This is the Birdfreak Team’s photo lifelist. We have ordered the birds as they are in the Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America (and alphabetically within groups of birds if possible).
A photo lifelist is pretty much the same as a regular life list except the bird must be clearly photographed. The photo doesn’t have to be great, just diagnostic (although better photos are always the goal).
For each bird, click on the link to view a picture of the bird (try it out on this Cerulean Warbler)
As of January 10, 2012 – 255 Species
- American Black Duck
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck
- Blue-winged Teal
- Bufflehead
- Common Eider
- Common Goldeneye
- Common Merganser
- Hooded Merganser
- Lesser Scaup
- Mallard
- Northern Shoveler
- Redhead
- Ring-necked Duck
- Ruddy Duck
- Surf Scoter
- White-winged Scoter
- Wood Duck
- Canada Goose
- Cackling Goose
- Trumpeter Swan
- American Coot
- Common Moorhen
- Horned Grebe
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Common Loon
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Neotropic Cormorant
- Anhinga
- American White Pelican
- Brown Pelican
- Bonaparte’s Gull
- Greater Black-backed Gull
- Herring Gull
- Laughing Gull
- Ring-billed Gull
- Arctic Tern
- Black Tern
- Caspian Tern
- Common Tern
- Forster’s Tern
- Royal Tern
- Sandwich Tern
- American Kestrel
- Bald Eagle
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Crested Caracara
- Harris’s Hawk
- Merlin
- Mississippi Kite
- Northern Harrier
- Osprey
- Peregrine Falcon
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Rough-legged Hawk
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Turkey Vulture
- Barred Owl
- Great Horned Owl
- Snowy Owl
- Ruffed Grouse
- Ring-necked Pheasant
- Greater Roadrunner
- Plain Chachalaca
- Wild Turkey
- White Ibis
- Roseate Spoonbill
- Great Blue Heron
- Sandhill Crane
- Whooping Crane
- Great Egret
- Snowy Egret
- Little Blue Heron
- Tricolored Heron
- Reddish Egret
- Black-crowned Night-Heron
- Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
- Green Heron
- American Bittern
- Sora
- Killdeer
- Black-bellied Plover
- Semipalmated Plover
- Piping Plover
- Black-necked Stilt
- American Oystercatcher
- Sanderling
- Dunlin
- Red Knot
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Wilson’s Snipe
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Willet
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Whimbrel
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Rock Pigeon
- Mourning Dove
- Black-billed Cuckoo
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Common Nighthawk
- Common Pauraque
- Chimney Swift
- Belted Kingfisher
- Green Kingfisher
- Red-headed Woodpecker
- Acorn Woodpecker
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Golden-fronted Woodpecker
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker
- Downy Woodpecker
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Northern Flicker
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Green-breasted Mango
- Tree Swallow
- Barn Swallow
- Bank Swallow
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Eastern Kingbird
- Western Kingbird
- Eastern Wood Pewee
- Olive-sided Flycatcher
- Eastern Phoebe
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Least Flycatcher
- Acadian Flycatcher
- Willow Flycatcher
- Great Kiskadee
- American Robin
- Clay-colored Robin
- Eastern Bluebird
- Hermit Thrush
- Veery
- Swainson’s Thrush
- Wood Thrush
- Brown Thrasher
- Long-tailed Thrasher
- Gray Catbird
- Northern Mockingbird
- Blue Mockingbird
- Northern Shrike
- Cedar Waxwing
- Horned Lark
- American Pipit
- Blue Jay
- Steller’s Jay
- Green Jay
- Western Scrub-Jay
- Mexican Jay
- Black-billed Magpie
- American Crow
- Fish Crow
- Common Raven
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Carolina Chickadee
- Tufted Titmouse
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Brown Creeper
- Cactus Wren
- Carolina Wren
- House Wren
- Marsh Wren
- Sedge Wren
- Winter Wren
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Bell’s Vireo
- Blue-headed Vireo
- Red-eyed Vireo
- White-eyed Vireo
- Yellow-throated Vireo
- American Redstart
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Blue-winged Warbler
- Cape May Warbler
- Cerulean Warbler
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Common Yellowthroat
- Golden Winged Warbler
- Hooded Warbler
- Kentucky Warbler
- Louisiana Waterthrush
- Magnolia Warbler
- Nashville Warbler
- Northern Parula
- Northern Waterthrush
- Ovenbird
- Palm Warbler
- Pine Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Tennessee Warbler
- Wilson’s Warbler
- Yellow Warbler
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Yellow-throated Warbler
- Scarlet Tanager
- European Starling
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Western Meadowlark
- Eastern Meadowlark
- Bobolink
- Dickcissel
- Common Grackle
- Groove-billed Ani
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Rusty Blackbird
- Baltimore Oriole
- Orchard Oriole
- Scott’s Oriole
- Altamira Oriole
- Song Sparrow
- Lincoln’s Sparrow
- Swamp Sparrow
- Fox Sparrow
- Chipping Sparrow
- American Tree Sparrow
- Field Sparrow
- Lark Sparrow
- Savannah Sparrow
- Vesper Sparrow
- Henslow’s Sparrow
- Grasshopper Sparrow
- White-throated Sparrow
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Harris’s Sparrow
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Snow Bunting
- House Finch
- Purple Finch
- White-winged Crossbill
- American Goldfinch
- Pine Siskin
- Lesser Goldfinch
- Northern Cardinal
- Indigo Bunting
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Black-headed Grosbeak
- Crimson-collared Grosbeak
- Eastern Towhee
- Spotted Towhee
- Common Redpoll
- House Sparrow
