Mountain Bird Guide

Click on the species name below for bird photographs, songs, identification tips, distribution maps, and life history information from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s All About Birds website.For another great avian ID resource targeted at bird monitoring, please visit www.natureinstruct.org/dendroica.

Mountain Birdwatch 2.0 Target Species

Bicknell’s Thrush
Black-capped Chickadee
Blackpoll Warbler
Boreal Chickadee
Fox Sparrow
Hermit Thrush
Red Squirrel*
Swainson’s Thrush
White-throated Sparrow
Winter Wren
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

*Red squirrel information can be found in this PDF from the Connecticut state website and from Wikipedia.

 

Here are some additional birds you may encounter during your hike or point count. This list is organized in taxonomic order and features the most frequently captured breeding birds at a high-elevation bird banding station on Mount Mansfield in Vermont.

 

Blue Jay*
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet*
American Robin
Nashville Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Dark-eyed Junco
Purple Finch

 

*Denotes a sporadic breeder in montane forest.