Check-list of Russell 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:

                        sstedman@tntech.edu

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

_____ Snow Goose (22 February 1997, SBC)

_____ Canada Goose

_____ Tundra Swan * (15 February 2007, RMD)

_____ Wood Duck (27 September 2003, TMC, SJS, WAW)

_____ Gadwall

_____ American Wigeon

_____ American Black Duck

_____ Mallard

_____ Blue-winged Teal (23 March 2002, RMD)

_____ Northern Shoveler

_____ Northern Pintail

_____ Green-winged Teal

_____ Canvasback (24 December 1998, RMD)

_____ Redhead (22 February 1997, SBC)

_____ Ring-necked Duck

_____ Greater Scaup * (14 December 2007, RMD)

_____ Lesser Scaup

_____ Surf Scoter * (6 December 2005, RMD)

_____ White-winged Scoter * (17 February 2007, RMD)

_____ Black Scoter * (14 December 2007, RMD)

_____ Long-tailed Duck * (24 December1998, RMD)

_____ Bufflehead

_____ Common Goldeneye

_____ Hooded Merganser

_____ Common Merganser * (20 January 2000, RMD)

_____ Red-breasted Merganser (23 March 2002, RMD)

_____ Ruddy Duck

_____ Wild Turkey

_____ Northern Bobwhite (28 November 2001, SJS)

_____ Common Loon (31 March 2001, RMD)

_____ Pied-billed Grebe

_____ Horned Grebe

_____ American White Pelican (25 October 1988 [Stamm 1989a; Palmer-Ball 2003])

_____ Double-crested Cormorant (7 September 2002, SJS et al.)

_____ Great Blue Heron

_____ Great Egret (16 November 1999, RMD)

_____ Cattle Egret (15 November 2005, LC)

_____ Green Heron

_____ Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (9 May 2000, FR [Busroe 2000c])

_____ Black Vulture

_____ Turkey Vulture

_____ Osprey (7 September 2002, SJS et al.)

_____ Bald Eagle

_____ Sharp-shinned Hawk (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Cooper's Hawk (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

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

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

_____ Red-tailed Hawk

_____ American Kestrel

_____ American Coot

_____ Sandhill Crane 17 November 1980, GP fide JBE [Stamm 1981a])

_____ Killdeer

_____ Spotted Sandpiper (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946])

_____ Solitary Sandpiper

_____ Lesser Yellowlegs (28 April 1991, JBE [Stamm and Monroe 1991c])

_____ Pectoral Sandpiper

_____ Stilt Sandpiper (7 September 2002, SJS, RMD, WAW et al.)

_____ Wilson's Snipe

_____ Bonaparte's Gull

_____ Laughing Gull * (25 September 2005, DLR)

_____ Ring-billed Gull

_____ Herring Gull

_____ Caspian Tern (30 August 2005, DLR)

_____ Common Tern * (17 September 2004, DLR)

_____ Forster's Tern (24 September 2005, DLR)

_____ Rock Pigeon

_____ Mourning Dove

_____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Eastern Screech-Owl (7 September 2002, SJS et al.)

_____ Great Horned Owl (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Barred Owl (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Common Nighthawk (May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946])

_____ Chuck-will's-widow (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Whip-poor-will (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946]; KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Chimney Swift (7 September 2002, SJS et al.)

_____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird

_____ Belted Kingfisher

_____ Red-headed Woodpecker (7 September 2002, SJS et al.)

_____ Red-bellied Woodpecker

_____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

_____ Downy Woodpecker

_____ Hairy Woodpecker

_____ Northern Flicker

_____ Pileated Woodpecker

_____ Olive-sided Flycatcher (23 September 2005, LAB fide BPB)

_____ Eastern Wood-Pewee

_____ Acadian Flycatcher (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946]; KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Willow Flycatcher * (22 July 2004, RMD)

_____ Eastern Phoebe

_____ Great Crested Flycatcher (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Eastern Kingbird

_____ Loggerhead Shrike (13 December 1989 & 7 January 1990, JBE {Stamm 1990b]; KBBA; Palmer-Ball
            1996)

_____ White-eyed Vireo

_____ Yellow-throated Vireo

_____ Warbling Vireo * (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946]; 3 September 2005, RMD)

_____ Philadelphia Vireo (7 September 2002, WAW, RMD, SJS et al.)

_____ Red-eyed Vireo (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Blue Jay

_____ American Crow

_____ Horned Lark (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946])

_____ Purple Martin

_____ Tree Swallow

_____ Northern Rough-winged Swallow (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Cliff Swallow

_____ Barn Swallow

_____ Carolina Chickadee

_____ Tufted Titmouse

_____ Red-breasted Nuthatch

_____ White-breasted Nuthatch

_____ Brown-headed Nuthatch * (26 September-12 October 1999, DLR, KOS)

_____ Brown Creeper

_____ Carolina Wren

_____ Bewick's Wren (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946])

_____ House Wren (1 June 2004, SJS)

_____ Winter Wren

_____ Marsh Wren * (15 April 2000, SM; Palmer-Ball 2003))

_____ Golden-crowned Kinglet

_____ Ruby-crowned Kinglet

_____ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

_____ Eastern Bluebird

_____ Gray-cheeked Thrush (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946])

_____ Swainson's Thrush

_____ Hermit Thrush

_____ Wood Thrush (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ American Robin

_____ Gray Catbird

_____ Northern Mockingbird

_____ Brown Thrasher

_____ European Starling

_____ American Pipit (9 November 1988, JBE [Stamm 1989a])

_____ Cedar Waxwing

_____ Tennessee Warbler (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946])

_____ Northern Parula (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946]); 7 September 2002, SJS et al.)

_____ Yellow Warbler (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946])

_____ Chestnut-sided Warbler

_____ Magnolia Warbler

_____ Cape May Warbler (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946])

_____ Yellow-rumped Warbler

_____ Black-throated Green Warbler (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946])

_____ Blackburnian Warbler (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946]); 27 September 2003, TMC, SJS, WAW)

_____ Yellow-throated Warbler (7 September 2002, SJS et al.)

_____ Pine Warbler

_____ Prairie Warbler

_____ Palm Warbler (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946])

_____ Bay-breasted Warbler (27 September 2003, TMC, SJS, WAW)

_____ Blackpoll Warbler (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946])

_____ Cerulean Warbler (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946])

_____ Black-and-white Warbler (7 September 2002, SJS et al.)

_____ American Redstart (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946])

_____ Prothonotary Warbler (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946])

_____ Worm-eating Warbler (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946]); 7 September 2002, SJS et al.)

_____ Ovenbird (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Northern Waterthrush

_____ Louisiana Waterthrush (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

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

_____ Common Yellowthroat (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

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

_____ Wilson's Warbler (24 September 2005, fide RMD)

_____ Yellow-breasted Chat (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Summer Tanager

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

_____ Eastern Towhee

_____ Bachman's Sparrow * (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946])

_____ Chipping Sparrow

_____ Field Sparrow

_____ Savannah Sparrow'

_____ Grasshopper Sparrow (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946]); KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Song Sparrow

_____ Swamp Sparrow

_____ White-throated Sparrow

_____ White-crowned Sparrow

_____ Dark-eyed Junco

_____ Northern Cardinal

_____ Rose-breasted Grosbeak (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946])

_____ Blue Grosbeak (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996]; 22 July 2004, RMD)

_____ Indigo Bunting (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Dickcissel (May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946])

_____ Bobolink (3 May 1946, GW [Wilson 1946])

_____ Red-winged Blackbird

_____ Eastern Meadowlark

_____ Rusty Blackbird (1 December 2005, RMD, CGH)

_____ Common Grackle

_____ Brown-headed Cowbird (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Orchard Oriole (KBBA [Palmer-Ball 1996])

_____ Purple Finch

_____ House Finch

_____ Pine Siskin

_____ American Goldfinch

_____ House Sparrow

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Acknowledgment:

    Roseanna M. Denton and other members of the Somerset Bird Club, located in Somerset, Pulaski Co., KY, are responsible for providing most of the data listed above; many thanks to them for sharing the data.

    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