Vermont News

Audubon Staff Birdathon 2025

We saw 87 species within a 24-hour period despite mediocre weather.
Staff looking through binoculars at birds
A portrait photo of Sarah Hooghuis.
By Sarah Hooghuis
Senior Coordinator, Youth Conservation Leadership Program
Published May 23, 2025
This article is from Audubon Vermont . Find your local chapter here.

Birdathon is one of Audubon Vermont’s biggest fundraisers of the year. Our goal is to raise $30,000 each spring. We've been doing Birdathon every year since 2000.

We will gather as staff- and board-member teams to bird together as a group. We begin our journey bright and early to travel through forests, fields & along rivers and ponds to see, hear, and identify as many of our feathered friends as possible within a 24-hour period.  Our staff team spends most of our day combing the hills and forests of the Green Mountain Audubon Center and Birds of Vermont Museum before venturing farther afield. 

We keep a record of the number and variety of species that we find, which we publish every year. Through generous sponsorships from friends, family & Audubon supporters, we raise essential funds to maintain Audubon Vermont's education programs, science initiatives and Green Mountain Audubon Center facilities.

This year our birding group was made up of Audubon Vermont staff, board, friends, and partner organizations. We had around 25 people! This might be our biggest group yet. 

While our day of birding has come to an end, we are still raising funds. If you feel inspired to give, you can do that here. Please help us spread the bird word, send this link to the birders in your life! 

2025 Species List: 

  1. Barred Owl
  2. Indigo Bunting
  3. Black-throated Green Warbler
  4. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
  5. Black-capped Chickadee
  6. Red-eyed Vireo
  7. White-breasted Nuthatch
  8. Veery
  9. Eastern Phoebe
  10. American Redstart
  11. Common Yellowthroat
  12. Chestnut-sided Warbler
  13. Black-and -white Warbler
  14. Winter Wren
  15. Ovenbird
  16. Blue-headed Vireo
  17. Blackburnian Warbler
  18. Turkey Vulture
  19. American Crow
  20. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
  21. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
  22. Brown Creeper
  23. Rock Pigeon
  24. Scarlet Tanager
  25. Hermit Thrush
  26. Great-crested Flycatcher
  27. Magnolia Warbler
  28. Blue Jay
  29. Tennessee Warbler
  30. Louisiana Waterthrush
  31. Northern Parula
  32. Least Flycatcher
  33. American Robin
  34. Red-breasted Nuthatch
  35. Tufted Titmouse
  36. Northern Cardinal
  37. Red-bellied Woodpecker
  38. House Wren
  39. Yellow-rumped Warbler
  40. Broad-winged Hawk
  41. Canada Goose
  42. Brown-headed Cowbird
  43. Red-winged Blackbird
  44. Northern Flicker
  45. Tree Swallow
  46. Yellow Warbler
  47. Pileated Woodpecker
  48. Grey Catbird
  49. Song Sparrow
  50. Common Merganser
  51. Common Grackle
  52. Downy Woodpecker
  53. Belted Kingfisher
  54. Spotted Sandpiper
  55. Mallard
  56. Eastern Bluebird
  57. Swamp Sparrow
  58. Mourning Dove
  59. American Goldfinch
  60. Hairy Woodpecker
  61. Warbling Vireo
  62. Wood Duck
  63. European Starling
  64. Barn Swallow
  65. Great Blue Heron
  66. Ring-billed Gull
  67. Eastern Kingbird
  68. Bobolink
  69. Eastern Towhee
  70. Wood Thrush
  71. Red-tailed Hawk
  72. Alder Flycatcher
  73. Brewster's Warbler (hybrid Blue/Golden-winged Warbler)
  74. Killdeer
  75. Baltimore Oriole
  76. House Sparrow
  77. Common Loon
  78. Caspian Tern
  79. Double-crested Cormorant
  80. Wild Turkey
  81. Black-throated Blue Warbler
  82. Eastern Peewee
  83. Chipping Sparrow
  84. Great Egret
  85. Osprey
  86. Common Raven
  87. Great Black-backed Gull

Thank you to those who have supported our Birdathon, the birds (and the people working to protect them) thank you!