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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