Bird Watching at The Natural Gait

"This bird list is in accordance with the Fifth American Ornithologists" Union Check List of North American Birds as amended.

LOONS & GREBES

___ Common Loon
___ Red-necked Grebe
___ Horned Grebe
___ Pied-billed Grebe*

PELICANS, CORMORANTS

___ American White Pelican
___ Double-crested Cormorant*

BITTERNS, HERONS

___ Great Blue Heron*
___ Green Heron*
___ Little Blue Heron
___ Cattle Egret
___ Great Egret (Common Egret)*
___ Snowy Egret
___ Black-crowned Night-Heron*
___ Yellow-crowned Night-Heron*
___ Least Bittern*
___ American Bittern*

SWANS, GEESE, DUCKS

___ Tundra Swan
___ Canada Goose*
___ White-fronted Goose
___ Snow Goose (White Morph)
___ Mallard*
___ Black Duck*
___ Gadwall
___ Pintail
___ Green-winged Teal*
___ Blue-winged Teal*
___ American Wigeon
___ Northern Shoveler
___ Wood Duck*
___ Redhead
___ Ring-necked Duck
___ Canvasback
___ Greater Scaup
___ Lesser Scaup
___ Common Goldeneye
___ Bufflehead
___ Oldsquaw
___ White-winged Scoter
___ Black Scoter (Common Scoter)
___ Surf Scoter
___ Ruddy Duck
___ Hooded Merganser*
___ Common Merganser
___ Red-breasted Merganser

VULTURES, HAWKS, FALCONS

___ Turkey Vulture
___ Goshawk
___ Sharp-shinned Hawk
___ Cooper's Hawk
___ Red-tailed Hawk*
___ Red-shouldered Hawk*
___ Swainson's Hawk
___ Broad-winged Hawk*
___ Rough-legged Hawk
___ Golden Eagle
___ Bald Eagle*
___ Marsh Hawk*
___ Osprey
___ Peregrine Falcon
___ Merlin (Pigeon Hawk)
___ American Kestrel (Sparrow Hawk)*

GALLINACEOUS BIRDS

___ Ruffed Grouse*
___ Bobwhite*
___ Ring-necked Pheasant*
___ Gray Partridge*
___ Turkey

RAILS, CRANES

___ King Rail*
___ Virginia Rail*
___ Sora*
___ Common Gallinule*
___ American Coot*
___ Sandhill Crane

SHOREBIRDS
___ Semipalmated Plover
___ Killdeer*
___ American Golden-Plover
___ Black-bellied Plover
___ Ruddy Turnstone
___ American Woodcock*
___ Common Snipe
___ Upland Sandpiper (Upland Plover)*
___ Spotted Sandpiper*
___ Solitary Sandpiper
___ Willet
___ Greater Yellowlegs
___ Lesser Yellowlegs
___ Pectoral Sandpiper
___ White-rumped Sandpiper
___ Least Sandpiper
___ Dunlin
___ Short-billed Dowitcher
___ Long-billed Dowitcher
___ Stilt Sandpiper
___ Semipalmated Sandpiper
___ Marbled Godwit
___ Hudsonian Godwit
___ Sanderling
___ Avocet
___ Wilson's Phalarope
___ Northern Phalarope

GULLS, TERNS
___ Herring Gull
___ Ring-billed Gull
___ Franklin's Gull
___ Bonaparte's Gull
___ Forster's Tern
___ Common Tern*
___ Caspian Tern
___ Black Tern

DOVES

___ Rock Dove*
___ Mourning Dove*

CUCKOOS
___ Yellow-billed Cuckoo*
___ Black-billed Cuckoo*

OWLS

___ Screech Owl*
___ Great Horned Owl*
___ Snowy Owl
___ Barred Owl*
___ Long-eared Owl*
___ Short-eared Owl
___ Saw-whet Owl*

GOATSUCKERS & SWIFTS

___ Whip-poor-will*
___ Common Nighthawk*
___ Chimney Swift*

HUMMINGBIRDS

___ Ruby-throated Hummingbird*

KINGFISHERS

___ Belted Kingfisher*

WOODPECKERS

___ Common Flicker (Yellow-shafted)*
___ Pileated Woodpecker*
___ Red-bellied Woodpecker*
___ Red-headed Woodpecker*
___ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker*
___ Hairy Woodpecker*
___ Downy Woodpecker*

FLYCATCHERS

___ Eastern Kingbird*
___ Great Crested Flycatcher*
___ Eastern Phoebe*
___ Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
___ Acadian Flycatcher*
___ Alder Flycatcher (Trail's)
___ Willow Flycatcher (Trail's)*
___ Least Flycatcher*
___ Eastern Wood-Pewee*
___ Olive-sided Flycatcher

LARKS

___ Horned Lark*

SWALLOWS
___ Tree Swallow*
___ Bank Swallow*
___ Rough-winged Swallow*
___ Barn Swallow*
___ Cliff Swallow*
___ Purple Martin*

JAYS, CROWS
___ Blue Jay*
___ Common Crow*

CHICKADEES

___ Black-capped Chickadee*
___ Tufted Titmouse*

NUTHATCHES

___ White-breasted Nuthatch*
___ Red-breasted Nuthatch

CREEPERS

___ Brown Creeper

WRENS

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

THRASHERS

___ Mockingbird
___ Grey Catbird*
___ Brown Thrasher*

THRUSHES

___ American Robin*
___ Wood Thrush*
___ Hermit Thrush
___ Swainson's Thrush
___ Gray-cheeked Thrush
___ Veery
___ Eastern Bluebird*

KINGLETS

___ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher*
___ Golden-crowned Kinglet
___ Ruby-crowned Kinglet

PIPITS

___ American Pipit

WAXWINGS

___ Bohemian Waxwing
___ Cedar Waxwing*

SHRIKES

___ Northern Shrike
___ Loggerhead Shrike*

STARLINGS

___ Starling*

VIREOS

___ White-eyed Vireo
___ Bell's Vireo*
___ Yellow-throated Vireo
___ Solitary Vireo
___ Red-eyed Vireo*
___ Philadelphia Vireo
___ Warbling Vireo

WOOD WARBLERS

___ Black-and-white Warbler
___ Prothonotary Warbler*
___ Blue-winged Warbler*
___ Golden-winged Warbler
___ Tennessee Warbler
___ Orange-crowned Warbler
___ Nashville Warbler
___ Northern Parula
___ Yellow Warbler*
___ Magnolia Warbler
___ Cape May Warbler
___ Black-throated Blue Warbler
___ Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
___ Black-throated Green Warbler
___ Cerulean Warbler*
___ Blackburnian Warbler
___ Chestnut-sided Warbler
___ Bay-breasted Warbler
___ Blackpoll Warbler
___ Pine Warbler
___ Palm Warbler
___ Ovenbird*
___ Northern Waterthrush
___ Louisiana Waterthrush*
___ Kentucky Warbler*
___ Connecticut Warbler
___ Mourning Warbler
___ Common Yellowthroat*
___ Yellow-breasted Chat*
___ Hooded Warbler
___ Wilson's Warbler
___ Canada Warbler
___ American Redstart*

OLD WORLD SPARROWS

___ House Sparrow*

MEADOWLARKS, BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES

___ Bobolink*
___ Eastern Meadowlark*
___ Western Meadowlark*
___ Yellow-headed Blackbird*
___ Red-winged Blackbird*
___ Orchard Oriole*
___ Northern Oriole (Baltimore)*
___ Rusty Blackbird
___ Brewer's Blackbird*
___ Common Grackle*
___ Brown-headed Cowbird*

TANAGERS

___ Scarlet Tanager*

GROSBEAKS, BUNTINGS, TOWHEES,
SPARROWS & FINCHES

___ Cardinal*
___ Rose-breasted Grosbeak*
___ Indigo Bunting*
___ Dickcissel*
___ Evening Grosbeak
___ Purple Finch
___ Pine Grosbeak
___ Hoary Redpoll
___ Common Redpoll
___ Pine Siskin
___ American Goldfinch*
___ Red Crossbill
___ White-winged Crossbill
___ Rufous-sided Towhee*
___ Savannah Sparrow*
___ House Finch
___ Grasshopper Sparrow*
___ Henslow's Sparrow*
___ Le Conte's Sparrow
___ Vesper Sparrow*
___ Lark Sparrow*
___ Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored,Oregon)
___ Tree Sparrow
___ Chipping Sparrow*
___ Clay-colored Sparrow
___ Field Sparrow*
___ Harris' Sparrow
___ White-crowned Sparrow
___ White-throated Sparrow
___ Fox Sparrow
___ Lincoln's Sparrow
___ Swamp Sparrow*
___ Song Sparrow*
___ Lapland Longspur
___ Snow Bunting

Notes

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This resource is based on the following source:

National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  No date.  Birds of 
     Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa.  National Park Service, U.S. 
     Fish and Wildlife Service.  Unpaginated.

This resource should be cited as:

National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  No date.  Birds of 
     Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa.  National Park Service, U.S. 
     Fish and Wildlife Service.  Unpaginated.  Jamestown, ND: Northern 
     Prairie Wildlife Research Center Online.
     http://www.npwrc.usgs.goveffigy.htm 
     (Version 22MAY98).

Birds to be found within the area of The Natural Gait, Effigy Mounds National Monument and the Mississippi River.

Many people come to The Natural Gait to enjoy bird watching.

Along the "Father of Waters", the "Upper Mississippi River", offers fabulous opportunities for birding among extensive marsh lands, wooded bottom lands, open water, sand prairie, and wooded bluffs. We are sitting in one of the regions of the U.S. with the most diversity of birds.