Georgia Ornithological Society
2004 Checklist of Georgia Birds

DUCKS, GEESE, SWANS
____ Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
____ Fulvous Whistling-Duck
____ Greater White-fronted Goose
____ Snow Goose
____ Ross's Goose
____ Brant
____ Canada Goose
____ Tundra Swan
____ Wood Duck
____ Gadwall
____ Eurasian Wigeon
____ American Wigeon
____ American Black Duck
____ Mallard
____ Mottled Duck
____ Blue-winged Teal
____ Cinnamon Teal
____ Northern Shoveler
____ Northern Pintail
____ Green-winged Teal
____ Canvasback
____ Redhead
____ Ring-necked Duck
____ Greater Scaup
____ Lesser Scaup
____ King Eider
____ Common Eider
____ Harlequin Duck
____ Surf Scoter
____ White-winged Scoter
____ Black Scoter
____ Long-tailed Duck
____ Bufflehead
____ Common Goldeneye
____ Hooded Merganser
____ Common Merganser
____ Red-breasted Merganser
____ Masked Duck
____ Ruddy Duck
CHACHALACAS
____ Plain Chachalaca
GROUSE, TURKEYS
____ Ruffed Grouse
____ Wild Turkey
NEW WORLD QUAIL
____ Northern Bobwhite
LOONS
____ Red-throated Loon
____ Pacific Loon
____ Common Loon
____ Yellow-billed Loon
GREBES
____ Pied-billed Grebe
____ Horned Grebe
____ Red-necked Grebe
____ Eared Grebe
____ Western Grebe
PETRELS, SHEARWATERS
____ Black-capped Petrel
____ Cory's Shearwater
____ Greater Shearwater
____ Sooty Shearwater
____ Manx Shearwater
____ Audubon's Shearwater
STORM-PETRELS
____ Wilson's Storm-Petrel
____ Leach's Storm-Petrel
____ Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
TROPICBIRDS
____ White-tailed Tropicbird
____ Red-billed Tropicbird
BOOBIES, GANNETS
____ Masked Booby
____ Brown Booby
____ Northern Gannet
PELICANS
____ American White Pelican
____ Brown Pelican
CORMORANTS 
____ Double-crested Cormorant
____ Great Cormorant
DARTERS
____ Anhinga
FRIGATEBIRDS
____ Magnificent Frigatebird
BITTERNS, HERONS
____ American Bittern
____ Least Bittern
____ Great Blue Heron
____ Great Egret
____ Snowy Egret
____ Little Blue Heron
____ Tricolored Heron
____ Reddish Egret
____ Cattle Egret
____ Green Heron
____ Black-crowned Night-Heron
____ Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
IBISES, SPOONBILLS
____ White Ibis
____ Glossy Ibis
____ White-faced Ibis
____ Roseate Spoonbill
STORKS
____ Wood Stork
NEW WORLD VULTURES
____ Black Vulture
____ Turkey Vulture
HAWKS, KITES, EAGLES
____ Osprey
____ Swallow-tailed Kite
____ Mississippi Kite
____ Bald Eagle
____ Northern Harrier
____ Sharp-shinned Hawk
____ Cooper's Hawk
____ Northern Goshawk
____ Red-shouldered Hawk
____ Broad-winged Hawk
____ Red-tailed Hawk
____ Rough-legged Hawk
____ Golden Eagle
FALCONS
____ American Kestrel
____ Merlin
____ Peregrine Falcon
RAILS, GALLINULES, COOTS
____ Yellow Rail
____ Black Rail
____ Clapper Rail
____ King Rail
____ Virginia Rail
____ Sora
____ Purple Gallinule
____ Common Moorhen
____ American Coot
LIMPKIN
____ Limpkin
CRANES
____ Sandhill Crane
____ Whooping Crane
PLOVERS
____ Black-bellied Plover
____ American Golden-Plover
____ Snowy Plover
____ Wilson's Plover
____ Semipalmated Plover
____ Piping Plover
____ Killdeer
OYSTERCATCHERS
____ American Oystercatcher
STILTS, AVOCETS
____ Black-necked Stilt
____ American Avocet
SANDPIPERS, PHALAROPES
____ Greater Yellowlegs
____ Lesser Yellowlegs
____ Solitary Sandpiper
____ Willet
____ Spotted Sandpiper
____ Upland Sandpiper
____ Whimbrel
____ Long-billed Curlew
____ Hudsonian Godwit
____ Marbled Godwit
____ Ruddy Turnstone
____ Red Knot
____ Sanderling
____ Semipalmated Sandpiper
____ Western Sandpiper
____ Least Sandpiper
____ White-rumped Sandpiper
____ Baird's Sandpiper
____ Pectoral Sandpiper
____ Purple Sandpiper
____ Dunlin
____ Curlew Sandpiper
____ Stilt Sandpiper
____ Buff-breasted Sandpiper
____ Ruff
____ Short-billed Dowitcher
____ Long-billed Dowitcher
____ Wilson's Snipe
____ American Woodcock
____ Wilson's Phalarope
____ Red-necked Phalarope
____ Red Phalarope
SKUAS, GULLS, TERNS, SKIMMERS
____ South Polar Skua
____ Pomarine Jaeger
____ Parasitic Jaeger
____ Long-tailed Jaeger
____ Laughing Gull
____ Franklin's Gull
____ Little Gull
____ Black-headed Gull
____ Bonaparte's Gull
____ Ring-billed Gull
____ Herring Gull
____ Iceland Gull
____ Lesser Black-backed Gull
____ Glaucous Gull
____ Great Black-backed Gull
____ Sabine's Gull
____ Black-legged Kittiwake
____ Gull-billed Tern
____ Caspian Tern
____ Royal Tern
____ Sandwich Tern
____ Common Tern
____ Arctic Tern
____ Forster's Tern
____ Least Tern
____ Bridled Tern
____ Sooty Tern
____ Black Tern
____ Brown Noddy
____ Black Skimmer
AUKS
____ Dovekie
____ Razorbill
PIGEONS, DOVES
____ Rock Pigeon
____ Eurasian Collared-Dove
____ White-winged Dove
____ Mourning Dove
____ Common Ground-Dove
CUCKOOS, ANIS
____ Black-billed Cuckoo
____ Yellow-billed Cuckoo
____ Smooth-billed Ani
BARN OWLS
____ Barn Owl
TYPICAL OWLS
____ Eastern Screech-Owl
____ Great Horned Owl
____ Snowy Owl
____ Burrowing Owl
____ Barred Owl
____ Long-eared Owl
____ Short-eared Owl
____ Northern Saw-whet Owl
NIGHTJARS
____ Common Nighthawk
____ Chuck-will's-widow
____ Whip-poor-will
SWIFTS
____ Chimney Swift
HUMMINGBIRDS
____ Broad-billed Hummingbird
____ Magnificent Hummingbird
____ Ruby-throated Hummingbird
____ Black-chinned Hummingbird
____ Anna's Hummingbird
____ Calliope Hummingbird
____ Broad-tailed Hummingbird
____ Rufous Hummingbird
____ Allen's Hummingbird
KINGFISHERS
____ Belted Kingfisher
WOODPECKERS
____ Red-headed Woodpecker
____ Red-bellied Woodpecker
____ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
____ Downy Woodpecker
____ Hairy Woodpecker
____ Red-cockaded Woodpecker
____ Northern Flicker
____ Pileated Woodpecker
____ Ivory-billed Woodpecker
TYRANT FLYCATCHERS
____ Olive-sided Flycatcher
____ Eastern Wood-Pewee
____ Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
____ Acadian Flycatcher
____ Alder Flycatcher
____ Willow Flycatcher
____ Least Flycatcher
____ Eastern Phoebe
____ Say's Phoebe
____ Vermilion Flycatcher
____ Ash-throated Flycatcher
____ Great Crested Flycatcher
____ Western Kingbird
____ Eastern Kingbird
____ Gray Kingbird
____ Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
SHRIKES
____ Loggerhead Shrike
VIREOS
____ White-eyed Vireo
____ Bell's Vireo
____ Yellow-throated Vireo
____ Blue-headed Vireo
____ Warbling Vireo
____ Philadelphia Vireo
____ Red-eyed Vireo
CROWS, JAYS
____ Blue Jay
____ Florida Scrub-Jay
____ American Crow
____ Fish Crow
____ Common Raven
LARKS
____ Horned Lark
SWALLOWS, MARTINS
____ Purple Martin
____ Tree Swallow
____ Northern Rough-winged Swallow
____ Bank Swallow
____ Cliff Swallow
____ Cave Swallow
____ Barn Swallow
CHICKADEES, TITMICE
____ Carolina Chickadee
____ Tufted Titmouse
NUTHATCHES
____ Red-breasted Nuthatch
____ White-breasted Nuthatch
____ Brown-headed Nuthatch
CREEPERS
____ Brown Creeper
WRENS
____ Carolina Wren
____ Bewick's Wren
____ House Wren
____ Winter Wren
____ Sedge Wren
____ Marsh Wren
KINGLETS
____ Golden-crowned Kinglet
____ Ruby-crowned Kinglet
GNATCATCHERS
____ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
THRUSHES
____ Northern Wheatear
____ Eastern Bluebird
____ Veery
____ Gray-cheeked Thrush
____ Bicknell's Thrush
____ Swainson's Thrush
____ Hermit Thrush
____ Wood Thrush
____ American Robin
____ Varied Thrush
MOCKINGBIRDS, THRASHERS
____ Gray Catbird
____ Northern Mockingbird
____ Sage Thrasher
____ Brown Thrasher
STARLINGS
____ European Starling
PIPITS
____ American Pipit
____ Sprague's Pipit
WAXWINGS
____ Cedar Waxwing
WOOD-WARBLERS
____ Blue-winged Warbler
____ Golden-winged Warbler
____ Tennessee Warbler
____ Orange-crowned Warbler
____ Nashville Warbler
____ Northern Parula
____ Yellow Warbler
____ Chestnut-sided Warbler
____ Magnolia Warbler
____ Cape May Warbler
____ Black-throated Blue Warbler
____ Yellow-rumped Warbler
____ Black-throated Gray Warbler
____ Black-throated Green Warbler
____ Townsend's Warbler
____ Blackburnian Warbler
____ Yellow-throated Warbler
____ Pine Warbler
____ Kirtland's Warbler
____ Prairie Warbler
____ Palm Warbler
____ Bay-breasted Warbler
____ Blackpoll Warbler
____ Cerulean Warbler
____ Black-and-white Warbler
____ American Redstart
____ Prothonotary Warbler
____ Worm-eating Warbler
____ Swainson's Warbler
____ Ovenbird
____ Northern Waterthrush
____ Louisiana Waterthrush
____ Kentucky Warbler
____ Connecticut Warbler
____ Mourning Warbler
____ MacGillivray's Warbler
____ Common Yellowthroat
____ Hooded Warbler
____ Wilson's Warbler
____ Canada Warbler
____ Yellow-breasted Chat
TANAGERS
____ Summer Tanager
____ Scarlet Tanager
____ Western Tanager
EMBERIZIDS
____ Green-tailed Towhee
____ Spotted Towhee
____ Eastern Towhee
____ Bachman's Sparrow
____ American Tree Sparrow
____ Chipping Sparrow
____ Clay-colored Sparrow
____ Field Sparrow
____ Vesper Sparrow
____ Lark Sparrow
____ Lark Bunting
____ Savannah Sparrow
____ Grasshopper Sparrow
____ Henslow's Sparrow
____ Le Conte's Sparrow
____ Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
____ Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
____ Seaside Sparrow
____ Fox Sparrow
____ Song Sparrow
____ Lincoln's Sparrow
____ Swamp Sparrow
____ White-throated Sparrow
____ Harris's Sparrow
____ White-crowned Sparrow
____ Dark-eyed Junco
____ Lapland Longspur
____ Snow Bunting
CARDINALS, GROSBEAKS, etc.
____ Northern Cardinal
____ Rose-breasted Grosbeak
____ Black-headed Grosbeak
____ Blue Grosbeak
____ Indigo Bunting
____ Painted Bunting
____ Dickcissel
BLACKBIRDS
____ Bobolink
____ Red-winged Blackbird
____ Eastern Meadowlark
____ Western Meadowlark
____ Yellow-headed Blackbird
____ Rusty Blackbird
____ Brewer's Blackbird
____ Common Grackle
____ Boat-tailed Grackle
____ Shiny Cowbird
____ Brown-headed Cowbird
____ Orchard Oriole
____ Bullock's Oriole
____ Baltimore Oriole
____ Scott's Oriole
FINCHES
____ Purple Finch
____ House Finch
____ Red Crossbill
____ Common Redpoll
____ Pine Siskin
____ American Goldfinch
____ Evening Grosbeak
OLD WORLD SPARROWS
____ House Sparrow