Watkins Mill SP

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Checklist of Birds

219 species recorded in this park (Updated: 10/4/2022)

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

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