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Native and Naturalized (138)

  1. Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
    # Count: 3
    Date:
    Observer: Jon Selle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  2. Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Jon Selle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  3. Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
    # Count: 4
    Date:
    Observer: Jon Selle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  4. Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum
    # Count: 12
    Date:
    Observer: Jon Selle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  5. Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Jon Selle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  6. Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Jon Selle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  7. Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Jon Selle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  8. Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Jon Selle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  9. American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Jon Selle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  10. Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Jon Selle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  11. Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Jon Selle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  12. Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
    # Count: 3
    Date:
    Observer: Jon Selle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  13. European Starling Sturnus vulgaris
    # Count: 13
    Date:
    Observer: Jon Selle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  14. American Robin Turdus migratorius
    # Count: 3
    Date:
    Observer: Jon Selle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  15. White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Jon Selle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  16. Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Jon Selle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  17. Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Jon Selle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  18. Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
    # Count: 3
    Date:
    Observer: Jon Selle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  19. Rock Pigeon Columba livia
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: david gifford
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  20. Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: david gifford
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  21. House Sparrow Passer domesticus
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: david gifford
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  22. Great Egret Ardea alba
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  23. Carolina Chickadee Poecile carolinensis
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Bruce Cramer
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  24. American Kestrel Falco sparverius
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Bruce Cramer
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  25. Canada Goose Branta canadensis
    # Count: 23
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  26. Wood Duck Aix sponsa
    # Count: 11
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  27. Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  28. Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  29. Osprey Pandion haliaetus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  30. Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  31. Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  32. Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  33. Fish Crow Corvus ossifragus
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  34. Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  35. Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  36. House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  37. Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  38. Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
    # Count: 11
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  39. Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
    # Count: 4
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  40. Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Paul jordan
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  41. American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Anonymous Birder
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  42. Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: kas dumroese
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  43. Ruby-crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Thomas Ostrowski
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  44. Bufflehead Bucephala albeola
    # Count: 4
    Date:
    Observer: Jon Selle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  45. Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Jon Selle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  46. Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Luke Knutson
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  47. Hairy Woodpecker Dryobates villosus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  48. Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  49. Yellow-rumped Warbler Setophaga coronata
    # Count: 3
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  50. Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
    # Count: 3
    Date:
    Observer: Ignacio Romero
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  51. Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ignacio Romero
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  52. Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ignacio Romero
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  53. Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Jon Selle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  54. Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Shreyas Punacha
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  55. Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  56. Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  57. Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  58. Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  59. Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  60. Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Matt Kauffman
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  61. Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
    # Count: 30
    Date:
    Observer: Matt Kauffman
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  62. Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  63. Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
    # Count: 8
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  64. Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ignacio Romero
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  65. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Ignacio Romero
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  66. American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ignacio Romero
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  67. Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Keigan Case
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  68. Common Merganser Mergus merganser
    # Count: 15
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  69. Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  70. Green Heron Butorides virescens
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  71. Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  72. Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  73. Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
    # Count: 3
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  74. Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  75. Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  76. Eastern Wood-Pewee Contopus virens
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Curt Davis
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  77. Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  78. Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  79. Purple Martin Progne subis
    # Count: 5
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  80. Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  81. Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  82. Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Peter LaBelle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  83. Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
    # Count: 4
    Date:
    Observer: Peter LaBelle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  84. Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Peter LaBelle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  85. Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Peter LaBelle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  86. Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Peter LaBelle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  87. Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Peter LaBelle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  88. Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  89. Common Raven Corvus corax
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  90. White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Stan Arnold
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  91. Winter Wren Troglodytes hiemalis
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Meg Symington
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  92. Northern Parula Setophaga americana
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Guy Foulks🍀
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  93. Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
    # Count: 8
    Date:
    Observer: Guy Foulks🍀
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  94. Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Guy Foulks🍀
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  95. Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
    # Count: 19
    Date:
    Observer: Guy Foulks🍀
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  96. Herring Gull Larus argentatus
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Linda Sporrer
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  97. Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  98. American Black Duck Anas rubripes
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  99. Snow Goose Anser caerulescens
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  100. Common Loon Gavia immer
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Joe Hage
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  101. Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  102. Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Neal Anderson
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  103. Pine Siskin Spinus pinus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Jodi Bucknam
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  104. Cooper's Hawk Accipiter cooperii
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Peggy Eubank
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  105. Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: David Sperling
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  106. Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Michael Gregory
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  107. Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  108. Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  109. Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  110. House Wren Troglodytes aedon
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Menachem Goldstein
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  111. Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  112. Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Colin Maguire
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  113. Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Colin Maguire
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  114. Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Colin Maguire
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  115. Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Colin Maguire
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  116. Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Colin Maguire
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  117. Canvasback Aythya valisineria
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Patrick Van Thull
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  118. Horned Grebe Podiceps auritus
    # Count: 3
    Date:
    Observer: Patrick Van Thull
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  119. Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ian Davidson
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  120. Orange-crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: David Ledwith
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  121. Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus
    # Count: 72
    Date:
    Observer: Fabián Casas
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  122. Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Bill Tweit
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  123. Mute Swan Cygnus olor
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Jeremy Beck
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  124. Prairie Warbler Setophaga discolor
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ethan Mulligan
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  125. Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Alejandra Mercado
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  126. Greater Scaup Aythya marila
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Andrew Pang
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  127. Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
    # Count: 4
    Date:
    Observer: Frederic Huffnagle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  128. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Peter Ross
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  129. Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Peter Frechtel
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  130. Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Paul Pisano
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  131. Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
    # Count: 16
    Date:
    Observer: Ray Wershler
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  132. Gadwall Mareca strepera
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Anonymous eBirder
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  133. Green-winged Teal Anas crecca
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Anonymous eBirder
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  134. Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ronald Sell
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  135. Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ronald Sell
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  136. Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Cliff McLean
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  137. Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Rebecca Lawton
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  138. Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Dave Czaplak
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail

Additional Taxa (12)

  1. gull sp. Larinae sp.
    # Count: 15
    Date:
    Observer: David Allen
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  2. Downy/Hairy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens/villosus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Peter LaBelle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  3. vireo sp. Vireo sp.
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Peter LaBelle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  4. new world warbler sp. Parulidae sp.
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Peter LaBelle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  5. crow sp. Corvus sp. (crow sp.)
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Peter LaBelle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  6. swallow sp. Hirundinidae sp.
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Ed Wallace
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  7. new world sparrow sp. Passerellidae sp.
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Jodi Bucknam
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  8. passerine sp. Passeriformes sp.
    # Count: 9
    Date:
    Observer: Jodi Bucknam
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  9. hawk sp. Accipitridae sp. (hawk sp.)
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Suzanne Picard
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  10. Empidonax sp. Empidonax sp.
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Colin Maguire
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  11. Buteo sp. Buteo sp.
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Camilla Kavalyova
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail
  12. Lesser/Greater Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes/melanoleuca
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Frederic Huffnagle
    Location: Potomac Heritage Trail