Oklahoma bird checklist

490 bird species in 64 families have been recorded in Oklahoma, according to eBird; about 378 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.

The most common birds in Oklahoma right now

  1. 1Double-crested Cormorant
  2. 2House Sparrow
  3. 3Turkey Vulture
  4. 4Yellow-rumped Warbler
  5. 5Northern Shoveler
  6. 6European Starling
  7. 7American Coot
  8. 8American Crow
  9. 9Canada Goose
  10. 10Great Blue Heron
The top 20, and how they are ranked

Oklahoma bird checklist

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Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl

  • Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
  • Fulvous Whistling-Duck
  • Snow Goose
  • Ross's Goose
  • Graylag Goose
  • Swan Goose
  • Greater White-fronted Goose
  • Brant
  • Cackling Goose
  • Canada Goose
  • Mute Swan
  • Trumpeter Swan
  • Tundra Swan
  • Egyptian Goose
  • Ruddy Shelduck
  • Muscovy Duck
  • Wood Duck
  • Garganey
  • Blue-winged Teal
  • Cinnamon Teal
  • Northern Shoveler
  • Gadwall
  • Eurasian Wigeon
  • American Wigeon
  • Mallard
  • Mexican Duck
  • American Black Duck
  • Mottled Duck
  • Northern Pintail
  • Green-winged Teal
  • Canvasback
  • Redhead
  • Ring-necked Duck
  • Greater Scaup
  • Lesser Scaup
  • King Eider
  • Surf Scoter
  • White-winged Scoter
  • Black Scoter
  • Long-tailed Duck
  • Bufflehead
  • Common Goldeneye
  • Barrow's Goldeneye
  • Hooded Merganser
  • Common Merganser
  • Red-breasted Merganser
  • Masked Duck
  • Ruddy Duck

Guineafowl

  • Helmeted Guineafowl

New World Quail

  • Northern Bobwhite
  • Scaled Quail

Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies

  • Wild Turkey
  • Greater Prairie-Chicken
  • Lesser Prairie-Chicken
  • Ring-necked Pheasant
  • Indian Peafowl
  • Red Junglefowl
  • Chukar

Pigeons and Doves

  • Rock Pigeon
  • Band-tailed Pigeon
  • Eurasian Collared-Dove
  • African Collared-Dove
  • Inca Dove
  • Common Ground Dove
  • White-winged Dove
  • Mourning Dove

Cuckoos

  • Groove-billed Ani
  • Greater Roadrunner
  • Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  • Black-billed Cuckoo

Nightjars and Allies

  • Lesser Nighthawk
  • Common Nighthawk
  • Common Poorwill
  • Chuck-will's-widow
  • Eastern Whip-poor-will

Swifts

  • Chimney Swift
  • White-throated Swift

Hummingbirds

  • Mexican Violetear
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird
  • Black-chinned Hummingbird
  • Anna's Hummingbird
  • Costa's Hummingbird
  • Calliope Hummingbird
  • Rufous Hummingbird
  • Broad-tailed Hummingbird
  • Broad-billed Hummingbird

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

  • King Rail
  • Virginia Rail
  • Sora
  • Common Gallinule
  • American Coot
  • Purple Gallinule
  • Yellow Rail
  • Black Rail

Limpkin

  • Limpkin

Cranes

  • Sandhill Crane
  • Whooping Crane
  • Common Crane

Stilts and Avocets

  • Black-necked Stilt
  • American Avocet

Plovers and Lapwings

  • Black-bellied Plover
  • American Golden-Plover
  • Killdeer
  • Semipalmated Plover
  • Piping Plover
  • Wilson's Plover
  • Mountain Plover
  • Snowy Plover

Sandpipers and Allies

  • Upland Sandpiper
  • Hudsonian Whimbrel
  • Eskimo Curlew
  • Long-billed Curlew
  • Hudsonian Godwit
  • Marbled Godwit
  • Short-billed Dowitcher
  • Long-billed Dowitcher
  • American Woodcock
  • Wilson's Snipe
  • Wilson's Phalarope
  • Red Phalarope
  • Red-necked Phalarope
  • Spotted Sandpiper
  • Solitary Sandpiper
  • Lesser Yellowlegs
  • Willet
  • Greater Yellowlegs
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Red Knot
  • Ruff
  • Stilt Sandpiper
  • Buff-breasted Sandpiper
  • Sanderling
  • Dunlin
  • Purple Sandpiper
  • Baird's Sandpiper
  • White-rumped Sandpiper
  • Least Sandpiper
  • Pectoral Sandpiper
  • Western Sandpiper
  • Semipalmated Sandpiper

Skuas and Jaegers

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

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

  • Little Gull
  • Black-legged Kittiwake
  • Sabine's Gull
  • Bonaparte's Gull
  • Black-headed Gull
  • Laughing Gull
  • Franklin's Gull
  • Heermann's Gull
  • Short-billed Gull
  • Ring-billed Gull
  • Western Gull
  • American Herring Gull
  • Vega Gull
  • Great Black-backed Gull
  • Glaucous Gull
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull
  • California Gull
  • Slaty-backed Gull
  • Iceland Gull
  • Sooty Tern
  • Least Tern
  • Caspian Tern
  • Black Tern
  • Forster's Tern
  • Arctic Tern
  • Common Tern
  • Elegant Tern
  • Royal Tern

Grebes

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

Loons

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

Storks

  • Wood Stork

Frigatebirds

  • Magnificent Frigatebird
  • Great Frigatebird

Boobies and Gannets

  • Brown Booby

Anhingas

  • Anhinga

Cormorants and Shags

  • Double-crested Cormorant
  • Neotropic Cormorant

Ibises and Spoonbills

  • White Ibis
  • Glossy Ibis
  • White-faced Ibis
  • Roseate Spoonbill

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns

  • American Bittern
  • Least Bittern
  • Yellow-crowned Night Heron
  • Black-crowned Night Heron
  • Little Blue Heron
  • Tricolored Heron
  • Reddish Egret
  • Snowy Egret
  • Green Heron
  • Western Cattle-Egret
  • Great Egret
  • Great Blue Heron

Pelicans

  • American White Pelican
  • Brown Pelican

New World Vultures

  • Black Vulture
  • Turkey Vulture

Osprey

  • Osprey

Hawks, Eagles, and Kites

  • White-tailed Kite
  • Swallow-tailed Kite
  • Golden Eagle
  • Sharp-shinned Hawk
  • Cooper's Hawk
  • American Goshawk
  • Northern Harrier
  • Bald Eagle
  • Mississippi Kite
  • Common Black Hawk
  • Harris's Hawk
  • Broad-winged Hawk
  • Red-shouldered Hawk
  • Zone-tailed Hawk
  • Swainson's Hawk
  • Red-tailed Hawk
  • Rough-legged Hawk
  • Ferruginous Hawk

Barn-Owls

  • American Barn Owl

Owls

  • Western Screech-Owl
  • Eastern Screech-Owl
  • Snowy Owl
  • Great Horned Owl
  • Burrowing Owl
  • Barred Owl
  • Long-eared Owl
  • Short-eared Owl
  • Northern Saw-whet Owl

Kingfishers

  • Ringed Kingfisher
  • Belted Kingfisher

Woodpeckers

  • Williamson's Sapsucker
  • Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
  • Red-naped Sapsucker
  • Lewis's Woodpecker
  • Red-headed Woodpecker
  • Acorn Woodpecker
  • Golden-fronted Woodpecker
  • Red-bellied Woodpecker
  • American Three-toed Woodpecker
  • Downy Woodpecker
  • Ladder-backed Woodpecker
  • Red-cockaded Woodpecker
  • Hairy Woodpecker
  • Pileated Woodpecker
  • Northern Flicker

Falcons and Caracaras

  • Crested Caracara
  • American Kestrel
  • Merlin
  • Gyrfalcon
  • Peregrine Falcon
  • Prairie Falcon

Old World Parrots

  • Budgerigar

New World and African Parrots

  • Monk Parakeet

Tyrant Flycatchers

  • Olive-sided Flycatcher
  • Western Wood-Pewee
  • Eastern Wood-Pewee
  • Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
  • Acadian Flycatcher
  • Alder Flycatcher
  • Willow Flycatcher
  • Least Flycatcher
  • Hammond's Flycatcher
  • Gray Flycatcher
  • Dusky Flycatcher
  • Western Flycatcher
  • Black Phoebe
  • Eastern Phoebe
  • Say's Phoebe
  • Vermilion Flycatcher
  • Dusky-capped Flycatcher
  • Ash-throated Flycatcher
  • Great Crested Flycatcher
  • Great Kiskadee
  • Couch's Kingbird
  • Cassin's Kingbird
  • Western Kingbird
  • Eastern Kingbird
  • Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Vireos, Shrike-Babblers, and Erpornis

  • Black-capped Vireo
  • White-eyed Vireo
  • Bell's Vireo
  • Yellow-throated Vireo
  • Cassin's Vireo
  • Blue-headed Vireo
  • Plumbeous Vireo
  • Philadelphia Vireo
  • Eastern Warbling Vireo
  • Red-eyed Vireo

Shrikes

  • Loggerhead Shrike
  • Northern Shrike

Crows, Jays, and Magpies

  • Pinyon Jay
  • Steller's Jay
  • Blue Jay
  • Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay
  • Black-billed Magpie
  • Clark's Nutcracker
  • American Crow
  • Fish Crow
  • Chihuahuan Raven
  • Common Raven

Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice

  • Carolina Chickadee
  • Black-capped Chickadee
  • Mountain Chickadee
  • Juniper Titmouse
  • Tufted Titmouse
  • Black-crested Titmouse

Penduline-Tits

  • Verdin

Larks

  • Horned Lark

Swallows

  • Bank Swallow
  • Tree Swallow
  • Violet-green Swallow
  • Purple Martin
  • Northern Rough-winged Swallow
  • Barn Swallow
  • Cliff Swallow
  • Cave Swallow

Long-tailed Tits

  • Bushtit

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

Wrens

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

Starlings

  • European Starling

Mockingbirds and Thrashers

  • Gray Catbird
  • Curve-billed Thrasher
  • Brown Thrasher
  • Sage Thrasher
  • Northern Mockingbird

Thrushes and Allies

  • Eastern Bluebird
  • Western Bluebird
  • Mountain Bluebird
  • Townsend's Solitaire
  • Varied Thrush
  • Veery
  • Gray-cheeked Thrush
  • Swainson's Thrush
  • Hermit Thrush
  • Wood Thrush
  • American Robin

Waxwings

  • Bohemian Waxwing
  • Cedar Waxwing

Old World Sparrows

  • House Sparrow

Wagtails and Pipits

  • American Pipit
  • Sprague's Pipit

Finches, Euphonias, and Allies

  • Evening Grosbeak
  • Pine Grosbeak
  • House Finch
  • Purple Finch
  • Cassin's Finch
  • Redpoll
  • Red Crossbill
  • White-winged Crossbill
  • Pine Siskin
  • Lesser Goldfinch
  • Lawrence's Goldfinch
  • American Goldfinch

Longspurs and Snow Buntings

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

New World Sparrows

  • Cassin's Sparrow
  • Bachman's Sparrow
  • Grasshopper Sparrow
  • Chipping Sparrow
  • Clay-colored Sparrow
  • Black-chinned Sparrow
  • Field Sparrow
  • Brewer's Sparrow
  • Black-throated Sparrow
  • Lark Sparrow
  • Lark Bunting
  • American Tree Sparrow
  • Fox Sparrow
  • Dark-eyed Junco
  • White-crowned Sparrow
  • Golden-crowned Sparrow
  • Harris's Sparrow
  • White-throated Sparrow
  • Vesper Sparrow
  • LeConte's Sparrow
  • Nelson's Sparrow
  • Savannah Sparrow
  • Baird's Sparrow
  • Henslow's Sparrow
  • Song Sparrow
  • Lincoln's Sparrow
  • Swamp Sparrow
  • Canyon Towhee
  • Rufous-crowned Sparrow
  • Green-tailed Towhee
  • Spotted Towhee
  • Eastern Towhee

Yellow-breasted Chat

  • Yellow-breasted Chat

Troupials and Allies

  • Yellow-headed Blackbird
  • Bobolink
  • Western Meadowlark
  • Eastern Meadowlark
  • Chihuahuan Meadowlark
  • Orchard Oriole
  • Hooded Oriole
  • Bullock's Oriole
  • Baltimore Oriole
  • Scott's Oriole
  • Red-winged Blackbird
  • Shiny Cowbird
  • Bronzed Cowbird
  • Brown-headed Cowbird
  • Rusty Blackbird
  • Brewer's Blackbird
  • Common Grackle
  • Great-tailed Grackle

New World Warblers

  • Ovenbird
  • Worm-eating Warbler
  • Louisiana Waterthrush
  • Northern Waterthrush
  • Golden-winged Warbler
  • Blue-winged Warbler
  • Black-and-white Warbler
  • Prothonotary Warbler
  • Swainson's Warbler
  • Tennessee Warbler
  • Orange-crowned Warbler
  • Nashville Warbler
  • Virginia's Warbler
  • Connecticut Warbler
  • MacGillivray's Warbler
  • Mourning Warbler
  • Kentucky Warbler
  • Common Yellowthroat
  • Hooded Warbler
  • American Redstart
  • Cape May Warbler
  • Cerulean Warbler
  • Northern Parula
  • Tropical Parula
  • Magnolia Warbler
  • Bay-breasted Warbler
  • Blackburnian Warbler
  • Northern Yellow Warbler
  • Chestnut-sided Warbler
  • Blackpoll Warbler
  • Black-throated Blue Warbler
  • Palm Warbler
  • Pine Warbler
  • Yellow-rumped Warbler
  • Yellow-throated Warbler
  • Prairie Warbler
  • Black-throated Gray Warbler
  • Townsend's Warbler
  • Golden-cheeked Warbler
  • Black-throated Green Warbler
  • Canada Warbler
  • Wilson's Warbler

Cardinals and Allies

  • Hepatic Tanager
  • Summer Tanager
  • Scarlet Tanager
  • Western Tanager
  • Northern Cardinal
  • Pyrrhuloxia
  • Rose-breasted Grosbeak
  • Black-headed Grosbeak
  • Blue Grosbeak
  • Lazuli Bunting
  • Indigo Bunting
  • Painted Bunting
  • Dickcissel

Most common birds in Oklahoma

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 Oklahoma’s regular birds. The list follows the seasons: migrants rise in spring and autumn.

  1. Double-crested CormorantNannopterum auritum
  2. House SparrowPasser domesticus
  3. Turkey VultureCathartes aura
  4. Yellow-rumped WarblerSetophaga coronata
  5. Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeata
  6. European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
  7. American CootFulica americana
  8. American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
  9. Canada GooseBranta canadensis
  10. Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
  11. Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
  12. Blue-winged TealSpatula discors
  13. KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
  14. Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
  15. MallardAnas platyrhynchos
  16. American RobinTurdus migratorius
  17. Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
  18. Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
  19. American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
  20. American KestrelFalco sparverius

Largest bird families in Oklahoma

Among its regular birds.

  • Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl41
  • New World Warblers34
  • Sandpipers and Allies27
  • New World Sparrows24
  • Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers24
  • Tyrant Flycatchers16
  • Troupials and Allies14
  • Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns12

Reported in the last 30 days

308 species reported to eBird in Oklahoma in the 30 days to 2026-10-13. The 40 most recently reported:

Turkey Vulture, Blue Jay, Downy Woodpecker, Northern Cardinal, Northern Mockingbird, Carolina Chickadee, House Sparrow, Swainson's Hawk, Belted Kingfisher, American Crow, Great Blue Heron, Carolina Wren, Northern Flicker, Tufted Titmouse, Blue-winged Teal, Western Meadowlark, Double-crested Cormorant, Red-tailed Hawk, Northern Shoveler, American White Pelican, Killdeer, Bald Eagle, American Coot, Common Raven, Black-billed Magpie, Mountain Bluebird, Canyon Towhee, Dark-eyed Junco, European Starling, Mourning Dove, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Mallard, Canada Goose, American Kestrel, Brown Thrasher, American Robin, Orange-crowned Warbler, Pileated Woodpecker, Red-winged Blackbird, Yellow-rumped Warbler, …

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