Following is a partial listing of birds recently observed on the Refuge by Refuge Staff, Volunteers, and visitors. Some common land birds (such as the American Crow, sparrows, cowbirds, robins, starlings, Red-winged Blackbird, Tree and Barn Swallows, etc.) are not included.
Birds seen recently include:
| BIRD | FIRST SEEN == Year round | MOST RECENT
** current |
| Great Blue Heron | == | |
| Green Heron | Apr 28 | Oct 11 |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Apr 21 | Sep 2 |
| Little Blue Heron
Carncross Rd | May 4 | May 4 |
| Great White Egret | Apr 23 | Nov 4 |
| Double-crested Cormorant | Mar 31 | Oct 31 |
| White Pelican | May 24 | May 30 |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Mar 31 | Nov 4 |
| Red-necked Grebe | Apr 23 | Apr 29 |
| American Bittern | Apr 15 | Oct 16 |
| Least Bittern | Jul 10 | Sep 2 |
| Red-throated Loon | Nov 14 | |
| Trumpeter Swan | Jun 20 | Aug 25 |
| Tundra Swan | Apr 2 | Nov 4 |
| Mute Swan | Apr 11 | Aug 1 |
| Canada Goose | == | |
| Snow Goose | Mar 31 | Nov 4 |
| Ross' Goose | Oct 18 | |
| Common Moorhen | Apr 2 | Oct 6 |
| American Coot | Mar 31 | Oct 31 |
| Bufflehead | Mar 31 | Oct 31 |
| Canvasback Duck | Mar 31 | Oct 31 |
| American Black Duck | == | ** |
| Wood Duck | Apr 6 | ** |
| Gadwall | Mar 31 | Oct 31 |
| Green-winged Teal | Mar 31 | Nov 4 |
| Blue-winged Teal | Apr 1 | Oct 3 |
| Ring-necked Duck | Mar 31 | Oct 31 |
| Northern Pintail | Mar 31 | Oct 31 |
| Common Goldeneye | Mar 31 | |
| Redhead | Mar 31 | Oct 31 |
| Ruddy Duck | Mar 31 | Oct 31 |
| Mallard | == | |
| American Wigeon | Mar 31 | Oct 31 |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Apr 2 | Oct 19 |
| Northern Shoveler | Mar 31 | Nov 4 |
| Common Merganser | Mar 31 | Oct 31 |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Apr 18 | Apr 25 |
| Hooded Merganser | Mar 31 | Oct 31 |
| Scaup | Mar 31 | Oct 31 |
| Bald Eagle | == | ** |
| Osprey | Apr 1 | ** |
| Northern Harrier | Apr 15 | *** |
| Merlin | Oct 10 | |
| Peregrine Falcon | Aug 25 | Oct 19 |
| Sandhill Crane
Carncross Rd | Apr | Oct 9 |
| Greater Yellowlegs | Apr 11 | Nov 2 |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Apr 2 | Oct 10 |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Apr 22 | Oct 24 |
| Solitary Sandpiper | Apr 28 | Jul 31 |
| Least Sandpiper | Apr 28 | Sep 29 |
| Spotted Sandpiper | May 12 | Sep 1 |
| White-Rumped Sandpiper | May 14 | Oct 18 |
| Baird's Sandpiper | Aug 30 | |
| Purple Sandpiper | Sep 29 | |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Jul 21 | Oct 18 |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | May 12 | Oct 19 |
| Semipalmated Plover | May 6 | Oct 13 |
| Black-bellied Plover | May 30 | Oct 24 |
| American Golden-Plover | Aug 30 | Oct 24 |
| Killdeer | Apr 2 | ** |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Aug 30 | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | May 20 | Sep 1 |
| Wilson's Phalarope | Jun 3 | Aug 30 |
| Rednecked Phalarope | Aug 26 | Sep 1 |
| Hudsonian Godwit | Aug 29 | Sep 1 |
| Common Snipe | Apr 14 | Oct 10 |
| Dowitcher sp. | Apr 18 | Oct 19 |
| Dunlin | Apr 20 | Nov 2 |
| Willet | Aug 25 | |
| Whimbrel | Aug 29 | |
| Virginia Rail | May 18 | Sep 2 |
| Sora | May 29 | Sep 2 |
| Ring-billed Gull | == | |
| Great Blackbacked gull | Oct 6 | |
| Bonaparte's Gull | Apr 22 | Oct 24 |
| Caspian Tern | Apr 14 | Sep 19 |
| Royal Tern | Jul 16 | Jul 24 |
| Common Tern | Apr 22 | Jun 6 |
| Black Tern | Apr 29 | Aug 4 |
| Snow Bunting | Oct 27 | |
| Belted Kingfisher | May 9 | Oct 10 |
| Wild Turkey | Apr 11 | |
| Cedar Waxwing | Aug 26 | |
| Tree Swallow | Apr 2 | ** |
| Barn Swallow | Apr 20 | ** |
| Purple Martin | Apr 20 | Jun 18 |
| Yellow Warbler | Apr 29 | May 21 |
| Cerulean Warbler | May 12 | |
| Least Flycatcher | Apr 29 | |
| Blue-headed Vireo | Apr 29 | Jun 2 |
| Warbling Vireo | Apr 29 | Jun 2 |
| House Wren | Apr 29 | |
| Savannah Sparrow | May 5 | May 25 |
| Swamp Sparrow | May 25 | Jul 31 |
| American Pipit | May 5 | Oct 19 |
| Indigo Bunting | May 12 | May 21 |
| Eastern Kingbird | May 14 | Jul 30 |