Van Meter SP Finding birds in your state park. Download a Printable Checklist Checklist of Birds 205 species recorded in this park (Updated: 3/10/2019) Snow Goose Horned Lark Greater White-fronted Goose Purple Martin Canada Goose Tree Swallow Wood Duck Northern Rough-winged Swallow Blue-winged Teal Bank Swallow Northern Shoveler Cliff Swallow Gadwall Barn Swallow Mallard Black-capped Chickadee Green-winged Teal Tufted Titmouse Redhead Red-breasted Nuthatch Ring-necked Duck White-breasted Nuthatch Lesser Scaup Brown Creeper Hooded Merganser House Wren Northern Bobwhite Winter Wren Ring-necked Pheasant Sedge Wren Wild Turkey Marsh Wren Pied-billed Grebe Carolina Wren Rock Pigeon Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eurasian Collared-Dove Golden-crowned Kinglet Mourning Dove Ruby-crowned Kinglet Yellow-billed Cuckoo Eastern Bluebird Black-billed Cuckoo Veery Common Nighthawk Gray-cheeked Thrush Eastern Whip-poor-will Swainson's Thrush Chimney Swift Hermit Thrush Ruby-throated Hummingbird Wood Thrush Sora American Robin American Coot Gray Catbird Sandhill Crane Brown Thrasher American Golden-Plover Northern Mockingbird Semipalmated Plover European Starling Killdeer Cedar Waxwing Upland Sandpiper House Sparrow Hudsonian Godwit House Finch Stilt Sandpiper Purple Finch Dunlin Pine Siskin Baird's Sandpiper American Goldfinch Least Sandpiper Eastern Towhee Pectoral Sandpiper American Tree Sparrow Semipalmated Sandpiper Chipping Sparrow Short-billed Dowitcher Clay-colored Sparrow Long-billed Dowitcher Field Sparrow American Woodcock Lark Sparrow Wilson's Snipe Savannah Sparrow Spotted Sandpiper Grasshopper Sparrow Solitary Sandpiper Fox Sparrow Lesser Yellowlegs Song Sparrow Greater Yellowlegs Lincoln's Sparrow Black Tern Swamp Sparrow Forster's Tern White-throated Sparrow Double-crested Cormorant Harris's Sparrow American White Pelican White-crowned Sparrow American Bittern Dark-eyed Junco Least Bittern Yellow-breasted Chat Great Blue Heron Yellow-headed Blackbird Great Egret Bobolink Cattle Egret Eastern Meadowlark Green Heron Western Meadowlark Turkey Vulture Orchard Oriole Osprey Baltimore Oriole Northern Harrier Red-winged Blackbird Sharp-shinned Hawk Brown-headed Cowbird Cooper's Hawk Rusty Blackbird Bald Eagle Common Grackle Red-shouldered Hawk Great-tailed Grackle Broad-winged Hawk Ovenbird Swainson's Hawk Worm-eating Warbler Red-tailed Hawk Louisiana Waterthrush Rough-legged Hawk Northern Waterthrush Eastern Screech-Owl Golden-winged Warbler Great Horned Owl Blue-winged Warbler Barred Owl Black-and-white Warbler Belted Kingfisher Prothonotary Warbler Red-headed Woodpecker Tennessee Warbler Red-bellied Woodpecker Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Nashville Warbler Downy Woodpecker Mourning Warbler Hairy Woodpecker Kentucky Warbler Northern Flicker Common Yellowthroat Pileated Woodpecker Hooded Warbler American Kestrel American Redstart Great Crested Flycatcher Cerulean Warbler Western Kingbird Northern Parula Eastern Kingbird Magnolia Warbler Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Bay-breasted Warbler Olive-sided Flycatcher Blackburnian Warbler Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow Warbler Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Chestnut-sided Warbler Acadian Flycatcher Blackpoll Warbler Alder Flycatcher Palm Warbler Willow Flycatcher Yellow-rumped Warbler Least Flycatcher Yellow-throated Warbler Eastern Phoebe Black-throated Green Warbler Loggerhead Shrike Canada Warbler White-eyed Vireo Wilson's Warbler Bell's Vireo Summer Tanager Yellow-throated Vireo Scarlet Tanager Blue-headed Vireo Northern Cardinal Philadelphia Vireo Rose-breasted Grosbeak Warbling Vireo Blue Grosbeak Red-eyed Vireo Indigo Bunting Blue Jay Dickcissel American Crow
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