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GEESE ^
__ Greater White-fronted Goose #
__ Snow Goose #
__ Ross's Goose * #
__ Brant ** #
__ Cackling Goose * #
__ Canada Goose #
SWANS ^
__ Mute Swan #
__ Trumpeter Swan #
__ Tundra Swan #
DUCKS ^
__ Wood Duck #
__ Gadwall #
__ Eurasian Wigeon ** #
__ American Wigeon #
__ American Black Duck #
__ Mallard #
__ Blue-winged Teal #
__ Cinnamon Teal ** #
__ Northern Shoveler #
__ Northern Pintail #
__ Green-winged Teal #
__ Canvasback #
__ Redhead #
__ Ring-necked Duck #
__ Greater Scaup #
__ Lesser Scaup #
__ King 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 #
PARTRIDGE ^
__ Gray Partridge #
PHEASANT ^
__ Ring-necked Pheasant #
GROUSE ^
__ Ruffed Grouse #
__ Spruce Grouse * #
__ Sharp-tailed Grouse #
__ Greater Prairie-Chicken #
TURKEY ^
__ Wild Turkey #
BOBWHITE ^
__ Northern Bobwhite #
LOONS ^
__ Red-throated Loon #
__ Pacific Loon ** #
__ Common Loon #
GREBES ^
__ Pied-billed Grebe #
__ Horned Grebe #
__ Red-necked Grebe #
__ Eared Grebe * #
__ Western Grebe * #
PELICAN ^
__ American White Pelican #
CORMORANT ^
__ Double-crested Cormorant #
BITTERNS ^
__ American Bittern #
__ Least Bittern #
HERONS ^
__ Great Blue Heron #
__ Great Egret #
__ Snowy Egret * #
__ Little Blue Heron * #
__ Tricolored Heron ** #
__ Cattle Egret #
__ Green Heron #
__ Black-crowned Night Heron #
__ Yellow-crowned Night Heron * #
IBISES ^
__ Glossy Ibis ** #
__ White-faced Ibis ** #
VULTURE ^
__ Turkey Vulture #
HAWKS ^
__ Osprey #
__ Mississippi Kite ** #
__ Bald Eagle #
__ Northern Harrier #
__ Sharp-shinned Hawk #
__ Cooper’s Hawk #
__ Northern Goshawk #
__ Red-shouldered Hawk #
__ Broad-winged Hawk #
__ Swainson's Hawk ** #
__ Red-tailed Hawk #
__ Rough-legged Hawk #
__ Golden Eagle #
__ American Kestrel #
__ Merlin #
__ Gyrfalcon ** #
__ Peregrine Falcon #
RAILS ^
__ Yellow Rail * #
__ King Rail * #
__ Virginia Rail #
__ Sora #
GALLINULES ^
__ Common Moorhen #
__ American Coot #
CRANES ^
__ Sandhill Crane #
__ Whooping Crane #
PLOVERS ^
__ Black-bellied Plover #
__ American Golden Plover #
__ Semipalmated Plover #
__ Piping Plover * #
__ Killdeer #
STILT ^
__ Black-necked Stilt ** #
AVOCET ^
__ American Avocet * #
SANDPIPERS ^
__ Spotted Sandpiper #
__ Solitary Sandpiper #
__ Greater Yellowlegs #
__ Willet #
__ Lesser Yellowlegs #
__ Upland Sandpiper #
__ Whimbrel #
__ Hudsonian Godwit #
__ Ruddy Turnstone #
__ Red Knot #
__ Sanderling #
__ Semipalmated #
__ Western Sandpiper ** #
__ Least Sandpiper #
__ White-rumped Sandpiper #
__ Baird's Sandpiper #
__ Pectoral Sandpiper #
__ Purple Sandpiper * #
__ Dunlin #
__ Stilt #
__ Buff-breasted Sandpiper * #
__ Ruff ** #
__ Short-billed Dowitcher #
__ Long-billed Dowitcher #
__ Wilson's Snipe #
__ American Woodcock #
__ Wilson's Phalarope #
__ Red-necked Phalarope #
__ Red Phalarope ** #
JAEGERS ^
__ Pomarine Jaeger ** #
__ Parasitic Jaeger * #
__ Long-tailed Jaeger ** #
GULLS ^
__ Laughing Gull * #
__ Franklin's Gull #
__ Little Gull * #
__ Black-headed Gull ** #
__ Bonaparte’s Gull #
__ Mew Gull ** #
__ Ring-billed Gull #
__ California Gull ** #
__ Herring Gull #
__ Thayer's Gull #
__ Iceland Gull * #
__ Lesser Black-Backed Gull * #
__ Glaucous Gull #
__ Greater Black-backed Gull #
__ Sabine's Gull * #
__ Black-legged Kittiwake ** #
__ Ivory Gull ** #
TERNS ^
__ Least Tern ** #
__ Caspian Tern #
__ Black Tern #
__ Common Tern #
__ Arctic Tern ** #
__ Forster’s Tern #
DOVES ^
__ Rock Pigeon #
__ European Collared Dove * #
__ Mourning Dove #
CUCKOOS ^
__ Yellow-billed Cuckoo #
__ Black-billed Cuckoo #
OWLS ^
__ Barn Owl ** #
__ Eastern Screech-Owl #
__ Great Horned Owl #
__ Snowy Owl #
__ Northern Hawk-Owl ** #
__ Burrowing Owl ** #
__ Barred Owl #
__ Great Gray Owl * #
__ Long-eared Owl #
__ Short-eared Owl #
__ Boreal Owl ** #
__ Northern Saw-whet Owl #
GOATSUCKERS ^
__ Common Nighthawk #
__ Chuck-wills Widow ** #
__ Whip-poor-will #
SWIFT ^
__ Chimney Swift #
HUMMINGBIRDS ^
__ Ruby-throated Hummingbird #
__ Rufous Hummingbird ** #
KINGFISHER ^
__ Belted Kingfisher #
WOODPECKERS ^
__ Red-headed Woodpecker #
__ Red-bellied Woodpecker #
__ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker #
__ Downy Woodpecker #
__ Hairy Woodpecker #
__ American Three-toed Woodpecker ** #
__ Black-backed Woodpecker * #
__ Northern Flicker #
__ Pileated Woodpecker #
FLYCATCHERS ^
__ Olive-sided Flycatcher #
__ Eastern Wood-Pewee #
__ Yellow-bellied Flycatcher #
__ Acadian Flycatcher #
__ Alder Flycatcher #
__ Willow Flycatcher #
__ Least Flycatcher #
__ Eastern Phoebe #
__ Great Crested Flycatcher #
__ Western Kingbird ** #
__ Eastern Kingbird #
__ Scissor-tailed Flycatcher ** #
SHRIKES ^
__ Loggerhead Shrike * #
__ Northern Shrike #
VIREOS ^
__ White-eyed Vireo * #
__ Bell's Vireo * #
__ Yellow-throated Vireo #
__ Blue-headed Vireo #
__ Warbling Vireo #
__ Philadelphia Vireo #
__ Red-eyed Vireo #
CORVIDS ^
__ Gray Jay #
__ Blue Jay #
__ American Crow #
__ Common Raven #
LARK ^
__ Horned Lark #
SWALLOWS ^
__ Purple Martin #
__ Tree Swallow #
__ Northern Rough-winged Swallow #
__ Bank Swallow #
__ Cliff Swallow #
__ Barn Swallow #
CHICKADEES ^
__ Black-capped Chickadee #
__ Boreal Chickadee #
TITMOUSE ^
__ Tufted Titmouse #
NUTHATCHES ^
__ Red-breasted Nuthatch #
__ White-breasted Nuthatch #
CREEPER ^
__ Brown Creeper #
WRENS ^
__ Carolina Wren #
__ House Wren #
__ Winter Wren #
__ Sedge Wren #
__ Marsh Wren #
KINGLETS ^
__ Golden-crowned Kinglet #
__ Ruby-crowned Kinglet #
GNATCATCHER ^
__ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher #
THRUSHES ^
__ Eastern Bluebird #
__ Mountain Bluebird ** #
__ Townsends Solitare * #
__ Veery #
__ Gray-cheeked Thrush #
__ Swainson’s Thrush #
__ Hermit Thrush #
__ Wood Thrush #
__ American Robin #
__ Varied Thrush #
MIMIDS ^
__ Gray Catbird #
__ Northern Mockingbird * #
__ Brown Thrasher #
STARLING ^
__ European Starling #
PIPIT ^
__ American Pipit #
WAXWINGS ^
__ Bohemian Waxwing #
__ Cedar Waxwing #
WARBLERS ^
__ Blue-winged Warbler #
__ Golden-winged Warbler #
__ Tennessee Warbler #
__ Orange-crowned Warbler #
__ Nashville Warbler #
__ Northern Parula #
__ Yellow Warbler #
__ Chestnut-sided Warbler #
__ Magnolia Warbler #
__ Cape May Warbler #
__ Black-throated Blue Warbler #
__ Yellow-rumped Warbler #
__ Black-throated Green Warbler #
__ Blackburnian Warbler #
__ Yellow-throated Warbler * #
__ Pine Warbler #
__ Kirtland's Warbler ** #
__ Prairie Warbler * #
__ Palm Warbler #
__ Bay-breasted Warbler #
__ Blackpoll Warbler #
__ Cerulean Warbler #
__ Black-and-white Warbler #
__ American Redstart #
__ Prothonotary Warbler #
__ Worm-eating Warbler * #
__ Ovenbird #
__ Northern Waterthrush #
__ Louisiana Waterthrush #
__ Kentucky Warbler #
__ Connecticut Warbler #
__ Mourning Warbler #
__ Common Yellowthroat #
__ Hooded Warbler #
__ Wilson’s Warbler #
__ Canada Warbler #
__ Yellow-breasted Chat * #
TANAGERS ^
__ Summer Tanager * #
__ Scarlet Tanager #
__ Western Tanager * #
TOWHEES ^
__ Green-tailed Towhee ** #
__ Spotted Towhee ** #
__ Eastern Towhee #
SPARROWS ^
__ American Tree Sparrow #
__ Chipping Sparrow #
__ Clay-colored Sparrow #
__ Field Sparrow #
__ Vesper Sparrow #
__ Lark Sparrow #
__ Lark Bunting ** #
__ Savannah Sparrow #
__ Grasshopper Sparrow #
__ Henslow's Sparrow #
__ LeConte's Sparrow #
__ Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow * #
__ Fox Sparrow #
__ Song Sparrow #
__ Lincoln's Sparrow #
__ Swamp Sparrow #
__ White-throated Sparrow #
__ Harris's Sparrow #
__ White-crowned Sparrow #
__ Dark-eyed Junco #
__ Lapland Longspur #
__ Snow Bunting #
CARDINALS ^
__ Northern Cardinal #
__ Rose-breasted Grosbeak #
__ Blue Grosbeak ** #
__ Indigo Bunting #
__ Dickcissel #
BLACKBIRDS ^
__ Bobolink #
__ Red-winged Blackbird #
__ Eastern Meadowlark #
__ Western Meadowlark #
__ Yellow-headed Blackbird #
__ Rusty Blackbird #
__ Brewer's Blackbird #
__ Common Grackle #
__ Brown-headed Cowbird #
__ Orchard Oriole #
__ Baltimore Oriole #
FINCHES ^
__ Pine Grosbeak #
__ Purple Finch #
__ House Finch #
__ Red Crossbill #
__ White-winged Crossbill #
__ Common Redpoll #
__ Hoary Redpoll ** #
__ Pine Siskin #
__ American Goldfinch #
__ Evening Grosbeak #
OLD WORLD SPARROWS ^
__ House Sparrow #
__ European Tree Sparrow ** #