Check-list of Morgan County, Tennessee, Birds

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

_____ Snow Goose * (21 January 2005, MEH)

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

_____ Canada Goose

_____ Mute Swan * (6 February 1994, SJS)

_____ Wood Duck

_____ Blue-winged Teal (21 September 2002, DJT, AH [Hoff 2002b])

_____ Northern Shoveler (14 April 1995, SJS, BHS)

_____ Mallard (24 March 1996, SJS)

_____ American Black Duck (27 March 2004, BHS)

_____ Northern Pintail (14 January 2006, MEH)

_____ Green-winged Teal (24 March 1996, SJS)

_____ Canvasback (7 February 2009, SJS, EKL)

_____ Ring-necked Duck (7 February 2009, SJS, EKL)

_____ Greater Scaup * (24 March 1996, SJS)

_____ Bufflehead (20 November 1993, SJS)

_____ Hooded Merganser (20 November 1993, SJS)

_____ Red-breasted Merganser *(16 February 2014, EKL—a GBBC record)

_____ Ruddy Duck (28 November 2008, EKL, SJS)

_____ Northern Bobwhite

_____ Ruffed Grouse

_____ Wild Turkey

_____ Pied-billed Grebe (20 November 1993, SJS)

_____ Rock Pigeon

_____ Mourning Dove

_____ Black-billed Cuckoo (1 June 1998, BHS; 4 June 2002, BHS)

_____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo

_____ Chuck-will's-widow (TBBA [Nicholson 1997])

_____ Eastern Whip-poor-will

_____ Chimney Swift

_____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird

_____ Rufous Hummingbird * (1 banded 22 December 2001, CAS [Sloan 2001])

_____ Sora * (5 June 2005, SJS—a BBS record)

_____ American Coot (27 March 1991, MT, RT—Frozen Head SNA; 24 March 1996, SJS; 1 November 2006, MEH)

_____ Sandhill Crane (11 November 1995, SJS, BHS)

_____ Killdeer

_____ Least Sandpiper (10 May 2003, DJT; Hoff 2003b)

_____ White-rumped Sandpiper * (28 May 2005, SJS, JEM)

_____ American Woodcock (8 December 2003, BHS)

_____ Wilson's Snipe (13 March 2008, MEH)

_____ Spotted Sandpiper

_____ Solitary Sandpiper

_____ Greater Yellowlegs (24 March 1996, SJS)

_____ Ring-billed Gull * (12 January 2008, MEH; 28 November 2008, SJS, EKL)

_____ Common Loon (15 May 2004, D. S. Perry fide Lynda M. Mills)

_____ Double-crested Cormorant * (7 May 2005, MEH, DME)

_____ Great Blue Heron

_____ Great Egret * (11 August 1991, SJS, BHS; unspecified date, SHF record)

_____ Green Heron

_____ Yellow-crowned Night-Heron * (6 June 1993, SJS—a BBS record)

_____ Black Vulture

_____ Turkey Vulture

_____ Osprey

_____ Golden Eagle * (19 December 2005, DME, MEH)

_____ Northern Harrier (6 October 1995, SJS, BHS)

_____ Sharp-shinned Hawk

_____ Cooper's Hawk

_____ Bald Eagle (15 December 2004, JTR)

_____ Red-shouldered Hawk

_____ Broad-winged Hawk

_____ Red-tailed Hawk

_____ Barn Owl * (9 December 2003, BHS)

_____ Eastern Screech-Owl

_____ Great Horned Owl

_____ Barred Owl

_____ Northern Saw-whet Owl * (5–6 February 2005, BHS)

_____ Belted Kingfisher

_____ Red-headed Woodpecker (20 November 1993, SJS)

_____ Red-bellied Woodpecker

_____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (20 November 1993, SJS)

_____ Downy Woodpecker

_____ Hairy Woodpecker

_____ Red-cockaded Woodpecker (extirpated; Rhoads 1895; Ganier 1962a)

_____ Northern Flicker

_____ Pileated Woodpecker

_____ American Kestrel

_____ Peregrine Falcon (1 October 2004, BHS)

_____ Great Crested Flycatcher

_____ Eastern Kingbird

_____ Eastern  Wood-Pewee

_____ Acadian Flycatcher

_____ Willow Flycatcher * (4 June 1994, SJS)

_____ Least Flycatcher * (2 June 2002, SJS; 28 May 2005, SJS, JEM)

_____ Eastern Phoebe

_____ Loggerhead Shrike (5 March 2003, BHS)

_____ White-eyed Vireo

_____ Yellow-throated Vireo

_____ Blue-headed Vireo (28 November 2008, SJS, EKL)

_____ Philadelphia Vireo (21 September 2005, BHS)

_____ Warbling Vireo (21 September 2005, BHS)

_____ Red-eyed Vireo

_____ Blue Jay

_____ American Crow

_____ Common Raven * (6 October 2007, MEH)

_____ Horned Lark (28 November 2008, EKL, SJS)

_____ Purple Martin

_____ Tree Swallow

_____ Northern Rough-winged Swallow

_____ Bank Swallow (21 April 2000, SJS)

_____ Cliff Swallow (17 July 2008, RC et al.)

_____ Barn Swallow

_____ Carolina Chickadee

_____ Tufted Titmouse

_____ Red-breasted Nuthatch (25 November 1993, SJS, BHS; 4 & 10 June 2006, BHS)

_____ White-breasted Nuthatch

_____ Brown-headed Nuthatch (July 1995 [Roy et al. 2001]; 13 June 2010, SJS—a BBS record)

_____ Brown Creeper (20 November 1993, SJS)

_____ House Wren

_____ Winter Wren (20 November 1993, SJS)

_____ Sedge Wren * (17 August 1991, SJS, BHS)

_____ Carolina Wren

_____ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

_____ Golden-crowned Kinglet

_____ Ruby-crowned Kinglet

_____ Eastern Bluebird

_____ Veery

_____ Gray-cheeked Thrush (21 September 2005, BHS)

_____ Swainson's Thrush (21 September 2005, BHS)

_____ Hermit Thrush 

_____ Wood Thrush

_____ American Robin

_____ Gray Catbird

_____ Brown Thrasher

_____ Northern Mockingbird

_____ European Starling

_____ Cedar Waxwing

_____ House Sparrow

_____ American Pipit

_____ Evening Grosbeak (20 November 1993, SJS)

_____ Purple Finch (20 November 1993, SJS)

_____ Pine Siskin (23 October 1999, SJS, BHS)

_____ American Goldfinch

_____ Eastern Towhee

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

_____ Chipping Sparrow (28 November 2008, SJS, EKL)

_____ Field Sparrow

_____ Savannah Sparrow (17 March 1994, SJS, BHS)

_____ Grasshopper Sparrow (26 May 1986, CPN [Dubke and Dubke 1986c])

_____ Henslow's Sparrow * (25 July 2011, SJS)

_____ Fox Sparrow (fall 2004, BHS; 28 November 2008, SJS, EKL)

_____ Song Sparrow

_____ Lincoln's Sparrow (Spring 2004, BHS)

_____ Swamp Sparrow

_____ White-throated Sparrow (21 September 2005, BHS)

_____ White-crowned Sparrow (8 May 2004, DJT)

_____ Dark-eyed Junco

_____ Yellow-breasted Chat

_____ Bobolink (21 September 2002, DJT, AH [Hoff 2002b])

_____ Eastern Meadowlark

_____ Orchard Oriole

_____ Baltimore Oriole

_____ Red-winged Blackbird

_____ Brown-headed Cowbird

_____ Rusty Blackbird * (8 March 2008, MEH)

_____ Brewer's Blackbird * (28 November 2008, EKL, SJS)

_____ Common Grackle

_____ Ovenbird

_____ Worm-eating Warbler

_____ Louisiana Waterthrush

_____ Northern Waterthrush (8 May 2004, DJT)

_____ Golden-winged Warbler (TBBA [Nicholson 1997]; 1 September 2004, BHS)

_____ Blue-winged Warbler

_____ Black-and-white Warbler

_____ Swainson's Warbler (28 April 1996, SJS, BHS)

_____ Tennessee Warbler

_____ Orange-crowned Warbler

_____ Nashville Warbler (18 May 2011, SGS)

_____ Connecticut Warbler * (8 May 2004, DJT)

_____ Mourning Warbler * (18 September 2004, DJT)

_____ Kentucky Warbler

_____ Common Yellowthroat

_____ Hooded Warbler

_____ American Redstart

_____ Cape May Warbler (Fall 2004, BHS)

_____ Cerulean Warbler

_____ Northern Parula

_____ Magnolia Warbler

_____ Bay-breasted Warbler

_____ Blackburnian Warbler

_____ Yellow Warbler

_____ Chestnut-sided Warbler

_____ Blackpoll Warbler (8 May 2004, DJT)

_____ Black-throated Blue Warbler

_____ Palm Warbler (Fall 2003, BHS)

_____ Pine Warbler

_____ Yellow-rumped Warbler

_____ Yellow-throated Warbler

_____ Prairie Warbler

_____ Black-throated Green Warbler

_____ Canada Warbler (11 July 1993, SJS, BHS)

_____ Wilson's Warbler (1 September 2004, BHS)

_____ Summer Tanager

_____ Scarlet Tanager

_____ Northern Cardinal

_____ Rose-breasted Grosbeak

_____ Blue Grosbeak

_____ Indigo Bunting

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