P....Permanent Resident
S....Summer Resident
W....Winter Resident
M....Migrant
C....Common; Found on 50-100% of visits to park
U....Uncommon; Found on 20-50% of visits to park
R....Rare; Found on less than 20% of visits to park
V....Very Rare; 1-7 total records, or 1-2 records in a given season
A....Accidental; Not expected in Northeast Indiana, may not recur
F....Formally Occurred; Not now found in Park
Comment on codings: "Frequency Found" reflects the probability of seeing or hearing a species in season. Some birds, such as the Screech Owl, may be more common than indicated but are not usually seen.
217 Species, 1 Additional Form, 2 Hybrids Found in Park
Compiler: James A. Haw
4806 Royal Drive,
Fort Wayne, IN 46835
jhawillet@aol.com
Editor: Douglas Rood
| LOONS | ||
| Common Loon | MV | |
| GREBES | ||
| Pied-billed Grebe | MU,SV | |
| Horned Grebe | MV | |
| CORMORANTS | ||
| Double-crested Cormorant | MR | |
| VULTURES, HERONS & ALLIES | ||
| American Bittern | MV | |
| Least Bittern | SV | |
| Great Blue Heron | SU | |
| Great Egret | MV | |
| Little Blue Heron | MV | |
| Green Heron | SU | |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | MV | |
| Turkey Vulture | SU | |
| DUCKS, GEESE & SWANS | ||
| Canada Goose | SC,WR | |
| Wood Duck | SC | |
| Gadwall | MV | |
| American Wigeon | MR | |
| American Black Duck | MV | |
| Mallard | SU | |
| Blue-winged Teal | MU,SV | |
| Northern Shoveler | MV | |
| Northern Pintail | MV | |
| Green-winged Teal | MV | |
| Canvasback | MV | |
| Redhead | MV | |
| Ring-necked Duck | MR | |
| Lesser Scaup | MV | |
| Surf Scoter | MV | |
| Bufflehead | MV | |
| Hooded Merganser | MV | |
| Red-breasted Merganser | MV | |
| Common Merganser | MV | |
| Ruddy Duck | MV | |
| EAGLES, FALCONS & HAWKS | ||
| Osprey | MR | |
| Bald Eagle | MV | |
| Northern Harrier | WR | |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | MU,WV | |
| Cooper's Hawk | MU,SR | |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | MR,WV | |
| Broad-winged Hawk | MU,SV | |
| Red-tailed Hawk | PU | |
| Rough-legged Hawk | MV | |
| American Kestrel | MR,SWV | |
| Merlin | MV | |
| Peregrine Falcon | MV | |
| PHEASANTS, TURKEY & QUAIL | ||
| Ring-necked Pheasant | PF | |
| Northern Bobwhite | PF | |
| RAILS, MOORHENS & CRANES | ||
| Virginia Rail | MV | |
| Sora | MR,SV | |
| Common Moorhen | MR,SV | |
| American Coot | MU,SV | |
| Sandhill Crane | MV | |
| SHOREBIRDS | ||
| Black-bellied Plover | MV | |
| American Golden Plover | MV | |
| Semipalmated Plover | MV | |
| Killdeer | MC,SU | |
| Greater Yellowlegs | MV | |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | MR | |
| Solitary Sandpiper | MR | |
| Spotted Sandpiper | MU | |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | MV | |
| Least Sandpiper | MV | |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | MV | |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | MV | |
| Common Snipe | MR | |
| American Woodcock | SR | |
| JAEGERS, GULLS & TERNS | ||
| Bonaparte's Gull | MV | |
| Ring-billed Gull | MR | |
| Herring Gull | MV | |
| Common Tern | MV | |
| DOVES | ||
| Rock Dove | PU | |
| Mourning Dove | PC | |
| CUCKOOS | ||
| Black-billed Cuckoo | SR | |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | SC | |
| OWLS | ||
| Eastern Screech Owl | PV | |
| Great Horned Owl | PR | |
| Barred Owl | PR | |
| Long-eared Owl | MV | |
| Northern Saw-whet Owl | MV | |
| NIGHTJARS | ||
| Common Nighthawk | MR | |
| Whip-poor-will | MV | |
| SWIFTS & HUMMINGBIRDS | ||
| Chimney Swift | MC,SU | |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | SC | |
| KINGFISHER | ||
| Belted Kingfisher | SU | |
| WOODPECKERS | ||
| Red-headed Woodpecker | SU,WR | |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | PC | |
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | MU | |
| Downy Woodpecker | PC | |
| Hairy Woodpecker | PC | |
| Northern Flicker | PC | |
| Pileated Woodpecker | SR | |
| FLYCATCHERS | ||
| Olive-sided Flycatcher | MR | |
| Eastern Wood-Pewee | SC | |
| Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | MR | |
| Acadian Flycatcher | SC | |
| Alder Flycatcher | MR | |
| Willow Flycatcher | SC | |
| Least Flycatcher | MC,SR | |
| Eastern Phoebe | SU | |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | SC | |
| Eastern Kingbird | SU | |
| SHRIKES | ||
| Loggerhead Shrike | MV | |
| VIREOS | ||
| White-eyed Vireo | SC | |
| Bell's Vireo | MV | |
| Blue-headed Vireo | MU | |
| Yellow-throated Vireo | MC,SU | |
| Warbling Vireo | SC | |
| Philadelphia Vireo | MU | |
| Red-eyed Vireo | SC | |
| JAYS & CROWS | ||
| Blue Jay | PC | |
| American Crow | PC | |
| LARKS | ||
| Horned Lark | PR | |
| SWALLOWS | ||
| Purple Martin | SR | |
| Tree Swallow | SR | |
| N. Rough-winged Swallow | SU | |
| Bank Swallow | SR | |
| Barn Swallow | SU | |
| Cliff Swallow | SV | |
| CHICKADEES & TITMICE | ||
| Carolina Chickadee | PC | |
| Black-capped Chickadee | PF | |
| Boreal Chickadee | MA | |
| Tufted Titmouse | PC | |
| NUTHATCHES & CREEPERS | ||
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | WU | |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | PC | |
| Brown Creeper | WC,SR | |
| WRENS | ||
| Carolina Wren | PU | |
| House Wren | SC | |
| Winter Wren | MU,WV | |
| Marsh Wren | MV | |
| KINGLETS &GNATCATCHERS | ||
| Golden-crowned Kinglet | MC,WU | |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | MC,WV | |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | SC | |
| THRUSHES | ||
| Eastern Bluebird | PU | |
| Veery | SC | |
| Gray-cheeked Thrush | MU | |
| Swainson's Thrush | MC | |
| Hermit Thrush | MC,WR | |
| Wood Thrush | SC | |
| American Robin | SC,WU | |
| STARLINGS | ||
| European Starling | PC | |
| MIMICS | ||
| Gray Catbird | SC | |
| Northern Mockingbird | MV | |
| Brown Thrasher | SC | |
| PIPITS | ||
| American Pipit | MV | |
| WAXWINGS | ||
| Cedar Waxwing | SC,WR | |
| WARBLERS | ||
| Blue-winged Warbler | SU | |
| Golden-winged Warbler | MU | |
| “Brewster's” Warbler | MR,SV | |
| “Lawrence's” Warbler | MV | |
| Tennessee Warbler | MC | |
| Orange-crowned Warbler | MU | |
| Nashville Warbler | MC | |
| Northern Parula | MU,SV | |
| Yellow Warbler | SC | |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | MC,SR | |
| Magnolia Warbler | MC | |
| Cape May Warbler | MU | |
| Black-throated Blue Warbler | MU | |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | MC,WU | |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | MC,SV | |
| Blackburnian Warbler | MC,SV | |
| Yellow-throated Warbler | MR,SV | |
| Pine Warbler | MR | |
| Prairie Warbler | MR | |
| Palm Warbler | MU | |
| Bay-breasted Warbler | MC | |
| Blackpoll Warbler | MU | |
| Cerulean Warbler | SC | |
| Black-and-White Warbler | MC,SV | |
| American Redstart | SC | |
| Prothonotary Warbler | SR | |
| Worm-eating Warbler | MR | |
| Ovenbird | SC | |
| Northern Waterthrush | MU | |
| Louisiana Waterthrush | MV | |
| Kentucky Warbler | SC | |
| Connecticut Warbler | MR | |
| Mourning Warbler | MU | |
| Common Yellowthroat | SC | |
| Hooded Warbler | SU | |
| Wilson's Warbler | MU | |
| Canada Warbler | MU | |
| Yellow-breasted Chat | SC | |
| TANAGERS | ||
| Summer Tanager | MR | |
| Scarlet Tanager | SC | |
| TOWHEES & SPARROWS | ||
| Eastern Towhee | SC,WV | |
| American Tree Sparrow | WC | |
| Chipping Sparrow | MU,SR | |
| Field Sparrow | SC,WR | |
| Vesper Sparrow | MR,SV | |
| Savannah Sparrow | MV | |
| Grasshopper Sparrow | SV | |
| Le Conte's Sparrow | MV | |
| Fox Sparrow | MU,WR | |
| Song Sparrow | PC | |
| Lincoln's Sparrow | MU | |
| Swamp Sparrow | MC,WR,SV | |
| White-throated Sparrow | MC,WU | |
| White-crowned Sparrow | MU | |
| Dark-eyed Junco | WC | |
| "Oregon" Junco | WV | |
| CARDINAL & ALLIES | ||
| Northern Cardinal | PC | |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | SC | |
| Indigo Bunting | SC | |
| Dickcissel | MV | |
| BLACKBIRDS & ALLIES | ||
| Bobolink | MR | |
| Red-winged Blackbird | SC,WV | |
| Eastern Meadowlark | MR,SV | |
| Rusty Blackbird | MR | |
| Common Grackle | SC | |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | SC | |
| Orchard Oriole | MR | |
| Baltimore Oriole | SC | |
| FINCHES | ||
| Purple Finch | WU | |
| House Finch | PU | |
| Red Crossbill | WV | |
| Common Redpoll | WV | |
| Pine Siskin | MR | |
| American Goldfinch | PC | |
| Evening Grosbeak | WR | |
| EURASIAN SPARROWS | ||
| House Sparrow | PC |