The following faunistic list for Merchants Mill Pond was compiled over 

 several years of observations and includes common species and very rare 

 or uncommon visitors. 



BIRDS 



Pied- billed grebe 



Red-necked grebe 



Whistling Swan 



Canada goose 



Snow goose 



Mallard 



Black duck 



Pintail 



American widgeon 



Blue-winged teal 



Green-winged teal 



Wood duck 



Redhead 



Canvasback 



Ring-necked duck 



Lesser scaup 



Bufflehead 



Common goldeneye 



Hooded merganser 



Turkey vulture 



Black vulture 



Cooper's hawk 



Sharp-shinned hawk 



Marsh hawk 



Rough-legged hawk 



Red-tailed hawk 



Red-shouldered hawk 



Broad-winged hawk 



Osprey 



Sparrow hawk 



Bobwhite 



Great egret 



Snowy egret 



Cattle egret 



Great Blue heron 



Green heron ■ 



Yellow-crowned night heron 



Black-crowned night heron 



American bittern 



Least bittern 



Glossy ibis 



White ibis 



Purple gallinule 



American coot 



Killdeer 



Spotted sandpiper 



American woodcock 



Common snipe 



Herring gull 



Ring-bill gull 



Rock dove 



Mourning dove 



Yellow-billed cuckoo 



Screech owl 



Great horned owl 



Barred owl 



Chuck-willis widow 



Whip-poor will 



common Nighthawk 



Chimney swift 



Ruby- throated hummingbird 



Belted Kingfisher 



Common flicker 



Pileated woodpecker 



Red-billed woodpecker 



Red-cockaded woodpecker 



Red-headed woodpecker 



Yellow-belted sapsucker 



Hairy woodpecker 



Downy woodpecker 



Eastern kingbird 



Great crested flycatcher 



Eastern phoebe 



Acadian flycatcher 



Eastern wood pewee 



Barn swallow 



Tree swallow 



Righ-winged swallow 



Bank swallow 



Purple martin 



Blue jay 



Common crow 



Fish crow 



Carolina chickadee 



Tufted titmouse 



White-breasted nuthatch 



Red-breasted nuthatch 



Brown-headed ntithatch 



Brown creeper 



Winter wren 



Carolina wren 



Mockingbird 



Catbird 



Brown thrasher 



Robin 



Wood thrush 



Hermit thrush 



Swainson ' s thrush 



Eastern Bluebird 



Blue-gray gnatcatcher 



153 



