United States · Ohio
Headlands Dunes State Nature Preserve
284 species and 140,289 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: April–May and September, with up to 203 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
Double-crested CormorantNannopterum auritum
Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
Snow BuntingPlectrophenax nivalis
American Tree SparrowSpizelloides arborea
Downy WoodpeckerDryobates pubescens
Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
MallardAnas platyrhynchosSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Chagrin River Park16 km222 species
- Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve38 km278 species
- LaDue Reservoir42 km240 species
- Wendy Park, Whiskey Island46 km282 species
- Cuyahoga Valley NP – Ira Rd. Beaver Marsh69 km219 species
- Rondeau Provincial Park76 km331 species
All 284 species recorded here
- Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
- Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
- Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
- Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum
- Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
- American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
- American Robin Turdus migratorius
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis
- Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens
- Grey Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
- Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
- White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis
- White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
- Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
- Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Eastern Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
- American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
- Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
- Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
- Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata
- Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa
- Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
- Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
- Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor
- Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
- Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
- Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
- Northern Parula Setophaga americana
- Brown Creeper Certhia americana
- American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Winter Wren Troglodytes hiemalis
- Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
- Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
- Bufflehead Bucephala albeola
- Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Common Merganser Mergus merganser
- Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
- Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
- Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii
- Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
- Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- Veery Catharus fuscescens
- Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla
- Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius
- Common Loon Gavia immer
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- Hairy Woodpecker Leuconotopicus villosus
- Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
- Mourning Warbler Geothlypis philadelphia
- Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- American Pipit Anthus rubescens
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris
- Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus
- Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Wood Duck Aix sponsa
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
- Pine Warbler Setophaga pinus
- White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus
- Orange-crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Red Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca
- Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
- American Black Duck Anas rubripes
- Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima
- Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Redhead Aythya americana
- Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
- Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Fish Crow Corvus ossifragus
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
- Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius
- Pine Siskin Spinus pinus
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- Alder Flycatcher Empidonax alnorum
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- Marsh Wren Cistothorus palustris
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Purple Finch Haemorhous purpureus
- Piping Plover Charadrius melodus
- Prairie Warbler Setophaga discolor
- Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens
- Canvasback Aythya valisineria
- Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
- Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
- Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
- Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- American Avocet Recurvirostra americana
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- American Woodcock Scolopax minor
- Connecticut Warbler Oporornis agilis
- White-winged Scoter Melanitta deglandi
- American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
- Black Scoter Melanitta americana
- Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
- Eastern Whip-poor-will Antrostomus vociferus
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
- Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- Redpoll Acanthis flammea
- Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Northern Saw-whet Owl Aegolius acadicus
- American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena
- Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens
- Eastern Screech Owl Megascops asio
- Barred Owl Strix varia
- Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
- Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus
- Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides
- Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea
- Yellow-throated Warbler Setophaga dominica
- Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
- Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorum
- Least Bittern Botaurus exilis
- Evening Grosbeak Hesperiphona vespertina
- Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus
- White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
- Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus
- Sora Porzana carolina
- Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
- Northern Raven Corvus corax
- Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator
- Snow Goose Anser caerulescens
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Mute Swan Cygnus olor
- Parasitic Jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus
- Say's Phoebe Sayornis saya
- Brant Goose Branta bernicla
- Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
- Kirtland's Warbler Setophaga kirtlandii
- Swainson's Warbler Limnothlypis swainsonii
- Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum
- Sabine's Gull Xema sabini
- Cave Swallow Petrochelidon fulva
- Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- Black-billed Magpie Pica hudsonia
- Clay-colored Sparrow Spizella pallida
- Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Northern Shrike Lanius borealis
- King Eider Somateria spectabilis
- Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
- Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla
- Nelson's Sparrow Ammospiza nelsoni
- Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus
- Townsend's Solitaire Myadestes townsendi
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Ross's Gull Rhodostethia rosea
- Virginia Rail Rallus limicola
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- Long-tailed Jaeger Stercorarius longicaudus
- LeConte's Sparrow Ammospiza leconteii
- Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
- Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
- Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus
- American Barn Owl Tyto furcata
- Kentucky Warbler Geothlypis formosa
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Grass Wren Cistothorus platensis
- Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
- Western Grebe Aechmophorus occidentalis
- American Grey Flycatcher Empidonax wrightii
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Henslow's Sparrow Centronyx henslowii
- Brewer's Blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus
- Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus
- Two-barred Crossbill Loxia leucoptera
- Northern Gannet Morus bassanus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Headlands Dunes State Nature Preserve?
April–May and September. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 203 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Headlands Dunes State Nature Preserve?
284 species, from 140,289 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Headlands Dunes State Nature Preserve in November?
The most recorded in November: Ring-billed Gull, Bonaparte's Gull, American Herring Gull, Double-crested Cormorant and Blue Jay.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.