Check-list of Birds Observed at the Waitsboro Recreation Area, Lake Cumberland, Pulaski County, Kentucky
Directions to this Army Corps of Engineers site may be found at this link:
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:
Abbreviations and Symbols:
* Rare species
_____ Greater White-fronted Goose *
_____ Snow Goose
_____ Canada Goose
_____ Wood Duck
_____ Gadwall
_____ American Wigeon
_____ American Black Duck
_____ Mallard
_____ Blue-winged Teal
_____ Northern Shoveler
_____ Northern Pintail
_____ Green-winged Teal
_____ Canvasback
_____ Redhead
_____ Ring-necked Duck
_____ Greater Scaup *
_____ Lesser Scaup
_____ Surf Scoter *
_____ White-winged Scoter *
_____ Black Scoter *
_____ Long-tailed Duck *
_____ Bufflehead
_____ Common Goldeneye
_____ Hooded Merganser
_____ Common Merganser *
_____ Red-breasted Merganser
_____ Ruddy Duck
_____ Common Loon
_____ Pied-billed Grebe
_____ Horned Grebe
_____ Red-necked Grebe *
_____ Eared Grebe *
_____ Western Grebe *
_____ Double-crested Cormorant
_____ Great Blue Heron
_____ Green Heron
_____ Black Vulture
_____ Turkey Vulture
_____ Osprey
_____ Bald Eagle
_____ Sharp-shinned Hawk
_____ Cooper's Hawk
_____ Red-shouldered Hawk
_____ Red-tailed Hawk
_____ American Kestrel
_____ Peregrine Falcon *
_____ American Coot
_____ Semipalmated Plover
_____ Killdeer
_____ Spotted Sandpiper
_____ Willet *
_____ Greater Yellowlegs
_____ Black-legged Kittiwake *
_____ Bonaparte's Gull
_____ Laughing Gull *
_____ Ring-billed Gull
_____ Herring Gull
_____ Caspian Tern
_____ Black Tern
_____ Common Tern *
_____ Forster's Tern
_____ Mourning Dove
_____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo
_____ Eastern Screech-Owl
_____ Great Horned Owl
_____ Chimney Swift
_____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird
_____ Belted Kingfisher
_____ Red-bellied Woodpecker
_____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
_____ Downy Woodpecker
_____ Hairy Woodpecker
_____ Northern Flicker
_____ Pileated Woodpecker
_____ Eastern Phoebe
_____ Eastern Kingbird
_____ White-eyed Vireo
_____ Warbling Vireo
_____ Red-eyed Vireo
_____ Blue Jay
_____ American Crow
_____ Purple Martin
_____ Tree Swallow
_____ Northern Rough-winged Swallow
_____ Bank Swallow
_____ Barn Swallow
_____ Carolina Chickadee
_____ Tufted Titmouse
_____ White-breasted Nuthatch
_____ Brown Creeper
_____ Carolina Wren
_____ Winter Wren
_____ Golden-crowned Kinglet
_____ Ruby-crowned Kinglet
_____ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
_____ Eastern Bluebird
_____ Wood Thrush
_____ American Robin
_____ Gray Catbird
_____ Northern Mockingbird
_____ European Starling
_____ American Pipit
_____ Cedar Waxwing
_____ Blue-winged Warbler
_____ Tennessee Warbler
_____Yellow Warbler
_____ Magnolia Warbler
_____ Black-throated Blue Warbler
_____ Yellow-rumped Warbler
_____ Black-throated Green Warbler
_____ Blackburnian Warbler
_____ Yellow-throated Warbler
_____ Palm Warbler
_____ Blackpoll Warbler
_____ Black-and-white Warbler
_____ Kentucky Warbler
_____Common Yellowthroat
_____Hooded Warbler
_____ Canada Warbler
_____ Eastern Towhee
_____ Chipping Sparrow
_____ Song Sparrow
_____ Swamp Sparrow
_____ White-throated Sparrow
_____ Dark-eyed Junco
_____ Summer Tanager
_____ Scarlet Tanager
_____ Northern Cardinal
_____ Rose-breasted Grosbeak
_____ Indigo Bunting
_____ Red-winged Blackbird
_____ Common Grackle
_____ Orchard Oriole
_____ House Finch
_____ American Goldfinch
Many thanks to Roseanna M. Denton for supplying this list of species. If you see any rare species at this site, please fill out a documentation form:
and send to me at 2675 Lakeland Dr., Cookeville, TN 38506.
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