All Birds of the Contiguous United States (Hard)

Enter the common name of every species of bird found in the US Lower 48. The full common name is required, unless the final word in the name is unique to one species on the list.

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I use the list of species provided by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's All About Birds website https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse/taxonomy

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Anatidae

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

Fulvous Whistling-Duck

Emperor Goose

Snow Goose

Ross's Goose

Greater White-fronted Goose

Brant

Cackling Goose

Canada Goose

Mute Swan

Trumpeter Swan

Tundra Swan

Muscovy Duck

Wood Duck

Blue-winged Teal

Cinnamon Teal

Northern Shoveler

Gadwall

Eurasian Wigeon

American Wigeon

Mallard

American Black Duck

Mottled Duck

Northern Pintail

Green-winged Teal

Canvasback

Redhead

Ring-necked Duck

Greater Scaup

Lesser Scaup

Steller's Eider

Spectacled Eider

King Eider

Common Eider

Harlequin Duck

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

Cracidae

Plain Chachalaca

Odontophoridae

Mountain Quail

Northern Bobwhite

Scaled Quail

California Quail

Gambel's Quail

Montezuma Quail

Phasianidae

Wild Turkey

Ruffed Grouse

Greater Sage-Grouse

Gunnison Sage-Grouse

Dusky Grouse

Sooty Grouse

Sharp-tailed Grouse

Greater Prairie-Chicken

Lesser Prairie-Chicken

White-tailed Ptarmigan

Willow Ptarmigan

Rock Ptarmigan

Spruce Grouse

Gray Partridge

Ring-necked Pheasant

Chukar

Podicipedidae

Least Grebe

Pied-billed Grebe

Horned Grebe

Red-necked Grebe

Eared Grebe

Western Grebe

Clark's Grebe

Columbidae

Rock Pigeon

White-crowned Pigeon

Band-tailed Pigeon

Eurasian Collared-Dove

African Collared-Dove

Inca Dove

Common Ground Dove

White-tipped Dove

White-winged Dove

Mourning Dove

Cuculidae

Smooth-billed Ani

Groove-billed Ani

Greater Roadrunner

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Mangrove Cuckoo

Black-billed Cuckoo

Caprimulgidae

Lesser Nighthawk

Common Nighthawk

Common Pauraque

Common Poorwill

Chuck-will's-widow

Eastern Whip-poor-will

Apodidae

Black Swift

Chimney Swift

Vaux's Swift

White-throated Swift

Trochilidae

Rivoli's Hummingbird

Blue-throated Mountain-gem

Lucifer Hummingbird

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Black-chinned Hummingbird

Anna's Hummingbird

Costa's Hummingbird

Calliope Hummingbird

Rufous Hummingbird

Allen's Hummingbird

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

Broad-billed Hummingbird

Violet-crowned Hummingbird

Buff-bellied Hummingbird

Rallidae

Ridgway's Rail

King Rail

Clapper Rail

Virginia Rail

Sora

Common Gallinule

American Coot

Purple Gallinule

Gray-headed Swamphen

Yellow Rail

Black Rail

Aramidae

Limpkin

Gruidae

Sandhill Crane

Whooping Crane

Recurvirostridae

Black-necked Stilt

American Avocet

Haematopodidae

American Oystercatcher

Black Oystercatcher

Charadriidae

Black-bellied Plover

American Golden-Plover

Pacific Golden-Plover

Snowy Plover

Wilson's Plover

Semipalmated Plover

Piping Plover

Killdeer

Mountain Plover

Scolopacidae

Upland Sandpiper

Whimbrel

Long-billed Curlew

Hudsonian Godwit

Marbled Godwit

Ruddy Turnstone

Black Turnstone

Red Knot

Surfbird

Stilt Sandpiper

Sanderling

Dunlin

Rock Sandpiper

Purple Sandpiper

Baird's Sandpiper

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

Wilson's Phalarope

Red-necked Phalarope

Red Phalarope

Spotted Sandpiper

Solitary Sandpiper

Wandering Tattler

Greater Yellowlegs

Willet

Lesser Yellowlegs

Stercorariidae

Pomarine Jaeger

Parasitic Jaeger

Long-tailed Jaeger

Alcidae

Dovekie

Common Murre

Thick-billed Murre

Razorbill

Black Guillemot

Pigeon Guillemot

Marbled Murrelet

Ancient Murrelet

Cassin's Auklet

Parakeet Auklet

Rhinoceros Auklet

Atlantic Puffin

Horned Puffin

Tufted Puffin

Laridae

Black-legged Kittiwake

Ivory Gull

Sabine's Gull

Bonaparte's Gull

Black-headed Gull

Little Gull

Ross's Gull

Laughing Gull

Franklin's Gull

Heermann's Gull

Short-billed Gull

Ring-billed Gull

Western Gull

California Gull

Herring Gull

Iceland Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Glaucous-winged Gull

Glaucous Gull

Great Black-backed Gull

Least Tern

Gull-billed Tern

Caspian Tern

Black Tern

Roseate Tern

Common Tern

Arctic Tern

Forster's Tern

Royal Tern

Sandwich Tern

Elegant Tern

Black Skimmer

Gaviidae

Red-throated Loon

Pacific Loon

Common Loon

Diomedeidae

Laysan Albatross

Black-footed Albatross

Oceanitidae

Wilson's Storm-Petrel

Hydrobatidae

Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel

Procellariidae

Northern Fulmar

Sooty Shearwater

Ciconiidae

Wood Stork

Fregatidae

Magnificent Frigatebird

Sulidae

Masked Booby

Blue-footed Booby

Brown Booby

Red-footed Booby

Northern Gannet

Anhingidae

Anhinga

Phalacrocoracidae

Brandt's Cormorant

Red-faced Cormorant

Pelagic Cormorant

Great Cormorant

Double-crested Cormorant

Neotropic Cormorant

Pelecanidae

American White Pelican

Brown Pelican

Ardeidae

American Bittern

Least Bittern

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Snowy Egret

Little Blue Heron

Tricolored Heron

Reddish Egret

Cattle Egret

Green Heron

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Threskiornithidae

White Ibis

Glossy Ibis

White-faced Ibis

Roseate Spoonbill

Cathartidae

California Condor

Black Vulture

Turkey Vulture

Pandionidae

Osprey

Accipitridae

White-tailed Kite

Hook-billed Kite

Swallow-tailed Kite

Golden Eagle

Snail Kite

Mississippi Kite

Northern Harrier

Sharp-shinned Hawk

Cooper's Hawk

Northern Goshawk

Bald Eagle

Common Black Hawk

Harris's Hawk

White-tailed Hawk

Gray Hawk

Red-shouldered Hawk

Broad-winged Hawk

Short-tailed Hawk

Swainson's Hawk

Zone-tailed Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

Rough-legged Hawk

Ferruginous Hawk

Tytonidae

Barn Owl

Strigidae

Flammulated Owl

Western Screech-Owl

Eastern Screech-Owl

Great Horned Owl

Snowy Owl

Northern Hawk Owl

Northern Pygmy-Owl

Elf Owl

Burrowing Owl

Spotted Owl

Barred Owl

Great Gray Owl

Long-eared Owl

Short-eared Owl

Boreal Owl

Northern Saw-whet Owl

Trogonidae

Elegant Trogon

Alcedinidae

Ringed Kingfisher

Belted Kingfisher

Green Kingfisher

Picidae

Williamson's Sapsucker

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Red-naped Sapsucker

Red-breasted Sapsucker

Lewis's Woodpecker

Red-headed Woodpecker

Acorn Woodpecker

Gila Woodpecker

Golden-fronted Woodpecker

Red-bellied Woodpecker

American Three-toed Woodpecker

Black-backed Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Nuttall's Woodpecker

Ladder-backed Woodpecker

Red-cockaded Woodpecker

Hairy Woodpecker

White-headed Woodpecker

Arizona Woodpecker

Pileated Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Gilded Flicker

Falconidae

Crested Caracara

American Kestrel

Merlin

Aplomado Falcon

Gyrfalcon

Peregrine Falcon

Prairie Falcon

Psittacidae

Monk Parakeet

Red-crowned Parrot

Tyrannidae

Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet

Olive-sided Flycatcher

Greater Pewee

Western Wood-Pewee

Eastern Wood-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

Great Crested Flycatcher

Brown-crested Flycatcher

Great Kiskadee

Tropical Kingbird

Couch's Kingbird

Cassin's Kingbird

Western Kingbird

Eastern Kingbird

Gray Kingbird

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Vireonidae

Black-capped Vireo

White-eyed Vireo

Bell's Vireo

Gray Vireo

Hutton's Vireo

Yellow-throated Vireo

Cassin's Vireo

Blue-headed Vireo

Plumbeous Vireo

Philadelphia Vireo

Warbling Vireo

Red-eyed Vireo

Black-whiskered Vireo

Laniidae

Loggerhead Shrike

Northern Shrike

Corvidae

Canada Jay

Green Jay

Pinyon Jay

Steller's Jay

Blue Jay

Florida Scrub-Jay

California Scrub-Jay

Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay

Mexican Jay

Black-billed Magpie

Yellow-billed Magpie

Clark's Nutcracker

American Crow

Fish Crow

Chihuahuan Raven

Common Raven

Paridae

Carolina Chickadee

Black-capped Chickadee

Mountain Chickadee

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

Boreal Chickadee

Bridled Titmouse

Oak Titmouse

Juniper Titmouse

Tufted Titmouse

Black-crested Titmouse

Remizidae

Verdin

Alaudidae

Horned Lark

Hirundinidae

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Purple Martin

Tree Swallow

Violet-green Swallow

Bank Swallow

Barn Swallow

Cliff Swallow

Cave Swallow

Phylloscopidae

Arctic Warbler

Aegithalidae

Bushtit

Sylviidae

Wrentit

Regulidae

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Sittidae

Red-breasted Nuthatch

White-breasted Nuthatch

Pygmy Nuthatch

Brown-headed Nuthatch

Certhiidae

Brown Creeper

Polioptilidae

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

California Gnatcatcher

Troglodytidae

Rock Wren

Canyon Wren

House Wren

Pacific Wren

Winter Wren

Sedge Wren

Marsh Wren

Carolina Wren

Bewick's Wren

Cactus Wren

Cinclidae

American Dipper

Sturnidae

European Starling

Mimidae

Gray Catbird

Curve-billed Thrasher

Brown Thrasher

Long-billed Thrasher

Bendire's Thrasher

California Thrasher

LeConte's Thrasher

Crissal Thrasher

Sage Thrasher

Northern Mockingbird

Turdidae

Eastern Bluebird

Western Bluebird

Mountain Bluebird

Townsend's Solitaire

Varied Thrush

Veery

Gray-cheeked Thrush

Bicknell's Thrush

Swainson's Thrush

Hermit Thrush

Wood Thrush

American Robin

Muscicapidae

Bluethroat

Bombycillidae

Bohemian Waxwing

Cedar Waxwing

Ptiliogonatidae

Phainopepla

Peucedramidae

Olive Warbler

Passeridae

House Sparrow

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Motacillidae

American Pipit

Sprague's Pipit

Fringillidae

Evening Grosbeak

Pine Grosbeak

Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch

Black Rosy-Finch

Brown-capped Rosy-Finch

House Finch

Purple Finch

Cassin's Finch

Common Redpoll

Hoary Redpoll

Red Crossbill

Cassia Crossbill

White-winged Crossbill

Pine Siskin

Lesser Goldfinch

Lawrence’s Goldfinch

American Goldfinch

Calcariidae

Lapland Longspur

Chestnut-collared Longspur

Smith’s Longspur

Thick-billed Longspur

Snow Bunting

Passerellidae

Rufous-winged Sparrow

Botteri’s Sparrow

Cassin's Sparrow

Bachman’s Sparrow

Grasshopper Sparrow

Olive Sparrow

Chipping Sparrow

Clay-colored Sparrow

Black-chinned Sparrow

Field Sparrow

Brewer’s Sparrow

Black-throated Sparrow

Lark Sparrow

Lark Bunting

American Tree Sparrow

Fox Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Yellow-eyed Junco

White-crowned Sparrow

Golden-crowned Sparrow

Harris's Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow

Sagebrush Sparrow

Bell’s Sparrow

Vesper Sparrow

LeConte’s Sparrow

Seaside Sparrow

Nelson’s Sparrow

Saltmarsh Sparrow

Savannah Sparrow

Baird's Sparrow

Henslow’s Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Lincoln’s Sparrow

Swamp Sparrow

Canyon Towhee

Abert’s Towhee

California Towhee

Rufous-crowned Sparrow

Green-tailed Towhee

Spotted Towhee

Eastern Towhee

Icteriidae

Yellow-breasted Chat

Icteridae

Yellow-headed Blackbird

Bobolink

Western Meadowlark

Orchard Oriole

Hooded Oriole

Bullock’s Oriole

Spot-breasted Oriole

Altamira Oriole

Audubon’s Oriole

Baltimore Oriole

Scott’s Oriole

Red-winged Blackbird

Tricolored Blackbird

Shiny Cowbird

Bronzed Cowbird

Brown-headed Cowbird

Rusty Blackbird

Brewer’s Blackbird

Common Grackle

Boat-tailed Grackle

Great-tailed Grackle

Eastern Meadowlark

Parulidae

Ovenbird

Worm-eating Warbler

Louisiana Waterthrush

Northern Waterthrush

Golden-winged Warbler

Blue-winged Warbler

Black-and-white Warbler

Prothonotary Warbler

Swainson's Warbler

Tennessee Warbler

Orange-crowned Warbler

Lucy’s Warbler

Nashville Warbler

Virginia’s Warbler

Connecticut Warbler

MacGillivray’s Warbler

Mourning Warbler

Kentucky Warbler

Common Yellowthroat

Hooded Warbler

American Redstart

Kirtland’s Warbler

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

Grace’s Warbler

Black-throated Gray Warbler

Townsend’s Warbler

Hermit Warbler

Golden-cheeked Warbler

Black-throated Green Warbler

Canada Warbler

Wilson’s Warbler

Red-faced Warbler

Painted Redstart

Cardinalidae

Hepatic Tanager

Summer Tanager

Scarlet Tanager

Western Tanager

Northern Cardinal

Pyrrhuloxia

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Black-headed Grosbeak

Blue Grosbeak

Lazuli Bunting

Indigo Bunting

Varied Bunting

Painted Bunting

Dickcissel

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