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Birds Of North America

Family taxonomical order from "The Sibley Guide To Birds", National Audubon Society, © 2000


U.S. and Canada


Loons

Common Loon
Pacific Loon
Red-throated Loon
Yellow-billed Loon

Grebes

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

Albatrosses, Petrels and
Shearwaters

Black-footed Albatross
Laysan Albatross
Northern Fulmar
Short-tailed Albatross

Pelicaniformes

American White Pelican
Anhinga
Blue-footed Booby
Brandt’s Cormorant
Brown Booby
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Magnificent Frigatebird
Masked Booby
Neotropic Cormorant
Red-billed Tropicbird
Red-faced Cormorant
Red-footed Booby
Red-tailed Tropicbird

Wading Birds

Black-crowned Night-Heron
Cattle Egret
Glossy Ibis
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Green Heron
Jabiru
Little Blue Heron
Reddish Egret
Roseate Spoonbill
Snowy Egret
Tricolored Heron
White Ibis
White-faced Ibis
Wood Stork

Swans, Geese and Ducks

American Wigeon
Baikal Teal
Barnacle Goose
Barrow's Goldeneye
Black Scoter
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Brant
Bufflehead
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Canvasback
Common Eider
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Eurasian Wigeon
Gadwall
Greater Scaup
Green-winged Teal
Hooded Merganser
King Eider
Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Mallard
Mandarin Duck
Mottled Duck
Muscovy Duck
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Pink-footed Goose
Red-breasted Merganser
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Ruddy Duck
Snow Goose
Surf Scoter
Trumpeter Swan
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck

Diurnal Raptors

American Kestrel
Aplomado Falcon
Bald Eagle
Black Vulture
Broad-winged Hawk
California Condor
Common Black-Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Crested Caracara
Harris’s Hawk
Merlin
Mississippi Kite
Northern Harrier
Osprey
Peregrine Falcon
Prairie Falcon
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Snail Kite
Turkey Vulture
White-tailed Kite

Upland Game Birds

California Quail
Chukar
Gambel’s Quail
Greater Sage-Grouse
Lesser Prairie-Chicken
Mountain Quail
Northern Bobwhite
Plain Chachalaca
Scaled Quail
Wild Turkey

Gruiformes

American Coot
Common Moorhen
Limpkin
Purple Gallinule
Sandhill Crane
Sora
Virginia Rail

Shorebirds

American Avocet
Baird's Sandpiper
Bar-tailed Godwit
Black Oystercatcher
Black Turnstone
Black-bellied Plover
Black-necked Stilt
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Dunlin
Greater Yellowlegs
Killdeer
Least Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Little Ringed Plover
Long-billed Curlew
Long-billed Dowitcher
Marbled Godwit
Pacific Golden-Plover
Pectoral Sandpiper
Purple Sandpiper
Red Knot
Red Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Rock Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Semipalmated Plover
Short-billed Dowitcher
Snowy Plover
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Surfbird
Wandering Tattler
Western Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Willet
Wilson’s Phalarope

Jaegers and Skuas

Great Skua
Parasitic Jaeger

Gulls, Terns and Skimmers

Arctic Tern
Belcher’s Gull
Black Noddy
Black Skimmer
Black-legged Kittiwake
Bonaparte’s Gull
Brown Noddy
California Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Elegant Tern
Forster’s Tern
Franklin’s Gull
Glaucous Gull
Heermann’s Gull
Herring Gull
Ivory Gull
Large-billed Tern
Laughing Gull
Least Tern
Red-legged Kittiwake
Ring-billed Gull
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Sooty Tern
Western Gull
Yellow-footed Gull

Alcids

Black Guillemot
Common Murre
Crested Auklet
Dovekie
Horned Puffin
Least Auklet
Parakeet Auklet
Pigeon Guillemot
Thick-billed Murre
Tufted Puffin

Pigeons and Doves

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

Parrots and Their Allies

Black-hooded Parakeet
Cockatiel
Green Parakeet
Red-crowned Parrot
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet

Cuckoos and Their Allies

Greater Roadrunner
Groove-billed Ani
Smooth-billed Ani

Owls

Barn Owl
Barred Owl
Burrowing Owl
Eastern Screech-Owl
Elf Owl
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
Flammulated Owl
Great Gray Owl
Great Horned Owl
Long-eared Owl
Northern Hawk Owl
Northern Pygmy-Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Snowy Owl
Spotted Owl
Western Screech-Owl
Whiskered Screech-Owl

Goatsuckers and Swifts

Common Nighthawk
Common Pauraque
Lesser Nighthawk
Vaux's Swift

Hummingbirds

Allen’s Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Blue-throated Hummingbird
Broad-billed Hummingbird
Buff-bellied Hummingbird
Costa’s Hummingbird
Magnificent Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird

Trogons

Elegant Trogon

Kingfishers

Belted Kingfisher
Green Kingfisher
Ringed Kingfisher



U.S. and Canada Continued


Woodpeckers

Acorn Woodpecker
Arizona Woodpecker
Black-backed Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Gila Woodpecker
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Lewis's Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Red-naped Sapsucker
White-headed Woodpecker
Williamson’s Sapsucker

Tyrant Flycatchers

Alder Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Black Phoebe
Cordilleran Flycatcher
Dusky Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Gray Flycatcher
Gray Kingbird
Great Kiskadee
Greater Pewee
Hammond’s Flycatcher
Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Rose-throated Becard
Say’s Phoebe
Thick-billed Kingbird
Tropical Kingbird
Vermilion Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Western Wood-Pewee
Willow Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

Shrikes and Vireos

Bell’s Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Cassin's Vireo
Gray Vireo
Loggerhead Shrike
Plumbeous Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo

Jay, Crows and Their Allies

American Crow
Black-billed Magpie
Brown Jay
Clark’s Nutcracker
Common Raven
Gray Jay
Green Jay
Island Scrub-Jay
Mexican Jay
Pinyon Jay
Steller’s Jay
Tamaulipas Crow
Western Scrub-Jay
Yellow-billed Magpie

Larks

Horned Lark

Swallows

Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow

Chickadees and Their Allies

Black-capped Chickadee
Black-crested Titmouse
Bridled Titmouse
Bushtit
Mountain Chickadee
Oak Titmouse
Tufted Titmouse
Verdin

Nuthatches & Creepers

Pygmy Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch

Wrens

Bewick’s Wren
Cactus Wren
Canyon Wren
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Rock Wren
Winter Wren

Dippers

American Dipper

Old World Warblers, Thrushes
and Their Allies

American Robin
Arctic Warbler
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
California Gnatcatcher
Clay-colored Robin
Fieldfare
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
Mountain Bluebird
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Townsend’s Solitaire
Veery
Western Bluebird
Wrentit

Mimids

Brown Thrasher
California Thrasher
Crissal Thrasher
Curve-billed Thrasher
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Sage Thrasher

Starlings & Mynas

Common Myna
European Starling

Wagtails & Pipits

American Pipit
White Wagtail

Silky Flycatchers & Bulbuls

Phainopepla

Waxwings

Cedar Waxwing

Wood Warblers

American Redstart
Black and White Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Canada Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Grace’s Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Kirtland's Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Lucy’s Warbler
MacGillivray’s Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Orange-crowned Warbler
Ovenbird
Painted Redstart
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Red-faced Warbler
Townsend’s Warbler
Virginia’s Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Yellow-rumped Warbler

Tanagers, Cardinals and Their Allies

Bananaquit
Black-headed Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Flame-colored Tanager
Hepatic Tanager
Indigo Bunting
Lazuli Bunting
Northern Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
Summer Tanager
Varied Bunting
Western Tanager

Emberizine Sparrows and Their Allies

Abert’s Towhee
Black-chinned Sparrow
Black-throated Sparrow
Botteri’s Sparrow
Brewer’s Sparrow
California Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Canyon Towhee
Clay-colored Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Five-striped Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Green-tailed Towhee
Henslow’s Sparrow
Lapland Longspur
Lark Bunting
Lark Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
McCown’s Longspur
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Rufous-winged Sparrow
Sage Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Snow Bunting
Song Sparrow
Spotted Towhee
Vesper Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Yellow-eyed Junco

Icterids

Altamira Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Boat-tailed Grackle
Bobolink
Brewer’s Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Bullock’s Oriole
Common Grackle
Eastern Meadowlark
Great-tailed Grackle
Hooded Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird
Scott’s Oriole
Shiny Cowbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird

Finches and Old World Sparrows

American Goldfinch
Black Rosy-Finch
Cassin’s Finch
Common Redpoll
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
House Finch
House Sparrow
Lawrence’s Goldfinch
Lesser Goldfinch
Red Crossbill
White-winged Crossbill


Birds Of Hawaii

Hawaii


Birds Of Mexico & Central America

Mexico

Panama




Birds Of South America

Brazil

Ecuador

Peru

Venezuela



Birds Of Antarctica

Antarctica