Check-list of Birds Observed at Cane Creek Park, Cookeville, Putnam County, Tennessee
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 the address at the bottom of the page or via this e-mail address: sstedman@tntech.edu.
An analysis of the bird populations at Cane Creek Park, based on data submitted to eBird, can be found at the following link:
Directions to this site may be found at this link:
_____ Greater White-fronted Goose **
_____ Snow Goose, white and blue forms *
_____ Cackling Goose **
_____ Canada Goose
_____ Mute Swan **
_____ Tundra Swan **
_____ Wood Duck
_____ Blue-winged Teal
_____ Northern Shoveler
_____ Gadwall
_____ American Wigeon
_____ Mallard
_____ American Black Duck
_____ Northern Pintail
_____ Green-winged Teal
_____ Canvasback
_____ Redhead
_____ Ring-necked Duck
_____ Greater Scaup *
_____ Lesser Scaup
_____ Surf Scoter *
_____ White-winged Scoter *
_____ Long-tailed Duck **
_____ Bufflehead
_____ Common Goldeneye
_____ Hooded Merganser
_____ Common Merganser **
_____ Red-breasted Merganser
_____ Ruddy Duck
_____ Northern Bobwhite
_____ Pied-billed Grebe
_____ Horned Grebe
_____ Rock Pigeon
_____ Eurasian Collared-Dove (15 December 2007, Barbara H. Stedman)
_____ Mourning Dove
_____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo
_____ Black-billed Cuckoo *
_____ Common Nighthawk
_____ Chuck-will's-widow
_____ Chimney Swift
_____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird
_____ Sora *
_____ American Coot
_____ Sandhill Crane
_____ Semipalmated Plover
_____ Killdeer
_____ Semipalmated Sandpiper
_____ Western Sandpiper *
_____ Least Sandpiper
_____ White-rumped Sandpiper **
_____ Pectoral Sandpiper
_____ Dunlin *
_____ Short-billed Dowitcher **
_____ American Woodcock
_____ Wilson's Snipe
_____ Spotted Sandpiper
_____ Solitary Sandpiper
_____ Greater Yellowlegs
_____ Lesser Yellowlegs
_____ Bonaparte's Gull
_____ Ring-billed Gull
_____ Herring Gull *
_____ Caspian Tern *
_____ Black Tern *
_____ Forster's Tern *
_____ Common Loon
_____ Double-crested Cormorant
_____ American White Pelican ** (12 November 2017, Stephen J. Stedman photo)
_____ American Bittern **
_____ Great Blue Heron, blue form
_____ Great Egret
_____ Snowy Egret **
_____ Little Blue Heron *
_____ Cattle Egret **
_____ Green Heron
_____ Black-crowned Night-Heron
_____ Dark Ibis sp. (7 October 2008, Ginger K. Ensor, Nancy S. Layzer)
_____ Black Vulture
_____ Turkey Vulture
_____ Osprey
_____ Northern Harrier
_____ Sharp-shinned Hawk
_____ Cooper's Hawk
_____ Bald Eagle *
_____ Red-shouldered Hawk
_____ Broad-winged Hawk
_____ Red-tailed Hawk
_____ Barn Owl * (6 August 2003, Kenneth L. Morgan)
_____ Eastern Screech-Owl
_____ Great Horned Owl
_____ Short-eared Owl *
_____ Belted Kingfisher
_____ Red-headed Woodpecker
_____ Red-bellied Woodpecker
_____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
_____ Downy Woodpecker
_____ Hairy Woodpecker
_____ Northern Flicker
_____ Pileated Woodpecker
_____ American Kestrel
_____ Merlin *
_____ Great Crested Flycatcher
_____ Eastern Kingbird
_____ Olive-sided Flycatcher *
_____ Eastern Wood-Pewee
_____ Acadian Flycatcher
_____ Alder Flycatcher **
_____ Willow Flycatcher *
_____ Least Flycatcher *
_____ Eastern Phoebe
_____ Loggerhead Shrike *
_____ White-eyed Vireo
_____ Yellow-throated Vireo
_____ Blue-headed Vireo
_____ Philadelphia 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
_____ Red-breasted Nuthatch
_____ White-breasted Nuthatch
_____ Brown Creeper
_____ House Wren
_____ Winter Wren
_____ Sedge Wren *
_____ Marsh 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
_____ American Pipit
_____ Cedar Waxwing
_____ House Sparrow
_____ Evening Grosbeak (5 December 1987, Stephen J. Stedman)
_____ House Finch
_____ Purple Finch
_____ Pine Siskin
_____ American Goldfinch
_____ Eastern Towhee
_____ American Tree Sparrow *
_____ Chipping Sparrow
_____ Field Sparrow
_____ Vesper Sparrow
_____ Lark Sparrow **
_____ Savannah Sparrow
_____ Grasshopper Sparrow
_____ Fox Sparrow
_____ Song Sparrow
_____ Lincoln's Sparrow *
_____ Swamp Sparrow
_____ White-throated Sparrow
_____ White-crowned Sparrow
_____ Dark-eyed Junco
_____ Yellow-breasted Chat
_____ Bobolink
_____ Eastern Meadowlark
_____ Orchard Oriole
_____ Baltimore Oriole
_____ Red-winged Blackbird
_____ Brown-headed Cowbird
_____ Rusty Blackbird
_____ Common Grackle
_____ Blue-winged Warbler
_____ Golden-winged Warbler
_____ "Brewster's"
Warbler
_____ Tennessee Warbler
_____ Orange-crowned Warbler *
_____ Nashville Warbler
_____ Northern Parula
_____ Yellow Warbler
_____ Chestnut-sided Warbler
_____ Magnolia Warbler
_____ Cape May Warbler
_____ Black-throated Blue Warbler * (9 May 1996, Tommy
A. Edwards)
_____ Yellow-rumped Warbler
_____ Black-thr. Green Warbler
_____ Blackburnian Warbler
_____ Yellow-throated Warbler
_____ Pine Warbler
_____ Prairie Warbler
_____ Palm Warbler
_____ Bay-breasted Warbler
_____ Blackpoll Warbler
_____ Cerulean Warbler
_____ Black-and-white Warbler
_____ American Redstart
_____ Prothonotary Warbler
_____ Worm-eating Warbler
_____ Ovenbird
_____ Northern Waterthrush
_____ Louisiana Waterthrush
_____ Kentucky Warbler
_____ Connecticut Warbler **
_____ Common Yellowthroat
_____ Hooded Warbler
_____ Wilson's Warbler
_____ Canada Warbler
_____ Summer Tanager
_____ Scarlet Tanager
_____ Northern Cardinal
_____ Rose-breasted Grosbeak
_____ Blue Grosbeak
_____ Indigo Bunting
Key to Symbols:
* Rare species in park
** Very rare species in park
If you see any species denoted with one or two asterisks (or any species not listed), please fill out a documentation form:
and send to me at 2675 Lakeland Dr., Cookeville, TN 38506.
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