Birds of the COA
The known dates of rare bird visitors are annotated in italic script.
Black-bellied Whistling Duck (8 Jul 08)
Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Ross’s Goose
Brant (3-6 May 68)
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Trumpeter Swan
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
American Black Duck
Mallard
Mottled Duck (15 Jul 09)
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
White-winged Scoter
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Northern Bobwhite
Ring-necked Pheasant
Wild Turkey
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
Wood Stork (8 Aug 63 & 23-25 Aug 11)
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican (1-19 Jul 09)
Anhinga (21-23 Jul 93)
American Bittern
Least Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron (2 Jul 68 & 16 Aug 08)
Reddish Egret (25 Jun 72)
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
White-faced Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill (1859)
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Swallow-tailed Kite (22 Aug 10)
Mississippi Kite
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Swainson’s Hawk (26 Apr 78 & 29 Aug 10)
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Golden Eagle
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Prairie Falcon (9 Apr 86)
Yellow Rail (10 May 99)
Black Rail (29 Aug 07, 5 Oct 08, 10 May 11)
King Rail
Virginia Rail
Sora
Purple Gallinule (8 Jun 63, 28 May 68, 28 Jun 11)
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Whooping Crane (7-11 Dec 07)
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plover
Piping Plover (29 Jul 2010)
Snowy Plover (29 Jun 07)
Semipalmated Plover
Kildeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Lesser Yellowlegs
Upland Sandpiper
Whimbrel (24 May 64, 24 May 69, 26 May 83)
Hudsonian Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird’s Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
Stilt Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Ruff (4-6 April 00)
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson’s Snipe
American Woodcock
Wilson’s Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Red Phalarope
Bonaparte’s Gull
Laughing Gull
Franklin’s Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Black-tailed Gull (22 Mar 08?)
Herring Gull
Least Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Common Tern
Forster’s Tern
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
African Collared Dove (29 Jun 10)
White-winged Dove (26 Jun 02)
Mourning Dove
Common Ground-Dove (23 May 70)
Barn Owl
Eastern Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl (22 May 10)
Barred Owl
Short-eared Owl
Common Nighthawk
Chuck-will’s-widow
Eastern Whip-poor-will
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird (30 Oct-5 Nov 2006)
Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Tropical Kingbird (3 Jun 99)
Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Bell’s Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Horned Lark
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren
Bewick’s Wren (6 May 89, 24 Sept 11)
House Wren
Winter Wren
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
Veery
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson’s Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
American Pipit
Sprague’s Pipit (8 Apr 66)
Cedar Waxwing
Lapland Longspur
Smith’s Longspur
Snow Bunting
Ovenbird
Worm-eating Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush
Blue-winged Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Swainson’s Warbler (4 May 74)
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
American Redstart
Cape May Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Canada Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Eastern Towhee
American Tree Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Henslow’s Sparrow
Le Conte’s Sparrow
Nelson’s Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Harris’s Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Dickcissel
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Rusty Blackbird
Brewer’s Blackbird
Common Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle (22 May 07)
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Purple Finch
House Finch
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
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