Common birds that visit birdfeeders.
Bird checklist for Natural Gardens
All the birds listed here have been seen at Natural Gardens.
Legend for how often seen/heard.
VC= Very Common
C= Common
O=Occasionally
R= Rare
H= Usually heard, not seen
- Ducks, Geese & Swans
- Snow Goose – O
- Canada Goose – VC
- Wood Duck – VC
- Mallard – VC
- Bufflehead – R
- Hooded Merganser – VC
- Common Merganser – VC
- Green Winged Teal – O
- Gallinaceous Birds
- Northern Bobwhite – Released
- Wild Turkey – VC
- Ruffled Grouse – VC
- Ring-necked Pheasant – Released
- Doves
- Mourning Dove – VC
- Rock Pigeon – O
- Cuckoos
- Yellow-Billed Cuckoo – O,H
- Black-Billed Cuckoo – O,H
- Night Jars
- Common Nighthawk – O
- Swifts
- Chimney Swift – C
- Hummingbirds
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird – VC
- Plovers
- Killdeer – VC
- Sandpiper
- American Woodcock – O
- Spotted Sandpiper – O
- Bitterns & Herons
- Blue Heron – VC
- Green Heron – O
- American Bittern – O
- Snowy Egret – R
- Vultures
- Turkey Vulture – VC
- Osprey
- Osprey – O
- Hawks, Kites & Eagles
- Golden Eagle – O
- Sharp-shinned Hawk – VC
- Broad-winged Hawk – C
- Coopers Hawk – C
- Bald Eagle – C
- Red-shouldered Hawk – C
- Red-tailed Hawk – VC
- Owls
- American Barn Owl – O
- Eastern Screech Owl – O,H
- Great Horned Owl – O,H
- Barred Owl – O,H
- Great Gray Owl – O,H
- Kingfisher
- Belted Kingfisher – VC
- Woodpeckers
- Red-bellied Woodpecker – C
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker – VC
- Downy Woodpecker – VC
- Hairy Woodpecker – C
- Northern Flicker – VC
- Pileated Woodpecker – C
- Falcons
- American Kestrel – C
- Flycatchers
- Eastern Phoebe – VC
- Eastern Kingbird – VC
- Eastern Wood Pewee – VC
- Greater-crested Flycatcher – O
- Vireos
- Red-eyed Vireo – O
- Warbling Vireo – C
- Jays & Crows
- Blue Jay – VC
- American Crow – VC
- Common Raven – VC
- Chickadee & Titmouse
- Black-capped Chickadee – VC
- Tufted Titmouse – VC
- Swallows
- Tree Swallow – VC
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow – O
- Barn Swallow – VC
- Kinglets
- Golden-crowned Kinglet – VC
- Waxwings
- Cedar Waxwing – VC
- Nuthatches
- Red-breasted Nuthatch – O
- White-breasted Nuthatch – VC
- Creepers
- Brown Creeper – VC
- Wrens
- Winter Wren – O
- Northern House Wren – VC
- Carolina Wren – VC
- Marsh Wren – O
- Mimics
- Gray Catbird – VC
- Brown Thrasher – C
- Starling
- European Starling – VC
- Thrushes
- Eastern Bluebird – VC
- Wood Thrush – O
- American Robin – VC
- Old World Sparrow
- House Sparrow – VC
- Finches & Crossbills
- Evening Grosbeak -O
- House Finch – VC
- Redpoll – VC
- Purple Finch – VC
- Pine Siskin – C
- American Goldfinch – VC
- New World Sparrows
- Chipping Sparrow – VC
- Field Sparrow – VC
- Fox Sparrow – O
- American Tree Sparrow – VC
- Dark-eyed Junco – VC
- White-throated Sparrow – VC
- White-crowned Sparrow – C
- Song Sparrow – VC
- Eastern Towhee – C
- Blackbirds
- Bobolink – C
- Eastern Meadowlark – C
- Baltimore Oriole – C
- Red-winged Blackbird – VC
- Brown-headed Cowbird – VC
- Common Grackle – VC
- Warblers
- Black-throated Blue Warbler – C
- Common Yellow-throat Warbler – VC
- Nashville Warbler – C
- American Redstart – C
- Blackburnian Warbler – O
- Yellow-rumped Warbler – O
- Yellow Warbler – C
- Tanagers & Cardinals
- Summer Tanager – O
- Northern Cardinal – VC
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak – VC
- Indigo Bunting – VC