Elk County List

Bird List for Elk County

This is a preliminary list of the birds recorded in this county.

The list shows all species on the Official State List with a Yes next to each species recorded in this county or a B for those species which breed in the county (Ie., species who coded Probable or Confirmed during the latest Breeding Bird Atlas).

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Elk County List

Elk Bird List

King/Clapper Rail	-
Black-throated Green X Cape May Warbler	-
Lesser Black-backed X Herring Gull	-
Red-tailed Hawk (Western dark form)	-
Frigatebird sp.	-
Herring 'Vega' Gull	-
Blue-winged Teal X Northern Shoveler	-
Chen sp.	-
Jaeger sp.	-
Rufous/Allen's Hummingbird	-
Great White Heron	-
Iceland/Thayer's Gull	-
Bicknell's/Gray-cheeked Thrush	-
Snow Goose x Ross's Goose	-
Green-winged 'Common' Teal	-
Black-headed x Ring-billed Gull	-
Eastern x Western Kingbird	-
Black Brant	-
Phalarope sp.	-
Gadwall x Mallard	-
Brewster's Warbler	-
Plegadis sp.	-
Redhead x Ring-necked Duck	-
Common Goldeneye x Hooded Merganser	-
Storm-Petrel sp.	-
Pomarine/Parasitic Jaeger	-
Fox Sparrow (Slate-colored)	-
Myiarchus sp.	-
Dark-eyed 'Cassiar' Junco	-
Selasphorus sp.	-
Savannah "Ipswich" Sparrow	-
Dark-eyed 'Oregon' Junco	-
White-crowned 'Gambel's' Sparrow	-
Waterthrush sp.	-
Eurasian X American Wigeon	-
Glaucous Gull X Herring Gull (Nelson's Gull)	-
Yellow-rumped 'Audubon's' Warbler	-
Yellowlegs sp.	-
Nelson's 'Atlantic' Sparrow	-
Great Black-backed Gull x Herring Gull	-
Eider sp.	-
Red-tailed 'Harlan's' Hawk	-
Iceland "Thayer's" Gull	-
Lawrence's Warbler	-
Green-winged Teal x Common Teal	-
Empidonax sp.	-
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck	-
Snow Goose	Yes
Ross's Goose	-
Greater White-fronted Goose	-
Pink-footed Goose	-
Brant	-
Barnacle Goose	-
Cackling Goose	-
Canada Goose	B
Mute Swan	Yes
Trumpeter Swan	-
Tundra Swan	Yes
Wood Duck	B
Blue-winged Teal	Yes
Cinnamon Teal	-
Northern Shoveler	Yes
Gadwall	Yes
Eurasian Wigeon	-
American Wigeon	Yes
Mallard	B
American Black Duck	Yes
Northern Pintail	Yes
Green-winged Teal	Yes
Canvasback	Yes
Redhead	Yes
Ring-necked Duck	Yes
Tufted Duck	-
Greater Scaup	Yes
Lesser Scaup	Yes
King Eider	-
Harlequin Duck	-
Surf Scoter	Yes
White-winged Scoter	Yes
Black Scoter	Yes
Long-tailed Duck	Yes
Bufflehead	Yes
Common Goldeneye	Yes
Barrow's Goldeneye	-
Hooded Merganser	B
Common Merganser	B
Red-breasted Merganser	Yes
Masked Duck	-
Ruddy Duck	Yes
Northern Bobwhite	Yes
Ring-necked Pheasant	B
Ruffed Grouse	B
Wild Turkey	B
Pied-billed Grebe	Yes
Horned Grebe	Yes
Red-necked Grebe	-
Eared Grebe	-
Western Grebe	-
Rock Pigeon	B
Eurasian Collared-Dove	-
Common Ground-Dove	-
White-winged Dove	-
Mourning Dove	B
Yellow-billed Cuckoo	B
Black-billed Cuckoo	B
Common Nighthawk	B
Chuck-will's-widow	-
Eastern Whip-poor-will	Yes
Chimney Swift	B
Bahama Woodstar	-
Ruby-throated Hummingbird	B
Black-chinned Hummingbird	-
Anna's Hummingbird	-
Rufous Hummingbird	-
Allen's Hummingbird	-
Calliope Hummingbird	-
Yellow Rail	-
Black Rail	-
Clapper Rail	-
King Rail	-
Virginia Rail	B
Sora	B
Spotted Rail	-
Purple Gallinule	-
Common Gallinule	-
American Coot	Yes
Sandhill Crane	-
Black-necked Stilt	-
American Avocet	-
American Oystercatcher	-
Black-bellied Plover	-
American Golden-Plover	-
Snowy Plover	-
Wilson's Plover	-
Semipalmated Plover	Yes
Piping Plover	-
Killdeer	B
Upland Sandpiper	Yes
Whimbrel	-
Long-billed Curlew	-
Hudsonian Godwit	-
Marbled Godwit	-
Ruddy Turnstone	-
Red Knot	-
Ruff	-
Stilt Sandpiper	-
Curlew Sandpiper	-
Sanderling	-
Dunlin	Yes
Purple Sandpiper	-
Baird's Sandpiper	-
Least Sandpiper	Yes
White-rumped Sandpiper	Yes
Buff-breasted Sandpiper	-
Pectoral Sandpiper	Yes
Semipalmated Sandpiper	Yes
Western Sandpiper	Yes
Short-billed Dowitcher	-
Long-billed Dowitcher	-
American Woodcock	B
Wilson's Snipe	-
Spotted Sandpiper	Yes
Solitary Sandpiper	Yes
Lesser Yellowlegs	Yes
Willet	-
Greater Yellowlegs	Yes
Wilson's Phalarope	-
Red-necked Phalarope	-
Red Phalarope	-
Pomarine Jaeger	-
Parasitic Jaeger	-
Long-tailed Jaeger	-
Dovekie	-
Thick-billed Murre	-
Black Guillemot	-
Long-billed Murrelet	-
Ancient Murrelet	-
Black-legged Kittiwake	-
Sabine's Gull	-
Bonaparte's Gull	Yes
Black-headed Gull	-
Little Gull	-
Ross's Gull	-
Laughing Gull	-
Franklin's Gull	-
Mew Gull	-
Ring-billed Gull	Yes
California Gull	-
Herring Gull	Yes
Iceland Gull	-
Lesser Black-backed Gull	-
Slaty-backed Gull	-
Glaucous Gull	-
Great Black-backed Gull	-
Kelp Gull	-
Sooty Tern	-
Least Tern	-
Gull-billed Tern	-
Caspian Tern	-
Black Tern	-
White-winged Tern	-
Roseate Tern	-
Common Tern	Yes
Arctic Tern	Yes
Forster's Tern	Yes
Royal Tern	-
Black Skimmer	-
White-tailed Tropicbird	-
Red-throated Loon	-
Pacific Loon	-
Common Loon	Yes
Yellow-billed Loon	-
Wilson's Storm-Petrel	-
Leach's Storm-Petrel	-
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel	-
Trindade Petrel	-
Black-capped Petrel	-
Cory's Shearwater	-
Great Shearwater	-
Wood Stork	-
Magnificent Frigatebird	-
Brown Booby	-
Northern Gannet	-
Double-crested Cormorant	Yes
Great Cormorant	-
Anhinga	-
American White Pelican	Yes
Brown Pelican	-
American Bittern	B
Least Bittern	-
Great Blue Heron	Yes
Great Egret	Yes
Snowy Egret	-
Little Blue Heron	-
Tricolored Heron	-
Cattle Egret	-
Green Heron	B
Black-crowned Night-Heron	-
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron	-
White Ibis	-
Glossy Ibis	-
White-faced Ibis	-
Roseate Spoonbill	-
Black Vulture	-
Turkey Vulture	B
Osprey	B
White-tailed Kite	-
Swallow-tailed Kite	-
Golden Eagle	Yes
Northern Harrier	B
Sharp-shinned Hawk	B
Cooper's Hawk	B
Northern Goshawk	Yes
Bald Eagle	B
Mississippi Kite	-
Red-shouldered Hawk	B
Broad-winged Hawk	B
Swainson's Hawk	-
Red-tailed Hawk	B
Rough-legged Hawk	Yes
Barn Owl	Yes
Eastern Screech-Owl	B
Great Horned Owl	B
Snowy Owl	-
Northern Hawk Owl	-
Barred Owl	B
Great Gray Owl	-
Long-eared Owl	Yes
Short-eared Owl	Yes
Boreal Owl	-
Northern Saw-whet Owl	Yes
Belted Kingfisher	B
Red-headed Woodpecker	Yes
Red-bellied Woodpecker	B
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	B
Black-backed Woodpecker	-
Downy Woodpecker	B
Hairy Woodpecker	B
Northern Flicker	B
Pileated Woodpecker	B
Crested Caracara	-
American Kestrel	B
Merlin	Yes
Gyrfalcon	-
Peregrine Falcon	Yes
Prairie Falcon	-
Monk Parakeet	-
Ash-throated Flycatcher	-
Great Crested Flycatcher	B
Tropical Kingbird	-
Western Kingbird	-
Eastern Kingbird	B
Gray Kingbird	-
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher	-
Fork-tailed Flycatcher	-
Olive-sided Flycatcher	Yes
Eastern Wood-Pewee	B
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher	Yes
Acadian Flycatcher	B
Alder Flycatcher	B
Willow Flycatcher	B
Least Flycatcher	B
Hammond's Flycatcher	-
Pacific-slope Flycatcher	-
Eastern Phoebe	B
Say's Phoebe	-
Vermilion Flycatcher	-
Loggerhead Shrike	-
Northern Shrike	Yes
White-eyed Vireo	Yes
Yellow-throated Vireo	B
Blue-headed Vireo	B
Philadelphia Vireo	Yes
Warbling Vireo	B
Red-eyed Vireo	B
Blue Jay	B
American Crow	B
Fish Crow	-
Common Raven	B
Horned Lark	B
Purple Martin	B
Tree Swallow	B
Northern Rough-winged Swallow	B
Bank Swallow	B
Cliff Swallow	B
Cave Swallow	-
Barn Swallow	B
Carolina Chickadee	-
Black-capped Chickadee	B
Boreal Chickadee	-
Tufted Titmouse	B
Red-breasted Nuthatch	B
White-breasted Nuthatch	B
Brown-headed Nuthatch	-
Brown Creeper	B
House Wren	B
Winter Wren	B
Sedge Wren	B
Marsh Wren	-
Carolina Wren	B
Bewick's Wren	-
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	B
Golden-crowned Kinglet	B
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	Yes
European Robin	-
Northern Wheatear	-
Eastern Bluebird	B
Mountain Bluebird	-
Townsend's Solitaire	-
Veery	B
Gray-cheeked Thrush	Yes
Bicknell's Thrush	-
Swainson's Thrush	B
Hermit Thrush	B
Wood Thrush	B
Redwing	-
American Robin	B
Varied Thrush	-
Gray Catbird	B
Brown Thrasher	B
Northern Mockingbird	B
European Starling	B
Bohemian Waxwing	-
Cedar Waxwing	B
House Sparrow	B
American Pipit	Yes
Brambling	-
Evening Grosbeak	Yes
Pine Grosbeak	-
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch	-
House Finch	B
Purple Finch	B
Common Redpoll	Yes
Hoary Redpoll	Yes
Red Crossbill	Yes
White-winged Crossbill	Yes
Pine Siskin	B
Lesser Goldfinch	-
American Goldfinch	B
Lapland Longspur	-
Snow Bunting	-
Green-tailed Towhee	-
Spotted Towhee	-
Eastern Towhee	B
Bachman's Sparrow	-
American Tree Sparrow	Yes
Chipping Sparrow	B
Clay-colored Sparrow	-
Field Sparrow	B
Vesper Sparrow	B
Lark Sparrow	-
Lark Bunting	-
Savannah Sparrow	B
Grasshopper Sparrow	B
Henslow's Sparrow	B
LeConte's Sparrow	-
Seaside Sparrow	-
Nelson's Sparrow	-
Saltmarsh Sparrow	-
Fox Sparrow	Yes
Song Sparrow	B
Lincoln's Sparrow	Yes
Swamp Sparrow	B
White-throated Sparrow	B
Harris's Sparrow	-
White-crowned Sparrow	Yes
Golden-crowned Sparrow	-
Dark-eyed Junco	B
Yellow-breasted Chat	Yes
Yellow-headed Blackbird	-
Bobolink	B
Eastern Meadowlark	B
Western Meadowlark	-
Orchard Oriole	B
Bullock's Oriole	-
Baltimore Oriole	B
Black-backed Oriole	-
Scott's Oriole	-
Red-winged Blackbird	B
Shiny Cowbird	-
Brown-headed Cowbird	B
Rusty Blackbird	Yes
Brewer's Blackbird	Yes
Common Grackle	B
Ovenbird	B
Worm-eating Warbler	B
Louisiana Waterthrush	B
Northern Waterthrush	Yes
Golden-winged Warbler	Yes
Blue-winged Warbler	B
Black-and-white Warbler	B
Prothonotary Warbler	-
Swainson's Warbler	-
Tennessee Warbler	Yes
Orange-crowned Warbler	-
Nashville Warbler	B
Connecticut Warbler	Yes
MacGillivray's Warbler	-
Mourning Warbler	B
Kentucky Warbler	Yes
Common Yellowthroat	B
Hooded Warbler	B
American Redstart	B
Kirtland's Warbler	-
Cape May Warbler	Yes
Cerulean Warbler	B
Northern Parula	B
Magnolia Warbler	B
Bay-breasted Warbler	Yes
Blackburnian Warbler	B
Yellow Warbler	B
Chestnut-sided Warbler	B
Blackpoll Warbler	Yes
Black-throated Blue Warbler	B
Palm Warbler	Yes
Pine Warbler	B
Yellow-rumped Warbler	B
Yellow-throated Warbler	-
Prairie Warbler	B
Black-throated Gray Warbler	-
Townsend's Warbler	-
Black-throated Green Warbler	B
Canada Warbler	B
Wilson's Warbler	Yes
Summer Tanager	-
Scarlet Tanager	B
Western Tanager	-
Northern Cardinal	B
Rose-breasted Grosbeak	B
Black-headed Grosbeak	-
Blue Grosbeak	-
Lazuli Bunting	-
Indigo Bunting	B
Varied Bunting	-
Painted Bunting	-
Dickcissel	Yes