Master
Individual Bird List HERE
with links to online web field guides with songs, range maps and nesting information
Individual Emerald Necklace Bird Proflies (Click on Photos)
Great Horned Owl, Great Blue Heron, Red Tailed Hawk, Cedar Waxwing and Indigo Bunting
The Emerald Necklace Bird
Club was established in 2005 as a tribute to Christine
Cooper and Charlie Hauck for their stewardship and
work of 21 years for the Jamaica Pond Project. For
over two decades the Friends of Jamaica Pond and
Jamaica Pond Project have collaborated and partnered
with the Boston Parks and Recreation Department,
Boston Park Rangers and many private and public
agencies.
The Emerald Necklace is the
urban oasis for much of the natural world in Boston.
Both migrating and long-term resident birds find the
Emerald Necklace continuous open spaces, marshes and
wooded areas a haven. Frequent visits will slowly
reveal a landscape full of life and wonder from the
soaring flight of a Red Tailed Hawk to the sensuous
call of a White Throated Sparrow, and the
statute-still Great Blue Heron to the busy
Massachusetts state bird --the Black Capped
Chickadee.
Join the Emerald Necklace
Bird Club and explore this landscape and natural
wonder each season -- spring, summer, fall and winter.
Add bird sightings to both the Emerald Necklace Bird
Club master list, specific park lists, along with your
own yearly and life lists. Support the conservation of
natural habitat and become a steward of the
earth.
Members receive monthy email news letter and rarer bird sightings updates plus notices of bird walks and talks..
1. Rose Kennedy Greenway
2, Boston Common
3. Public Gardens
4. Esplanade
5. Commonwealth Avenue Mall
6. Back Bay Fens
7. Olmsted Park
8. Jamaica Pond
9. Olmsted National Historic Site
10. Arborway
11. Arnold Arboretum
12. Forest Hills Cemetery
13. Boston Nature Center
14 Franklin Park
15. Columbia Road
16. Neponset River Reservation
17 Dorchester Shores Reservation
18 Carson Beach
19. Castle Island
20. Boston Harbor Walk
21. Boston Harbor Islands
A. Charles River
B. Muddy River
C. Neponset River
Emerald Necklace
Bird Club Bird List
Email or send your bird sightings to the Friends of Jamaica Pond:
Friends of Jamaica Pond, PO Box 300040, Jamaica Plain,
MA 02130-0030
Photos by Stephen Baird click on images to see larger versions.
Emerald Necklace Bird Club Check List (PDF 675 kb) HERE
There are several on-line web sites that have
extensive bird, insect, reptile and animal field guides
with pictures, sound clips of songs and detailed range
maps including:
USGS Breeding Atlas and guides:
Gough, G.A., Sauer, J.R., Iliff, M. Patuxent Bird Identification
Infocenter. 1998. Version 97.1. Patuxent Wildlife Research Center,
Laurel, MD. http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/infocenter.html
Seen at Jamaica Pond, Olmsted
Park, Neponset River, Charles River, Boston
Harbor Islands
o Red-Thraoated
Loon
W, M
Seen at Charles River, Boston
Harbor Islands
o Red-Necked Grebe
W, M
Seen at Jamaica Pond, Olmsted
Park, Neponset River, Charles River, Boston
Harbor Islands
o Horned Grebe
W, M
Seen at Jamaica Pond, Olmsted
Park, Neponset River, Charles River, Boston
Harbor Islands
o Pied-Billed
Grebe
W, M
Seen at Jamaica Pond, Olmsted
Park, Neponset River, Charles River (Photo 9-19-07 at Jamaica Pond)
o Wilson Petrel
W
Boston Harbor
Islands
o Gannet
W
Boston Harbor
Islands
o Great Cormorant
O
Boston Harbor
Islands
o Double-Crested
Cormorant
Y, N
Common-- Seen at Franklin
Park, Jamaica Pond, Forest
Hills Cemetery, Neponset River, Castle Island,
Boston Harbor Walk, Charles River, Boston Harbor Islands
Swans, Geese, Ducks
Codes:
Y=Whole Year W=Winter
S=Summer
N=Nesting M=Migration O=Occassional
