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Ensley Bottoms / President's Island
Agricultural + wetland edges along the Mississippi — the shorebird spot of metro Memphis.
Species here
20
Best months
5
Apr · May · Aug · Sep · Oct
Access
Free
Habitat
3
wetland · grassland · river
Signature birds
Also seen here
YR
Bald Eagle
Haliaeetus leucocephalus
“American Eagle”
SB
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rustica
“Swallow”
SB
Common Yellowthroat
Geothlypis trichas
“Masked Warbler”
SB
Eastern Kingbird
Tyrannus tyrannus
“Tyrant”
YR
Eastern Meadowlark
Sturnella magna
“Meadowlark”
YR
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodias
“Big Cranky”
YR
Great Egret
Ardea alba
“Great White Egret”
M
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleuca
“Big Yellowlegs”
YR
Killdeer
Charadrius vociferus
“Killdee”
SB
Least Bittern
Ixobrychus exilis
“Small Bittern”
YR
Mourning Dove
Zenaida macroura
“Turtle Dove (Southern folk name)”
SB
Prothonotary Warbler
Protonotaria citrea
“Golden Swamp Warbler”
YR
Red-winged Blackbird
Agelaius phoeniceus
“Red-wing”
M
Sandhill Crane
Antigone canadensis
“Crane”
WV
Snow Goose
Anser caerulescens
“Blue Goose (dark morph — same species)”
M
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitaria
“Solitary Tattler”
YR
Wood Duck
Aix sponsa
“Woodie”
M
Yellow Warbler
Setophaga petechia
“Summer Yellowbird”