birds

 Preliminary Checklist

At this time this checklist is still very much in its preliminary stages of development. Being highly mobile, many bird species come and go with the seasons, and it will take several more years of observations from visiting birders in order to add previously unrecorded species, as well as to more accurately designate seasonal status values (abundant, common, uncommon, rare, etc.) for each bird species recorded and listed. At this time, our bird list contains 184 species.

Direct link of additional information and photos of the birds is courtesy of The National Audubon Society, a nonprofit organization designed to protect birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation

Abbreviations:
Sp = March-May | Su = June-August | F = September-November | W = December-February

As with all of our site’s target inhabitants – plants, dragonflies, butterflies, and birds – those of you who visit PJF Farm with a camera and notepad in hand can greatly assist us in developing our various checklists by sending photos and checklists, along with dates and locations of observations of any of these organisms to Bill Fontenot (natrldlite@cox.net or 337-852-5576).

Species Sp Su F W
Acadian Flycatcher • •
American Bittern •
American Coot • •
American Crow • • • •
American Goldfinch • • •
American Kestrel •
American Pipit • •
American Redstart •
American Robin • •
American White Pelican •
American Wigeon • •
American Woodcock •
Anhinga • • • •
Bald Eagle • •
Baltimore Oriole • •
Bank Swallow •
Barn Swallow •
Barred Owl • • • •
Belted Kingfisher • •
Bewick’s Wren •
Black Vulture • • • •
Black-and-white Warbler •
Black-bellied Plover •
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck • •
Black-crowned Night-Heron • • • •
Black-necked Stilt •
Blue Grosbeak • • •
Blue Jay • • • •
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher • •
Blue-headed Vireo • •
Blue-winged Teal • • •
Blue-winged Warbler •
Broad-winged Hawk • •
Brown Thrasher • • • •
Brown-headed Cowbird • • • •
Bufflehead •
Canada Goose •
Canvasback • •
Carolina Chickadee • • • •
Carolina Wren • • • •
Cattle Egret • • • •
Cedar Waxwing • •
Chimney Swift • •
Chipping Sparrow • •
Chuck-will’s-widow •
Cliff Swallow •
Common Gallinule • • • •
Common Goldeneye •
Common Grackle • • • •
Common Yellowthroat •
Cooper’s Hawk •
crow sp.
Dark-eyed Junco •
Double-crested Cormorant • •
Downy Woodpecker • • • •
Dunlin • • •
Eastern Bluebird • •
Eastern Kingbird • • •
Eastern Meadowlark • • • •
Eastern Phoebe •
Eastern Screech Owl • • • •
Eastern Towhee •
Eastern Wood Pewee • •
European Starling •

Species Sp Su F W
Field Sparrow
Fish Crow
Fox Sparrow
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Gadwall
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Grasshopper Sparrow
Gray Catbird
Great Egret
Great Horned Owl
Great-blue Heron
Great-crested Flycatcher
Greater White-fronted Goose
Greater Yellowlegs
Green Heron
Green-winged Teal
Hairy Woodpecker
Hermit Thrush
Hooded Merganser
Hooded Warbler
House Sparrow
House Wren
Inca Dove
Indigo Bunting
Kentucky Warbler
Killdeer
King Rail
Least Bittern
Least Sandpiper
Lesser Scaup
Lesser Yellowlegs
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Little Blue Heron
Loggerhead Shrike
Long-billed Dowitcher
Louisiana Waterthrush
Magnolia Warbler
Mallard
Marsh Wren
Merlin
Mottled Duck
Mourning Dove
Neotropic Cormorant
Northern Cardinal
Northern Flicker
Northern Harrier
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Parula
Northern Pintail
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Northern Shoveler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Orchard Oriole
Osprey
Painted Bunting
Palm Warbler
Pectoral Sandpiper
Peregrine Falcon
Pied-billed Grebe
Pileated Woodpecker
Pine Siskin
Pine Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Purple Finch *

Species Sp Su F W
Purple Gallinule • •
Purple Martin • •
Red-bellied Woodpecker • • • •
Red-breasted Merganser •
Red-breasted Nuthatch •
Red-eyed Vireo • •
Red-shouldered Hawk • • • •
Red-tailed Hawk • • •
Red-winged Blackbird • • • •
Redhead • •
Ring-necked Duck • •
Rock Pigeon
Rose-breasted Grosbeak •
Roseate Spoonbill • •
Ross’s Goose • •
Ruby-crowned Kinglet • • •
Ruby-throated Hummingbird • • •
Ruddy Duck • •
Rusty Blackbird •
Savannah Sparrow • • •
Sedge Wren • •
Sharp-shinned Hawk •
Snow Goose • •
Snowy Egret • • • •
Song Sparrow • •
Sora • •
Summer Tanager • • •
Swainson’s Thrush •
Swainson’s Warbler •
Swamp Sparrow • • •
Tennessee Warbler •
Tree Swallow • •
Tricolored Heron • •
Tufted Titmouse • • • •
Turkey  Vulture • • • •
Veery •
Virginia Rail • •
Western Sandpiper • •
White Ibis • • • •
White-crowned Sparrow • •
White-eyed Vireo • • • •
White-faced Ibis • • •
White-throated Sparrow • • •
Wild Turkey •
Wilson’s Snipe • •
Winter Wren • •
Wood Duck • • • •
Wood Stork • •
Wood Thrush •
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker •
Yellow-billed Cuckoo • •
Yellow-breasted Chat •
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron • •
Yellow-rumped Warbler • • •
Yellow-throated Vireo • •
Yellow-throated Warbler •

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