Birds of Frenchman's Creek 2025 - 2026

BLUE-GREY GNATCATCHER A very small songbird, their breeding habitat includes open woods and shrub lands in southern Ontario, the eastern and southwestern United States, and Mexico. It is the only one to breed in Eastern North America. They build a cone-like nest on a horizontal tree branch.

MARSH WREN This little bird is native to Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Their breeding habitat is marshes with tall vegetation such as cattails across North America. They migrate to marshes and salt marshes in the Southern United States and Mexico. Their breeding range is in the northeastern United.

NEWLY SPOTTED AT THE BEACH!

WESTERN SANDPIPER With rufous and gold markings on the head and wings, breeding adult Western Sandpipers are the most colorful of the tiny North American sandpipers known as “peeps.” This abundant shorebird gathers in flocks numbering in the hundreds of thousands in California and Alaska during spring migration.

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