Jay Huner
Crawfish Research Center
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
P.O. Box 44650
Lafayette, Louisiana 70504 USA

Tel.: 337 394-7508; Fax.: 337 394-4152

e-Mail: jhuner@louisiana.edu

Location: Lafayette Parish, Louisiana - Main Campus and Girard Park, as well as the Contiguous Athletic Complex, Research Park Complex, and Horticultural - Coliseum Complex. This list does include the area on Johnston Street most recently known as The Horse Farm and previously known as The Dairy Farm. It does not include the area formerly known as the Poultry Farm.

Working Draft — January 2001 - Includes birds reported on campus or readily identifiable as "fly overs" from 1997 to present.

1. Pied-billed Grebe (Wetland Center)

2. Neotropic Cormorant (Girard Park)

3. Double-crested Cormorant (Girard Park)

4. Anhinga (Girard Park)

5. Great Blue Heron

6. Great Egret

7. Snowy Egret

8. Little Blue Heron

9. Cattle Egret

10. Green Heron

11. Black-crowned Night-Heron (Wetland Center)

12. White Ibis - fly over

13. Turkey Vulture

14. Greater White-fronted Goose - fly over

15. Snow Goose - fly over

16. Wood Duck

17. Mallard (Girard Park)

18. Blue-winged Teal (Wetland Center)

19. Northern Pintail (Girard Park)

20. Mississippi Kite (Wetland Center)

21. Sharp-shinned Hawk

22. Cooper’s Hawk

23. Broad-winged Hawk (Wetland Center)

24. Red-tailed Hawk

25. American Kestrel

26. Virginia Rail (Wetland Center)

27. Sora

28. American Coot (Wetland Center)

29. Sandhill Crane (Wetland Center)

30. Killdeer

31. Common Snipe (Wetland Center)

32. Rock Dove

33. Eurasian Collared-Dove

34. Mourning Dove

35. Inca Dove

36. Common Ground Dove

37. Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Wetland Center)

38. Common Nighthawk

39. Chimney Swift

40. Ruby-throated Hummingbird

41. Belted Kingfisher

42. Red-headed Woodpecker

43. Red-bellied Woodpecker

44. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

45. Downy Woodpecker

46. Hairy Woodpecker

47. Northern Flicker

48. Eastern Phoebe

49. Eastern Kingbird

50. Great Crested Flycatcher

51. Loggerhead Shrike

52. Blue Jay

53. American Crow

54. Fish Crow (Wetland Center)

55. Purple Martin

56. Tree Swallow

57. Northern Rough-winged Swallow

58. Barn Swallow

59. Carolina Chickadee

60. Tufted Titmouse

61. Ruby-crowned Kinglet

62. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

63. Carolina Wren

64. Mountain Bluebird (Wetland center)

65. Wood Thrush (Wetland Center)

66. American Robin (nesting)

67. Northern Mockingbird

68. Brown Thrasher

69. Cedar Waxwing

70. European Starling

71. Orange-crowned Warbler (Wetland Center)

72. Yellow-rumped Warbler

73. Common Yellowthroat (Wetland Center)

74. Chipping Sparrow

75. White-throated Sparrow

76. Dark-eyed Junco

77. Northern Cardinal

78. Indigo Bunting

79. Red-winged Blackbird

80. Eastern Meadowlark

81. Common Grackle

82. Brown-headed Cowbird

83. American Goldfinch

84. House Finch

85. House Sparrow

Contributors: Willie Barrow, Lee Clark, Bill Fontenot, Paul Fontenot, Dave Fruge, Jay Huner, Clint Jeske, Paul Leberg, Billy Leonard, Dave Patton, and Doc & Matilde Smith.

This list is a "work in progress" and at least 20-30 more species can be expected to be added within the next 1-2 years as more attention is paid to the avian fauna of the UL Lafayette Campus.