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The 2005 DLITE Birding Weekend Was A Great Success!

Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make this possible and to those who particpated. Birders enjoyed an especially fruitful weekend this year. 151 different kinds of birds were spotted. Checkout the tally below.
Loons-Grebes-Shearwaters-Storm-Petrels
Common Loon
Horned Grebe

Pelicans-Cormorants-Bitterns-Herons-Ibises
Brown Pelican
Double-Crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-Crowned Night-Heron
Glossy Ibis

Vultures-Geese-Swans-Ducks
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Brant
Wood Duck
American Wigeon
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Surf Scoter
Bufflehead
Red-Breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck

Hawks-Falcons
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
Red-Shouldered Hawk
Red-Tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon

Pheasants-Quails-Rails-Plovers
Ring-Necked Pheasant
Wild Turkey
Northern Bobwhite
Clapper Rail
Virginia Rail
Black-Bellied Plover
Killdeer

Shorebirds-Sandpipers
American Oystercatcher
Black-Necked Stilt
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Purple Sandpiper
Dunlin
Common Snipe

Flycatchers-Shrikes-Vireos
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
White-Eyed Vireo
Yellow-Throated Vireo
Blue-Headed Vireo
Red-Eyed Vireo

Crows-Swallows-Titmice-Nuthatches
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Horned Lark
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-Winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-Breasted Nuthatch
White-Breasted Nuthatch
Brown-Headed Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Wrens-Kinglets-Thrushes-Thrashers-Pipits-Waxwings
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing

Jaegers-Gulls-Terns-Alcids
Laughing Gull
Ring-Billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-Backed Gull
Royal Tern
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Black Skimmer

Doves-Cuckoos-Owls
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Barn Owl
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl

Goatsuckers-Hummingbirds-Woodpeckers
Chuck-Will's-Widow
Chimney Swift
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker

Warblers
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Yellow-Throated Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Black And White Warbler
American Redstart
Prothonatary Warbler
Worm-Eating Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler
Common Yellowthroat

Tanagers-Sparrows
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow

Finches-Blackbirds-Weavers
Northern Cardinal
Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Red-Winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Rusty Blackbird
Boat-Tailed Grackle
Common Grackle
Brown-Headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

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