FOREST RIVER BIRDING CHECKLIST

UPDATED: May 2018

Courtesy of Dr. Ron Miller

COMMON

• American Crow
• American Goldfinch
• Black-capped Chickadee
• Blue Jay
• Brown Thrasher
• Cedar Waxwing
• Chimney Swift
• Dickcissel
• Eurasian Collared-Dove
• Golden Crowned Kinglet
• Gray Catbird
• Horned Lark
• House Sparrow
• House Wren
• Mourning Dove
• Northern Cardinal
• Pine Siskin
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• Ring-necked Pheasant
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird
• Scarlet Tanager
• European Starling
• Western Meadowlark
• White-breasted Nuthatch
• Wild Turkey

WARBLERS

• American Redstart
• Bay-breasted Warbler
• Black-and-white Warbler
• Black-throated Green Warbler
• Blackburnian Warbler
• Blackpoll Warbler
• Canada Warbler
• Cape May Warbler
• Chestnut-sided Warbler
• Common Yellowthroat
• Connecticut Warbler
• Golden-winged Warbler
• Magnolia Warbler
• Mourning Warbler
• Nashville Warbler
• Northern Parula
• Northern Waterthrush
• Orange-crowned Warbler
• Ovenbird
• Palm Warbler
• Pine Warbler – not common
• Tennessee Warbler
• Wilson’s Warbler
• Yellow Warbler
• Yellow-rumped Warbler

RAPTORS

• American Kestrel
• Bald Eagle
• Barred Owl
• Broad-winged Hawk
• Cooper’s Hawk
• Eastern Screech Owl
• Great Horned Owl
• Long-eared Owl
• Merlin
• Northern Harrier
• Osprey
• Peregrine Falcon
• Red-shouldered Hawk
• Red-tailed Hawk
• Short-eared Owl
• Sharp-shinned Hawk
• Swainson’s Hawk
• Turkey Vulture

WOODPECKERS

• Downy Woodpecker
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Northern Flicker
• Pileated Woodpecker
• Red-bellied Woodpecker
• Red-headed Woodpecker
• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

SWALLOWS

• Bank Swallow
• Barn Swallow
• Cliff Swallow
• Northern Rough-winged Swallow
• Purple Martin
• Tree Swallow

FLYCATCHERS

• Acadian Flycatcher
• Alder Flycatcher
• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
• Common Nighthawk
• Eastern Kingbird
• Eastern Phoebe
• Eastern Wood-Peewee
• Great-crested Flycatcher
• Least Flycatcher
• Olive-sided Flycatcher
• Say’s Phoebe
• Willow Flycatcher
• Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

ICTERIDS (blackbirds, orioles, and kin)

• Baltimore Oriole
• Bobolink
• Brown-headed Cowbird
• Common Grackle
• Orchard Oriole
• Red-winged Blackbird
• Yellow-headed Blackbird

WATERFOWL/SHOREBIRDS

• American Pipit
• American Wigeon
• Belted Kingfisher
• Black-crowned Night-Heron
• Blue-winged Teal
• Bufflehead
• Canada Goose
• Common Goldeneye
• Common Loon
• Common Merganser
• Double-crested Cormorant
• Gadwall
• Great Blue Heron
• Great Egret
• Greater Scaup
• Greater Yellowlegs
• Green Heron
• Green-winged Teal
• Hooded Merganser
• Killdeer
• Least Sandpiper
• Lesser Scaup
• Lesser Yellowlegs
• Mallard
• Northern Shoveler
• Northern Pintail
• Redhead
• Ring-necked Duck
• Ruddy Duck
• Sandhill Crane
• Solitary Sandpiper
• Spotted Sandpiper
• Trumpeter Swan
• Tundra Swan
• Willet
• Wood Duck

SPARROWS

• American Tree Sparrow 
• Chipping Sparrow
• Clay-colored Sparrow
• Dark-eyed Junco
• Eastern Towhee
• Field Sparrow
• Fox Sparrow
• Grasshopper Sparrow
• Harris’s Sparrow
• House Finch
• Lark Sparrow
• Lincoln’s Sparrow
• Pine Siskin

(Sparrows cont.)

• Purple Finch
• Savannah Sparrow
• Song Sparrow
• Swamp Sparrow
• Vesper Sparrow
• White-crowned Sparrow
• White-throated Sparrow

THRUSHES

• American Robin
• Eastern Bluebird
• Gray Cheeked Thrush
• Hermit Thrush
• Swainson’s Thrush
• Veery
• Wood Thrush

Rarely seen Warblers

• Blue-winged Warbler
• Black-throated Blue Warbler
• Brewster’s Warbler (hybrid)
• Cerulean Warbler
• Hooded Warbler
• Kentucky Warbler
• Lawrence’s Warbler (hybrid)
• Louisiana Waterthrush
• Prairie Warbler
• Prothonotary Warbler
• Worm-eating Warbler
• Yellow-breasted Chat
• Yellow-throated Warbler

MISCELLANEOUS BIRDS, WINTER MIGRANTS

• American Avocet
• Black-necked Stilt
• Bohemian Waxwing
• Boreal Chickadee
• Boreal Owl
• Common Raven
• Common Redpoll
• Evening Grosbeak
• Gray Jay
• Great Gray Owl
• Hoary Redpoll
• Marsh Wren
• Northern Goshawk
• Northern Mockingbird
• Northern Saw-whet Owl
• Pine Grosbeak
• Prairie Falcon
• Red Crossbill
• Rough-legged Hawk
• Sedge Wren
• Snow Bunting
• Snowy Owl
• Whip-poor-will
• White-winged Crossbill

RARE BIRDS

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