Land Between the Lakes (including Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley)
What you'll see: white pelicans, cormorants, terns, herons, and egrets (spring and fall migration); gulls (October-March); ospreys (spring through fall); nesting bald eagles (year-round)
Note: A $20 permit is required to enter; it's available anywhere hunting and fishing licenses are sold

The Sloughs Wildlife Management Area, Henderson
What you'll see: rails, ducks and geese, yellowlegs, and other waterbirds and shorebirds (fall and spring)

Peabody Wildlife Management Area, Ohio, and Muhlenberg counties
What you'll see: grasshopper sparrow, dickcissel, blue grosbeak (summer); Northern harriers (year-round) and other hawks (winter); short-eared owls (fall through spring)
Note: A $12.50 permit is required to enter; it's available anywhere hunting and fishing licenses are sold

Mammoth Cave National Park
What you'll see: woodland songbirds including wood thrushes, woodpeckers, ovenbirds, Kentucky warblers (spring and summer)

Falls of the Ohio
What you'll see: gulls and shorebirds such as sandpipers and plovers (fall and spring migration); rarities during winter
Note: Folks recommend using a spotting telescope and watching from the Indiana side

Natural Bridge/Red River Gorge
What you'll see: red-breasted nuthatch (year-round); tanagers (summer); Swainson's warbler and other woodland songbirds (late spring and summer)

Minor Clark Fish Hatchery, Morehead
What you'll see: ducks and other waterfowl, shorebirds such as sandpipers and plovers, osprey and bald eagles (fall and spring migration)

Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area
What you'll see: Northern saw-whet owls (winter); tanagers, wood thrushes, Acadian flycatchers (late spring and summer

Cumberland Gap
What you'll see: hawks (September and October); ravens (year-round)

To read the Kentucky Living June 2003 feature, "Everybody's Bird Watching" that goes along with this supplement, Click Here.