Lake of the Ozarks SP

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Checklist of Birds

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

           Northern Bobwhite            Hairy Woodpecker
           Pied-billed Grebe            Olive-sided Flycatcher
           American White Pelican            Wood Thrush
           Black Vulture            Black-and-white Warbler
           Osprey            Baltimore Oriole
           Rock Pigeon            Cackling Goose
           Common Nighthawk            Canada Goose
           Chimney Swift            Bald Eagle
           Belted Kingfisher            Little Gull
           Great Crested Flycatcher            Northern Flicker
           White-eyed Vireo            American Robin
           Bank Swallow            Prothonotary Warbler
           Carolina Chickadee            Field Sparrow
           Red-breasted Nuthatch            Red-winged Blackbird
           Brown Creeper            Mute Swan
           Ruby-crowned Kinglet            Mississippi Kite
           Eastern Bluebird            Pileated Woodpecker
           Gray Catbird            Eastern Wood-Pewee
           European Starling            Fox Sparrow
           American Pipit            Pine Siskin
           Ovenbird            Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
           Yellow-breasted Chat            Tennessee Warbler
           Yellow-headed Blackbird            Brown-headed Cowbird
           House Sparrow            Green Heron
           Wild Turkey            Red-shouldered Hawk
           Pacific Loon            Acadian Flycatcher
           Brown Pelican            Orange-crowned Warbler
           Turkey Vulture            Dark-eyed Junco
           American Kestrel            Rusty Blackbird
           Eastern Screech-Owl            American Goldfinch
           Red-headed Woodpecker            Wood Duck
           Blue Jay            Broad-winged Hawk
           Tree Swallow            Nashville Warbler
           Black-capped Chickadee            White-crowned Sparrow
           White-breasted Nuthatch            Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
           Bewick's Wren            Swainson's Hawk
           Golden-crowned Kinglet            Ring-billed Gull
           Brown Thrasher            Common Grackle
           Cedar Waxwing            Blue-winged Teal
           Worm-eating Warbler            Red-tailed Hawk
           Snow Goose            Least Flycatcher
           Red-necked Grebe            Herring Gull
           Merlin            Eastern Phoebe
           Yellow-billed Cuckoo            White-throated Sparrow
           Great Horned Owl            Northern Shoveler
           Chuck-will's-widow            Say's Phoebe
           Red-bellied Woodpecker            Kentucky Warbler
           Yellow-throated Vireo            Gadwall
           Tufted Titmouse            Common Yellowthroat
           Carolina Wren            Hooded Warbler
           Louisiana Waterthrush            American Wigeon
           Eastern Meadowlark            American Redstart
           Ross's Goose            Mallard
           Greater Prairie-Chicken            Savannah Sparrow
           Double-crested Cormorant            Song Sparrow
           Black-legged Kittiwake            Northern Pintail
           Black-billed Cuckoo            Northern Parula
           Eastern Whip-poor-will            Lincoln's Sparrow
           Yellow-bellied Sapsucker            Green-winged Teal
           Eastern Kingbird            Caspian Tern
           Blue-headed Vireo            Magnolia Warbler
           Northern Rough-winged Swallow            Swamp Sparrow
           House Wren            Least Sandpiper
           Northern Mockingbird            Black Tern
           Northern Waterthrush            Bay-breasted Warbler
           House Finch            Redhead
           Greater White-fronted Goose            Blackburnian Warbler
           Great Blue Heron            Forster's Tern
           Northern Harrier            Yellow Warbler
           Peregrine Falcon            Eastern Towhee
           American Coot            Pectoral Sandpiper
           Killdeer            Chestnut-sided Warbler
           Ruby-throated Hummingbird            Lesser Scaup
           Philadelphia Vireo            Blackpoll Warbler
           American Crow            Black-throated Blue Warbler
           Purple Martin            Palm Warbler
           Winter Wren            Pine Warbler
           Gray-cheeked Thrush            American Woodcock
           Lark Sparrow            Yellow-rumped Warbler
           Orchard Oriole            Wilson's Snipe
           Purple Finch            Yellow-throated Warbler
           Great Egret            Spotted Sandpiper
           Sharp-shinned Hawk            Prairie Warbler
           Semipalmated Plover            Common Goldeneye
           Barred Owl            Solitary Sandpiper
           Downy Woodpecker            Lesser Yellowlegs
           Warbling Vireo            Hooded Merganser
           Fish Crow            Greater Yellowlegs
           Barn Swallow            Black-throated Green Warbler
           Sedge Wren            Common Merganser
           Swainson's Thrush            Wilson's Warbler
           Golden-winged Warbler            Red Phalarope
           Cooper's Hawk            Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
           Bonaparte's Gull            Summer Tanager
           Red-eyed Vireo            Scarlet Tanager
           Cliff Swallow            Northern Cardinal
           Hermit Thrush            Rose-breasted Grosbeak
           Blue-winged Warbler            Blue Grosbeak
           Chipping Sparrow            Indigo Bunting
           Black-headed Gull            Dickcissel
           Mourning Dove

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