Crooked Run Nature Preserve, a state-dedicated nature preserve, offers 77 acres of excellent habitat for migrating birds and other wildlife. The river and estuary offer a great resting point for many migrating waterfowl, while the forest and fields provide habitat for many songbirds. Bring your binoculars on your next visit to Crooked Run Nature Preserve and enjoy the birds.
| Loons, Grebes |
| Common Loon |
| Pied-billed Grebe |
| Horned Grebe |
| Red-necked Grebe |
| Eared Grebe |
| Pelicans |
| American White Pelican |
| Cormorants |
| Double Crested Cormorant |
| Herons, Bitterns |
| American Bittern |
| Great Blue Heron |
| Great Egret |
| Black-crowned Night Heron |
| Green Heron |
| Swans, Geese, Ducks |
| Tundra Swan |
| Mute Swan |
| Ross’s Goose |
| Canada Goose |
| Snow Goose |
| Wood Duck |
| Green-winged Teal |
| American Black Duck |
| Mallard |
| Northern Pintail |
| Blue-winged Teal |
| Northern Shoveler |
| Gadwall |
| American Wigeon |
| Canvasback |
| Redhead |
| Ring-necked Duck |
| Greater Scaup |
| Lesser Scaup |
| White-winged Scoter |
| Black Scoter |
| Surf Scoter |
| Harlequin Duck |
| Long-tailed Duck |
| Common Goldeneye |
| Bufflehead |
| Hooded Merganser |
| Common Merganser |
| Red-Breasted Merganser |
| Ruddy Duck |
| Vultures, Hawks, Eagles, Falcons |
| Black Vulture |
| Turkey Vulture |
| Osprey |
| Bald Eagle |
| Northern Harrier |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk |
| Cooper’s Hawk |
| Red-shouldered Hawk |
| Broad-winged Hawk |
| Red-tailed Hawk |
| American Kestrel |
| Peregrine Falcon |
| Grouse |
| Ruffed Grouse |
| Quail, Turkey, Pheasant |
| Ring-necked Pheasant |
| Northern Bobwhite |
| Wild Turkey |
| Coots, Rails |
| American Coot |
| Sora |
| Cranes |
| Sandhill Crane |
| Shorebirds |
| Killdeer |
| Semipalmated Plover |
| Greater Yellowlegs |
| Lesser Yellowlegs |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper |
| Least Sandpiper |
| Solitary Sandpiper |
| Spotted Sandpiper |
| American Woodcock |
| Gulls, Terns |
| Bonaparte’s Gull |
| Ring-billed Gull |
| Herring Gull |
| Caspian Tern |
| Forster’s Tern |
| Black Tern |
| Common Tern |
| Doves, Cuckoos |
| Rock Pigeon |
| Mourning Dove |
| Black-billed Cuckoo |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
| Owls |
| Barn Owl |
| Eastern Screech Owl |
| Great Horned Owl |
| Barred Owl |
| Nightjars, Swifts |
| Whip-poor-will |
| Common Nighthawk |
| Chimney Swift |
| Hummingbirds, Kingfishers |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
| Belted Kingfisher |
| Woodpeckers |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker |
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
| Downy Woodpecker |
| Hairy Woodpecker |
| Northern Flicker |
| Pileated Woodpecker |
| Red-headed Woodpecker |
| Flycatchers |
| Eastern Wood Pewee |
| Acadian Flycatcher |
| Willow Flycatcher |
| Eastern Phoebe |
| Great Crested Flycatcher |
| Eastern Kingbird |
| Swallows |
| Purple Martin |
| Tree Swallow |
| Northern Rough-winged |
| Cliff Swallow |
| Barn Swallow |
| Jays, Crows, Titmice, Nuthatches, Creepers |
| Blue Jay |
| American Crow |
| Carolina Chickadee |
| Tufted Titmouse |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch |
| White-breasted Nuthatch |
| Brown Creeper |
| Wrens, Kinglets, Gnatcatchers |
| Carolina Wren |
| Winter Wren |
| House Wren |
| Marsh Wren |
| Golden-crowned Kinglet |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
| Thrushes, Mockingbirds, Thrashers |
| Eastern Bluebird |
| Gray-cheeked Thrush |
| Swainson’s Thrush |
| Hermit Thrush |
| Wood Thrush |
| American Robin |
| Gray Catbird |
| Northern Mockingbird |
| Brown Thrasher |
| Waxwings, Starlings |
| Cedar Waxwing |
| European Starling |
| American Pipi |
| Vireos |
| Blue-headed vireo |
| White-eyed Vireo |
| Yellow-throated Vireo |
| Warbling Vireo |
| Red-eyed Vireo |
| Warblers |
| Cerulean Warbler |
| Blue-winged Warbler |
| Golden-winged Warbler |
| Tennessee Warbler |
| Nashville Warbler |
| Northern Parula |
| Yellow Warbler |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| Magnolia Warbler |
| Cape May Warbler |
| Yellow-rumped warbler |
| Black-throated Green Warbler |
| Blackburnian Warbler |
| Yellow-throated Warbler |
| Pine Warbler |
| Prairie Warbler |
| Palm Warbler |
| Bay-breasted Warbler |
| Blackpoll Warbler |
| Black-and-white Warbler |
| American Redstart |
| Prothonotary Warbler |
| Northern Waterthrush |
| Louisiana Waterthrush |
| Connecticut Warbler |
| Mourning Warbler |
| Common Yellowthroat |
| Hooded Warbler |
| Wilson’s Warbler |
| Canada Warbler |
| Yellow-breasted Chat |
| Tanagers, Grosbeaks |
| Summer Tanager |
| Scarlet Tanager |
| Northern Cardinal |
| Blue Grosbeak |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| Indigo Bunting |
| Eastern Towhee |
| Sparrows, Blackbirds |
| American Tree Sparrow |
| Chipping Sparrow |
| Field Sparrow |
| Fox Sparrow |
| Song Sparrow |
| Swamp Sparrow |
| White-throated Sparrow |
| White-crowned Sparrow |
| Dark-eyed Junco |
| Red-winged Blackbird |
| Eastern Meadowlark |
| Rusty Blackbird |
| Brewer’s Blackbird |
| Common Grackle |
| Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Orchard Oriole |
| Baltimore Oriole |
| Finches |
| Purple Finch |
| House Finch |
| Pine Siskin |
| American Goldfinch |
| House Sparrow |