Inventory of Bird Families and Species

For information pertaining to a bird family, click on the common name

for the family (e.g., Loons). For information pertaining to the specific

species comprising a bird family, click on the common name (e.g.,

common loon).

Loons

   common loon
Grebes
   horned grebe
   piedbilled grebe
Cormorants, Shags
   doublecrested cormorant
Herons

   American bittern

   cattle egret
   great blue heron
   great egret

   green heron
   tricolored heron
American vultures
   black vulture
   turkey vulture
Swans, Geese, Ducks

   mute swan
   tundra swan
   trumpeter swan
   Canada goose
   snow goose
   cackling goose
   wood duck
   gadwall
   American wigeon
   American black duck
   mallard
   bluewinged teal
   greenwinged teal
   northern pintail
   redhead
   ringnecked duck
   lesser scaup
   bufflehead
   common goldeneye
   hooded merganser
   common merganser
   redbreasted merganser
   ruddy duck
Ospreys
   osprey
Hawks, Eagles
   bald eagle
   northern harrier
   sharpshinned hawk
   Cooper's hawk
   northern goshawk
   redshouldered hawk
   broadwinged hawk
   redtailed hawk
   roughlegged hawk
   golden eagle
Falcons
   American kestrel
   merlin
   peregrine falcon
Grouses
   ruffed grouse
Turkey, Pheasant
   wild turkey
Quail, Partiridges
   northern bobwhite
Plovers
   killdeer
   semipalmated plover
Rails
   Virginia rail
   sora
   American coot
Sandpipers
   greater yellowlegs
   lesser yellowlegs
   solitary sandpiper
   spotted sandpiper
   semipalmated sandpiper
   western sandpiper
   least sandpiper
   pectoral sandpiper
   dunlin
   shortbilled dowitcher
   Wilson's snipe
   American woodcock
Gulls, Terns
   Bonaparte's gull
   Caspian tern
   ringbilled gull

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