Butterflies aren’t the only visitors to the SBG. The garden’s native perennials, trees, shrubs, hedgerows, and adjacent open fields attract many bird species as well. SBG volunteers have begun monitoring to find out which bird species visit the garden. This guide describes each species seen so far and explains a bit about it.
The identification descriptions are intentionally non-technical; if you’d like more in-depth ID help, we recommend any of the excellent identification guides available in print (David Allen Sibley and Richard Crossley have published recent guides), online (the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology is an excellent starting place), and in apps such as iBird Explorer. You can hear bird sounds on many apps and through the Cornell Lab site. Here we focus on the birds’ relationship to the SBG habitat. Our information generally comes from the guides mentioned above, and also the Birds of North America online database.
As of May 2019, this page will no longer be updated as new species are observed at SBG. All recent and any future new sightings will be recorded at the Ebird "hotspot" list at http://ebird.org/ebird/hotspot/L2251280. Ebird is a publicly accessible site maintained by the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology. Every entry is linked to Cornell's excellent informational resources for the species.
The identification descriptions are intentionally non-technical; if you’d like more in-depth ID help, we recommend any of the excellent identification guides available in print (David Allen Sibley and Richard Crossley have published recent guides), online (the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology is an excellent starting place), and in apps such as iBird Explorer. You can hear bird sounds on many apps and through the Cornell Lab site. Here we focus on the birds’ relationship to the SBG habitat. Our information generally comes from the guides mentioned above, and also the Birds of North America online database.
As of May 2019, this page will no longer be updated as new species are observed at SBG. All recent and any future new sightings will be recorded at the Ebird "hotspot" list at http://ebird.org/ebird/hotspot/L2251280. Ebird is a publicly accessible site maintained by the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology. Every entry is linked to Cornell's excellent informational resources for the species.
A
B
C
D
e
f
H
I
l
N
o
