Species List

Boonton, NJ, Christmas Bird Count – 89 years from 1936 through 2024. The table below lists the species.

The Occurrences column is the number of years recorded.

An asterisk (*) in the last column denotes a species presence on the current count, 2023: 91 species plus 4 count-week species. cw = a count week species, one that is not included with the count-day totals but is found in the count circle either three days before or three days after the day of the count and is recorded as such.

Species Occurrences 2024
1 Greater White-fronted Goose 2
2 Snow Goose 1 *
3 Brant 2
4 Cackling Goose 6 *
5 Canada Goose 68 *
6 Mute Swan 70 *
7 Tundra Swan 6
8 Wood Duck 75 *
9 Gadwall 64 *
10 American Wigeon 71 *
11 American Black Duck 88 *
12 Mallard 88 *
13 Blue-winged Teal 6
14 Northern Shoveller 46
15 Northern Pintail 62 *
16 Green-winged Teal 61 *
17 Canvasback 52
18 Redhead 43 *
19 Ring-necked Duck 73 *
20 Greater Scaup 40
21 Lesser Scaup 47 *
22 White-winged Scoter 2
23 Long-tailed Duck 3 *
24 Bufflehead 68 *
25 Common Goldeneye 66 *
26 Hooded Merganser 71 *
27 Common Merganser 82 *
28 Red-breasted Merganser 13 *
29 Ruddy Duck 74 *
30 Ring-necked Pheasant 69
31 Ruffed Grouse 51
32 Wild Turkey 37 *
33 Northern Bobwhite 5
34 Common Loon 23
35 Pied-billed Grebe 68 *
36 Horned Grebe 24 cw
37 Red-necked Grebe 2 *
38 Double-crested Cormorant 7 *
39 American Bittern 8
40 Great Blue Heron 70 *
41 Great Egret 2
42 Little Blue Heron 2
43 Green Heron 2
44 Black-crowned Night Heron 16
45 Black Vulture 34 *
46 Turkey Vulture 50 *
47 Bald Eagle 38 *
48 Northern Harrier 72 *
49 Sharp-shinned Hawk 71 *
50 Cooper’s Hawk 58 *
51 Northern Goshawk 22
52 Red-shouldered Hawk 78 *
53 Broad-winged Hawk 1
54 Red-tailed Hawk 88 *
55 Rough-legged Hawk 47
56 Golden Eagle 3
57 American Kestrel 76
58 Merlin 22 *
59 Peregrine Falcon 21 cw
60 King Rail 3
61 Virginia Rail 36 *
62 Sora 6 *
63 American Coot 64 *
64 Killdeer 56
65 Lesser Yellowlegs 1
66 Wilson’s Snipe 55 *
67 American Woodcock 33
68 Bonaparte’s Gull 2
69 Ring-billed Gull 69 *
70 American Herring Gull 85 *
71 Iceland Gull 3
72 Lesser Black-backed Gull 4
73 Glaucous Gull 1
74 Great Black-backed Gull 56 *
75 Black-legged Kittiwake 1
76 Rock Pigeon 51 *
77 Mourning Dove 80 *
78 Monk Parakeet 1
79 Barn Owl 15
80 Eastern Screech-Owl 81 *
81 Great Horned Owl 83 *
82 Snowy Owl 1
83 Barred Owl 54 *
84 Long-eared Owl 52
85 Short-eared Owl 13
86 Northern Saw-whet 22
87 Belted Kingfisher 85 *
88 Red-headed Woodpecker 42
89 Red-bellied Woodpecker 53 *
90 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 50 *
91 Downy Woodpecker 88 *
92 Hairy Woodpecker 88 *
93 Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker 86 *
94 Pileated Woodpecker 60 *
95 Eastern Phoebe 13
96 Great Crested Flycatcher 0
97 Western Kingbird 1
98 Loggerhead Shrike 7
99 Northern Shrike 17
100 Blue-headed (Solitary) Vireo 1
101 Blue Jay 88 *
102 American Crow 88 *
103 Fish Crow 50 *
104 Common Raven 17 *
105 Horned Lark 40 *
106 Rough-winged Swallow 1
107 Black-capped Chickadee 88 *
108 Boreal Chickadee 4
109 Tufted Titmouse 88 *
110 Red-breasted Nuthatch 62
111 White-breasted Nuthatch 88 *
112 Brown Creeper 88 *
113 Carolina Wren 71 *
114 House Wren 10
115 Winter Wren 81 *
116 Sedge Wren 1
117 Marsh Wren 35 *
118 Golden-crowned Kinglet 84 *
119 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 64 *
120 Eastern Bluebird 64 *
121 Veery 1
122 Hermit Thrush 61 *
123 Wood Thrush 2
124 American Robin 85 *
125 Gray Catbird 53 *
126 Northern Mockingbird 66 *
127 Brown Thrasher 30 cw
128 European Starling 88 *
129 American Pipit 28
130 Cedar Waxwing 68
131 Orange-crowned Warbler 13
132 Nashville Warbler 2
133 Magnolia Warbler 1
134 Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler 60 *
135 Black-throated Green Warbler 1
136 Pine Warbler 1
137 Palm Warbler 10
138 Bay-breasted Warbler 1
139 Black-and-white Warbler 0
140 Ovenbird 2
141 Common Yellowthroat 23
142 Yellow-breasted Chat 2
143 Eastern Towhee 70 *
144 American Tree Sparrow 88 *
145 Chipping Sparrow 25 *
146 Clay-colored Sparrow 2
147 Field Sparrow 84 *
148 Vesper Sparrow 17
149 Savannah Sparrow 64 *
150 Fox Sparrow 78 *
151 Song Sparrow 88 *
152 Lincoln’s Sparrow 4
153 Swamp Sparrow 88 *
154 White-throated Sparrow 88 *
155 White-crowned Sparrow 31 *
156 Golden-crowned Sparrow 3
157 Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco 88 *
Dark-eyed (Oregon) Junco 3
158 Lapland Longspur 3
159 Snow Bunting 22
160 Northern Cardinal 88 *
161 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1
162 Black-headed Grosbeak 1
163 Painted Bunting 1
164 Dickcissel 2
165 Bobolink 1
166 Red-winged Blackbird 85 *
167 Eastern Meadowlark 41
168 Yellow-headed Blackbird 1
169 Rusty Blackbird 84 *
170 Common Grackle 72 *
171 Brown-headed Cowbird 73 *
172 Baltimore Oriole 1
173 Pine Grosbeak 4
174 Purple Finch 81 *
175 House Finch 60 *
176 Red Crossbill 9
177 White-winged Crossbill 2
178 Common Redpoll 20
179 Pine Siskin 49
180 American Goldfinch 88 *
181 Evening Grosbeak 33
182 House Sparrow 88 *