St. Joseph Peninsula State Park Bird List. Loons. Grebes. Boobies and Gannets. Pelicans and Allies. Red Throat Loon Common Loon

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1 1 St. Joseph Peninsula State Park Bird List Loons Red Throat Loon Common Loon Grebes Pied-Billed Grebe Eared Grebe Boobies and Gannets Masked Booby Northern Gannet Pelicans and Allies American White Pelican Brown Pelican

2 2 Double Crested Cormorant Magnificent Frigatebird Herons, Egrets and Allies American Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Reddish Egret Cattle Egret Green-Backed Heron Black Crowned Night Heron Yellow Crowned Night Heron Ibises, Spoonbill and Stork Glossy Ibis White Ibis

3 3 Roseate Spoonbill Wood Stork Rails, Gallinules, Coots and Cranes Clapper Rail King Rail Sora Blackrail Purple Gallinule Common Moorhen American Coot Sandhill Crane Waterfowl Snow Goose Tundra Swan Green-Winged Teal American Black Duck Mallard

4 4 Northern Pintail Blue-Winged Teal Gadwell American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Ring-Necked Duck Lesser Scaup Oldsqaup Black Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-Breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Vultures Black Vulture

5 5 Turkey Vulture Hawks and Allies Osprey Am. Swallow-tailed Kite Mississippi Kite Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-Shinned Hawk Coopers Hawk Red-Shoulder Hawk Broad-Winged Hawk Red Tailed Hawk Golden Eagle American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Gallinaceous Birds

6 6 Bobwhite Shorebirds Black-Bellied Plover American Golden Plover Snowy Plover Wilson s Plover Semipalmated Plover Piping Plover Killdeer American Oystercatcher Black-Necked Stilt American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Willet Spotted Sandpiper Whimbrel

7 7 Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Buff-breasted Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Common Snipe Laughing Gull Bonaparte s Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Gull-billed Gull Caspian Tern Royal Tern Sandwich Tern

8 8 Common Tern Forster s Tern Least Tern Black Tern Black Skimmer Pigeons and Doves Rock Dove Mourning Dove Common Ground-Dove Eurasian-collared Dove Cuckoos Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Groove-billed Ani Owls Barn Owl

9 9 Eastern Screech Owl Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Goatsuckers Common Nighthawk Chuck-Will s Widow Whip-poor-will Swifts and Hummingbirds Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Kingfishers Belted Kingfisher Woodpeckers Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker

10 10 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Flycatchers Eastern Wood-pewee Acadian Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Jays and Crows Blue Jay

11 11 American Crow Fish Crow Chickadees and Titmouse Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Martins and Swallows Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Nuthatches Red-breasted Nuthatch Brown-headed Nuthatch

12 12 Creepers Brown Creeper Wrens Caroline Wren House Wren Winter Wren Sedge Wren March Wren Kinglets and Gnatcatchers Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Bluebirds, Thrushes and Robins Eastern Bluebird Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush

13 13 Swainson s Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Thrashers Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Waxwings Cedar Waxwing Starlings European Starling Shrikes Loggerhead Shrike

14 14 Vireos White-eyes Vireo Solitary Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Black-whiskered Vireo Warblers Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Paurla Yellow Warbler Chestnut Sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow- throated Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler

15 15 Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Black and White Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Common yellow-throated Hooded Warbler Wilson Warbler

16 16 Tanagers Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager New World Finches Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Painted Bunting Dickcissel Sparrows Rufous-sided Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Savannah Sparrow

17 17 Le Conte s Sparrow Sharp-tailed Sparrow Seaside Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White crowed Sparrow Blackbirds, Grackles, Cowbirds and Orioles Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Boat-tailed Grackle Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole

18 18 Northern Oriole Old World Finches American Goldfinch Weaver Finch House Sparrow Accidentals This resource based on FDEP, DRP-TH Stone Memorial State Park Unit Mgt. Plan Revision 2000 Addensum 5 Plant & Animal List 1/13/05

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