Utah bird checklist

508 bird species in 72 families have been recorded in Utah, according to eBird; about 362 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 Utah right now

  1. 1Yellow-rumped Warbler
  2. 2Ring-billed Gull
  3. 3European Starling
  4. 4Killdeer
  5. 5Double-crested Cormorant
  6. 6American Coot
  7. 7Rock Pigeon
  8. 8House Sparrow
  9. 9Mourning Dove
  10. 10Mallard
The top 20, and how they are ranked

Utah bird checklist

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Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl

  • Fulvous Whistling-Duck
  • Bar-headed Goose
  • Snow Goose
  • Ross's Goose
  • Graylag Goose
  • Swan Goose
  • Greater White-fronted Goose
  • Brant
  • Barnacle Goose
  • Cackling Goose
  • Canada Goose
  • Mute Swan
  • Black Swan
  • Trumpeter Swan
  • Tundra Swan
  • Egyptian Goose
  • Ruddy Shelduck
  • Muscovy Duck
  • Ringed Teal
  • Wood Duck
  • Mandarin Duck
  • Garganey
  • Blue-winged Teal
  • Cinnamon Teal
  • Northern Shoveler
  • Gadwall
  • Eurasian Wigeon
  • American Wigeon
  • Mallard
  • Mexican Duck
  • American Black Duck
  • Northern Pintail
  • Green-winged Teal
  • Red-crested Pochard
  • Canvasback
  • Redhead
  • Ring-necked Duck
  • Greater Scaup
  • Lesser Scaup
  • 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

Guineafowl

  • Helmeted Guineafowl

New World Quail

  • Northern Bobwhite
  • Scaled Quail
  • California Quail
  • Gambel's Quail

Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies

  • Wild Turkey
  • Ruffed Grouse
  • Greater Sage-Grouse
  • Gunnison Sage-Grouse
  • Dusky Grouse
  • Sharp-tailed Grouse
  • White-tailed Ptarmigan
  • Gray Partridge
  • Ring-necked Pheasant
  • Green Pheasant
  • Indian Peafowl
  • Green Peafowl
  • Red Junglefowl
  • Japanese Quail
  • Chukar

Pigeons and Doves

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

Cuckoos

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

Nightjars and Allies

  • Lesser Nighthawk
  • Common Nighthawk
  • Common Poorwill
  • Mexican Whip-poor-will

Swifts

  • Black Swift
  • Chimney Swift
  • Vaux's Swift
  • White-throated Swift

Hummingbirds

  • Rivoli's Hummingbird
  • 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

  • Virginia Rail
  • Sora
  • Common Gallinule
  • American Coot
  • Purple Gallinule

Cranes

  • Sandhill Crane
  • Whooping Crane
  • Common Crane

Stilts and Avocets

  • Black-necked Stilt
  • American Avocet

Plovers and Lapwings

  • Black-bellied Plover
  • American Golden-Plover
  • Pacific Golden-Plover
  • Killdeer
  • Semipalmated Plover
  • Mountain Plover
  • Snowy Plover

Sandpipers and Allies

  • Upland Sandpiper
  • Hudsonian Whimbrel
  • Long-billed Curlew
  • Bar-tailed Godwit
  • Hudsonian Godwit
  • Marbled Godwit
  • Short-billed Dowitcher
  • Long-billed Dowitcher
  • Wilson's Snipe
  • Wilson's Phalarope
  • Red Phalarope
  • Red-necked Phalarope
  • Spotted Sandpiper
  • Solitary Sandpiper
  • Wandering Tattler
  • Lesser Yellowlegs
  • Willet
  • Greater Yellowlegs
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Red Knot
  • Ruff
  • Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
  • Curlew Sandpiper
  • 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

Auks, Murres, and Puffins

  • Ancient Murrelet

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
  • Yellow-footed Gull
  • Western Gull
  • American Herring Gull
  • Vega Gull
  • Great Black-backed Gull
  • Glaucous Gull
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull
  • California Gull
  • Glaucous-winged Gull
  • Iceland Gull
  • Least Tern
  • Caspian Tern
  • Black Tern
  • Forster's Tern
  • Arctic Tern
  • Common Tern

Flamingos

  • Chilean Flamingo
  • Lesser Flamingo

Grebes

  • 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

Northern Storm-Petrels

  • Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel

Storks

  • Wood Stork

Frigatebirds

  • Magnificent Frigatebird

Boobies and Gannets

  • Blue-footed Booby

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

  • California Condor
  • Turkey Vulture

Osprey

  • Osprey

Hawks, Eagles, and Kites

  • White-tailed Kite
  • Golden Eagle
  • Sharp-shinned Hawk
  • Cooper's Hawk
  • American Goshawk
  • Northern Harrier
  • Bald Eagle
  • Mississippi Kite
  • Common Black Hawk
  • Gray 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

  • Flammulated Owl
  • Western Screech-Owl
  • Snowy Owl
  • Great Horned Owl
  • Northern Pygmy-Owl
  • Elf Owl
  • Burrowing Owl
  • Spotted Owl
  • Great Gray Owl
  • Long-eared Owl
  • Short-eared Owl
  • Boreal Owl
  • Northern Saw-whet Owl

Kingfishers

  • Belted Kingfisher

Woodpeckers

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

Falcons and Caracaras

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

Cockatoos

  • Cockatiel

Old World Parrots

  • Echo Parakeet
  • Budgerigar
  • Fischer's Lovebird

New World and African Parrots

  • Monk Parakeet
  • Sun Parakeet

Tyrant Flycatchers

  • Olive-sided Flycatcher
  • Western Wood-Pewee
  • Yellow-bellied 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
  • Brown-crested Flycatcher
  • Tropical Kingbird
  • Cassin's Kingbird
  • Thick-billed Kingbird
  • Western Kingbird
  • Eastern Kingbird
  • Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Vireos, Shrike-Babblers, and Erpornis

  • White-eyed Vireo
  • Bell's Vireo
  • Gray Vireo
  • Yellow-throated Vireo
  • Cassin's Vireo
  • Blue-headed Vireo
  • Plumbeous Vireo
  • Philadelphia Vireo
  • Western Warbling Vireo
  • Red-eyed Vireo

Shrikes

  • Loggerhead Shrike
  • Northern Shrike

Crows, Jays, and Magpies

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

Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice

  • Black-capped Chickadee
  • Mountain Chickadee
  • Juniper 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

Long-tailed Tits

  • Bushtit

Kinglets

  • Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  • Golden-crowned Kinglet

Nuthatches

  • White-breasted Nuthatch
  • Pygmy Nuthatch
  • Red-breasted Nuthatch

Treecreepers

  • Brown Creeper

Gnatcatchers

  • Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  • Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

Wrens

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

Dippers

  • American Dipper

Starlings

  • European Starling

Mockingbirds and Thrashers

  • Gray Catbird
  • Curve-billed Thrasher
  • Brown Thrasher
  • Bendire's Thrasher
  • LeConte's Thrasher
  • Crissal Thrasher
  • Sage Thrasher
  • Northern Mockingbird

Thrushes and Allies

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

Waxwings

  • Bohemian Waxwing
  • Cedar Waxwing

Silky-flycatchers

  • Phainopepla

Olive Warbler

  • Olive Warbler

Weavers and Allies

  • Northern Red Bishop

Waxbills and Allies

  • Zebra Finch
  • Red-cheeked Cordonbleu

Whydahs and Indigobirds

  • Village Indigobird

Old World Sparrows

  • House Sparrow

Wagtails and Pipits

  • American Pipit
  • Sprague's Pipit

Finches, Euphonias, and Allies

  • Brambling
  • Evening Grosbeak
  • Pine Grosbeak
  • Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
  • Black Rosy-Finch
  • Brown-capped Rosy-Finch
  • House Finch
  • Purple Finch
  • Cassin's Finch
  • Redpoll
  • Red Crossbill
  • White-winged Crossbill
  • European Goldfinch
  • Pine Siskin
  • Lesser Goldfinch
  • Lawrence's Goldfinch
  • American Goldfinch

Longspurs and Snow Buntings

  • Lapland Longspur
  • Chestnut-collared Longspur
  • Thick-billed Longspur
  • Snow Bunting

New World Sparrows

  • Cassin'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
  • Sagebrush Sparrow
  • Bell's Sparrow
  • Vesper Sparrow
  • LeConte's Sparrow
  • Nelson's Sparrow
  • Savannah Sparrow
  • Baird's Sparrow
  • Song Sparrow
  • Lincoln's Sparrow
  • Swamp Sparrow
  • Canyon Towhee
  • Abert's Towhee
  • Rufous-crowned Sparrow
  • Green-tailed Towhee
  • Spotted Towhee

Yellow-breasted Chat

  • Yellow-breasted Chat

Troupials and Allies

  • Yellow-headed Blackbird
  • Bobolink
  • Western Meadowlark
  • Orchard Oriole
  • Hooded Oriole
  • Streak-backed Oriole
  • Bullock's Oriole
  • Baltimore Oriole
  • Scott's Oriole
  • Red-winged Blackbird
  • 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
  • Tennessee Warbler
  • Orange-crowned Warbler
  • Lucy's Warbler
  • Nashville Warbler
  • Virginia's Warbler
  • Connecticut Warbler
  • MacGillivray's Warbler
  • Kentucky Warbler
  • Common Yellowthroat
  • Hooded Warbler
  • American Redstart
  • Cape May Warbler
  • Northern 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
  • Grace's Warbler
  • Black-throated Gray Warbler
  • Townsend's Warbler
  • Hermit Warbler
  • Black-throated Green Warbler
  • Canada Warbler
  • Wilson's Warbler
  • Painted Redstart

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 Utah

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

  1. Yellow-rumped WarblerSetophaga coronata
  2. Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
  3. European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
  4. KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
  5. Double-crested CormorantNannopterum auritum
  6. American CootFulica americana
  7. Rock PigeonColumba livia
  8. House SparrowPasser domesticus
  9. Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
  10. MallardAnas platyrhynchos
  11. American RobinTurdus migratorius
  12. Eurasian Collared-DoveStreptopelia decaocto
  13. Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
  14. Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
  15. Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
  16. American KestrelFalco sparverius
  17. Canada GooseBranta canadensis
  18. Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
  19. White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
  20. American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos

Largest bird families in Utah

Among its regular birds.

  • Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl40
  • Sandpipers and Allies28
  • New World Warblers23
  • New World Sparrows23
  • Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers22
  • Troupials and Allies13
  • Hawks, Eagles, and Kites13
  • Tyrant Flycatchers13

Reported in the last 30 days

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

Great-tailed Grackle, Eurasian Collared-Dove, Song Sparrow, Cooper's Hawk, Killdeer, White-crowned Sparrow, Mountain Chickadee, Ring-necked Pheasant, Dark-eyed Junco, House Finch, Northern Flicker, Spotted Towhee, Steller's Jay, Lesser Goldfinch, Common Raven, Cedar Waxwing, Western Grebe, Yellow-rumped Warbler, European Starling, Eared Grebe, American Coot, California Gull, American Kestrel, Ring-billed Gull, Mallard, Clark's Grebe, Clark's Nutcracker, Black-billed Magpie, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Downy Woodpecker, Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay, California Quail, Cassin's Finch, Black-capped Chickadee, American Robin, House Sparrow, Mourning Dove, Rock Pigeon, Wild Turkey, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, …

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