Check-list of Metcalfe County, Kentucky, 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:

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Table 1. UCR Bird List with species observed in Metcalfe 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 Metcalfe County bird species.  * = Rare species in UCR.

_____ Canada Goose (20 June 1999, SJS; 18 June 2006, SJS)

_____ Wood Duck

_____ Ring-necked Duck (2 November 2007, SJS)

_____ Wild Turkey (AT)

_____ Northern Bobwhite

_____ Great Blue Heron

_____ Green Heron

_____ Black Vulture (7 March 2003, AT)

_____ Turkey Vulture

_____ Osprey (19 April 2003, AT)

_____ Sharp-shinned Hawk ( 13 August 1996, MS [Busroe 1997a])

_____ Cooper's Hawk (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996]; 18 June 2001, SJS)

_____ Red-shouldered Hawk (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Broad-winged Hawk (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Red-tailed Hawk

_____ American Kestrel

_____ Virginia Rail * (21 October 1966, JH [Starr 1967]).

_____ American Coot (April 2003, AT)

_____ Sandhill Crane (5 November 1970, JH [Starr 1971]; "several hundred on ground," 19 February 2003, AT)

_____ Killdeer

_____ Solitary Sandpiper (29 April 2003, AT)

_____ Wilson's Snipe (3 January 2007, SJS)

_____ American Woodcock (18 February 2003, AT)

_____ Rock Pigeon

_____ Eurasian Collared-Dove (30 September 2005, BPB, SJS)

_____ Mourning Dove

_____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo (14 June 2003, SJS)

_____ Eastern Screech-Owl (2 November 2007, BHS, SJS)

_____ Barred Owl (29 April 2003, AT)

_____ Chuck-will's-widow (29 April 2003, AT)

_____ Whip-poor-will (30 April 2003, AT)

_____ Chimney Swift

_____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird

_____ Belted Kingfisher

_____ Red-headed Woodpecker (18 June 2001, SJS)

_____ Red-bellied Woodpecker

_____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (3 January 2007, SJS)

_____ Downy Woodpecker

_____ Hairy Woodpecker

_____ Northern Flicker

_____ Pileated Woodpecker

_____ Eastern Wood-Pewee

_____ Acadian Flycatcher

_____ Eastern Phoebe

_____ Great Crested Flycatcher

_____ Eastern Kingbird

_____ Loggerhead Shrike (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ White-eyed Vireo

_____ Yellow-throated Vireo

_____ Warbling Vireo * (14 June 2003, SJS)

_____ Red-eyed Vireo

_____ Blue Jay

_____ American Crow

_____ Purple Martin

_____ Tree Swallow (14 June 2003, SJS)

_____ Northern Rough-winged Swallow

_____ Cliff Swallow (14 July 1997, MS [Busroe 1997d])

_____ Barn Swallow

_____ Carolina Chickadee

_____ Tufted Titmouse

_____ White-breasted Nuthatch

_____ Carolina Wren

_____ Bewick's Wren * (25 December 1936, CBC)

_____ House Wren

_____ Winter Wren (3 January 2007, SJS)

_____ Golden-crowned Kinglet (20 January 2003, AT)

_____ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

_____ Eastern Bluebird

_____ Hermit Thrush (3 January 2007, SJS)

_____ Wood Thrush

_____ American Robin

_____ Gray Catbird

_____ Northern Mockingbird

_____ Brown Thrasher

_____ European Starling

_____ Cedar Waxwing

_____ Northern Parula (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Yellow-rumped Warbler (28 April 2003, AT)

_____ Black-throated Green Warbler (AT)

_____ Yellow-throated Warbler

_____ Pine Warbler (2 November 2007, BHS)

_____ Prairie Warbler

_____ Black-and-white Warbler (14 June 2003, SJS)

_____ Worm-eating Warbler (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Ovenbird (AT)

_____ Louisiana Waterthrush

_____ Kentucky Warbler

_____ Common Yellowthroat

_____ Hooded Warbler (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Yellow-breasted Chat

_____ Summer Tanager

_____ Scarlet Tanager (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Eastern Towhee

_____ American Tree Sparrow (25 December 1936 [CBC])

_____ Chipping Sparrow

_____ Field Sparrow

_____ Savannah Sparrow (2 November 2007, BHS)

_____ Grasshopper Sparrow

_____ Henslow's Sparrow * (6 July 1990, BPB; 18 June 2005, SJS)

_____ Fox Sparrow (3 January 2007, SJS)

_____ Song Sparrow

_____ Swamp Sparrow (3 January 2007, SJS)

_____ White-throated Sparrow (3 January 2007, SJS)

_____ White-crowned Sparrow (30 April 2003, AT)

_____ Dark-eyed Junco (3 January 2007, SJS)

_____ Northern Cardinal

_____ Blue Grosbeak

_____ Indigo Bunting

_____ Dickcissel (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Red-winged Blackbird

_____ Eastern Meadowlark

_____ Common Grackle

_____ Brown-headed Cowbird

_____ Orchard Oriole

_____ Baltimore Oriole (19-27 August 1944, GW [Wilson 1945]; KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996]; 14 June 2003, SJS)

_____ House Finch

_____ American Goldfinch

_____ House Sparrow

Key to Initials:

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