Bird AlbumUnited States · South Carolina
Pinckney Island NWR
258 species and 133,545 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: April and October–November, with up to 159 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Common GallinuleGallinula galeata
American White IbisEudocimus albus
Myrtle WarblerSetophaga coronata
Snowy EgretEgretta thula
Great EgretArdea alba
Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
Ruby-crowned KingletCorthylio calendula
American CootFulica americana137 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 258 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Savannah Spoil Site: Area 14A25 km183 species
- Savannah NWR – Laurel Hill Wildlife Dr33 km282 species
- Bear Island WMA50 km287 species
- Donnelley WMA55 km264 species
All 258 species recorded here
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- American White Ibis Eudocimus albus
- Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
- Carolina Chickadee Poecile carolinensis
- Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
- Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
- Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
- Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens
- Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
- Boat-tailed Grackle Quiscalus major
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- Brown-headed Nuthatch Sitta pusilla
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- Pine Warbler Setophaga pinus
- Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
- Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum
- White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus
- Wood Stork Mycteria americana
- Grey Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula
- Painted Bunting Passerina ciris
- Bufflehead Bucephala albeola
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
- Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Yellow-throated Warbler Setophaga dominica
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis
- Northern Parula Setophaga americana
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
- Wood Duck Aix sponsa
- Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Fish Crow Corvus ossifragus
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
- Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
- Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
- Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
- Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
- Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- American Robin Turdus migratorius
- Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
- Common Loon Gavia immer
- Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
- Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
- Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii
- Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Sora Porzana carolina
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
- American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus
- Least Bittern Botaurus exilis
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea
- Clapper Rail Rallus crepitans
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis
- American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
- Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
- Marsh Wren Cistothorus palustris
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum
- Prairie Warbler Setophaga discolor
- Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius
- Orange-crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
- Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja
- White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Mississippi Kite Ictinia mississippiensis
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Hairy Woodpecker Leuconotopicus villosus
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
- Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
- Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- Least Tern Sternula antillarum
- Black Skimmer Rynchops niger
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica
- Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Virginia Rail Rallus limicola
- Mottled Duck Anas fulvigula
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla
- Eastern Screech Owl Megascops asio
- Reddish Egret Egretta rufescens
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Grass Wren Cistothorus platensis
- Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
- Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
- Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
- Saltmarsh Sparrow Ammospiza caudacuta
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- Barred Owl Strix varia
- Seaside Sparrow Ammospiza maritima
- Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
- American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens
- Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina
- Limpkin Aramus guarauna
- Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
- Winter Wren Troglodytes hiemalis
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
- Chuck-will's-widow Antrostomus carolinensis
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus
- Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorum
- Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina
- Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
- Purple Finch Haemorhous purpureus
- Piping Plover Charadrius melodus
- Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
- Black Scoter Melanitta americana
- Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
- Swainson's Warbler Limnothlypis swainsonii
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Brown Creeper Certhia americana
- Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
- Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis
- King Rail Rallus elegans
- Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla
- Wilson's Plover Anarhynchus wilsonia
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
- Red Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Kentucky Warbler Geothlypis formosa
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Northern Gannet Morus bassanus
- Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
- Pine Siskin Spinus pinus
- American Pipit Anthus rubescens
- Nelson's Sparrow Ammospiza nelsoni
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Veery Catharus fuscescens
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- Redhead Aythya americana
- Red Junglefowl Gallus gallus
- White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
- White-winged Scoter Melanitta deglandi
- Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera
- Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
- Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina
- American Woodcock Scolopax minor
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum
- Snow Goose Anser caerulescens
- Common Eider Somateria mollissima
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
- Parasitic Jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus
- Mute Swan Cygnus olor
- American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
- Red-cockaded Woodpecker Leuconotopicus borealis
- Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus
- Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla
- Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata
- American Avocet Recurvirostra americana
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima
- Henslow's Sparrow Centronyx henslowii
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Pinckney Island NWR?
April and October–November. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 159 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Pinckney Island NWR?
258 species, from 133,545 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Pinckney Island NWR in November?
The most recorded in November: Common Gallinule, American White Ibis, Myrtle Warbler, Snowy Egret and Great Egret.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.