Bird AlbumUnited States · Maryland
C&O Canal – Riley's Lock
233 species and 147,473 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: April–May, with up to 161 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
Eastern BluebirdSialia sialis
Downy WoodpeckerDryobates pubescens
Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor88 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 233 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- C&O Canal – Violette's Lock1 km268 species
- Algonkian Regional Park3 km229 species
- C&O Canal – Pennyfield Lock5 km228 species
- Hughes Hollow - McKee Beshers WMA5 km253 species
- Great Falls Park11 km204 species
- Blue Mash Nature Trail25 km229 species
All 233 species recorded here
- Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
- Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
- Carolina Chickadee Poecile carolinensis
- Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor
- Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
- Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum
- Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis
- Fish Crow Corvus ossifragus
- White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
- American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
- American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
- Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
- Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- American Robin Turdus migratorius
- Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
- Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
- Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
- Wood Duck Aix sponsa
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
- Northern Parula Setophaga americana
- Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
- Hairy Woodpecker Leuconotopicus villosus
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Common Merganser Mergus merganser
- Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Bufflehead Bucephala albeola
- Winter Wren Troglodytes hiemalis
- Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
- Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
- Grey Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
- Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens
- Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Brown Creeper Certhia americana
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla
- Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
- Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
- Common Loon Gavia immer
- Barred Owl Strix varia
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- Redhead Aythya americana
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Yellow-throated Warbler Setophaga dominica
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
- Eastern Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Evening Grosbeak Hesperiphona vespertina
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Pine Warbler Setophaga pinus
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Canvasback Aythya valisineria
- Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Northern Raven Corvus corax
- White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus
- Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla
- Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana
- White-winged Scoter Melanitta deglandi
- Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
- American Black Duck Anas rubripes
- Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens
- Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
- Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum
- Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
- Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
- Mute Swan Cygnus olor
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Veery Catharus fuscescens
- Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
- Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina
- Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Prairie Warbler Setophaga discolor
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis
- Purple Finch Haemorhous purpureus
- Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- Black Scoter Melanitta americana
- Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
- White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Red Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea
- Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
- Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum
- Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorum
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus
- Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina
- Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis
- American White Ibis Eudocimus albus
- Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja
- Eastern Screech Owl Megascops asio
- American Pipit Anthus rubescens
- American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea
- Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii
- Mississippi Kite Ictinia mississippiensis
- Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
- Pine Siskin Spinus pinus
- Cackling Goose Branta hutchinsii
- Snow Goose Anser caerulescens
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Kentucky Warbler Geothlypis formosa
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- Mourning Warbler Geothlypis philadelphia
- Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus
- Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus
- Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
- Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- American Avocet Recurvirostra americana
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
- Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Least Bittern Botaurus exilis
- Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator
- Eurasian Wigeon Mareca penelope
- Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus
- American Woodcock Scolopax minor
- Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
- Alder Flycatcher Empidonax alnorum
- Least Tern Sternula antillarum
- Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
- Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus
- American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus
- Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
- Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscatus
- Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus
- Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at C&O Canal – Riley's Lock?
April–May. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 161 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at C&O Canal – Riley's Lock?
233 species, from 147,473 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at C&O Canal – Riley's Lock in November?
The most recorded in November: Carolina Wren, Red-bellied Woodpecker, White-throated Sparrow, Carolina Chickadee and Great Blue Heron.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.