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Paynes Prairie Preserve SP – La Chua Trail
273 species and 326,123 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: September–April, with up to 174 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
Palm WarblerSetophaga palmarum
Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
Turkey VultureCathartes aura
Great EgretArdea alba
Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
Common GallinuleGallinula galeata
Blue-grey GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
American White IbisEudocimus albus
Snowy EgretEgretta thulaSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Sweetwater Wetlands Park3 km260 species
- Snake Pit5 km165 species
All 273 species recorded here
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
- Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Boat-tailed Grackle Quiscalus major
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- American White Ibis Eudocimus albus
- Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
- Limpkin Aramus guarauna
- Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
- Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus
- Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
- Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
- Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
- American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
- Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Snail Kite Rostrhamus sociabilis
- Wood Stork Mycteria americana
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor
- Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Grey Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
- Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula
- Mottled Duck Anas fulvigula
- Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana
- Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
- Fish Crow Corvus ossifragus
- Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius
- Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
- Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Northern Parula Setophaga americana
- Carolina Chickadee Poecile carolinensis
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
- Barred Owl Strix varia
- Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica
- American Robin Turdus migratorius
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Orange-crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata
- White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
- Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja
- Sora Porzana carolina
- American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
- Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Prairie Warbler Setophaga discolor
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis
- Marsh Wren Cistothorus palustris
- Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii
- Mississippi Kite Ictinia mississippiensis
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
- Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus
- Whooping Crane Grus americana
- Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius
- American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
- Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
- Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
- Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus
- Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
- Wood Duck Aix sponsa
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- American Barn Owl Tyto furcata
- Grass Wren Cistothorus platensis
- Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
- Least Bittern Botaurus exilis
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla
- Yellow-throated Warbler Setophaga dominica
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
- Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
- Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina
- King Rail Rallus elegans
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
- Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum
- Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
- Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Eastern Screech Owl Megascops asio
- Pine Warbler Setophaga pinus
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- American Pipit Anthus rubescens
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Redhead Aythya americana
- Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris
- Eastern Whip-poor-will Antrostomus vociferus
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
- Alder Flycatcher Empidonax alnorum
- White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- Bufflehead Bucephala albeola
- Snow Goose Anser caerulescens
- Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- American Avocet Recurvirostra americana
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Common Loon Gavia immer
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus
- Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
- Virginia Rail Rallus limicola
- Veery Catharus fuscescens
- Ash-throated Flycatcher Myiarchus cinerascens
- Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina
- Chuck-will's-widow Antrostomus carolinensis
- Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
- Clay-colored Sparrow Spizella pallida
- Harris's Sparrow Zonotrichia querula
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
- Bell's Vireo Vireo bellii
- Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
- Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata
- Canvasback Aythya valisineria
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
- Henslow's Sparrow Centronyx henslowii
- Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera
- Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
- Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorum
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Painted Bunting Passerina ciris
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- American Woodcock Scolopax minor
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus
- Brown-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus tyrannulus
- Red Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca
- Vaux's Swift Chaetura vauxi
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- LeConte's Sparrow Ammospiza leconteii
- Kentucky Warbler Geothlypis formosa
- Black Skimmer Rynchops niger
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- Nelson's Sparrow Ammospiza nelsoni
- Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla
- Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla
- Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
- American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- Grey-headed Swamphen Porphyrio poliocephalus
- Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina
- Least Tern Sternula antillarum
- Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Green-tailed Towhee Pipilo chlorurus
- Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis
- Grey Kingbird Tyrannus dominicensis
- Purple Finch Haemorhous purpureus
- Ross's Goose Anser rossii
- Pine Siskin Spinus pinus
- Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea
- Cave Swallow Petrochelidon fulva
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- Crested Caracara Caracara plancus
- Brown-headed Nuthatch Sitta pusilla
- Bachman's Sparrow Peucaea aestivalis
- Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
- Bridled Tern Onychoprion anaethetus
- Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
- Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscatus
- Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
- Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus
- American Black Duck Anas rubripes
- Red Junglefowl Gallus gallus
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus forficatus
- Greylag Goose Anser anser
- Hairy Woodpecker Leuconotopicus villosus
- Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnificens
- Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
- Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
- Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus
- Cinnamon Teal Spatula cyanoptera
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Paynes Prairie Preserve SP – La Chua Trail?
September–April. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 174 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Paynes Prairie Preserve SP – La Chua Trail?
273 species, from 326,123 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Paynes Prairie Preserve SP – La Chua Trail in November?
The most recorded in November: Eastern Phoebe, Great Blue Heron, Anhinga, Red-winged Blackbird and Palm Warbler.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.