Check-list of Birds Observed at Edgar Evins State Park, DeKalb 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 this e-mail address:

        sstedman@tntech.edu

    Directions to this site may be found at this link:

• Directions to Edgar Evins State Park (and other sites in DeKalb County)

Abbreviations and Symbols:

* Very Uncommon or Rare species in park

_____ Canada Goose

_____ Wood Duck

_____ Blue-winged Teal

_____ Green-winged Teal (Holly Taylor)

_____ Redhead (Holly and Mark Taylor)

_____ Ring-necked Duck (Holly Taylor)

_____ Greater Scaup * (Holly Taylor [photo])

_____ Hooded Merganser (Holly Taylor)

_____ Red-breasted Merganser (11–12 January 2011, Holly Taylor [photo] and Mark Taylor)

_____ Wild Turkey

_____ Common Loon (16 May 2011, Holly and Mark Taylor)

_____ Pied-billed Grebe

_____ Horned Grebe

_____ Red-necked Grebe * (13 November 2013, Edmund K. LeGrand photo, Stephen J. Stedman)

_____ Double-crested Cormorant

_____ Great Blue Heron

_____ Great Egret (29 May 2011, Mark Taylor)

_____ Tricolored Heron * (29 August 2009, Judy C. Fuson, Michael J. Hawkins)

_____ Green Heron

_____ Black-crowned Night Heron * (10 September 2012, Holly and Mark Taylor [photo of immature])

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

_____ Black Vulture 

_____ Turkey Vulture

_____ Osprey

_____ Bald Eagle

_____ Sharp-shinned Hawk

_____ Cooper's Hawk

_____ Red-shouldered Hawk (Holly Taylor)

_____ Broad-winged Hawk (Holly Taylor)

_____ Red-tailed Hawk

_____ Merlin * (16 September & 2 October 2011, Holly Taylor, Mark Taylor)

_____ American Kestrel (Holly Taylor)

_____ American Coot

_____ Sandhill Crane

_____ Killdeer

_____ Willet * (10 May 2013, Mark Taylor)

_____ Spotted Sandpiper (Holly Taylor)

_____ Semipalmated Sandpiper * (6 August 2012, Holly Taylor, Mark Taylor photo)

_____ Parasitic Jaeger * (16-18 September 2017, Mark Taylor photos; m. ob.)

_____ Bonaparte's Gull

_____ Ring-billed Gull

_____ Mourning Dove

_____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo

_____ Eastern Screech-Owl

_____ Great Horned Owl (Holly Taylor)

_____ Barred Owl

_____ Eastern Whip-poor-will (23 April 2010, Holly Taylor, Mark Taylor)

_____ Chimney Swift

_____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird

_____ Belted Kingfisher

_____ Red-bellied Woodpecker

_____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

_____ Downy Woodpecker

_____ Hairy Woodpecker

_____ Northern Flicker

_____ Pileated Woodpecker

_____ Eastern Wood-Pewee

_____ Acadian Flycatcher

_____ Eastern Phoebe

_____ Great Crested Flycatcher

_____ Eastern Kingbird

_____ White-eyed Vireo

_____ Yellow-throated Vireo

_____ Blue-headed Vireo

_____ Philadelphia Vireo *

_____ Warbling Vireo *

_____ Red-eyed Vireo

_____ Blue Jay

_____ American Crow

_____ Purple Martin (Holly Taylor)

_____ Tree Swallow

_____ Northern Rough-winged Swallow

_____ Cliff Swallow

_____ Barn Swallow (Holly Taylor)

_____ Carolina Chickadee

_____ Tufted Titmouse

_____ Red-breasted Nuthatch

_____ White-breasted Nuthatch

_____ Brown Creeper

_____ Carolina Wren

_____ Winter Wren

_____ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

_____ Golden-crowned Kinglet

_____ Ruby-crowned Kinglet

_____ Eastern Bluebird

_____ Veery

_____ Swainson's Thrush

_____ Hermit Thrush

_____ Wood Thrush

_____ American Robin

_____ Gray Catbird (Holly Taylor)

_____ Brown Thrasher

_____ European Starling

_____ Cedar Waxwing

_____ Ovenbird

_____ Worm-eating Warbler

_____ Louisiana Waterthrush

_____ Golden-winged Warbler

_____ Blue-winged Warbler (1 or 2 May 2010, Dave Hawkins [photo])

_____ Black-and-white Warbler (Holly Taylor)

_____ Prothonotary Warbler

_____ Tenneseee Warbler

_____ Nashville Warbler (25 April 2004, Stephen J. Stedman, Michael J. Hawkins)

_____ Kentucky Warbler

_____ Common Yellowthroat (Holly Taylor)

_____ Hooded Warbler

_____ American Redstart 

_____ Cerulean Warbler

_____ Northern Parula

_____ Magnolia Warbler

_____ Blackburnian Warbler

_____ Yellow Warbler

_____ Chestnut-sided Warbler (Holly Taylor)

_____ Blackpoll Warbler

_____ Palm Warbler

_____ Pine Warbler (Holly Taylor)

_____ Yellow-rumped Warbler

_____ Yellow-throated Warbler (Holly Taylor)

_____ Prairie Warbler

_____ Black-throated Green Warbler

_____ Canada Warbler

_____ Yellow-breasted Chat (Holly Taylor)

_____ Eastern Towhee

_____ Chipping Sparrow (Holly Taylor)

_____ Field Sparrow (Holly Taylor)

_____ Fox Sparrow (14 January 2011, Holly Taylor and Mark Taylor)

_____ Song Sparrow

_____ Swamp Sparrow (Holly Taylor)

_____ White-throated Sparrow

_____ White-crowned Sparrow (Holly Taylor)

_____ Dark-eyed Junco

_____ Summer Tanager

_____ Scarlet Tanager

_____ Northern Cardinal

_____ Rose-breasted Grosbeak

_____ Indigo Bunting

_____ Rusty Blackbird

_____ Common Grackle

_____ Brown-headed Cowbird

_____ Orchard Oriole

_____ Baltimore Oriole (Holly Taylor)

_____ Purple Finch

_____ American Goldfinch

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