Checklist/Resources for Big Lake SP

238 species recorded in this park (Updated: 5/29/2025)

Snow Goose Ross's Goose
Greater White-fronted Goose Cackling Goose
Canada Goose Trumpeter Swan
Tundra Swan Wood Duck
Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler
Gadwall American Wigeon
Mallard Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal Canvasback
Redhead Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck Northern Bobwhite
Wild Turkey Ring-necked Pheasant
Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe Western Grebe
Rock Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Virginia Rail American Coot
American Avocet Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plover Killdeer
Semipalmated Plover Piping Plover
Snowy Plover Upland Sandpiper
Hudsonian Godwit Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone Ruff
Stilt Sandpiper Sanderling
Dunlin Baird's Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper Lesser Yellowlegs
Willet Greater Yellowlegs
Wilson's Phalarope Bonaparte's Gull
Franklin's Gull Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull Caspian Tern
Black Tern Forster's Tern
Pacific Loon Common Loon
Double-crested Cormorant Neotropic Cormorant
American White Pelican Least Bittern
Little Blue Heron Snowy Egret
Yellow-crowned Night Heron Black-crowned Night Heron
Green Heron Great Egret
Western Cattle Egret Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture Osprey
Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk Bald Eagle
Mississippi Kite Swainson's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk
American Barn Owl Eastern Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl Barred Owl
Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker
American Kestrel Merlin
Peregrine Falcon Prairie Falcon
Great Crested Flycatcher Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe
Bell's Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo
Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo
Loggerhead Shrike Blue Jay
American Crow Fish Crow
Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse
Horned Lark Bank Swallow
Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Purple Martin Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Golden-crowned Kinglet Cedar Waxwing
White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Carolina Wren
Northern House Wren Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher Northern Mockingbird
European Starling Eastern Bluebird
Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush
Wood Thrush American Robin
House Sparrow American Pipit
House Finch Purple Finch
Pine Siskin American Goldfinch
Lapland Longspur Grasshopper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow American Tree Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco White-crowned Sparrow
Harris's Sparrow White-throated Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow LeConte's Sparrow
Nelson's Sparrow Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow Spotted Towhee
Eastern Towhee Yellow-breasted Chat
Yellow-headed Blackbird Bobolink
Eastern Meadowlark Western Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird
Rusty Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird
Common Grackle Great-tailed Grackle
Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush
Golden-winged Warbler Black-and-white Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler
Mourning Warbler Kentucky Warbler
Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler
American Redstart Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler
Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler
Wilson's Warbler Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting Dickcissel