Let Your Birding Adventure Take Flight at Tallgrass Prairie National

Let your birding adventure take flight at PELICANS PLOVERS Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. This GOATSUCKERS ____ American White Pelican ____ American Golden-Plover ____ Common Nighthawk list covers all of Chase County, Kansas, ____ Brown Pelican ____ Semipalmated Plover ____ Common Poor-will including the preserve, so enjoy and ____ Killdeer ____ Chuck-will’s-widow CORMORANTS ____ Whip-poor-will prepare to be amazed at the birds of the ____ Double-crested Cormorant SANDPIPERS tallgrass prairie and all of what the tallgrass ____ Spotted Sandpiper SWIFTS prairie has to offer! HERONS ____ Greater Yellowlegs ____ Chimney Swift ____ American Bittern ____ Willet ____ Great Blue Heron ____ Lesser Yellowlegs HUMMINGBIRDS ____ Great Egret ____ Upland Sandpiper ____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird GEESE, SWANS, & DUCKS ____ Snowy Egret ____ Long-billed Curlew ____ Greater White-fronted Goose ____ Little Blue Heron ____ Semipalmated Sandpiper KINGFISHERS ____ Snow Goose ____ Cattle Egret ____ Western Sandpiper ____ Belted Kingfisher ____ Cackling Goose ____ Green Heron ____ Least Sandpiper ____ Canada Goose ____ Black-crowned Night-Heron ____ White-rumped Sandpiper WOODPECKERS ____ Tundra Swan ____ Baird’s Sandpiper ____ Red-headed Woodpecker ____ Wood Duck IBISES ____ Pectoral Sandpiper ____ Red-bellied Woodpecker ____ Gadwall ____ Roseate Spoonbill ____ Dunlin ____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ____ American Wigeon ____ Stilt Sandpiper ____ Downy Woodpecker ____ Mallard VULTURES ____ Short-billed Dowitcher ____ Hairy Woodpecker ____ Blue-winged Teal ____ Turkey Vulture ____ Long-billed Dowitcher ____ Northern Flicker ____ Cinnamon Teal ____ Wilson’s Snipe ____ Pileated Woodpecker ____ Northern Shoveler HAWKS, EAGLES, & KITES ____ American Woodcock ____ Northern Pintail ____ Osprey ____ Wilson’s Phalarope FLYCATCHERS ____ Green-winged Teal ____ Mississippi Kite ____ Olive-sided Flycatcher ____ Canvasback ____ Bald Eagle GULLS & TERNS ____ Eastern Wood-Pewee ____ Redhead ____ Northern Harrier ____ Franklin’s Gull ____ Willow Flycatcher ____ Ring-necked Duck ____ Sharp-shinned Hawk ____ Bonaparte’s Gull ____ Least Flycatcher ____ Greater Scaup ____ Cooper’s Hawk ____ Ring-billed Gull ____ Eastern Phoebe ____ Lesser Scaup ____ Northern Goshawk ____ Herring Gull ____ Say’s Phoebe ____ Bufflehead ____ Red-shouldered Hawk ____ Black Tern ____ Great Crested Flycatcher ____ Common Goldeneye ____ Broad-winged Hawk ____ Forster’s Tern ____ Western Kingbird ____ Hooded Merganser ____ Swainson’s Hawk ____ Eastern Kingbird ____ Common Merganser ____ Red-tailed Hawk PIGEONS & DOVES ____ Scissor-tailed Flycatcher ____ Red-breasted Merganser ____ Ferruginous Hawk ____ Rock Pigeon ____ Ruddy Duck ____ Rough-legged Hawk ____ Eurasian Collared-Dove SHRIKES ____ Golden Eagle ____ Mourning Dove ____ Loggerhead Shrike GROUSE, PHEASANT, & TURKEY ____ Ring-necked Pheasant FALCONS CUCKOOS VIREOS ____ Greater Prairie-Chicken ____ American Kestrel ____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo ____ White-eyed Vireo ____ Wild Turkey ____ Merlin ____ Black-billed Cuckoo ____ Bell’s Vireo ____ Peregrine Falcon ____ Blue-headed Vireo QUAIL ____ Prairie Falcon BARN OWLS ____ Warbling Vireo ____ Northern Bobwhite ____ Barn Owl ____ Philadelphia Vireo RAILS, GALLINULES, & COOTS ____ Red-eyed Vireo LOONS ____ Virginia Rail TYPICAL OWLS ____ Red-throated Loon ____ Sora ____ Eastern Screech-Owl JAYS, CROWS, & MAGPIES ____ Common Loon ____ Purple Gallinule ____ Great Horned Owl ____ Blue Jay ____ American Coot ____ Snowy Owl ____ Black-billed Magpie GREBES ____ Burrowing Owl ____ American Crow ____ Pied-billed Grebe CRANES ____ Barred Owl ____ Horned Grebe ____ Sandhill Crane ____ Long-eared Owl LARKS ____ Eared Grebe ____ Whooping Crane ____ Short-eared Owl ____ Horned Lark SWALLOWS WAXWINGS SPARROWS, continued ____ Purple Martin ____ Cedar Waxwing ____ Lapland Longspur National Park Service ____ Tree Swallow ____ Smith’s Longspur U.S. Department of the Interior ____ Northern Rough-winged Swallow WARBLERS ____ Chestnut-collared Longspur Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve ____ Bank Swallow ____ Tennessee Warbler Strong City, Kansas ____ Cliff Swallow ____ Orange-crowned Warbler GROSBEAKS & BUNTINGS ____ Barn Swallow ____ Nashville Warbler ____ Northern Cardinal ____ Northern Parula ____ Rose-breasted Grosbeak Birds Of The Preserve & CHICKADEES & TITMICE ____ Yellow Warbler ____ Black-headed Grosbeak ____ Black-capped Chickadee ____ Chestnut-sided Warbler ____ Blue Grosbeak ____ Tufted Titmouse ____ Black-throated Blue Warbler ____ Indigo Bunting Chase County, Kansas ____ Yellow-rumped Warbler ____ Painted Bunting NUTHATCHES ____ Black-throated Green Warbler ____ Dickcissel ____ Red-breasted Nuthatch ____ Blackburnian Warbler ____ White-breasted Nuthatch ____ Palm Warbler BLACKBIRDS & ORIOLES ____ Bay-breasted Warbler ____ Bobolink CREEPERS ____ Blackpoll Warbler ____ Red-winged Blackbird ____ Brown Creeper ____ Black-and-White Warbler ____ Eastern Meadowlark ____ American Redstart ____ Western Meadowlark WRENS ____ Prothonotary Warbler ____ Yellow-headed Blackbird ____ Carolina Wren ____ Ovenbird ____ Rusty Blackbird ____ Bewick’s Wren ____ Northern Waterthrush ____ Brewer’s Blackbird ____ House Wren ____ Louisiana Waterthrush ____ Common Grackle ____ Winter Wren ____ Mourning Warbler ____ Great-tailed Grackle ____ Common Yellowthroat ____ Brown-headed Cowbird KINGLETS ____ Wilson’s Warbler ____ Orchard Oriole BIO 554 / 754 ____ Golden-crowned Kinglet ____ Yellow-breasted Chat ____ Baltimore Oriole Eastern Kentucky University ____ Ruby-crowned Kinglet TANAGERS FINCHES GNATCATCHERS ____ Summer Tanager ____ Purple Finch ____ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ____ Scarlet Tanager ____ House Finch ____ Western Tanager ____ Pine Siskin THRUSHES ____ American Goldfinch ____ Eastern Bluebird SPARROWS ____ Evening Grosbeak ____ Mountain Bluebird ____ Spotted Towhee ____ Townsend’s Solitaire ____ American Tree Sparrow OLD WORLD SPARROWS BIO 554 / 754 ____ Gray-cheeked Thrush ____ Chipping Sparrow ____ House Sparrow Eastern Kentucky University ____ Swainson’s Thrush ____ Clay-colored Sparrow ____ Hermit Thrush ____ Field Sparrow Birding tips: Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is a public/ ____ Wood Thrush ____ Vesper Sparrow 1. Find a field guide or birding checklist and take ____ American Robin ____ Lark Sparrow private partnership between the National Park some time to study. Start out by identifying a ____ Lark Bunting Service (the primary land manager) and The representative bird from each family group. MOCKINGBIRDS & THRASHERS ____ Savannah Sparrow Nature Conservancy (the primary land owner). 2. Consider a bird’s habitat, range, and seasonal ____ Gray Catbird ____ Grasshopper Sparrow variation to help narrow down the possible number ____ Northern Mockingbird ____ Henslow’s Sparrow ____ Brown Thrasher ____ Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow of birds to identify in a particular area. ____ Fox Sparrow 3. Improve the chances for identification by noting STARLINGS ____ Song Sparrow a bird’s “field marks,” such as shape, size, colors, ____ European Starling ____ Lincoln’s Sparrow markings, sounds, behaviors, and flight patterns. ____ Swamp Sparrow 4. Birding can be enjoyed with one’s eyes alone, but a PIPITS ____ White-throated Sparrow small pair of medium-power binoculars can greatly ____ American Pipit ____ Harris’s Sparrow Printed on enhance the experience. Please recycle ____ Sprague’s Pipit ____ White-crowned Sparrow recycled paper 5. Show respect for nature and others by causing as ____ Dark-eyed Junco little disturbance as possible while birding.