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Birding Checklist Whitetail Wetlands/Dunnings Creek Wetlands
(A printed version of this checklist is available to visitors of the Wetlands)
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WATERFOWL AND SHORE BIRDS
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Red-throated Loon Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe* Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
American Bittern Least Bittern*
Great Blue Heron Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Great Egret Cattle Egret Green Heron* Black-crowned Night Heron
Glossy Ibis
Tundra Swan Trumpeter Swan
Greater White-fronted Goose Atlantic Brant Goose Canada-White-fronted Hybrid Canada Goose*
Wood Duck* Green-Winged Teal American Black Duck* Mallard-Black Hybrid Mallard* Northern Pintail* Blue-winged Teal* Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Widgeon Eurasian Widgeon Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Surf Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser* Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck
Virginia Rail* Sora Rail*
Common Moorhen American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Black-bellied Plover American Golden Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer* Amer. Oystercatcher –A Black-necked Stilt Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper* Whimbrel Willet Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Dunlin
Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Baird’s Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Common Snipe* American Woodcock Wilson’s Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Bonaparte’s Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Caspian Tern Forster’s Tern Common Tern Artic Tern-A Black Tern Least Tern-A
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Willow Flycatcher* Least Flycatcher* Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe* Great Crested Flycatcher* Eastern Wood-peewee Alder Flycatcher* Eastern Kingbird*
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Ringed-neck Pheasant* Ruffed Grouse* Wild Turkey*
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Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove
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Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo
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Eastern Screech-Owl* Great Horned Owl* Barn Owl* Barred Owl* Short-eared Owl Long-eared Owl
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Whip-poor-will Common Nighthawk
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird*
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Red-headed Woodpecker* Red-bellied Woodpecker* Downy Woodpecker* Hairy Woodpecker* Northern Flicker* Pileated Woodpecker* Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
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Black Vulture Turkey Vulture
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Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper’s Hawk Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk* Broad-winged Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk* Golden Eagle American Kestrel* Merlin Peregrine Falcon
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Purple Martin Tree Swallow* Northern Rough-Winged Swallow Bank Swallow* Barn Swallow* Cliff Swallow*
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Blue Jay* Common Raven American Crow*
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Black-capped Chickadee* Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse*
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White-breasted Nuthatch* Red-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper*
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Carolina Wren* House Wren* Marsh Wren* Sedge Wren* Winter Wren
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KINGLETS AND GNATCATCHERS
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Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher*
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Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Swainson's Thrush Eastern Bluebird* American Robin*
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Brown Thrasher* Northern Mockingbird* Gray Catbird*
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White-eyed Vireo* Blue-headed Vireo Red-eyed Vireo* Warbling Vireo* Yellow Warbler* Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Palm Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Blackpole Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Blue-winged Warbler Golden-winged Warbler* Northern Parula* Black and White Warbler American Redstart* Worm-eating Warbler Common Yellowthroat* Connecticut Warbler Kentucky Warbler Northern Waterthrush* Louisiana Waterthrush Ovenbird* Canada Warbler Hooded Warbler Wilson’s Warbler
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CARDINALS, GROSBEAKS, BUNTINGS
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Northern Cardinal* Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting*
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TOWHEES, SPARROWS, LONGSPURS
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Eastern Towhee* American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow* Lark Sparrow Field Sparrow* Vesper Sparrow* Savannah Sparrow* Grasshopper Sparrow* Henslow Sparrow* Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow* Swamp Sparrow* Lincoln’s Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Snow Bunting
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Bobolink* Red-winged Blackbird* Rusty Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark* Common Grackle* Brown-headed Cowbird* Orchard Oriole* Northern Oriole*
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Purple Finch* House Finch* Common Redpoll Pine Siskin* American Goldfinch* Evening Grosbeak House Sparrow*
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Before restoration = 119 species
After restoration = 240+ species
Known to have nested(*) = 100 species
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