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Shiawassee NWR – Wildlife Drive
267 species and 193,501 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: May and August–September, with up to 192 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Canada GooseBranta canadensis
Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
DunlinCalidris alpina
Tundra SwanCygnus columbianus
Common MerganserMergus merganser
Sandhill CraneAntigone canadensis
Northern HarrierCircus hudsonius
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
American Black DuckAnas rubripes
Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeata
Northern PintailAnas acuta
KilldeerCharadrius vociferusSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Nayanquing Point SWA47 km262 species
All 267 species recorded here
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
- Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- Wood Duck Aix sponsa
- Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
- Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
- American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
- Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- American Robin Turdus migratorius
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Grey Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
- Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
- Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
- Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
- American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
- Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius
- Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens
- Marsh Wren Cistothorus palustris
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Eastern Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus
- American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
- Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus
- Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii
- Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
- White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- American Black Duck Anas rubripes
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
- Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Mute Swan Cygnus olor
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
- Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- Sora Porzana carolina
- Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
- American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus
- Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- Grass Wren Cistothorus platensis
- Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
- Hairy Woodpecker Leuconotopicus villosus
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- Common Merganser Mergus merganser
- Redhead Aythya americana
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Virginia Rail Rallus limicola
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum
- Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii
- American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea
- Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus
- Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus
- Brown Creeper Certhia americana
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
- American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
- Bufflehead Bucephala albeola
- Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
- American Pipit Anthus rubescens
- White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Snow Goose Anser caerulescens
- Least Bittern Botaurus exilis
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Canvasback Aythya valisineria
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
- Wood Stork Mycteria americana
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
- Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla
- American Avocet Recurvirostra americana
- Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
- Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus
- Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- Eastern Screech Owl Megascops asio
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
- American White Ibis Eudocimus albus
- Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
- Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
- Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica
- Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
- Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum
- Alder Flycatcher Empidonax alnorum
- Northern Parula Setophaga americana
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa
- Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- American Woodcock Scolopax minor
- Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
- Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
- Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus
- Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- Red Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Cackling Goose Branta hutchinsii
- Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi
- Northern Shrike Lanius borealis
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris
- Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
- Grey Kingbird Tyrannus dominicensis
- Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
- Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens
- Veery Catharus fuscescens
- Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
- Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis
- Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum
- Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
- Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus
- Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
- Purple Finch Haemorhous purpureus
- Orange-crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata
- Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
- Mourning Warbler Geothlypis philadelphia
- Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius
- Barred Owl Strix varia
- Pine Warbler Setophaga pinus
- Clay-colored Sparrow Spizella pallida
- Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- Winter Wren Troglodytes hiemalis
- King Rail Rallus elegans
- Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
- Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus
- Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea
- Redpoll Acanthis flammea
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus
- Cinnamon Teal Spatula cyanoptera
- Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
- Connecticut Warbler Oporornis agilis
- Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
- LeConte's Sparrow Ammospiza leconteii
- Pine Siskin Spinus pinus
- Henslow's Sparrow Centronyx henslowii
- Ross's Goose Anser rossii
- Common Loon Gavia immer
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Eurasian Wigeon Mareca penelope
- Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
- Harris's Sparrow Zonotrichia querula
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Western Meadowlark Sturnella neglecta
- Brewer's Blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena
- Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Black Swan Cygnus atratus
- Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata
- Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea
- Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides
- Northern Saw-whet Owl Aegolius acadicus
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla
- Eastern Whip-poor-will Antrostomus vociferus
- Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
- Whooping Crane Grus americana
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- American Goshawk Astur atricapillus
- Northern Raven Corvus corax
- Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis
- Nelson's Sparrow Ammospiza nelsoni
- Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Shiawassee NWR – Wildlife Drive?
May and August–September. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 192 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Shiawassee NWR – Wildlife Drive?
267 species, from 193,501 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Shiawassee NWR – Wildlife Drive in November?
The most recorded in November: Canada Goose, Greater Yellowlegs, Mallard, Dunlin and Tundra Swan.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.