Birding Life List
Our Life List of Birds
There are lots of birding challenges out there. There's the Big Year, of course, where you try to identify the most birds in a single year. You may have heard of other challenges, like a Big Day, Big Week, or Big Month. Your Life List is the all-time complete list of birds you have identified.
Our Life List Total: 205
Acadian Flycatcher
Acorn Woodpecker
Altamira Oriole
American Avocet
American Black Duck
American Coot
American Crow
American Flamingo
American Goldfinch
American Oystercatcher
American Robin
American Tree Sparrow
American White Ibis
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Audubon Warbler
Bald Eagle
Baltimore Oriole
Barn Swallow
Barred Owl
Bell's Vireo
Bewick's Wren
Black and White Warbler
Black Phoebe
Black Tern
Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Black-capped Vireo
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Black-crested Titmouse
Black-crowned Chikadee
Black-headed Grosbeak
Black-headed Vulture
Black-necked Stilt
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-throated Sparrow
Blue Grosbeak
Blue Heron
Blue Jay
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Blue-winged Teal
Boat-tailed Grackle
Brown Pelican
Brown Thrasher
Brown-headed Cowbird
Buff-bellied Hummingbird
Cactus Wren
Canada Goose
Canyon Towhee
Canyon Wren
Carolina Chikadee
Carolina Wren
Caspian Tern
Cassin's Finch
Cattle Egret
Cedar Waxwing
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Chipping Sparrow
Chuck-will's-widow
Cinnamon Teal
Clay-colored Robin
Clay-colored Thrush
Cliff Swallow
Common Gallinule
Common Grackle
Common Moorhen
Common Pauraque
Common Raven
Common Tern
Common Yellowthroat
Cooper's Hawk
Couch's Kingbird
Crested Caracara
Curved-billed Thrasher
Dark-eyed Junco
Double-crested Cormorant
Dwarf Owl
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Meadowlark
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Screech Owl
Eastern Towhee
Eurasian Collared Dove
European Starling
Field Sparrow
Forster's Tern
Fulvous Whistling Duck
Golden-cheeked Warbler
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Gray Catbird
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Great Horned Owl
Great Kiskadee
Great-crester Flycatcher
Great-horned Owl
Great-tailed Grackle
Greater Flamingo
Greater Roadrunner
Green Heron
Green Jay
Green Kingfisher
Green-winged Teal
Grey Hawk
Harris's Sparrow
Hermit Thrush
Hooded Oriole
Hooded Warbler
House Finch
House Sparrow
Inca Dove
Indigo Bunting
Killdeer
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Lark Bunting
Lark Sparrow
Laughing Gull
Lazuli Bunting
Least Bittern
Lessor Goldfinch
Lincoln's Sparrow
Little Blue Heron
Little Egret
Little-ringed Plover
Long-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Thrasher
Louisiana Waterthrush
Macgillivray's Warbler
Mallard
Mexican Jay
Montezuma Quail
Mourning Dove
Nashville Warbler
Neotropic Cormorant
Norther Cardinal
Northern Cardinal
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Parula
Northern Shoveler
Northern Waterthrush
Olive-colored Sparrow
Orange-crowned Warbler
Orchard Oriole
Osprey
Painted Bunting
Phainopepla
Pied-billed Grebe
Pileated Woodpecker
Pine Siskin
Pine Warbler
Plain Chachalaca
Purple Gallinule
Purple Martin
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-winged Blackbird
Ring-billed Gull
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Roseate Spoonbill
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Sandpiper
Scarlet Tanager
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Scott's Oriole
Screech Owl
Scrub Jay
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Slaty-backed Gull
Snowy Egret
Solitary Sandpiper
Song Sparrow
Sora
Spotted Towhee
Summer Tanager
Swainson's Hawk
Swainson's Thrush
Tree Swallow
Tri-colored Heron
Tufted Titmouse
Turkey Vulture
Vermillion Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Western Scrub Jay
White Ibis
White-crowned Sparrow
White-eyed Vireo
White-tailed Kite
White-throated Sparrow
White-tipped Dove
White-winged Dove
Whooping Crane
Wild Turkey
Willet
Wilson's Plover
Wilson's Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-breasted Chat
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Attracting Birds to your Backyard
I have built several bird houses to provide habitat in my back yard, and have a sort of feeding area with a squirrel proof bird feeder, suet, and bird baths.
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