Mountain Bird Guide

Click on the species below for bird photographs, songs, identification tips, distribution maps, and life history information at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center's Bird ID InfoCenter. The list is organized in taxonomic order and features the most frequently captured breeding birds at a VINS banding station on Mount Mansfield in Vermont.

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

BlueJay*

Black-capped Chickadee*

Red-brested Nuthatch

Brown Creeper

Winter Wren

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Ruby-crowned Kinglet*

Bicknell's Thrush

Swainson's Thrush

Hermit Thrush*

American Robin

Nashville Warble

Magnolia Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Blackpoll Warbler

White-throated Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Purple Finch

*Denotes a sporadic breeder in montane forest.

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