Check-list of Pickett 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

   The following check-list is based in large measure on data presented in Nicholson (1982a).

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

_____ Greater White-fronted Goose * (18 February 2007, RCH)

_____ Canada Goose

_____ Mute Swan * (winter 1998-1999, JDH, RCH)

_____ Tundra Swan * (12 January 2006, SJS, CN, BG)

_____ Wood Duck

_____ Gadwall

_____ American Wigeon (28 November 2001, SJS)

_____ American Black Duck

_____ Mallard

_____ Blue-winged Teal

_____ Northern Shoveler

_____ Northern Pintail

_____ Green-winged Teal (30 December 1999, RCH; 23 March 2002, RCH)

_____ Canvasback

_____ Redhead

_____ Ring-necked Duck

_____ Lesser Scaup

_____ Bufflehead

_____ Common Goldeneye

_____ Hooded Merganser

_____ Common Merganser * (16 December 1969, RCH, JDH [Parmer 1970a])

_____ Ruddy Duck (2 January 1998, RCH, JDH; 25 December 2005, SJS)

_____ Ruffed Grouse

_____ Wild Turkey

_____ Northern Bobwhite

_____ Common Loon

_____ Pied-billed Grebe

_____ Horned Grebe

_____ Great Blue Heron

_____ Great Egret (9 July 1974, SG photo fide WHG)

_____ Snowy Egret * (9-14 May 1971, RCH) [Stewart 1971; Nicholson 1982a]; 5 September 1971, RCH, JDH
             [Hassler and Hassler 1972])

_____ Little Blue Heron * (1 July 1973, Nicholson 1982a)

_____ Cattle Egret * (11 November 1978, RCH, JDH [Bierly 1979b])

_____ Green Heron

_____ Black-crowned Night-Heron (15 June 1937, RMM [Ganier 1937])

_____ Black Vulture (CBC)

_____ Turkey Vulture

_____ Osprey

_____ Bald Eagle

_____ Northern Harrier

_____ Sharp-shinned Hawk

_____ Cooper's Hawk

_____ Red-shouldered Hawk

_____ Broad-winged Hawk

_____ Red-tailed Hawk

_____ Rough-legged Hawk *

_____ Golden Eagle *

_____ American Kestrel

_____ Merlin * (23 October 1985, RCH [Stedman 1986a])

_____ Peregrine Falcon *

_____ Yellow Rail * (8 December 1983, RCH, JDH [Hassler 1984])

_____ American Coot

_____ Sandhill Crane

_____ Killdeer

_____ Spotted Sandpiper

_____ Lesser Yellowlegs (22 March 2002, RCH)

_____ Dunlin * (30 October 1969, JDH, RCH [Parmer 1969d])

_____ Wilson's Snipe

_____ American Woodcock (TBBA [Nicholson 1997])

_____ Bonaparte's Gull (22 December 1993, JDH, RCH)

_____ Ring-billed Gull

_____ Herring Gull * (31 December 1983, RCH, JDH; 30 October 2004, BHS, SJS)

_____ Rock Pigeon

_____ Eurasian Collared-Dove (24 September 2005, WAW, CEW, MH)

_____ Mourning Dove

_____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo

_____ Black-billed Cuckoo

_____ Eastern Screech-Owl

_____ Great Horned Owl

_____ Barred Owl

_____ Northern Saw-whet Owl * (9 February 2000, SJS; 19 December 2007, JDF)

_____ Common Nighthawk

_____ Chuck-will's-widow

_____ Whip-poor-will

_____ Chimney Swift

_____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird

_____ Rufous Hummingbird * (1 October-20 December 2005, RCH, CS [banded 23 October 2005])

_____ Belted Kingfisher

_____ Red-headed Woodpecker

_____ Red-bellied Woodpecker

_____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

_____ Downy Woodpecker

_____ Hairy Woodpecker

_____ Red-cockaded Woodpecker (extirpated)

_____ Northern Flicker

_____ Pileated Woodpecker

_____ Eastern Wood-Pewee

_____ Acadian Flycatcher

_____ Willow Flycatcher (TBBA [Nicholson 1997])

_____ Eastern Phoebe

_____ Great Crested Flycatcher

_____ Eastern Kingbird

_____ Loggerhead Shrike

_____ White-eyed Vireo

_____ Yellow-throated Vireo

_____ Blue-headed Vireo (19 July 1992, SJS, BHS)

_____ Philadelphia Vireo

_____ Red-eyed Vireo

_____ Blue Jay

_____ American Crow

_____ Horned Lark

_____ Purple Martin

_____ Northern Rough-winged Swallow

_____ Cliff Swallow

_____ Barn Swallow

_____ Carolina Chickadee

_____ Tufted Titmouse

_____ Red-breasted Nuthatch

_____ White-breasted Nuthatch

_____ Brown Creeper

_____ Carolina Wren

_____ Bewick's Wren (Nicholson 1982a)

_____ House Wren

_____ Winter Wren (27 December 1985, CBC)

_____ Golden-crowned Kinglet

_____ Ruby-crowned Kinglet

_____ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

_____ Eastern Bluebird

_____ Gray-cheeked Thrush (24 September 2005, SJS)

_____ Swainson's Thrush

_____ Hermit Thrush

_____ Wood Thrush

_____ American Robin

_____ Gray Catbird

_____ Northern Mockingbird

_____ Brown Thrasher

_____ European Starling

_____ American Pipit (30 December 1999, RCH, JDH)

_____ Cedar Waxwing

_____ Golden-winged Warbler (24 September 1993, SJS)

    _____ Brewster's Warbler (23 April 1987, RCH [Stedman 1987d])

_____ Tennessee Warbler

_____ Northern Parula

_____ Yellow Warbler

_____ Chestnut-sided Warbler (TBBA [Nicholson 1997]; 12 September 1997, SJS)

_____ Magnolia Warbler (15 September 1995, SJS, MAS)

_____ Cape May Warbler

_____ Black-throated Blue Warbler

_____ Yellow-rumped Warbler

_____ Black-throated Green Warbler

_____ Blackburnian Warbler

_____ Yellow-throated Warbler

_____ Pine Warbler

_____ Prairie Warbler

_____ Palm Warbler (24 September 2005, WAW)

_____ Bay-breasted Warbler

_____ Blackpoll Warbler

_____ Cerulean Warbler

_____ Black-and-white Warbler

_____ American Redstart (3 September 1987, SJS)

_____ Prothonotary Warbler

_____ Worm-eating Warbler

_____ Swainson's Warbler *

_____ Ovenbird

_____ Northern Waterthrush

_____ Louisiana Waterthrush

_____ Kentucky Warbler

_____ Common Yellowthroat

_____ Hooded Warbler

_____ Wilson's Warbler (3 September 1987, SJS)

_____ Yellow-breasted Chat

_____ Summer Tanager

_____ Scarlet Tanager

_____ Eastern Towhee

_____ Bachman's Sparrow

_____ American Tree Sparrow *

_____ Chipping Sparrow

_____ Field Sparrow

_____ Grasshopper Sparrow

_____ Fox Sparrow

_____ Song 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

_____ Common Grackle

_____ Brown-headed Cowbird

_____ Orchard Oriole

_____ Baltimore Oriole

_____ Purple Finch

_____ House Finch

_____ Red Crossbill * (18 on 28 October 1972, RCH [Bierly 1972]

_____ Pine Siskin

_____ American Goldfinch

_____ Evening Grosbeak

_____ 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