Check-list of Smith 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:

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

_____ Canada Goose

_____ Wood Duck

_____ Gadwall (11 January 1992, SJS)

_____ Mallard

_____ Blue-winged Teal (28 April 2007, Spring BirdBlitz, SJS, DAD)

_____ Ring-necked Duck (7 November 1993, SJS, BHS)

_____ Lesser Scaup (27 November 1993, SJS, BHS)

_____ Long-tailed Duck * (20 March 2005, SJS, WAW)

_____ Bufflehead (11 January 1992, SJS)

_____ Common Goldeneye (10 December 1995, SJS, BHS)

_____ Hooded Merganser (11 January 1992, SJS)

_____ Common Merganser * (late-19th-century egg sets [Knight 1989b])

_____ Red-breasted Merganser (27 November 1993, SJS, BHS)

_____ Wild Turkey (30 April 2004, KH photo)

_____ Northern Bobwhite

_____ Common Loon (27 November 1993, SJS, BHS)

_____ Pied-billed Grebe

_____ Horned Grebe (27 November 1993, SJS, BHS)

_____ Double-crested Cormorant

_____ Great Blue Heron

_____ Great Egret (28 April 2007, Spring BirdBlitz, WAW, MPO, TS)

_____ Little Blue Heron * (Alsop undated [1980])

_____ Green Heron

_____ Black-crowned Nigh-Heron (28 April 2007, Spring BirdBlitz, WAW, MPO, TS)

_____ Black Vulture

_____ Turkey Vulture

_____ Osprey

_____ Bald Eagle (winter 1987-1988 [Stedman 1988c])

_____ Northern Harrier (27 November 1993, SJS, BHS)

_____ Sharp-shinned Hawk (26 October 1991, SJS)

_____ Cooper's Hawk (26 October 1991, SJS)

_____ Red-shouldered Hawk

_____ Broad-winged Hawk

_____ Red-tailed Hawk (dark morph B. j. calurus 20 March 2005, SJS, WAW)

_____ Rough-legged Hawk (22 December 1986, RVM, MAT [Stedman 1987c])

_____ Golden Eagle * (4 January 1934, fide AFG [Ganier 1934]; 13 October 1990, SJS et al.)

_____ American Kestrel

_____ Merlin * (30 December 1987, RVM, MAT [Stedman 1988c]; 19 March 2006, WAW)

_____ American Coot (7 November 1993, SJS, BHS)

_____ Sandhill Crane (25 November 2002, TC, VC)

_____ Killdeer

_____ Spotted Sandpiper

_____ Solitary Sandpiper (28 April 2007, Spring BirdBlitz)

_____ Greater Yellowlegs (20 March 2005, SJS, WAW)

_____ Lesser Yellowlegs (28 April 2007, Spring BirdBlitz, WAW, MPO, TS)

_____ Wilson's Snipe (27 November 1993, SJS, BHS)

_____ American Woodcock (20 March 2005 (SJS, WAW)

_____ Bonaparte's Gull (11 January 1992, SJS)

_____ Ring-billed Gull

_____ Black Tern (18 August 1991, SJS)

_____ Forster's Tern (21 August 2005, SJS, WAW)

_____ Rock Pigeon

_____ Mourning Dove

_____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo

_____ Barn Owl * (TBBA [Nicholson 1997])

_____ Eastern Screech-Owl

_____ Great Horned Owl (October 2001, TC, VC)

_____ Barred Owl

_____ Short-eared Owl * (15 October 2006, Charles and Audrey Elrod fide Lee Barclay)

_____ Common Nighthawk (6 June 2002, TC, VC)

_____ Chuck-will's-widow (TBBA [Nicholson 1997])

_____ Whip-poor-will (28 April 2007, Spring BirdBlitz, SJS, DAD)

_____ Chimney Swift

_____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird

_____ Allen's Hummingbird * (mid-November 2002-6 March 2003, KH, TH; banded 26 January 2003, CAS, PM)

_____ Belted Kingfisher

_____ Red-headed Woodpecker

_____ Red-bellied Woodpecker

_____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

_____ Downy Woodpecker

_____ Hairy Woodpecker

_____ Northern Flicker

_____ Pileated Woodpecker

_____ Eastern Wood-Pewee

_____ Acadian Flycatcher (TBBA [Nicholson 1997])

_____ Eastern Phoebe

_____ Great Crested Flycatcher (28 May 2002, TC, VC)

_____ Eastern Kingbird

_____ Loggerhead Shrike (7 November 1993, SJS, BHS)

_____ White-eyed Vireo

_____ Yellow-throated Vireo

_____ Warbling Vireo (TBBA [Nicholson 1997])

_____ Red-eyed Vireo

_____ Blue Jay

_____ American Crow

_____ Horned Lark (28 April 2007, Spring BirdBlitz, BHS, JCF)

_____ Purple Martin

_____ Tree Swallow (TBBA [Nicholson 1997]; 20 March 2005, SJS, WAW)

_____ Northern Rough-winged Swallow

_____ Cliff Swallow

_____ Barn Swallow

_____ Carolina Chickadee

_____ Tufted Titmouse

_____ Red-breasted Nuthatch (27 November 1993, SJS, BHS)

_____ White-breasted Nuthatch

_____ Brown Creeper (7 December 2001, TC, VC)

_____ Carolina Wren

_____ Bewick's Wren (June 1980, CPN [Stedman 1986c])

_____ Winter Wren (20 November 1994, SJS)

_____ Golden-crowned Kinglet

_____ Ruby-crowned Kinglet

_____ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

_____ Eastern Bluebird

_____ Swainson's Thrush (28 April 2007, Spring BirdBlitz)

_____ Hermit Thrush

_____ Wood Thrush (TBBA [Nicholson 1997])

_____ American Robin

_____ Gray Catbird

_____ Northern Mockingbird

_____ Brown Thrasher

_____ European Starling

_____ Cedar Waxwing

_____ Blue-winged Warbler (21 August 2005, SJS, WAW)

_____ Tennessee Warbler

_____ Nashville Warbler (28 April 2007, Spring BirdBlitz, SJS, DAD)

_____ Northern Parula (21 August 2005, SJS, WAW)

_____ Yellow Warbler (TBBA [Nicholson 1997])

_____ Chestnut-sided Warbler

_____ Magnolia Warbler

_____ Cape May Warbler (28 April 2007, Spring BirdBlitz)

_____ Yellow-rumped Warbler

_____ Black-throated Green Warbler

_____ Blackburnian Warbler

_____ Yellow-throated Warbler (26 July 2002, TC, VC)

_____ Pine Warbler (23 February 2002, TC, VC)

_____ Prairie Warbler

_____ Palm Warbler 25 October 2001, TC, VC)

_____ Bay-breasted Warbler

_____ Blackpoll Warbler (28 April 2007, Spring BirdBlitz, BHS, JCF)

_____ Cerulean Warbler (18 July 2005, SJS)

_____ Black-and-white Warbler

_____ American Redstart

_____ Prothonotary Warbler (3 June 2007 KH photo [young in nest])

_____ Ovenbird

_____ Northern Waterthrush (28 April 2007, Spring BirdBlitz)

_____ Louisiana Waterthrush

_____ Kentucky Warbler (2 October 2001, TC, VC)

_____ Common Yellowthroat

_____ Hooded Warbler (28 April 2007, Spring BirdBlitz)

_____ Yellow-breasted Chat

_____ Summer Tanager

_____ Scarlet Tanager (26 July 2002, TC, VC)

_____ Eastern Towhee

_____ American Tree Sparrow * (18 January 1976, WJJ [Williams 1976c])

_____ Chipping Sparrow

_____ Field Sparrow

_____ Vesper Sparrow (3 April 2005, SJS)

_____ Savannah Sparrow (28 April 2007, Spring BirdBlitz, BHS, JCF)

_____ Grasshopper Sparrow (TBBA [Nicholson 1997])

_____ Le Conte's Sparrow * (4 November 1934, JC [Calhoun 1934])

_____ Fox Sparrow (11 January 1992, SJS)

_____ Song Sparrow

_____ Lincoln's Sparrow (28 April 2007, Spring BirdBlitz, SJS, DAD)

_____ Swamp Sparrow

_____ White-throated Sparrow

_____ White-crowned Sparrow (11 January 1992, SJS)

_____ Dark-eyed Junco

_____ Northern Cardinal

_____ Rose-breasted Grosbeak

_____ Blue Grosbeak

_____ Indigo Bunting

_____ Bobolink (28 April 2007, Spring BirdBlitz, BHS, JCF)

_____ Red-winged Blackbird

_____ Eastern Meadowlark

_____ Rusty Blackbird (27 January 2007, SJS, WAW)

_____ Common Grackle

_____ Brown-headed Cowbird

_____ Orchard Oriole

_____ Baltimore Oriole (9 June 1984, RPF; Stedman 1984d; 7 May 2001, TC, VC)

_____ Purple Finch (11 January 1992, SJS)

_____ House Finch

_____ Pine Siskin (29 October 2002, TC, VC)

_____ American Goldfinch

_____  House Sparrow

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    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