Audubon Vermont staff members gathered bright and early Thursday morning for our annual Birdathon! We started our birding adventure on the Visitor Center's porch right at dawn. From there we meandered along the Green Mountain Audubon Center's trails, ears open and eyes peeled. We made our way up through hardword forests to lookout rock and down through meadows and hemlock swamps to Beaver Pond. We even hiked up to our neighbors at the Birds of Vermont Museum! The woods were alive with birdsong in the trees and ephemerals and amphibians at our feet. We ended our day by driving to Geprags Community Park in HInesburg, an natural area that we help manage for Golden-winged Warbler habitat. We were fortunate to sight a few of these beautiful shrubland warblers! It was so fun to have our our whole staff gathered together enjoying a beautiful day outside sharing our mutual love of birds!
We found a total of 95 bird species this year! Even though our staff has completed our group Birdathon, there is still time to participate and donate! Birdathon continues through May 23rd! Please consider donating to support Audubon Vermont's work to protect birds and the places they need today and tomorrow. Thank you to all those of have supported our annual Birdathon fundraiser so far!
Our 2024 species list:
- Barred owl
- Veery
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Canada Goose
- Blue Jay
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Indigo Bunting
- Northern Parula
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- American Robin
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Scarlet Tanager
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Black-capped Chickadee
- American Goldfinch
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Ovenbird
- Northern Cardinal
- Eastern Phoebe
- Tufted Titmouse
- American Crow
- American Redstart
- Blackburnian Warbler
- Brown Creeper
- Pine Warbler
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Mourning Dove
- Winter Wren
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Hermit Thrush
- Cedar Waxwing
- Blue-headed Vireo
- Eastern Wood-Pewee
- Wood Thrush
- Pileated Woodpecker
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- Least Flycatcher
- Great-crested Flycatcher
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Grey Catbird
- Common Yellowthroat
- Purple Finch
- Song Sparrow
- House Wren
- Tennessee Warbler
- Louisiana Waterthrush
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Turkey Vulture
- Osprey
- Common Raven
- Broad-winged hawk
- Yellow Warbler
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Tree Swallow
- Baltimore Oriole
- Northern Waterthrush
- Barn Swallow
- Eastern Bluebird
- Magnolia Warbler
- Common Grackle
- Northern Flicker
- Common Merganser
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Eastern Kingbird
- Chipping Sparrow
- House Sparrow
- Wild Turkey
- European Starling
- American Kestrel
- Bobolink
- Eastern Towhee
- Warbling Vireo
- Brown Thrasher
- Alder Flycatcher
- Swamp Sparrow
- Downy Woodpecker
- Field Sparrow
- Mallard
- Blue-winged Warbler
- Belted Kingfisher
- Golden-winged Warbler
- Marsh Wren
- Ring-billed Gull
- White-throated Sparrow
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Chimney Swift
- Rock Pigeon
- Killdeer
- American Woodcock
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Caspian Tern
- Brown-headed Cowbird
