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.
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Birds |
Spring |
Summer |
Fall |
Winter |
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Common Loon |
O |
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O |
U |
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Pied-billed Grebe |
C |
C |
C |
C |
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American White Pelican |
C |
U |
C |
C |
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Brown Pelican |
C |
C |
C |
C |
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Double crested Cormorant |
C |
O |
C |
A |
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Neotropic Cormorant |
A |
A |
A |
A |
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Least Bittern |
C |
C |
U |
R |
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Great Blue Heron |
C |
C |
C |
C |
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Great Egret |
A |
A |
A |
A |
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Snowy Egret |
C |
C |
C |
C |
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Tricolored Heron |
C |
C |
C |
C |
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Green-backed Heron |
A |
A |
C |
R |
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Black-crowned Night-Heron |
C |
C |
C |
C |
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White Ibis |
C |
C |
C |
U |
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Roseate Spoonbill |
C |
C |
C |
U |
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Fulvous Whistling-Duck |
C |
C |
U |
O |
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Snow Goose |
C |
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C |
A |
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Canada Goose |
U |
O |
U |
C |
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Wood Duck |
U |
U |
U |
U |
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Green-winged Teal |
C |
|
C |
A |
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Mottled Duck |
C |
C |
C |
C |
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Mallard |
U |
|
C |
C |
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Northern Pintail |
U |
|
C |
A |
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Northern Shoveler |
U |
R |
C |
A |
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Gadwall |
C |
|
C |
A |
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American Wigeon |
U |
|
C |
C |
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Lesser Scaup |
C |
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C |
C |
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Black Vulture |
C |
C |
C |
C |
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Turkey Vulture |
C |
C |
C |
C |
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Osprey |
U |
|
U |
C |
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Northern Harrier |
U |
|
C |
C |
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Red-shouldered Hawk |
U |
|
U |
U |
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Red-tailed Hawk |
C |
O |
C |
C |
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Merlin |
U |
O |
U |
U |
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Peregrine Falcon |
U |
O |
U |
U |
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Clapper Rail |
C |
C |
C |
C |
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King Rail |
C |
C |
C |
C |
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Purple Gallinule |
U |
C |
U |
R |
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Common Moorhen |
A |
A |
A |
A |
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American Coot |
C |
O |
C |
A |
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Black-bellied Plover |
C |
O |
C |
U |
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Snowy Plover |
U |
O |
U |
U |
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U |
U |
U |
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Semipalmated Plover |
C |
R |
C |
C |
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Piping Plover |
U |
|
U |
U |
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Killdeer |
C |
C |
C |
C |
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Blacknecked Stilt |
C |
C |
C |
C |
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American Avocet |
C |
U |
C |
C |
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Willet |
C |
C |
C |
C |
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Spotted Sandpiper |
U |
O |
U |
U |
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Long-billed Curlew |
U |
R |
U |
U |
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Ruddy Turnstone |
C |
R |
C |
C |
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Sanderling |
C |
R |
C |
C |
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Western Sandpiper |
C |
R |
C |
C |
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Dunlin |
C |
O |
C |
C |
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Long-billed Dowitcher |
C |
O |
C |
C |
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Laughing Gull |
A |
A |
A |
C |
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Ring-billed Gull |
C |
R |
C |
C |
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Gull-billed Tern |
C |
C |
C |
O |
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Caspian Tern |
U |
U |
U |
U |
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Royal Tern |
U |
U |
U |
U |
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Forster’s Tern |
C |
C |
C |
C |
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Least Tern |
C |
C |
U |
X |
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Black Tern |
C |
U |
C |
O |
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Black Skimmer |
C |
C |
C |
U |
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Mourning Dove |
C |
C |
C |
C |
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
U |
U |
O |
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Great Horned Owl |
R |
R |
R |
R |
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Common Nighthawk |
C |
C |
C |
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Chimney Swift |
R |
|
R |
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
U |
U |
U |
O |
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Belted Kingfisher |
C |
R |
C |
C |
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Downy Woodpecker |
U |
U |
U |
U |
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Eastern Phoebe |
U |
|
C |
C |
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Vermillion Flycatcher |
R |
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R |
R |
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Eastern Kingbird |
C |
C |
C |
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Scissor-tailed Flycatcher |
U |
U |
U |
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Purple Martin |
C |
C |
U |
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Barn Swallow |
A |
C |
A |
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Blue Jay |
C |
C |
C |
C |
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U |
U |
U |
U |
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Marsh Wren |
C |
C |
C |
C |
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
U |
|
C |
C |
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American Robin |
U |
|
U |
U |
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Northern Mockingbird |
U |
C |
U |
U |
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American Pipit |
U |
|
U |
C |
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Loggerhead Shrike |
C |
U |
C |
C |
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White-eyed Vireo |
U |
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U |
O |
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Tennessee Warbler |
C |
|
C |
O |
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Yellow Warbler |
C |
|
C |
O |
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Yellow-rumped Warbler |
C |
|
U |
C |
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Black-and-white Warbler |
C |
|
C |
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American Redstart |
C |
|
C |
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Common Yellowthroat |
C |
U |
C |
C |
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Hooded Warbler |
C |
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C |
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Summer Tanager |
C |
|
C |
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Northern Cardinal |
C |
C |
C |
C |
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
C |
|
U |
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Indigo Bunting |
C |
|
C |
|
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Dickcissel |
C |
C |
U |
O |
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Vesper Sparrow |
U |
|
U |
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Seaside Sparrow |
C |
C |
C |
C |
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White-throated Sparrow |
U |
|
U |
U |
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Red-winged Blackbird |
A |
A |
A |
A |
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Eastern Meadowlark |
C |
C |
C |
C |
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Boat-tailed Grackle |
A |
A |
A |
A |
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Orchard Oriole |
C |
C |
U |
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Northern Oriole |
U |
|
U |
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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
