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PHOTO: CREATIVE COMMONS – ANDY REAGO & CHRISSY MCCLARREN PHOTO: CREATIVE COMMONS – ANDY REAGO & CHRISSY MCCLARREN PHOTO: CREATIVE COMMONS – MANJITH KAINICKARA PHOTO: CREATIVE COMMONS – RHODODENDRITES
TOP 10 GEORGIA BIRDS Red-Winged Blackbird Common Grackle (Bombycilla cedrorum) American Robin

Cedar Waxwing
(Turdus migratorius)
(Quiscalus quiscula)
(Agelaius phoeniceus)
Red-wings sing their nasal songs
Common grackles are large, lanky
These sociable birds commonly winter
The robin’s clear musical whistles are
among the earliest bird songs heard
blackbirds with long legs and tails,
seemingly in every marsh and wet
in Georgia in any wooded or semi-
at dawn in spring and summer. These
open area where berries are abundant.
glossy purple or green heads, and
field in the state. The red shoulder
patches of the male, hidden under
Occasionally a line of waxwings
bright golden eyes. They often gather
red-breasted beauties are the ones
body feathers much of the time,
in noisy groups high in the trees, and
back and forth, from bill to
are brilliantly displayed when he
out of the ground in your yard.
will eat corn, garbage,
bill, until one of them
even the food off your
is singing.
plate at a picnic. perched on a branch will pass a berry you’ll likely see tugging earthworms
swallows it.
Did You Know?
According to the National Audubon Society, Visit the site dedicated to
Georgia has more than 1.7 million acres of Georgia Birding
important bird areas.
DiscoverGeorgiaBirding.com
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