Birds
of
Autumn

by
Lin Stone

After the first frost hits the pumpkin and the last of the insects are hunting holes to hide in the birds of autumn are less crowded by the fair weather birds.  They spread out and make themselves comfortable.  Here is a list of the birds that find the fall in Oklahoma an exciting place to flock their feathers.  For your convenience I have listed them in almost alpha-numeric sequence in Euromerican English.

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American Coot
American Crow
American Pipit
American Wigeon

Bald Eagle  Some early birds show up for the fall, but winters are their natural preference for the Oklahoma region.  They generally leave about the same time the Canada Goose flies away.

Belted Kingfisher These are a territorial bird that will keep a suspicious eye on human intruders until they are sure you have left their territory.

Black Vulture are found all over the state of Oklahoma but their numbers pick up sharply near large bodies of water like your lakes.  They are especially plentiful near dams where the water spills over or flushes out.  Early in the morning they will meet like a flock of businessmen over steaming coffee cups and it almost seems they really are discussing the business of the day.  Then, almost reluctantly, they will take wing and separate to seek out the thermals of the day.  As night approaches they will often congregate again in large clusters before dispersing into the growing darkness.

Blue Jay
Blue-winged Teal

Carolina Chickadee
Carolina Wren
Common Moorhen
Common Yellowthroat

Dark-eyed Junco
Double-crested Cormorant

Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Meadowlark
Eastern Phoebe

Fish Crow
Franklin's Gull

Gadwall
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Greater White-fronted Goose
Greater Yellowlegs
Green-winged Teal

Killdeer love to be where they CAN wade, but don't have to.  In protecting their young, mother Killdeer can carry a vigorous attack to the human intruder.  Little damage is done but the attack can scare the daylights out of a child that got too close.

Killdeer have a white underbelly and small white bars in gray-brown feathers on top.  Killdeer run short distances with their heads up and reaching.  When they stop they hunker down, drawing their head down.  They never seem to stop for more than a minute then they are moving again, their haunting, mournful cries ringing in the stillness .. "killdeer.  killdeer."

King Rail

Least Sandpiper
Loggerhead Shrike
Long-billed Dowitcher

Mallard
Marsh Wren
Mourning Dove

Northern Cardinal
Northern Flicker
Northern Harrier
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler

Orange-crowned Warbler

Pied-billed Grebe

Quail  -- Your Northern Bob White

Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-winged Blackbird
Ring-necked Duck
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Ruddy Duck

Savannah Sparrow
Sedge Wren
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Snowy Egret
Song Sparrow
Sora
Swamp Sparrow

Tufted Titmouse
Turkey
Turkey Vulture

Vesper Sparrow
Virginia Rail

White Ibis
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Wilson's Snipe
Wood Duck

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

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Oklahoma Birds of Winter

American Pipit
Bald Eagle
Bewick's Wren
Cooper's Hawk
Eastern Towhee
Gadwall
Great-blue Heron
Greater White-fronted Geese
Greater Yellowlegs
Green-winged Teal
Hooded Merganser
Killdeer
Least Sandpiper
LeConte's Sparrow
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Ring-necked Duck
Sedge Wren
Snow Geese
Vesper Sparrow
Western Meadowlark
Wilson's Snipe

As Spring Doth Start
These Birds Settle In
or Prepare to Depart

American Bittern
American White Pelicans
Black-and-white Warbler - 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatchers
Blue-winged Teal - common
Brown-headed Nuthatch - 2
Chipping Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Phoebe
Greater Yellowlegs - common
Little-blue Heron -
Long-billed Dowitcher - 1
Pied-billed Grebes
Pine Warbler
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Tree Swallows
White-eyed Vireos

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Summer Birds

American White Pelican
Anhinga
Bell's Vireo
Cattle Egret
Common Moorhen
Great Egret
Great-blue Heron
Greater Yellowlegs
Green Heron
Killdeer
Least Sandpiper
Little-blue Heron
Mallard
Mississippi Kite
Northern Bobwhite
Painted Bunting
Pectoral Sandpiper
Ring-necked Duck
Roseate Spoonbill
Snowy Egret
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Tree Swallow
Tricolored Heron
Western Sandpiper
White Ibis
Willow Flycatcher
Wood Duck
Wood Stork
Yellow-crowned Nightheron

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An Almost Complete List
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Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
American Avocet
American Bittern
American Coot
American Crow
American Golden Plover
American Goldfinch
American Kestrel
American Pipit
American Redstart
American Robin
American Tree Sparrow
American White Pelican
American Wigeon
American Woodcock
Anhinga
Ash-throated Flycatcher

Bachman's Sparrow
Baird's Sandpiper
Bald Eagle
Baltimore Oriole
Bank Swallow
Barn Owl
Barn Swallow
Barred Owl
Bay-breasted Warbler
Bell's Vireo
Belted Kingfisher
Bewick's Wren
Black and White Warbler
Black Rail
Black Tern
Black Vulture
Black-bellied Plover
Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Black-billed Cuckoo
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Black-necked Stilt
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Blackpoll
Blue Grosbeak
Blue Jay
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Blue-headed Vireo
Blue-winged Teal
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Bobolink is the only American bird that is black underneath and white on the back.  It is also the only American song bird that goes through two complete molts each year.  Migrating from above the Mason-Dixon Line to south of the equator each year the Bobolink migrates in flocks large enough to cover a forty acre field.  A lover of the open fields and meadows and seldom still, the Bobolink is a distinctive find. 

Bonaparte's Gull
Brewer's Blackbird
Broad-winged Hawk
Brown Creeper
Brown Thrasher
Brown-headed Cowbird
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Bufflehead

Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Canada Warbler
Canvasback
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina Wren
Caspian Tern
Cattle Egret
Cedar Waxwing
Cerulean Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Chimney Swift
Chipping Sparrow
Chuck-Will's-Widow
Cinnamon Teal
Clay-colored Sparrow
Cliff Swallow
Common Goldeneye
Common Grackle
Common Ground Dove
Common Moorhen
Common Nighthawk
Common Snipe
Common Tern
Common Yellowthroat
Cooper's Hawk
Crested Caracara

Dark-eyed Junco
Dickcissel
Double-crested Cormorant
Downy Woodpecker
Dunlin

Eared Grebe
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Towhee
Eastern Wild Turkey
Eastern Wood Pewee
Eurasian Collared Dove
European Starling

Field Sparrow
Fish Crow
Forster's Tern
Fox Sparrow
Franklin's Gull

Gadwall
Glossy Ibis
Golden Eagle
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Golden-winged Warbler
Grasshopper Sparrow
Gray Catbird
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Great Horned Owl
Great-crested Flycatcher
Great-tailed Grackle
Greater Roadrunner
Greater White-fronted Goose
Greater Yellowlegs
Green Heron
Green-winged Teal

Hairy Woodpecker
Harris' Sparrow
Henslow's Sparrow
Hermit Thrush
Herring Gull
Hooded Merganser
Hooded Warbler
Horned Grebe
House Finch
House Sparrow
House Wren
Hudsonian Godwit

Inca Dove
Indigo Bunting do sit still for long periods of time but are usually noticed as they dart from place to place, a zinging splash of color so blue it is almost painful to see.  They are right at home in Oklahoma plains as they prefer tall shrubs and short trees.

Kentucky Warbler
Killdeer
King Rail

Lapland Longspur
Lark Sparrow
Laughing Gull
Least Bittern
Least Flycatcher
Least Grebe
Least Sandpiper
Least Tern
LeConte's Sparrow
Lesser Scaup
Lesser Yellowlegs
Lincoln's Sparrow
Little Blue Heron
Loggerhead Shrike
Long-billed Curlew
Long-billed Dowitcher
Louisiana Waterthrush

Magnolia Warbler
Mallard
Marbled Godwit
Marsh Wren
McCown's longspur
Merlin
Mississippi Kite
Mottled Duck
Mourning Dove
Mourning Warbling

Nashville Warbler
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Neotropic Cormorant
Northern Bobwhite
Northern Cardinal
Northern Flicker
Northern Harrier
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Parula Warbler
Northern Pintail
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Northern Shoveler
Northern Waterthrush

Olive-sided Flycatcher
Orange-crowned Warbler
Orchard Oriole
Osprey

Painted Bunting
Palm Warbler
Pectoral Sandpiper
Peregrine Falcon
Philadelphia Vireo
Pied-billed Grebe
Pileated Woodpecker
Pine Siskin
Pine Warbler
Piping Plover
Prairie Falcon
Prairie Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Purple Finch
Purple Gallinule
Purple Martin

Red breasted Merganser
Red Knot
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Red-eyed Vireo
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-winged Blackbird
Redhead
Ring-billed Gull
Ring-necked Duck
Rock Dove
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Roseate Spoonbill
Ross' Goose
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Ruddy Duck
Ruddy Turnstone
Rusty Blackbird

Sage Thrasher
Sanderling
Sandhill Crane
Savannah Sparrow
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Screech Owl
Sedge Wren
Semipalmated Plover
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Short-billed Dowitcher
Short-eared Owl
Smith's Longspurs
Snow Goose
Snowy Egret
Solitary Sandpiper
Song Sparrow
Sora
Spotted Sandpiper
Spotted Towhee
Sprague's Pipit
Stilt Sandpiper
Summer Tanager
Swainson's Hawk
Swainson's Thrush
Swainson's Warbler
Swallow-tailed Kite
Swamp Sparrow

Tennessee Warbler
Tree Swallow
Tricolored Heron
Tufted Titmouse
Tundra Swan
Turkey Vulture

Upland Sandpiper

Vesper Sparrow
Virginia Rail

Warbling Vireo
Western Meadowlark
Western Sandpiper
Whimbrel
White Ibis
White-breasted Nuthatch
White-crowned Sparrow
White-eyed Vireo
White-faced Ibis
White-rumped Sandpiper
White-throated Sparrow
White-winged Dove
Willet
Willow Flycatcher
Wilson's Phalarope
Wilson's Warbler
Winter Wren
Wood Duck
Wood Stork
Wood Thrush

 

Yellow Rail is one of the most elusive birds of North America but it has been seen at Re Slough near Ida Bell.  It is not at all unusual for visitors to Red Slough to see over 100 different bird species in a single day.  This five thousand, eight hundred acre Wildlife Management Area even has American Alligators.  One female hatched out nineteen baby alligators in 2006.

Yellow Warbler
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-breasted Chat
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-throated Vireo
Yellow-throated Warbler

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