southwest louisiana’s
bird listing species Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Yellow-nosed Albatross Cory’s Shearwater Audubon’s Shearwater Masked Booby Northern Gannet American White Pelican Brown Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Neotropic Cormorant Anhinga Magnificent Frigatebird American Bittern Least Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little-blue Heron Tricolored Heron Reddish Egret Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron White Ibis Glossy Ibis White-faced Ibis Roseate Spoonbill Wood Stork Fulvous Whistling-Duck Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross’s Goose Brant Canada Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Teal American Black Duck Mottled Duck Mallard Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck (Oldsquaw) Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Masked Duck Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Osprey Swallow-tailed Kite White-tailed Kite Mississippi Kite Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Cooper’s Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Sharp-shinned Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Northern Bobwhite Yellow Rail King Rail Virginia Rail Sora Purple Gallinule Common Moorhen American Coot Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover
winter
spring
summer
fall
species
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American Golden-plover Mongolian Plover Snowy Plover Wilson’s Plover Semipalmated Plover Piping Plover Killdeer American Oystercatcher Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Willet Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Whimbrel Long-billed Curlew Hudsonian Godwit Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Baird’s Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Purple Sandpiper Dunlin Curlew Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Ruff Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Common Snipe American Woodcock Wilson’s Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Red Phalarope Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Long-tailed Jaeger Laughing Gull Franklin’s Gull Little Gull Bonaparte’s Gull Ring-billed Gull California Gull Herring Gull Thayer’s Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Sabine’s Gull Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Royal Tern Sandwich Tern Common Tern Arctic Tern Forster’s Tern Least Tern Bridled Tern Sooty Tern Black Tern Brown Noddy * Black Skimmer Rock Pigeon (I) Eurasian Collared Dove (I) White-winged Dove Mourning Dove Inca Dove Common Ground Dove Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Groove-billed Ani Barn Owl Eastern Screech Owl Great-horned Owl Burrowing Owl Barred Owl Short-eared Owl Common Night-hawk Lesser Night-hawk Chuck-will’s-widow Whip-poor-will Chimney Swift Buff-bellied Hummingbird Ruby-throated Hummingbird Black-chinned Hummingbird
winter x NR u r c u a r a a c c r c c NR o r NR u u r c NR c c NR NR o x c NR u NR NR u c c c x x NR r o NR a o x c a x c NR r o r r NR u u c o r NR a x NR NR o NR c u c c a u r NR NR r u u c o c r NR, NR o x NR o o u
spring u NR u u c u a r a a c c u c u u c r u u c r c c c c u o c x c NR c u x u c u u u x NR r NR x a u x u a x c x r r r r x u c a c c x a c x x c NR c u c c a u r u c r u u c NR c r c, x u u c o c r
summer
fall
x NR o u o o a r a o r o r u u o o o x o u o u r o o x o o NR r NR o o NR r r o o o NR NR o NR NR a r NR x o x o NR o x NR x NR u u a c u x a c NR x c x u u c c a u r NR c NR u u c NR c NR u, NR NR NR c NR u NR
r x u u c u a r a a c c u c u o o r x u c o c r c c x o c NR c x c u NR u c c c u x x x x NR a u NR u a r c NR r x x x x c c a u c NR a u x x c x c u c c a u r r c r u u c o c r u x u u c o c r
species
winter
Anna’s Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird 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 Pacific-slope Flycatcher Cordilleran Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Say’s Phoebe Vermilion Flycatcher Ash-throated Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher Brown-crested Flycatcher Great Kiskadee Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher * Couch’s Kingbird Cassin’s Kingbird Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird Gray Kingbird Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Loggerhead Shrike White-eyed Vireo Bell’s Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Plumbeous Vireo * Cassin’s Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Yellow-green Vireo Black-whiskered Vireo * Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Horned Lark Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Cave Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch Brown-headed Nuthatch Brown Creeper Rock Wren Carolina Wren Bewick’s Wren House Wren Winter Wren Sedge Wren Marsh Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Northern Wheatear Eastern Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Townsend’s Solitaire Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson’s Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Varied Thrush Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Sage Thrasher Brown Thrasher Curve-billed Thrasher American Pipit Sprague’s Pipit White Wagtail Cedar Waxwing European Starling (I) Blackpoll Warbler Blue-winged Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler
x u c u c c c u c c NR NR NR NR NR NR r NR NR c NR u r NR x x NR x NR r NR NR r c r o NR NR NR u x x x NR NR c u u r o c r x NR x r c u r u r x c r c u c c u a c NR c NR x x NR x c x c x u c x c x c o NR c a u NR NR r c o x NR NR NR NR NR c x NR o
spring
summer
fall
species
NR r u u c u c u u c r u r u c r u x NR u NR r r c x x x x NR u c x u c a x u NR NR r u u a x x c u u x c a c u c r c c u x u NR NR c x c NR c c o c c NR c NR NR c c c u c c x a c NR c NR u x NR u a NR c u a u r c u c c r r c c u u
NR NR r u c NR c u r c NR r r u NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR c NR x NR x NR r c NR u c c NR o NR NR NR NR NR u x x c u u NR c NR o o u r c c u NR u NR NR c NR NR NR NR u NR NR u NR u NR NR x x x NR u r NR r c NR u NR NR NR NR o a x o NR NR NR o u u NR NR NR NR NR NR NR r
NR r c u c u c u u c u c u u c r c NR x c x r r c x x x x x u c NR c c c r u x x u r c c NR NR c u u x r c c u c NR c c u r u r x c r c o c c u a a x c x x o o u c c c NR c c x a NR c o x o a NR u r c u u u c u u NR r u u r u
winter
spring
Pine Warbler
c
Prairie Warbler
o
Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler
summer
fall
u
u
c
u
NR
r
u
u
NR
u u
NR
u
NR
Cerulean Warbler
x
r
NR
r
Black-and-white Warbler
r
c
NR
u c
American Redstart
NR
c
r
Prothonotary Warbler
x
c
u
r
Worm-eating Warbler
NR
u
NR
u
Swainson’s Warbler
NR
c
r
r
o
u
NR
u
Northern Waterthrush
NR
c
NR
c
Louisiana Waterthrush
x
c
r
c
Kentucky Warbler
NR
c
u
u
Mourning Warbler
NR
u
NR
r
c
c
c
c
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler
NR
c
u
c
Wilson’s Warbler
o
r
NR
c
Canada Warbler
NR
u
NR
r
o
c
u
u
Hepatic Tanager
NR
x
NR
NR
Summer Tanager
r
c
u
c
NR
c
NR
u
Yellow-brested Chat
Scarlet Tanager Western Tanager
r
r
NR
r
Green-tailed Towhee
x
x
NR
x
Eastern Towhee
u
u
u
u
Spotted Towhee
o
x
NR
o
Bachman’s Sparrow
r
r
r
r
Chipping Sparrow
c
u
r
u
Clay-colored Sparrow
x
r
NR
o
Brewer’s Sparrow
x
NR
NR
NR
Field Sparrow
u
o
r
u
Vesper Sparrow
r
r
NR
r
Lark Sparrow
r
r
r
r
Lark Bunting
NR
x
NR
x
Savannah Sparrow
a
a
NR
a
Grasshopper Sparrow
o
r
NR
o
Henslow’s Sparrow
x
NR
NR
NR
LeConte’s Sparrow
u
r
NR
u
Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow
u
u
NR
u
Seaside Sparrow
u
u
u
u
Fox Sparrow
o
NR
NR
o
Song Sparrow
c
u
NR
c
Lincoln’s Sparrow
u
u
NR
u a
Swamp Sparrow
a
a
NR
White-throated Sparrow
a
a
NR
a
Golden-crowned Sparrow
x
x
NR
NR
White-crowned Sparrow
u
u
NR
u
Harris’s Sparrow
r
x
NR
o
Dark-eyed Junco
u
NR
NR
u
Lapland Longspur
x
NR
NR
x
NR
x
x
x
Northern Cardinal
a
a
a
a
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
r
c
NR
c
Black-headed Grosbeak
x
x
NR
r
Blue Bunting
x
NR
NR
NR
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Blue Grosbeak
r
c
o
c
Lazuli Bunting
NR
x
NR
x
Indigo Bunting
r
a
c
a
Varied Bunting
NR
x
NR
NR
Painted Bunting
r
c
c
c
Dickcissel
o
c
u
u
Bobolink
NR
u
NR
r
a
a
a
a
Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark
c
c
c
c
Western Meadowlark
x
x
NR
x
Yellow-headed Blackbird
r
r
NR
r
Rusty Blackbird
u
r
NR
o o
Brewer’s Blackbird
u
o
NR
Great-tailed Grackle
c
c
c
c
Boat-tailed Grackle
a
a
a
a
Common Grackle Shiny Cowbird
c
c
c
c
NR
x
x
NR
Bronzed Cowbird
r
r
r
r
Brown-headed Cowbird
c
c
c
c
Orchard Oriole
x
a
c
u
Hooded Oriole
NR
x
NR
NR c
Baltimore Oriole
r
c
o
Bullock’s Oriole
r
r
NR
r
Scott’s Oriole
x
NR
NR
x
Purple Finch
r
NR
NR
r
House Finch
u
u
u
u
Pine Siskin
r
x
NR
r
NR
x
NR
NR
American Goldfinch
c
u
x
u
Evening Grosbeak
x
x
NR
NR
House Sparrow (I)
a
a
a
a
Lesser Goldfinch
KEY: winter spring summer fall a
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December through February March through May June through August September through November abundant (almost certainly will be found in proper habitat and season,
c
=
common (normally present; should be found in proper habitat and season;
u
=
uncommon (might be found; usually present in proper habitat and season,
r o x
= = =
rare; five or fewer records per year occasional; five or fewer records per ten years accidental; five or fewer total records
NR
=
no accepted records for season indicated
often in large numbers) numbers vary) but may be overlooked; typically in small numbers)