SEASONAL OCCURRENCES OF SHELBY COUNTY, TENNESSEE BIRDS

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1 SEASONAL OCCURRENCES OF SHELBY COUNTY, TENNESSEE BIRDS The following is a revision of the compilation of several thousand field cards and notes collected for Shelby County since The original publication in 1982 was supported by the tireless efforts and encouragement of the late Ben B. Coffey, Jr., whose records provided the basis for this publication and the start of the Memphis Chapter of TOS. The previous revisions were in 1987 and This publication extends the reporting time into 2013 in an ongoing attempt to maintain an accurate and timely record of sightings in Shelby County. It would not have been possible without the continued work and support of the members of the Memphis chapter who have contributed countless hours of work, but most importantly kept field cards of their sightings. MTOS maintains a database of well over 9000 (and growing) records of these sightings for Shelby County, a large part of Tennessee and the mid-south. This compilation provides a reasonable estimate of arrival and departure dates of transients, seasonal residents and visitors, a record of occasional and accidental sightings and the presence of year-round residents. The color graphing shows the expectation of sighting a species within Shelby County. An attempt is made to indicate current possibility of sighting a species though historical records may indicate greater density. The population densities of birds and chances of seeing them are divided into six categories; numbers indicate arrival or departure dates within that month. If no date is indicated the species may appear at any time in that month. An observation prior to the printed arrival date or after the printed departure date would indicate an early or late record and should be reported to MTOS. Common seen every day in proper habitat Fairly common seen almost every day in proper habitat Uncommon might be seen but infrequent or unpredictable numbers Rare seen now and then though could be expected almost every year Very Rare very few seen and not every year; single sighting Accidental sighting outside of normal range This revision was completed by Martha Waldron and Susan McWhirter 5/20/2014. Special thanks to Theresa Graham, Gaynell Perry, Dick Preston, and Virginia Reynolds.

2 Blk-bellied Whistling-Duck Fulvous Whistling Duck C Gr. White-fronted Goose 8 5 FC Snow Goose 10 2 UC Ross's Goose R Brant VR Cackling Goose A Canada Goose Mute Swan Trumpeter Swan Tundra Swan Wood Duck Gadwall Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon American Black Duck 23 7 Mallard Mottled Duck Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler 20 Northern Pintail 3 Garganey Green-winged Teal Canvasback 8 1 Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup 8 3 Lesser Scaup 3 Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Long-tailed Duck Bufflehead 26 Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser 10 Ruddy Duck Wild Turkey Northern Bobwhite Common Loon 8 5 Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Eared Grebe Clark's Grebe Am. White Pelican Brown Pelican

3 Neotropic Cormorant Double-cr. Cormorant Anhinga American Bittern Least Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret 6 29 Snowy Egret 1 1 Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Cattle Egret 6 21 Green Heron Black-cr. Night-Heron 6 9 Yellow-cr. Night-Heron 7 29 White Ibis 14 Glossy Ibis White-faced Ibis 3 Roseate Spoonbill Wood Stork Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Osprey 16 Mississippi Kite Bald Eagle Northern Harrier 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk 27 Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk Feb Broad-winged Hawk Swainson's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle Yellow Rail King Rail 24 1 Virginia Rail Sora 12 nested Purple Gallinule Common Gallinule American Coot Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover 6 25 American Golden-Plover 9 6 Wilson's Plover Semipalmated Plover Piping Plover Killdeer

4 Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs 2 21 Solitary Sandpiper Willet Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Whimbrel Long-billed Curlew Hudsonian Godwit Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Red-necked Stint Least Sandpiper 22 White-rumped Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Purple Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper 3 26 Buff-breasted Sandpiper Ruff Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe 8 11 American Woodcock Wilson's Phalarope 9 9 Red-necked Phalarope Red Phalarope Pomarine Jaeger Jaeger sp. Laughing Gull Franklin's Gull Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull 3 Glaucous Gull Sabine's Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Caspian Tern Royal Tern Common Tern

5 Forster's Tern Least Tern 25 Black Tern 14 Rock Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove White-winged Dove Mourning Dove Common Ground-Dove Black-billed Cuckoo 22 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2 Barn Owl Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Common Nighthawk 19 Chuck-will's-widow 2 28 Whip-poor-will Chimney Swift 17 Ruby-th. Hummingbird 27 Rufous Hummingbird 28 8 Selasphorus sp. Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 7 Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker "Red-shafted" Flicker Pileated Woodpecker American Kestrel Merlin 15 Peregrine Falcon Prairie Falcon Monk Parakeet Nested in 1973 Olive-sided Flycatcher 8 Eastern Wood-Pewee 3 28 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher 13 Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Vermilion Flycatcher Ash-throated Flycatcher

6 Great Crested Flycatcher Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird 27 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 8 Loggerhead Shrike White-eyed Vireo 21 Bell's Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo 18 Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo 5 3 Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Horned Lark Purple Martin 1 27 Tree Swallow N. Rough-winged Swallow 12 2 Bank Swallow 8 26 Cliff Swallow 1 Barn Swallow 8 28 Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch 11 9 White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Rock Wren Carolina Wren Bewick's Wren Once considered an uncommon visitor and nesting species House Wren Winter Wren 27 2 Sedge Wren Marsh Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush 30 9 Wood Thrush 2 10 American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling

7 American Pipit 10 Sprague's Pipit No recent report Cedar Waxwing 8 Lapland Longspur 19 1 Snow Bunting Smith's Longspur Ovenbird Worm-eating Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush Northern Waterthrush Blue-winged Warbler Golden-winged Warbler "Brewster's Warbler" "Lawrence's Warbler" Black-and-white Warbler Prothonotary Warbler 26 Swainson's Warbler 6 31 Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler Kentucky Warbler 30 Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler American Redstart 6 21 Cape May Warbler Cerulean Warbler 3 30 Northern Parula 1 25 Magnolia Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow Warbler 9 27 Chestnut-sided Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-thr. Blue Warbler Palm Warbler Pine Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Prairie Warbler 9 18 Black-thr. Green Warbler Canada Warbler Wilson's Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee Eastern Towhee

8 Bachman's Sparrow Not reported since the 1950's American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Savannah Sparrow 23 9 Grasshopper Sparrow 17 Henslow's Sparrow LeConte's Sparrow 6 Nelson's Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow 16 White-throated Sparrow 4 15 Harris' s Sparrow 30 White-crowned Sparrow 17 4 Dark-eyed Junco Summer Tanager 8 17 Scarlet Tanager 9 nested 6 28 Western Tanager Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Black-headed Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting Indigo Bunting 5 Painted Bunting Dickcissel Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Western Meadowlark 24 nested Yellow-headed Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Common Grackle Shiny Cowbird Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole 4 26 Baltimore Oriole 9 13 Purple Finch 7 House Finch Red Crossbill nested White-winged Crossbill Pine Siskin 22 10

9 American Goldfinch Evening Grosbeak 9 17 House Sparrow