Joanne Bauer
Fundraising on behalf of Northern Virginia Bird Alliance
Fundraising on behalf of Northern Virginia Bird Alliance
$1,383
Raised
17
Donations
$1,000
Goal
The Bowerbirds
2025 Bowerbirds 10th Birdathon!
Our team has been participating in the Birdathon since 2015 and we plan to celebrate this milestone by finding more birds than we ever have - our record is 88 species in one 24-hour birding marathon. You can help “egg” us on by pledging to our team. If you haven’t donated before it’s easy to do through our team page.
Final Tally:
83 species:
12 Canada Geese
11 Mallards
1 Hooded Merganser
1 Rock Pigeon
9 Mourning Doves
1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
4 Chimney Swifts
1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2 Spotted Sandpipers
71 Ring-billed Gulls
7 Caspian Terns
4 Double-crested Cormorants
3 Green Herons
3 Great Blue Herons
2 Black Vultures
9 Turkey Vultures
11 Osprey
2 Bald Eagles
5 Red-shouldered Hawks
3 Barred Owls
13 Red-bellied Woodpeckers
3 Downy Woodpeckers
2 Hairy Woodpeckers
1 Pileated Woodpecker
1 Northern Flicker
2 Eastern Wood-Pewees
1 Acadian Flycatcher
1 Eastern Phoebe
4 Great Crested Flycatchers
1 Eastern Kingbirds
4 White-eyed Vireos
12 Red-eyed Vireos
8 Blue Jays
9 American Crows
12 Fish Crows
1 Common Raven
8 Carolina Chickadees
9 Tufted Titmice
5 Tree Swallows
6 Purple Martins
3 Northern Rough-winged Swallows
6 Barn Swallows
5 White-breasted Nuthatches
6 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers
1 Northern House Wren
10 Carolina Wrens
5 European Starlings
5 Gray Catbirds
2 Northern Mockingbirds
4 Eastern Bluebird
1 Veery
2 Swainson's Thrushes
1 Wood Thrushes
7 American Robins
15 Cedar Waxwings
23 House Sparrows
7 House Finches
9 American Goldfinches
3 Chipping Sparrows
5 White-throated Sparrows
2 Song Sparrows
3 Eastern Towhees
5 Yellow-breasted Chats
1 Orchard Oriole
1 Baltimore Oriole
19 Red-winged Blackbirds
5 Brown-headed Cowbirds
11 Common Grackles
3 Ovenbirds
2 Black-and-white Warblers
2 Prothonotary Warblers
9 Common Yellowthroats
1 American Redstart
1 Cape May Warbler
6 Northern Parulas
1 Chestnut-sided Warbler
2 Blackpoll Warblers
3 Black-throated Blue Warblers
1 Yellow-rumped Warbler
2 Prairie Warblers
3 Scarlet Tanagers
36 Northern Cardinals
5 Indigo Bunting
Birdathon helps NVBA to support outdoor education, citizen science, habitat conservtion, and programs encouraging people to plant native plants and protect wildlife. It’s also an effective advocate for birds at the local, state, and national level.
Thank you for your support!
Northern Virginia Bird Alliance is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Our federal tax ID number is 51-0246325.
Photo: Baltimore Orioles, Eric Nie/Audubon Photography Awards