Check-list of Pickett County, Tennessee, Birds

Table 1. UCR Bird List with species observed in Pickett 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.

The following check-list is based in large measure on data presented in Nicholson (1982a).

Table 2. Annotated list of Pickett County bird species.  * = Rare species in UCR.

_____ Greater White-fronted Goose * (18 February 2007, RCH)

_____ Snow Goose (1 white form 23 January 2010, EKL, SJS, WAW, JWB, TMS, MJH)

_____ Canada Goose

_____ Mute Swan * (winter 1998–1999, JDH, RCH)

_____ Tundra Swan * (12 January 2006, SJS, CN, BG)

_____ Wood Duck

_____ Blue-winged Teal

_____ Northern Shoveler

_____ Gadwall

_____ American Wigeon (28 November 2001, SJS)

_____ Mallard

_____ American Black Duck

_____ Northern Pintail

_____ Green-winged Teal (30 December 1999, RCH; 23 March 2002, RCH)

_____ Canvasback

_____ Redhead

_____ Ring-necked Duck

_____ Greater Scaup * (22 February 2009, EKL, SJS)

_____ Lesser Scaup

_____ Bufflehead

_____ Common Goldeneye

_____ Hooded Merganser

_____ Common Merganser * (16 December 1969, RCH, JDH [Parmer 1970a])

_____ Ruddy Duck (2 January 1998, RCH, JDH; 25 December 2005, SJS)

_____ Northern Bobwhite

_____ Ruffed Grouse

_____ Wild Turkey

_____ Pied-billed Grebe

_____ Horned Grebe

_____ Rock Pigeon

_____ Eurasian Collared-Dove (24 September 2005, WAW, CEW, MH—a FBB record)

_____ Mourning Dove

_____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo

_____ Black-billed Cuckoo

_____ Common Nighthawk

_____ Chuck-will's-widow

_____ Eastern Whip-poor-will

_____ Chimney Swift

_____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird

_____ Rufous Hummingbird * (1 October–20 December 2005, RCH, CS [banded 23 October 2005])

_____ Yellow Rail * (8 December 1983, RCH, JDH [Hassler 1984])

_____ American Coot

_____ Sandhill Crane

_____ Killdeer

_____ Dunlin * (30 October 1969, JDH, RCH [Parmer 1969d])

_____ Wilson's Snipe

_____ Spotted Sandpiper

_____ Solitary Sandpiper (23 May 2009, SJS—a Pickett County Foray record)

_____ Lesser Yellowlegs (22 March 2002, RCH)

_____ American Woodcock (TBBA [Nicholson 1997])

_____ Bonaparte's Gull (22 December 1993, JDH, RCH)

_____ Ring-billed Gull

_____ Herring Gull * (31 December 1983, RCH, JDH; 30 October 2004, BHS, SJS)

_____ Common Loon

_____ Great Blue Heron

_____ Great Egret (9 July 1974, SG photo fide WHG)

_____ Snowy Egret * (9–14 May 1971, RCH) [Stewart 1971; Nicholson 1982a]; 5 September 1971, RCH, JDH
             [Hassler and Hassler 1972])

_____ Little Blue Heron * (1 July 1973, Nicholson 1982a)

_____ Cattle Egret * (11 November 1978, RCH, JDH [Bierly 1979b])

_____ Green Heron

_____ Black-crowned Night-Heron (15 June 1937, RMM [Ganier 1937])

_____ Black Vulture (CBC)

_____ Turkey Vulture

_____ Osprey

_____ Golden Eagle *

_____ Northern Harrier

_____ Sharp-shinned Hawk

_____ Cooper's Hawk

_____ Bald Eagle

_____ Red-shouldered Hawk

_____ Broad-winged Hawk

_____ Red-tailed Hawk

_____ Rough-legged Hawk *

_____ Eastern Screech-Owl

_____ Great Horned Owl

_____ Barred Owl

_____ Northern Saw-whet Owl * (9 February 2000, SJS; 19 December 2007, JDF)

_____ Belted Kingfisher

_____ Red-headed Woodpecker

_____ Red-bellied Woodpecker

_____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

_____ Downy Woodpecker

_____ Hairy Woodpecker

_____ Red-cockaded Woodpecker (extirpated)

_____ Northern Flicker

_____ Pileated Woodpecker

_____ American Kestrel

_____ Merlin * (23 October 1985, RCH [Stedman 1986a])

_____ Peregrine Falcon *

_____ Great Crested Flycatcher

_____ Eastern Kingbird

_____ Eastern Wood-Pewee

_____ Acadian Flycatcher

_____ Willow Flycatcher (TBBA [Nicholson 1997])

_____ Eastern Phoebe

_____ Loggerhead Shrike

_____ White-eyed Vireo

_____ Yellow-throated Vireo

_____ Blue-headed Vireo (19 July 1992, SJS, BHS)

_____ Warbling Vireo (23 May 2009, SJS—a Pickett County Foray record)

_____ Philadelphia Vireo

_____ Red-eyed Vireo

_____ Blue Jay

_____ American Crow

_____ Horned Lark

_____ Purple Martin

_____ Tree Swallow (RCH)

_____ Northern Rough-winged Swallow

_____ Cliff Swallow

_____ Barn Swallow

_____ Carolina Chickadee

_____ Tufted Titmouse

_____ Red-breasted Nuthatch

_____ White-breasted Nuthatch

_____ Brown Creeper

_____ House Wren

_____ Winter Wren (27 December 1985—a CBC record)

_____ Carolina Wren

_____ Bewick's Wren (Nicholson 1982a)

_____ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

_____ Golden-crowned Kinglet

_____ Ruby-crowned Kinglet

_____ Eastern Bluebird

_____ Gray-cheeked Thrush (24 September 2005, SJS)

_____ Swainson's Thrush

_____ Hermit Thrush

_____ Wood Thrush

_____ American Robin

_____ Gray Catbird

_____ Brown Thrasher

_____ Northern Mockingbird

_____ European Starling

_____ Cedar Waxwing

_____ House Sparrow

_____ American Pipit (30 December 1999, RCH, JDH)

_____ Evening Grosbeak

_____ House Finch

_____ Purple Finch

_____ Red Crossbill * (18 on 28 October 1972, RCH [Bierly 1972]

_____ Pine Siskin

_____ American Goldfinch

_____ Eastern Towhee

_____ Bachman's Sparrow

_____ American Tree Sparrow *

_____ Chipping Sparrow

_____ Field Sparrow

_____ Grasshopper Sparrow

_____ Fox Sparrow

_____ Song Sparrow

_____ Swamp Sparrow

_____ White-throated Sparrow

_____ White-crowned Sparrow

_____ Dark-eyed Junco

_____ Yellow-breasted Chat

_____ Bobolink

_____ Eastern Meadowlark

_____ Orchard Oriole

_____ Baltimore Oriole

_____ Red-winged Blackbird

_____ Brown-headed Cowbird

_____ Rusty Blackbird (20 November 2010, WAW, TMS)

_____ Common Grackle

_____ Ovenbird

_____ Worm-eating Warbler

_____ Louisiana Waterthrush

_____ Northern Waterthrush

_____ Golden-winged Warbler (24 September 1993, SJS)

_____ Blue-winged Warbler (23 May 2009, SJS—a Pickett County Foray record)

    _____ Brewster's Warbler (23 April 1987, RCH [Stedman 1987d])

_____ Black-and-white Warbler

_____ Prothonotary Warbler

_____ Swainson's Warbler *

_____ Tennessee Warbler

_____ Connecticut Warbler * (25 May 2009, SJS—a Pickett County Foray record)

_____ Kentucky Warbler

_____ Common Yellowthroat

_____ Hooded Warbler

_____ American Redstart (3 September 1987, SJS)

_____ Cape May Warbler

_____ Cerulean Warbler

_____ Northern Parula

_____ Magnolia Warbler (15 September 1995, SJS, MAS)

_____ Bay-breasted Warbler

_____ Blackburnian Warbler

_____ Yellow Warbler

_____ Chestnut-sided Warbler (TBBA [Nicholson 1997]; 12 September 1997, SJS)

_____ Blackpoll Warbler

_____ Black-throated Blue Warbler

_____ Palm Warbler (24 September 2005, WAW—a FBB record)

_____ Pine Warbler

_____ Yellow-rumped Warbler

_____ Yellow-throated Warbler

_____ Prairie Warbler

_____ Black-throated Green Warbler

_____ Wilson's Warbler (3 September 1987, SJS)

_____ Summer Tanager

_____ Scarlet Tanager

_____ Northern Cardinal

_____ Rose-breasted Grosbeak

_____ Blue Grosbeak

_____ Indigo Bunting

_____ Dickcissel (24 May 2009, SJS—a Pickett County Foray record)

Key to Initials and Abbreviations:

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