HOCKING VALLEY BIRD TRAIL

AREA CHECKLIST

 

 

This checklist is the ongoing result of several dedicated naturalists, biologists and birders in the Hocking Valley region.  Many of the species listed are found nesting only in this region of Ohio (marked with an *).  Good luck and have a great time searching out the many spectacular species of birds in the area.

 

 

This checklist is designed to work alone or in conjunction with the Hocking Valley Bird Trail map.  Many of the symbols overlap and are utilized in both reference items.

 

               Aquatic habitats including lakes, ponds, rivers, borrow pits and wetlands.

 

                  Heavily forested habitat.

 

                  Open grasslands or meadows.  Including reclaimed strip-mine areas.

 

                  Succession forest/field or primarily mixed habitat.

 

C = Common species                                          N = Nesting Species (Species marked with an * nest

                                                                                  only in Hocking Region of Ohio range)

O = Occasional species                                             

                                                                            M = Seen most commonly in either Spring or Fall

R = Rare or uncommon species                                  migration.

 

A = Accidental or off-course migrant                   S = Seasonal winter/summer resident

 

 

 

GAVIFORMES
Gavidae
____ Common Loon	C M
____ Red-throated Loon	RS
PODICIPEDIFORMES
Podicipedidae		PASSIFORMES
____ Pied-billed Grebe	C M	Tyrannidae
____ Horned Grebe	C M	Fluvicolinae
____  Red-necked Grebe	RM	____Eastern Wood Pewee	CSN
PELECANIFORMES		____Yellow-bellied Flycatcher	RM
Pelecanidae		____Olive-sided Flycatcher	RM
____  White Pelican	AM	____Acadian Flycatcher	CSN
Phalacrocoracidae		____Alder Flycatcher	OM
____ Double-crested Cormorant	CM	____Willow Flycatcher	CSN
CICONIFORMES		____Least Flycatcher	OM
Ardeidae		____Eastern Pheobe	CSN
____ Great Blue Heron	CN	Tyranninae
____ Great Egret	CM	____Great Crested Flycatcher	CSN
____ Green Heron	CS	____Eastern Kingbird	CSN
____ Little Blue Heron	RM	Alaudidae
____ Black-crowned  Night Heron	RM	____Horned Lark	CSN
____ Yellow-crowned Night Heron	RM	Hirundinidae
ANSERIFORMES		____Purple Martin	CSN
Anatidae		____Tree Swallow	CSN
____Mute Swan	OSN	____Northern Rough-winged Swallow	CM
____Snow Geese	RM	____Bank Swallow	CSN
____Canada Goose	CMN	____Cliff Swallow	OSN
____ Wood Duck	CMN	____Barn Swallow	CSN
____Green-winged Teal	CM	Corvidae
____American Black Duck	CN	____Blue Jay	CN
____Mallard	CN	____American Crow	CN
____Northern Pintail	CM	Paridae
____Blue-winged Teal	CM	____Black-capped Chickadee	ON
____Northern Shoveler	CM	____Carolina Chickadee	CN
____Gadwall	CM	____Tufted Titimouse	CN
____American Widgeon	CM	Sittidae
____Canvasback	CM	____Red-breasted Nuthatch	RN
____Redhead	CM	____White-breasted Nuthatch	CN
____Ring-necked Duck	CM	Certhiidae
____Greater Scaup	CM	____Brown Creeper	ON
____Lesser Scaup	CM	Troglodytidae
____Common Goldeneye	CM	____Carolina Wren	CN
____Bufflehead	CM	____House Wren	CN
____Hooded Merganser	CM	____Winter Wren	CM
____Red-breasted Merganser	CM	____Bewick's Wren	A
____Ruddy Duck	CM	____Sedge Wren	RN
CICONIIDAE		____Marsh Wren	RN
Cathartidae		Muscicapidae
____Turkey Vulture	CN	Sylviinae
____Black Vulture	CN	____Golden-crowned Kinglet	CS
FALCONIFORMES
Accipitridae		____Ruby-crowned Kinglet	CS
Pandioninae		____Blue-grey Gnatcatcher	CSN
____Osprey	CN	Turdinae
Accipitrinae		____Eastern Bluebird	CSN
____Bald Eagle	OS	____Veery	CS
____Northern Harrier	OM	____Grey-cheeked Thrush	CS
____Sharp-shinned Hawk	ON	____Swainson's Thrush	CM
____Northern Goshawk	RM	____Hermit Thrush	CM
____Cooper's Hawk	CN	____Wood Thrush	CSN
____Red-shouldered Hawk	CN	____American Robin	CSN
____Broad-winged Hawk	CN	Mimidae
____Red-tailed Hawk	CN	____Grey Catbird	CSN
____Rough-legged Hawk	RM	____Norhtern Mockingbird	CSN
Falconidae		____Brown Thrasher	CSN
____American Kestrel	CN	Motacillidae
____Merlin	RM	____American Pipit	RM
____Peregrine Falcon	RM	Bombycillidae
GALLIFORMES		____Cedar Waxwing	CM
Phasianidae		Sturnidae
____Ring-necked Pheasant	CN	____European Starling	CN
____Northern Bobwhite Quail	CN	Vireonidae
____Wild Turkey	CN	____White-eyed Vireo	CSN
____Ruffed Grouse	CN	____Bell's Vireo	RM
GRUIFORMES		____Yellow-throated Vireo	OMN
Rallidae		____Blue-headed Vireo	CM
____Purple Gallinule	AM	____Warbling Vireo	CMN
____Common Moorhen	OM	____Philidelphia Vireo	RM
____Virginia Rail	RM	____Red-eyed Vireo	CSN
____King Rail	RM	Emberizidae
____Sora	RM	Parulinae
____American Coot	CS	____Blue-winged Warbler	CSN
Gruidae		____Golden-winged Warbler	AM
____Sandhill Crane	RM	____Tennesee Warbler	CM
CHARADRIFORMES		____Orange-crowned Warbler	OM
Charadriidae		____Nashville Warbler	CM
____Black-bellied Plover	OM	____Northern Parula	CSN
____Lesser Golden Plover	RM	____Yellow Warbler	CSN
____Semipalmated Plover	OM	____Chestnut-sided Warbler	CM
____Piping Plover	OM	____Magnolia Warbler	CM
____Killdeer	CN	____Cape May Warbler	CM
Scolopidae		____Black-throated Blue Warbler	CM
Scolopacinae		____Yellow-rumped Warbler	CM
____Greater Yellowlegs	RM	____Black-throated Green Warbler	CSN*
____Lesser Yellowlegs	RM	____Blackburnian Warbler	CSN*
____Solitary Sandpiper	CS	____Yellow-throated Warbler	CSN
____Willet	AM	____Pine Warbler	CSN*
____Spotted Sandpiper	CS	____Praire Warbler	CSN*
____Upland Sandpiper	RM	____Palm Warbler	CM
____Sanderling	RM	____Bay-breasted Warbler	CM
____Whimbrel	RM	____Blackpoll Warbler	CM
____Semipalmated Sandpiper	RM	____Cerulean Warbler	CSN
____Least Sandpiper	OM	____Black and White Warbler	CSN*
____White-rumped Sandpiper	RM	____American Redstart	CSN
____Baird's Sandpiper	RM	____Prothonatary Warbler	CSN
____Pectoral Sandpiper	RM	____Worm-eating Warbler	CSN*
____Dunlin	RM	____Ovenbird	CSN
____Stilt Sandpiper	RM	____Northern Waterthrush	CM
____Short-billed Dowitcher	RM	____Louisiana Waterthrush	CSN
____Wilson's Snipe	OM	____Kentucky Warbler	CSN*
____American Woodcock	CSN	____Connecticut Warbler	CM
Phalaropodinae		____Mourning Warbler	OM
____Wilson's Phalarope	RM	____Common Yellowthroat	CSN
____Red-necked Phalarope	RM	____Hooded Warbler	CSN*
Laridae		____Wilson's Warbler	CM
Larinae		____Canada Warbler	CSN*
____Franklin's Gull	OM	____Yellow-breasted Chat	CSN
____Bonaparte's Gull	CM	Thraupinae
____Ring-billed Gull	CM	____Summer Tanager	CSN*
____Herring Gull	CM	____Scarlet Tanager	CSN
Sterninae		Cardinalinae
____Caspien Tern	CM	____Northern Cardinal	CN
____Common Tern	OM	____Rose-breasted Grosbeak	R
____Forster's Tern	OM	____Blue Grosbeak	A
____Black Tern	RM	____Indigo Bunting	CSN
COLUMBIFORMES		____Dickcissel	A
Columbidae		Emberizinae
____Rock Dove	CN	____Eastern Towhee	CN
____Mourning Dove	CN	____Bachman's Sparrow	R
CUCULIFORMES		____American Tree Sparrow	CM
Cuculidae		____Chipping Sparrow	CSN
____Black-billed Cuckoo	OM	____Field Sparrow	CSN
____Yellow-billed Cuckoo	CSN	____Vesper Sparrow	CM
STRIGIFORMES		____Savannah Sparrow	CSN
Tytonidae		____Grasshopper Sparrow	CSN
____Barn Owl	ON	____Henslow's Sparrow	CSN*
Strigidae		____Fox Sparrow	CM
____Eastern Screech Owl	CN	____Song Sparrow	CN
____Great Horned Owl	CN	____Lincoln's Sparrow	CM
____Snowy Owl	RM	____Swamp Sparrow	CM
____Barred Owl	CN	____White-throated Sparrow	CM
____Long-eared Owl	OS	____White-crowned Sparrow	CM
____Short-eared Owl	OS	____Dark-eyed Junco	CM
____Northern Saw-whet Owl	OS	Icternae
CAPRIMULGIFORMES		____Bobolink	CM
Caprimulgidae		____Red-winged Blackbird	CSN
Chordeilinae		____Eastern Meadowlark	CSN
____Common Nighthawk	CSN	____Rusty Blackbird	CM
Caprimulginae		____Common Grackle	CN
____Whip-poor-will	CSN	____Brown-headed Cowbird	CN
____Chuck-will's-widow	RSN	____Orchard Oriole	CSN
APODIFORMES		____Baltimore Oriole	CSN
Apodidae		Fringillidae
____Chimeny Swift	CSN	____Purple Finch	CSN
Trochilidae		____House Finch	CN
____Runy-throated Hummingbird	CSN	____Red Crosbill	RM
____Rufous Hummingbird	R
CORACIFORMES		____Common Redpoll	RM
Alcedinidae		____Pine Siskin	RM
____Belted Kingfisher	CSN	____American Goldfinch	CN
PICIFORMES		____Evening Grosbeak	RM
Picidae		Passeridae
____Red-headed Woodpecker	RN	____House Sparrow	CN
____Red-bellied Woodpecker	CN
____Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	RN
____Downy Woodpecker	CN
____Hairy Woodpecker	CN
____Northern Flicker	CN
____Pileated Woodpecker	CN