- Worm-eating Warbler - White-crowned - Ovenbird Sparrow - Northern Water Thrush - Clay-colored - Kentucky Warbler Sparrow - Connecticut Warbler - Dark-eyed Junco - Mourning Warbler - Snow Bunting - Common Yellowthroat -Cardinals,Grosbeaks - Hooded Warbler and Allies - Wilson’s Warbler - Summer Tanager - Warbler - Scarlet Tanager -New World Sparrows - Northern Cardinal and Allies - Rose-breasted - Eastern Grosbeak - American Tree - Indigo Bunting Sparrow -Blackbirds and Allies - Chipping Sparrow - Red-winged - Field Sparrow Blackbird Michigan : - Savannah Sparrow - Rusty Blackbird Common Species found at Reeds Lake - Fox Sparrow - Common Grackle Grand Rapids Audubon Club - Song Sparrow - Brown-headed - Lincoln’s Sparrow Cowbird Combining nature appreciation, environmental - Swamp Sparrow - Orchard Oriole education and wildlife conservation - White-throated - Baltimore Oriole Sparrow - Finches and Allies - Pine Grosbeak Mission Statement - Purple Finch - House Finch The Grand Rapids Audubon Club brings - Pine Siskin together people who enjoy nature, especially - American Goldfinch wild birds. We seek to protect and improve our - Evening Grosbeak natural environment and to advance nature -Old World Sparrows education throughout West Michigan. - House Sparrow

For more questions, visit their website at www.glsga.org/grac or address e-mail to Use the following space to record any new species [email protected] seen in this area. Please contact Grand Rapids Audubon with your observations. If uncertain about Courtesy of the species, visit www.allaboutbirds.org/guide or Grand Rapids Audubon Club www.macaulaylibrary.org for species and their descriptions. East Grand Rapids Parks & Recreation Department www.glsga.org/grac ______Community Center ______750 Lakeside Drive SE ______East Grand Rapids, MI 49506 ______Phone: 616.949.1750 ______Fax: 616.831.6144 [email protected] www.eastgr.org -Thrushes - Great Egret Cuckoos -Shrikes - Eastern Bluebird - Green Heron (Cuculiformes) - Northern Shrike - Veery - Black-crowned - Yellow-billed Cuckoo -Vireos - Gray-cheeked Thrush Night Heron - Black-billed Cuckoo - White-eyed Vireo - Swainson’s Thrush -New World Vultures Owls - Bell’s Vireo - Hermit Thrush Birding Checklist - Turkey Vulture (Strigiformes) - Blue-headed Vireo - Wood Thrush Hawks, Falcons and - - Warbling Vireo - American Robin Allies (Falconiformes) - Great Horned Owl - Philadelphia Vireo Location:______Date:______-Mockingbirds, - Osprey Nightjars - Red-eyed Vireo Thrashers and Allies - Bald Eagle (Caprimulgriformes) -Magpies, Jays and Observers: ______- Gray Catbird - Sharp-shinned Hawk - Common Nighthawk Crows - Brown Thrasher - Cooper’s Hawk - Whip-poor-will - Weather: ______Temperature:______-Starlings and Allies - Swifts and Humming - American Crow - European Starling - Broad-winged Hawk birds (Apodiformes) -Larks Time: ______-Waxwings - Red-tailed Hawk -Swifts - Horned Lark - Cedar Waxwing Cranes and Rails - Chimney Swift -Swallows -Wood Warblers (Gruiformes) -Hummingbirds - Purple Martin - Blue-winged Warbler The following is a list of -Rails, Gallinules and - Ruby-throated - Tree Swallow - Tennessee Warbler bird species which have Coots Hummingbird - Northern Rough- - Orange-crowned been observed in the - Hooded Merganser - King Rail Kingfishers and Allies winged Swallow Warbler Reeds Lake area by a - Common Merganser - Virginia Rail (Coraciiformes) - Bank Swallow - Nashville Warbler member of the Grand - Red-breasted - Sora - Belted Kingfisher - Cliff Swallow - Northern Parula Rapids Audubon Club. Merganser - American Coot Woodpeckers - Barn Swallow - Yellow Warbler - Ruddy Duck - Sandhill Crane (Piciformes) -Chickadees and Geese, Quail, and Allies Titmice - Chestnut-sided Ducks, Geese and Swans Plovers, Sandpipers - Red-headed (Galliformes) - Black-capped Warbler (Anseriformes) and Allies Woodpecker - Wild Turkey Chickadee - Magnolia Warbler - Canada Goose (Charadriiformes) - Red-bellied Loons - Tufted Titmouse - Cape May Warbler - Brant (Gaviiformes) -Plovers and Lapwings Woodpecker - Red-throated Loon -Nuthatches - Black-throated - Mute Swan - Killdeer - Yellow-bellied - Common Loon - Red-breasted Blue Warbler - Tundra Swan -Sandpipers, Phala- Sapsucker Grebes Nuthatch - Yellow-rumped/ - Wood Duck ropes and Allies - Downy Woodpecker (Podicipediformes) - White-breasted Myrtle Warbler - Gadwall - Spotted Sandpiper - Hairy Woodpecker - Pied-billed Grebe Nuthatch - Black-throated - American Wigeon - Solitary Sandpiper - Northern Flicker - Horned Grebe -Creepers Green Warbler - American Black Duck - Common Snipe Perching Birds - Red-necked Grebe - Brown Creeper - Blackburnian Warbler - Mallard -Gulls, Terns and (Passeriformes) - Eared Grebe -Wrens - Pine Warbler - Blue-winged Teal Skimmers -Tyrant Flycatchers Pelicans and Allies - Carolina Wren - Palm Warbler - Northern Shoveler - Bonaparte’s Gull - Olive-sided Flycatcher - House Wren - Bay-breasted Warbler - Northern Pintail (Pelicaniformes) - Ring-billed Gull - Eastern Wood Pewee - Double-Crested - Winter Wren - Blackpoll Warbler - Green-winged Teal - Herring Gull - Alder Flycatcher Cormorant - Marsh Wren - Black and White - Redhead - Caspian Tern - Willow Flycatcher Herons and Allies -Kinglets Warbler - Ring-necked Duck - Black Tern - Least Flycatcher - Golden-crowned - American Redstart - Greater Scaup (Ciconiiformes) - Common Tern - Eastern Phoebe Kinglet - Prothonotary - Lesser Scaup -Bitterns, Herons and - Forster’s Tern - Great Crested - Ruby-crowned Warbler - Surf Scoter Allies Pigeons and Doves Flycatcher - American Bittern Kinglet - White-winged Scoter (Columbiformes) - Eastern Kingbird - Great Blue Heron -Old World Warblers and - Bufflehead - Feral Pigeon/ Gnatcatchers - Common Goldenreye Rock Dove - Blue-gray - Mourning Dove Gnatcatcher

The ordering of this list conforms to the American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU) as represented in Checklist of North American Birds; 7th edition and supplements.