Check-list of Clay County, Tennessee, Birds

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

                        sstedman@tntech.edu

Table 1. UCR Bird List with species observed in Clay County indicated.  Species denoted below with one asterisk (*) are rare and with two asterisks (**) very rare within the UCR; sightings of these species should be reported via a documentation form.  Species on the Audubon WatchList are indicated below in pink (27 species) or red (8 species), with the latter being more critically decreasing species.

Table 2. Annotated List of Clay County bird species.  * = Rare species in UCR.

_____ Greater White-fronted Goose (15 November 2003, SJS et al.)

_____ Snow Goose (12 February 1998, DLR; 17 November 2003, TMC photo)

_____ Canada Goose

_____ Mute Swan (17 February 2003, TMC)

_____ Wood Duck

_____ Gadwall

_____ American Wigeon

_____ American Black Duck

_____ Mallard

_____ Blue-winged Teal

_____ Northern Shoveler

_____ Northern Pintail

_____ Green-winged Teal

_____ Canvasback (9 January 2001,  TMC)

_____ Redhead (fide TMC)

_____ Ring-necked Duck

_____ Lesser Scaup

_____ Surf Scoter (5-16 November 2002, TMC, SJS, WAW)

_____ Long-tailed Duck * (22 November 1996, DLR)

_____ Bufflehead

_____ Common Goldeneye

_____ Hooded Merganser

_____ Red-breasted Merganser (14 December 2006, SJS)

_____ Ruddy Duck

_____ Ruffed Grouse

_____ Wild Turkey

_____ Northern Bobwhite

_____ Common Loon (24 August 1991, SJS, BHS)

_____ Yellow-billed Loon * (18-19 February 1995, SJS et al.[Stedman 1995; Stedman 2000])

_____ Pied-billed Grebe

_____ Horned Grebe

_____ Eared Grebe * (26 March 1995, SJS; 30 March 1996, SJS et al.)

_____ Double-crested Cormorant

_____ Least Bittern * (2 on 21 May 1970, RTH [Parmer 1970c])

_____ Great Blue Heron

_____ Great Egret (4 April 2002, TMC)

_____ Snowy Egret * (31 July 2005, TMC)

_____ Little Blue Heron (13 September 1970, RTH [Parmer 1970d; 31 July 2005, TMC photo])

_____ Tricolored Heron * (20 April 2002, WAW, RMD, SJS [photo] et al.)

_____ Cattle Egret * (27 July 2001, TMC)

_____ Green Heron

_____ Black-crowned Night-Heron (fide TMC)

_____ Black Vulture

_____ Turkey Vulture

_____ Osprey

_____ Bald Eagle

_____ Northern Harrier

_____ Sharp-shinned Hawk

_____ Cooper's Hawk (13 November 1993, SJS, TMC)

_____ Red-shouldered Hawk

_____ Broad-winged Hawk

_____ Red-tailed Hawk (B. j. calurus--12 February 1998, DS, DLR)

_____ Golden Eagle (1935? [Reed 1935]; 28 December 1997, DS photo fide DLR; 18 December 2007, RMD photo, AMM)

_____ American Kestrel

_____ Virginia Rail * (5 October 2004, TMC [photo])

_____ American Coot

_____ Sandhill Crane

_____ Whooping Crane * (1 March 2003, DS fide TMC)

_____ American Golden-Plover * (3 April 2001, TMC video)

_____ Killdeer

_____ American Avocet * (15 September 2005, TMC photo)

_____ Spotted Sandpiper

_____ Solitary Sandpiper

_____ Greater Yellowlegs

_____ Willet * (13 May 1969, RTH [Parmer 1969c])

_____ Lesser Yellowlegs

_____ Semipalmated Sandpiper (fide TMC)

_____ Least Sandpiper

_____ Pectoral Sandpiper

_____ Wilson's Snipe

_____ American Woodcock (26 June 1993, SJS, TMC)

_____ Bonaparte's Gull

_____ Ring-billed Gull

_____ Herring Gull

_____ Caspian Tern (6 October 2002, SJS, WAW)

_____ Black Tern (30 August 2005, TMC)

_____ Forster's Tern

_____ Rock Pigeon

_____ Eurasian Collared-Dove (14 December 2006, BHS)

_____ Mourning Dove

_____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo

_____ Black-billed Cuckoo (29 April 1971, RTH [Parmer 1971b])

_____ Eastern Screech-Owl

_____ Great Horned Owl

_____ Barred Owl

_____ Long-eared Owl * (26 January 2002, RDS)

_____ Common Nighthawk

_____ Chuck-will's-widow

_____ Whip-poor-will

_____ Chimney Swift

_____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird

_____ Belted Kingfisher

_____ Red-headed Woodpecker

_____ Red-bellied Woodpecker

_____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

_____ Downy Woodpecker

_____ Hairy Woodpecker

_____ Northern Flicker

_____ Pileated Woodpecker

_____ Eastern Wood-Pewee

_____ Acadian Flycatcher

_____ Willow Flycatcher * (25 May 1986, SJS, DJS [Stedman 1986d; Stedman and Simbeck
            1988])

_____ Eastern Phoebe

_____ Great Crested Flycatcher

_____ Western Kingbird * (2-3, 9-16 October 1969, RTH [Parmer 1969d])

_____ Eastern Kingbird

_____ Loggerhead Shrike

_____ White-eyed Vireo

_____ Yellow-throated Vireo

_____ Warbling Vireo *

_____ Red-eyed Vireo

_____ Blue Jay

_____ American Crow

_____ Horned Lark

_____ Purple Martin

_____ Tree Swallow

_____ Northern Rough-winged Swallow

_____ Cliff Swallow (3 April 2004, SJS et al.)

_____ Barn Swallow

_____ Carolina Chickadee

_____ Tufted Titmouse

_____ Red-breasted Nuthatch

_____ White-breasted Nuthatch

_____ Brown Creeper (26 September 1998, SJS, JCS))

_____ Carolina Wren

_____ Bewick's Wren (8 July 1969, Roy T. Hinds; Parmer 1969c)

_____ House Wren

_____ Winter Wren

_____ Golden-crowned Kinglet

_____ Ruby-crowned Kinglet

_____ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

_____ Eastern Bluebird

_____ Swainson's Thrush (16 May 1998, SJS, TMC)

_____ Hermit Thrush

_____ Wood Thrush

_____ American Robin

_____ Gray Catbird

_____ Northern Mockingbird

_____ Brown Thrasher

_____ European Starling

_____ American Pipit (13 November 1993, SJS, TMC)

_____ Cedar Waxwing

_____ Blue-winged Warbler

_____ Golden-winged Warbler (11 September 1969, RTH [Parmer 1969d]; 18 September 1993,
            SJS, TMC)

_____ Tennessee Warbler

_____ Nashville Warbler (20 April 2007, SJS, Leonardo Chavez)

_____ Northern Parula

_____ Yellow Warbler (14 November 2004, SJS, WAW)

_____ Chestnut-sided Warbler

_____ Magnolia Warbler

_____ Cape May Warbler (30 April 1999, SJS+)

_____ Black-throated Blue Warbler (12 April 1969, RTH [Parmer 1969b]; remarkably early if accurate)

_____ Yellow-rumped Warbler

_____ Blackburnian Warbler

_____ Yellow-throated Warbler

_____ Pine Warbler

_____ Prairie Warbler

_____ Palm Warbler

_____ Bay-breasted Warbler (18 September 1993, SJS, TMC)

_____ Blackpoll Warbler (30 April 1999, SJS+)

_____ Cerulean Warbler (TBBA [Nicholson 1997])

_____ Black-and-white Warbler

_____ American Redstart

_____ Prothonotary Warbler (16 May 1998, SJS, TMC)

_____ Worm-eating Warbler

_____ Ovenbird

_____ Northern Waterthrush (BHS)

_____ Louisiana Waterthrush

_____ Kentucky Warbler

_____ Common Yellowthroat

_____ Hooded Warbler

_____ Yellow-breasted Chat

_____ Summer Tanager

_____ Scarlet Tanager

_____ Eastern Towhee

_____ American Tree Sparrow * (19 December 2000, RMD)

_____ Chipping Sparrow

_____ Field Sparrow

_____ Lark Sparrow * (6 May 1969, RTH [Parmer 1969c]; June 1980, BBS)

_____ Savannah Sparrow

_____ Grasshopper Sparrow (TBBA [Nicholson 1997])

_____ Fox Sparrow

_____ Song Sparrow

_____ Swamp Sparrow

_____ White-throated Sparrow

_____ White-crowned Sparrow

_____ Dark-eyed Junco

_____ Lapland Longspur * (19 December 2000, RMD)

_____ Northern Cardinal

_____ Rose-breasted Grosbeak

_____ Blue Grosbeak

_____ Indigo Bunting

_____ Dickcissel (TBBA [Nicholson 1997])

_____ Red-winged Blackbird

_____ Eastern Meadowlark

_____ Rusty Blackbird

_____ Common Grackle

_____ Brown-headed Cowbird

_____ Orchard Oriole

_____ Baltimore Oriole (27 May 1995, SJS)

_____ Purple Finch

_____ House Finch

_____ Pine Siskin (fide TMC)

_____ American Goldfinch

_____ Evening Grosbeak (7 May 1969, RTH [Parmer 1969c])

_____ House Sparrow

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Literature Cited

    A list of the Regional counties displaying the total number of species known to have been reported in each as of certain dates may be accessed via the link below:

• List Totals for UCR Counties