Birds

Winter Bird List

Photo: Cathy Miller
Photo: Cathy Miller

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

Blackbirds & Orioles

Baltimore Oriole
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Eastern Meadowlark
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird

Cardinals & Allies

Northern Cardinal

Cormorants & Anhingas

Anhinga
Double-crested Cormorant

Doves

Mourning Dove

Finches & Allies

American Goldfinch
House Finch
Pine Siskin

Flycatchers

Eastern Phoebe

Grebe

Pied-billed Grebe

Herons & Ibises

Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
White Ibis

Jays & Crows

American Crow
Blue Jay
Fish Crow

Kingfishers

Belted Kingfisher

Mimics

Brown Thrasher
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird

Nuthatches & Creepers

Brown Creeper
Brown-headed Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch

Owls

Barred Owl
Great Horned Owl

Plovers & Sandpipers

Killdeer

Raptors & Falcons

American Kestrel
Bald Eagle
Cooper's Hawk
Northern Harrier
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk

Shrike

Loggerhead Shrike

Sparrows

Chipping Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Eastern Towhee
Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow

Starlings

European Starling

Swallows

Tree Swallow

Thrushes & Allies

American Robin
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Titmice & Chickadees

Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse

Turkey & Quail

Northern Bobwhite
Wild Turkey

Vireos

Blue-headed Vireo
White-eyed Vireo

Vultures

Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture

Warblers

Black & White Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Orange-crowned Warbler
Ovenbird
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler

Waterfowl

Hooded Merganser
Wood Duck

Waxwings

Cedar Waxwings

Woodpeckers

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

Wrens

Carolina Wren
House Wren
Sedge Wren
Winter Wren

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