I started birding late 1990s. My life list currently stands at 462 species seen or audio-recorded. Newest bird BOLDED.
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
- Fulvous Whistling-Duck
- Snow Goose
- Ross’s Goose
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Pink-footed 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
- 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
- Plain Chachalaca
- Northern Bobwhite
- Scaled Quail
- California Quail
- Gambel’s Quail
- Montezuma Quail
- Wild Turkey
- Ruffed Grouse
- White-tailed Ptarmigan
- Dusky Grouse
- Sharp-tailed Grouse
- Greater Prairie-Chicken
- Ring-necked Pheasant
- Chukar
- Least Grebe
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Horned Grebe
- Red-necked Grebe
- Eared Grebe
- Western Grebe
- Clark’s Grebe
- Rock Pigeon
- Band-tailed Pigeon
- African Collared-Dove
- Eurasian Collared-Dove
- Inca Dove
- Common Ground Dove
- White-tipped Dove
- White-winged Dove
- Mourning Dove
- Greater Roadrunner
- Common Nighthawk
- Common Pauraque
- Common Poorwill
- Black Swift
- Chimney Swift
- Vaux’s Swift
- White-throated Swift
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Black-chinned Hummingbird
- Anna’s Hummingbird
- Calliope Hummingbird
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Broad-tailed Hummingbird
- Buff-bellied Hummingbird
- Virginia Rail
- Sora
- Common Gallinule
- Common Moorhen
- American Coot
- Purple Gallinule
- Limpkin
- Sandhill Crane
- Black-necked Stilt
- American Avocet
- American Oystercatcher
- Black-bellied Plover
- American Golden-Plover
- Killdeer
- Semipalmated Plover
- Piping Plover
- Wilson’s Plover
- Mountain Plover
- Snowy Plover
- Upland Sandpiper
- Whimbrel
- Long-billed Curlew
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Marbled Godwit
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Red Knot
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Sanderling
- Dunlin
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Least Sandpiper
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Western Sandpiper
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Wilson’s Snipe
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Willet
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red Phalarope
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Razorbill
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Sabine’s Gull
- Bonaparte’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 Gull
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Kelp Gull
- Little Gull
- Least Tern
- Gull-billed Tern
- Caspian Tern
- Black Tern
- Common Tern
- Forster’s Tern
- Royal Tern
- Sandwich Tern
- Elegant Tern
- Black Skimmer
- Pacific Loon
- Common Loon
- Wood Stork
- Magnificent Frigatebird
- Anhinga
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Neotropic Cormorant
- American White Pelican
- Brown Pelican
- 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
- White Ibis
- Glossy Ibis
- White-faced Ibis
- Roseate Spoonbill
- Black Vulture
- Turkey Vulture
- Osprey
- White-tailed Kite
- Swallow-tailed Kite
- Golden Eagle
- Northern Harrier
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Northern Goshawk
- Bald Eagle
- Mississippi Kite
- Harris’s Hawk
- White-tailed Hawk
- Gray Hawk
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Short-tailed Hawk
- Swainson’s Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Rough-legged Hawk
- Ferruginous Hawk
- Barn Owl
- Flammulated Owl
- Eastern Screech-Owl
- Great Horned Owl
- Snowy Owl
- Northern Pygmy-Owl
- Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
- Burrowing Owl
- Barred Owl
- Long-eared Owl
- Short-eared Owl
- Belted Kingfisher
- Green Kingfisher
- Lewis’s Woodpecker
- Red-headed Woodpecker
- Gila Woodpecker
- Golden-fronted Woodpecker
- American Woodcock
- Swamp Sparrow
- Yellow-throated Warbler
- Nashville Warbler
- Mourning Warbler
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Williamson’s Sapsucker
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Red-naped Sapsucker
- American Three-toed Woodpecker
- Downy Woodpecker
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Northern Flicker
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Crested Caracara
- American Kestrel
- Merlin
- Aplomado Falcon
- Gyrfalcon
- Peregrine Falcon
- Prairie Falcon
- Monk Parakeet
- Nanday Parakeet
- Green Parakeet
- Red-crowned Parrot
- Yellow-headed Parrot
- Red-lored Parrot
- Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Great-crested Flycatcher
- Great Kiskadee
- Tropical Kingbird
- Couch’s Kingbird
- Cassin’s Kingbird
- Western Kingbird
- Gray Kingbird
- Eastern Kingbird
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
- Olive-sided Flycatcher
- Western Wood-Pewee
- Eastern Wood-Pewee
- Willow Flycatcher
- Least Flycatcher
- Hammond’s Flycatcher
- Gray Flycatcher
- Dusky Flycatcher
- Cordilleran Flycatcher
- Black Phoebe
- Eastern Phoebe
- Say’s Phoebe
- Vermilion Flycatcher
- Yellow-throated Vireo
- Black-capped Vireo
- White-eyed Vireo
- Bell’s Vireo
- Cassin’s Vireo
- Blue-headed Vireo
- Plumbeous Vireo
- Warbling Vireo
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Northern Shrike
- Canada Jay
- Green Jay
- Pinyon Jay
- Steller’s Jay
- Blue Jay
- Florida Scrub-Jay
- Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay
- Clark’s Nutcracker
- Black-billed Magpie
- American Crow
- Fish Crow
- Common Raven
- Verdin
- Boreal Chickadee
- Carolina Chickadee
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Mountain Chickadee
- Chestnut-backed Chickadee
- Juniper Titmouse
- Tufted Titmouse
- Black-crested Titmouse
- Horned Lark
- Bank Swallow
- Tree Swallow
- Violet-green Swallow
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Purple Martin
- Barn Swallow
- Cliff Swallow
- Bushtit
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Bohemian Waxwing
- Cedar Waxwing
- Phainopepla
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- Pygmy Nuthatch
- Brown-headed Nuthatch
- Brown Creeper
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
- Rock Wren
- Canyon Wren
- House Wren
- Winter Wren
- Marsh Wren
- Carolina Wren
- Bewick’s Wren
- Cactus Wren
- Gray Catbird
- Curve-billed Thrasher
- Brown Thrasher
- Long-billed Thrasher
- Sage Thrasher
- Northern Mockingbird
- European Starling
- Common Myna
- American Dipper
- Eastern Bluebird
- Western Bluebird
- Mountain Bluebird
- Townsend’s Solitaire
- Veery
- Swainson’s Thrush
- Hermit Thrush
- Wood Thrush
- American Robin
- Varied Thrush
- House Sparrow
- American Pipit
- Sprague’s Pipit
- Evening Grosbeak
- Pine Grosbeak
- Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
- Black Rosy-Finch
- Brown-capped Rosy-Finch
- House Finch
- Purple Finch
- Cassin’s Finch
- Common Redpoll
- Red Crossbill
- Pine Siskin
- Lesser Goldfinch
- Lawrence’s Goldfinch
- American Goldfinch
- Lapland Longspur
- Chestnut-collared Longspur
- Thick-billed Longspur
- Snow Bunting
- Cassin’s Sparrow
- Grasshopper Sparrow
- Lark Sparrow
- Lark Bunting
- Chipping Sparrow
- Clay-colored Sparrow
- Field Sparrow
- Brewer’s Sparrow
- American Tree Sparrow
- Dark-eyed Junco
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Harris’s Sparrow
- White-throated Sparrow
- Vesper Sparrow
- Baird’s Sparrow
- Savannah Sparrow
- Song Sparrow
- Lincoln’s Sparrow
- Canyon Towhee
- Abert’s Towhee
- California Towhee
- Rufous-crowned Sparrow
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Spotted Towhee
- Eastern Towhee
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Bobolink
- Eastern Meadowlark
- Western Meadowlark
- Orchard Oriole
- Streak-backed Oriole
- Bullock’s Oriole
- Altamira Oriole
- Baltimore Oriole
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Rusty Blackbird
- Brewer’s Blackbird
- Common Grackle
- Boat-tailed Grackle
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Ovenbird
- Worm-eating Warbler
- Northern Waterthrush
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Tennessee Warbler
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Virginia’s Warbler
- MacGillivray’s Warbler
- Common Yellowthroat
- Hooded Warbler
- American Redstart
- Cape May Warbler
- Northern Parula
- Tropical Parula
- Blackburnian Warbler
- Yellow Warbler
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Palm Warbler
- Pine Warbler
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Prairie Warbler
- Townsend’s Warbler
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Wilson’s Warbler
- Summer Tanager
- Western Tanager
- Northern Cardinal
- Pyrrhuloxia
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Black-headed Grosbeak
- Blue Grosbeak
- Painted Bunting
- Lazuli Bunting
- Indigo Bunting
- Dickcissel
- Philadelphia Vireo
- Scarlet Tanager
- Alder Flycatcher