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Tom Miko’s Lifelist

• Key: # = seen in U.S. and Europe * = seen in Europe only + = seen in Mexico only
• LOONS: Pacific Loon Common Loon Red-throated Loon
• TUBENOSES:Black-footed Albatross Northern Fulmar Cory’s Shearwater Levantine Shearwater Short-tailed Shearwater Flesh-footed Shearwater Black-vented Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Buller’s Shearwater
• GREBES Western Grebe Clark’s Grebe Great Crested Grebe * Horned (Slavonian) Grebe # Eared (Black-necked) Grebe Little Grebe Pied-billed Grebe Red-necked Grebe
• American White Pelican Brown Pelican Brown Booby Blue-footed Booby Masked Booby Red-billed Tropicbird Magnificent Frigatebird Pygmy Cormorant Great Cormorant * Double-crested Cormorant Brandt’s Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant Neotropical Cormorant +
• Purple Heron Squacco Heron Black-crowned Night Heron # Grey Heron Green Heron Great Blue Heron Great Egret Little Egret Snowy Egret Cattle Egret Reddish Egret Little Blue Heron Boat-billed Heron + American Bittern European Bittern Least Bittern Little Bittern Common) Spoonbill Roseate Spoonbill + Glossy Ibis White-faced Ibis White Ibis Turkey Vulture Black Vulture
• ACCIPITRIDAE Bald Eagle White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla * Booted Eagle Lesser Spotted Eagle Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis Common Buzzard Buteo buteo * Red-shouldered Hawk Swainson’s Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Gray Hawk Harris’ Hawk Great Black Hawk Zone-tailed Hawk White-tailed Hawk Roadside Hawk Short-tailed Hawk Crested Caracara Peregrine Falcon American Kestrel European Kestrel * Red-footed Falcon Hobby Prairie Falcon Bat Falcon Merlin Goshawk Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus * Levant Sparrowhawk A.brevipes Cooper’s Hawk Sharp-shinned Hawk Black Kite White-tailed Kite Northern Harrier Circus cyaneus Marsh Harrier C. aeruginosus * Montagu’s Harrier C. pygargus * Egyptian Vulture
• ANSERIFORMES:DUCKS, GEESE, SWANS, FLAMINGOS Pochard * Red-crested Pochard Canvasback Redhead Ruddy Duck Pintail Mallard # Gadwall Shoveler # American Wigeon Eurasian Wigeon Wood Duck Fulvous Whistling-Duck Mute Swan * Tundra Swan Trumpeter Swan Emperor Goose Greylag Goose Ross’ Goose Canada Goose Green-winged Teal Common Teal Blue-winged Teal Common Merganser (Goosander) Red-breasted Merganser Hooded Merganser Ring-necked Duck Long-tailed Duck Common Goldeneye Barrow’s Goldeneye Bufflehead Cinnamon Teal Surf Scoter American Black Scoter White-winged (Velvet) Scoter Lesser Scaup Greater Scaup Tufted Duck Ferruginous Duck Garganey Greater Flamingo *
• UPLAND GAME BIRDS California Quail Gambel’s Quail Pheasant Chukar
• GRUIFORMES Common Moorhen # American Coot Eurasian Coot * Sora Virginia Rail Clapper Rail Sandhill Crane Common Crane
• SHOREBIRDS (Northern) Lapwing * Semipalmated Plover Mongolian Plover Wilson’s Plover Snowy (Kentish) Plover # Little-ringed Plover * Black-bellied (Grey) Plover Pacific Golden Plover American Golden Plover Mountain Plover Killdeer Willet Marbled Godwit Buff-breasted Sandpiper Red Knot Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird’s Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Sanderling Dunlin Curlew Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Spotted Redshank Redshank Greenshank Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Ruff * Wood Sandpiper * (Eurasian) Curlew * Long-billed Curlew Whimbrel Black Turnstone Ruddy Turnstone Surfbird Wandering Tattler Black Oystercatcher American Oystercatcher American Avocet European Avocet * Black-necked Stilt Black-winged Stilt * Spotted Sandpiper Common Sandpiper * Long-billed Dowitcher Short-billed Dowitcher Red (Grey) Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Wilson’s Phalarope Common Snipe #
• LARIDAE: GULLS, TERNS Western Gull Larus occidentalis Glaucous-winged Gull Glaucous Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Ring-billed Gull California Gull Herring Gull Thayer’s Gull Heerman’s Gull Franklin’s Gull Laughing Gull Yellow-legged Gull L. cacchinans * Little Gull Bonaparte’s Gull Black-headed Gull * Greater Black-headed Gull L. ichthyaetus * Mew Gull L. canus Mediterranean Gull * Belcher’s Gull Sabine’s Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Gull-billed Tern LeastTern Little Tern * Royal Tern Elegant Tern Caspian Tern # Sooty Tern Sandwhich Tern Common Tern # Forster’s Tern Whiskered Tern Black Tern # Black Skimmer South Polar Skua Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger
• ALCIDAE Cassin’s Auklet Craveri’s Murrelet Xantus’ Murrelet Ancient Murrelet Marbled Murrelet Rhinoceros Auklet Common Murre Uria aalge Pigeon Guillemot Cepphus columba
• COLUMBIDAE: DOVES, PIGEONS Rock Dove # European Turtle Dove * Eurasian Collared Dove * Inca Dove Common Ground-Dove Ruddy Ground-Dove Band-tailed Pigeon Wood Pigeon Stock Dove * Spotted Dove Mourning Dove
• CUCULIFORMES Common Cuckoo * Yellow-billed Cuckoo Greater Roadrunner Groove-billed Ani Squirrel Cuckoo
• STRIGIDAE, TYTONIDAE: OWLS Great Horned Owl Spotted Owl Burrowing Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Great Grey Owl Western Screech Owl Eastern Screech Owl Flammulated Owl Saw-whet Owl Northern (Mountain) Pygmy Owl Elf Owl Barn Owl
• CAPRIMULGIDAE Common Nighthawk Lesser Nighthawk Common Poorwill Paraque Chuck-will's Widow
• APODIDAE Pallid Swift (Common) Swift * Alpine Swift Vaux’s Swift Black Swift White-throated Swift Chimney Swift
• TROCHILIDAE Allen’s Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Broad-tailed Hummingbird Anna’s Hummingbird Costa’s Hummingbird Black-chinned Hummingbird Calliope Hummingbird Broad-billed Hummingbird Blue-throated Hummingbird Violet-crowned Hummingbird Magnificent Hummingbird Cinnamon Hummingbird White-eared Hummingbird Xantus’ Hummingbird
• PSITTACIDAE Red-crowned Amazon (Tamaulipas, Mex.) White-crowned Parrot (Tam., Mex.) Maroon-fronted Parrot (Tam., Mex.) Orange-fronted Parakeet (Nayarit, Mex.)
• ALCEDINIDAE,CORACIDAE, etc. European (Common) Kingfisher Belted Kingfisher Ringed Kingfisher Green Kingfisher Amazon Kingfisher Hoopoe (European) Roller (European) Bee-eater Elegant Trogon Citreoline Trogon
• PICIDAE Nuttall’s Woodpecker Ladder-backed Woodpecker Black-backed Woodpecker Three-toed Woodpecker Arizona Woodpecker White-headed Woodpecker Red-shafted Flicker Yellow-shafted Flicker Gilded Flicker Acorn Woodpecker Lewis’ Woodpecker Williamson’s Sapsucker Red-breasted Sapsucker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Greater Spotted Woodpecker Middle Spotted Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Green Woodpecker Grey-headed Woodpecker Gila Woodpecker Grey-crowned Woodpecker Golden-cheeked Woodpecker Golden-fronted Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Smoky-brown Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Lineated Woodpecker
• FLYCATCHERS, SILKIES Greater Pewee Contopus pertinax Western Wood Pewee Olive-sided Flycatcher Brown-crested Flycatcher Ash-throated Flycatcher Nutting’s Flycatcher Dusky-capped Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Cassin’s Kingbird Western Kingbird Thick-billed Kingbird Couch’s Kingbird Tropical Kingbird Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Black Phoebe Say’s Phoebe Eastern Phoebe Vermilion Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Dusky Flycatcher Hammond’s Flycatcher Pacific-slope Flycatcher Gray Flycatcher Northern Beardless Tyrranulet Northern Flycatcher Boat-billed Flycatcher Social Flycatcher Great Kiskadee Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Streaked Flycatcher Rose-throated Becard Phainopepla Cedar Waxwing Masked Tityra
• TITS, NUTHATCHES, CREEPERS Bearded Tit Penduline Tit Crested Tit Willow Tit Great Tit Coal Tit Blue Tit Mountain Chickadee Chestnut-backed Chickadee Black-capped Chickadee Carolina Chickadee Bridled Titmouse Oak Titmouse Baeolophus inornatus Brown Creeper Short-toed Tree Creeper Ivory-billed Woodcreeper Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Pygmy Nuthatch European (Common) Nuthatch Rock Nuthatch
• TROGLODYTIDAE: WRENS House Wren Bewick’s Wren Marsh Wren Canyon Wren Cactus Wren Rock Wren Winter Wren
• KINGLETS, GNATCATCHERS, etc. American Dipper Wrentit Firecrest Goldcrest Ruby-crowned Kinglet Golden-crowned Kinglet Sedge Warbler Great Reed Warbler Common Reed Warbler Cetti’s Warbler Chiffchaff * Willow Warbler Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix Icterine Warbler Olive-tree Warbler Olivaceous Warbler Wood Warbler Sardinian Warbler Blackcap Ruppel’s Warbler Whitethroat Lesser Whitethroat Black-tailed Gnatcatcher California Gnatcatcher Blue-grey Gnatcatcher Long-tailed Tit Bushtit Verdin
• MUSCICAPIDAE Spotted Flycatcher Collared Flycatcher Black Redstart Stonechat Whinchat Bluethroat Nightingale (Northern) Wheatear * Isabelline Wheatear European Robin American Robin Rufous-backed Robin (European) Blackbird Western Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Hermit Thrush Swainson’s Thrush Varied Thrush Townsend's Solitaire Brown-backed Solitaire Russet Nightingale Thrush Orange-billed Nightingale Thrush
• LANIIDAE, VIREONIDAE Loggerhead Shrike Lesser Grey Shrike Northern Shrike Red-backed Shrike Yellow-throated Vireo Red-eyed Vireo White-eyed Vireo Yellow-green Vireo Hutton’s Vireo Plumbeous Vireo Bell’s Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Cassin’s Vireo Warbling Vireo Gray Vireo
• CORVIDs & their ALLIES (Eurasian) Jay Western Scrub Jay Island Scrub Jay Gray-breasted (Mexican) Jay Gray (Canada) Jay Black-throated Magpie-Jay + Steller’s Jay Pinyon Jay San Blas Jay + Brown Jay Green Jay American Crow Sinaloa Crow + Tamaulipas Crow Raven # Chihuahuan Raven Hooded Crow Carrion Crow Jackdaw * Rook * Alpine Chough * Clark’s Nutcracker American Magpie Pica hudsonia European Magpie Pica pica Yellow-billed Magpie Pica nuttalli Golden Oriole (European) Starling
• LARKS, PIPITS, & WAGTAILS Crested Lark Skylark Woodlark Horned (Shore) Lark Yellow Wagtail Grey Wagtail White Wagtail Black-backed Wagtail American (Water) Pipit Sprague’s Pipit Tawny Pipit
• HIRUNDINIDAE: SWALLOWS Bank Swallow (Sand Martin) N. Rough-winged Swallow Purple Martin Cliff Swallow Cave Swallow Violet-green Swallow Barn) Swallow Tree Swallow Crag Martin House Martin
• PARULIDAE Nashville Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Lucy’s Warbler Virginia’s Warbler Yellow Warbler Mangrove Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Grace’s Warbler Black-polled Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Bay-breated Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Black-throated Grey Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Black-and White Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Townsend’s Warbler Magnolia Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Prairie Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Prothonotary Warbler American Redstart Painted Redstart Wilson’s Warbler MacGillivray’s Warbler Hermit Warbler Northern Parula Tropical Parula Rufous-capped Warbler Golden-crowned Warbler Belding’s Yellowthroat Common Yellowthroat Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush
• MIMIDAE Northern Mockingbird Crissal Thrasher California Thrasher Leconte’s Thrasher Curve-billed Thrasher Bendire’s Thrasher Brown Thrasher Long-billed Sage Thrasher Grey Catbird
• ICTERIDS Yellow-headed Blackbird Red-winged Blackbird Tricolored Blackbird Brewer’s Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Bronzed Cowbird Yellow-winged Cacique Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Bullock’s Oriole Scott’s Oriole Hooded Oriole Streak-backed Oriole Black-backed Oriole Audubon's Oriole Altamira Oriole Common Grackle Great-tailed Grackle Western Meadowlark
• TANAGERS, AMERICAN BUNTINGS Hepatic Tanager Summer Tanager Western Tanager Scarlet Tanager Flame-colored Tanager Yellow-winged Tanager White-winged Tanager Black-headed Grosbeak Evening Grosbeak Hawfinch Blue Grosbeak Northern Cardinal Pyrrhuloxia Indigo Bunting Lazuli Bunting Painted Bunting Varied Bunting Lark Bunting White-collared Seedeater Yellow-faced Grassquit
• EMBERIZIDAE:SPARROWS Abert’s Towhee California Towhee Canyon Towhee Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee Chipping Sparrow Rufous-crowned Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Harris’ Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Black-throated Sparrow Black-chinned Sparrow Song Sparrow Savannah Sparrow: rostratus, beldingi, nevadensis Lincoln’s Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Yellow-eyed Junco Dark-eyed Junco: thurberi, caniceps, dorsalis, mearnsi, & hyemalis Yellowhamer Common Reed Bunting Corn Bunting Cretschmar’s Bunting Ortolan Bunting
• FINCHES Red Crossbill Bullfinch House Finch Purple Finch Linnet Cassin’s Finch Pine Siskin Lawrence’s Goldfinch Lesser Goldfinch American Goldfinch European Goldfinch Greenfinch Serin House Sparrow Italian Sparrow Tree Sparrow Chaffinch
• ESTABLISHED NON-NATIVES Red-whiskered Bulbul Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus Nutmeg Mannikin Lonchura punctulata Red-crowned Amazon Amazona viridigenalis Lilac-crowned Amazon Am. finschi Mitred Parakeet Aratinga mitrata Red-masked Parakeet A. erythrogonys Blue-crowned Parakeet A. acuticauda Yellow-chevroned Parakeet Brotogeris chiriri White-winged Parakeet B. versicolurus