Check-list of Fentress County, Tennessee, Birds

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

_____ Greater White-fronted Goose * (7 February 2009, SJS, EKL)

_____ Snow Goose (1 December 2003, BT, TT, SJS)

_____ Ross's Goose * (7 February 2009 (SJS, EKL)

_____ Canada Goose

_____ Mute Swan * (21/24 February 2000, SJS/JSL)

_____ Wood Duck

_____ Blue-winged Teal

_____ Gadwall (26 February 2001, SJS)

_____ Mallard (26 February 2001, SJS)

_____ American Black Duck (7 February 2009, EKL, SJS)

_____ Green-winged Teal (25 January 1999, SJS)

_____ Ring-necked Duck (26 February 2001, SJS)

_____ Lesser Scaup (25 January 1999, SJS)

_____ Bufflehead (26 February 2001, SJS)

_____ Hooded Merganser (25 January 1999, SJS)

_____ Northern Bobwhite

_____ Ruffed Grouse

_____ Wild Turkey

_____ Pied-billed Grebe (15 on 23 October 2005, SJS, BHS)

_____ Horned Grebe (19 March 2002, Peggy Camden)

_____ Rock Pigeon

_____ Eurasian Collared-Dove * (18 November 2006, BHS)

_____ Mourning Dove

_____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo

_____ Black-billed Cuckoo *

_____ Common Nighthawk (15 September 1995, SJS, MAS)

_____ Chuck-will's-widow * (14 June 1937 [Yunker 1938])

_____ Eastern Whip-poor-will

_____ Chimney Swift

_____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird

_____ Virginia Rail * (21 November 2009, EKL, SJS; 29 December 2009, EKL—a CBB record))

_____ American Coot (25 January 1999, SJS)

_____ Sandhill Crane

_____ Whooping Crane * (14/15 April 2002, fide TE)

_____ Killdeer

_____ Pectoral Sandpiper (23 March 2003, SJS)

_____ Dunlin *

_____ American Woodcock

_____ Wilson's Snipe

_____ Spotted Sandpiper

_____ Solitary Sandpiper

_____ Lesser Yellowlegs

_____ Ring-billed Gull (25 January 1999, SJS)

_____ Double-crested Cormorant (15 September 1995, SJS, MAS)

_____ American Bittern * (18 November 2006, BHS)

_____ Great Blue Heron

_____ Great Egret (15 September 1995, SJS, MAS)

_____ Green Heron

_____ Black Vulture

_____ Turkey Vulture

_____ Golden Eagle *

_____ Northern Harrier (17 February 1996, SJS)

_____ Sharp-shinned Hawk

_____ Cooper's Hawk (23 February 2001, BHS)

_____ Bald Eagle * (19 February 1977, WJJ [Pitts 1977])

_____ Red-shouldered Hawk

_____ Broad-winged Hawk

_____ Red-tailed Hawk

_____ Rough-legged Hawk * (29 January 1988, RCH)

_____ Barn Owl * (TBBA [Nicholson 1997])

_____ Eastern Screech-Owl

_____ Great Horned Owl

_____ Barred Owl

_____ Northern Saw-whet Owl * (14 January 2000, SJS)

_____ Belted Kingfisher

_____ Red-headed Woodpecker

_____ Red-bellied Woodpecker

_____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (23 October 2005, BHS, SJS)

_____ Downy Woodpecker

_____ Hairy Woodpecker

_____ Red-cockaded Woodpecker (extirpated [Rhoads 1895; Ganier 1937; Ganier 1962])

_____ Northern Flicker

_____ Pileated Woodpecker

_____ American Kestrel

_____ Merlin (6 February 2012, SJS, EKL)

_____ Peregrine Falcon * (Ganier 1937)

_____ Great Crested Flycatcher

_____ Eastern Kingbird

_____ Eastern Wood-Pewee

_____ Acadian Flycatcher

_____ Willow Flycatcher *

_____ Least Flycatcher *

_____ Eastern Phoebe

_____ Loggerhead Shrike *

_____ White-eyed Vireo

_____ Yellow-throated Vireo

_____ Blue-headed Vireo (3 September 1994, SJS, BHS)

_____ Philadelphia Vireo (24 September 2005, SJS)

_____ Warbling Vireo *

_____ Red-eyed Vireo

_____ Blue Jay

_____ American Crow

_____ Common Raven (extirpated [Ganier 1962])

_____ Horned Lark

_____ 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-headed Nuthatch * (18 April 2008, DC, LC; 23 June 2013, SJS—a Fentress County Foray record)

_____ Brown Creeper

_____ House Wren

_____ Winter Wren (4 December 1998, SJS)

_____ Sedge Wren * (7 February 2009, SJS, EKL)

_____ Carolina Wren

_____ Bewick's Wren (Rhoads 1895)

_____ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

_____ Golden-crowned Kinglet

_____ Ruby-crowned Kinglet

_____ Eastern Bluebird

_____ Gray-cheeked Thrush (30 September 2012, SJS, EKL—a FBB record)

_____ Swainson's Thrush (30 September 2012, SJS, EKL—a FBB record)

_____ Hermit Thrush

_____ Wood Thrush

_____ American Robin

_____ Gray Catbird

_____ Brown Thrasher

_____ Northern Mockingbird

_____ European Starling

_____ Cedar Waxwing

_____ House Sparrow

_____ American Pipit (18 November 2006, BHS)

_____ Evening Grosbeak * (1–10 from 17 January–7 March 1994 Mary Padget; 23 December 1997, SJS)

_____ House Finch (1 September 1991, SJS)

_____ Purple Finch

_____ Red Crossbill * (15 February 2013, EKL)

_____ Pine Siskin (5 November 1999, SJS)

_____ American Goldfinch

_____ Eastern Towhee

_____ Bachman's Sparrow * (extirpated? [Rhoads 1895])

_____ Chipping Sparrow

_____ Field Sparrow

_____ Vesper Sparrow

_____ Savannah Sparrow (24 June 2013, EKL—a Fentress County Foray record)

_____ Grasshopper Sparrow 

_____ Fox Sparrow (15 October 1995, SJS [Knight 1996a])

_____ Song Sparrow

_____ Lincoln's Sparrow (23 October 2005, SJS, BHS)

_____ Swamp Sparrow

_____ White-throated Sparrow

_____ White-crowned Sparrow (23 October 2005, SJS, BHS)

_____ Dark-eyed Junco

_____ Yellow-breasted Chat

_____ Bobolink *

_____ Eastern Meadowlark

_____ Orchard Oriole

_____ Baltimore Oriole *

_____ Red-winged Blackbird

_____ Brown-headed Cowbird

_____ Rusty Blackbird

_____ Common Grackle

_____ Ovenbird

_____ Worm-eating Warbler

_____ Louisiana Waterthrush

_____ Golden-winged Warbler * 

_____ Blue-winged Warbler 

_____ Black-and-white Warbler

_____ Swainson's Warbler *

_____ Tennessee Warbler

_____ Nashville Warbler (5 May 2001, SJS)

_____ Kentucky Warbler

_____ Common Yellowthroat

_____ Hooded Warbler

_____ American Redstart

_____ Cape May Warbler

_____ Cerulean Warbler

_____ Northern Parula

_____ Magnolia Warbler

_____ Bay-breasted Warbler

_____ Blackburnian Warbler

_____ Yellow Warbler

_____ Chestnut-sided Warbler

_____ Black-throated Blue Warbler * (3 September 1994, SJS, BHS)

_____ Palm Warbler (2 May 1999, SJS)

_____ Pine Warbler

_____ Yellow-rumped Warbler

_____ Yellow-throated Warbler

_____ Prairie Warbler

_____ Black-throated Green Warbler

_____ Summer Tanager

_____ Scarlet Tanager

_____ Northern Cardinal

_____ Rose-breasted Grosbeak (2 May 1999, SJS)

_____ Blue Grosbeak

_____ Indigo Bunting

_____ Dickcissel (10 July 2011, SJS)

Key to Initials and Abbreviations:

Information in the above Annotated List is based partly on data presented in Nicholson (1981).

Literature Cited:

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