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The Georgia mountains have excellent bird-watching opportunities, especially during spring migration. Early morning provides the best opportunity to see and hear numerous breeding songbirds, such as hooded warblers, black and white warblers, black-throated blue warblers, black-throated green warblers, as well as migrants, such as Cape May, black poll, and black burnian warblers on their way to breeding grounds north of Georgia. These and numerous other species can be found on a short walk on the Appalachian Trail. Chestnut-sided warblers and indigo buntings are numerous. Long walks along the trail may reward wildlife viewers with the drumming or explosive flush of a ruffed grouse. Wild turkeys are residents of this area as well.

Below are some of the bird species documented in the area.

Chimney Swift	Rough-wings Shallow	Efingbird Northern
Flicher	Common Yellow Throat	European Starling
Osprey	Bald Eagle	Purple Martin
Common Tern	Belted Kingfisher	Great Blue Heron
Bufflehead	Pied-Billed Grabe	Green Heron
Canada Goose	Common Loon	Mallard
Mourning Dove	Barn Swallow	Killdeer
Hairy Woodpecker	Red-boiled Woodpecker	Pileated Woodpecker
Scarlet Tanager	Indigo Bunting	Downy Woodpecker
Brown Thrasher	House Wren	Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Cedar Waxwing	Rufous-sided Towhee	Dark-eyed Junco
American Robin	Northern Mockingbird	Gray Catbird
Blackcapped	Northern Cardinal	Song Sparrow
Blue Jay	Tufted Titmouse	White-breasted Nuthatch
Eastern Bluebird	Gold Finch	House Finch
Common Crow	Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle	Red-winged Blackbird