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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