Bird List

My birding Life List is at about 460 (As of Nov 2019) - and that is mainly from birding in Ontario, Florida, Oregon and BC. Going to Alaska, or Arizona or better yet -- South America would perhaps give this list a serious boost.

GEESE and DUCKS

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (FL)

Greater White-fronted Goose

Snow Goose

Ross's Goose

Cackling Goose

Canada Goose

Mute Swan

Trumpeter Swan

Tundra Swan

Wood Duck

Gadwall

American Wigeon

American Black Duck

Mallard

Mottled Duck (FL)

Blue-winged Teal

Northern Shoveler

Northern Pintail

Green-winged Teal

Cinnamon Teal (OR)

Canvasback

Redhead

Ring-necked Duck

Greater Scaup

Lesser Scaup

King Eider

Surf Scoter

White-winged Scoter

Black Scoter

Long-tailed Duck

Bufflehead

Common Goldeneye

Hooded Merganser

Common Merganser

Red-breasted Merganser

Ruddy Duck

Eurasian Widgeon
Harlequin Duck
Brant

QUAIL and GROUSE

California Quail

Northern Bobwhite  (FL)
Wild Turkey
Spruce Grouse
Ruffed Grouse
Gambels Quail (AZ)
Scaled Quail (AZ)
Montezuma Quail (AZ)

LOONS and GREBES

Common Loon
Red throated Loon
Pacific Loon

Pied-billed Grebe

Horned Grebe

Eared Grebe
Red necked Grebe
Western Grebe (OR)
Clark's Grebe (OR)

Least Grebe (TX)

PELICANS, CORMORANTS, and ANHINGA

American White Pelican

Brown Pelican

Brandt's Cormorant (BC)

Double-crested Cormorant

Pelagic Cormorant (BC)

Anhinga (FL)
Neotropic Cormorant(TX)

Alcids, Shearwaters, Petrels
Northern Gannet
Pigeon  Guillemot
Black Guillemot
Razorbill 

HERONS etc.

American Bittern
Least Bittern

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Snowy Egret (FL)

Little Blue Heron(FL)

Tricolored Heron(FL)

Reddish Egret(FL)

Cattle Egret(FL)

Green Heron

Black-crowned Night Heron

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (FL)

White Ibis(FL)

White-faced Ibis
Glossy Ibis

Roseate Spoonbill(FL)

STORKS

Wood Stork(FL)

VULTURES

Black Vulture

Turkey Vulture

RAPTORS

Osprey

Bald Eagle
Golden Eagle

Red-shouldered Hawk

Broad-winged Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

Crested Caracara(FL)

Rough Legged Hawk

Northern Harrier

Sharp shinned Hawk

Coopers Hawk

Northern Goshawk
Swainson's Hawk (OR)
Perigrine Falcon
Gyrfalcon

Merlin

American Kestrel

Swallow tailed Kite (FL, ON)
Mississippi Kite
Snail Kite (FL)
Grey Hawk (AZ)
Harris's Hawk (AZ)
White Tailed Kite (TX)

RAILS, LIMPKINS, and CRANES

Virginia Rail
Clapper Rail (FL)
King Rail

Sora

Purple Gallinule (FL)

Common Gallinule

American Coot

Limpkin (FL)

Sandhill Crane

SHOREBIRDS (Plovers through Sandpipers)

Black-bellied Plover

American Golden-Plover

Semipalmated Plover

Piping Plover

Killdeer

Black Oystercatcher (Vancouver BC)
American Oystercatcher (Fort Myers FL)

American Avocet

Spotted Sandpiper

Solitary Sandpiper

Greater Yellowlegs

Willet 

Lesser Yellowlegs

Upland Sandpiper

Whimbrel

Hudsonian Godwit

Marbled Godwit

Ruddy Turnstone

Red Knot

Sanderling

Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper

White-rumped Sandpiper

Baird's Sandpiper

Pectoral Sandpiper

Purple Sandpiper

Dunlin

Stilt Sandpiper

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Short-billed Dowitcher

Long-billed Dowitcher

Wilson's Snipe

American Woodcock

Purple Sandpiper

Black necked Stilt
Long billed Curlew (FL)

Wilson's Phalarope

Red-necked Phalarope
Red Phalarope

Snowy Plover (TX)

GULLS, TERNS, and JAEGERS

Black-legged Kittiwake

Bonaparte's Gull
Sabines Gull

Laughing Gull

Franklin's Gull

Ring-billed Gull

California Gull (?)

Herring Gull

Iceland Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Glaucous-winged Gull (BC)

Glaucous Gull

Great Black-backed Gull

Caspian Tern

Black Tern

Common Tern

Arctic Tern

Forster's Tern

Royal Tern

Sandwich Tern

Black Skimmer

Parasitic Jaeger

Long-tailed Jaeger
Little Gull

DOVES

Mourning Dove

Common Ground-Dove

White winged Dove

Eurasian Collard Dove

Band tailed Pigeon
Rock Pigeon
Inca Dove (AZ)

CUCKOOS

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Black-billed Cuckoo
Elegant Trogon (AZ)

Road Runner (AZ)

OWLS

Eastern Screech-Owl

Snowy Owl

Great Gray Owl

Short-eared Owl

Long-eared Owl

Northern Saw-Whet Owl

Barred Owl (FL)
Burrowing Owl (FL)
Northern Pygmy Owl (OR)
Barn Owl (OR)
Great horned Owl
Western Screech Owl (AZ)

NIGHTJARS

Common Nighthawk

Chuck Wills Widow
Eastern whip poor Will
Chimney Swift
White throated Swift (OR)

HUMMINGBIRDS

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Rufous Hummingbird (Vancouver BC)
Calliope Hummingbird (OR)
Blue throated Hummingbird (AZ)
Violet Capped Hummingbird (AZ)
Anna's Hummingbird  (AZ)
Black throated Hummingbird  (AZ)
Rivoli's Hummingbird ( formerly Magnificent Hummingbird) (AZ)

Broad billed Hummingbird (AZ)
Broad tailed Hummingbird (AZ)

WOODPECKERS

Red-headed Woodpecker

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Downy Woodpecker

Hairy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Lewis’s Woodpecker (Penticton BC)

Pileated Woodpecker
Black Backed Woodpecker (Algonquin)
Red Cockaded Woodpecker (FL)
American Three Toed Woodpecker (OR)
Williamson's Sapsucker (OR)
White Headed Woodpecker (OR)
Red Naped Sapsucker (OR)
Red breasted Sapsucker (OR)
Arizona Woodpecker (AZ)
Gila Woodpecker (AZ)
Ladder Backed Woodpecker (AZ)
Acorn Woodpecker (AZ)
Gilded Flicker (AZ) *(might be red shafted flicker)

FLYCATCHERS

Olive-sided Flycatcher

Western Wood-Pewee

Eastern Wood-Pewee

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

Alder Flycatcher

Willow Flycatcher

Least Flycatcher

Eastern Phoebe

Say's Phoebe (OR)

Vermilion Flycatcher

Great Crested Flycatcher

Western Kingbird

Eastern Kingbird

Acadian Flycatcher
Gray Kingbird (Leamington ON)
Dusky Flycatcher(OR)
Hammond's Flycatcher (OR)
Gray Flycatcher (OR)
Great Kiskadee (Rondeau ON)
Cassin's Kingbird (AZ)
Sulphur-bellied flycatcher (AZ)
Black Phoebe (AZ)
Dusky Capped Flycatcher (AZ)
Brown Crested Flycatcher (AZ)
Tropical Kingbird (AZ)
Brown Crested Flycatcher (AZ)
Scissor tailed Flycatcher ( Elgin County Ontario)

SHRIKES

Loggerhead Shrike

Northern Shrike

VIREOS

White-eyed Vireo

Yellow-throated Vireo

Blue-headed Vireo

Warbling Vireo

Philadelphia Vireo

Red-eyed Vireo

Cassin's Vireo (Oregon)

Bell's Vireo

CORVIDS

Blue Jay

Florida Scrub-Jay (FL)

Clark's Nutcracker (AB)

Black-billed Magpie (AB)

American Crow

Northwestern Crow (BC)

Common Raven
Fish Crow (FL)
Stellar's Jay (OR)
Canada  Jay (Gray Jay) (NB, Algonquin)
Chihuahuan Raven (AZ)
Mexican Jay (AZ)

LARKS

Horned Lark

SWALLOWS

Tree Swallow

Cliff Swallow
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow

Cave Swallow
Northern Rough winged Swallow
Violet-green Swallow (BC)

PARIDS through CREEPERS

Black-capped Chickadee

Mountain Chickadee (AB)

Chestnut-backed Chickadee (BC)

Boreal Chickadee (AB, Algonquin)

Carolina Chickadee (OH)
Tufted Titmouse

Bushtit

Red-breasted Nuthatch

White-breasted Nuthatch
Pygmy Nuthatch(OR)
Brown headed Nuthatch (FL)
Brown Creeper

Bridled Titmouse (AZ)
Black crested Titmouse (TX)

WRENS

Carolina Wren

Bewick's Wren

House Wren

Winter Wren

Marsh Wren
Western Wren (BC)
Sedge Wren
Rock Wren (OR)
Canyon Wren (OR)
Cactus Wren (AZ)

GNATCATCHERS

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Black tailed Gnatcatcher (AZ)

Verdin(AZ)

KINGLETS and OLD WORLD WARBLERS

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

BABBLERS

Wrentit

THRUSHES

Eastern Bluebird
"Mexican Azure" Eastern Bluebird (AZ)

Western Bluebird

Mountain Bluebird

Veery

Gray-cheeked Thrush

Swainson's Thrush

Hermit Thrush

Wood Thrush 

American Robin

Varied Thrush (Heard in Banff Alberta?)

MIMIDS

Gray Catbird

Northern Mockingbird

Brown Thrasher

Curve billed Thrasher (AZ)

PIPITS and WAGTAILS

American Pipit

WAXWINGS

Cedar Waxwing

WOOD-WARBLERS

Ovenbird

Louisiana Waterthrush

Northern Waterthrush

Blue-winged Warbler

Black-and-white Warbler

Prothonotary Warbler

Tennessee Warbler

Orange-crowned Warbler

Nashville Warbler

Connecticut Warbler (?)

Mourning Warbler

Common Yellowthroat

Hooded Warbler

American Redstart

Cape May Warbler

Cerulean Warbler

Northern Parula

Magnolia Warbler

Bay-breasted Warbler

Blackburnian Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Blackpoll Warbler

Black-throated Blue Warbler

Palm Warbler

Pine Warbler
Worm eating Warbler

Yellow-throated Warbler

Black-throated Green Warbler

Canada Warbler

Wilson's Warbler

Yellow-breasted Chat
Kirtlands Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler ("Myrtle")
*Yellow-rumped Warbler ("Audubon's") (Subspecies)

Townsends Warbler (OR)
Hermit Warbler (OR)
Macgivalry's Warbler (OR)
Black throated grey Warbler (OR, AZ)
*Lawrences Warbler (Hybrid)
*Brewsters Warbler (Hybrid)
Painted Redstart (AZ)
Grace's Warbler (AZ)

EMBERIZINE SPARROWS

Spotted Towhee

Eastern Towhee
Green tailed Towhee

American Tree Sparrow

Chipping Sparrow

Field Sparrow

Lark Sparrow (Ohio)
Brewer's Sparrow

Savannah Sparrow

Fox Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Lincoln's Sparrow

Swamp Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco ("Slate-colored")

Lapland Longspur

Snow Bunting
Grasshopper Sparrow
Henslows Sparrow
Nelson's Sparrow

Clay coloured Sparrow
Alberts Towee (AZ)
Canyon Towee (AZ)
Cassins' Sparrow (AZ)
Five-lined Sparrow  (AZ)
Ruffous capped Sparrow  (AZ)
Black throated Sparrow (AZ)
Botteri's Sparrow (AZ)
Yellow eyed Junco  (AZ)
Harris's Sparrow 

Bachmans Sparrow (FL) 471

CARDINALIDS

Summer Tanager

Scarlet Tanager

Northern Cardinal

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Black-headed Grosbeak

Lazuli Bunting

Indigo Bunting

Dickcissel
Blue Grosbeak
Pyrrhuloxia (AZ)
Phainopepla  (silky flycatcher family) (AZ)
Hepatic Tanager (AZ)
Varied Bunting  (AZ)

BLACKBIRDS

Bobolink

Red-winged Blackbird
Tri-coloured Blackbird (OR)

Eastern Meadowlark

Western Meadowlark (BC)

Yellow-headed Blackbird (Pointe Mouillee, MI)

Brewer's Blackbird (BC)

Boat-tailed Grackle(FL)

Great-tailed Grackle(FL)

Brown-headed Cowbird

Orchard Oriole

Baltimore Oriole
Bullock's Oriole (OR)
Scotts Oriole (AZ)

FINCHES

Pine Grosbeak

Purple Finch

House Finch

White-winged Crossbill
Red Crossbill (OR, Algonquin)

Common Redpoll

Hoary Redpoll

Pine Siskin

American Goldfinch

Evening Grosbeak
Cassin's Finch (OR)
Lesser Goldfinch (AZ)