Katy Trail SP

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Checklist of Birds

201 species recorded in this park (Updated: 2/25/2023)

           Northern Bobwhite            Blue-winged Warbler
           Pied-billed Grebe            Chipping Sparrow
           American White Pelican            Little Blue Heron
           Black Vulture            Mourning Dove
           Osprey            Hairy Woodpecker
           Black-necked Stilt            Wood Thrush
           Rock Pigeon            Black-and-white Warbler
           Common Nighthawk            Clay-colored Sparrow
           Chimney Swift            Baltimore Oriole
           Belted Kingfisher            Canada Goose
           Great Crested Flycatcher            Bald Eagle
           Loggerhead Shrike            Northern Flicker
           White-eyed Vireo            American Robin
           Horned Lark            Prothonotary Warbler
           Bank Swallow            Field Sparrow
           Carolina Chickadee            Red-winged Blackbird
           Red-breasted Nuthatch            Mississippi Kite
           Brown Creeper            Pileated Woodpecker
           Ruby-crowned Kinglet            Eastern Wood-Pewee
           Eastern Bluebird            Fox Sparrow
           Gray Catbird            Pine Siskin
           European Starling            Tennessee Warbler
           American Pipit            American Tree Sparrow
           Ovenbird            Brown-headed Cowbird
           Yellow-breasted Chat            Green Heron
           Lapland Longspur            Red-shouldered Hawk
           Yellow-headed Blackbird            Acadian Flycatcher
           House Sparrow            Orange-crowned Warbler
           Wild Turkey            Dark-eyed Junco
           Turkey Vulture            Rusty Blackbird
           American Kestrel            American Goldfinch
           Virginia Rail            Wood Duck
           Eastern Screech-Owl            Black-crowned Night-Heron
           Red-headed Woodpecker            Broad-winged Hawk
           Bell's Vireo            Alder Flycatcher
           Blue Jay            Nashville Warbler
           Tree Swallow            White-crowned Sparrow
           Black-capped Chickadee            Brewer's Blackbird
           White-breasted Nuthatch            Ring-billed Gull
           Golden-crowned Kinglet            Willow Flycatcher
           Brown Thrasher            Common Grackle
           Cedar Waxwing            Blue-winged Teal
           Worm-eating Warbler            Red-tailed Hawk
           Snow Goose            Least Flycatcher
           Merlin            Harris's Sparrow
           Sora            Great-tailed Grackle
           Eurasian Collared-Dove            Eastern Phoebe
           Yellow-billed Cuckoo            White-throated Sparrow
           Great Horned Owl            Northern Shoveler
           Red-bellied Woodpecker            Kentucky Warbler
           Western Kingbird            Vesper Sparrow
           Yellow-throated Vireo            Gadwall
           Tufted Titmouse            Common Yellowthroat
           Carolina Wren            Hooded Warbler
           Louisiana Waterthrush            American Redstart
           Grasshopper Sparrow            Mallard
           Smith's Longspur            Savannah Sparrow
           Eastern Meadowlark            Cerulean Warbler
           Ross's Goose            Song Sparrow
           Double-crested Cormorant            Northern Pintail
           Least Bittern            Northern Parula
           Common Gallinule            Lincoln's Sparrow
           Yellow-bellied Sapsucker            Green-winged Teal
           Eastern Kingbird            Magnolia Warbler
           Blue-headed Vireo            Swamp Sparrow
           Northern Rough-winged Swallow            Least Sandpiper
           House Wren            Redhead
           Northern Mockingbird            Yellow Warbler
           Northern Waterthrush            Eastern Towhee
           Western Meadowlark            Greater Scaup
           House Finch            Pectoral Sandpiper
           Greater White-fronted Goose            Chestnut-sided Warbler
           Great Blue Heron            Lesser Scaup
           Northern Harrier            Blackpoll Warbler
           Peregrine Falcon            Palm Warbler
           American Coot            American Woodcock
           Killdeer            Yellow-rumped Warbler
           Ruby-throated Hummingbird            Wilson's Snipe
           Philadelphia Vireo            Yellow-throated Warbler
           American Crow            Bufflehead
           Purple Martin            Spotted Sandpiper
           Winter Wren            Prairie Warbler
           Gray-cheeked Thrush            Solitary Sandpiper
           Lark Sparrow            Lesser Yellowlegs
           Orchard Oriole            Hooded Merganser
           Purple Finch            Greater Yellowlegs
           Great Egret            Black-throated Green Warbler
           Sharp-shinned Hawk            Common Merganser
           Barred Owl            Canada Warbler
           Downy Woodpecker            Red-breasted Merganser
           Scissor-tailed Flycatcher            Wilson's Warbler
           Warbling Vireo            Ruddy Duck
           Fish Crow            Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
           Barn Swallow            Summer Tanager
           Swainson's Thrush            Scarlet Tanager
           Golden-winged Warbler            Northern Cardinal
           Cooper's Hawk            Rose-breasted Grosbeak
           Red-eyed Vireo            Blue Grosbeak
           Cliff Swallow            Indigo Bunting
           Marsh Wren            Dickcissel
           Hermit Thrush

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