Bird AlbumUnited States · Michigan
Lake St. Clair Metropark
282 species and 520,024 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: May and September, with up to 222 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
Canada GooseBranta canadensis
Mute SwanCygnus olor
Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus
Downy WoodpeckerDryobates pubescens
House SparrowPasser domesticus
American GoldfinchSpinus tristis
Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
GadwallMareca strepera
American CootFulica americana
American Tree SparrowSpizelloides arborea126 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 282 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Belle Isle30 km255 species
- Heritage Park49 km194 species
- Robert H. Long Park53 km214 species
- Sarnia – Canatara Park57 km259 species
- Holiday Beach CA64 km279 species
- Hillman Marsh CA65 km299 species
All 282 species recorded here
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Mute Swan Cygnus olor
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
- Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- American Robin Turdus migratorius
- Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
- Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula
- Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
- Wood Duck Aix sponsa
- White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis
- Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
- Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
- Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
- Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor
- American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
- American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
- Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
- Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
- White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis
- Grey Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Eastern Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus
- Marsh Wren Cistothorus palustris
- American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
- Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa
- Bufflehead Bucephala albeola
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- Hairy Woodpecker Leuconotopicus villosus
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii
- Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
- Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- Canvasback Aythya valisineria
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Redhead Aythya americana
- Brown Creeper Certhia americana
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Common Merganser Mergus merganser
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
- Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
- Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
- Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
- White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
- Sora Porzana carolina
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- Winter Wren Troglodytes hiemalis
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens
- Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
- Virginia Rail Rallus limicola
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata
- Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
- Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
- Northern Parula Setophaga americana
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- Veery Catharus fuscescens
- Red Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca
- Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
- Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus
- Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
- American Black Duck Anas rubripes
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum
- Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- Common Loon Gavia immer
- Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus
- Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
- Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris
- Least Bittern Botaurus exilis
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius
- Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Eastern Screech Owl Megascops asio
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
- Mourning Warbler Geothlypis philadelphia
- Orange-crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- American Pipit Anthus rubescens
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator
- Pine Siskin Spinus pinus
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Alder Flycatcher Empidonax alnorum
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
- American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
- Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
- Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
- Pine Warbler Setophaga pinus
- Northern Shrike Lanius borealis
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera
- Purple Finch Haemorhous purpureus
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
- Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
- Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus
- White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
- Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
- Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus
- American Woodcock Scolopax minor
- White-winged Scoter Melanitta deglandi
- Connecticut Warbler Oporornis agilis
- Snow Goose Anser caerulescens
- Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Piping Plover Charadrius melodus
- American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
- Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus
- Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius
- Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
- Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
- Clay-colored Sparrow Spizella pallida
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
- Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus
- Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina
- Redpoll Acanthis flammea
- Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata
- Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
- Northern Saw-whet Owl Aegolius acadicus
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
- Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
- Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides
- Nelson's Sparrow Ammospiza nelsoni
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena
- Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
- Grass Wren Cistothorus platensis
- American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea
- Prairie Warbler Setophaga discolor
- Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan
- LeConte's Sparrow Ammospiza leconteii
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens
- Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata
- Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima
- Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens
- Varied Thrush Ixoreus naevius
- American Avocet Recurvirostra americana
- Cackling Goose Branta hutchinsii
- Yellow-throated Warbler Setophaga dominica
- Bell's Vireo Vireo bellii
- Kentucky Warbler Geothlypis formosa
- Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Eastern Whip-poor-will Antrostomus vociferus
- Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea
- Evening Grosbeak Hesperiphona vespertina
- Ross's Goose Anser rossii
- Budgerigar Melopsittacus undulatus
- Heermann's Gull Larus heermanni
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnificens
- Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla garrulus
- Black Scoter Melanitta americana
- Two-barred Crossbill Loxia leucoptera
- Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorum
- Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica
- Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
- Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
- Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra
- Brewer's Blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
- Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus
- Kirtland's Warbler Setophaga kirtlandii
- Harris's Sparrow Zonotrichia querula
- Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus
- Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis
- Henslow's Sparrow Centronyx henslowii
- Eurasian Wigeon Mareca penelope
- Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
- Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica
- Sabine's Gull Xema sabini
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Lake St. Clair Metropark?
May and September. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 222 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Lake St. Clair Metropark?
282 species, from 520,024 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Lake St. Clair Metropark in November?
The most recorded in November: Mallard, Ring-billed Gull, Canada Goose, Mute Swan and Black-capped Chickadee.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.