180 miles
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BIRDING

Creole Nature Trail All-American Road Birding Guide

The following is just a partial list of the birds you might see along the Creole Nature Trail All-American Road. Some of the most popular birding sites are the Sabine National Wildlife Refuge, the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, the Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge, the Peveto Woods Bird & Butterfly Sanctuary , the Cameron Jetties, and Rutherford Beach.

Birds

Spring

Summer

Fall

Winter

Common Loon

O

O

U

Pied-billed Grebe

C

C

C

C

American White Pelican

C

U

C

C

Brown Pelican

C

C

C

C

Double crested Cormorant

C

O

C

A

Neotropic Cormorant

A

A

A

A

Least Bittern

C

C

U

R

Great Blue Heron

C

C

C

C

Great Egret

A

A

A

A

Snowy Egret

C

C

C

C

Tricolored Heron

C

C

C

C

Green-backed Heron

A

A

C

R

Black-crowned Night-Heron

C

C

C

C

White Ibis

C

C

C

U

Roseate Spoonbill

C

C

C

U

Fulvous Whistling-Duck

C

C

U

O

Snow Goose

C

C

A

Canada Goose

U

O

U

C

Wood Duck

U

U

U

U

Green-winged Teal

C

C

A

Mottled Duck

C

C

C

C

Mallard

U

C

C

Northern Pintail

U

C

A

Northern Shoveler

U

R

C

A

Gadwall

C

C

A

American Wigeon

U

C

C

Lesser Scaup

C

C

C

Black Vulture

C

C

C

C

Turkey Vulture

C

C

C

C

Osprey

U

U

C

Northern Harrier

U

C

C

Red-shouldered Hawk

U

U

U

Red-tailed Hawk

C

O

C

C

Merlin

U

O

U

U

Peregrine Falcon

U

O

U

U

Clapper Rail

C

C

C

C

King Rail

C

C

C

C

Purple Gallinule

U

C

U

R

Common Moorhen

A

A

A

A

American Coot

C

O

C

A

Black-bellied Plover

C

O

C

U

Snowy Plover

U

O

U

U

Wilson’s Plover

U

U

U

Semipalmated Plover

C

R

C

C

Piping Plover

U

U

U

Killdeer

C

C

C

C

Blacknecked Stilt

C

C

C

C

American Avocet

C

U

C

C

Willet

C

C

C

C

Spotted Sandpiper

U

O

U

U

Long-billed Curlew

U

R

U

U

Ruddy Turnstone

C

R

C

C

Sanderling

C

R

C

C

Western Sandpiper

C

R

C

C

Dunlin

C

O

C

C

Long-billed Dowitcher

C

O

C

C

Laughing Gull

A

A

A

C

Ring-billed Gull

C

R

C

C

Gull-billed Tern

C

C

C

O

Caspian Tern

U

U

U

U

Royal Tern

U

U

U

U

Forster’s Tern

C

C

C

C

Least Tern

C

C

U

X

Black Tern

C

U

C

O

Black Skimmer

C

C

C

U

Mourning Dove

C

C

C

C

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

U

U

O

Great Horned Owl

R

R

R

R

Common Nighthawk

C

C

C

Chimney Swift

R

R

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

U

U

U

O

Belted Kingfisher

C

R

C

C

Downy Woodpecker

U

U

U

U

Eastern Phoebe

U

C

C

Vermillion Flycatcher

R

R

R

Eastern Kingbird

C

C

C

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

U

U

U

Purple Martin

C

C

U

Barn Swallow

A

C

A

Blue Jay

C

C

C

C

Carolina Wren

U

U

U

U

Marsh Wren

C

C

C

C

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

U

C

C

American Robin

U

U

U

Northern Mockingbird

U

C

U

U

American Pipit

U

U

C

Loggerhead Shrike

C

U

C

C

White-eyed Vireo

U

U

O

Tennessee Warbler

C

C

O

Yellow Warbler

C

C

O

Yellow-rumped Warbler

C

U

C

Black-and-white Warbler

C

C

American Redstart

C

C

Common Yellowthroat

C

U

C

C

Hooded Warbler

C

C

Summer Tanager

C

C

Northern Cardinal

C

C

C

C

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

C

U

Indigo Bunting

C

C

Dickcissel

C

C

U

O

Vesper Sparrow

U

U

Seaside Sparrow

C

C

C

C

White-throated Sparrow

U

U

U

Red-winged Blackbird

A

A

A

A

Eastern Meadowlark

C

C

C

C

Boat-tailed Grackle

A

A

A

A

Orchard Oriole

C

C

U

Northern Oriole

U

U

House Sparrow

U

U

U

U

U uncommon: may see, low numbers or very local in extent

A abundant: hard to miss, very numerous

C common: should see in suitable habitat

R rare: seen only once or twice a season

O occasional: see only every few years

I irregular: may be absent in many years, appear in great numbers in others

X accidental: usually only a single, questionable record