A List of Breeding Birds of Skidaway Island, Chatham County, Georgia

The following is a list of birds which currently breed on Skidaway Island, have bred in the recent past, there is evidence, or there are reasonable expectations of nesting because adult birds were found on the island during the appropriate nesting nesting season. The species list is in taxonomic order.

Wood Duck

Mourning Dove

Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Chuck-will's-widow

Chimney Swift

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Clapper Rail

Common Gallinule

Anhinga

Double-crested Cormorant

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Snowy Egret

Little Blue Heron

Tricolored Heron

Green Heron

Black-crowned Night-heron

Yellow-crowned Night-heron

Black Vulture

Turkey Vulture

Osprey

Mississippi Kite

Bald Eagle

Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk

Eastern Screech-Owl

Great Horned Owl

Barred Owl

Red-headed Woodpecker

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Pileated Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Eastern Wood-Pewee

Acadian Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher

Eastern Kingbird

White-eyed Vireo

Yellow-throated Vireo

Blue Jay

American Crow

Fish Crow

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Purple Martin

Barn Swallow

White-breasted Nuthatch

Brown-headed Nuthatch

Marsh Wren

Carolina Wren

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Eastern Bluebird

American Robin

Brown Thrasher

Northern Mockingbird

House Finch

Chipping Sparrow

Seaside Sparrow
Eastern Towhee

Orchard Oriole

Red-winged Blackbird

Brown-headed Cowbird

Common Grackle

Boat-tailed Grackle

Common Yellowthroat

Northern Parula

Pine Warbler

Yellow-throated Warbler

Summer Tanager

Northern Cardinal

Painted Bunting          72

          

Possible

Least Bittern

Cooper's Hawk
Red-eyed Vireo
European Starling

Indigo Bunting             5

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