My Life List

Total – 304

Ducks/Geeses/Swans – 31
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
white winged scoter
shelduck
gadwall
bufflehead
canvasback
northern pintail
american wigeon
snow geese
goldeneye
black scoter
greater scaup
egyptian goose
surf scoter

Seabirds – 15
common loon
horned grebe
pied grebe
black necked grebe (Utah 2018)
brown pelican
white pelican
double crested cormorant
anhinga
magnificent frigatebird
pomarine jaeger
Razorbill
brown booby
great cormorant
northern gannet
Pacific loon (at Fort Desoto)

Big Birds – 21
least bittern
american 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
Wurdemann’s heron
White morph great blue heron
great egret/great blue heron hybrid
American flamingo

Birds of Prey – 22
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
zone tailed hawk (Sedona)
caracara
northern harrier
screech owl
peregrine falcon (Chesnut)
merlin

Rails/Gallinules/Limpkins/Cranes – 10
purple gallinule
gray headed swamphen
common moorhen
coot
limpkin
sandhill crane
king rail (CBBR 2011)
sora rail
virginia rail
whooping crane

Shorebirds – 29
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
Hudsonian godwit
ruddy turnstone
red knot
sanderling
least sandpiper
dunlin
short billed dowitcher
wilson’s snipe
solitary sandpiper
whimbrel
golden plover
western sandpiper (FT D 7/25/20)
pectoral sandpiper
white rumped sandpiper
semipalmated sandpiper

Gulls/Terns/etc. – 19
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
great black backed gull
lesser black backed gull
Franklin’s gull
Masked booby
Brown noddy
Sooty tern
gull-billed tern

City birds – 11
rock pigeon
white pigeon
eurasian collared dove
morning dove
common ground dove
budgie
monk parakeet
white winged dove
White crowned pigeon
black hooded parakeet
black billed magpie

Weird or other category – 15
groove billed ani
smooth billed ani
ruby thoated hummingbird
rufous hummingbird
loggerhead shrike
tree swallow
barn swallow
northern rough winged swallow
northern bobwhite
cliff swallow
Chuck-will’s-widow
ring neck pheasant
brown headed cowbird
horned lark
common myna

Woodpeckers – 9
red headed woodpecker
red bellied woodpecker
yellow bellied sapsucker
downy
hairy
pileated woodpecker
norther flicker
acorn woodpecker (Flagstaff)
Williamson’s sapsucker (Colorado)

Flycatchers/Phoebes/etc – 11
eastern wood pewee
eastern phoebe
eastern kingbird
western kingbird
scissortailed flycatcher
least flycatcher
acadian flycatcher
vermilion flycatcher
ash throated flycatcher
western flycatcher (Pacific slope flycatcher)
piratic flycatcher

Little birds – 67
Yellow throated vireo
carolina chickadee
black capped chickadee
mountain chickadee (Arizona)
tufted titmouse
carolina wren
house wren
sedge wren (CBBR 2014)
blue gray gnatcatcher
wood thrush
american robin
gray catbird
brown thrasher
european starling
cedar waxwing
summer tanager
scarlet tanager
western tanager
green-tailed towhee
eastern towhee
chipping sparrow
grasshopper sparrow
white crowned sparrow
lark sparrow
song sparrow
swamp sparrow
Lincoln’s sparrow
dark eyed junco (Atlanta)
yellow eyed junco (Flagstaff)
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
field sparrow (Debbie’s backyard 3/18)
red eyed vireo
spotted towhee
American goldfinch
lesser goldfinch (Flagstaff)
rose breasted grosbeak
blue grosbeak
yellow billed cuckoo
blue headed vireo
Hutton’s vireo
plumbeous vireo (Flagstaff)
Bell’s vireo
philadelphia vireo
swainson’s thrush
northern waterthrush
Louisiana waterthrush (Fort D 4/17)
ovenbird
western meadowlark (Denver)
ruby crowned kinglet
hermit thrush
veery
black whiskered vireo
vesper sparrow
grey-cheeked thrush
warbling vireo

Warblers I know for sure – 30
northern parula
yellow warbler
magnolia warbler
yellow rumped warbler
yellow throated warbler
pine warbler
prairie warbler
palm warbler
black & white warbler
american redstart
blackburnian warbler
common yellowthroat
hooded warbler
prothonotary warber
cape may warbler
black throated blue warbler
blackpoll warbler
tennessee warbler
bay breasted warbler
black throated green warbler
Kentucky warbler
orange crowned warbler
blue winged warbler
Kirtland’s warbler
worm eating warbler
Golden winged warbler (Fort D 10-2016)
Nashville warbler
chestnut-sided warbler
wilson’s warbler
yellow breasted chat

Mean birds – 14
blue jay
american crow
fish crow
mockingbird
cardinal
red-winged blackbird
boat tailed grackle
common grackle
yellow headed blackbird (Colorado)
brewer’s blackbird (
steller jay
raven
western scrub jay
great tailed grackle

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