These 149  species of birds have been observed at the refuge:

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• Pied-billed Grebe
• Common Loon
• Double-crested Cormorant
• Great Blue Heron
• Green Heron
• Great Egret
• Snow Goose
• Canada Goose
• Wood Duck
• Blue-winged Teak
• Mallard
• Black Duck
• Green-winged Teal
• Common Goldeneye
• Bufflehead
• Hooded Merganser
• Common Merganser
• Black Vulture
• Turkey Vulture
• Osprey
• Northern Harrier
• Sharp-shinned Hawk
• Coopers Hawk
• Northern Goshawk
• Bald Eagle
• Red-shouldered Hawk
• Broad-winged Hawk
• Swainson’s Hawk
• Red-tailed Hawk
• Golden Eagle
• American Kestrel
• Peregrine Falcon
• Ruffed Grouse
• Wild Turkey
• Killdeer
• American Woodcock
• Wilson’s Snipe
• Solitary Sandpiper
• Spotted Sandpiper
• Ring-billed Gull
• Greater Black-backed Gull
• Herring Gull
• Great-horned Owl
• Rock Pigeon
• Mourning Dove
• Yellow-billed Cuckoo
• Black-billed Cuckoo
• Common Nighthawk
• Whip-poor-will
• Chimney Swift
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird
• Belted Kingfisher
• Red-bellied Woodpecker
• Downy Woodpecker
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Northern Flicker
• Pileated Woodpecker
• Eastern Wood Pewee
• Least Flycatcher
• Eastern Phoebe
• Great Crested Flycatcher
• Eastern Kingbird
• Blue-headed Vireo
• Warbling Vireo
• Philadelphia Vireo
• Red-eyed Vireo
• Blue Jay
• American Crow
• Fish Crow
• Common Raven
• Purple Martin
• Tree Swallow
• Rough-winged Swallow
• Cliff Swallow
• Barn Swallow
• Black-capped Chickadee
• Tufted Titmouse
• White-breasted Nuthatch
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• Brown Creeper
• Carolina Wren
• Winter Wren
• House Wren
• Golden-crowned Kinglet
• 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
• 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
• Pine Warbler
• Prairie Warbler
• Palm Warbler
• Bay-breasted Warbler
• Blackpoll Warbler
• Black & White Warbler
• American Redstart
• Worm-eating Warbler
• Ovenbird
• Northern Waterthrush
• Mourning Warbler
• Common Yellowthroat
• Wilson’s Warbler
• Canada Warbler
• Scarlet Tanager
• Eastern Towhee
• American Tree Sparrow
• Chipping Sparrow
• Field Sparrow
• Vesper Sparrow
• Savannah Sparrow
• Grasshopper Sparrow
• Fox Sparrow
• Song Sparrow
• Swamp Sparrow
• White-crowned Sparrow
• White-throated Sparrow
• Dark-eyed Junco
• Snow Bunting
• Northern Cardinal
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak
• Blue Grosbeak
• Indigo Bunting
• Red-winged Blackbird
• Common Grackle
• Brown-headed Cowbird
• Orchard Oriole
• Baltimore Oriole
• Purple Finch
• House Finch
• Pine Siskin
• American Goldfinch
• House Sparrow

You may wish to read the following article from Wildlife Activist: 

Big Day of Birding – by Robert E. Hoopes (Summer 2004)