Big Birding Month Official Checklist 2021 Your Name: ____________________ GEESE, SWANS & DUCKS SHEARWATERS & PETRELS Bald Eagle Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Northern Fulmar Northern Harrier Fulvous Whistling-Duck Murphy’s Petrel Sharp-shinned Hawk Greater White-fronted Goose Mottled Petrel Cooper’s Hawk Snow Goose Cook’s Petrel Northern Goshawk Ross’s Goose Pink-footed Shearwater Common Black-Hawk Brant Flesh-footed Shearwater Harris’s Hawk Cackling Goose Buller’s Shearwater Red-shouldered Hawk Canada Goose Sooty Shearwater Broad-winged Hawk Tundra Swan Short-tailed Shearwater Swainson’s Hawk Wood Duck Manx Shearwater Zone-tailed Hawk Gadwall Black-vented Shearwater Red-tailed Hawk Eurasian Wigeon STORM-PETRELS Ferruginous Hawk American Wigeon Wilson’s Storrn-Petrel Rough-legged Hawk Mallard Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel Golden Eagle Blue-winged Teal Leach’s Storm-Petrel FALCONS Cinnamon Teal Ashy Storm-Petrel Crested Caracara Northern Shoveler Black Storm-Petrel American Kestrel Northern Pintail Least Storm-Petrel Merlin Green-winged Teal TROPICBIRDS Peregrine Falcon Canvasback Red-billed Tropicbird Prairie Falcon Redhead BOOBIES RAILS, GALLINULES & COOTS Ring-necked Duck Blue-footed Booby Yellow Rail Tufted Duck Brown Booby Black Rail Greater Scaup PELICANS Ridgway’s Rail Lesser Scaup American White Pelican Virginia Rail Surf Scoter Brown Pelican Sora White-winged Scoter CORMORANTS Common Gallinule Black Scoter Brandt’s Cormorant American Coot Long-tailed Duck Neotropic Cormorant CRANES Bufflehead Double-crested Cormorant Sandhill Crane Common Goldeneye Pelagic Cormorant PLOVERS Barrow’s Goldeneye DARTERS Black-bellied Plover Hooded Merganser Anhinga American Golden-Plover Common Merganser FRIGATEBIRDS Pacific Golden-Plover Red-breasted Merganser Magnificent Frigatebird Snowy Plover Ruddy Duck BITTERNS & HERONS Wilson’s Plover NEW WORLD QUAIL American Bittern Semipalmated Plover Mountain Quail Least Bittern Piping Plover California Quail Great Blue Heron Killdeer Gambel’s Quail Great Egret Mountain Plover PARTRIDGES, GROUSE & Snowy Egret STILTS & AVOCETS TURKEYS Little Blue Heron Black-necked Stilt Chukar Tricolored Heron American Avocet Ring-necked Pheasant Reddish Egret SANDPIPERS & PHALAROPES Wild Turkey Cattle Egret Spotted Sandpiper LOONS Green Heron Solitary Sandpiper Red-throated Loon Black-crowned Night-Heron Wandering Tattler Pacific Loon Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Spotted Redshank Common Loon IBISES & SPOONBILLS Greater Yellowlegs Yellow-billed Loon Glossy Ibis Willet GREBES White-faced Ibis Lesser Yellowlegs Pied-billed Grebe Roseate Spoonbill Upland Sandpiper Horned Grebe STORKS Whimbrel Red-necked Grebe Wood Stork Long-billed Curlew Eared Grebe NEW WORLD VULTURES Marbled Godwit Western Grebe Turkey Vulture Ruddy Turnstone Clark’s Grebe KITES, EAGLES & HAWKS Black Turnstone ALBATROSSES Osprey Surfbird Laysan Albatross White-tailed Kite Red Knot Black-footed Albatross Mississippi Kite Sanderling 1 Big Birding Month Official Checklist 2021 Your Name: ____________________ SANDPIPERS & PHALAROPES Xantus’s Murrelet Williamson’s Sapsucker Semipalmated Sandpiper Craveri’s Murrelet Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Western Sandpiper Ancient Murrelet Red-naped Sapsucker Least Sandpiper Cassin’s Auklet Red-breasted Sapsucker White-rumped Sandpiper Rhinoceros Auklet Ladder-backed Woodpecker Baird’s Sandpiper Horned Puffin Nuttall’s Woodpecker Pectoral Sandpiper Tufted Puffin Downy Woodpecker Sharp-tailed Sandpiper PIGEONS & DOVES Hairy Woodpecker Rock Sandpiper Rock Pigeon White-headed Woodpecker Dunlin Band-tailed Pigeon Northern Flicker Curlew Sandpiper Eurasian Collared-Dove Gilded Flicker Stilt Sandpiper Spotted Dove TYRANT FLYCATCHERS Buff-breasted Sandpiper White-winged Dove Olive-sided Flycatcher Ruff Mourning Dove Greater Pewee Short-billed Dowitcher Inca Dove Western Wood-Pewee Long-billed Dowitcher Common Ground-Dove Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Wilson’s Snipe Ruddy Ground-Dove Willow Flycatcher Wilson’s Phalarope PARROTS Least Flycatcher Red-necked Phalarope Red-crowned Parrot Hammond’s Flycatcher Red Phalarope CUCKOOS, ROADRUNNERS & Gray Flycatcher GULLS, TERNS & SKIMMERS ANIS Dusky Flycatcher Black-legged Kittiwake Yellow-billed Cuckoo Pacific-slope Flycatcher Sabine’s Gull Greater Roadrunner Cordilleran Flycatcher Bonaparte’s Gull Groove-billed Ani Black Phoebe Black-headed Gull BARN OWLS Eastern Phoebe Little Gull Barn Owl Say’s Phoebe Ross’s Gull TYPICAL OWLS Vermilion Flycatcher Laughing Gull Flammulated Owl Dusky-capped Flycatcher Franklin’s Gull Western Screech-Owl Ash-throated Flycatcher Black-tailed Gull Great Horned Owl Great Crested Flycatcher Heermann’s Gull Northern Pygmy-Owl Brown-crested Flycatcher Mew Gull Elf Owl Tropical Kingbird Ring-billed Gull Burrowing Owl Cassin’s Kingbird Western Gull Spotted Owl Thick-billed Kingbird Yellow-footed Gull Long-eared Owl Western Kingbird California Gull Short-eared Owl Eastern Kingbird Herring Gull Northern Saw-whet Owl Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Thayer’s Gull GOATSUCKERS SHRIKES Lesser Black-backed Gull Lesser Nighthawk Loggerhead Shrike Slaty-backed Gull Common Nighthawk Northern Shrike Glaucous-winged Gull Common Poorwill VIREOS Glaucous Gull Mexican Whip-poor-will Bell’s Vireo Least Tern SWIFTS Gray Vireo Gull-billed Tern Black Swift Yellow-throated Vireo Caspian Tern Chimney Swift Plumbeous Vireo Black Tern Vaux’s Swift Cassin’s Vireo Common Tern White-throated Swift Hutton’s Vireo Arctic Tern HUMMINGBIRDS Warbling Vireo Forster’s Tern Black-chinned Hummingbird Philadelphia Vireo Royal Tern Anna’s Hummingbird Red-eyed Vireo Elegant Tern Costa’s hummingbird JAYS, MAGPIES & CROWS Black Skimmer Calliope Hummingbird Steller’s Jay SKUAS & JAEGERS Broad-tailed Hummingbird California Scrub-Jay South Polar Skua Rufous Hummingbird Pinyon Jay Pomarine Jaeger Allen’s Hummingbird Clark’s Nutcracker Parasitic Jaeger KINGFISHERS Black-billed Magpie Long-tailed Jaeger Belted Kingfisher American Crow AUKS, MURRES & PUFFINS WOODPECKERS Common Raven Common Murre Lewis’s Woodpecker LARKS Pigeon Guillemot Acorn Woodpecker Horned Lark Marbled Murrelet Gila Woodpecker 2 Big Birding Month Official Checklist 2021 Your Name: ____________________ SWALLOWS Curve-billed Thrasher EMBERIZIDS Purple Martin California Thrasher Green-tailed Towhee Tree Swallow Crissal Thrasher Spotted Towhee Violet-green Swallow Le Conte’s Thrasher California Towhee Northern Rough-winged STARLINGS Abert’s Towhee Swallow European Starling Cassin’s Sparrow Bank Swallow WAGTAILS & PIPITS Rufous-crowned Sparrow Cliff Swallow Red-throated Pipit American Tree Sparrow Cave Swallow American Pipit Chipping Sparrow Barn Swallow Sprague’s Pipit Clay-colored Sparrow CHICKADEES & TITMICE WAXWINGS Brewer’s Sparrow Mountain Chickadee Bohemian Waxwing Black-chinned Sparrow Oak Titmouse Cedar Waxwing Vesper Sparrow Juniper Titmouse SILKY-FLYCATCHERS Lark Sparrow VERDINS Phainopepla Black-throated Sparrow Verdin WOOD-WARBLERS Sage Sparrow BUSHTITS Blue-winged Warbler Lark Bunting Bushtit Golden-winged Warbler Savannah Sparrow NUTHATCHES Tennessee Warbler Grasshopper Sparrow Red-breasted Nuthatch Orange-crowned Warbler Nelson’s Sharp-Tailed Sparrow White-breasted Nuthatch Nashville Warbler Fox Sparrow Pygmy Nuthatch Virginia’s Warbler Song Sparrow CREEPERS Lucy’s Warbler Lincoln’s Sparrow Brown Creeper Northern Parula Swamp Sparrow WRENS Yellow Warbler White-throated Sparrow Cactus Wren Chestnut-sided Warbler Harris’s Sparrow Rock Wren Magnolia Warbler White-crowned Sparrow Canyon Wren Cape May Warbler Golden-crowned Sparrow Bewick’s Wren Black-throated Blue Warbler Dark-eyed Junco House Wren Yellow-rumped Warbler McCown’s Longspur Pacific Wren Black-throated Gray Warbler Lapland Longspur Marsh wren Black-throated Green Warbler Chestnut-collared Longspur DIPPERS Townsend’s Warbler CARDINALS, GROSBEAKS & American Dipper Hermit Warbler BUNTINGS KINGLETS Blackburnian Warbler Hepatic Tanager Golden-crowned Kinglet Yellow-throated Warbler Summer Tanager Ruby-crowned Kinglet Grace’s Warbler Scarlet Tanager OLD WORLD WARBLERS & Pine Warbler Western Tanager GNATCATCHERS Prairie Warbler Northern Cardinal Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Palm Warbler Rose-breasted Grosbeak California Gnatcatcher Bay-breasted Warbler Black-headed Grosbeak Black-tailed Gnatcatcher Blackpoll Warbler Blue Grosbeak THRUSHES Cerulean Warbler Lazuli Bunting Western Bluebird Black-and-white Warbler Indigo Bunting Mountain Bluebird American Redstart Painted Bunting Townsend’s Solitaire Prothonotary Warbler Dickcissel Swainson’s Thrush Worm-eating Warbler BLACKBIRDS & ORIOLES Hermit Thrush Ovenbird Bobolink Wood Thrush Northern Waterthrush Red-winged Blackbird Rufous-backed Robin Louisiana Waterthrush Tricolored Blackbird American Robin Kentucky Warbler Western Meadowlark Varied Thrush Connecticut Warbler Yellow-headed Blackbird BABBLERS Mourning Warbler Rusty Blackbird Wrentit MacGillivray’s Warbler Brewer’s Blackbird MOCKINGBIRDS & Common Yellowthroat Common Grackle THRASHERS Hooded Warbler Great-tailed Grackle Gray Catbird Wilson’s Warbler Bronzed Cowbird Northern Mockingbird Canada Warbler Brown-headed Cowbird Sage Thrasher Red-faced Warbler Orchard Oriole Brown Thrasher Painted Redstart Hooded Oriole Bendire’s Thrasher Yellow-breasted Chat Streak-backed Oriole 3 Big Birding Month Official Checklist 2021 Your Name: ____________________ Bullock’s Oriole Baltimore Oriole Scott’s Oriole FRINGILLINE & CARDUELINE WRITE IN’s FINCHES Pine Grosbeak _________________________ Purple Finch Cassin’s Finch _________________________ House Finch Red Crossbill _________________________ Pine Siskin Lesser Goldfinch _________________________ Lawrence’s Goldfinch American Goldfinch _________________________ Evening Grosbeak OLD WORLD SPARROWS House Sparrow SHARE YOUR FINDINGS! 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