Check-list of Birds Observed at Cane Creek Park, Cookeville, Putnam County, Tennessee

   If you have personal records from this site for species not listed below or if you know of historical records from this site for species not listed below, please send details to me at this e-mail address:

                        sstedman@tntech.edu

    An analysis of the bird populations at Cane Creek Park, based on data submitted to eBird, can be found at the following link:

• eBird-Based Data Presentation for Cane Creek Park

    Directions to this site may be found at this link:

• Directions to Cane Creek Park (and other sites in Putnam County)

Abbreviations and Symbols:

*   Rare species in park

** Very rare species in park

_____ Greater White-fronted Goose **

_____ Snow Goose, white and blue forms *

_____ Cackling Goose **

_____ Canada Goose

_____ Mute Swan **

_____ Tundra Swan **

_____ Wood Duck

_____ Gadwall

_____ American Wigeon

_____ American Black Duck

_____ Mallard

_____ Blue-winged Teal

_____ Northern Shoveler

_____ Northern Pintail

_____ Green-winged Teal

_____ Canvasback

_____ Redhead

_____ Ring-necked Duck

_____ Greater Scaup *

_____ Lesser Scaup

_____ Surf Scoter *

_____ White-winged Scoter *

_____ Long-tailed Duck **

_____ Bufflehead

_____ Common Goldeneye

_____ Hooded Merganser

_____ Common Merganser **

_____ Red-breasted Merganser

_____ Ruddy Duck

_____ Northern Bobwhite

_____ Common Loon

_____ Pied-billed Grebe

_____ Horned Grebe

_____ Double-crested Cormorant

_____ American Bittern **

_____ Great Blue Heron, blue form

_____ Great Egret

_____ Snowy Egret **

_____ Little Blue Heron *

_____ Cattle Egret **

_____ Green Heron

_____ Black-crowned Night-Heron 

_____ Black Vulture

_____ Turkey Vulture

_____ Osprey

_____ Bald Eagle *

_____ Northern Harrier

_____ Sharp-shinned Hawk

_____ Cooper's Hawk

_____ Red-shouldered Hawk

_____ Broad-winged Hawk

_____ Red-tailed Hawk

_____ American Kestrel

_____ Merlin *

_____ Sora *

_____ American Coot

_____ Sandhill Crane

_____ Semipalmated Plover

_____ Killdeer

_____ Spotted Sandpiper

_____ Solitary Sandpiper

_____ Greater Yellowlegs

_____ Lesser Yellowlegs

_____ Semipalmated Sandpiper

_____ Western Sandpiper *

_____ Least Sandpiper

_____ White-rumped Sandpiper **

_____ Pectoral Sandpiper

_____ Dunlin *

_____ Short-billed Dowitcher **

_____ Wilson's Snipe

_____ American Woodcock

_____ Bonaparte's Gull

_____ Ring-billed Gull

_____ Herring Gull *

_____ Caspian Tern *

_____ Black Tern *

_____ Forster's Tern *

_____ Rock Pigeon

_____ Eurasian Collared-Dove (15 December 2007, BHS)

_____ Mourning Dove

_____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo

_____ Black-billed Cuckoo *

_____ Barn Owl * (6 August 2003, KLM)

_____ Eastern Screech-Owl

_____ Great Horned Owl

_____ Short-eared Owl *

_____ Common Nighthawk

_____ Chuck-will's-widow

_____ Chimney Swift

_____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird

_____ Belted Kingfisher

_____ Red-headed Woodpecker

_____ Red-bellied Woodpecker

_____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

_____ Downy Woodpecker

_____ Hairy Woodpecker

_____ Northern Flicker

_____ Pileated Woodpecker

_____ Olive-sided Flycatcher *

_____ Eastern Wood-Pewee

_____ Acadian Flycatcher

_____ Alder Flycatcher **

_____ Willow Flycatcher *

_____ Least Flycatcher *

_____ Eastern Phoebe

_____ Great Crested Flycatcher

_____ Eastern Kingbird

_____ Loggerhead Shrike *

_____ White-eyed Vireo

_____ Yellow-throated Vireo

_____ Blue-headed Vireo

_____ Warbling Vireo *

_____ Philadelphia Vireo *

_____ Red-eyed Vireo

_____ Blue Jay

_____ American Crow

_____ Purple Martin

_____ Tree Swallow

_____ Northern Rough-winged Swallow

_____ Bank Swallow

_____ Cliff Swallow

_____ Barn Swallow

_____ Carolina Chickadee

_____ Tufted Titmouse

_____ Red-breasted Nuthatch

_____ White-breasted Nuthatch

_____ Brown Creeper

_____ Carolina Wren

_____ House Wren

_____ Winter Wren

_____ Sedge Wren *

_____ Marsh Wren *

_____ Golden-crowned Kinglet

_____ Ruby-crowned Kinglet

_____ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

_____ Eastern Bluebird

_____ Veery

_____ Gray-cheeked Thrush

_____ Swainson's Thrush

_____ Hermit Thrush

_____ Wood Thrush

_____ American Robin

_____ Gray Catbird

_____ Northern Mockingbird

_____ Brown Thrasher

_____ European Starling

_____ American Pipit

_____ Cedar Waxwing

_____ Blue-winged Warbler

_____ Golden-winged Warbler 

     _____ "Brewster's" Warbler

_____ Tennessee Warbler

_____ Orange-crowned Warbler *

_____ Nashville Warbler

_____ Northern Parula

_____ Yellow Warbler

_____ Chestnut-sided Warbler

_____ Magnolia Warbler

_____ Cape May Warbler

_____ Black-throated Blue Warbler * (9 May 1996, Tommy A. Edwards)

_____ Yellow-rumped Warbler

_____ Black-thr. Green Warbler

_____ Blackburnian Warbler

_____ Yellow-throated Warbler

_____ Pine Warbler

_____ Prairie Warbler

_____ Palm Warbler

_____ Bay-breasted Warbler

_____ Blackpoll Warbler

_____ Cerulean Warbler

_____ Black-and-white Warbler

_____ American Redstart

_____ Prothonotary Warbler 

_____ Worm-eating Warbler

_____ Ovenbird

_____ Northern Waterthrush

_____ Louisiana Waterthrush

_____ Kentucky Warbler

_____ Connecticut Warbler **

_____ Common Yellowthroat

_____ Hooded Warbler

_____ Wilson's Warbler

_____ Canada Warbler 

_____ Yellow-breasted Chat

_____ Summer Tanager

_____ Scarlet Tanager

_____ Eastern Towhee

_____ American Tree Sparrow *

_____ Chipping Sparrow

_____ Field Sparrow

_____ Vesper Sparrow

_____ Lark Sparrow **

_____ Savannah Sparrow

_____ Grasshopper Sparrow

_____ Fox Sparrow

_____ Song Sparrow

_____ Lincoln's Sparrow *

_____ Swamp Sparrow

_____ White-throated Sparrow

_____ White-crowned Sparrow

_____ Dark-eyed Junco

_____ Northern Cardinal

_____ Rose-breasted Grosbeak

_____ Blue Grosbeak

_____ Indigo Bunting

_____ Bobolink

_____ Red-winged Blackbird

_____ Eastern Meadowlark

_____ Rusty Blackbird

_____ Common Grackle

_____ Brown-headed Cowbird

_____ Orchard Oriole

_____ Baltimore Oriole

_____ Purple Finch

_____ House Finch

_____ Pine Siskin

_____ American Goldfinch

_____ Evening Grosbeak (5 December 1987, SJS)

_____ House Sparrow

  If you see any species denoted with one or two asterisks (or any species not listed), please fill out a documentation form:

• Rare Bird Documentation Form

and send to me at 2675 Lakeland Dr., Cookeville, TN 38506.