Audubon Bird List for Oaky Woods

The two bird lists below indicate bird species observed on two trips to Oaky Woods by Ocmulgee Audubon. The smaller number of birds observed in 2004 as compared to a similar trip near the same time of the year in 1992 does not reflect a decline in bird species, but rather a difference in the number of observers, locations within Oaky Woods where observations took place, daily bird movements within their habitat, and the fact that the observer recording the information in 2004 did not list the more common bird species observed.

However, loss of habitat due to the proposed housing development in Oaky Woods would drastically reduce the species of birds in these lists as they are birds that require a natural, forested environment, free from development, as Oaky Woods has existed in the past.


Birds Seen by Ocmulgee Audubon Society in Oaky Woods May 14,  2004

  • Mississippi Kite--uncommon
  • Yellow-billed Cuckoo--uncommon
  • Northern Flicker
  • Eastern Wood Pewee
  • Acadian Flycatcher
  • White-eyed Vireo
  • Yellow-throated Vireo--uncommon
  • Brown-headed Nuthatch
  • Northern Parula
  • Pine Warbler
  • Prairie Warbler
  • Black-and-white Warbler
  • American Redstart
  • Worm-eating Warbler--uncommon
  • Kentucky Warbler--uncommon
  • Swainson’s Warbler--uncommon
  • Hooded Warbler
  • Yellow-breasted Chat--uncommon
  • Summer Tanager
  • Chipping Sparrow
  • Brown-headed Cowbird

Birds seen by Ocmulgee Audubon on trip to Oaky Woods May 25, 1992

  • Turkey Vulture                       
  • Wild Turkey                           
  • Northern Bobwhite--uncommon                  
  • Mourning Dove                        
  • Yellow-billed Cuckoo--uncommon                 
  • Eastern Screech-Owl --uncommon                 
  • Chimney Swift                        
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird            
  • Red-bellied Woodpecker               
  • Downy Woodpecker                     
  • Northern Flicker                     
  • Pileated Woodpecker                  
  • Yellow-bellied Flycatcher--uncommon            
  • Acadian Flycatcher                    
  • Great Crested Flycatcher             
  • Northern Rough-winged Swallow--uncommon        
  • Barn Swallow                         
  • Blue Jay                             
  • American Crow                        
  • Carolina Chickadee                    
  • Tufted Titmouse                      
  • Carolina Wren                        
  • Blue-gray Gnatcatcher                
  • Wood Thrush                          
  • Northern Mockingbird                 
  • Brown Thrasher                        
  • White-eyed Vireo                     
  • Red-eyed Vireo                       
  • Northern Parula                      
  • Black-throated Blue Warbler          
  • Pine Warbler                         
  • Prairie Warbler                      
  • Black-and-white Warbler              
  • Prothonotary Warbler                 
  • Worm-eating Warbler--uncommon                  
  • Swainson's Warbler--uncommon                   
  • Louisiana Waterthrush --uncommon               
  • Kentucky Warbler--uncommon                    
  • Mourning Warbler--uncommon                     
  • Common Yellowthroat                  
  • Hooded Warbler                       
  • Yellow-breasted Chat--uncommon                 
  • Summer Tanager                       
  • Northern Cardinal                    
  • Blue Grosbeak --uncommon                       
  • Indigo Bunting                       
  • Eastern Towhee                       
  • Red-winged Blackbird        

Uncommon: animals or vegetation types which are inadequately conserved or declining but are not yet sufficiently threatened to be listed as vulnerable. (Carpenter & Reid, 1987; 1992.)