FIELD CHECK LIST

This checklist includes some of the mammals and birds that are known or suspected to inhabit or visit our Lake Ontario dunes and associated shrub thickets. It does not include birds that breed and remain in the marshes, sands, and streams behind the dunes.

MAMMALS

____ Bat, big brown
____ Bat, hoary
____ Bat, little brown
____ Bat, red
____ Bat, silver-haired
____ Beaver
____ Chipmunk, eastern
____ Coyote, eastern
____ Deer, white-tailed
____ Fox, gray
____ Fox, red
____ Mink - rare
____ Mole, star-nosed
____ Mouse, house
____ Mouse, meadow jumping
____ Mouse, prairie deer - rare
____ Vole. red-backed
____ Mouse, white-footed
____ Opposum
____ Rabbit, cottontail
____ Raccoon
____ Shrew, masked
____ Shrew, short-tailed
____ Skunk, striped
____ Squirrel, gray
____ Squirrel, red
____ Weasel, long-tailed
____ Weasel, short-tailed
____ Woodchuck
____ River Otter
____ Muskrat

BIRDS

Gulls, Terns, Shorebirds, and Waterbirds
_____ Cormorant, double-crested
_____ Duck, mallard
_____ Duck, wood
_____ Goose, Canada
_____ Gull, Bonaparte
_____ Gull, great black-backed
_____ Gull, herring
_____ Gull, ring-billed
_____ Heron, great blue
_____ Killdeer
_____ Loon, common
_____ Plover, semi-palmated
_____ Sanderling
_____ Sandpiper, least
_____ Sandpiper, semi-palmated
_____ Sandpiper, spotted
_____ Tern, black
_____ Tern, Caspian
_____ Tern, common
_____ Turnstone, ruddy
_____ Yellowlegs, lesser
_____ Yellowlegs, greater

Hawks, Owls, and Goatsuckers
_____ Hawk, red-tailed
_____ Hawk, rough-legged
_____ Nighthawk, common
_____ Osprey
_____ Owl, great horned
_____ Owl, snowy
_____ Vulture, turkey

Fowl
_____ Grouse, ruffed

Passerines
_____ Blackbird, red-winged
_____ Cardinal, northern
_____ Catbird, gray
_____ Chickadee, black-capped
_____ Cowbird, brown-headed
_____ Dove, mourning
_____ Flicker, northern
_____ Flycatcher, great crested
_____ Flycatcher, willow
_____ Goldfinch, American
_____ Grackle, common
_____ Grosbeak, rose-breasted
_____ Hummingbird, ruby-throated
_____ Jay, blue
_____ Kingbird
_____ Nuthatch, white-breasted
_____ Oriole, northern
_____ Redstart, American
_____ Robin, American
_____ Sparrow, song
_____ Sparrow, swamp
_____ Starling, European
_____ Swallow, bank
_____ Swallow, tree
_____ Thrasher, brown
_____ Thrush, wood
_____ Towhee, eastern
_____ Veery
_____ Vireo, red-eyed
_____ Vireo, warbling
_____ Warbler, blackpoll
_____ Warbler, chesnut-sided
_____ Warbler, yellow
_____ Waxwing, cedar
_____ Woodpecker, downy
_____ Wood-pewee, eastern
_____ Wren, house
_____ Yellowthroat, common