Friends of Tanyard Creek Park

Atlanta, Georgia

Our Wild Neighbors....

 

Nestled in the heart of Atlanta, Tanyard Creek Park is a showcase for native flora and fauna. It also serves as an urban sanctuary for over 108 different species of wildlife.  Below is a list of the wildlife that one might expect to find or see sign of around the park...

Birds

American Goldfinch

American Redstart

American Robin

Barred Owl

Belted Kingfisher

Black Capped Chickadee

Black-chinned Hummingbird

Blue Grosbeak

Bluejay

Bobwhite

Brown Creeper 

Brown Thrasher

Brown-headed Cowbird

Brown-headed Nuthatch

Cardinal

Carolina Chickadee

Carolina Wren

Carolina Wren

Cedar Waxwing

Chimney Swift

Chipping Sparrow

Common Crow 

Common Flicker

Common Grackle

Common Nighthawk

Coopers Hawk

Dark-eyed Junco

Downy Woodpecker

Eastern Bluebird

Eastern Phoebe

Eastern Wood Pewee

Gray Catbird

Great Blue Heron

Great Horned Owl

Hairy Woodpecker

Hooded Warbler

House Finch

House Sparrow

House Wren

Indigo Bunting

Kentucky Warbler

Kildeer

Least Bittern

Mallard

Mockingbird

Mourning Dove

Piliated Woodpecker

Prairie Warbler

Prothonotary Warbler

Purple Finch

Purple Martin

 

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Red-eyed Viero

Red-headed Woodpecker

Redtail Hawk

Red-winged Blackbird

Rock Dove(pigeon)

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Rufous-sided Towhee

Savannah Sparrow

Scarlet Tanager

Screech Owl

Song Sparrow

Starling

Tufted Titmouse

Whip-poor-will

White Breasted Nuthatch

White Eyed Vireo

WhiteThroated Sparrow

Wood Thrush

Yellow Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker

Yellow-Rumped Warbler

 


Other Wildlife

American Toad

Beaver

Black Lizard

Brim

Broad headed Skink

Brown Water Snake

Chameleon

Copperhead

Coyote

Crayfish

Eastern Chipmunk

 

Eastern Cottontail Rabbit

Eastern Newt

Fowler's Toad

Garter Snake

Gray Squirrel

Ground Skink

King Turtle

Mole

Muskrat

Painted Turtle

Raccoon

Racer

Red Fox

River Otter

Short-tailed Shrew

Snapping Turtle

Southern Flying Squirrel

Southern Leonard Frog

Virginia Opossum

White-footed Mouse

Woodland Vole

Tanyard Creek wildlife sightings are updated weekly. See something in the park not on our list?

Let us know   Wildlife Sightings

 

 

 

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