Check-list of Birds Observed at Barren River Lake State Resort Park, Barren County, Kentucky

   If you have personal records from this site for species not listed below or if you know of historical records from this site for species not listed below, please send details to me at this e-mail address:

                        sstedman@tntech.edu

    Directions to this site may be found at this link:

• BRLSRP and other sites in Barren County

Abbreviations and Symbols:

*   Rare species in park

_____ Snow Goose *

_____ Ross's Goose *

_____ Canada Goose

_____ Mute Swan *

_____ Wood Duck

_____ Gadwall

_____ American Wigeon

_____ American Black Duck

_____ Mallard

_____ Blue-winged Teal

_____ Northern Shoveler

_____ Northern Pintail

_____ Green-winged Teal

_____ Canvasback

_____ Redhead

_____ Ring-necked Duck

_____ Greater Scaup

_____ Lesser Scaup

_____ Black Scoter *

_____ Bufflehead

_____ Common Goldeneye

_____ Hooded Merganser

_____ Red-breasted Merganser

_____ Ruddy Duck

_____ Wild Turkey

_____ Red-throated Loon *

_____ Pacific Loon *

_____ Common Loon

_____ Pied-billed Grebe

_____ Horned Grebe

_____ American White Pelican *

_____ Double-crested Cormorant

_____ Great Blue Heron

_____ Great Egret

_____ Green Heron

_____ Black-crowned Night-Heron

_____ Black Vulture

_____ Turkey Vulture

_____ Osprey

_____ Bald Eagle

_____ Northern Harrier

_____ Sharp-shinned Hawk

_____ Cooper's Hawk

_____ Red-shouldered Hawk

_____ Broad-winged Hawk

_____ Red-tailed Hawk

_____ American Kestrel

_____ Merlin *

_____ Peregrine Falcon *

_____ American Coot

_____ Sandhill Crane

_____ Killdeer

_____ Spotted Sandpiper

_____ Solitary Sandpiper

_____ Greater Yellowlegs

_____ Willet *

_____ Lesser Yellowlegs

_____ Spotted Sandpiper

_____ Sanderling *

_____ Least Sandpiper

_____ Pectoral Sandpiper

_____ Dunlin

_____ Stilt Sandpiper *

_____ Bonaparte's Gull

_____ Laughing Gull *

_____ Franklin's Gull *

_____ Mew Gull *

_____ Ring-billed Gull

_____ California Gull *

_____ Herring Gull

_____ Lesser Black-backed Gull *

_____ Caspian Tern

_____ Black Tern

_____ Common Tern

_____ Forster's Tern

_____ Rock Pigeon

_____ Mourning Dove

_____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo

_____ Black-billed Cuckoo *

_____ Eastern Screech-Owl

_____ Great Horned Owl

_____ Barred Owl

_____ Common Nighthawk

_____ Chimney Swift

_____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird

_____ Belted Kingfisher

_____ Red-headed Woodpecker

_____ Red-bellied Woodpecker

_____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

_____ Downy Woodpecker

_____ Hairy Woodpecker

_____ Northern Flicker

_____ Pileated Woodpecker

_____ Olive-sided Flycatcher *

_____ Eastern Wood-Pewee

_____ Yellow-bellied Flycatcher *

_____ Acadian Flycatcher

_____ Eastern Phoebe

_____ Great Crested Flycatcher

_____ Eastern Kingbird

_____ White-eyed Vireo

_____ Yellow-throated Vireo

_____ Blue-headed Vireo

_____ Warbling Vireo

_____ Philadelphia Vireo

_____ Red-eyed Vireo

_____ Blue Jay

_____ American Crow

_____ Horned Lark

_____ Purple Martin

_____ Tree Swallow

_____ Northern Rough-winged Swallow

_____ Bank Swallow

_____ Cliff Swallow

_____ Barn Swallow

_____ Carolina Chickadee

_____ Tufted Titmouse

_____ Red-breasted Nuthatch

_____ White-breasted Nuthatch

_____ Brown Creeper

_____ Carolina Wren

_____ House Wren

_____ Winter Wren

_____ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

_____ Golden-crowned Kinglet

_____ Ruby-crowned Kinglet

_____ Eastern Bluebird

_____ Veery

_____ Gray-cheeked Thrush

_____ Swainson's Thrush

_____ Hermit Thrush

_____ Wood Thrush

_____ American Robin

_____ Gray Catbird

_____ Brown Thrasher

_____ Northern Mockingbird

_____ European Starling

_____ American Pipit

_____ Cedar Waxwing

_____ Ovenbird

_____ Worm-eating Warbler

_____ Louisiana Waterthrush

_____ Northern Waterthrush

_____ Golden-winged Warbler 

_____ Blue-winged Warbler

_____ Black-and-white Warbler

_____ Tennessee Warbler

_____ Nashville Warbler

_____ Kentucky Warbler

_____ Common Yellowthroat

_____ Hooded Warbler

_____ American Redstart

_____ Northern Parula

_____ Magnolia Warbler

_____ Bay-breasted Warbler

_____ Blackburnian Warbler

_____ Yellow Warbler

_____ Chestnut-sided Warbler

_____ Blackpoll Warbler

_____ Black-throated Blue Warbler *

_____ Palm Warbler

_____ Pine Warbler

_____ Yellow-rumped Warbler

_____ Yellow-throated Warbler

_____ Prairie Warbler

_____ Black-throated Green Warbler

_____ Yellow-breasted Chat

_____ Eastern Towhee

_____ Chipping Sparrow

_____ Clay-colored Sparrow *

_____ Field Sparrow

_____ Song Sparrow

_____ Swamp Sparrow

_____ White-throated Sparrow

_____ White-crowned Sparrow

_____ Dark-eyed Junco

_____ Summer Tanager

_____ Scarlet Tanager

_____ Northern Cardinal

_____ Rose-breasted Grosbeak

_____ Indigo Bunting

_____ Red-winged Blackbird

_____ Eastern Meadowlark

_____ Common Grackle

_____ Brown-headed Cowbird

_____ Orchard Oriole

_____ Baltimore Oriole

_____ House Finch

_____ Purple Finch

_____ Pine Siskin

_____ American Goldfinch

_____ Evening Grosbeak

_____ House Sparrow

  The list above derives mainly from the field work of David L. Roemer in the park; many thanks are offered to Dave for sharing his list of birds.

    If visitors to the park see species denoted above with an asterisk (or any species not listed), please send a photograph or fill out a documentation form

• Rare Bird Documentation Form

and send to David L. Roemer or to me at 2675 Lakeland Dr., Cookeville, TN 38506.

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