BIRDS at
the Olentangy River Wetland Research Park

(W- found in wetland complex; M - found in mudflat of oxbow; R - found in riparian forest along the bike path)

 

total number of bird species = 160

Ducks, and ducklike birds (12)

American Black Duck (W)
American Coot (W)
American Wigeon
Blue-winged Teal (W, R)
Canada Goose (W, R)
Hooded Merganser
Lesser Scaup
Mallard (W, R)
Northern Shoveler
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-breasted Merganser
Wood Duck

Gulls (2)

Herring Gull
Ring-billed Gull (W, R)

Long legged wading birds (5)

Black-crowned Night Heron (W,R)
Great Blue Heron (W, R)
Great Egret (W)
Green Heron (W)
Least Bittern

Short-legged wading birds (17)

American Woodcock (W)
Double-crested Cormorant
Dunlin
Killdeer (W, R)
King Rail
Semipalmated Plover
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper (M)
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs (M)
Solitary Sandpiper (M)
Short-billed Dowitcher (M)
Long-billed Dowitcher (M)
Sora (W)
Spotted Sandpiper (W, M, R)
Virginia Rail (W,M)
Wilson's Snipe (M)

Birds of prey (14)

American Kestrel (W)
Bald Eagle
Barred Owl
Cooper's Hawk (R)
Eastern Screech Owl (R)
Great Horned Owl (R)
Merlin (Taiga) (W, R)
Northern Harrier (Marsh Hawk) (W)
Osprey (W, R)
Peregrine Falcon (R)
Sharp-shinned Hawk (W)
Short-eared Owl
Red-tailed Hawk (W, R)
Turkey Vulture (W, R)

Nonpasserine land birds (16)

Barn Swallow (W)
Belted Kingfisher (W, B, R)
Black-billed Cuckoo (R)
Chimney Swift (W,R)
Common Nighthawk (W, R)
Downy Woodpecker (W, R)
Hairy Woodpecker (R)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (R)
Northern Rough-winged Swallow (W, R)
Ruby-throated Humming Bird (R)
Mourning Dove (W, R)
Purple Martin
Rock Dove (W, R)
Tree Swallow (W)
Whip-poor-will (R)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (R)

Song birds (94)

Acadian Flycatcher (R)
American Crow (W, R)
American Goldfinch (W, R)
American Redstart (W, R)
American Robin (W, R)
American Tree Sparrow (W, R)
Baltimore Oriole (W, R)
Bay-breasted Warbler (R)
Black and White Warbler (R)
Black-capped Chickadee (W)
Black-throated Blue Warbler (R)
Black-throated Green Warbler (R)
Blackburnian Warbler (R)
Blackpoll Warbler (R)
Blue Jay (W,R)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (R)
Blue-winged Warbler (R)
Brown Creeper (R)
Brown Thrasher (W, R)
Brown-headed Cowbird (W, R)
Canada Warbler (R)
Cape May Warbler (R)
Carolina Chickadee (W, R)
Carolina Wren (R)
Cedar Waxwing (W, R)
Chestnut-sided Warbler (R)
Chipping Sparrow (W, R)
Common Grackle (W, R)
Common Yellowthroat (W, R)
Dark-eyed Junco
Eastern Bluebird (W)
Eastern Kingbird (W, R)
Eastern Meadowlark (W)
Eastern Phoebe (W, R)
Eastern Wood Pewee (W, R)
European Starling (W, R)
Field Sparrow (W, R)
Fox Sparrow (R)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (W, R)

Gray Catbird (W, R)
Gray-cheeked Thrush (R)
Great Crested Flycatcher (R)
Hermit Thrush (W, R)
Hooded Warbler (R)
House Finch (W, R)
House Sparrow (W, R)
House Wren (W, R)
Indigo Bunting (W, R)
Kentucky Warbler (R)
Lapland Longspur (R)

Least Flycatcher (R)
Magnolia Warbler (W, R)
Marsh Wren (W)
Mourning Warbler (F)
Nashville Warbler (W, R)
Northern Cardinal (W, R)
Northern Flicker (W, R)
Northern Junco (W, R)
Northern Mockingbird (W)
Northern Parula (R)
Orchard Oriole (W)
Ovenbird (R)
Palm Warbler (R)
Pine Warbler (R)
Prothonotary Warbler (W)
Red-eyed Vireo (W,R)
Red-winged Blackbird (W, R)
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (W)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (W, R)
Rufous-sided Towhee (W, R)
Rusty Blackbird
Scarlet Tanager (R)
Sedge Wern
Solitary Vireo (R)
Song Sparrow (W, R)
Swainson's Thrush (W, R)
Swamp Sparrow (R)
Tennessee Warbler (R)
Tufted Titmouse (W, R)
Veery (R)
Warbling Vireo (R)
White-breasted Nuthatch (R)
White-crowned Sparrow (W)
White-eyed Vireo (W,R)
White-throated Sparrow (W, R)
Willow Flycatcher (W, R)
Wilsons Warbler (R)
Winter Wren (R)
Wood Thrush (R)
Worm-eating Warbler (W)
Yellow Warbler (W, R)
Yellow-breasted Chat (W)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (W, R)
Yellow-throated Vireo (R)


2007-2008
Olentangy River Wetland Research Park, The Ohio State University