Check-list of Birds for Burgess Falls State Park, Putnam County, Tennessee

 

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    A recent (2014) addition to the park is Window Cliffs State Natural Area; a bird list for this addition to the park may be added to this page at some point in the future. Currently, any species identified in the addition are added to the list below.

 

Key to Symbols:

*   Rare species

** Very rare species

 

_____ Snow Goose *

_____ Canada Goose

_____ Wood Duck

_____ Blue-winged Teal

_____ Gadwall

_____ American Wigeon

_____ Mallard

_____ American Black Duck

_____ Northern Pintail

_____ Green-winged Teal

_____ Ring-necked Duck

_____ Bufflehead

_____ Hooded Merganser

_____ Red-breasted Merganser

_____ Ruddy Duck

_____ Northern Bobwhite

_____ Wild Turkey (female with 5 young, 22 June 2007, Richard Connors)

_____ Pied-billed Grebe

_____ Horned Grebe

_____ Rock Pigeon

_____ Mourning Dove

_____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo

_____ Chuck-will's-widow

_____ Chimney Swift

_____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird

_____ American Coot

_____ Sandhill Crane

_____ Semipalmated Plover

_____ Killdeer

_____ Dunlin *

_____ Least Sandpiper

_____ Pectoral Sandpiper

_____ Semipalmated Sandpiper

_____ Wilson's Snipe

_____ Spotted Sandpiper

_____ Solitary Sandpiper

_____ Lesser Yellowlegs

_____ Greater Yellowlegs

_____ Ring-billed Gull

_____ Caspian Tern *

_____ Common Loon

_____ Double-crested Cormorant

_____ Great Blue Heron, blue form

_____ Great Egret

_____ Snowy Egret **

_____ Little Blue Heron *

_____ Green Heron

_____ Black-crowned Night-Heron *

_____ Yellow-crowned Night-Heron *

_____ Black Vulture

_____ Turkey Vulture

_____ Osprey

_____ Northern Harrier

_____ Sharp-shinned Hawk

_____ Cooper's Hawk

_____ Red-shouldered Hawk

_____ Broad-winged Hawk

_____ Red-tailed Hawk

_____ Eastern Screech-Owl

_____ Belted Kingfisher

_____ Red-bellied Woodpecker

_____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

_____ Downy Woodpecker

_____ Hairy Woodpecker

_____ Northern Flicker

_____ Pileated Woodpecker

_____ American Kestrel

_____ Great Crested Flycatcher

_____ Eastern Kingbird

_____ Olive-sided Flycatcher *

_____ Eastern Wood-Pewee

_____ Acadian Flycatcher

_____ Eastern Phoebe

_____ Loggerhead Shrike *

_____ White-eyed Vireo

_____ Yellow-throated Vireo

_____ Blue-headed Vireo

_____ Warbling Vireo *

_____ Red-eyed Vireo

_____ Blue Jay

_____ American Crow

_____ Purple Martin

_____ Tree Swallow

_____ Northern Rough-winged Swallow

_____ Bank Swallow

_____ Cliff Swallow

_____ Barn Swallow

_____ Carolina Chickadee

_____ Tufted Titmouse

_____ White-breasted Nuthatch

_____ Winter Wren

_____ Carolina Wren

_____ Golden-crowned Kinglet

_____ Ruby-crowned Kinglet

_____ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

_____ Eastern Bluebird

_____ Veery

_____ Gray-cheeked Thrush

_____ Swainson's Thrush

_____ Hermit Thrush

_____ Wood Thrush

_____ American Robin

_____ Gray Catbird

_____ Brown Thrasher

_____ Northern Mockingbird

_____ European Starling

_____ Cedar Waxwing

_____ House Finch

_____ Purple Finch

_____ Pine Siskin

_____ American Goldfinch

_____ Eastern Towhee

_____ Chipping Sparrow

_____ Field Sparrow

_____ Song Sparrow

_____ Swamp Sparrow

_____ White-throated Sparrow

_____ White-crowned Sparrow

_____ Dark-eyed Junco

_____ Yellow-breasted Chat

_____ Eastern Meadowlark

_____ Orchard Oriole

_____ Baltimore Oriole

_____ Red-winged Blackbird

_____ Brown-headed Cowbird

_____ Common Grackle

_____ Worm-eating Warbler

_____ Louisiana Waterthrush

_____ Northern Waterthrush

_____ Golden-winged Warbler

_____ Blue-winged Warbler

_____ Black-and-white Warbler

_____ Prothonotary Warbler *

_____ Tennessee Warbler

_____ Kentucky Warbler

_____ Common Yellowthroat

_____ Hooded Warbler (30 May 2014, Janie C. Finch)

_____ American Redstart

_____ Northern Parula

_____ Magnolia Warbler

_____ Bay-breasted Warbler

_____ Blackburnian Warbler

_____ Yellow Warbler

_____ Chestnut-sided Warbler

_____ Blackpoll Warbler

_____ Palm Warbler

_____ Pine Warbler

_____ Yellow-rumped Warbler

_____ Yellow-throated Warbler

_____ Prairie Warbler

_____ Black-throated Green Warbler

_____ Canada Warbler

_____ Wilson's Warbler *

_____ Summer Tanager

_____ Scarlet Tanager

_____ Northern Cardinal

_____ Rose-breasted Grosbeak

_____ Blue Grosbeak

_____ Indigo Bunting


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