Birds & Wildlife
The habitat restoration project has attracted a variety of birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects and mammals to Brick Yard Point. Today, the restoration area is both a home and a stopover for more than 70 species of birds and other wildlife. These species thrive with minimal human disruption. Below are just some of the wildlife that have been observed at Brick Yard Point.
Insects, Amphibians and Mammals
- Great Spangled Fritillary
- Silver Spotted Skipper
- Orange Sulpher Monarch
- American Bullfrog
- Common Snapping Turtle
- Pickerel Frog
- Tadpole spp.
- Coyote
- Eastern Cottontail
- Muskrat
- Striped Skunk
- White Tailed Deer
Bird Species
- American Crow
- American Herring Gull
- American Goldfinch
- American Robin
- Baltimore Oriole
- Bank Swallow
- Barn Swallow
- Belted Kingfisher
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Black Vulture
- Blue Jay
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Canada Goose
- Carolina Wren
- Cedar Waxwing
- Chimney Swift
- Common Grackle
- Common Raven
- Common Yellowthroat
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Downy Woodpecker
- Eastern Kingbird
- European Starling
- Fish Crow
- Grackle
- Gray Catbird
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Great Horned Owl
- Great Egret
- Herring Gull
- House Finch
- House Wren
- Killdeer
- Mallard
- Marsh Wren
- Mississippi Kite
- Mourning Dove
- Norther Flicker
- Northern Cardinal
- Northern Mockingbird
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Orchard Oriole
- Osprey
- Raven
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Seaside Sparrow
- Song Sparrow
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Swamp Sparrow
- Tree Sparrow
- Tree Swallow
- Turkey Vulture
- Warbling Vireo
- Wild Turkey
- Willow Flycatcher
- Yellow Warbler
Annual bird counts and sightings conducted by New Haven Bird Club; Anthony Zemba, Certified Ecologist; and Lucien A. Bouffard, M.F.S
