Region - The Southeast Atlantic region encompasses most of the southeastern United States from the Great Lakes, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey in the north, south to the Gulf of Mexico and West to the states of Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, and eastern Texas.
This region includes the largest lakes on the continent and some of most important saltwater marshes, many of which are protected by barrier islands. Estuaries are important habitats especially between Maryland and North Carolina. Beaches and coastal sand dunes are a familiar sight. Lakes are present, and in Pennsylvania and West Virginia the landscape is dotted with human-made lakes.
It is also a land of wooded cypress and hardwood swamps and mangroves, thickets, bogs, rivers, deciduous forests of oak, beech, maple, birch, oak hickory, and pine forests that stretch from Delaware along the coastal Florida and west to Texas. Some mountainous country, not as extensive or high as found in the west, forms a north-south band throughout much of this region.
Identification - There are 91 birds you can easily hear and identify in the Southeast Atlantic region. The following is a list, in the American Ornithologists' Union order, of these birds:
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Tundra Swan
Snow Goose
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Northern Pintail
American Wigeon
Oldsquaw
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Ring-necked Pheasant
Ruffed Grouse
Wild Turkey
Northern Bobwhite
Virginia Rail
Sora
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
American Avocet
Spotted Sandpiper
Common Snipe
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl
Common Nighthawk
Whip-poor-will
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Bewick's Wren
House Wren
Winter Wren
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Veery
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Yellow Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow-breasted Chat
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Rufous-sided Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Common Grackle
Orchard Oriole
Northern Oriole
Purple Finch
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Evening Grosbeak
House Sparrow
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