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Birds of Connecticut

Can you name every species of bird ever seen in the state of Connecticut?
Source: Connecticut Ornithological Association
R = review species, E = extinct species, EX = extirpated species, I = introduced species
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Species
Note
Black-bellied Whistling Duck
R
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
R
Snow Goose
 
Ross's Goose
R
Graylag Goose
R
Greater White-fronted Goose
 
Pink-footed Goose
R
Brant
 
Barnacle Goose
R
Cackling Goose
 
Canada Goose
 
Mute Swan
I
Trumpeter Swan
R
Tundra Swan
 
Wood Duck
 
Blue-winged Teal
 
Cinnamon Teal
R
Northern Shoveler
 
Gadwall
 
Eurasian Wigeon
 
American Wigeon
 
Mallard
 
American Black Duck
 
Northern Pintail
 
Green-winged Teal
 
Canvasback
 
Redhead
 
Ring-necked Duck
 
Tufted Duck
R
Greater Scaup
 
Lesser Scaup
 
King Eider
 
Common Eider
 
Harlequin Duck
 
Labrador Duck
E
Surf Scoter
 
White-winged Scoter
 
Black Scoter
 
Long-tailed Duck
 
Bufflehead
 
Common Goldeneye
 
Barrow's Goldeneye
 
Hooded Merganser
 
Common Merganser
 
Red-breasted Merganser
 
Ruddy Duck
 
Northern Bobwhite
EX
Wild Turkey
 
Ruffed Grouse
 
Greater Prairie-Chicken
EX
Gray Partridge
EX
Ring-necked Pheasant
EX
Pied-billed Grebe
 
Horned Grebe
 
Red-necked Grebe
 
Eared Grebe
 
Western Grebe
 
Rock Pigeon
I
Band-tailed Pigeon
R
Passenger Pigeon
R
Eurasian Collared-Dove
R
Common Ground-Dove
R
White-winged Dove
R
Mourning Dove
 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
 
Black-billed Cuckoo
 
Common Nighthawk
 
Chuck-will's-widow
R
Eastern Whip-poor-will
 
Chimney Swift
 
Mexican Violetear
R
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
 
Black-chinned Hummingbird
R
Calliope Hummingbird
R
Rufous Hummingbird
 
Broad-billed Hummingbird
R
King Rail
 
Clapper Rail
 
Virginia Rail
 
Corn Crake
R
Sora
 
Common Gallinule
 
American Coot
 
Purple Gallinule
R
Yellow Rail
R
Black Rail
R
Sandhill Crane
 
Black-necked Stilt
R
American Avocet
 
American Oystercatcher
 
Northern Lapwing
R
Black-bellied Plover
 
American Golden-Plover
 
Pacific Golden-Plover
R
Killdeer
 
Common Ringed Plover
R
Semipalmated Plover
 
Piping Plover
 
Wilson's Plover
R
Snowy Plover
R
Upland Sandpiper
 
Whimbrel
 
Eskimo Curlew
E
Long-billed Curlew
R
Bar-tailed Godwit
R
Black-tailed Godwit
R
Hudsonian Godwit
 
Marbled Godwit
 
Ruddy Turnstone
 
Red Knot
 
Ruff
R
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
R
Stilt Sandpiper
 
Curlew Sandpiper
R
Red-necked Stint
R
Sanderling
 
Dunlin
 
Purple Sandpiper
 
Baird's Sandpiper
 
Little Stint
R
Least Sandpiper
 
White-rumped Sandpiper
 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
 
Pectoral Sandpiper
 
Semipalmated Sandpiper
 
Western Sandpiper
 
Short-billed Dowitcher
 
Long-billed Dowitcher
 
American Woodcock
 
Wilson's Snipe
 
Spotted Sandpiper
 
Solitary Sandpiper
 
Lesser Yellowlegs
 
Willet
 
Spotted Redshank
R
Greater Yellowlegs
 
Wilson's Phalarope
 
Red-necked Phalarope
 
Red Phalarope
R
Pomarine Jaeger
R
Parasitic Jaeger
 
Long-tailed Jaeger
R
Dovekie
R
Common Murre
R
Thick-billed Murre
R
Razorbill
 
Black Guillemot
R
Atlantic Puffin
R
Black-legged Kittiwake
R
Ivory Gull
R
Sabine's Gull
R
Species
Note
Bonaparte's Gull
 
Black-headed Gull
 
Little Gull
R
Ross's Gull
R
Laughing Gull
 
Franklin's Gull
R
Common Gull
R
Short-billed Gull
R
Ring-billed Gull
 
California Gull
R
Herring Gull
 
Iceland Gull
 
Lesser Black-backed Gull
 
Slaty-backed Gull
R
Glaucous Gull
 
Great Black-backed Gull
 
Sooty Tern
R
Bridled Tern
R
Least Tern
 
Gull-billed Tern
R
Caspian Tern
 
Black Tern
 
Roseate Tern
 
Common Tern
 
Arctic Tern
R
Forster's Tern
 
Royal Tern
 
Sandwich Tern
R
Black Skimmer
 
White-tailed Tropicbird
R
Red-throated Loon
 
Pacific Loon
R
Common Loon
 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
 
White-faced Storm-Petrel
R
Leach's Storm-Petrel
R
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
R
Northern Fulmar
R
Black-capped Petrel
R
Cory's Shearwater
R
Sooty Shearwater
R
Great Shearwater
R
Manx Shearwater
R
Audubon's Shearwater
R
Wood Stork
R
Magnificent Frigatebird
R
Brown Booby
R
Northern Gannet
 
Anhinga
R
Double-crested Cormorant
 
Great Cormorant
 
American White Pelican
 
Brown Pelican
R
American Bittern
 
Least Bittern
 
Great Blue Heron
 
Great Egret
 
Little Egret
R
Snowy Egret
 
Little Blue Heron
 
Tricolored Heron
 
Cattle Egret
 
Green Heron
 
Black-crowned Night-Heron
 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
 
White Ibis
R
Glossy Ibis
 
White-faced Ibis
 
Roseate Spoonbill
R
Black Vulture
 
Turkey Vulture
 
Osprey
 
White-tailed Kite
R
Swallow-tailed Kite
 
Golden Eagle
 
Northern Harrier
 
Sharp-shinned Hawk
 
Cooper's Hawk
 
Northern Goshawk
 
Bald Eagle
 
Mississippi Kite
 
Red-shouldered Hawk
 
Broad-winged Hawk
 
Swainson's Hawk
R
Zone-tailed Hawk
R
Red-tailed Hawk
 
Rough-legged Hawk
 
Barn Owl
 
Eastern Screech-Owl
 
Great Horned Owl
 
Snowy Owl
 
Northern Hawk-Owl
R
Burrowing Owl
R
Barred Owl
 
Great Gray Owl
R
Long-eared Owl
 
Short-eared Owl
 
Boreal Owl
R
Northern Saw-whet Owl
 
Belted Kingfisher
 
Red-headed Woodpecker
 
Red-bellied Woodpecker
 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
 
Black-backed Woodpecker
R
Downy Woodpecker
 
Hairy Woodpecker
 
Northern Flicker
 
Pileated Woodpecker
 
Crested Caracara
R
American Kestrel
 
Merlin
 
Gyrfalcon
R
Peregrine Falcon
 
Monk Parakeet
I
Ash-throated Flycatcher
R
Great Crested Flycatcher
 
Tropical Kingbird
R
Western Kingbird
 
Eastern Kingbird
 
Gray Kingbird
R
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
R
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
R
Olive-sided Flycatcher
 
Eastern Wood-Pewee
 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
 
Acadian Flycatcher
 
Alder Flycatcher
 
Willow Flycatcher
 
Least Flycatcher
 
Gray Flycatcher
R
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
R
Eastern Phoebe
 
Say's Phoebe
R
Loggerhead Shrike
R
Northern Shrike
 
White-eyed Vireo
 
Bell's Vireo
R
Yellow-throated Vireo
 
Blue-headed Vireo
 
Philadelphia Vireo
 
Warbling Vireo
 
Red-eyed Vireo
 
Blue Jay
 
Eurasian Jackdaw
R
American Crow
 
Fish Crow
 
Common Raven
 
Horned Lark
 
Bank Swallow
 
Tree Swallow
 
Species
Note
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
 
Brown-chested Martin
R
Purple Martin
 
Barn Swallow
 
Cliff Swallow
 
Cave Swallow
 
Black-capped Chickadee
 
Boreal Chickadee
R
Tufted Titmouse
 
Red-breasted Nuthatch
 
White-breasted Nuthatch
 
Brown Creeper
 
House Wren
 
Winter Wren
 
Sedge Wren
 
Marsh Wren
 
Carolina Wren
 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
 
Golden-crowned Kinglet
 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
 
Northern Wheatear
R
Eastern Bluebird
 
Mountain Bluebird
R
Townsend's Solitaire
R
Veery
 
Gray-cheeked Thrush
 
Bicknell's Thrush
 
Swainson's Thrush
 
Hermit Thrush
 
Wood Thrush
 
Fieldfare
R
American Robin
 
Varied Thrush
R
Gray Catbird
 
Brown Thrasher
 
Northern Mockingbird
 
European Starling
I
Bohemian Waxwing
R
Cedar Waxwing
 
House Sparrow
I
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
R
American Pipit
 
Sprague's Pipit
R
Brambling
R
Evening Grosbeak
 
Pine Grosbeak
R
House Finch
 
Purple Finch
 
Common Redpoll
 
Hoary Redpoll
 
Red Crossbill
 
White-winged Crossbill
 
Pine Siskin
 
American Goldfinch
 
Lapland Longspur
 
Chestnut-collared Longspur
R
Smith's Longspur
R
Snow Bunting
 
Grasshopper Sparrow
 
Lark Sparrow
 
Lark Bunting
R
Chipping Sparrow
 
Clay-colored Sparrow
 
Field Sparrow
 
Brewer's Sparrow
R
Fox Sparrow
 
American Tree Sparrow
 
Dark-eyed Junco
 
White-crowned Sparrow
 
Golden-crowned Sparrow
R
Harris's Sparrow
R
White-throated Sparrow
 
Vesper Sparrow
 
LeConte's Sparrow
R
Seaside Sparrow
 
Nelson's Sparrow
 
Saltmarsh Sparrow
 
Henslow's Sparrow
 
Savannah Sparrow
 
Song Sparrow
 
Lincoln's Sparrow
 
Swamp Sparrow
 
Green-tailed Towhee
R
Spotted Towhee
R
Eastern Towhee
 
Yellow-breasted Chat
 
Yellow-headed Blackbird
 
Bobolink
 
Eastern Meadowlark
 
Western Meadowlark
R
Orchard Oriole
 
Bullock's Oriole
R
Baltimore Oriole
 
Black-backed Oriole
R
Red-winged Blackbird
 
Brown-headed Cowbird
 
Rusty Blackbird
 
Brewer's Blackbird
R
Common Grackle
 
Boat-tailed Grackle
 
Ovenbird
 
Worm-eating Warbler
 
Louisiana Waterthrush
 
Northern Waterthrush
 
Golden-winged Warbler
 
Blue-winged Warbler
 
Black-and-white Warbler
 
Prothonotary Warbler
 
Tennessee Warbler
 
Orange-crowned Warbler
 
Nashville Warbler
 
Connecticut Warbler
 
MacGillivray's Warbler
R
Mourning Warbler
 
Kentucky Warbler
 
Common Yellowthroat
 
Hooded Warbler
 
American Redstart
 
Cape May Warbler
 
Cerulean Warbler
 
Northern Parula
 
Magnolia Warbler
 
Bay-breasted Warbler
 
Blackburnian Warbler
 
Yellow Warbler
 
Chestnut-sided Warbler
 
Blackpoll Warbler
 
Black-throated Blue Warbler
 
Palm Warbler
 
Pine Warbler
 
Yellow-rumped Warbler
 
Yellow-throated Warbler
 
Prairie Warbler
 
Black-throated Gray Warbler
R
Townsend's Warbler
R
Hermit Warbler
R
Black-throated Green Warbler
 
Canada Warbler
 
Wilson's Warbler
 
Summer Tanager
 
Scarlet Tanager
 
Western Tanager
R
Northern Cardinal
 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
 
Black-headed Grosbeak
R
Blue Grosbeak
 
Lazuli Bunting
R
Indigo Bunting
 
Painted Bunting
R
Dickcissel
 
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Level 43
Oct 28, 2024
Passenger Pigeon should definitely be labeled extinct.