Bird Checklists of the United States

Birds of Northwestern Louisiana

This bird checklist for Northwestern Louisiana includes the James Bayou Forest Natural Area, Soda Lake Wildlife Management/Wildlife Refuge, Bodcau Bayou Wildlife Area & Loggy Bayou Wildlife Management Area.

LOONS

___ Red-throated Loon
___ Common Loon

GREBES

___ Pied-billed Grebe
___ Horned Grebe
___ Eared Grebe
___ Western Grebe

PELICANS

___ American White Pelican
___ Brown Pelican

COMORANTS, DARTERS

___ Double-crested Cormorant
___ Neotropic Cormorant
___ Anhinga

BITTERNS, HERONS, etc.

___ American Bittern
___ Least Bittern
___ Great Blue Heron
___ Great Egret
___ Snowy Egret
___ Little Blue Heron
___ Tricolored Heron
___ Cattle Egret
___ Green Heron
___ Black-crowned Night-Heron
___ Yellow-cr. Night-Heron

IBISES, SPOONBILLS

___ White Ibis
___ White-faced Ibis
___ Roseate Spoonbill

STORKS

___ Wood Stork

NEW WORLD VULTURES

___ Black Vulture
___ Turkey Vulture

GEESE, DUCKS

___ Fulvous Whistling-Duck
___ Bl.-bellied Whistling-Duck
___ Tundra Swan
___ Gr. White-fronted Goose
___ Snow Goose
___ Ross' Goose
___ Canada Goose
___ Wood Duck
___ Green-winged Teal
___ American Black Duck
___ Mallard
___ Northern Pintale
___ Blue-winged Teal
___ Cinnamon Teal
___ Northern Shoveler
___ Gadwall
___ American Wigeon
___ Canvasback
___ Redhead
___ Ring-necked Duck
___ Greater Scaup
___ Lesser Scaup
___ Oldsquaw
___ Surf Scoter
___ White-winged Scoter
___ Common Goldeneye
___ Bufflehead
___ Hooded Merganser
___ Common Merganser
___ Red-breasted Merganser
___ Ruddy Duck

KITES, EAGLES

___ Osprey
___ Swallow-tailed Kite
___ White-tailed Kite
___ Mississippi Kite
___ Bald Eagle

HAWKS

___ Northern Harrier
___ Sharp-shinned Hawk
___ Cooper's Hawk
___ Red-shouldered Hawk
___ Broad-winged Hawk
___ Swainson's Hawk
___ Red-tailed Hawk
___ Ferruginous Hawk
___ Rough-legged Hawk
___ Golden Eagle

FALCONS

___ American Kestrel
___ Merlin
___ Perigrine Falcon

TURKEYS, QUAIL

___ Wild Turkey
___ Northern Bobwhite

RAILS, COOTS

___ Yellow Rail
___ Black Rail
___ King Rail
___ Virginia Rail
___ Sora
___ Purple Gallinule
___ Common Moorhen
___ American Coot

CRANES

___ Sandhill Crane

PLOVERS

___ Black-bellied Plover
___ American Golden-Plover
___ Snowy Plover
___ Semipalmated Plover
___ Piping Plover
___ Killdeer

STILTS, AVOCETS

___ Black-necked Stilt
___ American Avocet

SANDPIPERS

___ Greater Yellowlegs
___ Lesser Yellowlegs
___ Solitary Sandpiper
___ Willet
___ Spotted Sandpiper
___ Upland Sandpiper
___ Long-billed Curlew
___ Hudsonian Godwit
___ Ruddy Turnstone
___ Red Knot
___ Sanderling
___ Semipalmated Sandpiper
___ Western Sandpiper
___ Least Sandpiper
___ White-rumped Sandpiper
___ Baird's Sandpiper
___ Pectoral Sandpiper
___ Dunlin
___ Stilt Sandpiper
___ Buff-breasted Sandpiper
___ Short-billed Dowitcher
___ Long-billed Dowitcher
___ Common Snipe
___ American Woodcock
___ Wilson's Phalarope

GULLS, TERNS

___ Laughing Gull
___ Franklin's Gull
___ Bonaparte's Gull
___ Ring-billed Gull
___ Herring Gull 
___ Glaucous Gull
___ Sabine's Gull
___ Caspian Tern
___ Common Tern
___ Forster's Tern
___ Least Tern
___ Sooty Tern
___ Black Tern

PIGEONS, DOVES

___ Rock Dove
___ Band-tailed Pigeon
___ Eurasian Collared-Dove
___ Ringed Turtle-Dove
___ White-winged Dove
___ Diamond Dove
___ Mourning Dove
___ Inca Dove
___ Common Ground-Dove

PARROTS

___ Monk Parakeet

CUCKOOS

___ Black-billed Cuckoo
___ Yellow-billed Cuckoo
___ Greater Roadrunner
___ Groove-billed Ani

OWLS

___ Barn Owl
___ Eastern Screech-Owl
___ Great Horned Owl
___ Snowy Owl
___ Burrowing Owl
___ Barred Owl
___ Long-eared Owl
___ Short-eared Owl

GOATSUCKERS

___ Common Nighthawk
___ Chuck-will's widow
___ Whip-poor-will

SWIFTS

___ Chimney Swift

HUMMINGBIRDS

___ Ruby-th. Hummingbird
___ Broad-tailed Hummingbird
___ Rufous Hummingbird

KINGFISHERS

___ Belted Kingfisher

WOODPECKERS

___ Red-headed Woodpecker
___ Red-bellied Woodpecker
___ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
___ Downey Woodpecker
___ Hairy Woodpecker
___ Red-cockaded Woodpecker
___ Northern Flicker
___ Pileated Woodpecker

TYRANT FLYCATCHERS

___ Olive-sided Flycatcher
___ Eastern Wood-Pewee
___ Yellow-bellied
___ Acadian Flycatcher
___ Alder Flycatcher
___ Willow Flycatcher
___ Least Flycatcher
___ Eastern Phoebe
___ Say's Phoebe
___ Vermillion Flycatcher
___ Ash-throated Flycatcher
___ Great Crested Flycatcher
___ Western Kingbird
___ Eastern Kingbird
___ Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

SHRIKES

___ Loggerhead Shrike

VIREOS

___ White-eyed Vireo
___ Bell's Vireo
___ Blue-headed Vireo
___ Yellow-throated Vireo
___ Warbling Vireo
___ Philadelphia Vireo
___ Red-eyed Vireo

JAYS, CROWS

___ Blue Jay
___ American Crow
___ Fish Crow

LARKS

___ Horned Lark

SWALLOWS

___ Purple Martin
___ Tree Swallow
___ No. Rough-winged Swallow
___ Bank Swallow
___ Cliff Swallow
___ Barn Swallow

CHICKADEES, TITMICE

___ Carolina Chickadee
___ Tufted Titmouse

NUTHATCHES

___ Red-breasted Nuthatch
___ White-breasted Nuthatch
___ Brown-headed Nuthatch

CREEPERS

___ Brown Creeper

WRENS

___ Carolina Wren
___ Bewick's Wren
___ House Wren
___ Winter Wren
___ Sedge Wren
___ Marsh Wren

MUSCICAPIDS

___ Golden-crowned Kinglet
___ Ruby-crowned Kinglet
___ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
___ Northern Wheatear
___ Eastern Bluebird
___ Veery
___ Gray-cheeked Thrush
___ Swainson's Thrush
___ Hermit Thrush
___ Wood Thrush 
___ American Robin

MOCKINGBIRDS

___ Grey Catbird
___ Northern Mockingbird
___ Brown Thrasher

STARLINGS

___ European Starling

PIPITS

___ American Pipit
___ Sprague's Pipit

WAXWINGS

___ Cedar Waxwing

WARBLERS

___ 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-th. Green Warbler
___ Blackburnian Warbler
___ Yellow-throated Warbler
___ Pine Warbler
___ Prairie Warbler
___ Palm Warbler
___ Bay-breasted Warbler
___ Blackpoll Warbler
___ Cerulean Warbler
___ Black-and white Warbler
___ American Redstart
___ Prothonotary Warbler
___ Worm-eating Warbler
___ Swainson's Warbler
___ Ovenbird
___ Northern Waterthrush
___ Louisiana Waterthrush
___ Kentucky Warbler
___ Connecticut Warbler
___ Mourning Warbler
___ Common Yellowthroat
___ Hooded Warbler
___ Wilson's Warbler
___ Canada Warbler
___ Yellow-breasted Chat

TANAGERS

___ Summer Tanager
___ Scarlet Tanager
___ Western Tanager

SPARROWS

___ Eastern Towhee
___ Spotted Towhee
___ Bachman's Sparrow
___ American Tree Sparrow
___ Chipping Sparrow
___ Clay-colored Sparrow
___ Field Sparrow
___ Vesper Sparrow
___ Lark Sparrow
___ Black-throated Sparrow
___ Savannah Sparrow
___ Grasshopper Sparrow
___ Henslow's Sparrow
___ LeConte's Sparrow
___ Nelson's Sharp-tail Sparrow
___ Fox Sparrow
___ Song Sparrow
___ Lincoln's Sparrow
___ Swamp Sparrow
___ White-throated Sparrow
___ Harris' Sparrow
___ White-crowned Sparrow
___ Golden-crowned Sparrow
___ Dark-eyed Junco
___ Lapland Longspur
___ Smith's Longspur
___ Chestnut-collared Longspur

CARDINALS

___ Northern Cardinal
___ Rose-breasted Grosbeak
___ Black-headed Grosbeak
___ Blue Grosbeak
___ Indigo Bunting
___ Painted Bunting
___ Dickcissel

ICTERIDS

___ Bobolink
___ Red-winged Blackbird
___ Eastern Meadowlark
___ Western Meadowlark
___ Yellow-headed Blackbird
___ Rusty Blackbird
___ Brewer's Blackbird
___ Common Grackle
___ Great-tailed Grackle
___ Brown-headed Cowbird
___ Orchard Oriole
___ Baltimore Oriole 
___ Bullock's Oriole

FINCHES

___ Purple Finch
___ House Finch
___ Red Crossbill
___ Pine Siskin
___ Lesser Siskin
___ American Goldfinch
___ Evening Goldfinch

WEAVER FINCHES

___ House Sparrow

For more information contact:
                                 SSNS BIRD STUDY GROUP
                                 Museum of Life Sciences
                                 One University Place
                                 Shreveport LA 71115-2399

Arrival and Departure Dates - Additional information concerning arrival and departure dates of Birds of Northwestern Louisiana.

This resource is based on the following source:

Bird Study Group.  1999.  Birds of Northwestern Louisiana.  Shreveport 
     Society for Nature Study, Inc.  Unpaginated.

This resource should be cited as:

Bird Study Group.  1999.  Birds of Northwestern Louisiana.  Shreveport 
     Society for Nature Study, Inc.  Unpaginated.  Jamestown, ND: 
     Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Online.
     http://www.npwrc.usgs.govnwla.htm  
     (Version 04JAN00)

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