peterw@reed.UUCP (Ronald G. Peterson) (02/27/85)
Since there has not been very much going on in this newsgroup, I have decided to post a compiled list of the birds of North America. This is a list of my own compilation, so there are most likely going to be a few mistakes. Any corrections or additions will be gratefully accepted. A few notes before the list: The list is one species per line. (birdname) means an old name(s) or combined species for the bird. [birdname] is like (birdname) only inside (birdname). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Accentor, Siberia Albatross, Black-browed Albatross, Black-footed Albatross, Laysan Albatross, Short-tailed Albatross, Yellow-masked Anhinga Ani, Groove-billed Ani, Smooth-billed Auklet, Cassin's Auklet, Crested Auklet, Least Auklet, Parakeet Auklet, Rhinoceros Auklet, Whiskered Avocet, American Bananaquit Becard, Rose-throated (Xantus' Becard) Bittern, American Bittern, Least Blackbird, Brewer's Blackbird, Red-winged (Bi-colored Blackbird) Blackbird, Rusty Blackbird, Tri-colored Blackbird, Yellow-headed Bluebird, Eastern Bluebird, Mountain Bluebird, Western Bluethroat Bobolink Bobwhite, Northern (Masked Bobwhite) Booby, Blue-footed Booby, Brown (White-bellied Booby) Booby, Masked (Blue-faced Booby) Booby, Red-footed Brambling Brant (Black Brant) Brudgerigar Bufflehead Bulbul, Red-whiskered Bullfinch, Eurasain Bunting, Blue Bunting, Gray Bunting, Indigo Bunting, Lark Bunting, Lazuli Bunting, Little Bunting, McKay's Bunting, Painted Bunting, Rustic Bunting, Snow Bunting, Varied Bushtit (Common and Black-eared Bushtit) Canvasback Caracara, Crested Cardinal, Northern Catbird, Gray Chachalaca, Plain Chat, Yellow-breasted Chickadee, Black-capped Chickadee, Boreal Chickadee, Carolina Chickadee, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Mexican Chickadee, Mountain Chuck-will's-widow Chukar Condor, California Coot, American Coot, Carribean Coot, Eurasian Cormorant, Brandt's Cormorant, Double-crested Cormorant, Great (European Cormorant) Cormorant, Olivaceous (Neotropic [Mexican] Cormorant) Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant, Red-faced Cowbird, Brown-headed Cowbird, Bronzed (Red-eyed Cowbird) Crake, Corn Crane, Common Crane, Sandhill Crane, Whooping Creeper, Brown Crossbill, Red Crossbill, White-winged Crow, American Crow, Fish Crow, Mexican Crow, Northwestern Cuckoo, Black-billed Cuckoo, Common Cuckoo, Mangrove Cuckoo, Oriental Cuckoo, Yellow-billed Curlew, Bristle-thighed Curlew, Eskimo Curlew, Eurasian Curlew, Far-eastern Curlew, Long-billed Dicksissel Dipper, American Dotterel. American Dove, Common Ground- Dove, Inca Dove, Mourning Dove, Ringed Turtle- Dove, Rock (Domestic Pigeon) Dove, Ruddy Ground- Dove, Ruddy Quail- Dove, Spotted Dove, White-tipped (White-fronted Dove) Dove, White-winged Dove, Zenaida Dovekie Dowitcher, Long-billed Dowitcher, Short-billed (Eastern Dowitcher) Duck, American Black (Black Duck) Duck, Harlequin Duck, Mandarin Duck, Masked Duck, Mottled Duck, Muscovy Duck, Ring-necked Duck, Ruddy Duck, Spot-billed Duck, Tufted Duck, Wood Dunlin (Red-backed Sandpiper) Eagle, Bald Eagle, Golden Eagle, Stellar's Sea- Eagle, White-tailed Egret, Cattle Egret, Great (Common and American Egrets) Egret, Reddish Egret, Snowy Eider, Common (American Eider) Eider, King Eider, Spectacled Eider, Stellar's Emerald, Cuban Falcon, Aplomado Falcon, Peregrine (Duck Hawk) Falcon, Prairie Fieldfare Finch, Cassin's Finch, House Finch, Purple Finch, Rosy (Black Rosy, Black-capped Rosy, Gray-crowned Rosy, and Hepburn's Rosy Finches) Flamingo, Greater Flicker, Northern (Red-shafted, Yellow-shafted, and Gilded Flickers) Flycatcher, Acadian Flycatcher, Alder (Traill's Flycatcher) Flycatcher, Ash-throated Flycatcher, Brown-crested (Wied's Crested and Mexican Crested Flycatchers) Flycatcher, Buff-breasted Flycatcher, Dusky (Wright's Flycatcher) Flycatcher, Dusky-capped (Olivaceous Flycatcher) Flycatcher, Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Gray Flycatcher, Gray-spotted Flycatcher, Great Crested Flycatcher, Hammond's Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher, Vermillion Flycatcher, Western Flycatcher, Willow (Traill's Flycatcher) Flycatcher, Yellow-bellied Francolia, Black Frigatebird, Magnificient (Man-o-war-bird) Fulmur, Northern Gadwall Gallinule, Purple (Common and Florida Gallinules) Gannet, Northern Garganey Gnatcatcher, Black-capped Gnatcatcher, Black-tailed Gnatcatcher, Blue-gray Godwit, Bar-tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit, Hudsonian Godwit, Marbled Goldeneye, Barrow's Goldeneye, Common (American Goldeneye) Goldfinch, American Goldfinch, Lawrence's Goldfinch, Lesser (Arkansas Goldfinch) Goose, Bar-headed Goose, Barnacle Goose, Bean Goose, Canada Goose, Chinese (Chinese Swan) Goose, Domestic Goose, Emporer Goose, Great White-fronted (White-fronted Goose) Goose, Greylag Goose, Pink-footed Goose, Red-beasted Goose, Ross' Goose, Snow (Blue, Greater Snow, and Lesser Snow Geese) Goshawk, Northern Grackle, Boat-tailed Grackle, Common (Bronzed and Purple Grackles) Grackle, Great-tailed Grassquit, Black-faced Grebe, Eared Grebe, Horned Grebe, Least (Mexican Grebe) Grebe, Pied-billed Grebe, Red-necked (Holboell's Grebe) Grebe, Western Greenfinch, Oriental Greenshank, Common Grossbeak, Black-headed Grossbeak, Blue Grossbeak, Evening Grossbeak, Pine Grossbeak, Rose-breasted Grossbeak, Yellow Grouse, Blue Grouse, Ruffed Grouse, Sage Grouse, Sharp-tailed Grouse, Spruce Guillemot, Black Guillemot, Pigeon Gull, Bonaparte's Gull, California Gull, Common Black-headed (Black-headed Gull) Gull, Franklin's Gull, Glaucous Gull, Glaucous-winged Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Heerman's Gull, Herring Gull, Iceland Gull, Ivory Gull, Laughing Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Little Gull, Mew Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Ross' Gull, Sabine's Gull, Slaty-backed Gull, Thayer's Gull, Western Gull, Yellow-footed Gyrfalcon Harrier, Northern (Marsh Hawk) Hawkfinch Hawk, Broad-winged Hawk, Common Black (Black Hawk) Hawk, Cooper's Hawk, Ferruginous Hawk, Gray (Mexican Goshawk) Hawk, Harris' Hawk, Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-tailed (Harlan's and Krider's Hawks) Hawk, Rough-legged Hawk, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Short-tailed Hawk, Swainson's Hawk, White-tailed Hawk, Zone-tailed Heron, Great Blue (Great White and Wurderman's Herons) Heron, Green-backed (Green Heron) Heron, Little Blue Heron, Tri-colored (Louisiana Heron) Hummingbird, Allen's Hummingbird, Anna's Hummingbird, Berylline Hummingbird, Black-chinned Hummingbird, Blue-throated Hummingbird, Broad-billed Hummingbird, Broad-tailed Hummingbird, Buff-bellied Hummingbird, Calliope Hummingbird, Costa's Hummingbird, Lucifer Hummingbird, Magnificent (Rivoli's Hummingbird) Hummingbird, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Rufous Hummingbird, Violet-crowned Hummingbird, White-eared Ibis, Glossy Ibis, Scarlet Ibis, White Ibis, White-faced Jabira Jacana, Northern Jaeger, Long-tailed Jaeger, Parasitic Jaeger, Pomarine Jay, Blue Jay, Brown Jay, Gray (Canada Jay) Jay, Gray-breasted (Mexican Jay) Jay, Green Jay, Pinyon Jay, Scrub (Florida and California Jays) Jay, Stellar's Junco, Dark-eyed (Grey-headed [Red-backed], Oregon, Slate-colored [Pink-sided], and White-winged Juncos) Junco, Yelow-eyed (Mexican Junco) Kestral, American (Sparrow Hawk) Kestral, Eurasain Killdeer Kingbird, Cassin's Kingbird, Couch's Kingbird, Eastern Kingbird, Gray Kingbird, Loggerhead Kingbird, Thick-billed Kingbird, Tropical (Couch's Kingbird) Kingbird, Western (Arkansas Kingbird) Kingfisher, Belted Kingfisher, Green Kingfisher, Ringed Kinglet, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Ruby-crowned Kiskadee, Great (Kiskadee Flycatcher) Kite, American Swallow-tailed Kite, Black-shouldered (White-tailed Kite) Kite, Hook-billed Kite, Mississippi Kite, Snail (Everglade Kite) Kittiwake, Black-legged Kittiwake, Red-legged Kwot, Great Kwot, Red Lapwing, Northern Lark, Horned Limpkin Longspur, Chestnut-collared Longspur, Lupland Longspur, McLown's Longspur, Smith's Loon, Arctic (Pacific Loon) Loon, Common Loon, Red-throated Loon, Yellow-billed Magpie, Black-billed (American Magpie) Magpie, Yellow-billed Mallard (Mexican Duck) Martin, Purple Meadowlark, Eastern Meadowlark, Western Merganser, Common (American Merganser) Merganser, Hooded Merganser, Red-breasted Merlin (Pigeon Hawk) Mockingbird, Bahama Mockingbird, Northern Moorhen, Common (Common Gallinule) Murre, Common (California Murre) Murre, Thick-billed Brunnick's Murre) Murrelet, Ancient Murrelet, Craveri's Murrelet, Kittlitz's Murrelet, Marbled Murrelet, Xantus' Myna, Crested Myna, Hill Night-Heron, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Yellow-crowned Nighthawk, Antillean Nighthawk, Common Nighthawk, Lesser Nightjar, Buff-collared (Ridgeway's Whip-poor-will) Noddy, Black Noddy, Brown Nutcracker, Clark's Nuthatch, Brown-headed Nuthatch, Pygmy Nuthatch, Red-breasted Nuthatch, White-breasted Oldsquaw Oriole, Altamira (Lichtenstein's Oriole) Oriole, Audubon's (Black-headed Oriole) Oriole, Hooded Oriole, Northern (Baltimore and Bullock's Orioles) Oriole, Orchard Oriole, Scott's Oriole, Spot-breasted Oriole, Streaked-backed (Scarlet-headed Oriole) Osprey (Fish Hawk) Ovenbird Owl, Barred Owl, Boreal (Richardson's Owl) Owl, Burrowing Owl, Common Barn (Barn Owl) Owl, Elf Owl, Flammulated Owl, Great Gray Owl, Great Horned Owl, Long-eared Owl, Northern Hawk- Owl, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Short-eared Owl, Snowy Owl, Spotted Oystercatcher, American Oystercatcher, American Black Parakeet, Canary-winged Parakeet, Monk Parakeet, Rose-winged Parrot, Red-crowned Parrot, Thick-billed Parrot, Yellow-headed Partridge, Gray (European and Hungarian Partridges) Partridge, Red-legged Parula, Northern (Parula Warbler) Parula, Tropical Paurague, Common Pelican, American White (White Pelican) Pelican, Brown Petrel, Black-capped Petrel, Cook's Petrel, Mottled Petrel, Steineger's Pewee, Greater (Coues' Flycatcher) Pewee, Eastern Wood- Pewee, Western Wood- Phainopepla Phalorope, Red Phalorope, Red-necked (Northern Phalorope) Phalorope, Wilson's Pheasant, Ring-necked (Green Pheasant) Pheobe, Black Pheobe, Eastern Pheobe, Say's Pigeon, Band-tailed Pigeon, Red-bellied Pigeon, White-crowned Pintail, Northern Pintail, White-cheeked Pipit, Olive Tree- Pipit, Pechora Pipit, Red-throated Pipit, Sprague's Pipit, Water (American Pipit) Plover, Black-bellied Plover, Common Ringed Plover, Greater Golden- Plover, Lesser Golden- (American Golden-Plover) Plover, Mongolian Plover, Mountain Plover, Piping Plover, Semipalmated Plover, Snowy Plover, Wilson's Pochard, Common Poorwill, Common Prairie-Chicken, Greater (Attwater's Prairie-Chicken) Prairie-Chicken, Lesser Ptarmigan, Red Ptarmigan, White-tailed Ptarmigan, Willow Puffin, Atlantic (Common Puffin) Puffin, Horned Puffin, Tufted Pygmy-Owl, Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl, Northern Pyrrhuloxia Quail, California Quail, Cuturnix Quail, Gambel's Quail, Japenese Quail, Montezuma (Harlequin Quail) Quail, Mountain Quail, Scaled Rail, Black Rail, Clapper Rail, King Rail, Virginia Rail, Yellow Raven, Chihuahuan (White-necked Raven) Raven, Common (American Raven) Razorbill Redhead Redpoll, Common Redpoll, Hoary Redstart, American Redstart, Painted Redstart, Slate-throated Reed-Bunting, Common Reed-Bunting, Pallas' Roadrunner, Greater Robin, American Robin, Clay-colored Robin, Rufous-backed Rosefinch, Common Rubythroat, Siberian Ruff (Reeve) Sanderling Sandpiper, Baird's Sandpiper, Broad-billed Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Curlew Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Purple Sandpiper, Rock (Pribilof Sandpiper) Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper, Spoonbill Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, Stilt Sandpiper, Terek Sandpiper, Upland (Upland Plover) Sandpiper, Western Sandpiper, White-rumped Sandpiper, Wood Sapsucker, Red-breasted Sapsucker, William's Sapsucker, Yellow-bellied Scaup, Greater Scaup, Lesser Scoter, Black (Common and American Scoters) Scoter, Surf Scoter, White-winged Screech-owl, Eastern Screech-owl, Western Screech-owl, Whiskered Shearwater, Audubon's Shearwater, Black-vented Shearwater, Buller's (Gray-backed and New Zealand Shearwaters) Shearwater, Cory's Shearwater, Flesh-footed (Pale-footed Shearwater) Shearwater, Greater Shearwater, Little Shearwater, Manx Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Streaked Shedlock, Northern Shedlock, Ruddy Shoveler, Northern Shrike, Loggerhead Shrike, Northern Siskin, Pine Skimmer, Black Skua, Great Skua, South Polar Skylark, Eurasian Smew Snipe, Common (Wilson's Snipe) Snowcock, Himalayan Solitare, Townsend's Sora Sparrow, American Tree Sparrow, Bachman's (Pine Woods Sparrow) Sparrow, Baird's Sparrow, Black-chinned Sparrow, Black-throated Sparrow, Botteri's Sparrow, Brewer's Sparrow, Cassin's Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Clay-colored Sparrow, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Field Sparrow, Five-striped Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Grasshopper Sparrow, Harris' Sparrow, Henslow's Sparrow, House (English Sparrow) Sparrow, Java Sparrow, Lark Sparrow, Le Conte's Sparrow, Lincoln's Sparrow, Olive Sparrow, Rufous-crowned Sparrow, Rufous-winged Sparrow, Sage Sparrow, Savannah (Ipswich Sparrow) Sparrow, Seaside (Cape Sable and Dusky Seaside Sparrows) Sparrow, Sharp-tailed Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, Vesper Sparrow, White-crowned (Gambel's Sparrow) Sparrow, White-throated Spoonbill, Roseate Starling, European Starthroat, Plain-capped Stilt, Black-necked Stint, Little Stint, Long-toed Stint, Rufous-necked Stint, Temminck's Stork, Wood Storm-petrel, Ashy Storm-petrel, Band-rumped (Galapagos and Harcourt's Petrels) Storm-petrel, Black Storm-petrel, Fork-tailed Storm-petrel, Leach's Storm-petrel, Least Storm-petrel, Wedge-rumped Storm-petrel, White-faced Storm-petrel, Wilson's Surfbird Swallow, Bahama Swallow, Bank Swallow, Barn Swallow, Cave Swallow, Cliff Swallow, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Tree Swallow, Violet-green Swan, Black Swan, Black-necked Swan, Mute Swan, Trumpeter Swan, Tundra (Bewick's and Whistlng Swans) Swan, Whooper Swift, Black Swift, Chimney Swift, Fox-tailed (White-rumped Swift) Swift, Vaux's Swift, White-collared Swift, White-throated Tananger, Hepatic Tananger, Scarlet Tananger, Stripe-headed Tananger, Summer Tananger, Western Tattler, Gray-tailed (Polynesian Tattler) Tattler, Wandering Teal, Baikal Teal, Blue-winged Teal, Cinnamon Teal, Fulcated Teal, Green-winged (Common and European Teals) Tern, Aleutian Tern, Arctic Tern, Black Tern, Bridled Tern, Caspian Tern, Common Tern, Elegant Tern, Forster's Tern, Gull-billed Tern, Least Tern, Roseate Tern, Royal Tern, Sandwich (Cabot's Tern) Tern, Sooty Tern, White-winged (White-winged Black Tern) Thrasher, Bendire's Thrasher, Brown Thrasher, California Thrasher, Crissal Thrasher, Curve-billed Thrasher, Le Conte's Thrasher, Sage Thrush, Aztec Thrush, Dusky Thrush, Eye-browed Thrush, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Hermit Thrush, Swainson's (Olive-backed [Russet-backed] Thrush) Thrush, Varied Thrush, Wood Tit, Siberian (Gray-headed Chickadee) Titmouse, Bridled Titmouse, Plain Titmouse, Tufted (Black-crested Titmouse) Towhee, Albert's Towhee, Brown Towhee, Green-tailed Towhee, Rufous-sided (Spotted and Spotted Towhees) Trogon, Eared Trogon, Elegant (Coppery-tailed Trogon) Tropicbird, Red-billed Tropicbird, Red-tailed Tropicbird, White-tailed (Yellow-billed Tropicbird) Turkey, Wild Turnstone, Black Turnstone, Ruddy Tryamulet, Northern Veery Verdin Violetear, Green Vireo, Bell's Vireo, Black-capped Vireo, Black-whiskered Vireo, Gray Vireo, Hutton's Vireo, Philedelphia Vireo, Red-eyed (Yellow-green Vireo) Vireo, Solitary (Plumbeous and Blue-headed Vireos) Vireo, Thick-billed Vireo, Warbling Vireo, White-eyed Vireo, Yellow-throated Vulture, Black Vulture, Turkey (Buzzard) Wagtail, Black-headed Wagtail, Gray Wagtail, White Wagtail, Yellow Warbler, Arctic (Kennott's Willow Warbler) Warbler, Bachman's Warbler, Bay-breasted Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Black-throated Gray Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler, Canada Warbler, Cape May Warbler, Cerulean Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Colima Warbler, Connecticut Warbler, Dusky Warbler, Golden-cheeked Warbler, Golden-crowned Warbler, Golden-winged Warbler, Grace's Warbler, Hermit Warbler, Hooded Warbler, Kentucky Warbler, Kirtland's Warbler, Lucy's Warbler, MacGuillivary's Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Middendorf's Grasshopper Warbler, Mourning Warbler, Nashville Warbler, Olive Warbler, Orange-crowned Warbler, Palm Warbler, Pine Warbler, Prairie Warbler, Prothonary Warbler, Red-faced Warbler, Rufous-capped Warbler, Swainson's Warbler, Tennessee Warbler, Townsend's Warbler, Virginia Warbler, Wilson's Warbler, Worm-eating Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-rumped (Audubon's and Myrtle Warblers) Warbler, Yellow-throated Waterthrush, Louisiana Waterthrush, Northern Waxwing, Bohemian Waxwing, Cedar Wheatear, Northern Whimbrel (Hudsonian Curlew) Whip-poor-will Whistling-Duck, Black-bellied (Black-bellied Tree Duck) Whistling-Duck, Fulvous (Fulvous Tree Duck) Widgeon, American (Baldpate) Widgeon, Eurasian Willet Woodcock, American Woodpecker, Acorn (California Woodpecker) Woodpecker, Black-backed (Black-backed Three-toed and Arctic Woodpeckers Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Gila Woodpecker, Golden-footed Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Lewis' Woodpecker, Nuttall's Woodpecker, Pileated Woodpecker, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Red-headed Woodpecker, Strickland's (Arizona and Brown-backed Woodpeckers) Woodpecker, Three-toed (Northern Three-toed and American Woodpeckers) Woodpecker, White-headed Woodstar, Bahama Wren, Bewick's Wren, Cactus Wren, Canyon Wren, Carolina Wren, House (Brown-throated Wren) Wren, Marsh (Long-billed Marsh Wren) Wren, Rock Wren, Sedge (Short-billed Marsh) Wren, Winter Wrentit Yellowlegs, Greater Yellowlegs, Lesser Yellowthroat, Common ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, that's all folks. 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