According to the New River Birding and Nature Festival, the following birds can be seen in the New River Gorge area during spring migration. Click here for a printable PDF of the checklist to take with you on your birding adventures.

 

Common Loon

Pied-billed Grebe

Great Egret

Green Heron

Black Vulture

Turkey Vulture

Canada Goose

Mute Swan

Wood Duck

Mallard

Blue-winged Teal

Lesser Scaup

Osprey

Sharp-shinned Hawk

Cooper’s Hawk

Red-shouldered Hawk

Broad-winged Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

American Kestrel

Merlin

Peregrine Falcon

Ruffed Grouse

Wild Turkey

Killdeer

Lesser Yellowlegs

Solitary Sandpiper

Spotted Sandpiper

American Woodcock

Rock Dove

Mourning Dove

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Eastern Screech Owl

Great Horned Owl

Barred Owl

Common Nighthawk

Whip-poor-will

Chimney Swift

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Belted Kingfisher

Red-headed Woodpecker

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Downey Woodpecker

Hairy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Pileated Woodpecker

Eastern Wood Peewee

Acadian flycatcher

Least Flycatcher

Eastern Phoebe

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Bank Swallow

Cliff Swallow

Barn Swallow

Carolina Chickadee

Black-capped Chickadee

Tufted Titmouse

Red-breasted Nuthatch

White-breasted Nuthatch

Brown Creeper

Carolina Wren

House Wren

Winter Wren

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Eastern Bluebird

Veery

Swainson’s Thrush

Hermit Thrush

Wood Thrush

American Robin

Gray Catbird

Northern Mockingbird

Brown Thrasher

European Starling

Cedar Waxwing

Blue-winged Warbler

Golden-winged Warbler

Tennessee Warbler

Nashville Warbler

Northern Parula

Yellow Warbler

Chestnut-sided Warbler 

Magnolia Warbler

Cape May Warbler

Black-throated Blue Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Black-throated Green Warbler

Blackburnian Warbler

Yellow-throated Warbler

Pine Warbler

Prairie Warbler

Palm Warbler

Bay-breasted Warbler 

Blackpoll Warbler

Cerulean Warbler

Blue-headed Vireo

Warbling Vireo

Philadelphia Vireo

Red-eyed Vireo

Blue Jay

American Crow

Black-and-white Warbler

American Redstart

Worm-eating Warbler

Swainson’s Warbler

Ovenbird

Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat

Hooded Warbler

Wilson’s Warbler

Canada Warbler

Yellow-breasted Chat

Summer Tanager

Scarlet Tanager

Eastern Towhee

Chipping Sparrow

Field Sparrow

Savannah Sparrow

Grasshopper Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Lincoln’s Sparrow

Swamp Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Northern Cardinal

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Indigo Bunting

Bobolink

Red-winged Blackbird

Eastern Meadowlark

Rusty Blackbird

Common Grackle

Brown-headed Cowbird

Orchard Oriole

Baltimore Oriole

Purple Finch

House Finch

Pine Siskin

American Goldfinch

House Sparrow

Arctic Tern

Mandarin Duck

Great Crested Flycatcher

Eastern Kingbird

White-eyed Vireo

Yellow-throated Vireo

Common Raven

Purple Martin

Tree Swallow