United States · Ohio
Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area
278 species and 161,731 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: May and September, with up to 197 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
American KestrelFalco sparverius
Northern HarrierCircus hudsonius
Canada GooseBranta canadensis
American Tree SparrowSpizelloides arborea
Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
Common StarlingSturnus vulgaris
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
Downy WoodpeckerDryobates pubescens126 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 278 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Kiwanis Riverway Park71 km209 species
- Blendon Woods Metro Park80 km225 species
All 278 species recorded here
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis
- Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
- Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
- Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
- American Robin Turdus migratorius
- Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius
- Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens
- American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea
- Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
- Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis
- Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
- Wood Duck Aix sponsa
- Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor
- Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula
- Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
- Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus
- Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
- Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
- Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla
- Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
- Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Grey Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- American Black Duck Anas rubripes
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
- Carolina Chickadee Poecile carolinensis
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
- Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
- Redhead Aythya americana
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis
- White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
- Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
- Bufflehead Bucephala albeola
- Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii
- Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
- Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana
- Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Hairy Woodpecker Leuconotopicus villosus
- Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
- Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum
- Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Eastern Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus
- Barred Owl Strix varia
- Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
- Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
- Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
- House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- Snow Goose Anser caerulescens
- Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
- Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Northern Shrike Lanius borealis
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
- Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Marsh Wren Cistothorus palustris
- Northern Saw-whet Owl Aegolius acadicus
- White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus
- Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
- Common Loon Gavia immer
- American Pipit Anthus rubescens
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- Mute Swan Cygnus olor
- Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus
- Canvasback Aythya valisineria
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
- Brown Creeper Certhia americana
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Red Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
- Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- Grass Wren Cistothorus platensis
- Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens
- Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Sora Porzana carolina
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
- American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Common Merganser Mergus merganser
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Cackling Goose Branta hutchinsii
- Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla
- Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum
- Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
- Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
- Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
- Henslow's Sparrow Centronyx henslowii
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- American Woodcock Scolopax minor
- Ross's Goose Anser rossii
- Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
- Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata
- Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina
- Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
- Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera
- Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- Veery Catharus fuscescens
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
- American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus
- Alder Flycatcher Empidonax alnorum
- Bell's Vireo Vireo bellii
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius
- Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus
- Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris
- Virginia Rail Rallus limicola
- American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Eastern Screech Owl Megascops asio
- Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
- Northern Parula Setophaga americana
- Pine Siskin Spinus pinus
- Least Bittern Botaurus exilis
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Winter Wren Troglodytes hiemalis
- Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- American Barn Owl Tyto furcata
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus
- Eurasian Wigeon Mareca penelope
- Purple Finch Haemorhous purpureus
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Yellow-throated Warbler Setophaga dominica
- Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
- Pine Warbler Setophaga pinus
- Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
- Mourning Warbler Geothlypis philadelphia
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Brewer's Blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus
- Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus
- LeConte's Sparrow Ammospiza leconteii
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Redpoll Acanthis flammea
- Orange-crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata
- White-winged Scoter Melanitta deglandi
- Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina
- Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica
- Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Nelson's Sparrow Ammospiza nelsoni
- Western Meadowlark Sturnella neglecta
- American Avocet Recurvirostra americana
- Prairie Warbler Setophaga discolor
- Kentucky Warbler Geothlypis formosa
- Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum
- Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata
- Connecticut Warbler Oporornis agilis
- Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
- American Goshawk Astur atricapillus
- Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena
- Chukar Partridge Alectoris chukar
- Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- King Rail Rallus elegans
- Black Scoter Melanitta americana
- Clay-colored Sparrow Spizella pallida
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis
- American White Ibis Eudocimus albus
- Say's Phoebe Sayornis saya
- Greylag Goose Anser anser
- Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea
- Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
- Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
- Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorum
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea
- Evening Grosbeak Hesperiphona vespertina
- Two-barred Crossbill Loxia leucoptera
- Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla
- Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis
- Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area?
May and September. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 197 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area?
278 species, from 161,731 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area in November?
The most recorded in November: Red-tailed Hawk, Blue Jay, Bald Eagle, American Kestrel and Northern Harrier.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.