Photo Lifelist

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

  1. American Black Duck
  2. Black-bellied Whistling Duck
  3. Blue-winged Teal
  4. Bufflehead
  5. Common Eider
  6. Common Goldeneye
  7. Common Merganser
  8. Hooded Merganser
  9. Lesser Scaup
  10. Mallard
  11. Northern Shoveler
  12. Redhead
  13. Ring-necked Duck
  14. Ruddy Duck
  15. Surf Scoter
  16. White-winged Scoter
  17. Wood Duck
  18. Canada Goose
  19. Cackling Goose
  20. Trumpeter Swan
  21. American Coot
  22. Common Moorhen
  23. Horned Grebe
  24. Pied-billed Grebe
  25. Common Loon
  26. Double-crested Cormorant
  27. Neotropic Cormorant
  28. Anhinga
  29. American White Pelican
  30. Brown Pelican
  31. Bonaparte’s Gull
  32. Greater Black-backed Gull
  33. Herring Gull
  34. Laughing Gull
  35. Ring-billed Gull
  36. Arctic Tern
  37. Black Tern
  38. Caspian Tern
  39. Common Tern
  40. Forster’s Tern
  41. Royal Tern
  42. Sandwich Tern
  43. American Kestrel
  44. Bald Eagle
  45. Cooper’s Hawk
  46. Crested Caracara
  47. Harris’s Hawk
  48. Merlin
  49. Mississippi Kite
  50. Northern Harrier
  51. Osprey
  52. Peregrine Falcon
  53. Red-tailed Hawk
  54. Rough-legged Hawk
  55. Sharp-shinned Hawk
  56. Turkey Vulture
  57. Barred Owl
  58. Great Horned Owl
  59. Eastern Screech Owl
  60. Snowy Owl
  61. Short-Eared Owl
  62. Ruffed Grouse
  63. Ring-necked Pheasant
  64. Greater Roadrunner
  65. Plain Chachalaca
  66. Wild Turkey
  67. White Ibis
  68. Roseate Spoonbill
  69. Great Blue Heron
  70. Sandhill Crane
  71. Whooping Crane
  72. Great Egret
  73. Snowy Egret
  74. Little Blue Heron
  75. Tricolored Heron
  76. Reddish Egret
  77. Black-crowned Night-Heron
  78. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
  79. Green Heron
  80. American Bittern
  81. Sora
  82. Killdeer
  83. Black-bellied Plover
  84. Semipalmated Plover
  85. Piping Plover
  86. Black-necked Stilt
  87. American Oystercatcher
  88. Sanderling
  89. Dunlin
  90. Red Knot
  91. Ruddy Turnstone
  92. Spotted Sandpiper
  93. Solitary Sandpiper
  94. Lesser Yellowlegs
  95. Wilson’s Snipe
  96. Short-billed Dowitcher
  97. Willet
  98. Hudsonian Godwit
  99. Whimbrel
  100. Wilson’s Phalarope
  101. Rock Pigeon
  102. Mourning Dove
  103. Black-billed Cuckoo
  104. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  105. Common Nighthawk
  106. Common Pauraque
  107. Chimney Swift
  108. Belted Kingfisher
  109. Green Kingfisher
  110. Red-headed Woodpecker
  111. Acorn Woodpecker
  112. Red-bellied Woodpecker
  113. Golden-fronted Woodpecker
  114. Ladder-backed Woodpecker
  115. Downy Woodpecker
  116. Hairy Woodpecker
  117. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
  118. Northern Flicker
  119. Pileated Woodpecker
  120. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
  121. Green-breasted Mango
  122. Tree Swallow
  123. Barn Swallow
  124. Bank Swallow
  125. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
  126. Eastern Kingbird
  127. Western Kingbird
  128. Eastern Wood Pewee
  129. Olive-sided Flycatcher
  130. Eastern Phoebe
  131. Great Crested Flycatcher
  132. Least Flycatcher
  133. Acadian Flycatcher
  134. Willow Flycatcher
  135. Great Kiskadee
  136. American Robin
  137. Clay-colored Robin
  138. Eastern Bluebird
  139. Hermit Thrush
  140. Veery
  141. Swainson’s Thrush
  142. Wood Thrush
  143. Brown Thrasher
  144. Long-tailed Thrasher
  145. Gray Catbird
  146. Northern Mockingbird
  147. Blue Mockingbird
  148. Northern Shrike
  149. Cedar Waxwing
  150. Horned Lark
  151. American Pipit
  152. Blue Jay
  153. Steller’s Jay
  154. Green Jay
  155. Western Scrub-Jay
  156. Mexican Jay
  157. Black-billed Magpie
  158. American Crow
  159. Fish Crow
  160. Common Raven
  161. Black-capped Chickadee
  162. Carolina Chickadee
  163. Tufted Titmouse
  164. White-breasted Nuthatch
  165. Red-breasted Nuthatch
  166. Brown Creeper
  167. Cactus Wren
  168. Carolina Wren
  169. House Wren
  170. Marsh Wren
  171. Sedge Wren
  172. Winter Wren
  173. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  174. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  175. Golden-crowned Kinglet
  176. Bell’s Vireo
  177. Blue-headed Vireo
  178. Red-eyed Vireo
  179. White-eyed Vireo
  180. Yellow-throated Vireo
  181. American Redstart
  182. Bay-breasted Warbler
  183. Black-throated Blue Warbler
  184. Black-throated Green Warbler
  185. Black-and-white Warbler
  186. Blackpoll Warbler
  187. Blue-winged Warbler
  188. Cape May Warbler
  189. Cerulean Warbler
  190. Chestnut-sided Warbler
  191. Common Yellowthroat
  192. Golden Winged Warbler
  193. Hooded Warbler
  194. Kentucky Warbler
  195. Louisiana Waterthrush
  196. Magnolia Warbler
  197. Nashville Warbler
  198. Northern Parula
  199. Northern Waterthrush
  200. Ovenbird
  201. Palm Warbler
  202. Pine Warbler
  203. Prothonotary Warbler
  204. Tennessee Warbler
  205. Wilson’s Warbler
  206. Yellow Warbler
  207. Yellow-breasted Chat
  208. Yellow-rumped Warbler
  209. Yellow-throated Warbler
  210. Scarlet Tanager
  211. European Starling
  212. Red-winged Blackbird
  213. Yellow-headed Blackbird
  214. Western Meadowlark
  215. Eastern Meadowlark
  216. Bobolink
  217. Dickcissel
  218. Common Grackle
  219. Groove-billed Ani
  220. Brown-headed Cowbird
  221. Rusty Blackbird
  222. Baltimore Oriole
  223. Orchard Oriole
  224. Scott’s Oriole
  225. Altamira Oriole
  226. Song Sparrow
  227. Lincoln’s Sparrow
  228. Swamp Sparrow
  229. Fox Sparrow
  230. Chipping Sparrow
  231. American Tree Sparrow
  232. Field Sparrow
  233. Lark Sparrow
  234. Savannah Sparrow
  235. Vesper Sparrow
  236. Henslow’s Sparrow
  237. Grasshopper Sparrow
  238. White-throated Sparrow
  239. White-crowned Sparrow
  240. Harris’s Sparrow
  241. Dark-eyed Junco
  242. Snow Bunting
  243. House Finch
  244. Purple Finch
  245. White-winged Crossbill
  246. American Goldfinch
  247. Pine Siskin
  248. Lesser Goldfinch
  249. Northern Cardinal
  250. Indigo Bunting
  251. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
  252. Black-headed Grosbeak
  253. Crimson-collared Grosbeak
  254. Eastern Towhee
  255. Spotted Towhee
  256. Common Redpoll
  257. House Sparrow

13 thoughts on “Photo Lifelist

  1. 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.

  2. 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)

  3. 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!!

  4. 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.

  5. Without seeing a photo it is hard to tell but my guess is European Starling.

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  7. I am trying to identify a bird I saw on my back porch. It was small and squatty like a wren. it had a white chest and light and dark brown marks on its back. It was one of the most captivating birds I have ever seen. If you know what it is please let me know. Also, I love your website. Please post as many pictures as you can.

  8. I like to visit your website because I am amazed at the large collection of bird photos you have organized. It is a beautiful collection.

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