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Marumsco National Wildlife Refuge

Woodbridge, Virginia

Relative Abundance
(A) - Accidental
(R) - Rare
[1] - First N. Virginia Record
[2] - First Prince Wm. Cty. Record

* = Observed

LOONS, GREBES
                                   
___ Red-throated Loon				
___ Common Loon*
___ Pied-billed Grebe*
___ Horned Grebe*
___ Red-necked Grebe*(R)                                 

PELICANS, CORMORANTS                    

___ American White Pelican*(A)[1]
___ Brown Pelican
___ Great Cormorant
___ Double-crested Cormorant*

BITTERNS, HERONS, IBISES                        

___ American Bittern*                            
___ Least Bittern*                              
___ Great Blue Heron*                           
___ Great Egret*                                
___ Snowy Egret*(R)                                 
___ Little Blue Heron*                           
___ Cattle Egret*                                
___ Green Heron*                                
___ Black-crowned Night-Heron*
___ Yellow-crowned Night-Heron*
___ White Ibis*(A)
___ Glossy Ibis*(R)

SWANS, GEESE, DUCKS                             

___ Tundra Swan*
___ Mute Swan
___ Snow Goose*(R)
___ Brant
___ Canada Goose*                               
___ Wood Duck*                                  
___ Green-winged Teal*                           
___ American Black Duck*                        
___ Mallard*                                    
___ Northern Pintail*                            
___ Blue-winged Teal*                            
___ Northern Shoveler*                           
___ Gadwall*                                     
___ American Wigeon*                             
___ Canvasback*                                  
___ Redhead*                                     
___ Ring-necked Duck*                            
___ Greater Scaup                               
___ Lesser Scaup*                                
___ Common Goldeneye*                            
___ Bufflehead*                                  
___ Hooded Merganser*                           
___ Common Merganser*                            
___ Red-breasted Merganser*                      
___ Ruddy Duck*                                  

VULTURES, HAWKS, FALCONS                        

___ Black Vulture*                               
___ Turkey Vulture*                              
___ Osprey*
___ Mississippi Kite*(R)[2]                                     
___ Bald Eagle*                                 
___ Northern Harrier*                            
___ Sharp-shinned Hawk*                          
___ Cooper's Hawk*
___ Northern Goshawk*(R)
___ Red-shouldered Hawk*                       
___ Broad-winged Hawk*                          
___ Red-tailed Hawk*
___ Rough-legged Hawk(R)
___ Golden Eagle*(A)
___ American Kestrel*                          
___ Merlin*                                      
___ Peregrine Falcon                            

GROUSE, QUAIL, TURKEY                          

___ Ring-necked Pheasant*
___ Ruffed Grouse                              
___ Wild Turkey*                                
___ Northern Bobwhite*                          

RAILS, CRANES                                   

___ King Rail*(R)
___ Virginia Rail*(R)
___ Sora*(R)
___ Common Moorhen                              
___ American Coot*                               

PLOVERS, SANDPIPERS                             

___ Killdeer*                                   
___ Greater Yellowlegs*                          
___ Lesser Yellowlegs*                           
___ Solitary Sandpiper*                                                   
___ Spotted Sandpiper*
___ Semipalmated Sandpiper*
___ Western Sandpiper*(R)
___ Least Sandpiper*
___ Pectoral Sandpiper*(R)                             
___ Dunlin*(R)
___ Short-billed Dowitcher*(R)
___ Common Snipe*                                
___ American Woodcock*                          

GULLS, TERNS 
                                   
___ Laughing Gull*                               
___ Bonaparte's Gull*                            
___ Ring-billed Gull*                            
___ Herring Gull*                                
___ Great Black-backed Gull*                    
___ Caspian Tern*                                                               
___ Forster's Tern*                              
___ Least Tern*(R)
___ Black Tern*(R)

DOVES, CUCKOOS, OWLS, SWIFTS, HUMMINGBIRDS      

___ Rock Dove*                                  
___ Mourning Dove*                              
___ Black-billed Cuckoo*                         
___ Yellow-billed Cuckoo*                       
___ Barn Owl                                   
___ Eastern Screech-Owl                        
___ Great Horned Owl*
___ Snowy Owl
___ Barred Owl*
___ Short-eared Owl*(R)
___ Common Nighthawk*                            
___ Chuck-will's-widow                          
___ Whip-poor-will                             
___ Chimney Swift*                              
___ Ruby-throated Hummingbird*
___ Rufous Hummingbird                  
___ Belted Kingfisher*                          

WOODPECKERS, FLYCATCHERS
                        
___ Red-headed Woodpecker*(R)                      
___ Red-bellied Woodpecker*                     
___ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker*                    
___ Downy Woodpecker*                           
___ Hairy Woodpecker*                           
___ Northern Flicker*                           
___ Pileated Woodpecker*                        
___ Eastern Wood-Pewee*                         
___ Yellow-bellied Flycatcher*                   
___ Acadian Flycatcher*                         
___ Willow Flycatcher*                           
___ Eastern Phoebe*
___ Vermilion Flycatcher*(A)[1]
___ Great Crested Flycatcher*                   
___ Eastern Kingbird*                          

LARKS, SWALLOWS, JAYS, CROWS                    

___ Horned Lark*
___ Purple Martin*                              
___ Tree Swallow*                               
___ Northern Rough-winged Swallow*              
___ Bank Swallow*                               
___ Cliff Swallow                              
___ Barn Swallow*                               
___ Blue Jay*                                   
___ American Crow*                              
___ Fish Crow*
___ Common Raven

TITMICE, NUTHATCHES, WRENS                      

___ Black-capped Chickadee*(R)
___ Carolina Chickadee*                         
___ Tufted Titmouse*                           
___ Red-breasted Nuthatch*                       
___ White-breasted Nuthatch*                    
___ Brown Creeper*                              
___ Carolina Wren*                              
___ House Wren*                                 
___ Winter Wren*
___ Sedge Wren
___ Marsh Wren*(R)                                 

KINGLETS, THRUSHES, THRASHERS                   

___ Golden-crowned Kinglet*                      
___ Ruby-crowned Kinglet*                        
___ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher*                      
___ Eastern Bluebird*                           
___ Veery*                                      
___ Gray-cheeked Thrush                         
___ Swainson's Thrush*                           
___ Hermit Thrush*                               
___ Wood Thrush*                                
___ American Robin*                             
___ Gray Catbird*                               
___ Northern Mockingbird*                       
___ Brown Thrasher*
___ American Pipit

WAXWINGS, SHRIKES, STARLING                    

___ Cedar Waxwing*                              
___ Loggerhead Shrike*(R)
___ European Starling*                          

VIREOS, WOOD WARBLERS                           

___ White-eyed Vireo*                           
___ Solitary Vireo*(R)
___ Yellow-throated Vireo*                      
___ Warbling Vireo*(R)
___ Philadelphia Vireo*(R)
___ Red-eyed Vireo*                             
___ Blue-winged Warbler*(R)                         
___ Golden-winged Warbler                       
___ Tennessee Warbler*
___ Orange-crowned Warbler
___ Nashville Warbler*(R)
___ Northern Parula*                            
___ Yellow Warbler*                             
___ Chestnut-sided Warbler*                      
___ Magnolia Warbler*                            
___ Cape May Warbler                            
___ Black-throated Blue Warbler*                 
___ Yellow-rumped Warbler*                       
___ Black-throated Green Warbler*               
___ Blackburnian Warbler*(R)                        
___ Yellow-throated Warbler*                    
___ Pine Warbler*                               
___ Prairie Warbler*                            
___ Palm Warbler                                
___ Bay-breasted Warbler                        
___ Blackpoll Warbler*                           
___ Cerulean Warbler                           
___ Black-and-white Warbler*                    
___ American Redstart*                          
___ Prothonotary Warbler*                       
___ Worm-eating Warbler*
___ Swainson's Warbler
___ Ovenbird*                                   
___ Northern Waterthrush*                        
___ Louisiana Waterthrush*                      
___ Kentucky Warbler*                           
___ Connecticut Warbler*(R)                         
___ Mourning Warbler                            
___ Common Yellowthroat*                        
___ Hooded Warbler*
___ Wilson's Warbler*(R)
___ Canada Warbler*(R)                              
___ Yellow-breasted Chat*                       

TANAGERS, SPARROWS                              

___ Summer Tanager*                              
___ Scarlet Tanager*                            
___ Northern Cardinal*                          
___ Rose-breasted Grosbeak(R)                      
___ Blue Grosbeak*                               
___ Indigo Bunting*                             
___ Rufous-sided Towhee*                        
___ American Tree Sparrow*                       
___ Chipping Sparrow*                           
___ Field Sparrow*
___ Vesper Sparrow*
___ Lark Sparrow*(A)[1]
___ Savannah Sparrow
___ Grasshopper Sparrow*
___ Henslow's Sparrow*(R)
___ Fox Sparrow*                                 
___ Song Sparrow*                               
___ Lincoln's Sparrow*                           
___ Swamp Sparrow*                              
___ White-throated Sparrow*                      
___ White-crowned Sparrow*                       
___ Dark-eyed Junco*
___ Snow Bunting
___ Bobolink*

BLACKBIRDS, FINCHES                             

___ Red-winged Blackbird*                       
___ Eastern Meadowlark*                         
___ Rusty Blackbird*
___ Brewer's Blackbird
___ Common Grackle*                             
___ Brown-headed Cowbird*                       
___ Orchard Oriole*                             
___ Baltimore Oriole*                           
___ Purple Finch
___ House Finch*                                
___ Pine Siskin                                 
___ American Goldfinch*                         
___ House Sparrow*                              

List prepared by volunteer James Waggener.

                       Refuge Manager
                       Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge
                       14344 Jefferson Davis Highway
                       Woodbridge, Virginia 22191
                       Telephone: 703/690-1297

Waggener, J.  No date.  Marumsco National Wildlife Refuge.  U.S. Fish and 
     Wildlife Service.  1 page.

Waggener, J.  No date.  Marumsco National Wildlife Refuge.  U.S. Fish and 
     Wildlife Service.  1 page.  Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife 
     Research Center Online.
     http://www.npwrc.usgs.govmarumsco.htm 
     (Version 22MAY98).