A female Prothonotary Warbler stands on a metal bird feeder stand, facing right.
A female Prothonotary Warbler stands on a metal bird feeder stand, facing right.
Birds

Spring Bird List

Photo: Lorraine Minns
Photo: Lorraine Minns

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

Blackbirds & Orioles

Baltimore Oriole
Bobolink
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Orchard Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird

Cardinals & Allies

Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Northern Cardinal
Painted Bunting

Cormorants & Anhingas

Anhinga
Double-crested Cormorant

Cuckoos

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Doves

Mourning Dove

Finches & Allies

American Goldfinch
House Finch

Flycatchers

Acadian Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher

Grebes

Pied-billed Grebe

Herons & Ibises

Cattle Egret
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Green Heron
Little Blue Heron
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
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird

Nightjars & Swifts

Chimney Swift
Chuck Will's-widow

Nuthatches & Creepers

Brown Creeper
Brown-headed Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch

Owls

Barred Owl
Eastern Screech Owl
Great Horned Owl

Plovers & Sandpipers

Killdeer

Raptors & Falcons

American Kestrel
Bald Eagle
Broad-winged Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Mississippi Kite
Osprey
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Swallow-tailed Kite

Shrike

Loggerhead Shrike

Sparrows

Chipping Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Field Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow

Starlings

European Starling

Swallows

Barn Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow

Tanagers

Scarlet Tanager
Summer Tanager

Thrushes & Allies

American Robin
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Swainson's Thrush
Veery
Wood Thrush

Titmice & Chickadees

Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse

Turkey & Quail

Northern Bobwhite
Wild Turkey

Vireos

Blue-headed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo

Vultures

Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture

Warblers

American Redstart
Black & White Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Parula
Northern Waterthrush
Orange-crowned Warbler
Ovenbird
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Swainson's Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Yellow-throated Warbler

Waterfowl

Hooded Merganser
Mallard
Wood Duck

Waxwings

Cedar Waxwing

Woodpeckers

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

Wrens

Carolina Wren
House Wren
Winter Wren

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