A Summer Tanager stands on a dead stick and faces left.
A Summer Tanager stands on a dead stick and faces left.
Birds

Summer Bird List

Photo: Megumi Aita
Photo: Megumi Aita

Below is a list of birds commonly seen at Beidler Forest in the summer. To download or print a detailed spring season bird list (file is a 8.5x14 pdf), please click here.

Blackbirds & Orioles

Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Orchard Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird

Cardinals & Allies

Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Northern Cardinal
Painted Bunting

Cormorants & Anhingas

Anhinga

Cranes & Allies

Limpkin

Cuckoos

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Doves

Mourning Dove

Finches & Allies

House Finch

Flycatchers

Acadian Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Great Crested Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher

Herons & Ibises

Cattle Egret
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Green Heron
Little Blue Heron
Roseate Spoonbill
White Ibis
Wood Stork
Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Hummingbirds

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Jays & Crows

American Crow
Blue Jay
Fish Crow

Kingfishers

Belted Kingfisher

Mimics

Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird

Nightjars & Swifts

Chimney Swift
Chuck Will's-widow

Nuthatches & Creepers

Brown-headed Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch

Owls

Barred Owl
Great Horned Owl

Plovers & Sandpipers

American Woodcock

Raptors & Falcons

American Kestrel
Cooper's Hawk
Mississippi Kite
Osprey
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Swallow-tailed Kite

Shrike

Loggerhead Shrike

Sparrows

Chipping Sparrow
Eastern Towhee

Starlings

European Starling

Swallows

Barn Swallow
Purple Martin

Tanagers

Summer Tanager

Thrushes & Allies

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Wood Thrush

Titmice & Chickadees

Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse

Turkey & Quail

Northern Bobwhite
Wild Turkey

Vireos

Red-eyed Vireo
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo

Vultures

Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture

Warblers

Black & White Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Parula
Ovenbird
Pine Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Swainson's Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Yellow-throated Warbler

Waterfowl

Wood Duck

Woodpeckers

Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker

Wrens

Carolina Wren

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