Back Bay
Birding Club

January 2008 - MACKAY ISLAND

The following birds were identified by 20 participants on our visit to Mackay Island NWR and the Charles Kuralt Overlook on the causeway marked with *on January 13th. Our total species count was 40


Red-necked Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Turkey Vulture
Snow Goose
Canada Goose
*Brant
Tundra Swan
*Gadwall
American Wigeon
Black Duck
Mallard
Green-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
*Hooded Merganser
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
*Merlin
King Rail (heard only)
American Coot
Ring-billed Gull
Forster's Tern
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Crow
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren (heard only)
Mockingbird
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Song Sparrow
Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Grackle