Birds Observed Along the Hockhocking Adena Bikeway

Observers: Phil Cantino, Bob Placier, Steve Edinger, Jason Larson, Joyce Miller, Erin Hines, Scott Moody, Jeff Risner, Mick Cummings

Send bird sightings and other comments to Phil Cantino (cantino@ohio.edu).


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* Species that probably nest in the area are indicated with an asterisk.
  1. Common Loon9
    2.
  2. Horned Grebe
  3. Pied-billed Grebe
  4. Great Egret
  5. Cattle Egret4
    6.
  6. Great Blue Heron*
  7. Green Heron*
  8. Yellow-crowned Night Heron1
    9.
  9. Trumpeter Swan2
    10.
  10. Mute Swan2
    11.
  11. Greater White-fronted Goose7
    12.
  12. Snow Goose10
    13.
  13. Canada Goose*
  14. Mallard*
  15. Pintail
  16. Wood Duck*
  17. Ring-necked Duck
  18. Canvasback
  19. Common Goldeneye6
    20.
  20. Bufflehead
  21. Hooded Merganser
  22. Turkey Vulture*
  23. Black Vulture*
  24. Cooper's Hawk*
  25. Red-tailed Hawk*
  26. Red-shouldered Hawk*
  27. Rough-legged Hawk5
    28.
  28. Bald Eagle6
    29.
  29. Osprey
  30. American Kestrel*
  31. Merlin5
  32. Bob-white*
  33. Wild Turkey*
  34. Semipalmated Plover
  35. Killdeer*
  36. Woodcock*
  37. Solitary Sandpiper
  38. Spotted Sandpiper*
  39. Greater Yellow-legs
  40. Least Sandpiper
  41. American Avocet8
    42.
  42. Ring-billed Gull
  43. Rock Dove*
  44. Mourning Dove*
  45. Yellow-billed Cuckoo*
  46. Great Horned Owl*
  47. Common Nighthawk*
  48. Ruby-throated Hummingbird*
  49. Chimney Swift*
  50. Belted Kingfisher*
  51. Common Flicker*
  52. Pileated Woodpecker*
  53. Red-bellied Woodpecker*
  54. Downy Woodpecker*
  55. Eastern Kingbird*
  56. Great Crested Flycatcher*
  57. Eastern Phoebe*
  58. Acadian Flycatcher*
  59. Least Flycatcher
  60. Willow Flycatcher*
  61. Eastern Pewee*
  62. Tree Swallow*
  63. Rough-winged Swallow*
  64. Bank Swallow
  65. Barn Swallow*
  66. Cliff Swallow*
  67. Purple Martin*
  68. Blue Jay*
  69. American Crow*
  70. Carolina Chickadee*
  71. Tufted Titmouse*
  72. White-breasted Nuthatch*
  73. Red-breasted Nuthatch
  74. House Wren*
  75. Winter Wren
  76. Carolina Wren*
  77. Sedge Wren3
  78. Northern Mockingbird*
  79. Gray Catbird *
  80. Brown Thrasher*
  81. Swainson's Thrush
  82. Wood Thrush*
  83. American Robin*
  84. Eastern Bluebird*
  85. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher*
  86. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  87. Golden-crowned Kinglet
  88. Cedar Waxwing*
  89. European Starling*
  90. White-eyed Vireo*
  91. Yellow-throated Vireo*
  92. Red-eyed Vireo*
  93. Warbling Vireo*
  94. Philadelphia Vireo
  95. Black and White Warbler
  96. Prothonotary Warbler*
  97. Worm-eating Warbler*
  98. Golden-winged Warbler
  99. Blue-winged Warbler*
  100. Tennessee Warbler
  101. Nashville Warbler
  102. Northern Parula Warbler
  103. Yellow Warbler*
  104. Magnolia Warbler
  105. Black-throated Blue Warbler
  106. Yellow-rumped Warbler
  107. Black-throated Green Warbler
  108. Cerulean Warbler*
  109. Blackburnian Warbler
  110. Yellow-throated Warbler*
  111. Chestnut-sided Warbler
  112. Bay-breasted Warbler
  113. Prairie Warbler*
  114. Ovenbird*
  115. Northern Waterthrush
  116. Louisiana Waterthrush*
  117. Kentucky Warbler*
  118. Common Yellowthroat*
  119. Hooded Warbler*
  120. Wilson's Warbler
  121. Canada Warbler
  122. American Redstart*
  123. Yellow-breasted Chat*
  124. House Sparrow*
  125. Eastern Meadowlark*
  126. Red-winged Blackbird*
  127. Northern Oriole*
  128. Rusty Blackbird
  129. Yellow-headed Blackbird8
    130.
  130. Common Grackle*
  131. Brown-headed Cowbird*
  132. Scarlet Tanager*
  133. Summer Tanager*
  134. Northern Cardinal*
  135. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
  136. Indigo Bunting*
  137. House Finch*
  138. American Goldfinch*
  139. Eastern Towhee*
  140. Northern Junco
  141. Vesper Sparrow
  142. Chipping Sparrow*
  143. Field Sparrow*
  144. White-crowned Sparrow
  145. White-throated Sparrow
  146. Fox Sparrow
  147. Lincoln's Sparrow
  148. Swamp Sparrow
  149. Song Sparrow*
    150.

*Species that probably nest in the area

Sightings of rare species:

1A Yellow-crowned Night Heron was observed by Joyce Miller in mid-April, 1999 between mile markers 8 and 8.5 and (possibly the same bird) by Bob Placier on June 4, 1999 at mile 12.2.

2A Trumpeter Swan was first spotted by Ben Edinger near mile 0 in January, 1998. It stayed in the area for several days and was observed by many people and photographed. A Mute Swan was seen by Phil Cantino in the Hocking River between the Convocation Center and O'Bleness Hospital on June 29, 2005.

3A Sedge Wren was seen by Bob Placier on September 30, 2000 in the prairie research area at mile 4.8.

4A Cattle Egret was seen by Phil Cantino on May 21, 2004 between the bikeway and the river behind Staples (E of Wal-Mart).

5A Merlin was seen by Bob Placier on December 9, 2002 flying over the quarry pond between mile 16 and 16.4. A Rough-legged Hawk was seen by Bob in the same general area on December 6, 2002.

6An adult Bald Eagle and two female Goldeneyes were seen by Bob Placier on February 4, 2004 near mile marker 15. Three Bald Eagles were seen by Mick Cummings and Jeff Risner on July 9, 2005 near O'Bleness Hospital.

7Three Greater White-fronted Geese (the Greenland breeding race, flavirostris) were seen by Bob Placier in a flooded field near Ramada Inn (ca. mile 15.5) on Feb. 15, 2004.

8A flock of 42 American Avocets was observed by Scott Moody on April 15, 1987 on mud flats of the Hocking River, about 1/3 mile south of the Stimson Ave. bridge. A Yellow-headed Blackbird was observed by Scott Moody on June 24, 1987 in the field next to O'Bleness Hospital.

9A fly-over Common Loon was observed by Bob Placier and his ornithology class on May 24, 2005 near the Hamley Run bridge.

10A Snow Goose was observed by Jason Larson with a large flock of Canada geese and three white domestic geese on January 21, 2008, in the field behind the OU visitors' center, just west of the Richland Ave. bridge.