Rankin Waterbirds

Listing is of 89 waterbird species found at Rankin with maximum number in one day. An * denotes breeding (13 species). List was updated May 2005. Note: A few of the maximum numbers were recorded at Dutch Bottoms, Cocke County, which is downstream from Rankin.

SPECIES	Maximum
Canada Goose*	400
Tundra Swan	1
Wood Duck*	120
Gadwall	16
American Wigeon	10
American Black Duck	28
Mallard*	600
Blue-winged Teal	500
Northern Shoveler	20
Northern Pintail	4
Green-winged Teal	30
Redhead	4
Ring-necked Duck	8
Lesser Scaup	8
Surf Scoter	4
Long-tailed Duck	1
Bufflehead	4
Hooded Merganser	2
Red-breasted Merganser	4
Ruddy Duck	13
Common Loon	2
Pied-billed Grebe	52
Horned Grebe	1
American White Pelican	6
Double-crested Cormorant*	300
Least Bittern	2
Great Blue Heron*	381
Great Egret	275
Snowy Egret	3
Little Blue Heron	26
Cattle Egret*	50
Green Heron*	40
Black-crowned Night-Heron*	100
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron*	2
White Ibis	11
Glossy Ibis	1
Roseate Spoonbill	1
Osprey*	10
Bald Eagle*	5
Sora	2
Common Moorhen	1
American Coot	260
Sandhill Crane	5
Black-bellied Plover	17
American Golden-Plover	6
Semipalmated Plover	52
Piping Plover	1
Killdeer*	400
Black-necked Stilt	2
American Avocet	2
Greater Yellowlegs	65
Lesser Yellowlegs	85
Solitary Sandpiper	12
Willet	5
Spotted Sandpiper	24
Upland Sandpiper	8
Marbled Godwit	2
Ruddy Turnstone	4
Red Knot	4
Sanderling	25
Semipalmated Sandpiper	400
Western Sandpiper	30
Least Sandpiper	450
White-rumped Sandpiper	10
Baird's Sandpiper	4
Pectoral Sandpiper	500
Dunlin	800
Stilt Sandpiper	45
Buff-breasted Sandpiper	20
Ruff	2
Short-billed Dowitcher	125
Long-billed Dowitcher	2
Wilson's Snipe	20
American Woodcock	4
Wilson's Phalarope	1
Red-necked Phalarope	2
Red Phalarope	1
Laughing Gull	5
Franklin's Gull	1
Bonaparte's Gull	80
Ring-billed Gull	450
Herring Gull	5
Lesser Black-backed Gull	1
Caspian Tern	14
Common Tern	12
Forster's Tern	60
Least Tern	1
Black Tern	30
Belted Kingfisher*	10