A Bird Friendly Habitat Report Your Findings! Bird Watching at The prairie restorations at Lakeshore State If you love birding and want to find out what Lakeshore State Park Park provide excellent food sources and others have observed, check out eBird.org, habitats for a variety of birds. created by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society. Here you can create 500 N. HARBOR DR, The demonstration gardens at the north end an account to submit your findings, look up MILWAUKEE, WI 53202 of the park host a surprisingly diverse insect information about different population, full of pollinators, dragonflies species, and search for bird and damselflies. These provide food for the sightings at Lakeshore State Park, Swallows and Purple Martins, who often re- as well as numerous other sites side in the nesting boxes located throughout throughout the country. the park. Contact Us Red-Winged Blackbirds If you have any questions about your visit or if thrive in the cattails, and you would like to share your experience or photos Green Herons hang out on with us, please feel free to contact us or visit our the rocks in the wetland Facebook page. prairie. Great Blue Herons love strolling through the Park Manager shallow waters of the pebble 414-274-4281 beach, where waterfowl and Tom Kroeger: [email protected] long-legged shorebirds are frequently seen. Naturalist Guides 414-274-4282 The park’s lagoon is the Angela Vickio: [email protected] ideal location for insects Anne Duffy: [email protected] that lay eggs in or near water, and is home to Facebook many insect larvae, an https://www.facebook.com/ Discover one of Wisconsin’s premiere places important food item for LakeshoreStateParkMKE to bird watch right here in the heart of our park’s fish. The smaller fish fall prey to Milwaukee! As part of the Lake Michigan the Double Crested Cormorants in the spring Flyway, Lakeshore State Park hosts over 70 The Friends of Lakeshore State Park partners with species of indigenous and migratory birds and fall. The crayfish near the rocky shorelines the WDNR and the community to establish LSP as are a staple food for the Gulls that live in the Milwaukee’s premier urban oasis. The Friends is a each year. From birds of prey and park. Additionally, there are many aquatic non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the songbirds, to shore birds and waterfowl, plants in the lagoon, a favorite food source park and its partners by raising funds for you’re sure to see an array of birds at any educational programming, events and time of the year! for Ducks. infrastructure, as well as providing volunteers to enhance park services. To donate to this Keep an eye on the sky for raptors, such as organization, please see the Friends website at FriendsLSP.org the Peregrine Falcon, that may be migrating or hunting. In recent years, a snowy owl has 500 N. HARBOR DR. MI LWAUKE, WI 53233 even been sighted during winter months. No Such Thing As A Seagull Bird Checklist You read that right. There’s no such thing as a Ducks and Waterfowl Herons and Bitterns Blackbirds seagull. There are, however, a variety of birds American Black Duck Black Crowned Night Heron Bobolink that are classified as gulls. Lakeshore State American Wigeon Great Blue Heron Brown Headed Cowbird Park hosts many different species throughout Black Scoter Green Heron Common Grackle the year. Look at them closely to try and Blue Winged Teal Least Bittern Eastern Meadowlark Bufflehead Red Winged Blackbird identify the ones you see! Canvasback Yellow Headed Blackbird Common Goldeneye Swallows Common Merganser Bank Swallow Raptors What to Look For Gadwall Barn Swallow American Kestrel Color patterns of their bills is one of the best Greater Scaup Cliff Swallow Bald Eagle Green-Wing Teal Northern RoughWinged Swallow ways to distinguish between gull species. Cooper’s Hawk Harlequin Duck Purple Martin Northern Harrier Additionally, the color patterns of their wings Hooded Merganser Tree Swallow Osprey and their overall size can aid in identification. King Eider Peregrine Falcon However, first year gulls typically have more Lesser Scaup Long-Tailed Duck Shorebirds Red Tailed Hawk gray mottled feathers, which will transition into Mallard Barred Owl American Avocet Northern Shoveler Short Eared Owl their adult patterns by 3 years old. American Golden Plover Red Breasted Merganser Snowy Owl Black Bellied Plover Redhead Piping Plover Herring Gull Glaucous Gull Ring-Neck Duck Others Semi-palmated Plover Ruddy Duck Red spot Red spot Killdeer American Crow Surf Scoter on bill on bill Dunlin American Goldfinch White Winged Scoter Least Sandpiper American Pipit American Coot Sanderling American Robin 22-24” 26-28” Common Loon  Semi-palmated Sandpiper Belted Kingfisher Double Crested Cormorant Ring Billed Gull Iceland (Thayer’s) Gull Spotted Sandpiper Black Capped Chickadee Eared Grebe Whimbrel Blue Gray Gnatcatcher Horned Grebe Black ring Black tip of Wilson’s Phalarope Brown Creeper Pied Billed Grebe Cedar Waxwing on bill bill American Pelican Eastern Kingbird Canada Goose Eastern Phoebe 18-22” 20-25” Snow Goose Sparrows European Starling

Great Black Backed Gull Laughing Gull American Tree Sparrow Golden Crowned Kinglet Red bill Gulls and Terns Chipping Sparrow Gray Catbird Red spot Red bill Dark Eyed Junco Caspian Tern Hermit Thrush on bill Field Sparrow Forster’s Tern Horned Lark House Sparrow Bonaparte’s Gull House Finch 24-26” 15-18”  Lapland Longspur Glaucous Gull Marsh Wren  Savannah Sparrow Bonaparte’s Gull Slaty Backed Gull  Great Black Backed Gull Sedge Wren Snow Bunting Herring Gull Mourning Dove Black bill Song Sparrow Red spot on Iceland (Thayer’s) Gull Rock Dove (Pigeon)  Swamp Sparrow Laughing Gull Common Yellowthroat Warbler bill  White Crowned Sparrow Ring Billed Gull Orange Crowned Warbler White Throated Sparrow 11-15” 25-31” Slaty Backed Gull Palm Warbler Yellow Rumped Warbler