern
- Black Vulture
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
- Black-billed Cuckoo
- Blackburnian Warbler
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Black-capped Petrel
- Black-crowned Night-Heron
- Black-headed Grosbeak
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Black-necked Stilt
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Black-throated Green
- Blue Grosbeak
- Blue Heron*
- Blue Jay
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- Blue-headed Vireo
- Blue-winged Teal
- Blue-winged Warbler**
- Boat-tailed Grackle
- Bobolink Yellow
- Bonaparte's Gull
- Brant Chimney
- Brewer's Blackbird
- Bridled Tern
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Brown Creeper
- Brown Pelican
- Brown Thrasher
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Brown-headed Nuthatch
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Bufflehead
- Bullock's Oriole
- Cackling Goose
- California Gull
- Canada Goose
- Canada Warbler Warbler
- Canvasback Black-bellied
- Cape May Warbler
- Carolina Chickadee
- Carolina Wren
- Caspian Tern
- Cattle Egret
- Cave Swallow
- Cedar Waxwing
- Cerulean Warbler
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Chipping Sparrow
- Chuck-will's-widow
- Clapper Rail
- Clark's Grebe
- Clay-colored Sparrow
- Cliff Swallow
- Common Eider
- Common Gallinule
- Common Goldeneye
- Common Grackle
- Common Ground-Dove
- Common Loon
- Common Merganser
- Common Nighthawk
- Common Raven
- Common Redpoll
- Common Tern
- Common Yellowthroat
- Connecticut Warbler
- Cooper's Hawk
- Cory's Shearwater
- Crane
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Dark-eyed Junco*
- Dickcissel
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Dovekie American
- Downy Woodpecker
- Dunlin
- Eared Grebe
- Eastern Bluebird
- Eastern Kingbird
- Eastern Meadowlark
- Eastern Phoebe
- Eastern Screech-Owl
- Eastern Towhee
- Eastern Whip-poor-will
- Eastern Wood-Pewee
- Eurasian Collared-Dove
- Eurasian Wigeon
- European Starling
- Evening Grosbeak
- Field Sparrow
- Fish Crow
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher
- Forster's Tern
- Fox Sparrow*
- Franklin's Gull
- Fulvous Whistling-Duck
- Gadwall Purple
- Gallinule
- Glaucous Gull
- Glossy Ibis
- Golden Eagle
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Golden-Plover
- Golden-winged Warbler**
- Grasshopper Sparrow
- Gray Catbird
- Gray Kingbird
- Gray-cheeked Thrush
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Great Cormorant
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Great Egret
- Great Horned Owl
- Great Shearwater
- Great Skua
- Greater Scaup
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Green Heron
- Green-winged Teal*
- Gull-billed Tern
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Harlequin Duck
- Harris's Sparrow
- Henslow's Sparrow
- Hermit Thrush
- Herring Gull
- Hooded Merganser
- Hooded Warbler
- Horned Grebe
- Horned Lark
- House Finch
- House Sparrow
- House Wren
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Iceland Gull*
- Indigo Bunting
- Kentucky Warbler
- Killdeer
- King Eider
- King Rail
- Kinglet
- Lapland Longspur
- Lark Sparrow
- Laughing Gull
- Leach's Storm-Petrel
- Least Bittern
- Least Flycatcher
- Least Sandpiper
- Least Tern
- LeConte's Sparrow
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Scaup
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Lincoln's Sparrow
- Little Blue Heron
- Little Gull
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Long-billed Curlew
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Long-eared Owl
- Long-tailed Duck
- Long-tailed Jaeger
- Louisiana Waterthrush
- Magnificent Frigatebird
- Magnolia Warbler
- Mallard Sandhill
- Manx Shearwater
- Marbled Godwit
- Marsh Wren
- Merlin* Ruby-crowned
- Mississippi Kite
- Monk Parakeet
- Mourning Dove
- Mourning Warbler
- Mute Swan
- Nashville Warbler
- Nelson's Sparrow*
- Northern Bobwhite
- Northern Cardinal
- Northern Flicker
- Northern Fulmar
- Northern Gannet
- Northern Goshawk
- Northern Harrier
- Northern Mockingbird
- Northern Parula
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Rough-winged
- Swallow
- Northern Saw-whet Owl
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Shrike
- Northern Waterthrush
- Olive-sided Flycatcher
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Orchard Oriole
- Osprey
- Ovenbird
- Pacific Loon
- Painted Bunting
- Palm Warbler*
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Peregrine Falcon
- Philadelphia Vireo
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Pine Grosbeak
- Pine Siskin
- Pine Warbler
- Piping Plover
- Plover
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Prairie Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Purple Finch
- Purple Martin
- Purple Sandpiper
- Razorbill Great
- Red Crossbill
- Red Knot
- Red Phalarope
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-cockaded Woodpecker
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Redhead American
- Red-headed Woodpecker
- Red-necked Grebe
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk*
- Red-throated Loon
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Ring-billed Gull
- Ring-necked Duck
- Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
- Roseate Tern
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Ross's Goose
- Rough-legged Hawk
- Royal Tern
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Ruddy Duck
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Ruff
- Ruffed Grouse
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Rusty Blackbird
- Sabine's Gull
- Saltmarsh Sparrow
- Sanderling
- Sandwich Tern
- Savannah Sparrow*
- Say's Phoebe
- Scarlet Tanager
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
- Seaside Sparrow
- Sedge Wren
- Semipalmated Plover
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Short-billed Dowitcher*
- Short-eared Owl
- Snow Bunting
- Snow Goose*
- Snowy Egret
- Snowy Owl
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Song Sparrow
- Sooty Shearwater
- Sooty Tern
- Sora
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Storm-Petrel
- Summer Tanager
- Surf Scoter
- Swainson's Hawk
- Swainson's Thrush
- Swainson's Warbler
- Swallow-tailed Kite
- Swamp Sparrow
- Swift
- Tennessee Warbler
- Thick-billed Murre
- Tree Swallow
- Tricolored Heron
- Trumpeter Swan
- Tufted Titmouse
- Tundra Swan
- Turkey Vulture
- Upland Sandpiper
- Varied Thrush
- Veery
- Vesper Sparrow
- Virginia Rail
- Warbler
- Warbling Vireo
- Western Grebe
- Western Kingbird
- Western Sandpiper
- Western Tanager
- Whimbrel*
- White Ibis
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- White-crowned Sparrow*
- White-eyed Vireo
- White-faced Ibis
- White-faced Storm-Petrel
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- White-throated Sparrow
- White-winged Crossbill
- White-winged Dove
- White-winged Scoter
- White-winged Tern
- Wild Turkey
- Willet* Band-rumped
- Willow Flycatcher
- Wilson's Phalarope
- Wilson's Plover
- Wilson's Snipe
- Wilson's Storm-Petrel
- Wilson's Warbler
- Winter Wren
- Wood Duck
- Wood Stork
- Wood Thrush
- Worm-eating Warbler
- Yellow Rail
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Yellow-rumped Warbler*
- Yellow-throated Vireo
- Yellow-throated Warbler
