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Birds

Species List by Biome



CONIFEROUS FOREST

African broadbill

African pitta

American cliff swallow

American goldfinch

American robin

Anna's hummingbird

Barn swallow

Barred eagle-owl

Belted kingfisher

Black-and-red broadbill

Black-and-white warbler

Black-capped chickadee

Black-capped vireo

Black-crowned barwing

Blue-gray gnatcatcher

Bornean bristlehead

Brown creeper

Brown kiwi

Cedar waxwing

Chaffinch

Chimney swift

Crag martin

Cuban tody

Dollarbird

Dunnock

Dusky woodswallow

Eastern bluebird

Eastern screech-owl

Emu

Fan-tailed berrypecker

Fiery minivet

Fire-breasted flowerpecker

Gray butcherbird

Gray nightjar

Gray parrot

Gray potoo

Green magpie

House sparrow

House wren

Ivory-billed woodpecker

Japanese white-eye

Kirtland's warbler

Kokako

Laughing kookaburra

Little slaty flycatcher

Malaysian honeyguide

Northern bobwhite quail

Northern wryneck

Nuthatch

Oilbird

Orange-breasted trogon

Osprey

Palmchat

Peregrine falcon

Red crossbill

Red-breasted nuthatch

Red-cockaded woodpecker

Resplendent quetzal

Rifleman

Rose-throated becard

Rufous treecreeper

Rufous-browed peppershrike

Rufous-capped nunlet

Rufous-tailed jacamar

Satyr tragopan

Scarlet macaw

Sparkling violet-ear

Spotted nutcracker

Striated pardalote

Whip-poor-will

White-necked puffbird

White-throated fantail

Winter wren

Wrentit

Yellow-bellied sapsucker

Yellow-breasted chat


CONTINENTAL MARGIN

Blue-footed booby

Brown pelican

Great cormorant

Northern gannet


DECIDUOUS FOREST

African broadbill

African pitta

American cliff swallow

American goldfinch

American robin

Anna's hummingbird

Arctic warbler

Asian fairy-bluebird

Australian magpie-lark

Baltimore oriole

Bar-breasted mousebird

Barn owl

Barn swallow

Baywing

Black bulbul

Black guan

Black-and-white warbler

Black-capped chickadee

Black-capped vireo

Blue jay

Blue-crowned motmot

Blue-gray gnatcatcher

Brown creeper

Brown kiwi

Bushtit

Cedar waxwing

Chaffinch

Chimney swift

Coppersmith barbet

Crag martin

Crested tree swift

Cuban tody

Dollarbird

Dunnock

Dusky woodswallow

Eastern bluebird

Eastern screech-owl

Emu

Eurasian golden oriole

European bee-eater

European roller

Fire-breasted flowerpecker

Gray catbird

Gray nightjar

Gray-crowned babbler

Great tit

House sparrow

House wren

Ivory-billed woodpecker

Jacky winter

Japanese white-eye

Leaf-love

Northern wryneck

Nuthatch

Orange-breasted trogon

Osprey

Painted buttonquail

Peregrine falcon

Peruvian plantcutter

Plain chachalaca

Red-breasted nuthatch

Red-cockaded woodpecker

Rifleman

Rose-ringed parakeet

Rufous scrub-bird

Rufous vanga

Rufous-capped nunlet

Rufous-tailed jacamar

Satyr tragopan

Scarlet macaw

Southern scrub robin

Spotted flycatcher

Striated pardalote

Tawny frogmouth

Toucan barbet

Whip-poor-will

White-breasted mesite

White-helmet shrike

White-necked puffbird

Wild turkey

Willie wagtail

Willow ptarmigan

Winter wren

Wood duck

Yellow-bellied sapsucker

Yellow-breasted chat

Yellow-fronted tinkerbird

Yellowhead

Yellow-rumped thornbill


DESERT

American cliff swallow

American mourning dove

Barn swallow

Cactus wren

California condor

Collared pratincole

Crab plover

Crested caracara

Crimson chat

Egyptian vulture

Emu

Gray catbird

Gray hypocolius

Greater hoopoe-lark

Greater roadrunner

Harris's hawk

House sparrow

Malleefowl

Namaqua sandgrouse

Northern lapwing

Ostrich

Pallas's sandgrouse

Peregrine falcon

Peruvian plantcutter

Rock pigeon

Snow finch

Splendid fairy-wren

Striated grasswren

Verdin

Western scrub-jay

Willie wagtail


GRASSLAND

African broadbill

African palm swift

African paradise-flycatcher

American cliff swallow

American mourning dove

American robin

Anna's hummingbird

Arctic skua

Australasian lark

Australian magpie-lark

Australian pratincole

Bar-breasted mousebird

Barn owl

Barn swallow

Baya weaver

Baywing

Black rail

Black-capped chickadee

Black-capped vireo

Black-crowned barwing

Black-faced sheathbill

Blue bustard

Blue jay

Blue-black grassquit

California condor

Cape sugarbird

Cattle egret

Cedar waxwing

Collared pratincole

Common cuckoo

Common myna

Common waxbill

Corncrake

Crag martin

Crested caracara

Crimson chat

Dollarbird

Eastern phoebe

Eclectus parrot

Egyptian vulture

Emu

Eurasian bittern

European bee-eater

European roller

European starling

European white stork

Fan-tailed berrypecker

Golden-winged sunbird

Gray go-away-bird

Gray hypocolius

Gray potoo

Gray woodpecker

Gray-crowned crane

Great blue heron

Great bustard

Great kiskadee

Green woodhoopoe

Gyrfalcon

Hammerhead

Harris's hawk

Helmeted guineafowl

Hoopoe

Horned lark

House sparrow

Jacky winter

Killdeer

King vulture

Laysan finch

Lesser rhea

Loggerhead shrike

Long-billed curlew

Malleefowl

Northern bobwhite quail

Northern lapwing

Northern raven

Northern wryneck

Ostrich

Painted buttonquail

Pallas's sandgrouse

Palmchat

Peregrine falcon

Peruvian plantcutter

Purple sunbird

Rainbow lorikeet

Red-billed oxpecker

Red-legged seriema

Red-winged blackbird

Rock pigeon

Roseate spoonbill

Rose-ringed parakeet

Rosy-breasted longclaw

Rufous-capped nunlet

Sacred ibis

Sandhill crane

Savanna sparrow

Secretary bird

Shoebill

Small buttonquail

Snowy owl

Song sparrow

Southern ground-hornbill

Southern red bishop

Southern scrub robin

Spotted munia

Sprague's pipit

Stonechat

Tawny frogmouth

Village weaver

White-helmet shrike

White-necked puffbird

Wild turkey

Wrentit

Yellow-fronted tinkerbird

Yellow-rumped thornbill

Zebra finch


LAKE AND POND

African jacana

American anhinga

American cliff swallow

American white pelican

Australian magpie-lark

Barn swallow

Baya weaver

Belted kingfisher

Black tern

Black-and-red broadbill

Black-capped donacobius

Canada goose

Chaffinch

Common iora

Common loon

Crag martin

Eurasian bittern

Gray wagtail

Great blue heron

Great cormorant

Great crested grebe

Greater flamingo

Greater thornbird

Hammerhead

Hoatzin

Mallard

Mute swan

Northern wryneck

Osprey

Peregrine falcon

Pheasant-tailed jacana

Red-throated loon

Roseate spoonbill

Rosy-breasted longclaw

Rufous hornero

Sacred ibis

Shoebill

Song sparrow

Sunbittern

Sungrebe

Village weaver

Western grebe

Wood duck

Yellow-breasted chat

Zebra finch


OCEAN

Arctic skua

Blue-footed booby

Chatham mollymawk

Common diving-petrel

Common iora

Common loon

Common murre

Emperor penguin

Great auk

King eider

Laysan albatross

Laysan finch

Macaroni penguin

Magellanic penguin

Magnificent frigatebird

Manx shearwater

Northern fulmar

Northern gannet

Puffin

Red-throated loon

White-tailed tropicbird

Wilson's storm-petrel


RAINFOREST

African paradise-flycatcher

African pitta

Albert's lyrebird

Amazonian umbrellabird

American cliff swallow

Apapane

Arctic warbler

Asian fairy-bluebird

Australasian figbird

Baltimore oriole

Barn owl

Barn swallow

Barred antshrike

Bishop's oo

Black-naped monarch

Blue-crowned motmot

Bornean bristlehead

Buff-spotted flufftail

Cape batis

Common bulbul

Common cuckoo

Common iora

Common sunbird-asity

Common trumpeter

Coppery-chested jacamar

Crag martin

Cuban tody

Dodo

Eclectus parrot

Fan-tailed berrypecker

Feline owlet-nightjar

Fiery minivet

Golden whistler

Golden-winged sunbird

Gray antbird

Gray nightjar

Gray potoo

Gray-breasted mountain-toucan

Gray-necked picathartes

Great blue turaco

Greater racket-tailed drongo

Greater thornbird

Guianan cock-of-the-rock

Hairy hermit

Helmeted hornbill

Highland tinamou

Hooded pitta

House sparrow

Kagu

King bird of paradise

King vulture

Kokako

Little slaty flycatcher

Long-tailed manakin

Luzon bleeding heart

Lyre-tailed honeyguide

Malaysian honeyguide

Maleo

Mauritius cuckoo-shrike

Osprey

Peregrine falcon

Purple sunbird

Purple-bearded bee-eater

Rainbow lorikeet

Red-billed scythebill

Ribbon-tailed astrapia

Roseate spoonbill

Rose-ringed parakeet

Ruby-cheeked sunbird

Rufous scrub-bird

Rufous vanga

Rufous-collared kingfisher

Rusty-belted tapaculo

Satin bowerbird

Sharpbill

Southern cassowary

Southern logrunner

Spangled cotinga

Spotted quail-thrush

Square-tailed drongo

Striated pardalote

Stripe-headed rhabdornis

Sulawesi red-knobbed hornbill

Sunbittern

Toco toucan

Toucan barbet

Variable pitohui

Victoria's riflebird

Wattled curassow

White-breasted mesite

Willie wagtail

Wire-tailed manakin


RIVER AND STREAM

African broadbill

African pitta

American anhinga

American cliff swallow

American dipper

American white pelican

Australian magpie-lark

Baltimore oriole

Barn swallow

Baya weaver

Black-and-red broadbill

Black-capped donacobius

Canada goose

Cedar waxwing

Chaffinch

Common loon

Crag martin

Crested caracara

Cuban tody

Dusky woodswallow

Eurasian dipper

European bee-eater

European roller

Gray catbird

Gray hypocolius

Gray wagtail

Gray woodpecker

Great blue heron

Great cormorant

Great crested grebe

Green woodhoopoe

Gyrfalcon

Hoatzin

Mute swan

Northern wryneck

Peregrine falcon

Red-breasted nuthatch

Red-throated loon

Roseate spoonbill

Rosy-breasted longclaw

Rufous-capped nunlet

Rufous hornero

Rufous-tailed jacamar

Sacred ibis

Shoebill

Snow bunting

Song sparrow

Southern red bishop

Spotted bowerbird

Striped honeyeater

Sunbittern

Sungrebe

Village weaver

Wood duck

Yellow-breasted chat

Yellow-fronted tinkerbird


SEASHORE

American cliff swallow

American white pelican

Arctic warbler

Australian magpie-lark

Barn swallow

Beach thick-knee

Belted kingfisher

Black tern

Black-faced sheathbill

Blue-footed booby

Brown pelican

Cactus wren

California condor

Collared pratincole

Common iora

Common murre

Crab plover

Crag martin

Cuban tody

Fiery minivet

Golden whistler

Gray wagtail

Great auk

Great blue heron

Great cormorant

Greater flamingo

Gyrfalcon

Hood mockingbird

Horned lark

Magnificent frigatebird

Northern gannet

Osprey

Peregrine falcon

Puffin

Roseate spoonbill

Ruddy turnstone

Sacred ibis

Saunder's gull

Snow bunting

Song sparrow

Splendid fairy-wren

Stonechat

Variable oystercatcher

Victoria's riflebird

White-tailed tropicbird


TUNDRA

American robin

Arctic skua

Arctic warbler

Canada goose

Common loon

Gyrfalcon

Horned lark

Northern raven

Peregrine falcon

Red-throated loon

Ruddy turnstone

Savanna sparrow

Snow bunting

Snowy owl

Willow ptarmigan


WETLAND

African jacana

African snipe

American anhinga

American avocet

American cliff swallow

American white pelican

Australasian lark

Australian magpie-lark

Baltimore oriole

Barn swallow

Black rail

Black tern

Black-faced sheathbill

Black-winged stilt

Canada goose

Cattle egret

Common bulbul

Common iora

Crag martin

Crested caracara

Eurasian bittern

European white stork

Gray wagtail

Gray-crowned crane

Great blue heron

Great cormorant

Greater flamingo

Greater painted snipe

Hairy hermit

Hammerhead

Harris's hawk

Horned screamer

House sparrow

Killdeer

King eider

Leaf-love

Limpkin

Long-billed curlew

Mallard

Mute swan

Northern lapwing

Osprey

Peregrine falcon

Pheasant-tailed jacana

Red-crowned crane

Red-winged blackbird

Roseate spoonbill

Rosy-breasted longclaw

Ruddy turnstone

Rufous-bellied seedsnipe

Sacred ibis

Sandhill crane

Saunder's gull

Shoebill

Sunbittern

Village weaver

Wood duck

Wood stork

Yellow-breasted chat

Zebra finch

Zitting cisticola

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