The Campus keeps a list of common birds spotting on campus which includes the following:

Red-tailed Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Turkey Vulture
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Downy Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Phoebe
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow Warbler
American Redstart
Northern Cardinal
Chipping Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Brown-headed Cowbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Baltimore Oriole
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

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