revised June 1995 
Summer Checklist of Birds for SERC 
Compiled by J.F. Lynch and D. Niven 
These species occur regularly in the Rhode River-West River watershed during the summer 
months (June - August). Species marked with an asterisk (*) are known to have bred in the 
watershed in recent years. 
_ Yellow-crowned Night Heron 
_ Great Blue Heron 
_ Green Heron 
Cattle Egret 
. Common Egret 
Snowy Egret 
Mute Swan* 
. Canada Goose* 
Mallard* 
Black Duck* 
. Wood Duck* 
American Kestrel 
Turkey Vulture* 
Black Vulture* 
Red-tailed Hawk 
Red-shouldered Hawk* 
Bald Eagle* 
Osprey* 
Bobwhite* 
Wild Turkey 
Virginia Rail 
Spotted Sandpiper 
Kildeer 
American Woodcock* 
Herring Gull 
Laughing Gull 
Forster’s Tern 
Mourning Dove* 
Rock Dove 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo* 
Barn Owl 
Screech Owl* 
Great Horned Owl 
Barred Owl* 
Whip-poor Will 
Common Nighthawk 
_ Chimney Swift 
_ Ruby-throated Hummingbird 
_ Belted Kingfisher 
_ Common Flicker* 
_ Pileated Woodpecker* 
_ Red-bellied Woodpecker* 
_Red-headed Woodpecker 
_Hairy Woodpecker* 
_ Downy Woodpecker* 
_ Eastern Kingbird 
_ Great Crested Flycatcher* 
_ Eastern Phoebe* 
_ Acadian Flycatcher* 
_ Eastern Wood Pewee* 
_ Tree Swallow* 
_ Barn Swallow* 
_ Purple Martin* 
Blue Jay* 
_ Common Crow* 
_ Fish Crow 
_ Carolina Chickadee* 
_ Tufted Titmouse* 
_ White-breasted Nuthatch* 
_House Wren 
_ Marsh Wren* 
_ Carolina Wren* 
_ Northern Mockingbird* 
_ Brown Thrasher 
_ Gray Catbird* 
_ American Robin* 
_ Eastern Bluebird* 
_ Wood Thrush* 
_ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 
_ European Starling* 
_ White-eyed Vireo* 
_ Red-eyed Vireo* 
Yellow-throated Vireo* 
Northern Parula 
Pine Warbler 
Prairie Warbler* 
Common Yellowthroat* 
Ovenbird* 
Louisiana Waterthrush* 
Kentucky Warbler* 
Yellow-breasted Chat* 
Hooded Warbler* 
American Redstart 
House Sparrow* 
Eastern Meadowlark 
Red-winged Blackbird* 
Orchard Oriole 
Northern Oriole 
Common Grackle* 
Brown-headed Cowbird* 
Scarlet Tanager* 
Summer Tanager* 
Northern Cardinal* 
Blue Grosbeak 
Indigo Bunting* 
House Finch* 
Rufous-sided Towhee* 
American Goldfinch* 
Grasshopper Sparrow 
Field Sparrow* 
Field Sparrow* 
Chipping Sparrow 
Song Sparrow* 
Swamp Sparrow* 
