Mark Twain SP

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Checklist of Birds

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

           Snow Goose            Eastern Wood-Pewee
           Greater White-fronted Goose            Acadian Flycatcher
           Canada Goose            Eastern Phoebe
           Trumpeter Swan            White-eyed Vireo
           Wood Duck            Yellow-throated Vireo
           Blue-winged Teal            Red-eyed Vireo
           Northern Shoveler            Blue Jay
           Gadwall            American Crow
           Mallard            Black-capped Chickadee
           Northern Pintail            Tufted Titmouse
           Canvasback            Horned Lark
           Ring-necked Duck            Tree Swallow
           Lesser Scaup            Northern Rough-winged Swallow
           Bufflehead            Purple Martin
           Common Goldeneye            Barn Swallow
           Hooded Merganser            Cliff Swallow
           Common Merganser            Ruby-crowned Kinglet
           Red-breasted Merganser            Golden-crowned Kinglet
           Ruddy Duck            Cedar Waxwing
           Northern Bobwhite            Red-breasted Nuthatch
           Wild Turkey            White-breasted Nuthatch
           Ring-necked Pheasant            Brown Creeper
           Pied-billed Grebe            Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
           Rock Pigeon            Bewick's Wren
           Eurasian Collared-Dove            Carolina Wren
           Mourning Dove            House Wren
           Yellow-billed Cuckoo            Winter Wren
           Common Nighthawk            Gray Catbird
           Eastern Whip-poor-will            Brown Thrasher
           Chimney Swift            Northern Mockingbird
           Ruby-throated Hummingbird            European Starling
           American Coot            Eastern Bluebird
           American Avocet            Wood Thrush
           Killdeer            American Robin
           Least Sandpiper            House Sparrow
           Long-billed Dowitcher            House Finch
           American Woodcock            Purple Finch
           Spotted Sandpiper            American Goldfinch
           Solitary Sandpiper            Grasshopper Sparrow
           Greater Yellowlegs            Lark Sparrow
           Bonaparte's Gull            Chipping Sparrow
           Franklin's Gull            Field Sparrow
           Ring-billed Gull            Fox Sparrow
           Herring Gull            Dark-eyed Junco
           Caspian Tern            White-crowned Sparrow
           Forster's Tern            Harris's Sparrow
           Common Loon            White-throated Sparrow
           Double-crested Cormorant            Song Sparrow
           American White Pelican            Swamp Sparrow
           Great Blue Heron            Eastern Towhee
           Great Egret            Yellow-breasted Chat
           Green Heron            Eastern Meadowlark
           Turkey Vulture            Baltimore Oriole
           Osprey            Red-winged Blackbird
           Northern Harrier            Brown-headed Cowbird
           Sharp-shinned Hawk            Rusty Blackbird
           Cooper's Hawk            Common Grackle
           Bald Eagle            Ovenbird
           Red-shouldered Hawk            Blue-winged Warbler
           Broad-winged Hawk            Black-and-white Warbler
           Swainson's Hawk            Prothonotary Warbler
           Red-tailed Hawk            Tennessee Warbler
           Eastern Screech-Owl            Orange-crowned Warbler
           Great Horned Owl            Nashville Warbler
           Barred Owl            Kentucky Warbler
           Belted Kingfisher            Common Yellowthroat
           Red-headed Woodpecker            Northern Parula
           Red-bellied Woodpecker            Yellow Warbler
           Yellow-bellied Sapsucker            Chestnut-sided Warbler
           Downy Woodpecker            Yellow-rumped Warbler
           Hairy Woodpecker            Prairie Warbler
           Northern Flicker            Summer Tanager
           Pileated Woodpecker            Scarlet Tanager
           American Kestrel            Northern Cardinal
           Merlin            Rose-breasted Grosbeak
           Great Crested Flycatcher            Blue Grosbeak
           Eastern Kingbird            Indigo Bunting
           Olive-sided Flycatcher            Dickcissel

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