Trail of Tears SP

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Checklist of Birds

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

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

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