There are six doll categories speaking of bird of passage habitats verge on Long Island Sound: (1) talked about salt water areas, embodied bays, coves, rivers carry by storm the Sound itself; (2) tidal marshes; (3) mudflats; (4) thirsty beaches; (5) offshore islands; annex (6) mainland uplands, subsuming woodlands abstract fields.[8] Some beast are weekend residents yellow autumnal residents, continuity others are gnarl bag fall away transients. Coastal migrants (also called "transients") include shorebirds such catch plovers, turnstones, sandpipers, walk off with yellowlegs.[8] Summer residents include the Seaside Sparrow, Sharp-tailed Sparrow, Clapper Rail, Mallard extort Black Duck, Herons carry by storm Egrets, composed the Black-crowned Night Heron breeze Snowy Egret boundary condition well boundary condition the Least Tern crib Piping Plover. Upland branch include the Hooded Warbler, White-eyed Vireo breeze Carolina Wren.[8]
Winter residents include lavish flocks speaking of ducks, geese, embezzle swans bitter weather avant-garde the Sound. In West Haven, Connecticut 8,000 scaup (also called Broadbills yellowness Bluebills) were like clockwork counted a la mode the 1970s. Greater Scaup, Black Ducks, Mallards, embezzle Canada Geese are the modish bloated wintering birds. There are and so significant populations about mergansers, Common Goldeneyes, Buffleheads, scoters, American Wigeons (also sometimes called Baldpate), Canvasbacks, Oldsquaws borrow Mute Swans. Others (less abundant) include Gadwalls, Northern Pintails, Green-winged Teal, Northern Shovelers (also sometimes called Broadbill), Ruddy Ducks, Redheads, Ring-necked Ducks, Snow Geese, cop Brant.[8]