Check-list of DeKalb County, Tennessee, Birds

Table 1. UCR Bird List with species observed in DeKalb 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 DeKalb County bird species.  * = Rare species in UCR.

_____ Greater White-fronted Goose * (19 January 2009 photo, JCF, CDW)

_____ Snow Goose (14 November 1999, JN [Fekel 2000]; 6 January 2006, JCF, CDW photo)

_____ Ross's Goose * (27 January 2004, JCF, CDW photo; 13–14 January 2005, CDW photo, JCF)

_____ Canada Goose

_____ Mute Swan * (24 December 2005, SJS)

_____ Wood Duck (19 April 1996, GKE, DLC et al.)

_____ Blue-winged Teal (23 March 1995, SJS; 23 January 2006, CDW photo, JCF)

_____ Northern Shoveler (21 October 1998, SJS, GKE, MAS)

_____ Gadwall (8 December 1995, SJS, BHS)

_____ American Wigeon (6 October 1991, SJS)

_____ Mallard

_____ American Black Duck

_____ Northern Pintail (14 October 1998, SJS, GKE)

_____ Green-winged Teal (2 December 1994, SJS, MAS)

_____ Canvasback (28 November 1998, SJS)

_____ Redhead (17 November 1991, SJS, BHS)

_____ Ring-necked Duck

_____ Greater Scaup (16 February 2004, SJS)

_____ Lesser Scaup

_____ Surf Scoter * (26 October 1975, WJJ [Williams 1976a]; 23 October 1998, SJS, BHS)

_____ White-winged Scoter * (1 November 2002, SJS)

_____ Black Scoter * (6 November 2002, SJS)

_____ Long-tailed Duck * (7 December 2007, SJS)

_____ Bufflehead

_____ Common Goldeneye

_____ Hooded Merganser

_____ Common Merganser * (21 December 2013, SGS, EKL photo et al.—a CBC record)

_____ Red-breasted Merganser (8 March 1992, SJS)

_____ Ruddy Duck (6 November 1998, SJS, BHS)

_____ Northern Bobwhite

_____ Wild Turkey

_____ Pied-billed Grebe

_____ Horned Grebe (575 on 23 February 1997, SJS)

_____ Red-necked Grebe * (13 November 2013, EKL photo, SJS)

_____ Eared Grebe * (7 & 22 November 2000, SJS; 12 April 2003, PC, SJS et al.)

_____ Western Grebe * (27 January 2010, MJH, JCF, CDW)

_____ Rock Pigeon

_____ Eurasian  Collared-Dove * (24–25 March 2000, CDW photo; 21 March 2003, SJS, CDW)

_____ White-winged Dove * (25 April 2013, TLC, VC photo)

_____ Mourning Dove

_____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo

_____ Black-billed Cuckoo (summers 1974 & 1975, HES [Shadowen 1978])

_____ Common Nighthawk (13 May 2004, CDW, JCF)

_____ Chuck-will's-widow (May 2008, m. ob.)

_____ Whip-poor-will (Summer 1999, CDW)

_____ Chimney Swift

_____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird

_____ Rufous Hummingbird * (26 November 2004–13 March 2005, TLC photo, VC, CDW photo, RC photos)

_____ Virginia Rail * (8 October 2016 [feline casualty], JCF photo)

_____ Sora (19 September 2003, Eddie Fuson fide JCF)

_____ American Coot

_____ Sandhill Crane

_____ Black-necked Stilt * (8 May 2004, JCF photo, CDW photo)

_____ Killdeer

_____ Dunlin (21 March 2003, SJS, CDW)

_____ Least Sandpiper (8 May 2004, SJS, CDW, JCF)

_____ Pectoral Sandpiper (21 March 2003, SJS, CDW)

_____ Semipalmated Sandpiper (18 May 2004, SJS)

_____ American Woodcock (21 February 2005, CDW)

_____ Wilson's Snipe (5 March 2003, MJH)

_____ Spotted Sandpiper (25 May 2008, MW, JN—a DeKalb County Foray record)

_____ Solitary Sandpiper (9 April 2004, TLC, VC)

_____ Lesser Yellowlegs (21 March 2003, SJS, CDW)

_____ Willet * (3 May 1979, CE [Bierly 1979c])

_____ Greater Yellowlegs (2 April 2000, SJS)

_____ Red Phalarope * (20 November 1994, SJS)

_____ Parasitic Jaeger * (16-18 September 2017, Mark Taylor photos)

_____ Bonaparte's Gull

_____ Laughing Gull * (28 September 2005, SJS)

_____ Ring-billed Gull

_____ Herring Gull (20 November 1994, SJS)

_____ Caspian Tern (8 September 2004, SJS)

_____ Black Tern (26 on 25 August 1999, SJS, CDW)

_____ Common Tern * (24 May 2008, MW, JN—a DeKalb County Foray record)

_____ Forster's Tern (21 October 1998, SJS, GKE, MAS)

_____ Red-throated Loon * (27 March 1992, BHS)

_____ Pacific Loon * (9 March 2005, SJS, BHS)

_____ Common Loon (24 May 2008, WAW—a DeKalb County Foray record)

_____ Double-crested Cormorant

_____ Brown Pelican (16 May 2020, Mark, Sharon, and Rachel Oldham photo)

_____ American Bittern (1 April 2003, CDW photo)

_____ Great Blue Heron

     _____ Great Blue Heron, blue form

     _____ Great Blue Heron, white form (21 September–11 November 2002, CDW, TMC, SJS photo [Stedman and
                  Williams 2003])

_____ Great Egret (25 September 1998, SJS, BHS)

_____ Little Blue Heron * (14 September 2010, JCF)

_____ Tricolored Heron * (29 August 2009, JCF, MJH)

_____ Cattle Egret (5–6 June 2003, Eddie Fuson, JCF)

_____ Green Heron

_____ Black-crowned Night Heron * (summer 1976, HES [Shadowen 1978]; summer 2003, CDW [photo] et
            al.; summer 2004, CDW [photo of juvenile] et al.)

_____ Yellow-crowned Night-Heron * (22 August 2011, Andrew Thornton [eBird])

_____ Black Vulture

_____ Turkey Vulture

_____ Osprey

_____ Golden Eagle * (c. 4–9 January 1983 [Nicholson 1983]; 28 December 2010, MJH, CDW)

_____ Northern Harrier (6 January 2003, MJH)

_____ Sharp-shinned Hawk (1 April 1994, SJS, BHS)

_____ Cooper's Hawk

_____ Bald Eagle

_____ Mississippi Kite (24 May 2008, DAD—a DeKalb County Foray record)

_____ Red-shouldered Hawk

_____ Broad-winged Hawk

_____ Red-tailed Hawk

_____ Barn Owl * (21 December 2013, NPM, SNM—a CBC record)

_____ Eastern Screech-Owl

_____ Great Horned Owl

_____ Barred Owl

_____ Northern Saw-whet Owl * (road  casualty, 2/3 November 2007, SJS photo [of specimen]).

_____ Belted Kingfisher

_____ Red-headed Woodpecker

_____ Red-bellied Woodpecker

_____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

_____ Downy Woodpecker

_____ Hairy Woodpecker

_____ Northern Flicker

_____ Pileated Woodpecker

_____ American Kestrel

_____ Merlin (28–31 December 2003, JCF photo—a CBC record in part)

_____ Peregrine Falcon * (28 September 2005, SJS)

_____ Great  Crested Flycatcher

_____ Eastern Kingbird

_____ Olive-sided Flycatcher * (23–27 August 2004, VC, TLC photo, CDW photo)

_____ Eastern Wood-Pewee

_____ Acadian Flycatcher

_____ Willow Flycatcher * (summers 1972–1976 & 1978, HES [Shadowen 1978]; 7 June 1990, SJS)

_____ Least Flycatcher * (summer 1973, HES [Shadowen 1978])

_____ Eastern Phoebe

_____ Loggerhead Shrike (17 November 1991, SJS, BHS)

_____ White-eyed Vireo

_____ Yellow-throated Vireo

_____ Blue-headed Vireo (16 March 2002, SJS)

_____ Philadelphia Vireo (26 September 2002, SJS; 17 September 2006, SJS)

_____ Warbling Vireo (30 May 1998, SJS; 23–24 May 2008, SJS—a DeKalb County Foray record)

_____ Red-eyed Vireo

_____ Blue Jay

_____ American  Crow

_____ Horned Lark (21 March 2003, SJS, CDW)

_____ Purple Martin

_____ Tree Swallow (2 June 1997, SJS)

_____ Northern Rough-winged Swallow

_____ Bank Swallow (summers 1974, 1976, & 1978, HES [Shadowen 1978])

_____ Cliff Swallow

_____ Barn Swallow

_____ Carolina Chickadee

_____ Tufted Titmouse

_____ Red-breasted Nuthatch (14 October 1997, SJS, BHS)

_____ White-breasted Nuthatch

_____ Brown Creeper

_____ House Wren (28 December 2004, WAW)

_____ Winter Wren (11 November 1994, SJS, BHS)

_____ Sedge Wren (8 April 2006, SJS)

_____ Carolina Wren

_____ Bewick's Wren * (summers 1972, 1973, & 1978, HES [Shadowen 1978]; TBBA [Nicholson 1997])

_____ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

_____ Golden-crowned Kinglet

_____ Ruby-crowned Kinglet

_____ Eastern Bluebird

_____ Veery (25 April 2004, SJS, MJH; 17 September 2006, SJS)

_____ Gray-cheeked Thrush (6 October 1991 [road casualty], SJS)

_____ Swainson's Thrush (27 September 2004, SJS)

_____ Hermit Thrush (DOR 17 November 1991, SJS, BHS)

_____ Wood Thrush

_____ American Robin

_____ Gray Catbird

_____ Brown Thrasher

_____ Northern Mockingbird

_____ European Starling

_____ Cedar Waxwing

_____ House Sparrow

_____ American Pipit (11 November 1994, SJS, BHS)

_____ House Finch

_____ Purple Finch

_____ Pine Siskin (19 November 1993, SJS, BHS; 27 April 2005, TLC, VC)

_____ American Goldfinch

_____ Lapland Longspur * (9 & 19 February 2008, JCF, CDW)

_____ Eastern Towhee

_____ American Tree Sparrow * (4–5 February 2009, TLC, VC, JCF photo)

_____ Chipping Sparrow

_____ Clay-colored Sparrow * (16 October 2009, SJS, JCF photo)

_____ Field Sparrow

_____ Vesper Sparrow (21 March 2003, SJS, CDW)

_____ Savannah Sparrow

_____ Grasshopper Sparrow (TBBA [Nicholson 1997]; 17 May 2003, SJS, CDW)

_____ Henslow's Sparrow * (27 June–1 July 2006, SJS, CDW photo [30 June 2006] et al.; see also DeKalb County Foray results)

_____ Fox Sparrow (16 January 2003, CDW photo)

_____ Song Sparrow

_____ Swamp Sparrow (21 March 2003, SJS, CDW)

_____ White-throated Sparrow

_____ White-crowned Sparrow

_____ Dark-eyed Junco

_____ Yellow-breasted Chat

_____ Bobolink (2 May 2004, JCF photo)

_____ Eastern Meadowlark

_____ Orchard Oriole

_____ Baltimore Oriole (26 May 2008, SJS, CDW—a DeKalb County Foray record)

_____ Red-winged Blackbird

_____ Brown-headed Cowbird

_____ Rusty Blackbird (21 February 2003, CDW photo)

_____ Brewer's Blackbird * (21 March 2003, SJS, CDW)

_____ Common Grackle

_____ Ovenbird

_____ Worm-eating Warbler

_____ Louisiana Waterthrush

_____ Golden-winged Warbler (25 September 1998, SJS, BHS; 17 September 2006, SJS)

_____ Blue-winged Warbler

_____ Black-and-white Warbler

_____ Prothonotary Warbler

_____ Swainson's Warbler * (summer 1978, HES [Shadowen 1978])

_____ Tennessee Warbler

_____ Orange-crowned Warbler (13 February 2006, JCF photo)

_____ Nashville Warbler (SJS, MJH)

_____ Connecticut Warbler (26 May 2008,SJS, CDW, JCF—a DeKalb County Foray record)

_____ Mourning Warbler * (10 May 2011, Pingang Wang [eBird])

_____ Kentucky Warbler

_____ Common Yellowthroat

_____ Hooded Warbler

_____ American Redstart

_____ Cape May Warbler (13 May 2008, CDW)

_____ Cerulean Warbler

_____ Northern Parula

_____ Magnolia Warbler

_____ Bay-breasted Warbler (29 September 2000, SJS, GKE)

_____ Blackburnian Warbler (25 September 1998, SJS, BHS)

_____ Yellow Warbler

_____ Chestnut-sided Warbler (4 September 2010, JCF)

_____ Blackpoll Warbler (23 May 2008,SJS—a DeKalb County Forayrecord)

_____ Black-throated Blue Warbler * (30 May 1976, WJJ [Williams 1976f]; 25 September 1976, MCW
            [Williams 1977])

_____ Palm Warbler (19 April 1996, GKE, DLC et al.)

_____ Pine Warbler

_____ Yellow-rumped Warbler

_____ Yellow-throated Warbler

_____ Prairie Warbler

_____ Black-throated Green Warbler (17 September 2006, SJS)

_____ Canada Warbler (25 August 1993, SJS, BHS)

_____ Wilson's Warbler (26 September 2002, SJS)

_____ Summer Tanager

_____ Scarlet Tanager

_____ Northern Cardinal

_____ Rose-breasted Grosbeak

_____ Blue Grosbeak

_____ Indigo Bunting (4-5, 7-8 February 2010, MJH photo)

_____ Dickcissel (summer 1973, HES [Shadowen 1978]; 22 May–14 July 2006, CDW photo, JCF, MJH et al.)

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