My Life List

Ducks/Geeses/Swans
black bellied whistling ducks
canadian geese
mute swan
muscovy duck
wood duck
mallard
blue wing teal
northern shoveler
cinnamon teal
green winged teal
redhead
ring neck duck
lesser scaup
long tailed duck
red breasted merganser
hooded merganser
ruddy duck
black necked swan

Seabirds
common loon
horned grebe
pied grebe
brown pelican
white pelican
double crested cormorant
anhinga
magnificent frigatebird
pomarine jaeger
Razorbill

Big Birds
least bittern
great blue heron
great egret
snowy egret
blue heron
tricolored heron
reddish heron
cattle egret
green heron
black crowned night heron
yellow crowned night heron
glossy ibis
white faced ibis
white ibis
spoonbill
wood stork

Birds of Prey
turkey vulture
black vulture
osprey
swallow tailed kite
bald eagle
coopers hawk
red shoulder hawk
red tail hawk
american kestrel
great horned owl
burrowing owl
barred owl
belted kingfisher
mississippi kite
snail kite
short tailed hawk

Rails/Gallinules/Limpkins/Cranes
purple gallinule
common moorhen
coot
limpkin
sandhill crane
sora rail

Shorebirds
black bellied plover
snowy plover
wilson’s plover
kildeer
semipalmated plover
piping plover
american oystercatcher
black neck stilt
spotted sandpiper
willet
lesser yellowlegs
greater yellowlegs
long billed curlew
marbled godwit
ruddy turnstone
red knot
sanderling
least sandpiper
dunlin
short billed dowitcher
wilson’s snipe
solitary sandpiper
whimbrel

Gulls/Terns/etc.
laughing gull
ring-billed gull
herring gull
least tern
caspian tern
black tern
forster’s tern
royal tern
sandwich tern
black skimmer
common tern
kittiwake

City birds
rock pigeon
white pigeon
eurasian collared dove
morning dove
common ground dove
budgie
monk parakeet
white winged dove
black hooded parakeet

Weird or other category
groove billed ani
ruby thoated hummingbird
loggerhead shrike
tree swallow
barn swallow
northern bobwhite
cliff swallow

Woodpeckers
red headed woodpecker
red bellied woodpecker
yellow bellied sapsucker
downy
hairy
pileated woodpecker
norther flicker

Flycatchers/Phoebes/etc
eastern wood pewee
eastern phoebe
eastern kingbird

Little birds
Yellow throated vireo
carolina chickadee
black capped chickadee
tufted titmouse
carolina wren
blue gray gnatcatcher
wood thrush
american robin
gray catbird
brown thrasher
european starling
cedar waxwing
summer tanager
scarlet tanager
green-tailed towhee
eastern towhee
chipping sparrow
grasshopper sparrow
song sparrow
black eyed junco
indigo bunting
painted bunting
bobolink
eastern meadowlark
orchard oriole
baltimore oriole
house finch
house sparrow
bluebird
white eyed vireo
brown-headed nuthatch
white breasted nuthatch
savannah sparrow
red eyed vireo

Warblers I know for sure
northern parula
yellow warbler
magnolia warbler
yellow rumped warbler
yellow throated warbler
pine warbler
prairie warbler
palm warbler
black & white warbler
american redstart
common yellowthroat
hooded warbler
prothonotary warber
cape may warbler
black throated blue warbler
blackpoll warbler
tennessee warbler

Mean birds
blue jay
american crow
fish crow
mockingbird
cardinal
red-winged blackbird
boat tailed grackle
common grackle
yellow headed blackbird