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:

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_____ 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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