National Park Service Regarding the year round list, birds listed are either Common to Uncommon unless otherwise noted. Birding Key: C: Common to Abundant, easily found in a suitable habitat. U: Uncommon to Fairly Common, found when looked for in a suitable habitat, but can be missed. R: Rare to Very Uncommon, more often missed than seen, even when looked for in a suitable habitat. O: Occasional, normally less that five individuals per season, or during any given year, but to be looked for. Anatidae: Swans, Geese, and Ducks
Canada Goose Muscovy Duck Wood Duck Mallard Mottled Duck: Winter (O) Blue-winged Teal: Spring (R), Summer (O) Red-breasted Merganser: Spring (R), Summer (O) Phasianidae: Turkeys Wild Turkey Odontophoridae: Quail Northern Bobwhite Podicipedidae: Grebes Pied-billed Grebe: Summer (R) Pelecanidae: Pelicans American White Pelican: Rare, Summer (O) Brown Pelican Phalacrocoracidae: Cormorants Double-crested Cormorant Anhingidae: Darters Anhinga Ardeidae: Bitterns and Herons Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Reddish Egret: Spring (O), Fall (R), Winter (O) Cattle Egret: Winter (O) Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night Heron Threskiornithidae: Ibises and Spoonbills White Ibis Glossy Ibis: Rare Ciconiidae: Storks Wood Stork Cathartidae: American Vultures Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Accipitridae: Kites, Hawks, Eagles, and Allies Osprey Bald Eagle: Rare Cooper’s Hawk: Spring (R), Summer (R) Red Shouldered Hawk Red-Tailed Hawk Rallidae: Rails, Gallinules, and Coots Clapper Rail Common Moorhen American Coot: Summer (R) Charadriidae: Plovers Black-bellied Plover: Summer (R) Wilson’s Plover Killdeer Haematopodidae: Oystercatchers American Oystercatcher Scolopacidae: Sandpipers, Phalaropes, and Allies Willet Ruddy Turnstone: Summer (R) Short-billed Dowitcher: Summer (O) American Woodcock: Spring (R), Summer (O), Fall (R) Laridae: Skuas, Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull: Summer (R) Herring Gull: Summer (R) Great Black-backed Gull: Summer (R) Caspian Tern: Summer (R) Royal Tern Sandwich Tern: Winter (R) Black Skimmer Columbidae: Pigeons and Doves Rock Pigeon Eurasian Collard-Dove Mourning Dove Common Ground-Dove Tytonidae: Barn Owls Barn Owl Strigidae: Typical Owls Eastern Screech Owl Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Trochilidae: Hummingbirds Ruby-throated Hummingbird: Winter (O) Alcedinidae: Kingfisher Belted Kingfisher: Spring (R), Summer (O) Picidae: Woodpeckers Red Headed Woodpecker: (R) Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker: Summer (R) Pileated Woodpecker Laniidae: Shrikes Loggerhead Shrike Vireonidae: Vireos White-eyed Viero: Winter (R) Corvidae: Jays and Crows Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Paridae: Titmice and Chickadees Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Sittidae: Nuthatches Brown-headed Nuthatch Troglodytidae: Wrens Carolina Wren Marsh Wren Sylviidae: Gnatcatchers Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher Turdidae: Thrushes Eastern Bluebird American Robin: Summer (R) Mimidae: Mockingbirds and Trashers Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Sturnidae: Starlings European Starling Parulidae: Wood-Warblers Northern Parula: Winter (O) Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Common Yellowthroat Thraupidae: Tanagers Summer Tanager: Winter (O) Emberizidae: New World Sparrows and Allies Eastern Towhee Bachman’s Sparrow: Rare, Winter (O) Seaside Sparrow Cardinalidae: Cardinals, Buntings, and Grosbeaks Northern Cardinal Painted Bunting: Winter (O) Icteridae: Blackbirds and Orioles Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark: Summer (R) Common Grackle Boat-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Fringillidae: Finches House Finch: Rare Passeridae: Old World Sparrows House Sparrow Anatidae: Swans, Geese, and Ducks
Snow Goose: (O) American Wigeon: (R) Northern Shoveler: (R) Northern Pintail: (O) Green-winged Teal: (R) Ring-necked Duck: (R) Greater Scaup: (O) Lesser Scaup: (R) Surf Scoter: (O) White-winged Scoter: (O) Black Scoter: (O) Bufflehead: (O) Hooded Merganser: (R) Ruddy Duck: (R) Gaviidae: Loons Red-throated Loon: (O) Common Loon: (R) Podicipedidae: Grebes Horned Grebe: (R) Procellariidae: Shearwaters Cory’s Shearwater: (U) Greater Shearwater: (R) Sooty Shearwater: (O) Audubon’s Shearwater: (O) Hydrobatidae: Storm-Petrels Wilson’s Storm-Petrel: (C) Leach’s Storm-Petrel: (R) Sulidae: Gannet Northern Gannet: (U) Ardeidae: Bitterns and Herons American Bittern: (R) Least Bittern: (R) Threskiornithidae: Ibises and Spoonbills Roseate Spoonbill: (R) Accipitridae: Kites, Hawks, Eagles, and Allies Swallow-tailed Kite: (R) Northern Harrier: (R) Sharp-shinned Hawk: (R) Broad-winged Hawk: (O) Falconidae: Falcons American Kestrel: (R) Merlin: (R) Peregrine Falcon: (R) Rallidae: Rails, Gallinules, and Coots King Rail: (O) Virginia Rail: (R) Sora: (U) Purple Gallinule: (R) Gruidae: Cranes Sandhill Crane: (O) Charadriidae: Plovers American Golden-Plover: (O) Semipalmated Plover: (U) Piping Plover: (R) Recurvirostridae: Stilts and Avocets Black-necked Stilt: (U) American Avocet: (R) Scolopacidae: Sandpipers, Phalaropes, and Allies Greater Yellowlegs: (U) Lesser Yellowlegs: (U) Solitary Sandpiper: (U) Spotted Sandpiper: (U) Upland Sandpiper: (O) Whimbrel: (U) Marbled Godwit: (R) Red Knot: (C) Sanderling: (C) Semipalmated Sandpiper: (C) Western Sandpiper: (R) Least Sandpiper: (C) White-rumped Sandpiper: (R) Pectoral Sandpiper: (R) Purple Sandpiper: (O) Dunlin: (R) Stilt Sandpiper: (R) Long-billed Dowitcher: (R) Wilson’s Snipe: (R) Wilson’s Phalarope: (O) Red-necked Phalarope: (O) Laridae: Skuas, Gulls, Terns, Skimmers Pomarine Jaeger: (O) Parasitic Jaeger: (O) Bonaparte’s Gull: (R) Lesser Black-backed Gull: (O) Gull-billed Tern: (U) Common Tern: (R) Forster’s Tern: (C) Least Tern: (C) Bridled Tern: (R) Sooty Tern: (U) Black Tern: (R) Cuculidae: Cuckoos Yellow-billed Cuckoo: (U) Caprimulgidae: Goatsuckers Common Nighthawk: (C) Chuck-will’s-widow: (C) Whip-poor-will: (R) Apodidae: Swifts Chimney Swift: (C) Tyrannidae: Tyrant Flycatchers Eastern Wood-Pewee: (R) Acadian Flycatchers: (R) Willow Flycatchers: (O) Least Flycatcher: (O) Eastern Phoebe: (R) Great Crested Flycatcher: (C) Eastern Kingbird: (U) Gray Kingbird: (O) Vireonidae: Vireos Yellow-throated Vireo: (R) Blue-headed Vireo: (R) Warbling Vireo: (O) Philadelphia Vireo: (O) Red-eyed Vireo: (C) Hirundinidae: Swallows Purple Martin: (C) Tree Swallow: (U) Northern Rough-winged Swallow: (U) Bank Swallow: (R) Barn Swallow: (C) Troglodytidae: Wrens House Wren: (R) Sedge Wren: (R) Regulidae: Kinglets Ruby-crowned Kinglet: (R) Turdidae: Thrushes Veery: (R) Swainson’s Thrush: (O) Hermit Thrush: (U) Wood Thrush: (O) Mimidae: Mockingbirds and Trashers Gray Catbird: (U) Motacillidae: Pipits American Pipit: (R) Bombycillidae: Waxwings Cedar Waxwing: (U) Parulidae: Wood-Warblers Blue-winged Warbler: (R) Golden-winged Warbler: (O) Tennessee Warbler: (R) Orange-Crowned Warbler: (R) Yellow Warbler: (U) Chestnut-Sided Warbler: (O) Magnolia Warbler: (O) Cape May Warbler: (U) Black-throated Green Warbler: (O) Blackburnian Warbler: (O) Prairie Warbler: (C) Palm Warbler: (C) Bay-breasted Warbler: (O) Blackpoll Warbler: (U) Black-and-White Warbler: (U) American Redstart: (U) Prothonotary Warbler: (R) Worm-eating Warbler: (U) Swainson’s Warbler: (O) Ovenbird: (U) Northern Waterthrush: (U) Louisiana Waterthrush: (O) Kentucky Warbler: (O) lHooded Warbler: (R) Wilson’s Warbler: (O) Canada Warbler: (O) Yellow-breasted Chat: (R) Thraupidae: Tanagers Scarlet Tanager: (R) Emberizidae: New World Sparrows and Allies Chipping Sparrow: (U) Clay-colored Sparrow: (O) Field Sparrow: (R) Vesper Sparrow: (R) Savannah Sparrow: (C) Grasshopper Sparrow: (O) Henslow’s Sparrow: (O) Le Conte’s Sparrow: (O) Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow: (U) Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow: (U) Fox Sparrow: (O) Song Sparrow: (O) Swamp Sparrow: (R) White-throated Sparrow: (R) White-crowned Sparrow: (R) Cardinialide: Cardinals, Buntings, and Grosbeaks Rose-breasted Grosbeak: (R) Blue Grosbeak: (U) Indigo Bunting: (U) Icteridae: Blackbirds and Orioles Bobolink: (U) Rusty Blackbird: (O) Orchard Oriole: (U) Baltimore Oriole: (R) Fringillidae: Finches Pine Siskin: (O) American Goldfinch: (R) Procellariidae: Shearwaters
Cory’s Shearwater: (C) Greater Shearwater: (R) Sooty Shearwater: (O) Audubon’s Shearwater: (O) Hydrobatidae: Storm-Petrels Wilson’s Storm-Petrel: (C) Ardeidae: Bitterns and Herons Least Bittern: (R) Threskiornithidae: Ibises and Spoonbills Roseate Spoonbill: (U) Accipitridae: Kites, Hawks, Eagles, and Allies Swallow-tailed Kite: (R) Mississippi Kite: (O) Rallidae: Rails, Gallinules, and Coots Purple Gallinule: (R) Recurvirostridae: Stilts and Avocets Black-necked Stilt: (U) Laridae: Skuas, Gulls, Terns, and Skinners Gull-billed Tern: (U) Common Tern: (R) Least Tern: (C) Bridled Tern: (R) Sooty Tern: (U) Black Tern: (O) Cuculidae: Cuckoos Yellow-billed Cuckoo: (U) Caprimulgidae: Goatsuckers Common Nighthawk: (C) Chuck-will’s-widow: (C) Apodidae: Swifts Chimney Swifts: (C) Tyrannidae: Tyrant Flycatchers Eastern Wood-Pewee: (R) Acadian Flycatcher: (R) Great Crested Flycatcher: (C) Eastern Kingbird: (U) Gray Kingbird: (R) Vireonidae: Vireos Yellow-throated Vireo: (R) Red-eyed Viero: (C) Hirundinidae: Swallows Purple Martin: (C) Northern Rough-winged Swallow: (R) Barn Swallow: (U) Parulidae: Wood-Warblers Prothonotary Warbler: (R) Hooded Warbler: (R) Yellow-breasted Chat: (R) Cardinalidae: Cardinals, Buntings, and Grosbeaks Blue Grosbeak: (R) Indigo Bunting: (O) Icteridae: Blackbirds and Orioles Orchard Oriole: (U) Anatidae: Swans, Geese, and Ducks
Snow Goose: (O) Gadwall: (R) American Widgeon: (R) Northern Shoveler: (U) Northern Pintail: (O) Green-winged Teal: (R) Ring-necked Duck: (U) Greater Scaup: (O) Lesser Scaup: (U) Surf Scoter: (O) White-winged Scoter: (O) Black Scoter: (R) Bufflehead: (R) Hooded Merganser: (U) Ruddy Duck: (R) Gaviidae: Loons Red-throated Loon: (R) Common Loon: (U) Podicipedidae: Grebes Horned Grebe: (U) Procellariidae: Shearwaters Cory’s Shearwater: (U) Greater Shearwater: (O) Audubon’s Shearwater: (O) Hydrobatidae: Storm-Petrels Wilson’s Storm-Petrel: (R) Sulidae: Gannets Northern Gannet: (U) Ardeidae: Bitterns and Herons American Bittern: (R) Least Bittern: (R) Threskiornithidae: Ibises and Spoonbills Roseate Spoonbill: (R) Accipitridae: Kites, Hawks, Eagles, and Allies Mississippi Kite: (O) Northern Harrier: (U) Sharp-shinned Hawk: (U) Falconidae: Falcons American Kestrel: (U) Merlin: (R) Peregrine Falcon: (U) Rallidae: Rails, Gallinules, and Coots King Rail: (O) Virginia Rail: (O) Sora: (U) Gruidae: Cranes Sandhill Crane: (O) Charadriidae: Plovers American Golden-Plover: (R) Semipalmated Plover: (C) Piping Plover: (U) Recurvirostridae: Stilts and Avocets Black-necked Stilt: (U) American Avocet: (R) Scolopacidae: Sandpipers, Phalaropes, and Allies Greater Yellowlegs: (C) Lesser Yellowlegs: (C) Solitary Sandpiper: (U) Spotted Sandpiper: (C) Upland Sandpiper: (O) Whimbrel: (U) Long-billed Curlew: (O) Marbled Godwit: (R) Red Knot: (U) Sanderling: (C) Semipalmated Sandpiper: (C) Western Sandpiper: (C) Least Sandpiper: (C) White-rumped Sandpiper: (R) Pectoral Sandpiper: (U) Purple Sandpiper: (O) Dunlin: (U) Stilt Sandpiper: (U) Buff-breasted Sandpiper: (R) Long-billed Dowitcher: (R) Wilson’s Snipe: (U) Wilson’s Phalarope: (R) Red-necked Phalarope: (R) Red Phalarope: (O) Laridae: Skuas, Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers Pomarine Jaeger: (R) Parasitic Jaeger: (R) Bonaparte’s Gull: (R) Lesser Black-backed Gull: (U) Gull-billed Tern: (R) Common Tern: (C) Forster’s Tern: (C) Least Tern: (R) Bridled Tern: (R) Sooty Tern: (U) Black Tern: (U) Cuculidae: Cuckoos Yellow-billed Cuckoo: (U) Caprimulgidae: Goatsuckers Common Nighthawk: (R) Chuck-will’s-widow: (R) Whip-poor-will: (O) Apodidae: Swifts Chimney Swift: (C) Picidae: Woodpeckers Yellow-bellied Sapsucker: (U) Tyrannidae: Tyrant Flycatchers Eastern Wood Pewee: (R) Acadian Flycatcher: (R) Willow Flycatcher: (O) Least Flycatcher: (O) Eastern Phoebe: (C) Great Crested Flycatcher: (C) Western Kingbird: (O) Eastern Kingbird: (U) Gray Kingbird: (O) Vireonidae: Vireos Yellow-throated Viero: (R) Blue-headed Vireo: (U) Warbling Viero: (O) Philadelphia Viero: (O) Red-eyed Viero: (C) Hirundinidae: Swallows Purple Martin: (R) Tree Swallow: (C) Northern Rough-winged Swallow: (U) Bank Swallow: (R) Cliff Swallow: (R) Barn Swallow: (C) Troglodytidae: Wren House Wren: (U) Sedge Wren: (U) Regulidae: Kinglets Golden-crowned Kinglet: (O) Ruby-crowned Kinglet: (U) Turdidae: Thrushes Veery: (U) Gray-cheeked Thrush: (R) Swainson’s Thrush: (U) Hermit Thrush: (U) Wood Thrush: (O) Mimidae: Mockingbirds and Trashers Gray Catbird: (U) Motacillidae: Starlings American Pipit: (R) Bombycillidae: Waxwings Cedar Waxwing: (U) Parulidae: Wood-warblers Blue Winged Warbler: (U) Golden-winged Warbler: (O) Tennessee Warbler: (U) Orange-crowned Warbler: (U) Nashville Warbler: (O) Yellow Warblers: (U) Chestnut-sided Warbler: (U) Magnolia Warbler: (U) Cape May Warbler: (U) Black-throated Blue Warbler: (U) Yellow-rumped Warbler: (C) Black-throated Green Warbler: (R) Blackburnian Warbler: (R) Prairie Warbler: (C) Palm Warbler: (C) Bay-breasted Warbler: (U) Blackpoll Warbler: (U) Cerulean Warbler: (O) Black-and-White Warbler: (U) American Redstart: (C) Prothonotary Warbler: (R) Worm-eating Warbler: (U) Ovenbird: (U) Northern Waterthrush: (C) Louisiana Waterthrush: (R) Kentucky Warbler: (O) Hooded Warbler: (U) Wilson’s Warbler: (R) Canada Warbler: (O) Yellow-breasted Chat: (R) Thraupidae: Tanagers Scarlet Tanager: (U) Emberizidae: New World Sparrows and Allies Chipping Sparrow: (C) Clay-colored Sparrow: (O) Field Sparrow: (R) Vesper Sparrow: (R) Lark Sparrow: (O) Savannah Sparrow: (O) Grasshopper Sparrow: (O) Henslow’s Sparrow: (O) Le Conte’s Sparrow: (O) Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow: (U) Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow: (U) Fox Sparrow: (O) Song Sparrow: (U) Swamp Sparrow: (U) White-throated Sparrow: (R) White-crowned Sparrow: (R) Dark-eyed Junco: (O) Cardinalidae: Cardinals, Buntings, and Grosbeaks Rose-breasted Grosbeak: (R) Blue Grosbeak: (U) Indigo Bunting: (U) Icteridae: Blackbirds and Orioles Bobolink: (U) Rusty Blackbird: (O) Orchard Oriole: (R) Baltimore Oriole: (R) Fringillidae: Finches American Goldfinch: (U) Anatidae: Swans, Geese, and Ducks
Snow Goose: (O) Gadwall: (U) American Wigeon: (R) American Black Duck: (O) Northern Shoveler: (U) Northern Pintail: (R) Green-winged Teal: (U) Canvasback: (O) Redhead: (O) Ring-necked Duck: (U) Greater Scaup: (R) Lesser Scaup: (C) Surf Scoter: (R) White-winged Scoter: (O) Black Scoter: (U) Long-tailed Duck: (O) Bufflehead: (U) Common Goldeneye: (O) Hooded Merganser: (C) Ruddy Duck: (U) Gaviidae: Loons Red-throated Loon: (R) Common Loon: (U) Podicipedidae: Grebes Horned Grebe: (U) Sulidae: Gannets Northern Gannet: (C) Accipitridae: Kites, Hawks, Eagles, and Allies Northern Harrier: (U) Sharp-shinned Hawk: (U) Falconidae: Falcons American Kestrel: (C) Merlin: (R) Peregrine Falcon: (O) Rallidae: Rails, Gallinules, and Coots King Rail: (R) Virginia Rail: (U) Sora: (U) Charadriidae: Plovers Semipalmated Plover: (C) Piping Plover: (U) Recurvirostridae: Stilts and Avocets American Avocet: (R) Scolopacidae: Sandpipers, Phalaropes, and Allies Greater Yellowlegs: (C) Lesser Yellowlegs: (R) Spotted Sandpiper: (U) Long-billed Curlew: (O) Marbled Godwit: (O) Red Knot: (U) Sanderling: (C) Western Sandpiper: (C) Least Sandpiper: (C) Pectoral Sandpiper: (O) Purple Sandpiper: (O) Dunlin: (C) Stilt Sandpiper: (O) Long-billed Dowitcher: (R) Wilson’s Snipe: (C) Red-necked Phalarope: (R) Red Phalarope: (R) Laridae: Skuas, Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers Pomarine Jaeger: (R) Parasitic Jaeger: (R) Bonaparte’s Gull: (U) Lesser Black-backed Gull: (R) Glaucous Gull: (O) Forster’s Tern: (C) Caprimulgidae: Goatsuckers Whip-poor-will: (O) Trochilidae: Hummingbirds Black-chinned Hummingbird: (O) Rufous Hummingbird: (O) Picidae: Woodpeckers Yellow-belied Sapsucker: (U) Tyrannidae: Tyrant Flycatchers Eastern Phoebe: (C) Vireonidae: Vireos Blue-headed Vireo: (U) Hirundinidae: Swallows Tree Swallow: (C) Troglodytidae: Wrens House Wren: (U) Winter Wren: (O) Sedge Wren: (U) Regulidae: Kinglets Golden-crowned Kinglet: (O) Ruby-crowned Kinglet: (C) Turdidae: Thrushes Hermit Thrush: (C) Mimidae: Mockingbirds and Trashers Gray Catbird: (C) Motacillidae: Pipits American Pipit: (U) Bombycillidae: Waxwings Cedar Waxwing: (U) Parulidae: Wood-Warblers Orange-crowned Warbler: (U) Yellow-rumped Warbler: (C) Prairie Warbler: (O) Palm Warbler: (C) Black-and-white Warbler: (U) Ovenbird: (O) Northern Waterthrush: (O) Wilson’s Warbler: (O) Emberizidae: New World Sparrows and Allies Chipping Sparrow: (C) Clay-covered Sparrow: (O) Field Sparrow: (U) Vesper Sparrow: (R) Lark Sparrow: (O) Savannah Sparrow: (C) Grasshopper Sparrow: (O) Henslow’s Sparrow: (R) Le Conte’s Sparrow: (O) Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow: (U) Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow: (U) Fox Sparrow: (O) Song Sparrow: (U) Lincoln’s Sparrow: (O) Swamp Sparrow: (U) White-throated Sparrow: (U) White-crowned Sparrow: (R) Dark-eyed Junco: (O) Lapland Longspur: (O) Cardinalidae: Cardinals, Buntings, and Grosbeaks Rose-breasted Grosbeak: (R) Icteridae: Blackbirds and Orioles Rusty Blackbird: (R) Baltimore Oriole: (O) Fringillidae: Finches Purple Finch: (O) Pine Siskin: (O) American Goldfinch: (U) |
Last updated: September 24, 2025