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WINTER BIRDS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL 
GARDEN 
This list is intended to include the birds that may be found 
within the Garden limits, a tract e o less than four hundred 
acres, during one or more of the winter months, not perhaps in 
one year, but in the course or ie or six years’ observation. 
First come the na that may be found both summer and 
of these woodland iene is usually from about an hour after 
sunrise until ten o’clock or so in the morning. 
Birds that may be ina throughout the year: 
House Sparrow Black ae 
= Wood Duc 
Star Sparrow H 
eee Woodpecker Hairy Wooded 
once ay Scree a Owl 
Chic ines Rob 
White-breasted Nuthatch Kingfisher 
g Spar Bob 
Birds from the North that may spend the winter here: 
Slate- eee Junco Fox Sparrow 
Purple Finch Winter Wren 
Thistle ind Re 
White- ces Sparrow Northern Shrike 
Tree S merican Crossbill 
Suey Sli Kinglet White-winged ‘Crossbill 
Br Evening Grosbea 
Pin Long-eare i 
Red. Saat Nuthatch Saw-whet Owl 
Barred Owl 
It is to be noted that of the last six or aes apeits mentioned, 
some may not be seen here for six years. 
A few other winter birds, not mentioned above, may occasionally 
fly over the park, such as three or four species of gulls, and then 
and Cooper’s. In still another class are a few stragglers, mostly 
net ee that for some unknown reason, choose to remain 
