County list
Updated 1.4.24
The rules
“Birding a county” means spending at least one hour birding deliberately, not incidentally, keeping a complete list of birds seen. In virtually every case I will spend far longer (for me one of the great attractions of birding is its slow pace). So far the shortest amount of time I have spent is 2 hours 15 minutes, at the Clarkesville Greenway in Habersham County. The longest is nearly five hours at Fort Yargo SP in Barrow County.
I started with an empty list and a blank map.
In the 25 or so counties I had birded in my previous life, I am going to new places, spots I have never birded before.
| County | Date | Location | Best bird(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appling | 7.12.23 | Tavia's Trail, Moody Forest WMA | Lifer Bachman's sparrow, common nighthawk |
| Atkinson | -- | -- | -- |
| Bacon | 7.12.23 | Bacon County Recreation Complex | Loggerhead shrike, little blue herons, northern bobwhite |
| Baker | -- | -- | -- |
| Baldwin | -- | -- | -- |
| Banks | -- | -- | -- |
| Barrow | 7.8.23 | Fort Yargo SP | So many swallows! |
| Bartow | -- | -- | -- |
| Ben Hill | -- | -- | -- |
| Berrien | -- | -- | -- |
| Bibb | -- | -- | -- |
| Bleckley | -- | -- | -- |
| Brantley | -- | -- | -- |
| Brooks | 12.28.23 | Oak Hill Cemetery | Yellow bellied sapsucker who would not shut up |
| Bryan | -- | -- | -- |
| Bulloch | -- | -- | -- |
| Burke | -- | -- | -- |
| Butts | -- | -- | -- |
| Calhoun | -- | -- | -- |
| Camden | -- | -- | -- |
| Candler | -- | -- | -- |
| Carroll | -- | -- | -- |
| Catoosa | 6.17.23 | Chickamauga/Chattanooga NMP | Lifer grasshopper sparrow |
| Charlton | -- | -- | -- |
| Chatham | -- | -- | -- |
| Chattahoochee | 10.9.23 | River Bend Park | FOS sapsucker, ruby crowned kinglet |
| Chattooga | -- | -- | -- |
| Cherokee | 11.24.23 | JJ Biello Park | All woodpeckers but pileated |
| Clarke | -- | -- | -- |
| Clay | -- | -- | -- |
| Clayton | -- | -- | -- |
| Clinch | -- | -- | -- |
| Cobb | -- | -- | -- |
| Coffee | 7.13.23 | General Coffee SP | Northern parula, prothonotary warbler |
| Colquitt | 12.28.23 | Reed Bingham SP | Black and white warbler |
| Columbia | -- | -- | -- |
| Cook | 12.28.23 | Reed Bingham SP | Gallinules, sedge wren |
| Coweta | 7.28.23 | Chattahoochee Bend SP | Scarlet tanagers, Louisiana waterthrush |
| Crawford | -- | -- | -- |
| Crisp | -- | -- | -- |
| Dade | 6.17.23 | Cloudland Canyon SP | Broad winged hawk |
| Dawson | 9.30.23 | Dawson Forest WMA | Kettle of broad winged hawks |
| Decatur | -- | -- | -- |
| Dekalb | -- | -- | -- |
| Dodge | -- | -- | -- |
| Dooly | -- | -- | -- |
| Dougherty | -- | -- | -- |
| Douglas | -- | -- | -- |
| Early | -- | -- | -- |
| Echols | -- | -- | -- |
| Effingham | -- | -- | -- |
| Elbert | -- | -- | -- |
| Emanuel | -- | -- | -- |
| Evans | -- | -- | -- |
| Fannin | 7.2.23 | Fannin County Park | Yellow throated warbler |
| Fayette | -- | -- | -- |
| Floyd | -- | -- | -- |
| Forsyth | -- | -- | -- |
| Franklin | -- | -- | -- |
| Fulton | -- | -- | -- |
| Gilmer | 7.2.23 | Carter's Lake Woodring Recreation Area | Summer tanager, red headed woodpecker |
| Glascock | -- | -- | -- |
| Glynn | -- | -- | -- |
| Gordon | -- | -- | -- |
| Grady | -- | -- | -- |
| Greene | -- | -- | -- |
| Gwinnett | 6.13.23 | George Pierce Park | Prothonotary warbler |
| Habersham | 8.5.23 | Clarkesville Greenway | Black vulture |
| Hall | -- | -- | -- |
| Hancock | -- | -- | -- |
| Haralson | -- | -- | -- |
| Harris | -- | -- | -- |
| Hart | -- | -- | -- |
| Heard | -- | -- | -- |
| Henry | -- | -- | -- |
| Houston | -- | -- | -- |
| Irwin | 7.13.23 | Alapaha River WMA | American kestrels, Bachman's sparrow |
| Jackson | -- | -- | -- |
| Jasper | -- | -- | -- |
| Jeff Davis | 7.11.23 | Bullard Creek WMA | Yellow crowned night heron |
| Jefferson | -- | -- | -- |
| Jenkins | -- | -- | -- |
| Johnson | -- | -- | -- |
| Jones | -- | -- | -- |
| Lamar | -- | -- | -- |
| Lanier | -- | -- | -- |
| Laurens | -- | -- | -- |
| Lee | -- | -- | -- |
| Liberty | -- | -- | -- |
| Lincoln | -- | -- | -- |
| Long | -- | -- | -- |
| Lowndes | -- | -- | -- |
| Lumpkin | -- | -- | -- |
| Macon | -- | -- | -- |
| Madison | -- | -- | -- |
| Marion | -- | -- | -- |
| McDuffie | -- | -- | -- |
| McIntosh | -- | -- | -- |
| Meriwether | -- | -- | -- |
| Miller | -- | -- | -- |
| Mitchell | -- | -- | -- |
| Monroe | -- | -- | -- |
| Montgomery | -- | -- | -- |
| Morgan | -- | -- | -- |
| Murray | -- | -- | -- |
| Muscogee | 10.9.23 | Cooper Creek Park | Lifer pectoral sandpiper |
| Newton | -- | -- | -- |
| Oconee | -- | -- | -- |
| Oglethorpe | -- | -- | -- |
| Paulding | -- | -- | -- |
| Peach | -- | -- | -- |
| Pickens | -- | -- | -- |
| Pierce | -- | -- | -- |
| Pike | -- | -- | -- |
| Polk | -- | -- | -- |
| Pulaski | -- | -- | -- |
| Putnam | -- | -- | -- |
| Quitman | -- | -- | -- |
| Rabun | -- | -- | -- |
| Randolph | -- | -- | -- |
| Richmond | -- | -- | -- |
| Rockdale | 6.29.23 | Georgia International Horse Park | Yellow throated vireo |
| Schley | -- | -- | -- |
| Screven | -- | -- | -- |
| Seminole | -- | -- | -- |
| Spalding | -- | -- | -- |
| Stephens | -- | -- | -- |
| Stewart | -- | -- | -- |
| Sumter | -- | -- | -- |
| Talbot | -- | -- | -- |
| Taliaferro | 8.13.23 | A. H. Stephens SP | Lifer Kentucky warbler! Mississippi kite |
| Tattnall | -- | -- | -- |
| Taylor | -- | -- | -- |
| Telfair | -- | -- | -- |
| Terrell | -- | -- | -- |
| Thomas | -- | -- | -- |
| Tift | -- | -- | -- |
| Toombs | -- | -- | -- |
| Towns | -- | -- | -- |
| Treutlen | -- | -- | -- |
| Troup | -- | -- | -- |
| Turner | -- | -- | -- |
| Twiggs | -- | -- | -- |
| Union | -- | -- | -- |
| Upson | 8.20.23 | Sprewell Bluff Park | Spotted sandpiper |
| Walker | -- | -- | -- |
| Walton | -- | -- | -- |
| Ware | -- | -- | -- |
| Warren | -- | -- | -- |
| Washington | 11.5.23 | Hamburg SP | Late migrant black and white warbler |
| Wayne | -- | -- | -- |
| Webster | -- | -- | -- |
| Wheeler | 7.11.23 | Little Ocmulgee SP | Yellow billed cuckoo, osprey |
| White | 8.5.23 | Unicoi SP | Black throated green warbler |
| Whitfield | -- | -- | -- |
| Wilcox | -- | -- | -- |
| Wilkes | -- | -- | -- |
| Wilkinson | -- | -- | -- |
| Worth | -- | -- | -- |