BIRDATHON 2025

Huffin' and Puffin'

Hello!

Our team, Huffin' and Puffin', is participating in this year's Birdathon, hosted by the Northern Virginia Bird Alliance (NVBA). Our goal is to raise funds before going out for 24 hours on April 26th to identify and record as many bird species as we can.

Birdathon helps NVBA to support outdoor education, citizen science, habitat conservation and programs to encourage people to plant native plants and protect native wildlife. Birdathon also helps ornithologists better understand spring migration by reporting sightings through eBird, an online database of bird observations run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

With this being our first time participating in Birdathon, it is our goal to raise $300 and log 60 species within the 24-hour period. (We met our original $100 goal in less than a day, so we had to up it! And then we met our $250 goal, so we upped it again!)

1. Canada Goose

2. Wood Duck

3. Mallard

4. Hooded Merganser

5. Wild Turkey

6. Mourning Dove

7. Sora

8. Solitary Sandpiper

9. Lesser Yellowlegs

10. Green Heron

11. Great Blue Heron

12. Osprey

13. Red-shouldered Hawk

14. Red-bellied Woodpecker

15. Pileated Woodpecker

16. Great Crested Flycatcher

17. Blue Jay

18. American Crow

19. Fish Crow

20. Tree Swallow

21. Barn Swallow

22. White-breasted Nuthatch

23. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

24. Marsh Wren

25. Gray Catbird

26. Eastern Bluebird

27. Chipping Sparrow

28. White-throated Sparrow

29. Swamp Sparrow

30. Red-winged Blackbird

31. Brown-headed Cowbird

32. Prothonotary Warbler

33. Common Yellowthroat 

34. Yellow-rumped Warbler

35. Northern Cardinal

36. Double-crested Cormorant 

37. Turkey Vulture

38. Bald Eagle

39. Downy Woodpecker

40. Northern Flicker

41. Blue-headed vireo

42. Carolina Chickadee

43. Tufted Titmouse

44. Carolina Wren

45. Hermit Thrush

46. Wood Thrush

47. American Robin

48. American Goldfinch

49. Common Grackle

50. Black-and-white Warbler

51. Warbling Vireo

52. European Starling

53. Northern Mockingbird

54. Louisiana Waterthrush 

55. Northern Parula

56. Ruddy Duck

57. Ruby-throated Hummingbird

58. Ring-billed Gull

59. Eastern Phoebe

60. White-eyed Vireo

61. Rock Pigeon

62. Chimney Swift

63. Eastern Kingbird

64. House Sparrow

65. Song Sparrow

66. Orchard Oriole

67. Baltimore Oriole

Thank you for your support!

- Lauren, Alex, Amanda

Northern Virginia Bird Alliance is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Our federal tax ID number is 51-0246325.