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my louisiana life list

2010-11-08 - 10:29 a.m.

Enjoy my life list of 227 Louisiana birds. An ambitious person could get many more, so come on down.

My Louisiana bird list:

  1. Common Loon
  2. Pied-billed Grebe
  3. Horned Grebe
  4. American White Pelican
  5. Brown Pelican
  6. Double-crested Cormorant
  7. Neotropic Cormorant
  8. Anhinga
  9. Magnificent Frigatebird
  10. Great Blue Heron
  11. Great Egret
  12. Reddish Egret
  13. Tricolored Heron
  14. Little Blue Heron
  15. Snowy Egret
  16. Cattle Egret
  17. Green Heron
  18. Black-crowned Night-Heron
  19. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
  20. Least Bittern
  21. American Bittern
  22. Wood Stork
  23. White Ibis
  24. Glossy Ibis
  25. White-faced Ibis
  26. Roseate Spoonbill
  27. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
  28. Greater White-fronted Goose
  29. Snow Goose
  30. Ross's Goose
  31. Canada Goose
  32. Black Scoter
  33. Wood Duck
  34. American Wigeon
  35. Gadwall
  36. Green-winged Teal
  37. Mallard
  38. Mottled Duck
  39. Northern Pintail
  40. Blue-winged Teal
  41. Northern Shoveler
  42. Redhead
  43. Ring-necked Duck
  44. Lesser Scaup
  45. Bufflehead
  46. Hooded Merganser
  47. Red-breasted Merganser
  48. Black Vulture
  49. Turkey Vulture
  50. Osprey
  51. Swallow-tailed Kite
  52. White-tailed Kite
  53. Mississippi Kite
  54. Bald Eagle
  55. Northern Harrier
  56. Sharp-shinned Hawk
  57. Cooper's Hawk
  58. Red-shouldered Hawk
  59. Broad-winged Hawk
  60. Swainson's Hawk
  61. Red-tailed Hawk
  62. American Kestrel
  63. Merlin
  64. Peregrine Falcon
  65. Northern Bobwhite
  66. Limpkin
  67. Clapper Rail
  68. King Rail
  69. Virginia Rail
  70. Yellow Rail
  71. Sora
  72. Purple Gallinule
  73. Common Moorhen
  74. American Coot
  75. Black-necked Stilt
  76. American Avocet
  77. Black-bellied Plover
  78. American Golden-Plover
  79. Semipalmated Plover
  80. Killdeer
  81. Piping Plover
  82. Wilson's Snipe
  83. Short-billed Dowitcher
  84. Long-billed Dowitcher
  85. Marbled Godwit
  86. Whimbrel
  87. Greater Yellowlegs
  88. Lesser Yellowlegs
  89. Solitary Sandpiper
  90. Willet
  91. Ruddy Turnstone
  92. Sanderling
  93. Spotted Sandpiper
  94. Semipalmated Sandpiper
  95. Western Sandpiper
  96. Least Sandpiper
  97. Pectoral Sandpiper
  98. Dunlin
  99. Stilt Sandpiper
  100. Wilson's Phalarope
  101. Ring-billed Gull
  102. American Herring Gull
  103. Bonaparte's Gull
  104. Laughing Gull
  105. Iceland Gull
  106. Caspian Tern
  107. Sandwich Tern
  108. Royal Tern
  109. Forster's Tern
  110. Least Tern
  111. Black Tern
  112. Black Skimmer
  113. Rock Dove
  114. Eurasian Collared-Dove
  115. Mourning Dove
  116. White-Winged Dove
  117. Inca Dove
  118. Monk Parakeet
  119. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  120. Great Horned Owl
  121. Barred Owl
  122. Barn Owl
  123. Common Nighthawk
  124. Chimney Swift
  125. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
  126. Black-chinned Hummingbird
  127. Calliope Hummingbird
  128. Rufous Hummingbird
  129. Belted Kingfisher
  130. Red-headed Woodpecker
  131. Red-bellied Woodpecker
  132. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
  133. Downy Woodpecker
  134. Red-cockaded Woodpecker
  135. Northern Flicker
  136. Pileated Woodpecker
  137. Eastern Phoebe
  138. Say's Phoebe
  139. Vermilion Flycatcher
  140. Acadian Flycatcher
  141. Eastern Wood-Pewee
  142. Great Crested Flycatcher
  143. Eastern Kingbird
  144. Gray Kingbird
  145. Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher
  146. Purple Martin
  147. Tree Swallow
  148. Cliff Swallow
  149. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
  150. Barn Swallow
  151. Golden-crowned Kinglet
  152. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  153. Cedar Waxwing
  154. Carolina Wren
  155. House Wren
  156. Sedge Wren
  157. Marsh Wren
  158. Gray Catbird
  159. Northern Mockingbird
  160. Brown Thrasher
  161. Eastern Bluebird
  162. Hermit Thrush
  163. Wood Thrush
  164. American Robin
  165. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  166. Carolina Chickadee
  167. Tufted Titmouse
  168. Brown-headed Nuthatch
  169. Loggerhead Shrike
  170. Blue Jay
  171. American Crow
  172. Fish Crow
  173. European Starling
  174. White-eyed Vireo
  175. Yellow-throated Vireo
  176. Blue-headed Vireo
  177. Red-eyed Vireo
  178. Orange-crowned Warbler
  179. Tennessee Warbler
  180. Northern Parula
  181. Yellow Warbler
  182. Yellow-rumped Warbler
  183. Black-throated Green Warbler
  184. Blackburnian Warbler
  185. Yellow-throated Warbler
  186. Pine Warbler
  187. Palm Warbler
  188. Black-and-white Warbler
  189. American Redstart
  190. Prothonotary Warbler
  191. Worm-eating Warbler
  192. Swainson's Warbler
  193. Ovenbird
  194. Louisiana Waterthrush
  195. Kentucky Warbler
  196. Common Yellowthroat
  197. Hooded Warbler
  198. Scarlet Tanager
  199. Summer Tanager
  200. Eastern Towhee
  201. Chipping Sparrow
  202. Savannah Sparrow
  203. Le Conte's Sparrow
  204. Song Sparrow
  205. Swamp Sparrow
  206. White-throated Sparrow
  207. White-Crowned Sparrow
  208. Dark-eyed Junco
  209. Northern Cardinal
  210. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
  211. Blue Grosbeak
  212. Indigo Bunting
  213. Painted Bunting
  214. Bobolink
  215. Red-winged Blackbird
  216. Eastern Meadowlark
  217. Rusty Blackbird
  218. Boat-tailed Grackle
  219. Common Grackle
  220. Great-tailed Grackle
  221. Brown-headed Cowbird
  222. Bronzed Cowbird
  223. Baltimore Oriole
  224. Orchard Oriole
  225. Purple Finch
  226. House Finch
  227. American Goldfinch
  228. Scaly-breasted Munia
  229. House Sparrow

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