Check-list of Clay County, Tennessee, Birds

Table 1. UCR Bird List with species observed in Clay County indicated (X in right column).  Species denoted below with one asterisk (*) are rare and with two asterisks (**) very rare within the UCR; sightings of these species should be reported via a documentation form.  Species on the Audubon WatchList are indicated below in pink (27 species) or red (8 species), with the latter being more critically decreasing species.

Table 2. Annotated List of Clay County bird species.  * = Rare species in UCR.

_____ Greater White-fronted Goose (15 November 2003, SJS et al.)

_____ Snow Goose (12 February 1998, DLR; 17 November 2003, TMC photo)

_____ Canada Goose

_____ Mute Swan (17 February 2003, TMC)

_____ Tundra Swan * (19–20 February 2011, TMC photo [on last date])

_____ Wood Duck

_____ Blue-winged Teal

_____ Northern Shoveler

_____ Gadwall

_____ American Wigeon

_____ Mallard

_____ American Black Duck

_____ Northern Pintail

_____ Green-winged Teal

_____ Canvasback (9 January 2001, TMC)

_____ Redhead (fide TMC)

_____ Ring-necked Duck

_____ Lesser Scaup

_____ Surf Scoter (5–16 November 2002, TMC, SJS, WAW)

_____ Long-tailed Duck * (22 November 1996, DLR)

_____ Bufflehead

_____ Common Goldeneye

_____ Hooded Merganser

_____ Red-breasted Merganser (14 December 2006, SJS)

_____ Ruddy Duck

_____ Northern Bobwhite

_____ Ruffed Grouse * (13 October 1991, TMC)

_____ Wild Turkey

_____ Pied-billed Grebe

_____ Horned Grebe

_____ Eared Grebe * (26 March 1995, SJS; 30 March 1996, SJS et al.)

_____ Rock Pigeon

_____ Eurasian Collared-Dove (14 December 2006, BHS)

_____ Mourning Dove

_____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo

_____ Black-billed Cuckoo (29 April 1971, RTH [Parmer 1971b])

_____ Common Nighthawk

_____ Chuck-will's-widow

_____ Whip-poor-will

_____ Chimney Swift

_____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird

_____ Virginia Rail * (5 October 2004, TMC photo)

_____ American Coot

_____ Sandhill Crane

_____ Whooping Crane * (1 March 2003, DS fide TMC)

_____ American Golden-Plover * (3 April 2001, TMC video)

_____ Killdeer

_____ American Avocet * (15 September 2005, TMC photo; 26 September 2009, WAW photo, MPO—a FBB record))

_____ Spotted Sandpiper

_____ Solitary Sandpiper

_____ Greater Yellowlegs

_____ Willet * (13 May 1969, RTH [Parmer 1969c])

_____ Lesser Yellowlegs

_____ Least Sandpiper

_____ Pectoral Sandpiper

_____ Semipalmated Sandpiper (fide TMC)

_____ Wilson's Snipe

_____ American Woodcock (26 June 1993, SJS, TMC)

_____ Bonaparte's Gull

_____ Ring-billed Gull

_____ Herring Gull

_____ Caspian Tern (6 October 2002, SJS, WAW)

_____ Black Tern (30 August 2005, TMC)

_____ Forster's Tern

_____ Common Loon (24 August 1991, SJS, BHS)

_____ Yellow-billed Loon * (18–19 February 1995, SJS et al. [Stedman 1995; Stedman 2000])

_____ Double-crested Cormorant

_____ Least Bittern * (2 on 21 May 1970, RTH [Parmer 1970c])

_____ Great Blue Heron

_____ Great Egret (4 April 2002, TMC)

_____ Snowy Egret * (31 July 2005, TMC)

_____ Little Blue Heron (13 September 1970, RTH [Parmer 1970d; 31 July 2005, TMC photo])

_____ Tricolored Heron * (20 April 2002, WAW, RMD, SJS [photo] et al.)

_____ Cattle Egret * (27 July 2001, TMC)

_____ Green Heron

_____ Black-crowned Night-Heron (26 August 2007, TMC photo; 13 June 2010, BHS—a Clay County Foray record)

_____ White Ibis * (6 August 2010, TMC photo)

_____ Black Vulture

_____ Turkey Vulture

_____ Osprey

_____ Golden Eagle (1935? [Reed 1935]; 28 December 1997, DS photo fide DLR; 18 December 2007, RMD photo, AMM)

_____ Northern Harrier

_____ Sharp-shinned Hawk

_____ Cooper's Hawk (13 November 1993, SJS, TMC)

_____ Bald Eagle

_____ Red-shouldered Hawk

_____ Broad-winged Hawk

_____ Red-tailed Hawk (B. j. calurus—12 February 1998, DS, DLR)

_____ Barn Owl * (15 December 2011, RMD)

_____ Eastern Screech-Owl

_____ Great Horned Owl

_____ Barred Owl

_____ Long-eared Owl * (26 January 2002, RDS)

_____ Belted Kingfisher

_____ Red-headed Woodpecker

_____ Red-bellied Woodpecker

_____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

_____ Downy Woodpecker

_____ Hairy Woodpecker

_____ Northern Flicker

_____ Pileated Woodpecker

_____ American Kestrel

_____ Great Crested Flycatcher

_____ Western Kingbird * (2–3, 9–16 October 1969, RTH [Parmer 1969d])

_____ Eastern Kingbird

_____ Scissor-tailed Flycatcher * (10–11 May 2011, DS, TMC photo)

_____ Olive-sided Flycatcher (5 September 2009, EKL, SJS)

_____ Eastern Wood-Pewee

_____ Acadian Flycatcher

_____ Willow Flycatcher * (25 May 1986, SJS, DJS [Stedman 1986d; Stedman and Simbeck
            1988]—a TOS [Overton County] Foray record and a TBBA record)

_____ Eastern Phoebe

_____ Loggerhead Shrike

_____ White-eyed Vireo

_____ Yellow-throated Vireo

_____ Blue-headed Vireo (12 June 2010, BHS)

_____ Philadelphia Vireo (26 September 2008, SJS)

_____ Warbling Vireo * (14 June 2010, SJS—a Clay County Foray record)

_____ Red-eyed Vireo

_____ Blue Jay

_____ American Crow

_____ Fish Crow (25 March 2015, TMC photo)

_____ Horned Lark

_____ Purple Martin

_____ Tree Swallow

_____ Northern Rough-winged Swallow

_____ Cliff Swallow (3 April 2004, SJS et al.)

_____ Barn Swallow

_____ Carolina Chickadee

_____ Tufted Titmouse

_____ Red-breasted Nuthatch

_____ White-breasted Nuthatch

_____ Brown Creeper (26 September 1998, SJS, JCS)

_____ House Wren

_____ Winter Wren

_____ Carolina Wren

_____ Bewick's Wren (8 July 1969, Roy T. Hinds; Parmer 1969c)

_____ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

_____ Golden-crowned Kinglet

_____ Ruby-crowned Kinglet

_____ Eastern Bluebird

_____ Swainson's Thrush (16 May 1998, SJS, TMC)

_____ Hermit Thrush

_____ Wood Thrush

_____ American Robin

_____ Gray Catbird

_____ Brown Thrasher

_____ Northern Mockingbird

_____ European Starling

_____ Cedar Waxwing

_____ House Sparrow

_____ American Pipit (13 November 1993, SJS, TMC)

_____ Evening Grosbeak (7 May 1969, RTH [Parmer 1969c])

_____ House Finch

_____ Purple Finch

_____ Pine Siskin (fide TMC)

_____ American Goldfinch

_____ Lapland Longspur * (19 December 2000, RMD)

_____ Eastern Towhee

_____ American Tree Sparrow * (19 December 2000, RMD)

_____ Chipping Sparrow

_____ Field Sparrow

_____ Lark Sparrow * (6 May 1969, RTH [Parmer 1969c]; June 1980—a BBS record)

_____ Vesper Sparrow (2 November 2008, DLR, EKL, SJS)

_____ Savannah Sparrow

_____ Grasshopper Sparrow (TBBA [Nicholson 1997])

_____ Fox Sparrow

_____ Song Sparrow

_____ Lincoln's Sparrow (14 December 2005, BHS)

_____ Swamp Sparrow

_____ White-throated Sparrow

_____ White-crowned Sparrow

_____ Dark-eyed Junco

_____ Yellow-breasted Chat

_____ Eastern Meadowlark

_____ Orchard Oriole

_____ Baltimore Oriole (27 May 1995, SJS)

_____ Red-winged Blackbird

_____ Brown-headed Cowbird

_____ Rusty Blackbird

_____ Common Grackle

_____ Ovenbird

_____ Worm-eating Warbler

_____ Louisiana Waterthrush

_____ Northern Waterthrush (BHS)

_____ Golden-winged Warbler (11 September 1969, RTH [Parmer 1969d]; 18 September 1993,
            SJS, TMC)

_____ Blue-winged Warbler

_____ Black-and-white Warbler

_____ Prothonotary Warbler (16 May 1998, SJS, TMC)

_____ Tennessee Warbler

_____ Nashville Warbler (20 April 2007, SJS, Leonardo Chavez)

_____ Kentucky Warbler

_____ Common Yellowthroat

_____ Hooded Warbler

_____ American Redstart

_____ Cape May Warbler (30 April 1999, SJS+)

_____ Cerulean Warbler (TBBA [Nicholson 1997])

_____ Northern Parula

_____ Magnolia Warbler

_____ Bay-breasted Warbler (18 September 1993, SJS, TMC)

_____ Blackburnian Warbler

_____ Yellow Warbler (14 November 2004, SJS, WAW)

_____ Chestnut-sided Warbler

_____ Blackpoll Warbler (30 April 1999, SJS et al.)

_____ Black-throated Blue Warbler (12 April 1969, RTH [Parmer 1969b]—remarkably early if accurate)

_____ Palm Warbler

_____ Pine Warbler

_____ Yellow-rumped Warbler

_____ Yellow-throated Warbler

_____ Prairie Warbler

_____ Black-throated Green Warbler (20 September 2009, Virginia Wiggers)

_____ Summer Tanager

_____ Scarlet Tanager

_____ Northern Cardinal

_____ Rose-breasted Grosbeak

_____ Blue Grosbeak

_____ Indigo Bunting

_____ Dickcissel (TBBA [Nicholson 1997])

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