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³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Vermont staff members gathered bright and early Thursday morning for our annual Birdathon! We started our birding adventure on the Visitor Center's porch right at dawn. From there we meandered along the Green Mountain ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Center's trails, ears open and eyes peeled. We made our way up through hardword forests to lookout rock and down through meadows and hemlock swamps to Beaver Pond. We even hiked up to our neighbors at the Birds of Vermont Museum! The woods were alive with birdsong in the trees and ephemerals and amphibians at our feet. We ended our day by driving to Geprags Community Park in HInesburg, an natural area that we help manage for . We were fortunate to sight a few of these beautiful shrubland warblers! It was so fun to have our our whole staff gathered together enjoying a beautiful day outside sharing our mutual love of birds! 

We found a total of 95 bird species this year! Even though our staff has completed our group Birdathon, there is still time to ! Birdathon continues through May 23rd! Please consider to support ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Vermont's work to protect birds and the places they need today and tomorrow. Thank you to all those of have supported our annual Birdathon fundraiser so far!

Our 2024 species list:

1. Barred owl
2. Veery
3. Chestnut-sided Warbler
4. Canada Goose
5. Blue Jay
6. Red-eyed Vireo 
7. Indigo Bunting
8. Northern Parula
9. Ruby-throated Hummingbird 
10. American Robin 
11. Rose-breasted Grosbeak 
12. Scarlet Tanager
13. Red-bellied Woodpecker
14. Black-capped Chickadee
15. American Goldfinch 
16. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
17. Ovenbird
18. Northern Cardinal
19. Eastern Phoebe
20. Tufted Titmouse
21. American Crow
22. American Redstart
23. Blackburnian Warbler
24. Brown Creeper
25. Pine Warbler
26. Black-throated Green Warbler
27. Black-throated Blue Warbler
28. Mourning Dove
29. Winter Wren
30. Red-breasted Nuthatch
31. Black-and-white Warbler 
32. Hermit Thrush
33. Cedar Waxwing
34. Blue-headed Vireo
35. Eastern Wood-Pewee 
36. Wood Thrush 
37. Pileated Woodpecker
38. White-breasted Nuthatch 
39. Least Flycatcher
40. Great-crested Flycatcher
41. Dark-eyed Junco
42. Grey Catbird
43. Common Yellowthroat
44. Purple Finch
45. Song Sparrow
46. House Wren
47. Tennessee Warbler
48. Louisiana Waterthrush 
49. Hairy Woodpecker 
50. Turkey Vulture
51. Osprey
52. Common Raven
53. Broad-winged hawk
54. Yellow Warbler
55. Red-winged Blackbird
56. Tree Swallow
57. Baltimore Oriole
58. Northern Waterthrush
59. Barn Swallow
60. Eastern Bluebird
61. Magnolia Warbler
62. Common Grackle
63. Northern Flicker
64. Common Merganser
65. Spotted Sandpiper
66. Eastern Kingbird
67. Chipping Sparrow
68. House Sparrow
69. Wild Turkey
70. European Starling
71. American Kestrel 
72. Bobolink
73. Eastern Towhee
74. Warbling Vireo
75. Brown Thrasher
76. Alder Flycatcher
77. Swamp Sparrow
78. Downy Woodpecker
79. Field Sparrow
80. Mallard
81. Blue-winged Warbler
82. Belted Kingfisher
83. Golden-winged Warbler
84. Marsh Wren
85. Ring-billed Gull
86. White-throated Sparrow
87. Red-tailed Hawk
88. Cooper’s Hawk
89. Chimney Swift
90. Rock Pigeon
91. Killdeer
92. American Woodcock
93. Double-crested Cormorant
94. Caspian Tern
95. Brown-headed Cowbird