United States · New Jersey
Spruce Run Recreation Area
289 species and 336,209 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: April–May and August–October, with up to 191 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
Canada GooseBranta canadensis
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
American GoldfinchSpinus tristis
Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
American RobinTurdus migratorius
Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
Turkey VultureCathartes aura
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
Eastern BluebirdSialia sialis
Downy WoodpeckerDryobates pubescensSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Round Valley Recreation Area8 km257 species
- Lord Stirling Park35 km234 species
- Baldpate Mountain – Ted Stiles Preserve38 km176 species
- Great Swamp NWR41 km245 species
- Peace Valley Park – Nature Center41 km236 species
- Pole Farm41 km222 species
All 289 species recorded here
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis
- American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
- Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
- Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
- Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- American Robin Turdus migratorius
- Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
- American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
- Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens
- Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor
- Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
- Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum
- Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
- Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis
- Grey Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Common Merganser Mergus merganser
- White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis
- Fish Crow Corvus ossifragus
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
- American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
- Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
- Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
- Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Bufflehead Bucephala albeola
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
- Hairy Woodpecker Leuconotopicus villosus
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Common Loon Gavia immer
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Wood Duck Aix sponsa
- House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
- Prairie Warbler Setophaga discolor
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula
- American Black Duck Anas rubripes
- Pine Warbler Setophaga pinus
- Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii
- Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
- Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla
- Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
- Eastern Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
- Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
- White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus
- Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera
- Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides
- Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
- Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Snow Goose Anser caerulescens
- Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata
- Brown Creeper Certhia americana
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Veery Catharus fuscescens
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- American Pipit Anthus rubescens
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- Red Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
- Mute Swan Cygnus olor
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
- Northern Parula Setophaga americana
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
- Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Purple Finch Haemorhous purpureus
- Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
- Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
- American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea
- Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata
- Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
- Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
- Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Northern Raven Corvus corax
- Pine Siskin Spinus pinus
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
- American Coot Fulica americana
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
- Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina
- Cackling Goose Branta hutchinsii
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Redhead Aythya americana
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens
- Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
- White-winged Scoter Melanitta deglandi
- Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- Canvasback Aythya valisineria
- Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis
- American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
- Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Winter Wren Troglodytes hiemalis
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus
- Redpoll Acanthis flammea
- Black Scoter Melanitta americana
- Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens
- Brant Goose Branta bernicla
- Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla
- Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
- Carolina Chickadee Poecile carolinensis
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- Alder Flycatcher Empidonax alnorum
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus
- Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
- Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis
- Mississippi Kite Ictinia mississippiensis
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus
- Two-barred Crossbill Loxia leucoptera
- Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorum
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina
- Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
- Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- American Woodcock Scolopax minor
- Mourning Warbler Geothlypis philadelphia
- Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
- Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
- Orange-crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata
- Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan
- Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens
- Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- American Avocet Recurvirostra americana
- Marsh Wren Cistothorus palustris
- Virginia Rail Rallus limicola
- Bell's Vireo Vireo bellii
- Eastern Screech Owl Megascops asio
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- Eurasian Wigeon Mareca penelope
- Sora Porzana carolina
- Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla
- Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius
- Yellow-throated Warbler Setophaga dominica
- American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris
- American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Barred Owl Strix varia
- Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis
- Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea
- Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea
- Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
- Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus
- Black Skimmer Rynchops niger
- Connecticut Warbler Oporornis agilis
- Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis
- Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica
- Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- Lazuli Bunting Passerina amoena
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja
- Brown Booby Sula leucogaster
- Northern Shrike Lanius borealis
- Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum
- Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- Northern Saw-whet Owl Aegolius acadicus
- Ross's Goose Anser rossii
- Piping Plover Charadrius melodus
- Clay-colored Sparrow Spizella pallida
- Cave Swallow Petrochelidon fulva
- Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
- Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea
- Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra
- European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis
- Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Kentucky Warbler Geothlypis formosa
- Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscatus
- Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus
- Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
- Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
- Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
- Budgerigar Melopsittacus undulatus
- Evening Grosbeak Hesperiphona vespertina
- Violet-green Swallow Tachycineta thalassina
- Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus
- Chukar Partridge Alectoris chukar
- American Goshawk Astur atricapillus
- Pacific Loon Gavia pacifica
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
- Northern Gannet Morus bassanus
- Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus
- Ash-throated Flycatcher Myiarchus cinerascens
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Spruce Run Recreation Area?
April–May and August–October. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 191 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Spruce Run Recreation Area?
289 species, from 336,209 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Spruce Run Recreation Area in November?
The most recorded in November: Ring-billed Gull, Canada Goose, American Crow, White-throated Sparrow and Song Sparrow.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.