The Cumulative List (219 species) for 13 years of ornithology classes. The species seen by the 2009 class (109 species) are indicated with an 'x' (seen around Charlotte) or 'b' (seen on our field trip to Carolina Beach State Park, Wrightsville Beach, Fort Fisher, Orton Plantation, and Lake Waccamaw.
| Pied-billed Grebe | x |
| Red-necked Grebe | |
| Horned Grebe | |
| Northern Gannet | b |
| American White Pelican | |
| Brown Pelican | b |
| Double-crested Cormorant | b |
| Anhinga | b |
| American Bittern | |
| Least Bittern | |
| Great Blue Heron | x,b |
| Great Egret | b |
| Snowy Egret | b |
| Little Blue Heron | b |
| Tricolored (Louisiana) Heron | b |
| Reddish Egret | |
| Green Heron | |
| Cattle Egret | |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | |
| Yellow-crowned Night Heron | |
| White Ibis | b |
| Glossy Ibis | |
| Roseate Spoonbill | |
| Wood Stork | |
| Mute Swan | |
| Canada Goose | x,b |
| Wood Duck | x |
| Green-winged Teal | |
| Mottled Duck | |
| Mallard | x,b |
| Northern Pintail | |
| Blue-winged Teal | |
| Northern Shoveler | |
| Gadwall | x |
| American Widgeon | |
| Canvasback | |
| Ring-necked Duck | |
| Greater Scaup | b |
| Lesser Scaup | x |
| Scaup (sp?) | |
| White-winged Scoter | |
| Bufflehead | x |
| Hooded Merganser | |
| Red-breasted Merganser | |
| Ruddy Duck | x |
| Black Vulture | x |
| Turkey Vulture | x |
| Osprey | x |
| Bald Eagle | |
| Northern Harrier | |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | |
| Cooper's Hawk | x |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | x,b |
| Broad-winged Hawk | x |
| Red-tailed Hawk | x |
| American Kestrel | |
| Merlin | |
| Peregrine | b |
| Ruffed Grouse | |
| Wild Turkey | |
| Clapper Rail | |
| King Rail | |
| Virginia Rail | |
| Sora | b |
| Common Moorhen | |
| American Coot | |
| Black-bellied Plover | |
| Wilson's Plover | |
| Semipalmated Plover | b |
| Piping Plover | b |
| Killdeer | x |
| American Oystercatcher | b |
| Black-necked Stilt | |
| Greater Yellowlegs | |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | |
| Yellowlegs sp | b |
| Willet | b |
| Spotted Sandpiper | |
| Whimbrel | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | |
| Sanderling | b |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | |
| Western Sandpiper | |
| Purple Sandpiper | |
| Least Sandpiper | |
| Dunlin | |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | |
| Long-billed Dowitcher | |
| Wilson's Snipe | |
| Laughing Gull | b |
| Bonaparte's Gull | |
| Ring-billed Gull | x,b |
| Herring Gull | |
| Great Black-backed Gull | b |
| Caspian Tern | |
| Royal Tern | b |
| Sandwich Tern | |
| Common Tern | b |
| Forster's Tern | |
| Least Tern | b |
| Black Skimmer | b |
| Rock Pigeon | x,b |
| Common Ground Dove | |
| Mourning Dove | x,b |
| Eurasian Collared-dove | b |
| Barred Owl | x |
| Eastern Screech-owl | b |
| Great-horned Owl | |
| Whip-poor-will | |
| Chuck-will's Widow | b |
| Chimney Swift | x |
| Rufous Hummingbird | |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | x |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | |
| Belted Kingfisher | x |
| Red-headed Woodpecker | b |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | x,b |
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | x |
| Downy Woodpecker | x,b |
| Hairy Woodpecker | |
| Red-cockaded Woodpecker | |
| Northern Flicker | |
| Pileated Woodpecker | b |
| Eastern Wood Peewee | x |
| Acadian Flycatcher | |
| Eastern Phoebe | x |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | x,b |
| Eastern Kingbird | |
| Purple Martin | |
| Tree Swallow | |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow | |
| Bank Swallow | |
| Barn Swallow | x,b |
| Blue Jay | x,b |
| American Crow | x,b |
| Fish Crow | x |
| Carolina Chickadee | x,b |
| Tufted Titmouse | x,b |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | x |
| Brown-headed Nuthatch | x,b |
| Brown Creeper | |
| Carolina Wren | x,b |
| Marsh Wren | |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | x,b |
| Golden-crowned Kinglet | |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | x,b |
| Eastern Bluebird | x,b |
| Veery | b |
| Swainsons Thrush | |
| Hermit Thrush | x |
| Wood Thrush | |
| American Robin | x |
| Northern Mockingbird | x,b |
| Gray Catbird | x,b |
| Brown Thrasher | x,b |
| White Wagtail | |
| Cedar Waxwing | x,b |
| Loggerhead Shrike | |
| European Starling | x,b |
| White-eyed Vireo | b |
| Blue-headed Vireo | b |
| Yellow-throated Vireo | |
| Red-eyed Vireo | x,b |
| Blue-winged Warbler | |
| Tennessee Warbler | |
| Nashville Warbler | |
| Northern Parula | x,b |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | |
| Magnolia Warbler | |
| Cape May Warbler | |
| Black-throated Blue Warbler | x |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | x,b |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | |
| Yellow-throated Warbler | b |
| Pine Warbler | x |
| Prairie Warbler | |
| Palm Warbler | x |
| Blackpoll Warbler | |
| Black and White Warbler | x |
| American Redstart | |
| Prothonotary Warbler | b |
| Worm-eating Warbler | |
| Swainson's Warbler | |
| Ovenbird | x |
| Northern Waterthrush | |
| Louisiana Waterthrush | |
| Common Yellowthroat | |
| Hooded Warbler | |
| Summer Tanager | x |
| Scarlet Tanager | |
| Northern Cardinal | x,b |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | x |
| Blue Grosbeak | |
| Indigo Bunting | |
| Painted Bunting | b |
| Eastern Towhee | x |
| Bachman's Sparrow | |
| Chipping Sparrow | x |
| Field Sparrow | |
| Savannah Sparrow | |
| Sharp-tailed Sparrow (Sp?) | |
| Fox Sparrow | |
| Song Sparrow | x |
| Swamp Sparrow | |
| White-throated Sparrow | x |
| Dark-eyed Junco | x |
| Red-winged Blackbird | x |
| Eastern Meadowlark | b |
| Rusty Blackbird | |
| Boat-tailed Grackle | b |
| Common Grackle | x |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | x |
| Orchard Oriole | |
| Baltimore Oriole | x |
| Purple Finch | |
| House Finch | x |
| American Goldfinch | x |
| House Sparrow | x |
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