Amber Nestor
Beautiful Birds and Waterfowl of East Tennessee
By Amber Nestor - Professional Real Estate Agent and Broker for Tennessee
The next time you visit a waterfront park, or go out on a evening boat cruise, or an early hunt, especially with your friends, family, or children, consider seeing how many of these birds you have personally ever had a sighting of before.
Experiencing the diversity of waterbirds in Tennessee is a beautiful thing. If you click on this link, you can see a photo gallery of each one:
https://www.tn.gov/twra/wildlife/birds/waterbirds.html
Here is a comprehensive list you can print out and take with you to see how many you have sighted:
Waterbird Type Date Sighted Location
Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Ross's Goose
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Tundra Swan
Trumpeter Swan
Muscovy Duck
Wood Duck
Gadwell Duck
American Wigeon
American Black Duck
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Surf Scoter
White winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Red-throated Loon
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Eared Grebe
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
American Bittern
Least Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
White-faced Ibis
Wood Stork
Osprey
Golden Eagle
Mississippi Kite
Bald Eagle
King Rail
Virginia Rail
Sora
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Whooping Crane
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Willet
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
Stilt Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
Wilson's Phalarope
Laughing Gull
Franklin's Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Least Tern
Black Tern
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl
Chimney Swift
Belted Kingfisher
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Warbling Vireo
American Crow
Fish Crow
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren
American Pipit
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush
Prothonotary Warbler
Swainson's Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Le Conte's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird
Common Grackle
Baltimore Oriole
Forest Birds
Grass and Shrub Birds
Here are 3 pictures of what appears to be a Great Blue Heron, or some variation of Heron, I captured a few moments ago while working on paperwork for real estate clients in my home office overlooking the lake.



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Amber Nestor - Professional Real Estate Agent & Broker