Editing Orleans County, Vermont (section)

===Fauna===
The area is conducive to songbirds because of its northern location, [[Birds of North American boreal forests|boreal forests]], mountain peaks, bodies of water and marshes. One inventory in June 2012 found the following species: [[ovenbird]], [[eastern whip-poor-will]], [[Wilson's snipe]], [[alder flycatcher]], [[warbling vireo]], [[red-eyed vireo]], [[winter wren]], [[wood thrush]], [[American robin]], [[veery]], [[grey catbird|gray catbird]], [[common yellowthroat]], [[chestnut-sided warbler]], [[northern waterthrush]], [[black-throated green warbler]], [[northern parula]], [[American redstart]], [[white-throated sparrow]], [[indigo bunting]], [[red-winged blackbird]], [[American goldfinch]], [[osprey]], [[ring-necked duck]], [[hooded merganser]], [[pied-billed grebe]], [[double-crested cormorant]], [[great blue heron]], [[bald eagle]], [[Virginia rail]], [[American herring gull]], [[ring-billed gull]], [[chimney swift]], [[belted kingfisher]], [[marsh wren]], [[Northern house wren|house wren]], [[eastern bluebird]], [[pine warbler]], [[black-and-white warbler]], [[Savannah sparrow]], [[northern cardinal]], [[eastern meadowlark]], [[bobolink]], [[bank swallow]], [[cliff swallow]], [[barn swallow]], [[white-breasted nuthatch]], [[ruffed grouse]], [[ruby-throated hummingbird]], [[blue-headed vireo]], [[red-breasted nuthatch]], [[Lincoln's sparrow]], [[rose-breasted grosbeak]], [[pine siskin]], [[purple finch]], [[Canada warbler]], [[magnolia warbler]], [[Nashville warbler]], [[golden-crowned kinglet]], [[mourning warbler]], [[dark-eyed junco]], and [[northern rough-winged swallow]]. Also known to be in the area were: [[wild turkey]], [[American bittern]], [[broad-winged hawk]], [[peregrine falcon]], [[pileated woodpecker]], [[hairy woodpecker]], [[scarlet tanager]], [[American woodcock]], [[Bicknell's thrush]], [[blackpoll warbler]], [[yellow-bellied flycatcher]], [[broad-winged hawk]], and [[Swainson's thrush]].<ref>{{Cite news | first=Martha | last=Steele | title=A "Big Day" of birding in Orleans County | newspaper=the Chronicle | location=Barton, Vermont | page= 16 | date=July 18, 2012 }}</ref> Also, the [[American crow]],<ref>{{Cite news | first=David | last=Deen | title=The crow - a sociable bird with a long memory | newspaper=the Chronicle | location=Barton, Vermont | page= 34 | date=December 12, 2012 }}</ref> and [[kestrel]]{{which|date=August 2020}}.<ref>{{Cite news | first=Adam | last=Kruszyna | title=Baby kestrel in Barton | newspaper=the Chronicle | location=Barton, Vermont | page= 5 | date=August 28, 2013 }}</ref> In 2013, a separate inventory added the [[common loon]], [[chickadee]]{{which|date=August 2020}}, [[blue jay]], [[Barrow's goldeneye]], [[Lapland longspur]], [[white-winged scoter]], [[olive-sided flycatcher]], [[red crossbill]], [[Bonaparte's gull]], and [[rough-legged hawk]].<ref>{{Cite news | first=Martha | last=Steele| title=What kind of birds fly through Orleans County | newspaper=The Chronicle | location=Barton, Vermont | pages= 16–17A | date=January 15, 2014 }}</ref>