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BIMBOs VS PLUMS

The challenge has been made. Who will see more birds in 2008?

The BIMBOs (Birds In Metro Boston Only) or the PLUMs (Birds on Plum Island)?

Most birders are aware of the amazing birding opportunities at Plum Islandl, but many of those same birders don't realize that the same birds can be found right in their own neighborhoods!!! So stop by this page to see what birds have been added to the BIMBO list,.

NEW BIRDS - 8/18/2008

  • Whimbrel (255) - Bob Kelly - Boston Harbor Islands

NEW BIRDS - 8/10/2008

  • Yello-breasted Chat (254) - Andrew Birch - Winthrop
  • White-rumped Sandpiper (253) - Sohel Zandeh - Point of Pines (8/3)
  • Upland Sandpiper (252) - Norman Smith - Logan Airport (breeding success)

NEW BIRDS - 7/28/2008

  • Forester's Tern (251) - Glenn d'Entremont - Squantum

NEW BIRDS - 7/19/2008

  • Long-billed Dowitcher (250) - Andrew Birch - Revere Beach (questionable - will be deleted if no others are found!)

NEW BIRDS - 7/9/2008

  • Least Bittern (249) - Geoff Wood - Belle Isle

COMPLETE LIST:

Species...................................................................................
Snow Goose
Brant
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
American Black Duck
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Common Eider
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Barrow's Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Ring-necked Pheasant
Wild Turkey
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Manx Shearwater
Northern Gannet
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Cormorant
American Bittern
Least Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Glossy Ibis
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Northern Goshawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Virginia Rail
Sora
American Coot
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Killdeer
Whimbrel
American Oystercatcher
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Upland Sandpiper

Ruddy Turnstone

Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Purple Sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
American Woodcock
Wilson's Phalarope
Laughing Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Glaucous Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Least Tern
Black Guillemot
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Black-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Eastern Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl
Snowy Owl
Barred Owl
Long-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Common Nighthawk
Whip-poor-will
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Northern Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Veery
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Bicknell's Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Bohemian Waxwing
Blue-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Prothonotary Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Scarlet Tanager
Western Tanager
Summer Tanager
Eastern Towhee
American Tree Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Snow Bunting
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Rusty Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Purple Finch
House Finch
Common Redpoll
Hoary Redpoll
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

 

 

 
 

 

Needs:

These are the species that are regularly occuring that we still need to find!!! Please email me if you have seen any of these species in 2008!

Eurasian Wigeon
King Eider
Ruffed Grouse
Northern Bobwhite
Northern Fulmar
Cory's Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Leach's Storm-Petrel
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Clapper Rail
King Rail
Common Moorhen
American Golden-Plover
Hudsonian Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Red Knot
Western Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Ruff
Red-necked Phalarope
Red Phalarope
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Little Gull
Black-headed Gull
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Roseate Tern
Arctic Tern
Forster's Tern
Black Tern
Black Skimmer
Dovekie
Thick-billed Murre
Razorbill
Barn Owl
Chuck-will's-widow
Red-headed Woodpecker
Western Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
Sedge Wren
American Pipit
Golden-winged Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Clay-colored Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Lapland Longspur
Dickcissel
Pine Grosbeak
Red Crossbill
White-winged Crossbill
Evening Grosbeak

 


 
 
 

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