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Friends of Sherwood Island State
Park
Birds of the Park |
|
This is
a web version of Robert Winkler's 1996 checklist.
Since then, additional species have been reported (shown in
red). |
| Family |
Species |
N |
Spring |
Summer |
Fall |
Winter |
| Loons |
Red-throated Loon |
|
FC |
|
FC |
UC |
| |
Common Loon |
|
FC |
R |
FC |
UC |
| Grebes |
Pied-billed Grebe |
|
R |
|
R |
R |
| |
Horned Grebe |
|
C |
|
C |
FC |
| |
Red-necked Grebe |
|
R |
|
R |
|
| |
Eared Grebe |
|
|
|
|
VR |
| Gannets |
Northern Gannet |
|
R |
|
R |
|
| Pelicans |
American White Pelican |
|
|
VR |
|
|
| Cormorants & Darters |
Great Cormorant |
|
FC |
|
FC |
FC |
| |
Double-crested Cormorant |
|
C |
C |
C |
R |
| Bitterns & Herons |
American Bittern |
|
R |
|
R |
R |
| |
Least Bittern |
|
VR |
|
VR |
|
| |
Great Blue Heron |
|
UC |
FC |
FC |
FC |
| |
Great Egret |
|
FC |
FC |
C |
VR |
| |
Snowy Egret |
|
C |
FC |
C |
|
| |
Little Blue Heron |
|
UC |
UC |
UC |
|
| |
Tricolored Heron |
|
R |
R |
R |
|
| |
Cattle Egret |
|
UC |
R |
R |
|
| |
Green Heron |
|
UC |
FC |
FC |
|
| |
Black-crowned Night-Heron |
|
FC |
FC |
FC |
R |
| |
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron |
|
VR |
VR |
|
|
| Ibis |
Glossy Ibis |
|
UC |
UC |
R |
|
| Swans, Geese, Ducks |
Tundra Swan |
|
VR |
|
|
|
| |
Mute Swan |
N |
FC |
FC |
FC |
FC |
| |
Greater White-fronted Goose |
|
|
|
VR |
|
| |
Snow Goose |
|
UC |
|
UC |
R |
| |
Ross's Goose |
|
|
|
|
VR |
| |
Brant |
|
UC |
|
UC |
R |
| |
Canada
Goose |
N |
C |
C |
C |
C |
| |
Wood Duck |
|
R |
|
R |
|
| |
Green-winged Teal |
|
FC |
|
FC |
R |
| |
American
Black Duck |
N |
C |
FC |
C |
C |
| |
Mallard |
N |
C |
FC |
C |
C |
| |
Northern Pintail |
|
R |
|
R |
R |
| |
Blue-winged Teal |
|
UC |
|
UC |
|
| |
Northern Shoveler |
|
R |
|
R |
|
| |
Gadwall |
|
UC |
|
UC |
R |
| |
Eurasian Wigeon |
|
R |
|
R |
R |
| |
American Wigeon |
|
FC |
|
C |
FC |
| |
Canvasback |
|
FC |
|
FC |
UC |
| |
Redhead |
|
VR |
|
|
|
| |
Ring-necked Duck |
|
R |
|
R |
|
| |
Greater Scaup |
|
UC |
|
UC |
UC |
| |
Lesser Scaup |
|
R |
|
R |
R |
| |
King Eider |
|
VR |
|
|
VR |
| |
Oldsquaw |
|
C |
|
C |
C |
| |
Black Scoter |
|
VR |
|
VR |
VR |
| |
Surf Scoter |
|
UC |
|
UC |
UC |
| |
White-winged Scoter |
|
FC |
|
FC |
FC |
| |
Common Goldeneye |
|
C |
|
C |
C |
| |
Barrow's Goldeneye |
|
R |
|
R |
R |
| |
Bufflehead |
|
C |
|
C |
FC |
| |
Hooded Merganser |
|
FC |
R |
FC |
UC |
| |
Common Merganser |
|
R |
|
R |
|
| |
Red-breasted Merganser |
|
C |
|
C |
C |
| |
Ruddy Duck |
|
VR |
|
VR |
VR |
| Kites, Eagles, Hawks |
Black Vulture |
|
VR |
|
|
|
| |
Turkey Vulture |
|
UC |
|
UC |
|
| |
Osprey |
N |
UC |
R |
C |
|
| |
Bald Eagle |
|
R |
|
R |
R |
| |
Northern Harrier |
|
UC |
|
FC |
R |
| |
Sharp-shinned Hawk |
|
UC |
|
FC |
R |
| |
Cooper's Hawk |
|
R |
|
UC |
|
| |
Northern Goshawk |
|
R |
|
R |
|
| |
Red-shouldered Hawk |
|
R |
|
UC |
R |
| |
Broad-winged Hawk |
|
UC |
|
UC |
|
| |
Red-tailed Hawk |
|
FC |
|
FC |
FC |
| |
Rough-legged Hawk |
|
|
|
R |
R |
| |
Golden Eagle |
|
|
|
VR |
|
| Falcons |
American Kestrel |
|
UC |
|
FC |
R |
| |
Merlin |
|
R |
|
UC |
R |
| |
Peregrine Falcon |
|
R |
|
R |
|
| Grouse, Turkeys, Quail |
Ring-necked
Pheasant |
N |
FC |
FC |
FC |
FC |
| |
Wild Turkey |
|
VR |
|
|
|
| Rails, Gallinules, Coots |
Clapper
Rail |
N |
UC |
R |
UC |
R |
| |
Yellow Rail |
|
|
|
VR |
|
| |
King Rail |
|
VR |
|
|
|
| |
Virginia Rail |
|
R |
|
R |
R |
| |
Sora |
|
VR |
|
VR |
|
| |
Common Moorhen |
|
VR |
|
|
|
| |
American Coot |
|
|
|
R |
R |
| Cranes |
Sandhill Crane |
|
|
|
|
VR |
| Plovers |
Black-bellied Plover |
|
FC |
|
C |
UC |
| |
American Golden-Plover |
|
R |
|
R |
|
| |
Semipalmated Plover |
|
FC |
|
C |
|
| |
Piping Plover |
|
VR |
|
VR |
|
| |
Killdeer |
N |
FC |
FC |
C |
UC |
| Oystercatchers |
American Oystercatcher |
|
R |
R |
R |
|
| Stilts & Avocets |
American Avocet |
|
|
|
VR |
|
| Sandpipers & Phalaropes |
Greater Yellowlegs |
|
C |
|
C |
R |
| |
Lesser Yellowlegs |
|
UC |
|
FC |
|
| |
Solitary Sandpiper |
|
UC |
|
UC |
|
| |
Willet |
|
R |
|
UC |
|
| |
Spotted Sandpiper |
|
FC |
|
FC |
|
| |
Upland Sandpiper |
|
R |
|
R |
|
| |
Whimbrel |
|
|
|
R |
|
| |
Hudsonian Godwit |
|
|
|
VR |
|
| |
Marbled
Godwit |
|
VR |
|
|
|
| |
Ruddy Turnstone |
|
UC |
|
FC |
R |
| |
Red Knot |
|
|
|
VR |
|
| |
Sanderling |
|
R |
|
UC |
R |
| |
Semipalmated Sandpiper |
|
FC |
|
C |
|
| |
Western Sandpiper |
|
|
|
R |
|
| |
Least Sandpiper |
|
FC |
|
C |
|
| |
White-rumped Sandpiper |
|
|
|
R |
|
| |
Baird's Sandpiper |
|
|
|
VR |
|
| |
Pectoral Sandpiper |
|
R |
|
FC |
|
| |
Purple Sandpiper |
|
|
|
|
VR |
| |
Dunlin |
|
FC |
|
C |
FC |
| |
Stilt Sandpiper |
|
|
|
R |
|
| |
Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
|
|
|
VR |
|
| |
Ruff |
|
VR |
|
|
|
| |
Short-billed Dowitcher |
|
UC |
|
FC |
|
| |
Common Snipe |
|
FC |
|
UC |
R |
| |
American
Woodcock |
N |
UC |
R |
UC |
R |
| |
Wilson's Phalarope |
|
VR |
|
VR |
|
| Skuas, Gulls, Terns, Skimmers |
Laughing Gull |
|
UC |
FC |
C |
|
| |
Bonaparte's Gull |
|
UC |
|
UC |
UC |
| |
Ring-billed Gull |
|
C |
FC |
C |
C |
| |
Herring Gull |
|
C |
C |
C |
C |
| |
Iceland Gull |
|
VR |
|
|
VR |
| |
Lesser Black-backed Gull |
|
R |
|
R |
R |
| |
Glaucous Gull |
|
VR |
|
|
VR |
| |
Great Black-backed Gull |
|
FC |
FC |
FC |
FC |
| |
Caspian Tern |
|
VR |
|
VR |
|
| |
Common Tern |
|
FC |
FC |
FC |
|
| |
Forster's Tern |
|
|
|
UC |
|
| |
Least Tern |
|
FC |
FC |
UC |
|
| |
Black Tern |
|
VR |
|
VR |
|
| |
Black
Skimmer |
|
|
VR |
|
|
| Pigeons & Doves |
Rock Dove |
N |
UC |
FC |
UC |
UC |
| |
Mourning
Dove |
N |
C |
C |
FC |
FC |
| Parrots |
Monk Parakeet |
|
FC |
FC |
FC |
UC |
| Cuckoo |
Black-billed Cuckoo |
|
R |
|
R |
|
| |
Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
|
R |
|
R |
|
| Barn Owl |
Barn Owl |
|
VR |
|
|
|
| Typical Owls |
Eastern Screech-Owl |
|
R |
R |
R |
R |
| |
Great
Horned Owl |
N |
R |
R |
R |
R |
| |
Snowy Owl |
|
|
|
|
VR |
| |
Barred Owl |
|
|
|
|
VR |
| |
Long-eared Owl |
|
|
|
|
VR |
| |
Short-eared Owl |
|
R |
|
R |
R |
| |
Northern Saw-whet Owl |
|
|
|
|
VR |
| Goatsuckers |
Common Nighthawk |
|
R |
|
C |
|
| |
Whip-poor-will |
|
VR |
|
|
|
| Swifts |
Chimney Swift |
|
FC |
|
FC |
|
| Hummingbirds |
Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
|
UC |
|
FC |
|
| Kingfishers |
Belted
Kingfisher |
N |
UC |
UC |
FC |
UC |
| Woodpeckers |
Red-headed Woodpecker |
|
VR |
|
VR |
VR |
| |
Red-bellied Woodpecker |
|
UC |
R |
FC |
UC |
| |
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
|
UC |
|
UC |
R |
| |
Downy
Woodpecker |
N |
FC |
FC |
FC |
FC |
| |
Hairy Woodpecker |
|
UC |
R |
UC |
UC |
| |
Northern
Flicker |
N |
C |
FC |
C |
UC |
| |
Pileated Woodpecker |
|
VR |
|
VR |
|
| Tyrant Flycatchers |
Olive-sided Flycatcher |
|
VR |
|
|
|
| |
Eastern Wood-Pewee |
|
FC |
|
FC |
|
| |
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher |
|
VR |
|
VR |
|
| |
Acadian Flycatcher |
|
R |
|
R |
|
| |
Alder Flycatcher |
|
R |
|
R |
|
| |
Willow
Flycatcher |
N |
FC |
FC |
UC |
|
| |
Least Flycatcher |
|
UC |
|
UC |
|
| |
Eastern Phoebe |
|
FC |
|
FC |
|
| |
Great Crested Flycatcher |
|
UC |
R |
UC |
|
| |
Western Kingbird |
|
|
|
VR |
|
| |
Eastern
Kingbird |
N |
FC |
UC |
UC |
|
| Larks |
Horned Lark |
|
UC |
|
FC |
UC |
| Swallows |
Purple Martin |
|
UC |
R |
R |
|
| |
Tree
Swallow |
N |
C |
UC |
C |
|
| |
Northern
Rough-winged Swallow |
N |
FC |
UC |
FC |
|
| |
Bank Swallow |
|
UC |
|
FC |
|
| |
Cliff Swallow |
|
R |
|
R |
|
| |
Cave Swallow |
|
|
|
VR |
|
| |
Barn
Swallow |
N |
C |
C |
C |
|
| Jays & Crows |
Blue Jay |
N |
C |
FC |
C |
FC |
| |
American
Crow |
N |
C |
C |
C |
C |
| |
Fish Crow |
N |
FC |
FC |
FC |
UC |
| Chickadees & Titmice |
Black-capped
Chickadee |
| |