Check-list of Birds Observed at the Fishing Creek, Pulaski County, Kentucky
This check-list is a composite list from several sites adjacent to Fishing Creek, an arm of Lake Cumberland in Pulaski County, Kentucky; these sites include a the Fishing Creek Recreation Area, a Corps of Engineers site; the Pulaski County Park; and Lee's Ford Dock.
Abbreviations and Symbols:
* Very Uncommon or Rare species at Fishing Creek
_____ Snow Goose *
_____ Canada Goose
_____ Brant *
_____ Mute Swan *
_____ Wood Duck
_____ Gadwall
_____ American Wigeon
_____ American Black Duck
_____ Mallard
_____ Blue-winged Teal
_____ Northern Pintail
_____ Northern Shoveler
_____Green-winged Teal
_____ Canvasback
_____ Redhead
_____ Ring-necked Duck
_____ Greater Scaup *
_____ Lesser Scaup
_____ Surf Scoter *
_____ Black Scoter *
_____ Bufflehead
_____ Common Goldeneye
_____ Hooded Merganser
_____ Red-breasted Merganser
_____ Common Merganser *
_____ Ruddy Duck
_____ Wild Turkey
_____ Northern Bobwhite
_____ Common Loon
_____ Pied-billed Grebe
_____ Horned Grebe
_____ Double-crested Cormorant
_____ Great Blue Heron
_____ Great Egret
_____ Snowy Egret *
_____ Little Blue Heron *
_____ Tricolored Heron * (22 July 2011, RMD)
_____ Cattle Egret (21 October 1984, JBE)
_____ Green Heron
_____ Black-crowned Night-Heron *
_____ Black Vulture
_____ Turkey Vulture
_____ Osprey
_____ Bald Eagle
_____ Sharp-shinned Hawk
_____ Cooper's Hawk
_____ Red-shouldered Hawk
_____ Broad-winged Hawk
_____ Red-tailed Hawk
_____ American Kestrel
_____ Merlin *
_____ Peregrine Falcon *
_____ American Coot
_____ Sandhill Crane
_____ American Golden-Plover *
_____ Semipalmated Plover
_____ Killdeer
_____ American Avocet (11 October 1982, JBE)
_____ Spotted Sandpiper
_____ Solitary Sandpiper
_____ Greater Yellowlegs
_____ Lesser Yellowlegs
_____ Ruddy Turnstone (29 August 84, JBE)
_____ Sanderling *
_____ Semipalmated Sandpiper
_____ Western Sandpiper
_____ Least Sandpiper
_____ White-rumped Sandpiper (20 September 2006, RMD)
_____ Baird's Sandpiper *
_____ Pectoral Sandpiper
_____ Dunlin
_____ Stilt Sandpiper *
_____ Buff-breasted Sandpiper *
_____ Short-billed Dowitcher *
_____ Long-billed Dowitcher *
_____ Wilson's Snipe
_____ Red-necked Phalarope *
_____ Wilson's Phalarope *
_____ Bonaparte's Gull
_____ Franklin's Gull *
_____ Ring-billed Gull
_____ Herring Gull
_____ Caspian Tern
_____ Black Tern
_____ Common Tern *
_____ Forster's Tern
_____ Rock Pigeon
_____ Mourning Dove
_____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo
_____ Black-billed Cuckoo *
_____ Eastern Screech-Owl
_____ Barred Owl
_____ Common Nighthawk
_____ Eastern Whip-poor-will
_____ Chimney Swift
_____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird
_____ Belted Kingfisher
_____ Red-headed Woodpecker
_____ Red-bellied Woodpecker
_____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
_____ Downy Woodpecker
_____ Hairy Woodpecker
_____ Northern Flicker
_____ Pileated Woodpecker
_____ Eastern Wood-Pewee
_____ Acadian Flycatcher
_____ Least Flycatcher (11 May 2007, RMD)
_____ Eastern Phoebe
_____ Great Crested Flycatcher
_____ Eastern Kingbird
_____ White-eyed Vireo
_____ Yellow-throated Vireo
_____ Blue-headed Vireo
_____ Philadelphia Vireo
_____ Red-eyed Vireo
_____ Blue Jay
_____ American Crow
_____ Horned Lark (29 May 2007, RMD)
_____ 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
_____ Carolina Wren
_____ Winter Wren
_____ House Wren
_____ Sedge Wren *
_____ Marsh Wren
_____ Golden-crowned Kinglet
_____ Ruby-crowned Kinglet
_____ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
_____ Eastern Bluebird
_____ Veery
_____ Gray-checked Thrush
_____ Swainson's Thrush
_____ Hermit Thrush
_____ Wood Thrush
_____ American Robin
_____ Gray Catbird
_____ Northern Mockingbird
_____ Brown Thrasher
_____ European Starling
_____ American Pipit
_____ Cedar Waxwing
_____ Blue-winged Warbler
_____ Golden-winged Warbler
_____ Tennessee Warbler
_____ Orange-crowned Warbler
_____ Nashville Warbler
_____ Northern Parula
_____ Yellow Warbler
_____ Chestnut-sided Warbler
_____ Magnolia Warbler
_____ Cape May Warbler
_____ Yellow-rumped Warbler
_____ Black-throated 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
_____ Mourning Warbler *
_____ Common Yellowthroat'
_____ Hooded Warbler
_____ Canada Warbler
_____ Yellow-breasted Chat
_____ Eastern Towhee
_____ Chipping Sparrow
_____ Field Sparrow
_____ Vesper Sparrow
_____ Savannah Sparrow
_____ Grasshopper Sparrow *
_____ Fox Sparrow
_____ Song Sparrow
_____ Swamp Sparrow
_____ White-throated Sparrow
_____ White-crowned Sparrow
_____ Dark-eyed Junco
_____ Summer Tanager
_____ Scarlet Tanager
_____ Northern Cardinal
_____ Rose-breasted Grosbeak
_____ Blue Grosbeak
_____ Indigo Bunting
_____ Red-winged Blackbird
_____ Eastern Meadowlark
_____ Common Grackle
_____ Brown-headed Cowbird
_____ Orchard Oriole
_____ Baltimore Oriole
_____ Purple Finch
_____ House Finch
_____ American Goldfinch
_____ House Sparrow
Many thanks to Roseanna M. Denton for supplying this list of species; some species are listed as a result of field work by Jackie B. Elmore, Sr. (JBE). If you see any rare species at this site, please fill out a documentation form:
and send to Roseanna Denton or to me at 2675 Lakeland Dr., Cookeville, TN 38506.
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