LISTENING TO BIRDS ON THE STONY BROOK CAMPUS

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Family	Species	Where?
Urban Birds	Pigeon English Sparrow Starling	pretty much everywhere " " (nest in ivy) " " (like noisy places)
Gulls	Herring Gull crowing Heh-heh-heh, YOW, heh-heh-heh,	perch on SAC, ESS
Other Shorebirds	Killdeer	Athletic fields
Geese & Ducks	Canada Goose "A sonorous honk" A pair of geese overhead.	Athletic fields Math-Physics, etc.
	Mallard Duck one several	Roth Pond
Raptors	Red-tailed Hawk "An asthmatic squeal, keeer-r-r, slurring downward" Crows mobbing a pair of red-tails.	Soar overhead Top of Math Tower
Flycatchers	Kingbird one two	G & H Quad
Mimic Thrushes	Mockingbird imitating wood thrush (wood thrush original)	Central Mall
Warblers	Yellow Warbler song 1 song 2	Nicolls Road
	Many different warblers during migration around May 1	various habitats
Orioles & Blackbirds	Cowbird	Athletic Fields towards LIRR station
	Baltimore Oriole	Math Parking Lot
Swallows & Swifts	Chimney Swift "Single high, hard chips run together into ... a rolling, descending twitter"	Over S B Union Parking Lot
Crows & Jays	Fish Crow two fish crows	Stadium Parking lot perch on streetlamps
Finches	Goldfinch song in flight: Per-CHIC-o-ree perching song	Overhead in summer perch in Central Mall
Sparrows	Chipping Sparrow	Math Parking Lot, etc.
	Song Sparrow song 1 song 2 song 3 song 4 (from same bird) another typical song same in slow motion	Math-Physics Central Mall, etc.