United States · Ohio
Ottawa NWR – Crane Creek Estuary Trail
254 species and 191,336 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: May, with up to 216 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
Downy WoodpeckerDryobates pubescens
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
Double-crested CormorantNannopterum auritum
Canada GooseBranta canadensis
Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
GadwallMareca strepera
DunlinCalidris alpina
Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchosSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Magee Marsh – Boardwalk0 km269 species
- Magee Marsh1 km271 species
- Ottawa NWR – Wildlife Drive3 km265 species
- Metzger Marsh Wildlife Area4 km282 species
- Howard Marsh Metropark6 km255 species
- Maumee Bay SP – Boardwalk15 km249 species
All 254 species recorded here
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Eastern Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus
- Grey Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- American Robin Turdus migratorius
- Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis
- Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
- Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
- American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
- Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator
- Northern Parula Setophaga americana
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
- Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
- Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla
- White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis
- Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
- Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata
- Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
- Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- Wood Duck Aix sponsa
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
- Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
- Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- Veery Catharus fuscescens
- Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis
- Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus
- Kirtland's Warbler Setophaga kirtlandii
- Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Hairy Woodpecker Leuconotopicus villosus
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
- Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
- Eastern Screech Owl Megascops asio
- Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
- Mourning Warbler Geothlypis philadelphia
- Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis
- Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera
- Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus
- Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
- Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
- Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Orange-crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Sora Porzana carolina
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Winter Wren Troglodytes hiemalis
- White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus
- Common Merganser Mergus merganser
- Bufflehead Bucephala albeola
- Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii
- Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
- Pine Warbler Setophaga pinus
- Marsh Wren Cistothorus palustris
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
- Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
- Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris
- American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- Alder Flycatcher Empidonax alnorum
- Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Connecticut Warbler Oporornis agilis
- Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina
- Prairie Warbler Setophaga discolor
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens
- Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- Mute Swan Cygnus olor
- American Black Duck Anas rubripes
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii
- American Woodcock Scolopax minor
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Common Loon Gavia immer
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
- Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Brown Creeper Certhia americana
- Red Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca
- Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens
- Least Bittern Botaurus exilis
- Pine Siskin Spinus pinus
- House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
- Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Clay-colored Sparrow Spizella pallida
- Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica
- Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
- Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
- Redhead Aythya americana
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Canvasback Aythya valisineria
- American Pipit Anthus rubescens
- American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
- Yellow-throated Warbler Setophaga dominica
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
- Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
- Kentucky Warbler Geothlypis formosa
- Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
- Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- Eastern Whip-poor-will Antrostomus vociferus
- Purple Finch Haemorhous purpureus
- Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
- American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
- Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla
- Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius
- Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
- Virginia Rail Rallus limicola
- Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
- Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
- American Avocet Recurvirostra americana
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Henslow's Sparrow Centronyx henslowii
- Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea
- Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus
- Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
- Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorum
- Greylag Goose Anser anser
- Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum
- Snow Goose Anser caerulescens
- White-winged Scoter Melanitta deglandi
- Northern Shrike Lanius borealis
- Barred Owl Strix varia
- Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus
- Grass Wren Cistothorus platensis
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- LeConte's Sparrow Ammospiza leconteii
- Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
- Evening Grosbeak Hesperiphona vespertina
- Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
- Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
- Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum
- Piping Plover Charadrius melodus
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Two-barred Crossbill Loxia leucoptera
- Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan
- Brant Goose Branta bernicla
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Ottawa NWR – Crane Creek Estuary Trail?
May. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 216 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Ottawa NWR – Crane Creek Estuary Trail?
254 species, from 191,336 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Ottawa NWR – Crane Creek Estuary Trail in November?
The most recorded in November: Ring-billed Gull, Bald Eagle, Downy Woodpecker, Mallard and Bonaparte's Gull.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.