Barred Owl at Sandy Creek courtesy of Frank Mehigan

The following checklist of bird species that have been seen at Sandy Creek Park was originally developed by Kent Fiala, editor of The Chat (Carolina Bird Club www.carolinabirdclub.org).  Other local birders have since made recent additions.  If you would like to communicate sightings of new species to the park, send an email to Randy Neighburger (randyn@Duke.edu).   

We welcome pictures of birds taken at Sandy Creek.   Send your photos with date and location to john.a.goebel@gmail.com


The following list is normally available at the park in the mailbox near the kiosk at the bridge.  It is provided by the Duke University Wetland Center www.nicholas.duke.edu/wetland.

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Anseriformes

• Canada Goose
• Wood Duck
• American Black Duck
• Mallard
• Blue-winged Teal
• Green-winged Teal
• Rink-necked Duck
• Bufflehead
• Hooded Merganser

Galliformes

• Wild Turkey

Gaviiformes

• Common Loon

Podicipediformes

• Pied-billed Grebe
• Horned Grebe

Suliformes

• Double-crested Comorant

Pelecaniformes

• Great Blue Heron
• Great Egret
• Snowy Egret
• Little Blue Heron
• Green heron
• Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Accipitriformes

• Black Vulture
• Turkey Vulture
• Osprey
• Northern Harrier
• Sharp-shinned hawk
• Cooper's Hawk
• Bald Eagle
• Red-shouldered Hawk
• Broad-winged Hawk
• Red-tailed Hawk

Gruiformes

• Sora
• American Coot

Charadriiformes

• Killdear
• Spotted Sandpiper
• Solitary Sandpiper
• Greater Yellowlegs
• Least Sandpiper
• Wilson's Snipe
• Ring-billed Gull

Columbiformes

• Rock Pigeon
• Mourning Dove

Cuculiformes

• Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Strigiformes

• Barred Owl

Apodiformes

• Chimney Swift
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Coraciiformes

• Belted Kingfisher

Piciformes

• Red-headed Woodpecker
• Red-bellied Woodpecker
• Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
• Downy Woodpecker
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Northern Flicker
• Pileated Woodpecker

Falconiformes

• American Kestrel

Passeriformes

• Olive-sided Flycatcher
• Eastern Wood PeeWee
• Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
• Acadian Flycatcher

Passeriformes (cont.)

• Least Flycatcher
• Eastern Phoebe
• Great Crested Flycatcher
• Eastern Kingbird
• White-eyed Vireo
• Yellow-throated Vireo
• Blue-headed Vireo
• Red-eyed Viroe
• Blue Jay
• American Crow
• Fish Crow
• Common Raven
• Northern Rough-Winged Swallow
• Purple Martin
• Tree Swallow
• Barn Swallow
• Carolina Chickadee
• Tufted Titmouse
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• White-breasted Nuthatch
• Brown-headed Nuthatch
• Brown Creeper
• House Wren
• Winter Wren
• Marsh Wren
• Carolina Wren
• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
• Golden-crowned Kinglet
• Ruby-eyed Kinglet
• Eastern Bluebird
• Swainson's Thrush
• Wood Thrush
• American Robin
• Gray Catbird
  Brown Thrasher
• Northern Mockingbird
• European Starling
• American Pipit
• Cedar Waxwing
• Ovenbird
• Louisiana Waterthrush

Passeriformes (cont.)

• Northern Waterthrush
• Blue-winged Warbler
• Prothonotary Warbler
• Tennessee Warbler
• Orange-crowned Warbler
• Nashville Warbler
• Common Yellowthroat
• Hooded Warbler
• American Redstart
• Cape May Warbler
• Northern Parula
• Magnolia Warbler
• Blackburnian Warbler
• Yellow Warbler
• Chestnut-sided Warbler
• Blackpoll Warbler
• Black-throated Blue Warbler
• Palm Warbler
• Pine Warbler
• Yellow-rumped Warbler
• Yellow-throated Warbler
• Prairie Warbler
• Black-throated Green Warbler
• Yellow-breasted Chat
• Eastern Towhee
• Chaipping Sparrow
• Field Sparrow
• Vesper Sparrow
• Savannah Sparrow
• Grasshoper Sparrow
• Fox Sparrow
• Song Sparrow
• Lincoln's Sparrow
• Swamp Sparrow
• White-throated Sparrow
• White-crowned Sparrow

Passeriformes (cont.)

• Dark-eyed Junco
• Summer Tanager
• Scarlet Tanager
• Northern Cardinal
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak
• Blue Grosbeak
• Indigo Bunting
• Bobolink
• Red-winged Blackbird
• Rusty Blackbird
• Common Grackle
• Brown-headed Cowbird
• Orchard Oriole
• Baltimore Oriole
• House Finch
• Purple Finch
• Common Redpoll
• Pine Siskin
• American Goldfinch