BIRDATHON 2025

Team Wingdings

Trip Report:

Riverbend Park, Fairfax, Virginia, US
Apr 20, 2025 8:41 AM - 12:54 PM
Protocol: Traveling
4.038 mile(s)
44 species

Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)  8
Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)  1
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser)  2
Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius)  2
Double-crested Cormorant (Nannopterum auritum)  9
Great Egret (Ardea alba)  1
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)  5
Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)  2
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)  2
Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus)  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)  4
Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens)  1
Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)  2
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)  1
Great Crested Flycatcher (Myiarchus crinitus)  1
Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus)  1
Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus)  1
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)  3
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)  1
Fish Crow (Corvus ossifragus)  2
Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis)  8
Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)  10
Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)  5
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Corthylio calendula)  1
White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)  3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea)  5
Northern House Wren (Troglodytes aedon)  1
Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus)  1
Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis)  2
Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis)  1
American Robin (Turdus migratorius)  1
American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis)  2
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)  2
White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis)  12
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)  1
Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus)  1
Orchard Oriole (Icterus spurius)  1
Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater)  5
Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula)  7
Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla)  1
Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia)  1
American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)  1
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)  11
Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea)  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S227488154

Birdathon is our biggest fundraiser of the year! Like a walk-a-thon, participants collect pledges from friends and family via their team page. Then they record how many species they can identify during any 24-hour period between April 19 and May 18. 

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.

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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