Detailed Checklist of Birds in the Thornhill area
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Loons
Common Loon
Grebes
Red-Neck Grebe
Horned Grebe
Pied-Billed Grebe

Herons and Egrets
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron 'formerly green-backed heron'
Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Black-Crowned Night Heron
Yellow-Crowned Night Heron
Least Bittern
American Bittern
Swans, Geese and Ducks
Tundra Swan
Snow Goose
Canada Goose
Mallard
American Black Duck
Gadwall
Northern Pintail
Green-Winged Teal
Blue-Winged Teal
American Wigeon
Northern Shoveler
Wood Duck
Ring-Necked Duck
CanvasBack
Lesser Scaup
Common Golden-eye
Ruddy Duck
Common Merganser
Red-Breasted Merganser
Hooded Merganser
Vultures
Turkey Vulture
Eagles and Hawks
Red-Shouldered Hawk
Red-Tailed Hawk
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Osprey
American Kestrel
Cranes, Rails and Coots
Sand-Hill Crane
Virginia Rail
Sora
American Coot
Plovers and Avocets
SemiPalmated Plover
Killdeer
American Avocet
Sandpipers and Phalaropes
Upland Sandpiper
Greater Yellow Legs
Western SandPiper
Spotted SandPiper
Ruddy Turnstone
American Woodcock
Common Snipe
Short-Billed Dowitcher
Long-Billed Dowitcher
Sanderling
Semi-Palmated SandPiper
Least SandPiper
Dunlin
Gulls and Terns
Herring Gull
Ring-Billed Gull
Caspian Tern
Quail
Northern Bobwhite
Doves
Rock Dove 'a.k.a. pigeon'
Mourning Dove
Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
Owls
Barn Owl
Eastern Screech Owl
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl
Short-Eared Owl
Goat Suckers
Common NightHawk
KingFisher
Belted KingFisher
WoodPeckers
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Red-Bellied WoodPecker
Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Flycatchers
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Phoebe
Swallows
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Jays and Crows
Blue Jay
Titmice, Nuthatches and Creepers
Black-Capped Chickadee
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-Breasted Nuthatch
Wrens
House Wren
Carolina Wren
Kinglets and Gnatcatchers
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Thrushes
American Robin
Mockingbirds and Thrashers
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Pipits and Waxwings
Cedar Waxwing
Shrikes
Loggerhead Shrikes
Starlings
European Starling
Wood Warblers
Prothonotary Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Common YellowThroat
Yellow-Breasted Chat
American Redstart
Scarlet Tanager
Cardinals, Grosbeaks and Sparrows
Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Evening Grosbeak
Savannah Sparrow
Grass-Hopper Sparrow
Dark-Eyed Junco
American Tree Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
White-Throated Sparrow
White-Crowned Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting
BlackBirds
Red-Winged Blackbird
Brown-Headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Finches
Purple Finch
House Finch
Common Redpoll
Pine Siskin
American GoldFinch
Red Crossbill
Weaver Finches
House Sparrow

This checklist was derived from "Birds of Salamonie Lake" published by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and available at the Salamonie Lake Interpretive Center. Contact naturalist Marvin McNew (HC 1989).

Huntington University gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Akira So, an Audubon Society member from Pleasanton, California, for supplying some photos and corroborating species identification. Photos bearing Akira So's copyright may not be reproduced in any way.

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