1980 KOS Spring Meeting Compiled List of Bird Sightings
Field trips to Schemerhorn Park and vicinity, Cherokee County
135 species
(This was the first year that the spring meeting was field trips only. Prior to this time, the spring
meeting was the annual meeting with business meeting and paper sessions.)

 

Pied-billed grebe
Double-crested cormorant
Great blue heron
Green heron
Little blue heron
Black-crowned night heron
Mallard
Gadwall
Blue-winged teal
American widgeon
Wood duck
Redhead
Turkey vulture
Sharp-shinned hawk
Cooper's hawk
Red-tailed hawk
Red-shouldered hawk
Broad-winged hawk
Swainson's hawk
Marsh hawk (Northern Harrier)
Osprey
American kestrel
Bobwhite
American coot
Killdeer
Spotted sandpiper
Lesser yellowlegs
Forster's tern
Rock dove
Mourning dove
Yellow-billed cuckoo
Black-billed cuckoo
Great horned owl
Barred owl
Chuck-will’s-widow
Whip-poor-will
Common nighthawk
Chimney swift
Ruby-throated hummingbird
Belted kingfisher
Yellow-shafted flicker
Pileated woodpecker
Red-bellied woodpecker
Red-headed woodpecker
Yellow-bellied sapsucker
Hairy woodpecker
Downy woodpecker
Eastern kingbird
Western kingbird
Scissor-tailed flycatcher
Great crested flycatcher
Eastern phoebe
Acadian flycatcher
Least flycatcher
Eastern wood pewee
Horned lark
Rough-winged swallow
Barn swallow
Purple martin
Blue jay
Common crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Carolina chickadee
Tufted titmouse
White-breasted nuthatch
House wren
Bewick’s wren
Carolina wren
Northern mockingbird
Cray catbird
Brown thrasher
American robin
Wood thrush
Swainson's thrush
Gray-cheeked thrush
Veery
Eastern bluebird
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned kinglet
Cedar waxwing
Loggerhead shrike
Starling
White-eyed vireo
Solitary vireo
Red-eyed vireo
Philadelphia vireo
Warbling vireo
Black-and-white warbler
Prothonotary warbler
Blue-winged warbler
Tennessee warbler
Orange-crowned warbler
Nashville warbler
Northern parula
Yellow warbler
Magnolia warbler
Myrtle warbler
Black-throated green warbler
Yellow-throated warbler
Blackpoll warbler
Ovenbird
Northern waterthrush
Louisiana waterthrush
Kentucky warbler
Common yellowthroat
Yellow-breasted chat
Wilson's warbler
American redstart
House sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
Red-winged blackbird
Orchard oriole
Baltimore oriole
Common grackle
Brown-headed cowbird
Scarlet tanager
Summer tanager
Cardinal
Rose-breasted grosbeak
Blue grosbeak
Indigo bunting
Dickcissel
American goldfinch
Rufous-sided towhee
Savannah sparrow
Grasshopper sparrow
Lark sparrow
Chipping sparrow
Clay-colored sparrow
Field sparrow
Harris' sparrow
White-crowned sparrow
White-throated sparrow
Lincoln's sparrow
Song sparrow

Compiled by Marvin Schwilling, May 4, 1980
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