A Checklist of Birds
of the ABA Checklist Area (969 species)

Species currently accepted
for the ABA Checklist Area

with AOU Check-list 7th Edition ordering
(51st Supplement)

January 2011

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ABA Checklist Area:  definition

Families:   Ducks, Geese, and Swans    Curassows and Guans    Partridges, Grouse, and Turkeys    New World Quail    Loons    Grebes    Flamingos    Albatrosses    Shearwaters and Petrels    Storm-Petrels    Tropicbirds    Boobies and Gannets    Pelicans    Cormorants    Darters    Frigatebirds    Bitterns, Herons, and Allies    Ibises and Spoonbills    Storks    New World Vultures    Kites, Hawks, Eagles, and Allies    Caracaras and Falcons    Rails, Gallinules, and Coots    Limpkins    Cranes    Thick-knees    Plovers and Lapwings    Oystercatchers    Stilts and Avocets    Jacanas    Sandpipers, Phalaropes, and Allies    Pratincoles    Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers    Skuas and Jaegers    Auks, Murres, and Puffins    Pigeons and Doves    Parakeets, Macaws, and Parrots    Cuckoos, Roadrunners, and Anis    Owls    Goatsuckers    Swifts    Hummingbirds    Trogons    Hoopoes    Kingfishers    Woodpeckers and Allies    Tyrant Flycatchers    Shrikes    Vireos    Jays, Magpies, and Crows    Larks    Swallows    Chickadees and Titmice    Verdin    Bushtits    Nuthatches    Creepers    Wrens    Dippers    Bulbuls    Kinglets    Old World Warblers and Gnatcatchers    Old World Flycatchers    Thrushes    Wrentit    Mockingbirds, Thrashers, and Allies    Starlings and Allies    Accentors    Wagtails and Pipits    Waxwings    Silky-flycatchers    Longspurs    Wood-Warblers    Bananaquits    Tanagers    Sparrows and Allies    Cardinals, Grosbeaks, and Allies    Blackbirds and Allies    Finches and Allies    Old World Sparrows

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 DUCKS, GEESE, and SWANS

 • Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
 • Fulvous Whistling-Duck
 • Taiga Bean-Goose
 • Tundra Bean-Goose
 • Pink-footed Goose
 • Graylag Goose
 • Greater White-fronted Goose
 • Lesser White-fronted Goose
 • Emperor Goose
 • Snow Goose
 • Ross's Goose
 • Brant
 • Barnacle Goose
 • Cackling Goose
 • Canada Goose
 • Mute Swan
 • Trumpeter Swan
 • Tundra Swan
 • Whooper Swan
 • Muscovy Duck
 • Wood Duck
 • Gadwall
 • Falcated Duck
 • Eurasian Wigeon
 • American Wigeon
 • American Black Duck
 • Mallard
 • Mottled Duck
 • Eastern Spot-billed Duck
 • Blue-winged Teal
 • Cinnamon Teal
 • Northern Shoveler
 • White-cheeked Pintail
 • Northern Pintail
 • Garganey
 • Baikal Teal
 • Green-winged Teal
 • Canvasback
 • Redhead
 • Common Pochard
 • Ring-necked Duck
 • Tufted Duck
 • Greater Scaup
 • Lesser Scaup
 • Steller's Eider
 • Spectacled Eider
 • King Eider
 • Common Eider
 • Harlequin Duck
 • Labrador Duck
 • Surf Scoter
 • White-winged Scoter
 • Black Scoter
 • Long-tailed Duck
 • Bufflehead
 • Common Goldeneye
 • Barrow's Goldeneye
 • Smew
 • Hooded Merganser
 • Common Merganser
 • Red-breasted Merganser
 • Masked Duck
 • Ruddy Duck

 CURASSOWS and GUANS

 • Plain Chachalaca

 PARTRIDGES, GROUSE, TURKEYS, and OLD WORLD QUAIL

 • Chukar
 • Himalayan Snowcock
 • Gray Partridge
 • Ring-necked Pheasant
 • Ruffed Grouse
 • Greater Sage-Grouse
 • Gunnison Sage-Grouse
 • Spruce Grouse
 • Willow Ptarmigan
 • Rock Ptarmigan
 • White-tailed Ptarmigan
 • Dusky Grouse
 • Sooty Grouse
 • Sharp-tailed Grouse
 • Greater Prairie-Chicken
 • Lesser Prairie-Chicken
 • Wild Turkey

 NEW WORLD QUAIL

 • Mountain Quail
 • Scaled Quail
 • California Quail
 • Gambel's Quail
 • Northern Bobwhite
 • Montezuma Quail

 LOONS

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

 GREBES

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

 FLAMINGOS

 • American Flamingo

 ALBATROSSES

 • Yellow-nosed Albatross
 • Shy Albatross
 • Black-browed Albatross
 • Light-mantled Albatross
 • Wandering Albatross
 • Laysan Albatross
 • Black-footed Albatross
 • Short-tailed Albatross
  
 SHEARWATERS and PETRELS

 • Northern Fulmar
 • Great-winged Petrel
 • Herald Petrel
 • Murphy's Petrel
 • Mottled Petrel
 • Bermuda Petrel
 • Black-capped Petrel
 • Fea's/Zino's Petrel  (1/1)
 • Galapagos/Hawaiian Petrel 
 • Cook's Petrel
 • Stejneger's Petrel
 • Bulwer's Petrel
 • White-chinned Petrel
 • Parkinson's Petrel
 • Streaked Shearwater
 • Cory's Shearwater
 • Cape Verde Shearwater
 • Pink-footed Shearwater
 • Flesh-footed Shearwater
 • Great Shearwater
 • Wedge-tailed Shearwater
 • Buller's Shearwater
 • Sooty Shearwater
 • Short-tailed Shearwater
 • Manx Shearwater
 • Townsend's Shearwater
 • Black-vented Shearwater
 • Audubon's Shearwater
 • Little Shearwater

 STORM-PETRELS

 • Wilson's Storm-Petrel
 • White-faced Storm-Petrel
 • Black-bellied Storm-Petrel
 • European Storm-Petrel
 • Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel
 • Ringed Storm-Petrel
 • Leach's Storm-Petrel
 • Ashy Storm-Petrel
 • Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
 • Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel
 • Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel
 • Black Storm-Petrel
 • Least Storm-Petrel
 • Tristram's Storm-Petrel

 TROPICBIRDS

 • White-tailed Tropicbird
 • Red-billed Tropicbird
 • Red-tailed Tropicbird

 BOOBIES and GANNETS

 • Masked Booby
 • Blue-footed Booby
 • Brown Booby
 • Red-footed Booby
 • Northern Gannet

 PELICANS

 • American White Pelican
 • Brown Pelican

 CORMORANTS

 • Brandt's Cormorant
 • Neotropic Cormorant
 • Double-crested Cormorant
 • Great Cormorant
 • Red-faced Cormorant
 • Pelagic Cormorant

 DARTERS

 • Anhinga

 FRIGATEBIRDS

 • Magnificent Frigatebird
 • Great Frigatebird
 • Lesser Frigatebird

 BITTERNS and HERONS

 • American Bittern
 • Yellow Bittern
 • Least Bittern
 • Bare-throated Tiger-Heron
 • Great Blue Heron
 • Gray Heron
 • Great Egret
 • Intermediate Egret
 • Chinese Egret
 • Little Egret
 • Western Reef-Heron
 • Snowy Egret
 • Little Blue Heron
 • Tricolored Heron
 • Reddish Egret
 • Cattle Egret
 • Chinese Pond-Heron
 • Green Heron
 • Black-crowned Night-Heron
 • Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

 IBISES and SPOONBILLS

 • White Ibis
 • Scarlet Ibis
 • Glossy Ibis
 • White-faced Ibis
 • Roseate Spoonbill

 STORKS

 • Jabiru
 • Wood Stork

 NEW WORLD VULTURES

 • Black Vulture
 • Turkey Vulture
 • California Condor

 KITES, HAWKS, EAGLES, and ALLIES

 • Osprey
 • Hook-billed Kite
 • Swallow-tailed Kite
 • White-tailed Kite
 • Snail Kite
 • Mississippi Kite
 • Bald Eagle
 • White-tailed Eagle
 • Steller's Sea-Eagle
 • Northern Harrier
 • Sharp-shinned Hawk
 • Cooper's Hawk
 • Northern Goshawk
 • Crane Hawk
 • Common Black-Hawk
 • Harris's Hawk
 • Roadside Hawk
 • Red-shouldered Hawk
 • Broad-winged Hawk
 • Gray Hawk
 • Short-tailed Hawk
 • Swainson's Hawk
 • White-tailed Hawk
 • Zone-tailed Hawk
 • Red-tailed Hawk
 • Ferruginous Hawk
 • Rough-legged Hawk
 • Golden Eagle

 CARACARAS and FALCONS

 • Collared Forest-Falcon
 • Crested Caracara
 • Eurasian Kestrel
 • American Kestrel
 • Merlin
 • Eurasian Hobby
 • Red-footed Falcon
 • Aplomado Falcon
 • Gyrfalcon
 • Peregrine Falcon
 • Prairie Falcon

 RAILS, GALLINULES, and COOTS

 • Yellow Rail
 • Black Rail
 • Corn Crake
 • Clapper Rail
 • King Rail
 • Virginia Rail
 • Sora
 • Paint-billed Crake
 • Spotted Rail
 • Purple Gallinule
 • Common Moorhen
 • Eurasian Coot
 • American Coot

 LIMPKINS

 • Limpkin

 CRANES

 • Sandhill Crane
 • Common Crane
 • Whooping Crane

 THICK-KNEES

 • Double-striped Thick-knee

 PLOVERS and LAPWINGS

 • Northern Lapwing
 • Black-bellied Plover
 • European Golden-Plover
 • American Golden-Plover
 • Pacific Golden-Plover
 • Lesser Sand-Plover
 • Greater Sand-Plover
 • Collared Plover
 • Snowy Plover
 • Wilson's Plover
 • Common Ringed Plover
 • Semipalmated Plover
 • Piping Plover
 • Little Ringed Plover
 • Killdeer
 • Mountain Plover
 • Eurasian Dotterel

 OYSTERCATCHERS

 • Eurasian Oystercatcher
 • American Oystercatcher
 • Black Oystercatcher

 STILTS and AVOCETS

 • Black-winged Stilt
 • Black-necked Stilt
 • American Avocet

 JACANAS

 • Northern Jacana

 SANDPIPERS, PHALAROPES, and ALLIES

 • Terek Sandpiper
 • Common Sandpiper
 • Spotted Sandpiper
 • Green Sandpiper
 • Solitary Sandpiper
 • Gray-tailed Tattler
 • Wandering Tattler
 • Spotted Redshank
 • Greater Yellowlegs
 • Common Greenshank
 • Willet
 • Lesser Yellowlegs
 • Marsh Sandpiper
 • Wood Sandpiper
 • Common Redshank
 • Upland Sandpiper
 • Little Curlew
 • Eskimo Curlew
 • Whimbrel
 • Bristle-thighed Curlew
 • Far Eastern Curlew
 • Slender-billed Curlew
 • Eurasian Curlew
 • Long-billed Curlew
 • Black-tailed Godwit
 • Hudsonian Godwit
 • Bar-tailed Godwit
 • Marbled Godwit
 • Ruddy Turnstone
 • Black Turnstone
 • Surfbird
 • Great Knot
 • Red Knot
 • Sanderling
 • Semipalmated Sandpiper
 • Western Sandpiper
 • Red-necked Stint
 • Little Stint
 • Temminck's Stint
 • Long-toed Stint
 • Least Sandpiper
 • White-rumped Sandpiper
 • Baird's Sandpiper
 • Pectoral Sandpiper
 • Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
 • Purple Sandpiper
 • Rock Sandpiper
 • Dunlin
 • Curlew Sandpiper
 • Stilt Sandpiper
 • Spoon-billed Sandpiper
 • Broad-billed Sandpiper
 • Buff-breasted Sandpiper
 • Ruff
 • Short-billed Dowitcher
 • Long-billed Dowitcher
 • Jack Snipe
 • Solitary Snipe
 • Wilson's Snipe
 • Common Snipe
 • Pin-tailed Snipe
 • Eurasian Woodcock
 • American Woodcock
 • Wilson's Phalarope
 • Red-necked Phalarope
 • Red Phalarope

 PRATINCOLES

 • Oriental Pratincole

 GULLS, TERNS, and SKIMMERS  (2)

 • Swallow-tailed Gull
 • Black-legged Kittiwake
 • Red-legged Kittiwake
 • Ivory Gull
 • Sabine's Gull
 • Bonaparte's Gull
 • Gray-hooded Gull
 • Black-headed Gull
 • Little Gull
 • Ross's Gull
 • Laughing Gull
 • Franklin's Gull
 • Belcher's Gull
 • Black-tailed Gull
 • Heermann's Gull
 • Mew Gull
 • Ring-billed Gull
 • Western Gull
 • Yellow-footed Gull
 • California Gull
 • Herring Gull
 • Yellow-legged Gull
 • Thayer's Gull
 • Iceland Gull
 • Lesser Black-backed Gull
 • Slaty-backed Gull
 • Glaucous-winged Gull
 • Glaucous Gull
 • Great Black-backed Gull
 • Kelp Gull
 • Brown Noddy
 • Black Noddy
 • Sooty Tern
 • Bridled Tern
 • Aleutian Tern
 • Least Tern
 • Large-billed Tern
 • Gull-billed Tern
 • Caspian Tern
 • Black Tern
 • White-winged Tern
 • Whiskered Tern
 • Roseate Tern
 • Common Tern
 • Arctic Tern
 • Forster's Tern
 • Royal Tern
 • Sandwich Tern
 • Elegant Tern
 • Black Skimmer

 SKUAS and JAEGERS

 • Great Skua
 • South Polar Skua
 • Pomarine Jaeger
 • Parasitic Jaeger
 • Long-tailed Jaeger

 AUKS, MURRES, and PUFFINS

 • Dovekie
 • Common Murre
 • Thick-billed Murre
 • Razorbill
 • Great Auk
 • Black Guillemot
 • Pigeon Guillemot
 • Long-billed Murrelet
 • Marbled Murrelet
 • Kittlitz's Murrelet
 • Xantus's Murrelet
 • Craveri's Murrelet
 • Ancient Murrelet
 • Cassin's Auklet
 • Parakeet Auklet
 • Least Auklet
 • Whiskered Auklet
 • Crested Auklet
 • Rhinoceros Auklet
 • Atlantic Puffin
 • Horned Puffin
 • Tufted Puffin

 PIGEONS and DOVES

 • Rock Pigeon
 • Scaly-naped Pigeon
 • White-crowned Pigeon
 • Red-billed Pigeon
 • Band-tailed Pigeon
 • Oriental Turtle-Dove
 • European Turtle-Dove
 • Eurasian Collared-Dove
 • Spotted Dove
 • White-winged Dove
 • Zenaida Dove
 • Mourning Dove
 • Passenger Pigeon
 • Inca Dove
 • Common Ground-Dove
 • Ruddy Ground-Dove
 • White-tipped Dove
 • Key West Quail-Dove
 • Ruddy Quail-Dove

 LORIES, PARAKEETS, MACAWS, and PARROTS

 • Budgerigar
 • Monk Parakeet
 • Carolina Parakeet
 • Green Parakeet
 • Thick-billed Parrot
 • White-winged Parakeet
 • Red-crowned Parrot

 CUCKOOS, ROADRUNNERS, and ANIS

 • Common Cuckoo
 • Oriental Cuckoo
 • Yellow-billed Cuckoo
 • Black-billed Cuckoo
 • Mangrove Cuckoo
 • Greater Roadrunner
 • Smooth-billed Ani
 • Groove-billed Ani

 BARN OWLS 

 • Barn Owl

 TYPICAL OWLS 

 • Flammulated Owl
 • Oriental Scops-Owl
 • Western Screech-Owl
 • Eastern Screech-Owl
 • Whiskered Screech-Owl
 • Great Horned Owl
 • Snowy Owl
 • Northern Hawk Owl
 • Northern Pygmy-Owl
 • Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
 • Elf Owl
 • Burrowing Owl
 • Mottled Owl
 • Spotted Owl
 • Barred Owl
 • Great Gray Owl
 • Long-eared Owl
 • Stygian Owl
 • Short-eared Owl
 • Boreal Owl
 • Northern Saw-whet Owl
 • Brown Hawk-Owl

 GOATSUCKERS

 • Lesser Nighthawk
 • Common Nighthawk
 • Antillean Nighthawk
 • Common Pauraque
 • Common Poorwill
 • Chuck-will's-widow
 • Buff-collared Nightjar
 • Eastern Whip-poor-will
 • Mexican Whip-poor-will
 • Gray Nightjar

 SWIFTS

 • Black Swift
 • White-collared Swift
 • Chimney Swift
 • Vaux's Swift
 • White-throated Needletail
 • Common Swift
 • Fork-tailed Swift
 • White-throated Swift
 • Antillean Palm-Swift

 HUMMINGBIRDS

 • Green Violetear
 • Green-breasted Mango
 • Broad-billed Hummingbird
 • White-eared Hummingbird
 • Xantus's Hummingbird
 • Berylline Hummingbird
 • Buff-bellied Hummingbird
 • Cinnamon Hummingbird
 • Violet-crowned Hummingbird
 • Blue-throated Hummingbird
 • Magnificent Hummingbird
 • Plain-capped Starthroat
 • Bahama Woodstar
 • Lucifer Hummingbird
 • Ruby-throated Hummingbird
 • Black-chinned Hummingbird
 • Anna's Hummingbird
 • Costa's Hummingbird
 • Calliope Hummingbird
 • Bumblebee Hummingbird
 • Broad-tailed Hummingbird
 • Rufous Hummingbird
 • Allen's Hummingbird

 TROGONS

 • Elegant Trogon
 • Eared Quetzal

 HOOPOES

 • Eurasian Hoopoe

 KINGFISHERS

 • Ringed Kingfisher
 • Belted Kingfisher
 • Amazon Kingfisher
 • Green Kingfisher

 WOODPECKERS and ALLIES

 • Eurasian Wryneck
 • Lewis's Woodpecker
 • Red-headed Woodpecker
 • Acorn Woodpecker
 • Gila Woodpecker
 • Golden-fronted Woodpecker
 • Red-bellied Woodpecker
 • Williamson's Sapsucker
 • Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
 • Red-naped Sapsucker
 • Red-breasted Sapsucker
 • Great Spotted Woodpecker
 • Ladder-backed Woodpecker
 • Nuttall's Woodpecker
 • Downy Woodpecker
 • Hairy Woodpecker
 • Arizona Woodpecker
 • Red-cockaded Woodpecker
 • White-headed Woodpecker
 • American Three-toed Woodpecker
 • Black-backed Woodpecker
 • Northern Flicker
 • Gilded Flicker
 • Pileated Woodpecker
 • Ivory-billed Woodpecker

 TYRANT FLYCATCHERS

 • Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
 • Greenish Elaenia
 • White-crested Elaenia
 • Tufted Flycatcher
 • Olive-sided Flycatcher
 • Greater Pewee
 • Western Wood-Pewee
 • Eastern Wood-Pewee
 • Cuban Pewee
 • Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
 • Acadian Flycatcher
 • Alder Flycatcher
 • Willow Flycatcher
 • Least Flycatcher
 • Hammond's Flycatcher
 • Gray Flycatcher
 • Dusky Flycatcher
 • Pacific-slope Flycatcher
 • Cordilleran Flycatcher
 • Buff-breasted Flycatcher
 • Black Phoebe
 • Eastern Phoebe
 • Say's Phoebe
 • Vermilion Flycatcher
 • Dusky-capped Flycatcher
 • Ash-throated Flycatcher
 • Nutting's Flycatcher
 • Great Crested Flycatcher
 • Brown-crested Flycatcher
 • La Sagra's Flycatcher
 • Great Kiskadee
 • Social Flycatcher
 • Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
 • Piratic Flycatcher
 • Variegated Flycatcher
 • Crowned Slaty Flycatcher
 • Tropical Kingbird
 • Couch's Kingbird
 • Cassin's Kingbird
 • Thick-billed Kingbird
 • Western Kingbird
 • Eastern Kingbird
 • Gray Kingbird
 • Loggerhead Kingbird
 • Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
 • Fork-tailed Flycatcher
 • Gray-collared Becard
 • Rose-throated Becard
 • Masked Tityra

 SHRIKES

 • Brown Shrike
 • Loggerhead Shrike
 • Northern Shrike

 VIREOS

 • White-eyed Vireo
 • Thick-billed Vireo
 • Bell's Vireo
 • Black-capped Vireo
 • Gray Vireo
 • Yellow-throated Vireo
 • Plumbeous Vireo
 • Cassin's Vireo
 • Blue-headed Vireo
 • Hutton's Vireo
 • Warbling Vireo
 • Philadelphia Vireo
 • Red-eyed Vireo
 • Yellow-green Vireo
 • Black-whiskered Vireo
 • Yucatan Vireo

 JAYS, MAGPIES, and CROWS

 • Gray Jay
 • Steller's Jay
 • Blue Jay
 • Green Jay
 • Brown Jay
 • Florida Scrub-Jay
 • Island Scrub-Jay
 • Western Scrub-Jay
 • Mexican Jay
 • Pinyon Jay
 • Clark's Nutcracker
 • Black-billed Magpie
 • Yellow-billed Magpie
 • Eurasian Jackdaw
 • American Crow
 • Northwestern Crow
 • Tamaulipas Crow
 • Fish Crow
 • Chihuahuan Raven
 • Common Raven

 LARKS

 • Sky Lark
 • Horned Lark

 SWALLOWS

 • Purple Martin
 • Cuban Martin
 • Gray-breasted Martin
 • Southern Martin
 • Brown-chested Martin
 • Tree Swallow
 • Mangrove Swallow
 • Violet-green Swallow
 • Bahama Swallow
 • Northern Rough-winged Swallow
 • Bank Swallow
 • Cliff Swallow
 • Cave Swallow
 • Barn Swallow
 • Common House-Martin

 CHICKADEES and TITMICE

 • Carolina Chickadee
 • Black-capped Chickadee
 • Mountain Chickadee
 • Mexican Chickadee
 • Chestnut-backed Chickadee
 • Boreal Chickadee
 • Gray-headed Chickadee
 • Bridled Titmouse
 • Oak Titmouse
 • Juniper Titmouse
 • Tufted Titmouse
 • Black-crested Titmouse

 VERDIN

 • Verdin

 BUSHTITS

 • Bushtit

 NUTHATCHES

 • Red-breasted Nuthatch
 • White-breasted Nuthatch
 • Pygmy Nuthatch
 • Brown-headed Nuthatch

 CREEPERS

 • Brown Creeper

 WRENS

 • Cactus Wren
 • Rock Wren
 • Canyon Wren
 • Sinaloa Wren
 • Carolina Wren
 • Bewick's Wren
 • House Wren
 • Winter Wren
 • Pacific Wren
 • Sedge Wren
 • Marsh Wren

 DIPPERS

 • American Dipper

 BULBULS

 • Red-whiskered Bulbul

 KINGLETS

 • Golden-crowned Kinglet
 • Ruby-crowned Kinglet

 OLD WORLD WARBLERS and GNATCATCHERS

 • Middendorff's Grasshopper-Warbler
 • Lanceolated Warbler
 • Sedge Warbler
 • Willow Warbler
 • Wood Warbler
 • Dusky Warbler
 • Yellow-browed Warbler
 • Pallas's Warbler
 • Arctic Warbler
 • Lesser Whitethroat
 • Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
 • California Gnatcatcher
 • Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
 • Black-capped Gnatcatcher

 OLD WORLD FLYCATCHERS

 • Narcissus Flycatcher
 • Mugimaki Flycatcher
 • Taiga Flycatcher
 • Dark-sided Flycatcher
 • Gray-streaked Flycatcher
 • Asian Brown Flycatcher 
 • Spotted Flycatcher          

 THRUSHES

 • Rufous-tailed Robin
 • Siberian Rubythroat
 • Bluethroat
 • Siberian Blue Robin
 • Red-flanked Bluetail
 • Northern Wheatear
 • Stonechat
 • Eastern Bluebird
 • Western Bluebird
 • Mountain Bluebird
 • Townsend's Solitaire
 • Brown-backed Solitaire
 • Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush
 • Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush
 • Veery
 • Gray-cheeked Thrush
 • Bicknell's Thrush
 • Swainson's Thrush
 • Hermit Thrush
 • Wood Thrush
 • Eurasian Blackbird
 • Eyebrowed Thrush
 • Dusky Thrush
 • Fieldfare
 • Redwing
 • Song Thrush
 • Clay-colored Thrush
 • White-throated Thrush
 • Rufous-backed Robin
 • American Robin
 • Red-legged Thrush
 • Varied Thrush
 • Aztec Thrush

 WRENTIT

 • Wrentit

 MOCKINGBIRDS, THRASHERS, and ALLIES

 • Gray Catbird
 • Northern Mockingbird
 • Bahama Mockingbird
 • Sage Thrasher
 • Brown Thrasher
 • Long-billed Thrasher
 • Bendire's Thrasher
 • Curve-billed Thrasher
 • California Thrasher
 • Crissal Thrasher
 • Le Conte's Thrasher
 • Blue Mockingbird

 STARLINGS and ALLIES

 • European Starling
 • Common Myna

 ACCENTORS

 • Siberian Accentor

 WAGTAILS and PIPITS

 • Eastern Yellow Wagtail
 • Citrine Wagtail
 • Gray Wagtail
 • White Wagtail
 • Tree Pipit
 • Olive-backed Pipit
 • Pechora Pipit
 • Red-throated Pipit
 • American Pipit
 • Sprague's Pipit

 WAXWINGS

 • Bohemian Waxwing
 • Cedar Waxwing

 SILKY-FLYCATCHERS

 • Gray Silky-flycatcher
 • Phainopepla

 OLIVE WARBLER

 • Olive Warbler

 LONGSPURS and ALLIES

 • Lapland Longspur
 • Chestnut-collared Longspur
 • Smith's Longspur
 • McCown's Longspur
 • Snow Bunting
 • McKay's Bunting

 WOOD-WARBLERS

 • Bachman's Warbler
 • Blue-winged Warbler
 • Golden-winged Warbler
 • Tennessee Warbler
 • Orange-crowned Warbler
 • Nashville Warbler
 • Virginia's Warbler
 • Colima Warbler
 • Lucy's Warbler
 • Crescent-chested Warbler
 • Northern Parula
 • Tropical Parula
 • Yellow Warbler
 • Chestnut-sided Warbler
 • Magnolia Warbler
 • Cape May Warbler
 • Black-throated Blue Warbler
 • Yellow-rumped Warbler
 • Black-throated Gray Warbler
 • Golden-cheeked Warbler
 • Black-throated Green Warbler
 • Townsend's Warbler
 • Hermit Warbler
 • Blackburnian Warbler
 • Yellow-throated Warbler
 • Grace's Warbler
 • Pine Warbler
 • Kirtland's Warbler
 • Prairie Warbler
 • Palm Warbler
 • Bay-breasted Warbler
 • Blackpoll Warbler
 • Cerulean Warbler
 • Black-and-white Warbler
 • American Redstart
 • Prothonotary Warbler
 • Worm-eating Warbler
 • Swainson's Warbler
 • Ovenbird
 • Northern Waterthrush
 • Louisiana Waterthrush
 • Kentucky Warbler
 • Connecticut Warbler
 • Mourning Warbler
 • MacGillivray's Warbler
 • Common Yellowthroat
 • Gray-crowned Yellowthroat
 • Hooded Warbler
 • Wilson's Warbler
 • Canada Warbler
 • Red-faced Warbler
 • Painted Redstart
 • Slate-throated Redstart
 • Fan-tailed Warbler
 • Golden-crowned Warbler
 • Rufous-capped Warbler
 • Yellow-breasted Chat

 BANANAQUITS

 • Bananaquit

 TANAGERS

 • Hepatic Tanager
 • Summer Tanager
 • Scarlet Tanager
 • Western Tanager
 • Flame-colored Tanager
 • Western Spindalis

 NEW WORLD SPARROWS and ALLIES

 • White-collared Seedeater
 • Yellow-faced Grassquit
 • Black-faced Grassquit
 • Olive Sparrow
 • Green-tailed Towhee
 • Spotted Towhee
 • Eastern Towhee
 • Rufous-crowned Sparrow
 • Canyon Towhee
 • California Towhee
 • Abert's Towhee
 • Rufous-winged Sparrow
 • Botteri's Sparrow
 • Cassin's Sparrow
 • Bachman's Sparrow
 • American Tree Sparrow
 • Chipping Sparrow
 • Clay-colored Sparrow
 • Brewer's Sparrow
 • Field Sparrow
 • Worthen's Sparrow
 • Black-chinned Sparrow
 • Vesper Sparrow
 • Lark Sparrow
 • Five-striped Sparrow
 • Black-throated Sparrow
 • Sage Sparrow
 • Lark Bunting
 • Savannah Sparrow
 • Grasshopper Sparrow
 • Baird's Sparrow
 • Henslow's Sparrow
 • Le Conte's Sparrow
 • Nelson's Sparrow
 • Saltmarsh Sparrow
 • Seaside Sparrow
 • Fox Sparrow
 • Song Sparrow
 • Lincoln's Sparrow
 • Swamp Sparrow
 • White-throated Sparrow
 • Harris's Sparrow
 • White-crowned Sparrow
 • Golden-crowned Sparrow
 • Dark-eyed Junco
 • Yellow-eyed Junco
 • Pine Bunting
 • Little Bunting
 • Yellow-browed Bunting
 • Rustic Bunting
 • Yellow-throated Bunting
 • Yellow-breasted Bunting
 • Gray Bunting
 • Pallas's Bunting
 • Reed Bunting

 CARDINALS and ALLIES

 • Crimson-collared Grosbeak
 • Northern Cardinal
 • Pyrrhuloxia
 • Yellow Grosbeak
 • Rose-breasted Grosbeak
 • Black-headed Grosbeak
 • Blue Bunting
 • Blue Grosbeak
 • Lazuli Bunting
 • Indigo Bunting
 • Varied Bunting
 • Painted Bunting
 • Dickcissel

 BLACKBIRDS and ALLIES

 • Bobolink
 • Red-winged Blackbird
 • Tricolored Blackbird
 • Tawny-shouldered Blackbird
 • Eastern Meadowlark
 • Western Meadowlark
 • Yellow-headed Blackbird
 • Rusty Blackbird
 • Brewer's Blackbird
 • Common Grackle
 • Boat-tailed Grackle
 • Great-tailed Grackle
 • Shiny Cowbird
 • Bronzed Cowbird
 • Brown-headed Cowbird
 • Black-vented Oriole
 • Orchard Oriole
 • Hooded Oriole
 • Streak-backed Oriole
 • Bullock's Oriole
 • Spot-breasted Oriole
 • Altamira Oriole
 • Audubon's Oriole
 • Baltimore Oriole
 • Scott's Oriole

 FINCHES and ALLIES

 • Common Chaffinch
 • Brambling
 • Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
 • Black Rosy-Finch
 • Brown-capped Rosy-Finch
 • Pine Grosbeak
 • Common Rosefinch
 • Purple Finch
 • Cassin's Finch
 • House Finch
 • Red Crossbill
 • White-winged Crossbill
 • Common Redpoll
 • Hoary Redpoll
 • Eurasian Siskin
 • Pine Siskin
 • Lesser Goldfinch
 • Lawrence's Goldfinch
 • American Goldfinch
 • Oriental Greenfinch
 • Eurasian Bullfinch
 • Evening Grosbeak
 • Hawfinch

 OLD WORLD SPARROWS

 • House Sparrow
 • Eurasian Tree Sparrow

  (1) not recognized by AOU for North America through 51st Supplement

For a description of updates required for field guides see ABA Checklist and Updates.

For scientific names see my second checklist. Go

I use a six-letter species code system in the field and for database entry. You can see a description of it at my web site.


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