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Birds & Birding

State of the Birds: Documenting Changes in Massachusetts Birdlife

All Massachusetts Birds
All birds included in the State of the Birds Report, listed by common and Latin name.

Alphabetic
By Common Name

Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
American Bittern
American Black Duck
American Coot
American Crow
American Golden-Plover
American Goldfinch
American Kestrel
American Oystercatcher
American Pipit
American Redstart
American Robin
American Tree Sparrow
American Wigeon
American Woodcock
Arctic Tern
Atlantic Puffin
Audubon's Shearwater
Baird's Sandpiper
Bald Eagle
Baltimore Oriole
Bank Swallow
Barn Owl
Barn Swallow
Barred Owl
Barrow's Goldeneye
Bay-breasted Warbler
Belted Kingfisher
Bicknell's Thrush
Black Guillemot
Black Scoter
Black Skimmer
Black Tern
Black Vulture
Black-and-white Warbler
Black-bellied Plover
Black-billed Cuckoo
Black-capped Chickadee
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Black-headed Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Blue Grosbeak
Blue Jay
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Blue-headed Vireo
Blue-winged Teal
Blue-winged Warbler
Bobolink
Bohemian Waxwing
Bonaparte's Gull
Boreal Chickadee
Brant
Broad-winged Hawk
Brown Creeper
Brown Thrasher
Brown-headed Cowbird
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Bufflehead
Canada Goose
Canada Warbler
Canvasback
Cape May Warbler
Carolina Wren
Caspian Tern
Cattle Egret
Cedar Waxwing
Cerulean Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Chimney Swift
Chipping Sparrow
Chuck-will's-widow
Clapper Rail
Clay-colored Sparrow
Cliff Swallow
Common Eider
Common Goldeneye
Common Grackle
Common Loon
Common Merganser
Common Moorhen
Common Murre
Common Nighthawk
Common Raven
Common Redpoll
Common Tern
Common Yellowthroat
Connecticut Warbler
Cooper's Hawk
Cory's Shearwater
Dark-eyed Junco
Dickcissel
Double-crested Cormorant
Dovekie
Downy Woodpecker
Dunlin
Eared Grebe
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Screech-Owl
Eastern Towhee
Eastern Whip-poor-will
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eurasian Wigeon
European Starling
Evening Grosbeak
Field Sparrow
Fish Crow
Forster's Tern
Fox Sparrow
Gadwall
Glaucous Gull
Glossy Ibis
Golden Eagle
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Golden-winged Warbler
Grasshopper Sparrow
Gray Catbird
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Great Black-backed Gull
Great Blue Heron
Great Cormorant
Great Crested Flycatcher
Great Egret
Great Horned Owl
Great Shearwater
Greater Scaup
Greater Yellowlegs
Green Heron
Green-winged Teal
Gyrfalcon
Hairy Woodpecker
Harlequin Duck
Henslow's Sparrow
Hermit Thrush
Herring Gull
Hooded Merganser
Hooded Warbler
Horned Grebe
Horned Lark
House Finch
House Sparrow
House Wren
Hudsonian Godwit
Iceland Gull
Indigo Bunting
Kentucky Warbler
Killdeer
King Eider
King Rail
Lapland Longspur
Lark Sparrow
Laughing Gull
Leach's Storm-Petrel
Least Bittern
Least Flycatcher
Least Sandpiper
Least Tern
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Lesser Scaup
Lesser Yellowlegs
Lincoln's Sparrow
Little Blue Heron
Little Gull
Loggerhead Shrike
Long-billed Dowitcher
Long-eared Owl
Long-tailed Duck
Louisiana Waterthrush
Magnolia Warbler
Mallard
Manx Shearwater
Marbled Godwit
Marsh Wren
Merlin
Monk Parakeet
Mourning Dove
Mourning Warbler
Mute Swan
Nashville Warbler
Nelson's Sparrow
Northern Bobwhite
Northern Cardinal
Northern Flicker
Northern Fulmar
Northern Gannet
Northern Goshawk
Northern Harrier
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Parula
Northern Pintail
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Northern Shoveler
Northern Shrike
Northern Waterthrush
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Orange-crowned Warbler
Orchard Oriole
Osprey
Ovenbird
Pacific Loon
Palm Warbler
Parasitic Jaeger
Pectoral Sandpiper
Peregrine Falcon
Philadelphia Vireo
Pied-billed Grebe
Pileated Woodpecker
Pine Grosbeak
Pine Siskin
Pine Warbler
Piping Plover
Pomarine Jaeger
Prairie Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Purple Finch
Purple Martin
Purple Sandpiper
Razorbill
Red Crossbill
Red Knot
Red Phalarope
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-breasted Merganser
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Red-eyed Vireo
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-necked Grebe
Red-necked Phalarope
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-throated Loon
Red-winged Blackbird
Redhead
Ring-billed Gull
Ring-necked Duck
Ring-necked Pheasant
Rock Pigeon
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Roseate Tern
Rough-legged Hawk
Royal Tern
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Ruddy Duck
Ruddy Turnstone
Ruff
Ruffed Grouse
Rusty Blackbird
Sabine's Gull
Saltmarsh Sparrow
Sanderling
Sandhill Crane
Savannah Sparrow
Scarlet Tanager
Seaside Sparrow
Sedge Wren
Semipalmated Plover
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Short-billed Dowitcher
Short-eared Owl
Snow Bunting
Snow Goose
Snowy Egret
Snowy Owl
Solitary Sandpiper
Song Sparrow
Sooty Shearwater
Sora
Spotted Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Summer Tanager
Surf Scoter
Swainson's Thrush
Swamp Sparrow
Tennessee Warbler
Thick-billed Murre
Tree Swallow
Tricolored Heron
Tufted Titmouse
Tundra Swan
Turkey Vulture
Upland Sandpiper
Veery
Vesper Sparrow
Virginia Rail
Warbling Vireo
Western Kingbird
Western Sandpiper
Whimbrel
White-breasted Nuthatch
White-crowned Sparrow
White-eyed Vireo
White-rumped Sandpiper
White-throated Sparrow
White-winged Crossbill
White-winged Scoter
Wild Turkey
Willet
Willow Flycatcher
Wilson's Phalarope
Wilson's Snipe
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Wilson's Warbler
Winter Wren
Wood Duck
Wood Thrush
Worm-eating Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-breasted Chat
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-throated Vireo
Yellow-throated Warbler

In Taxa Order
By Common Name

Snow Goose
Canada Goose
Brant
Mute Swan
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck
Gadwall
Eurasian Wigeon
American Wigeon
American Black Duck
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
King Eider
Common Eider
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Barrow's Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Ring-necked Pheasant
Ruffed Grouse
Wild Turkey
Northern Bobwhite
Red-throated Loon
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Eared Grebe
Northern Fulmar
Cory's Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Audubon's Shearwater
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Leach's Storm-Petrel
Northern Gannet
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Cormorant
American Bittern
Least Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Glossy Ibis
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Northern Goshawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Golden Eagle
American Kestrel
Merlin
Gyrfalcon
Peregrine Falcon
Clapper Rail
King Rail
Virginia Rail
Sora
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Killdeer
American Oystercatcher
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Upland Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Hudsonian Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Purple Sandpiper
Dunlin
Stilt Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Ruff
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
American Woodcock
Wilson's Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Red Phalarope
Black-legged Kittiwake
Sabine's Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Black-headed Gull
Little Gull
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Glaucous Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Least Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Roseate Tern
Common Tern
Arctic Tern
Forster's Tern
Royal Tern
Black Skimmer
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Dovekie
Common Murre
Thick-billed Murre
Razorbill
Black Guillemot
Atlantic Puffin
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Monk Parakeet
Black-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Barn Owl
Eastern Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl
Long-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Snowy Owl
Common Nighthawk
Chuck-will's-widow
Eastern Whip-poor-will
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
Northern Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Boreal Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Winter Wren
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Veery
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Bicknell's Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
American Pipit
Bohemian Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing
Blue-winged Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Prothonotary Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager
Eastern Towhee
American Tree Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Henslow's Sparrow
Nelson's Sparrow
Saltmarsh Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Dickcissel
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Pine Grosbeak
Purple Finch
House Finch
Red Crossbill
White-winged Crossbill
Common Redpoll
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
Evening Grosbeak
House Sparrow

Alphabetic
By Latin Name

Acanthis flammea
Accipiter cooperii
Accipiter gentilis
Accipiter striatus
Actitis macularius
Aegolius acadicus
Agelaius phoeniceus
Aix sponsa
Alca torda
Alle alle
Ammodramus caudacutus
Ammodramus henslowii
Ammodramus maritimus
Ammodramus nelsoni
Ammodramus savannarum
Anas acuta
Anas americana
Anas clypeata
Anas crecca
Anas discors
Anas penelope
Anas platyrhynchos
Anas rubripes
Anas strepera
Anthus rubescens
Aquila chrysaetos
Archilochus colubris
Ardea alba
Ardea herodias
Arenaria interpres
Asio flammeus
Asio otus
Aythya affinis
Aythya americana
Aythya collaris
Aythya marila
Aythya valisineria
Baeolophus bicolor
Bartramia longicauda
Bombycilla cedrorum
Bombycilla garrulus
Bonasa umbellus
Botaurus lentiginosus
Branta bernicla
Branta canadensis
Bubo virginianus
Bubulcus ibis
Bucephala albeola
Bucephala clangula
Bucephala islandica
Buteo jamaicensis
Buteo lagopus
Buteo lineatus
Buteo platypterus
Butorides virescens
Calcarius lapponicus
Calidris alba
Calidris alpina
Calidris bairdii
Calidris canutus
Calidris fuscicollis
Calidris himantopus
Calidris maritima
Calidris mauri
Calidris melanotos
Calidris minutilla
Calidris pusilla
Calonectris diomedea
Caprimulgus carolinensis
Caprimulgus vociferus
Cardinalis cardinalis
Carpodacus mexicanus
Carpodacus purpureus
Cathartes aura
Catharus bicknelli
Catharus fuscescens
Catharus guttatus
Catharus minimus
Catharus ustulatus
Cepphus grylle
Certhia americana
Chaetura pelagica
Charadrius melodus
Charadrius semipalmatus
Charadrius vociferus
Chen caerulescens
Chlidonias niger
Chondestes grammacus
Chordeiles minor
Chroicocephalus philadelphia
Chroicocephalus ridibundus
Circus cyaneus
Cistothorus palustris
Cistothorus platensis
Clangula hyemalis
Coccothraustes vespertinus
Coccyzus americanus
Coccyzus erythropthalmus
Colaptes auratus
Colinus virginianus
Columba livia
Contopus cooperi
Contopus virens
Coragyps atratus
Corvus brachyrhynchos
Corvus corax
Corvus ossifragus
Cyanocitta cristata
Cygnus columbianus
Cygnus olor
Dendroica caerulescens
Dendroica castanea
Dendroica cerulea
Dendroica coronata
Dendroica discolor
Dendroica dominica
Dendroica fusca
Dendroica magnolia
Dendroica palmarum
Dendroica pensylvanica
Dendroica petechia
Dendroica pinus
Dendroica striata
Dendroica tigrina
Dendroica virens
Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Dryocopus pileatus
Dumetella carolinensis
Egretta caerulea
Egretta thula
Egretta tricolor
Empidonax alnorum
Empidonax flaviventris
Empidonax minimus
Empidonax traillii
Empidonax virescens
Eremophila alpestris
Euphagus carolinus
Falco columbarius
Falco peregrinus
Falco rusticolus
Falco sparverius
Fratercula arctica
Fulica americana
Fulmarus glacialis
Gallinago delicata
Gallinula chloropus
Gavia immer
Gavia pacifica
Gavia stellata
Geothlypis trichas
Grus canadensis
Haematopus palliatus
Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Helmitheros vermivorum
Hirundo rustica
Histrionicus histrionicus
Hydrocoloeus minutus
Hydroprogne caspia
Hylocichla mustelina
Icteria virens
Icterus galbula
Icterus spurius
Ixobrychus exilis
Junco hyemalis
Lanius excubitor
Lanius ludovicianus
Larus argentatus
Larus delawarensis
Larus fuscus
Larus glaucoides
Larus hyperboreus
Larus marinus
Leucophaeus atricilla
Limnodromus griseus
Limnodromus scolopaceus
Limosa fedoa
Limosa haemastica
Lophodytes cucullatus
Loxia curvirostra
Loxia leucoptera
Megaceryle alcyon
Megascops asio
Melanerpes carolinus
Melanerpes erythrocephalus
Melanitta americana
Melanitta fusca
Melanitta perspicillata
Meleagris gallopavo
Melospiza georgiana
Melospiza lincolnii
Melospiza melodia
Mergus merganser
Mergus serrator
Mimus polyglottos
Mniotilta varia
Molothrus ater
Morus bassanus
Myiarchus crinitus
Myiopsitta monachus
Numenius phaeopus
Nyctanassa violacea
Nyctea scandiaca
Nycticorax nycticorax
Oceanites oceanicus
Oceanodroma leucorhoa
Oporornis agilis
Oporornis formosus
Oporornis philadelphia
Oreothlypis celata
Oreothlypis peregrina
Oreothlypis ruficapilla
Oxyura jamaicensis
Pandion haliaetus
Parkesia motacilla
Parkesia noveboracensis
Parula americana
Passer domesticus
Passerculus sandwichensis
Passerella iliaca
Passerina caerulea
Passerina cyanea
Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
Phalacrocorax auritus
Phalacrocorax carbo
Phalaropus fulicarius
Phalaropus lobatus
Phalaropus tricolor
Phasianus colchicus
Pheucticus ludovicianus
Philomachus pugnax
Picoides pubescens
Picoides villosus
Pinicola enucleator
Pipilo erythrophthalmus
Piranga olivacea
Piranga rubra
Plectrophenax nivalis
Plegadis falcinellus
Pluvialis dominica
Pluvialis squatarola
Podiceps auritus
Podiceps grisegena
Podiceps nigricollis
Podilymbus podiceps
Poecile atricapillus
Poecile hudsonicus
Polioptila caerulea
Pooecetes gramineus
Porzana carolina
Progne subis
Protonotaria citrea
Puffinus gravis
Puffinus griseus
Puffinus lherminieri
Puffinus puffinus
Quiscalus quiscula
Rallus elegans
Rallus limicola
Rallus longirostris
Regulus calendula
Regulus satrapa
Riparia riparia
Rissa tridactyla
Rynchops niger
Sayornis phoebe
Scolopax minor
Seiurus aurocapilla
Setophaga ruticilla
Sialia sialis
Sitta canadensis
Sitta carolinensis
Somateria mollissima
Somateria spectabilis
Sphyrapicus varius
Spinus pinus
Spinus tristis
Spiza americana
Spizella arborea
Spizella pallida
Spizella passerina
Spizella pusilla
Stelgidopteryx serripennis
Stercorarius parasiticus
Stercorarius pomarinus
Sterna dougallii
Sterna forsteri
Sterna hirundo
Sterna paradisaea
Sternula antillarum
Strix varia
Sturnella magna
Sturnus vulgaris
Tachycineta bicolor
Thalasseus maximus
Thryothorus ludovicianus
Toxostoma rufum
Tringa flavipes
Tringa melanoleuca
Tringa semipalmata
Tringa solitaria
Troglodytes aedon
Troglodytes hiemalis
Tryngites subruficollis
Turdus migratorius
Tyrannus tyrannus
Tyrannus verticalis
Tyto alba
Uria aalge
Uria lomvia
Vermivora chrysoptera
Vermivora cyanoptera
Vireo flavifrons
Vireo gilvus
Vireo griseus
Vireo olivaceus
Vireo philadelphicus
Vireo solitarius
Wilsonia canadensis
Wilsonia citrina
Wilsonia pusilla
Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
Xema sabini
Zenaida macroura
Zonotrichia albicollis
Zonotrichia leucophrys


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