Birds (Aves)

Birds Species Photographed in the United States

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Ross’s Goose
Brant
Barnacle Goose
Pink-footed Goose
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Graylag Goose/Canada Goose Hybrid
Mute Swan
Trumpeter Swan
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck
Gadwall
Gadwall/Northern Pintail Hybrid
Eurasian Widgeon
American Widgeon
American Black Duck
Mallard
Mallard/Northern Pintail Hybrid
Mottled Duck
Mexican Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Redhead
Tufted Duck
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
King Eider
Common Eider
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Barrow’s Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck

Plain Chachalaca
Montezuma Quail
Scaled Quail
Gambel’s Quail
Gray Partridge
Northern Bobwhite
Ruffed Grouse
Sharp-tailed Grouse
Spruce Grouse
Dusky Grouse
Wild Turkey

Red-throated Loon
Pacific Loon
Common Loon

Eared Grebe
Least Grebe

Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark’s Grebe

Northern Fulmar
Black-capped Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Audubon’s Shearwater
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
Leach’s Storm-Petrel

Brown Booby
Northern Gannet

Neotropical Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Brandt’s Cormorant

Anhinga

American White Pelican
Brown Pelican

American Bittern
Least Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Egret
Tricolored Heron
Reddish Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
White-faced Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill

California Condor
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture

Osprey
Hook-billed Kite
Swallow-tailed Kite
White-tailed Kite
Snail Kite
Mississippi Kite
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Northern Goshawk
Harris’s Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Gray Hawk
Swainson’s Hawk
White-tailed Hawk
Zone-tailed Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Golden Eagle

Clapper Rail
King Rail
Virginia Rail
Sora
Purple Gallinule
Common Moorhen
American Coot

Limpkin

Sandhill Crane

Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
American Oystercatcher
Black-belled Plover
American Golden Plover
Lesser Sand-Plover (Mongolian)
Wilson’s Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Killdeer
Mountain Plover
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Lesser Yellowlegs
Upland Sandpiper
Long-billed Curlew
Bar-tailed Godwit
Hudsonian Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Stilt Sandpiper
Red Knot
Ruff
Sanderling
Dunlin
Purple Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Baird’s Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Wilson’s Snipe
American Woodcock
Wilson’s Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope

Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Great Skua
South Polar Skua

Bonaparte’s Gull
Black-headed Gull
Laughing Gull
Franklin’s Gull
Heermann’s Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Western Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Thayer’s Gull
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Glaucous Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Abberant Gulls

Sooty Tern
Least Tern
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Forster’s Tern
Gull-billed Tern
Sandwich Tern
Royal Tern
Black Tern
Black Skimmer

Razorbill

Rock Pigeon
Band-tailed Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Inca Dove
Common Ground-Dove
White-tipped Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove

Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Mangrove Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Greater Roadrunner

Groove-billed Ani

Barn Owl
Short-eared Owl
Eastern Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl
Snowy Owl
Burrowing Owl
Spotted Owl
Barred Owl

Common Pauraque

White-throated Swift
Chimney Swift

Magnificent Hummingbird
Blue-throated Hummingbird
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Allen’s Hummingbird
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Broad-billed Hummingbird
Violet-crowned Hummingbird
Buff-bellied Hummingbird

Elegant Trogon

Ringed Kingfisher
Belted Kingfisher
Green Kingfisher

Acorn Woodpecker
Gila Woodpecker
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Williamson’s Sapsucker
Red-naped Sapsucker
Williamson’s Sapsucker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Arizona Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
American Three-toed Woodpecker

Crested Caracara
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Prairie Falcon
Aplomado Falcon

Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
Greater Pewee
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Western Wood-Pewee
Willow Flycatcher
Gray Flycatcher
Buff-breasted Flycatcher
Black Phoebe
Say’s Phoebe
Vermillion Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Brown-crested Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee
Tropical Kingbird
Couch’s Kingbird
Cassin’s Kingbird
Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Rose-throated Becard

Loggerhead Shrike
Northern Shrike

Bell’s Vireo
Gray Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Plumbeous Vireo
Cassin’s Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Hutton’s Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo

Clark’s Nutcracker
Gray Jay

Green Jay

Stellar’s Jay
Blue Jay
Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay
California Scrub-Jay
Florida Scrub-Jay
Mexican Jay

Black-billed Magpie

Chihuahuan Raven
Common Raven

Violet-green Swallow
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Bank Swallow

Cliff Swallow
Cave Swallow

Barn Swallow

American Dipper
Black-capped Chickadee
Carolina Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Mountain Chickadee
Mexican Chickadee
Boreal Chickadee
Bridled Titmouse
Black-crested Titmouse
Juniper Titmouse
Tufted Titmouse
Verdin
Bushtit
Pygmy Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown-headed Nuthatch

Brown Creeper

Rock Wren
House Wren
Pacific Wren
Winter Wren
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren
Carolina Wren
Bewick’s Wren
Cactus Wren

Black-capped Gnatcatcher
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Townsend’s Solitaire
Eastern Bluebird
Western Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird
Veery
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson’s Thrush
Clay-colored Thrush

White-throated Thrush
Rufous-backed Robin
American Robin
Varied Thrush

Northern Mockingbird
Crissal Thrasher
LeConte’s Thrasher
Sage Thrasher
Bendire’s Thrasher
Curve-billed Thrasher

Brown Thrasher
Long-billed Thrasher

Sprague’s Pipit
American Pipit

Phainopepla

McCown’s Longspur
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting

Olive Warbler
Ovenbird
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush
Worm-eating Warbler
Swainson’s Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Lucy’s Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Gray-crowned Yellowthroat
Kentucky Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
MacGillivray’s Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
American Redstart
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Grace’s Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend’s Warbler
Hermit Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Golden-crowned Warbler
Rufous-capped Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Red-faced Warbler
Canada Warbler
Painted Redstart

Olive Sparrow
Green-tailed Towhee
Spotted Towhee
Eastern Towhee
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Canyon Towhee
Rufous-winged Sparrow
Botteri’s Sparrow
Cassin’s Sparrow
Bachman’s Sparrow
Black-chinned Sparrow
American Tree Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Brewer’s Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Black-throated Sparrow
Sage Sparrow
Bell’s Sparrow
Lark Bunting
LeConte’s Sparrow
Henslow’s Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Baird’s Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Harris’s Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Yellow-eyed Junco

Hepatic Tanager
Summer Tanager
Western Tanager

Pyrrhuloxia
Black-headed Grosbeak
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Bunting
Indigo Bunting
Painted Bunting
Blue Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting
Dickcissel
Bobolink

Western Meadowlark
Brown-headed Cowbird
Bronzed Cowbird
Brewer’s Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Yellow-headed Blackbird

Orchard Oriole
Hooded Oriole

Altamira Oriole
Audubon’s Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Bullock’s Oriole

Evening Grosbeak
Pine Grosbeak
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
Brown-capped Rosy-Finch
Black Rosy-Finch
Red Crossbill

White-winged Crossbill
Pine Siskin
Lawrence’s Goldfinch
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch

White-collared Seedeater

Birding Events
Big Day 1987- North Carolina

 

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