Big Sugar Creek SP

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Checklist of Birds

139 species recorded in this park (Updated: 6/5/2023)

           Great Crested Flycatcher            White-breasted Nuthatch
           Eastern Kingbird            Brown Creeper
           Greater White-fronted Goose            Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
           Scissor-tailed Flycatcher            Carolina Wren
           Olive-sided Flycatcher            House Wren
           Canada Goose            Winter Wren
           Eastern Wood-Pewee            Gray Catbird
           Acadian Flycatcher            Brown Thrasher
           Wood Duck            Northern Mockingbird
           Blue-winged Teal            European Starling
           Least Flycatcher            Eastern Bluebird
           Eastern Phoebe            Swainson's Thrush
           Gadwall            Hermit Thrush
           Mallard            Wood Thrush
           Green-winged Teal            American Robin
           Hooded Merganser            House Sparrow
           Northern Bobwhite            House Finch
           Wild Turkey            Purple Finch
           Mourning Dove            Pine Siskin
           Yellow-billed Cuckoo            American Goldfinch
           Chuck-will's-widow            Grasshopper Sparrow
           Eastern Whip-poor-will            Chipping Sparrow
           Chimney Swift            Field Sparrow
           Ruby-throated Hummingbird            Fox Sparrow
           Killdeer            American Tree Sparrow
           Wilson's Snipe            Dark-eyed Junco
           Franklin's Gull            White-crowned Sparrow
           Great Blue Heron            Harris's Sparrow
           Great Egret            White-throated Sparrow
           Green Heron            Savannah Sparrow
           Black Vulture            Song Sparrow
           Turkey Vulture            Lincoln's Sparrow
           Osprey            Swamp Sparrow
           Sharp-shinned Hawk            Eastern Towhee
           Cooper's Hawk            Yellow-breasted Chat
           Bald Eagle            Eastern Meadowlark
           Red-shouldered Hawk            Western Meadowlark
           Broad-winged Hawk            Orchard Oriole
           Red-tailed Hawk            Baltimore Oriole
           Eastern Screech-Owl            Red-winged Blackbird
           Great Horned Owl            Brown-headed Cowbird
           Barred Owl            Rusty Blackbird
           Belted Kingfisher            Common Grackle
           Red-headed Woodpecker            Ovenbird
           Red-bellied Woodpecker            Worm-eating Warbler
           Yellow-bellied Sapsucker            Louisiana Waterthrush
           Downy Woodpecker            Blue-winged Warbler
           Hairy Woodpecker            Black-and-white Warbler
           Northern Flicker            Prothonotary Warbler
           Pileated Woodpecker            Tennessee Warbler
           American Kestrel            Orange-crowned Warbler
           White-eyed Vireo            Nashville Warbler
           Yellow-throated Vireo            Kentucky Warbler
           Blue-headed Vireo            Common Yellowthroat
           Warbling Vireo            Hooded Warbler
           Red-eyed Vireo            American Redstart
           Loggerhead Shrike            Northern Parula
           Blue Jay            Pine Warbler
           American Crow            Yellow-rumped Warbler
           Fish Crow            Yellow-throated Warbler
           Carolina Chickadee            Prairie Warbler
           Tufted Titmouse            Black-throated Green Warbler
           Northern Rough-winged Swallow            Summer Tanager
           Purple Martin            Scarlet Tanager
           Barn Swallow            Northern Cardinal
           Cliff Swallow            Rose-breasted Grosbeak
           Ruby-crowned Kinglet            Blue Grosbeak
           Golden-crowned Kinglet            Indigo Bunting
           Cedar Waxwing            Dickcissel
           Red-breasted Nuthatch

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