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While Long Point is famed for its spectacular migration of birds in spring and fall, summer is definitely not the time to hang up your binoculars! The Long Point region is a highly diverse landscape -- where North meets South, and where bone dry uplands meet sopping wet lowlands – altogether supporting an incredibly rich array of breeding birds. Above all, this is a place where "Carolinian" species often nest almost back to back with species more typical of the Boreal forest.

Of the 370 species known to occur in the Long Point Checklist area, at least 173 have nested here (indicated by an * below). A further 12 species are suspected of nesting (indicated by *?).

Including non-breeding species, it is not too difficult to find well over 100 species in a single (but energetic) day’s birding in the Long Point region from June through mid July.

As mid July starts to roll around, fall migration actually starts up (and you thought your summer was short!), with the first southbound shorebirds, followed quickly by Yellow Warblers… In fact, bird migration at Long Point occurs in every month of the year; there’s nearly always either some northbound or southbound traffic going on. While birding at Long Point can easily turn into a year round past-time, feel free to give your binoculars a much-needed break in January, or better yet, take them south on vacation with you to the Gulf Coast, Arizona, or Latin America!

In the meantime, here are the breeding birds of Long Point Country:

LOONS
*Common Loon

GREBES
*Pied-billed Grebe
*Horned Grebe

HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS
*American Bittern
*Least Bittern
*Great Blue Heron
*Great Egret
*Green Heron
*?Black-crowned Night-Heron

NEW WORLD VULTURES
*Turkey Vulture

DUCKS, SWANS, GEESE
*Canada Goose
*Mute Swan
*Wood Duck
*Gadwall
*American Wigeon
*American Black Duck
*Mallard
*Blue-winged Teal
*Northern Shoveler
*Northern Pintail
*?Green-winged Teal
*Redhead
*?Lesser Scaup
*Hooded Merganser
*Red-breasted Merganser
*?Ruddy Duck

OSPREY
*Osprey

HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES
*Bald Eagle
*Northern Harrier
*Sharp-shinned Hawk
*Cooper's Hawk
*Northern Goshawk
*Red-shouldered Hawk
*Broad-winged Hawk
*Red-tailed Hawk

FALCONS
*American Kestrel

PHEASANTS, GROUSE, QUAIL AND TURKEYS
*?Gray Partridge
*Ring-necked Pheasant
*Ruffed Grouse
*Wild Turkey

WOOD- PARTRIDGES
*Northern Bobwhite

RAILS AND COOTS
*King Rail
*Virginia Rail
*Sora
*Common Moorhen
*American Coot

CRANES
*Sandhill Crane

PLOVERS
*Piping Plover
*Killdeer

SANDPIPERS
*Spotted Sandpiper
*Upland Sandpiper
*Common Snipe
*American Woodcock
*Wilson's Phalarope

GULLS AND TERNS
*?Little Gull
*Ring-billed Gull
*Herring Gull
*Common Tern
*Forster's Tern
*Black Tern

PIGEONS AND DOVES
*Rock Dove
*Mourning Dove
*Passenger Pigeon

NEW WORLD CUCKOOS
*Black-billed Cuckoo
*Yellow-billed Cuckoo

BARN-OWLS
*?Barn Owl

OWLS
*Eastern Screech-Owl
*Great Horned Owl
*Barred Owl
*Long-eared Owl
*Short-eared Owl
*Northern Saw-whet Owl

NIGHTJARS
*Common Nighthawk
*?Chuck-will's-widow
*Whip-poor-will

SWIFTS
*Chimney Swift

HUMMINGBIRDS
*Ruby-throated Hummingbird

KINGFISHERS
*Belted Kingfisher

WOODPECKERS
*Red-headed Woodpecker
*Red-bellied Woodpecker
*Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
*Downy Woodpecker
*Hairy Woodpecker
*Northern Flicker
*Pileated Woodpecker

TYRANT FLYCATCHERS
*Eastern Wood-Pewee
*Acadian Flycatcher
*?Alder Flycatcher
*Willow Flycatcher
*Least Flycatcher
*Eastern Phoebe
*Great Crested Flycatcher
*Eastern Kingbird

SHRIKES
*Loggerhead Shrike

VIREOS
*White-eyed Vireo
*Yellow-throated Vireo
*Blue-headed Vireo
*Warbling Vireo
*Red-eyed Vireo

CROWS AND JAYS
*Blue Jay
*American Crow

LARKS
*Horned Lark

SWALLOWS
*Purple Martin
*Tree Swallow
*Northern Rough-winged Swallow
*Bank Swallow
*Cliff Swallow
*Barn Swallow

CHICKADEES, TITS
*Black-capped Chickadee
*Tufted Titmouse

NUTHATCHES
*Red-breasted Nuthatch
*White-breasted Nuthatch

CREEPERS
*Brown Creeper

WRENS
*Carolina Wren
*House Wren
*Winter Wren
*Sedge Wren
*Marsh Wren

KINGLETS
*Golden-crowned Kinglet

GNATCATCHERS
*Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

THRUSHES
*Eastern Bluebird
*Veery
*Hermit Thrush
*Wood Thrush
*American Robin

MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS
*Gray Catbird
*Northern Mockingbird
*Brown Thrasher

STARLINGS
*European Starling

WAXWINGS
*Cedar Waxwing

NEW WORLD WARBLERS
*Blue-winged Warbler
*Golden-winged Warbler
*Nashville Warbler
*Northern Parula
*Yellow Warbler
*Chestnut-sided Warbler
*Magnolia Warbler
*Black-throated Blue Warbler
*Yellow-rumped Warbler
*Black-throated Green Warbler
*Blackburnian Warbler
*Pine Warbler
*Prairie Warbler
*Cerulean Warbler
*Black-and-white Warbler
*American Redstart
*Prothonotary Warbler
*?Worm-eating Warbler
*Ovenbird
*Northern Waterthrush
*Louisiana Waterthrush
*?Kentucky Warbler
*Mourning Warbler
*Common Yellowthroat
*Hooded Warbler
*Canada Warbler
*Yellow-breasted Chat

TANAGERS
*Scarlet Tanager

SPARROWS & ALLIES
*Eastern Towhee
*Chipping Sparrow
*Clay-colored Sparrow
*Field Sparrow
*Vesper Sparrow
*Lark Sparrow
*Savannah Sparrow
*Grasshopper Sparrow
*Henslow's Sparrow
*Song Sparrow
*Swamp Sparrow
*?White-throated Sparrow
*Dark-eyed Junco

GROSBEAKS & BUNTINGS
*Northern Cardinal
*Rose-breasted Grosbeak
*Indigo Bunting

BLACKBIRDS, GRACKLES, ORIOLES
*Bobolink
*Red-winged Blackbird
*Eastern Meadowlark
*?Western Meadowlark
*Yellow-headed Blackbird
*Brewer's Blackbird
*Common Grackle
*Brown-headed Cowbird
*Orchard Oriole
*Baltimore Oriole

SISKINS, CROSSBILLS AND ALLIES
*Purple Finch
*House Finch
*Red Crossbill
*White-winged Crossbill
*Pine Siskin
*American Goldfinch
*Evening Grosbeak

OLD WORLD SPARROWS
*House Sparrow

 

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