Photo Lifelist
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 27, 2009 – 244 Species
- Mallard
- American Black Duck
- Blue-winged Teal
- Northern Shoveler
- Lesser Scaup
- Ring-necked Duck
- Redhead
- Surf Scoter
- White-winged Scoter
- Common Eider
- Common Goldeneye
- Bufflehead
- Ruddy Duck
- Common Merganser
- Hooded Merganser
- Wood Duck
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck
- Canada Goose
- Cackling Goose
- Trumpeter Swan
- American Coot
- Common Moorhen
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Common Loon
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Neotropic Cormorant
- Anhinga
- American White Pelican
- Brown Pelican
- Herring Gull
- Ring-billed Gull
- Greater Black-backed Gull
- Laughing Gull
- Forster’s Tern
- Common Tern
- Arctic Tern
- Caspian Tern
- Royal Tern
- Sandwich Tern
- Black Tern
- Mississippi Kite
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Rough-legged Hawk
- Harris’s Hawk
- Crested Caracara
- Osprey
- Bald Eagle
- Northern Harrier
- Turkey Vulture
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Cooper’s Hawk
- American Kestrel
- Great Horned Owl
- Barred Owl
- Snowy Owl
- Ruffed Grouse
- Ring-necked Pheasant
- Greater Roadrunner
- Plain Chachalaca
- Wild Turkey
- White Ibis
- Roseate Spoonbill
- Great Blue Heron
- Sandhill Crane
- Great Egret
- Snowy Egret
- Little Blue Heron
- Tricolored Heron
- Reddish Egret
- Black-crowned Night-Heron
- Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
- Green Heron
- 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
- House Wren
- Winter Wren
- Marsh Wren
- Sedge Wren
- Cactus Wren
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Yellow-throated Vireo
- White-eyed Vireo
- Blue-headed Vireo
- Bell’s Vireo
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Yellow Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Wilson’s Warbler
- Hooded Warbler
- Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Cerulean Warbler
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Cape May Warbler
- Magnolia Warbler
- Tennessee Warbler
- Blue-winged Warbler
- Nashville Warbler
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Pine Warbler
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Yellow-throated Warbler
- Palm Warbler
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- Ovenbird
- Louisiana Waterthrush
- Common Yellowthroat
- Kentucky Warbler
- American Redstart
- 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
- 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
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Good idea – I have one of these on Flickr with pretty much the same criteria. My real lifelist is 300+ – now I just have to get my photo lifelist to match it.
Thanks for these great picture. They all brings me great memories of my birding time in North America and Central America
Thanks again
This is a great way to learn, thank you!
You are always a great source of information and motivation!
I got a few pictures of a Eagle and lots of Woodpeckers including the Pileated if you wanna take a look at them. Thanks so much for putting photos so I know what they are! (I have just started taking bird photos)
Connie – We’d be happy to look at them… feel free to add a link here or just email them to us birdfreakblog@gmail.com (if you are attaching large photos). Glad you found the photos of use!!
Without clicking to see all the birds listed to identify the pair of birds we saw feeding out of our bird feeders this morning, I would like to know if you or someone else could identify these birds. They look like woodpeckes but a bit larger. Brown feathers on back and wings with orange spots near the body, the bellies were black with many white spots. they were feeding on black oil sunflower seeds.
We are developing the pictures we took to see if they can be identified by a wild bird store near us.
Thanks for any help.
Without seeing a photo it is hard to tell but my guess is European Starling.