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United States bird checklist

1425 bird species in 115 families have been recorded in the United States, according to eBird; about 844 of them are seen regularly, and the rest are rarities, vagrants and escaped or introduced birds. Download the full list as a PDF, or tick birds off on your phone, with counts and notes, even without signal.

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Species data: eBird.org, updated · How these lists are made

The most common birds in the United States right now

  1. 1Yellow-rumped Warbler
  2. 2House Sparrow
  3. 3Rock Pigeon
  4. 4Canada Goose
  5. 5Double-crested Cormorant
  6. 6Mourning Dove
  7. 7American Robin
  8. 8American Crow
  9. 9Mallard
  10. 10Killdeer
The top 20, and how they are ranked

United States bird checklist

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Ostriches

  • Common Ostrich

Cassowaries and Emu

  • Emu

Rheas

  • Greater Rhea
  • Lesser Rhea

Tinamous

  • Chilean Tinamou

Magpie Goose

  • Magpie Goose

Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl

  • Plumed Whistling-Duck
  • White-faced Whistling-Duck
  • Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
  • West Indian Whistling-Duck
  • Fulvous Whistling-Duck
  • Bar-headed Goose
  • Emperor Goose
  • Snow Goose
  • Ross's Goose
  • Graylag Goose
  • Swan Goose
  • Greater White-fronted Goose
  • Lesser White-fronted Goose
  • Taiga Bean-Goose
  • Tundra Bean-Goose
  • Pink-footed Goose
  • Brant
  • Barnacle Goose
  • Cackling Goose
  • Canada Goose
  • Hawaiian Goose
  • Red-breasted Goose
  • Blue-winged Goose
  • Mute Swan
  • Black Swan
  • Black-necked Swan
  • Trumpeter Swan
  • Tundra Swan
  • Whooper Swan
  • Coscoroba Swan
  • Orinoco Goose
  • Upland Goose
  • Radjah Shelduck
  • Egyptian Goose
  • Ruddy Shelduck
  • South African Shelduck
  • Paradise Shelduck
  • Common Shelduck
  • Crested Duck
  • Muscovy Duck
  • Ringed Teal
  • Wood Duck
  • Mandarin Duck
  • Maned Duck
  • Baikal Teal
  • Garganey
  • Blue-billed Teal
  • Silver Teal
  • Blue-winged Teal
  • Cinnamon Teal
  • Northern Shoveler
  • Gadwall
  • Falcated Duck
  • Eurasian Wigeon
  • American Wigeon
  • Chiloe Wigeon
  • Laysan Duck
  • Hawaiian Duck
  • Eastern Spot-billed Duck
  • Mallard
  • Mexican Duck
  • American Black Duck
  • Mottled Duck
  • White-cheeked Pintail
  • Northern Pintail
  • Yellow-billed Pintail
  • Green-winged Teal
  • Yellow-billed Teal
  • Chestnut Teal
  • Marbled Duck
  • Red-crested Pochard
  • Southern Pochard
  • Rosy-billed Pochard
  • Canvasback
  • Redhead
  • Common Pochard
  • Ring-necked Duck
  • Ferruginous Duck
  • Baer's Pochard
  • Tufted Duck
  • Greater Scaup
  • Lesser Scaup
  • Steller's Eider
  • Labrador Duck
  • Spectacled Eider
  • King Eider
  • Common Eider
  • Harlequin Duck
  • Surf Scoter
  • White-winged Scoter
  • Stejneger's Scoter
  • Common Scoter
  • Black Scoter
  • Long-tailed Duck
  • Bufflehead
  • Common Goldeneye
  • Barrow's Goldeneye
  • Smew
  • Hooded Merganser
  • Common Merganser
  • Red-breasted Merganser
  • Masked Duck
  • Ruddy Duck

Guans, Chachalacas, and Curassows

  • Plain Chachalaca

Guineafowl

  • Helmeted Guineafowl

New World Quail

  • Mountain Quail
  • Northern Bobwhite
  • Scaled Quail
  • Elegant Quail
  • California Quail
  • Gambel's Quail
  • Montezuma Quail

Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies

  • Wild Turkey
  • Ruffed Grouse
  • Greater Sage-Grouse
  • Gunnison Sage-Grouse
  • Dusky Grouse
  • Sooty Grouse
  • Sharp-tailed Grouse
  • Greater Prairie-Chicken
  • Lesser Prairie-Chicken
  • White-tailed Ptarmigan
  • Willow Ptarmigan
  • Rock Ptarmigan
  • Spruce Grouse
  • Gray Partridge
  • Reeves's Pheasant
  • Golden Pheasant
  • Lady Amherst's Pheasant
  • Ring-necked Pheasant
  • Green Pheasant
  • Swinhoe's Pheasant
  • Kalij Pheasant
  • Silver Pheasant
  • Indian Peafowl
  • Green Peafowl
  • Gray Peacock-Pheasant
  • Red Junglefowl
  • Gray Francolin
  • Black Francolin
  • Himalayan Snowcock
  • Brown Quail
  • Blue-breasted Quail
  • Common Quail
  • Japanese Quail
  • Red-legged Partridge
  • Chukar
  • Erckel's Spurfowl

Pigeons and Doves

  • Rock Pigeon
  • Speckled Pigeon
  • Common Wood-Pigeon
  • Scaly-naped Pigeon
  • White-crowned Pigeon
  • Red-billed Pigeon
  • Band-tailed Pigeon
  • Passenger Pigeon
  • European Turtle-Dove
  • Oriental Turtle-Dove
  • Eurasian Collared-Dove
  • African Collared-Dove
  • Ring-necked Dove
  • Spotted Dove
  • Laughing Dove
  • Namaqua Dove
  • Crested Pigeon
  • Diamond Dove
  • Zebra Dove
  • Inca Dove
  • Common Ground Dove
  • Ruddy Ground Dove
  • Ruddy Quail-Dove
  • Key West Quail-Dove
  • White-tipped Dove
  • White-winged Dove
  • Zenaida Dove
  • Mourning Dove

Sandgrouse

  • Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse

Turacos

  • Gray Go-away-bird
  • White-cheeked Turaco

Cuckoos

  • Smooth-billed Ani
  • Groove-billed Ani
  • Greater Roadrunner
  • Dark-billed Cuckoo
  • Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  • Mangrove Cuckoo
  • Black-billed Cuckoo
  • Common Cuckoo
  • Oriental Cuckoo

Nightjars and Allies

  • Lesser Nighthawk
  • Common Nighthawk
  • Antillean Nighthawk
  • Common Pauraque
  • Common Poorwill
  • Chuck-will's-widow
  • Buff-collared Nightjar
  • Eastern Whip-poor-will
  • Mexican Whip-poor-will
  • Gray Nightjar

Swifts

  • Black Swift
  • White-collared Swift
  • Chimney Swift
  • Vaux's Swift
  • White-throated Needletail
  • Mariana Swiftlet
  • Common Swift
  • Pacific Swift
  • White-throated Swift
  • Antillean Palm Swift

Hummingbirds

  • Mexican Violetear
  • Green-breasted Mango
  • Rivoli's Hummingbird
  • Plain-capped Starthroat
  • Amethyst-throated Mountain-gem
  • Blue-throated Mountain-gem
  • Lucifer Hummingbird
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird
  • Black-chinned Hummingbird
  • Bahama Woodstar
  • Anna's Hummingbird
  • Costa's Hummingbird
  • Calliope Hummingbird
  • Rufous Hummingbird
  • Allen's Hummingbird
  • Broad-tailed Hummingbird
  • Bumblebee Hummingbird
  • Broad-billed Hummingbird
  • White-eared Hummingbird
  • Xantus's Hummingbird
  • Violet-crowned Hummingbird
  • Berylline Hummingbird
  • Cinnamon Hummingbird
  • Buff-bellied Hummingbird

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

  • Ridgway's Rail
  • King Rail
  • Clapper Rail
  • Virginia Rail
  • Corn Crake
  • Spotted Rail
  • Paint-billed Crake
  • Giant Wood-Rail
  • Rufous-necked Wood-Rail
  • Sora
  • Eurasian Moorhen
  • Common Gallinule
  • Eurasian Coot
  • Hawaiian Coot
  • American Coot
  • Purple Gallinule
  • Azure Gallinule
  • Gray-headed Swamphen
  • Baillon's Crake
  • Yellow Rail
  • Black Rail

Finfoots

  • Sungrebe

Limpkin

  • Limpkin

Cranes

  • Gray Crowned-Crane
  • Sandhill Crane
  • Demoiselle Crane
  • Blue Crane
  • Whooping Crane
  • Common Crane
  • Hooded Crane

Thick-knees

  • Double-striped Thick-knee

Stilts and Avocets

  • Black-winged Stilt
  • Black-necked Stilt
  • American Avocet

Oystercatchers

  • Eurasian Oystercatcher
  • American Oystercatcher
  • Black Oystercatcher

Plovers and Lapwings

  • Black-bellied Plover
  • European Golden-Plover
  • American Golden-Plover
  • Pacific Golden-Plover
  • Eurasian Dotterel
  • Killdeer
  • Common Ringed Plover
  • Semipalmated Plover
  • Piping Plover
  • Little Ringed Plover
  • Northern Lapwing
  • Southern Lapwing
  • Siberian Sand-Plover
  • Greater Sand-Plover
  • Wilson's Plover
  • Collared Plover
  • Mountain Plover
  • Snowy Plover
  • Kentish Plover

Jacanas

  • Northern Jacana

Sandpipers and Allies

  • Upland Sandpiper
  • Bristle-thighed Curlew
  • Hudsonian Whimbrel
  • Eurasian Whimbrel
  • Little Curlew
  • Eskimo Curlew
  • Long-billed Curlew
  • Far Eastern Curlew
  • Eurasian Curlew
  • Bar-tailed Godwit
  • Black-tailed Godwit
  • Hudsonian Godwit
  • Marbled Godwit
  • Short-billed Dowitcher
  • Long-billed Dowitcher
  • Jack Snipe
  • American Woodcock
  • Eurasian Woodcock
  • Solitary Snipe
  • Pin-tailed Snipe
  • Common Snipe
  • Wilson's Snipe
  • Wilson's Phalarope
  • Red Phalarope
  • Red-necked Phalarope
  • Terek Sandpiper
  • Common Sandpiper
  • Spotted Sandpiper
  • Green Sandpiper
  • Solitary Sandpiper
  • Gray-tailed Tattler
  • Wandering Tattler
  • Marsh Sandpiper
  • Wood Sandpiper
  • Common Redshank
  • Lesser Yellowlegs
  • Willet
  • Spotted Redshank
  • Common Greenshank
  • Greater Yellowlegs
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Black Turnstone
  • Great Knot
  • Red Knot
  • Surfbird
  • Ruff
  • Broad-billed Sandpiper
  • Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
  • Curlew Sandpiper
  • Stilt Sandpiper
  • Temminck's Stint
  • Long-toed Stint
  • Red-necked Stint
  • Spoon-billed Sandpiper
  • Buff-breasted Sandpiper
  • Sanderling
  • Dunlin
  • Purple Sandpiper
  • Rock Sandpiper
  • Baird's Sandpiper
  • Little Stint
  • White-rumped Sandpiper
  • Least Sandpiper
  • Pectoral Sandpiper
  • Western Sandpiper
  • Semipalmated Sandpiper

Pratincoles and Coursers

  • Oriental Pratincole

Skuas and Jaegers

  • Long-tailed Jaeger
  • Parasitic Jaeger
  • Pomarine Jaeger
  • Great Skua
  • Chilean Skua
  • South Polar Skua

Auks, Murres, and Puffins

  • Rhinoceros Auklet
  • Tufted Puffin
  • Atlantic Puffin
  • Horned Puffin
  • Cassin's Auklet
  • Least Auklet
  • Whiskered Auklet
  • Crested Auklet
  • Parakeet Auklet
  • Long-billed Murrelet
  • Kittlitz's Murrelet
  • Marbled Murrelet
  • Black Guillemot
  • Pigeon Guillemot
  • Razorbill
  • Dovekie
  • Thick-billed Murre
  • Common Murre
  • Ancient Murrelet
  • Scripps's Murrelet
  • Guadalupe Murrelet
  • Craveri's Murrelet

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

  • Swallow-tailed Gull
  • Little Gull
  • Ross's Gull
  • Black-legged Kittiwake
  • Red-legged Kittiwake
  • Ivory Gull
  • Sabine's Gull
  • Bonaparte's Gull
  • Silver Gull
  • Black-headed Gull
  • Gray-hooded Gull
  • Gray Gull
  • Laughing Gull
  • Franklin's Gull
  • Pallas's Gull
  • Belcher's Gull
  • Black-tailed Gull
  • Heermann's Gull
  • Common Gull
  • Short-billed Gull
  • Ring-billed Gull
  • Yellow-footed Gull
  • Western Gull
  • Kelp Gull
  • American Herring Gull
  • Vega Gull
  • European Herring Gull
  • Yellow-legged Gull
  • Great Black-backed Gull
  • Glaucous Gull
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull
  • California Gull
  • Glaucous-winged Gull
  • Slaty-backed Gull
  • Iceland Gull
  • Black Skimmer
  • Blue-billed White-Tern
  • Brown Noddy
  • Black Noddy
  • Blue-gray Noddy
  • Aleutian Tern
  • Sooty Tern
  • Bridled Tern
  • Gray-backed Tern
  • Little Tern
  • Least Tern
  • Large-billed Tern
  • Gull-billed Tern
  • Caspian Tern
  • Inca Tern
  • Whiskered Tern
  • Black Tern
  • White-winged Tern
  • Forster's Tern
  • Arctic Tern
  • Common Tern
  • Roseate Tern
  • Sandwich Tern
  • Elegant Tern
  • Royal Tern
  • Great Crested Tern

Flamingos

  • Chilean Flamingo
  • American Flamingo
  • Greater Flamingo
  • Lesser Flamingo

Grebes

  • Least Grebe
  • Pied-billed Grebe
  • Horned Grebe
  • Red-necked Grebe
  • Eared Grebe
  • Western Grebe
  • Clark's Grebe

Tropicbirds

  • White-tailed Tropicbird
  • Red-billed Tropicbird
  • Red-tailed Tropicbird

Loons

  • Red-throated Loon
  • Arctic Loon
  • Pacific Loon
  • Common Loon
  • Yellow-billed Loon

Albatrosses

  • Antipodean Albatross
  • Waved Albatross
  • Laysan Albatross
  • Black-footed Albatross
  • Short-tailed Albatross
  • Light-mantled Albatross
  • Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross
  • White-capped Albatross
  • Salvin's Albatross
  • Chatham Albatross
  • Black-browed Albatross

Southern Storm-Petrels

  • Wilson's Storm-Petrel
  • White-faced Storm-Petrel
  • Black-bellied Storm-Petrel

Northern Storm-Petrels

  • European Storm-Petrel
  • Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel
  • Ringed Storm-Petrel
  • Leach's Storm-Petrel
  • Townsend's Storm-Petrel
  • Ainley's Storm-Petrel
  • Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel
  • Ashy Storm-Petrel
  • Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
  • Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel
  • Black Storm-Petrel
  • Tristram's Storm-Petrel
  • Least Storm-Petrel

Shearwaters and Petrels

  • Northern Giant-Petrel
  • Northern Fulmar
  • Gray-faced Petrel
  • Kermadec Petrel
  • Trindade Petrel
  • Herald Petrel
  • Murphy's Petrel
  • Providence Petrel
  • Zino's Petrel
  • Desertas Petrel
  • Mottled Petrel
  • Bermuda Petrel
  • Black-capped Petrel
  • Juan Fernandez Petrel
  • Hawaiian Petrel
  • White-necked Petrel
  • Bonin Petrel
  • Black-winged Petrel
  • Cook's Petrel
  • Stejneger's Petrel
  • Phoenix Petrel
  • Bulwer's Petrel
  • Jouanin's Petrel
  • Tahiti Petrel
  • White-chinned Petrel
  • Parkinson's Petrel
  • Streaked Shearwater
  • Cory's Shearwater
  • Scopoli's Shearwater
  • Cape Verde Shearwater
  • Pink-footed Shearwater
  • Flesh-footed Shearwater
  • Great Shearwater
  • Wedge-tailed Shearwater
  • Buller's Shearwater
  • Sooty Shearwater
  • Short-tailed Shearwater
  • Christmas Shearwater
  • Manx Shearwater
  • Newell's Shearwater
  • Black-vented Shearwater
  • Barolo Shearwater
  • Sargasso Shearwater

Storks

  • African Woolly-necked Stork
  • Black-necked Stork
  • Jabiru
  • Marabou Stork
  • Wood Stork

Frigatebirds

  • Magnificent Frigatebird
  • Lesser Frigatebird
  • Great Frigatebird

Boobies and Gannets

  • Northern Gannet
  • Red-footed Booby
  • Brown Booby
  • Cocos Booby
  • Masked Booby
  • Nazca Booby
  • Blue-footed Booby

Anhingas

  • Anhinga
  • African Darter

Cormorants and Shags

  • Brandt's Cormorant
  • Red-faced Cormorant
  • Pelagic Cormorant
  • Great Cormorant
  • Double-crested Cormorant
  • Neotropic Cormorant

Ibises and Spoonbills

  • White Ibis
  • Scarlet Ibis
  • Glossy Ibis
  • White-faced Ibis
  • African Sacred Ibis
  • Eurasian Spoonbill
  • Roseate Spoonbill

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns

  • Bare-throated Tiger-Heron
  • Eurasian Bittern
  • American Bittern
  • Least Bittern
  • Yellow Bittern
  • Yellow-crowned Night Heron
  • Black-crowned Night Heron
  • Little Blue Heron
  • Tricolored Heron
  • Reddish Egret
  • Chinese Egret
  • Snowy Egret
  • Little Egret
  • Western Reef-Heron
  • Green Heron
  • Chinese Pond-Heron
  • Western Cattle-Egret
  • Eastern Cattle-Egret
  • Great Egret
  • Medium Egret
  • Gray Heron
  • Great Blue Heron

Pelicans

  • American White Pelican
  • Brown Pelican
  • Great White Pelican
  • Pink-backed Pelican

New World Vultures

  • California Condor
  • Black Vulture
  • Turkey Vulture

Osprey

  • Osprey

Hawks, Eagles, and Kites

  • Pearl Kite
  • White-tailed Kite
  • Hook-billed Kite
  • Oriental Honey-buzzard
  • Swallow-tailed Kite
  • Golden Eagle
  • Chinese Sparrowhawk
  • Eurasian Sparrowhawk
  • Sharp-shinned Hawk
  • Cooper's Hawk
  • Gundlach's Hawk
  • Eurasian Goshawk
  • American Goshawk
  • Western Marsh Harrier
  • Hen Harrier
  • Northern Harrier
  • Double-toothed Kite
  • Black Kite
  • White-tailed Eagle
  • Bald Eagle
  • Steller's Sea-Eagle
  • Mississippi Kite
  • Crane Hawk
  • Snail Kite
  • Common Black Hawk
  • Savanna Hawk
  • Great Black Hawk
  • Roadside Hawk
  • Harris's Hawk
  • White-tailed Hawk
  • Variable Hawk
  • Gray Hawk
  • Broad-winged Hawk
  • Red-shouldered Hawk
  • Zone-tailed Hawk
  • Hawaiian Hawk
  • Short-tailed Hawk
  • Swainson's Hawk
  • Red-tailed Hawk
  • Rough-legged Hawk
  • Ferruginous Hawk
  • Long-legged Buzzard

Barn-Owls

  • American Barn Owl

Owls

  • Oriental Scops-Owl
  • Flammulated Owl
  • Whiskered Screech-Owl
  • Western Screech-Owl
  • Eastern Screech-Owl
  • Snowy Owl
  • Great Horned Owl
  • Eurasian Eagle-Owl
  • Northern Hawk Owl
  • Northern Pygmy-Owl
  • Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
  • Elf Owl
  • Burrowing Owl
  • Mottled Owl
  • Spotted Owl
  • Barred Owl
  • Great Gray Owl
  • Long-eared Owl
  • Stygian Owl
  • Short-eared Owl
  • Boreal Owl
  • Northern Saw-whet Owl
  • Northern Boobook

Trogons

  • Eared Quetzal
  • Coppery-tailed Trogon

Hoopoes

  • Common Hoopoe

Hornbills

  • Western Red-billed Hornbill
  • Northern Red-billed Hornbill
  • Black-casqued Hornbill
  • Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill
  • White-thighed Hornbill
  • Trumpeter Hornbill
  • Piping Hornbill
  • Oriental Pied-Hornbill

Kingfishers

  • Laughing Kookaburra
  • Ringed Kingfisher
  • Belted Kingfisher
  • Amazon Kingfisher
  • Green Kingfisher

Rollers

  • Lilac-breasted Roller
  • Blue-bellied Roller

Toucans

  • Keel-billed Toucan

Woodpeckers

  • Eurasian Wryneck
  • Williamson's Sapsucker
  • Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
  • Red-naped Sapsucker
  • Red-breasted Sapsucker
  • Lewis's Woodpecker
  • Red-headed Woodpecker
  • Acorn Woodpecker
  • Gila Woodpecker
  • Golden-fronted Woodpecker
  • Red-bellied Woodpecker
  • American Three-toed Woodpecker
  • Black-backed Woodpecker
  • Great Spotted Woodpecker
  • Downy Woodpecker
  • Nuttall's Woodpecker
  • Ladder-backed Woodpecker
  • Red-cockaded Woodpecker
  • Hairy Woodpecker
  • White-headed Woodpecker
  • Arizona Woodpecker
  • Ivory-billed Woodpecker
  • Pileated Woodpecker
  • Northern Flicker
  • Gilded Flicker

Falcons and Caracaras

  • Collared Forest-Falcon
  • Crested Caracara
  • Yellow-headed Caracara
  • Eurasian Kestrel
  • American Kestrel
  • Red-footed Falcon
  • Merlin
  • Eurasian Hobby
  • Aplomado Falcon
  • Bat Falcon
  • Lanner Falcon
  • Saker Falcon
  • Gyrfalcon
  • Peregrine Falcon
  • Prairie Falcon

Cockatoos

  • Cockatiel
  • Galah
  • Tanimbar Corella
  • Little Corella
  • White Cockatoo
  • Salmon-crested Cockatoo
  • Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Old World Parrots

  • Regent Parrot
  • Papuan Eclectus
  • Alexandrine Parakeet
  • Rose-ringed Parakeet
  • Echo Parakeet
  • Plum-headed Parakeet
  • Malabar Parakeet
  • Red-breasted Parakeet
  • Bourke's Parrot
  • Crimson Rosella
  • Eastern Rosella
  • Red-rumped Parrot
  • Budgerigar
  • Chattering Lory
  • Little Lorikeet
  • Dusky Lory
  • Red Lory
  • Rainbow Lorikeet
  • Red-headed Lovebird
  • Rosy-faced Lovebird
  • Fischer's Lovebird
  • Yellow-collared Lovebird
  • Lilian's Lovebird
  • Black-cheeked Lovebird

New World and African Parrots

  • Gray Parrot
  • Meyer's Parrot
  • Senegal Parrot
  • Yellow-fronted Parrot
  • Barred Parakeet
  • Monk Parakeet
  • White-winged Parakeet
  • Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
  • Scaly-headed Parrot
  • Blue-headed Parrot
  • White-crowned Parrot
  • Red-spectacled Amazon
  • Red-crowned Amazon
  • Lilac-crowned Amazon
  • Red-lored Amazon
  • Yellow-naped Amazon
  • Yellow-headed Amazon
  • Yellow-crowned Amazon
  • Yellow-shouldered Amazon
  • Turquoise-fronted Amazon
  • White-fronted Amazon
  • Yellow-lored Amazon
  • Hispaniolan Amazon
  • Mealy Amazon
  • Orange-winged Amazon
  • Green-rumped Parrotlet
  • Pacific Parrotlet
  • Black-headed Parrot
  • Maroon-bellied Parakeet
  • Green-cheeked Parakeet
  • Black-capped Parakeet
  • Burrowing Parakeet
  • Hyacinth Macaw
  • Thick-billed Parrot
  • Olive-throated Parakeet
  • Orange-fronted Parakeet
  • Peach-fronted Parakeet
  • Carolina Parakeet
  • Dusky-headed Parakeet
  • Nanday Parakeet
  • Sun Parakeet
  • Sulphur-breasted Parakeet
  • Jandaya Parakeet
  • Blue-and-yellow Macaw
  • Chestnut-fronted Macaw
  • Red-fronted Macaw
  • Military Macaw
  • Great Green Macaw
  • Scarlet Macaw
  • Red-and-green Macaw
  • Golden Parakeet
  • Blue-crowned Parakeet
  • Red-shouldered Macaw
  • Green Parakeet
  • Crimson-fronted Parakeet
  • Scarlet-fronted Parakeet
  • Mitred Parakeet
  • Red-masked Parakeet
  • White-eyed Parakeet
  • Hispaniolan Parakeet

Typical Antbirds

  • Barred Antshrike

Tityras and Allies

  • Masked Tityra
  • Gray-collared Becard
  • Rose-throated Becard

Tyrant Flycatchers

  • Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
  • Greenish Elaenia
  • Small-billed Elaenia
  • White-crested Elaenia
  • Tufted Flycatcher
  • Olive-sided Flycatcher
  • Greater Pewee
  • Western Wood-Pewee
  • Eastern Wood-Pewee
  • Cuban Pewee
  • Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
  • Acadian Flycatcher
  • Alder Flycatcher
  • Willow Flycatcher
  • Least Flycatcher
  • Hammond's Flycatcher
  • Gray Flycatcher
  • Dusky Flycatcher
  • Pine Flycatcher
  • Western Flycatcher
  • Buff-breasted Flycatcher
  • Black Phoebe
  • Eastern Phoebe
  • Say's Phoebe
  • Vermilion Flycatcher
  • Dusky-capped Flycatcher
  • Ash-throated Flycatcher
  • Nutting's Flycatcher
  • Great Crested Flycatcher
  • Brown-crested Flycatcher
  • La Sagra's Flycatcher
  • Cattle Tyrant
  • Great Kiskadee
  • Social Flycatcher
  • Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
  • Piratic Flycatcher
  • Variegated Flycatcher
  • Crowned Slaty Flycatcher
  • Tropical Kingbird
  • Couch's Kingbird
  • Cassin's Kingbird
  • Thick-billed Kingbird
  • Western Kingbird
  • Eastern Kingbird
  • Gray Kingbird
  • Loggerhead Kingbird
  • Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
  • Fork-tailed Flycatcher

Vireos, Shrike-Babblers, and Erpornis

  • Black-capped Vireo
  • White-eyed Vireo
  • Thick-billed Vireo
  • Cuban Vireo
  • Bell's Vireo
  • Gray Vireo
  • Hutton's Vireo
  • Yellow-throated Vireo
  • Cassin's Vireo
  • Blue-headed Vireo
  • Plumbeous Vireo
  • Philadelphia Vireo
  • Eastern Warbling Vireo
  • Western Warbling Vireo
  • Red-eyed Vireo
  • Yellow-green Vireo
  • Black-whiskered Vireo
  • Yucatan Vireo

Monarch Flycatchers

  • Hawaii Elepaio
  • Kauai Elepaio
  • Oahu Elepaio

Shrikes

  • Magpie Shrike
  • Red-backed Shrike
  • Brown Shrike
  • Loggerhead Shrike
  • Northern Shrike

Crows, Jays, and Magpies

  • Canada Jay
  • Black-throated Magpie-Jay
  • White-throated Magpie-Jay
  • Brown Jay
  • Green Jay
  • Yucatan Jay
  • Purplish-backed Jay
  • San Blas Jay
  • Pinyon Jay
  • Steller's Jay
  • Blue Jay
  • Florida Scrub-Jay
  • Island Scrub-Jay
  • California Scrub-Jay
  • Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay
  • Mexican Jay
  • Eurasian Jay
  • Azure-winged Magpie
  • Red-billed Blue-Magpie
  • Eurasian Magpie
  • Black-billed Magpie
  • Yellow-billed Magpie
  • Clark's Nutcracker
  • Eurasian Jackdaw
  • House Crow
  • American Crow
  • Tamaulipas Crow
  • Fish Crow
  • Hawaiian Crow
  • Chihuahuan Raven
  • Hooded Crow
  • Pied Crow
  • White-necked Raven
  • Common Raven

Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice

  • Carolina Chickadee
  • Black-capped Chickadee
  • Mountain Chickadee
  • Mexican Chickadee
  • Chestnut-backed Chickadee
  • Boreal Chickadee
  • Gray-headed Chickadee
  • Eurasian Blue Tit
  • Azure Tit
  • Bridled Titmouse
  • Oak Titmouse
  • Juniper Titmouse
  • Tufted Titmouse
  • Black-crested Titmouse
  • Great Tit
  • Asian Tit

Penduline-Tits

  • Verdin

Larks

  • Eurasian Skylark
  • Horned Lark

Reed Warblers and Allies

  • Thick-billed Warbler
  • Icterine Warbler
  • Sedge Warbler
  • Blyth's Reed Warbler
  • Millerbird

Grassbirds and Allies

  • Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler
  • Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler
  • Lanceolated Warbler
  • River Warbler

Swallows

  • Bank Swallow
  • Tree Swallow
  • Mangrove Swallow
  • Violet-green Swallow
  • Bahama Swallow
  • Purple Martin
  • Cuban Martin
  • Gray-breasted Martin
  • Southern Martin
  • Brown-chested Martin
  • Northern Rough-winged Swallow
  • Blue-and-white Swallow
  • Barn Swallow
  • Siberian House-Martin
  • Cliff Swallow
  • Cave Swallow

Bulbuls

  • Red-whiskered Bulbul
  • Red-vented Bulbul
  • White-eared Bulbul

Leaf Warblers

  • Wood Warbler
  • Yellow-browed Warbler
  • Pallas's Leaf Warbler
  • Dusky Warbler
  • Willow Warbler
  • Common Chiffchaff
  • Arctic Warbler
  • Kamchatka Leaf Warbler

Bush Warblers and Allies

  • Japanese Bush Warbler

Long-tailed Tits

  • Bushtit

Sylviid Warblers and Allies

  • Lesser Whitethroat

Parrotbills

  • Wrentit
  • Vinous-throated Parrotbill

White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies

  • Swinhoe's White-eye
  • Warbling White-eye
  • Indian White-eye

Laughingthrushes and Allies

  • Red-billed Leiothrix
  • Chinese Hwamei
  • White-crested Laughingthrush
  • Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush

Kinglets

  • Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  • Golden-crowned Kinglet

Nuthatches

  • White-breasted Nuthatch
  • Pygmy Nuthatch
  • Brown-headed Nuthatch
  • Red-breasted Nuthatch

Treecreepers

  • Brown Creeper

Gnatcatchers

  • Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  • Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
  • California Gnatcatcher
  • Black-capped Gnatcatcher

Wrens

  • Rock Wren
  • Canyon Wren
  • Northern House Wren
  • Pacific Wren
  • Winter Wren
  • Sedge Wren
  • Marsh Wren
  • Carolina Wren
  • Bewick's Wren
  • Cactus Wren
  • Sinaloa Wren

Dippers

  • American Dipper

Starlings

  • Common Hill Myna
  • European Starling
  • Bali Myna
  • Brahminy Starling
  • Common Myna
  • Crested Myna
  • Long-tailed Glossy Starling
  • Superb Starling
  • Purple Starling

Mockingbirds and Thrashers

  • Blue Mockingbird
  • Black Catbird
  • Gray Catbird
  • Pearly-eyed Thrasher
  • Curve-billed Thrasher
  • Brown Thrasher
  • Long-billed Thrasher
  • Bendire's Thrasher
  • Gray Thrasher
  • California Thrasher
  • LeConte's Thrasher
  • Crissal Thrasher
  • Sage Thrasher
  • Bahama Mockingbird
  • Long-tailed Mockingbird
  • Tropical Mockingbird
  • Northern Mockingbird

Thrushes and Allies

  • Eastern Bluebird
  • Western Bluebird
  • Mountain Bluebird
  • Townsend's Solitaire
  • Brown-backed Solitaire
  • Kamao
  • Olomao
  • Omao
  • Puaiohi
  • Varied Thrush
  • Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush
  • Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush
  • Veery
  • Gray-cheeked Thrush
  • Bicknell's Thrush
  • Swainson's Thrush
  • Hermit Thrush
  • Wood Thrush
  • Aztec Thrush
  • Song Thrush
  • Redwing
  • Eurasian Blackbird
  • Eyebrowed Thrush
  • Fieldfare
  • Dusky Thrush
  • Naumann's Thrush
  • Western Red-legged Thrush
  • American Robin
  • Rufous-backed Robin
  • White-throated Thrush
  • Clay-colored Thrush

Old World Flycatchers

  • Gray-streaked Flycatcher
  • Dark-sided Flycatcher
  • Asian Brown Flycatcher
  • Spotted Flycatcher
  • White-rumped Shama
  • European Robin
  • Rufous-tailed Robin
  • Siberian Blue Robin
  • Bluethroat
  • Siberian Rubythroat
  • Red-flanked Bluetail
  • Narcissus Flycatcher
  • Mugimaki Flycatcher
  • Taiga Flycatcher
  • Common Redstart
  • Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush
  • Blue Rock-Thrush
  • Siberian Stonechat
  • Amur Stonechat
  • Northern Wheatear
  • Pied Wheatear

Waxwings

  • Bohemian Waxwing
  • Cedar Waxwing

Hawaiian Honeyeaters

  • Kauai Oo

Silky-flycatchers

  • Gray Silky-flycatcher
  • Phainopepla

Leafbirds

  • Golden-fronted Leafbird

Olive Warbler

  • Olive Warbler

Weavers and Allies

  • Golden Palm Weaver
  • Taveta Golden-Weaver
  • Southern Masked-Weaver
  • Vitelline Masked-Weaver
  • Village Weaver
  • Black-headed Weaver
  • Red Fody
  • Northern Red Bishop
  • Southern Red Bishop
  • Zanzibar Red Bishop
  • Black-winged Bishop
  • Yellow-crowned Bishop
  • White-winged Widowbird
  • Red-collared Widowbird

Waxbills and Allies

  • Diamond Firetail
  • Red-browed Firetail
  • Star Finch
  • Double-barred Finch
  • Zebra Finch
  • Bronze Mannikin
  • Magpie Mannikin
  • Black-and-white Mannikin
  • African Silverbill
  • Indian Silverbill
  • Java Sparrow
  • Scaly-breasted Munia
  • White-rumped Munia
  • Tricolored Munia
  • Chestnut Munia
  • White-headed Munia
  • Gouldian Finch
  • Lavender Waxbill
  • Orange-cheeked Waxbill
  • Common Waxbill
  • Black-rumped Waxbill
  • Crimson-rumped Waxbill
  • Cut-throat
  • Zebra Waxbill
  • Red Avadavat
  • Southern Cordonbleu
  • Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
  • Blue-capped Cordonbleu
  • Green-winged Pytilia
  • Red-throated Twinspot
  • Red-billed Firefinch
  • African Firefinch

Whydahs and Indigobirds

  • Pin-tailed Whydah
  • Togo Paradise-Whydah
  • Broad-tailed Paradise-Whydah
  • Eastern Paradise-Whydah
  • Village Indigobird

Accentors

  • Siberian Accentor

Old World Sparrows

  • House Sparrow
  • Eurasian Tree Sparrow
  • Sudan Golden Sparrow

Wagtails and Pipits

  • Gray Wagtail
  • Eastern Yellow Wagtail
  • Citrine Wagtail
  • White Wagtail
  • Tree Pipit
  • Olive-backed Pipit
  • Pechora Pipit
  • Red-throated Pipit
  • Siberian Pipit
  • American Pipit
  • Sprague's Pipit

Finches, Euphonias, and Allies

  • Common Chaffinch
  • Brambling
  • Evening Grosbeak
  • Hawfinch
  • Poo-uli
  • Akikiki
  • Oahu Alauahio
  • Maui Alauahio
  • Palila
  • Laysan Finch
  • Nihoa Finch
  • Akohekohe
  • Apapane
  • Iiwi
  • Ou
  • Maui Parrotbill
  • Kauai Nukupuu
  • Akiapolaau
  • Anianiau
  • Hawaii Amakihi
  • Oahu Amakihi
  • Kauai Amakihi
  • Hawaii Creeper
  • Akekee
  • Hawaii Akepa
  • Maui Akepa
  • Common Rosefinch
  • Pallas's Rosefinch
  • Pine Grosbeak
  • Eurasian Bullfinch
  • Asian Rosy-Finch
  • Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
  • Black Rosy-Finch
  • Brown-capped Rosy-Finch
  • House Finch
  • Purple Finch
  • Cassin's Finch
  • European Greenfinch
  • Oriental Greenfinch
  • White-rumped Seedeater
  • Yellow-fronted Canary
  • Black-throated Canary
  • Streaky Seedeater
  • Eurasian Linnet
  • Redpoll
  • Red Crossbill
  • Cassia Crossbill
  • White-winged Crossbill
  • European Goldfinch
  • Gray-crowned Goldfinch
  • European Serin
  • Island Canary
  • Eurasian Siskin
  • Pine Siskin
  • Black-headed Siskin
  • Lesser Goldfinch
  • Lawrence's Goldfinch
  • American Goldfinch
  • Red Siskin
  • Hooded Siskin
  • Black Siskin

Longspurs and Snow Buntings

  • Lapland Longspur
  • Chestnut-collared Longspur
  • Smith's Longspur
  • Thick-billed Longspur
  • Snow Bunting
  • McKay's Bunting

Old World Buntings

  • Yellowhammer
  • Pine Bunting
  • Yellow-throated Bunting
  • Pallas's Bunting
  • Reed Bunting
  • Yellow-breasted Bunting
  • Little Bunting
  • Rustic Bunting
  • Yellow-browed Bunting
  • Gray Bunting

New World Sparrows

  • Rufous-winged Sparrow
  • Botteri's Sparrow
  • Cassin's Sparrow
  • Bachman's Sparrow
  • Grasshopper Sparrow
  • Olive Sparrow
  • Chipping Sparrow
  • Clay-colored Sparrow
  • Black-chinned Sparrow
  • Field Sparrow
  • Brewer's Sparrow
  • Worthen's Sparrow
  • Five-striped Sparrow
  • Black-throated Sparrow
  • Lark Sparrow
  • Lark Bunting
  • American Tree Sparrow
  • Fox Sparrow
  • Dark-eyed Junco
  • Yellow-eyed Junco
  • Rufous-collared Sparrow
  • White-crowned Sparrow
  • Golden-crowned Sparrow
  • Harris's Sparrow
  • White-throated Sparrow
  • Sagebrush Sparrow
  • Bell's Sparrow
  • Striped Sparrow
  • Vesper Sparrow
  • LeConte's Sparrow
  • Seaside Sparrow
  • Nelson's Sparrow
  • Saltmarsh Sparrow
  • Savannah Sparrow
  • Baird's Sparrow
  • Henslow's Sparrow
  • Song Sparrow
  • Lincoln's Sparrow
  • Swamp Sparrow
  • Canyon Towhee
  • Abert's Towhee
  • California Towhee
  • Rufous-crowned Sparrow
  • Green-tailed Towhee
  • Spotted Towhee
  • Eastern Towhee

Greater Antillean Tanagers

  • Western Spindalis

Yellow-breasted Chat

  • Yellow-breasted Chat

Troupials and Allies

  • Yellow-headed Blackbird
  • Bobolink
  • Western Meadowlark
  • Eastern Meadowlark
  • Chihuahuan Meadowlark
  • Crested Oropendola
  • Yellow-rumped Cacique
  • Black-vented Oriole
  • Orchard Oriole
  • Hooded Oriole
  • Epaulet Oriole
  • Venezuelan Troupial
  • Streak-backed Oriole
  • Bullock's Oriole
  • Spot-breasted Oriole
  • Altamira Oriole
  • Audubon's Oriole
  • Baltimore Oriole
  • Black-backed Oriole
  • Scott's Oriole
  • Red-winged Blackbird
  • Tricolored Blackbird
  • Tawny-shouldered Blackbird
  • Shiny Cowbird
  • Bronzed Cowbird
  • Brown-headed Cowbird
  • Rusty Blackbird
  • Brewer's Blackbird
  • Common Grackle
  • Boat-tailed Grackle
  • Great-tailed Grackle

New World Warblers

  • Ovenbird
  • Worm-eating Warbler
  • Louisiana Waterthrush
  • Northern Waterthrush
  • Bachman's Warbler
  • Golden-winged Warbler
  • Blue-winged Warbler
  • Black-and-white Warbler
  • Prothonotary Warbler
  • Swainson's Warbler
  • Crescent-chested Warbler
  • Tennessee Warbler
  • Orange-crowned Warbler
  • Colima Warbler
  • Lucy's Warbler
  • Nashville Warbler
  • Virginia's Warbler
  • Connecticut Warbler
  • Gray-crowned Yellowthroat
  • MacGillivray's Warbler
  • Mourning Warbler
  • Kentucky Warbler
  • Common Yellowthroat
  • Hooded Warbler
  • American Redstart
  • Kirtland's Warbler
  • Cape May Warbler
  • Cerulean Warbler
  • Northern Parula
  • Tropical Parula
  • Magnolia Warbler
  • Bay-breasted Warbler
  • Blackburnian Warbler
  • Northern Yellow Warbler
  • Mangrove Yellow Warbler
  • Chestnut-sided Warbler
  • Blackpoll Warbler
  • Black-throated Blue Warbler
  • Palm Warbler
  • Pine Warbler
  • Yellow-rumped Warbler
  • Yellow-throated Warbler
  • Prairie Warbler
  • Grace's Warbler
  • Black-throated Gray Warbler
  • Townsend's Warbler
  • Hermit Warbler
  • Golden-cheeked Warbler
  • Black-throated Green Warbler
  • Fan-tailed Warbler
  • Rufous-capped Warbler
  • Golden-crowned Warbler
  • Canada Warbler
  • Wilson's Warbler
  • Red-faced Warbler
  • Red Warbler
  • Painted Redstart
  • Slate-throated Redstart

Cardinals and Allies

  • Hepatic Tanager
  • Summer Tanager
  • Scarlet Tanager
  • Western Tanager
  • Flame-colored Tanager
  • Crimson-collared Grosbeak
  • Northern Cardinal
  • Pyrrhuloxia
  • Yellow Grosbeak
  • Rose-breasted Grosbeak
  • Black-headed Grosbeak
  • Blue Bunting
  • Blue Grosbeak
  • Lazuli Bunting
  • Indigo Bunting
  • Orange-breasted Bunting
  • Varied Bunting
  • Painted Bunting
  • Dickcissel

Tanagers and Allies

  • Red-crested Cardinal
  • Yellow-billed Cardinal
  • White-lined Tanager
  • Silver-beaked Tanager
  • Blue-gray Tanager
  • Paradise Tanager
  • Blue Dacnis
  • Purple Honeycreeper
  • Red-legged Honeycreeper
  • Saffron Finch
  • Grassland Yellow-Finch
  • Blue-black Grassquit
  • Lined Seedeater
  • Parrot-billed Seedeater
  • Chestnut-throated Seedeater
  • Ruddy-breasted Seedeater
  • Morelet's Seedeater
  • Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater
  • Bananaquit
  • Yellow-faced Grassquit
  • Cuban Bullfinch
  • Cuban Grassquit
  • Black-faced Grassquit

Most common birds in United States

Ranked by how recently and how widely each was reported to eBird in the 30 days to 2026-10-13, and whether it is one of United States’s regular birds. The list follows the seasons: migrants rise in spring and autumn.

  1. Yellow-rumped WarblerSetophaga coronata
  2. House SparrowPasser domesticus
  3. Rock PigeonColumba livia
  4. Canada GooseBranta canadensis
  5. Double-crested CormorantNannopterum auritum
  6. Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
  7. American RobinTurdus migratorius
  8. American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
  9. MallardAnas platyrhynchos
  10. KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
  11. Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
  12. European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
  13. Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
  14. Turkey VultureCathartes aura
  15. Great EgretArdea alba
  16. Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
  17. Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
  18. Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
  19. Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
  20. Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis

Largest bird families in United States

Among its regular birds.

  • Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl60
  • New World Warblers49
  • Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers44
  • New World Sparrows43
  • Sandpipers and Allies43
  • Tyrant Flycatchers36
  • Finches, Euphonias, and Allies31
  • Hawks, Eagles, and Kites25

Reported in the last 30 days

842 species reported to eBird in United States in the 30 days to 2026-10-13. The 40 most recently reported:

American Crow, Red-shouldered Hawk, Great Horned Owl, Black-and-white Warbler, White-throated Sparrow, Northern Cardinal, Mallard, Blue Jay, Veery, Barred Owl, Song Sparrow, Swainson's Thrush, Carolina Wren, Northern Flicker, Northern Mockingbird, American Robin, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Brown Thrasher, Killdeer, Black-capped Chickadee, Limpkin, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Chipping Sparrow, Tufted Titmouse, Eastern Whip-poor-will, House Sparrow, Cooper's Hawk, Downy Woodpecker, White-breasted Nuthatch, Eastern Screech-Owl, Swamp Sparrow, Wood Duck, Palm Warbler, Savannah Sparrow, Canada Goose, Great Blue Heron, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, Bobolink, Indigo Bunting, …

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