Bird AlbumUnited States · Maryland
Patuxent Research Refuge – South Tract
232 species and 162,540 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: April–May and September–October, with up to 148 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Canada GooseBranta canadensis
Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
Eastern BluebirdSialia sialis
Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
American GoldfinchSpinus tristis
Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalisSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Patuxent Research Refuge – North Tract6 km225 species
- Lake Artemesia12 km227 species
- Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens18 km250 species
- Wheaton Regional Park – Shorefield/mini-train tracks/Pine Lake21 km193 species
- Rock Creek Park – Maintenance Yard23 km180 species
- East Potomac Park – Hains Pt.26 km261 species
All 232 species recorded here
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis
- Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
- Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
- Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
- Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor
- Carolina Chickadee Poecile carolinensis
- American Robin Turdus migratorius
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
- Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
- White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis
- White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis
- Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
- Wood Duck Aix sponsa
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
- Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
- American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
- Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula
- Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
- Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
- Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
- Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
- Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
- House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- Fish Crow Corvus ossifragus
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Pine Warbler Setophaga pinus
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Grey Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
- Hairy Woodpecker Leuconotopicus villosus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula
- Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
- Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa
- Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum
- Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
- Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
- Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum
- Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- Northern Parula Setophaga americana
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- Brown Creeper Certhia americana
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Winter Wren Troglodytes hiemalis
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Red Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca
- Bufflehead Bucephala albeola
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
- American Black Duck Anas rubripes
- Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii
- Northern Raven Corvus corax
- White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
- Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Barred Owl Strix varia
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
- Prairie Warbler Setophaga discolor
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
- Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Eastern Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus
- Pine Siskin Spinus pinus
- Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius
- Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
- Common Merganser Mergus merganser
- Purple Finch Haemorhous purpureus
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina
- Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
- Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorum
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea
- Veery Catharus fuscescens
- White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Yellow-throated Warbler Setophaga dominica
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
- Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
- American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus
- Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
- Common Loon Gavia immer
- Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla
- Virginia Rail Rallus limicola
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Black Scoter Melanitta americana
- Cackling Goose Branta hutchinsii
- Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla
- American Pipit Anthus rubescens
- Redhead Aythya americana
- Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis
- American Woodcock Scolopax minor
- Marsh Wren Cistothorus palustris
- Canvasback Aythya valisineria
- Kentucky Warbler Geothlypis formosa
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena
- Eastern Screech Owl Megascops asio
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
- Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
- Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
- Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus
- Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus
- Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii
- Mourning Warbler Geothlypis philadelphia
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus
- Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Snow Goose Anser caerulescens
- Mute Swan Cygnus olor
- Sora Porzana carolina
- Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum
- Connecticut Warbler Oporornis agilis
- Evening Grosbeak Hesperiphona vespertina
- Two-barred Crossbill Loxia leucoptera
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Orange-crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata
- Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea
- Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis
- Eastern Whip-poor-will Antrostomus vociferus
- Mississippi Kite Ictinia mississippiensis
- King Rail Rallus elegans
- Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
- Clay-colored Sparrow Spizella pallida
- Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
- Black Swan Cygnus atratus
- American White Ibis Eudocimus albus
- Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
- Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- Northern Saw-whet Owl Aegolius acadicus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Patuxent Research Refuge – South Tract?
April–May and September–October. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 148 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Patuxent Research Refuge – South Tract?
232 species, from 162,540 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Patuxent Research Refuge – South Tract in November?
The most recorded in November: Canada Goose, Blue Jay, White-throated Sparrow, Ring-necked Duck and Song Sparrow.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.