When I started this project of writing a blog to tell of Evan's birding tales, I kept the focus largely on him and therefore only included his life list. What I found, however, is that the more birding experiences I have, the more engrossed - my wife might say obsessed - I become with this hobby. After an amazing encounter with the Northern Shrike, an uncommon visitor to Minnesota from the Arctic, I decided I just had to keep my own life list on the site. Little did I know how that list would take off, even surpassing 500 species recently. It's been an exciting ride to say the least.
This list is a constant work in progress - new birds are being added at a decent rate though it slows down as new birds are harder and harder to come by, pictures are added as they become available, and old pictures get upgraded with better ones when they happen. Be sure to check back often because the list is always changing.
| Species | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Abert's Towhee |
| 2 | Acadian Flycatcher |
| 3 | Acorn Woodpecker |
| 4 | Alder Flycatcher |
| 5 | Allen's Hummingbird |
| 6 | American Avocet |
| 7 | American Bittern |
| 8 | American Black Duck |
| 9 | American Coot |
| 10 | American Crow |
| 11 | American Dipper |
| 12 | American Golden-Plover |
| 13 | American Goldfinch |
| 14 | American Kestrel |
| 15 | American Pipit |
| 16 | American Redstart |
| 17 | American Robin |
| 18 | American Three-toed Woodpecker |
| 19 | American Tree Sparrow |
| 20 | American White Pelican |
| 21 | American Wigeon |
| 22 | American Woodcock |
| 23 | Anna's Hummingbird |
| 24 | Arctic Tern |
| 25 | Arizona Woodpecker |
| 26 | Ash-throated Flycatcher |
| 27 | Baird's Sandpiper |
| 28 | Baird's Sparrow |
| 29 | Bald Eagle |
| 30 | Baltimore Oriole |
| 31 | Band-tailed Pigeon |
| 32 | Bank Swallow |
| 33 | Barn Owl |
| 34 | Barn Swallow |
| 35 | Barred Owl |
| 36 | Barrow's Goldeneye |
| 37 | Bay-breasted Warbler |
| 38 | Bell's Sparrow |
| 39 | Bell's Vireo |
| 40 | Belted Kingfisher |
| 41 | Bendire's Thrasher |
| 42 | Bewick's Wren |
| 43 | Black Oystercatcher |
| 44 | Black Phoebe |
| 45 | Black Scoter |
| 46 | Black Tern |
| 47 | Black Turnstone |
| 48 | Black Vulture |
| 49 | Black-and-white Warbler |
| 50 | Black-backed Woodpecker |
| 51 | Black-bellied Plover |
| 52 | Black-bellied Whistling-Duck |
| 53 | Black-billed Cuckoo |
| 54 | Black-billed Magpie |
| 55 | Black-capped Chickadee |
| 56 | Black-chinned Hummingbird |
| 57 | Black-crowned Night-Heron |
| 58 | Black-headed Grosbeak |
| 59 | Black-legged Kittiwake |
| 60 | Black-necked Stilt |
| 61 | Black-tailed Gnatcatcher |
| 62 | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| 63 | Black-throated Gray Warbler |
| 64 | Black-throated Green Warbler |
| 65 | Black-throated Sparrow |
| 66 | Blackburnian Warbler |
| 67 | Blackpoll Warbler |
| 68 | Blue Grosbeak |
| 69 | Blue Jay |
| 70 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
| 71 | Blue-headed Vireo |
| 72 | Blue-throated Mountain-gem |
| 73 | Blue-winged Teal |
| 74 | Blue-winged Warbler |
| 75 | Bobolink |
| 76 | Bohemian Waxwing |
| 77 | Bonaparte's Gull |
| 78 | Boreal Chickadee |
| 79 | Boreal Owl |
| 80 | Brambling |
| 81 | Brandt's Cormorant |
| 82 | Brant |
| 83 | Brewer's Blackbird |
| 84 | Brewer's Sparrow |
| 85 | Bridled Titmouse |
| 86 | Broad-billed Hummingbird |
| 87 | Broad-tailed Hummingbird |
| 88 | Broad-winged Hawk |
| 89 | Bronzed Cowbird |
| 90 | Brown Creeper |
| 91 | Brown Pelican |
| 92 | Brown Thrasher |
| 93 | Brown-crested Flycatcher |
| 94 | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| 95 | Buff-breasted Flycatcher |
| 96 | Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
| 97 | Bufflehead |
| 98 | Bullock's Oriole |
| 99 | Burrowing Owl |
| 100 | Bushtit |
| 101 | Cackling Goose |
| 102 | Cactus Wren |
| 103 | California Condor |
| 104 | California Gnatcatcher |
| 105 | California Gull |
| 106 | California Quail |
| 107 | California Scrub-Jay |
| 108 | California Thrasher |
| 109 | California Towhee |
| 110 | Calliope Hummingbird |
| 111 | Canada Goose |
| 112 | Canada Jay |
| 113 | Canada Warbler |
| 114 | Canvasback |
| 115 | Canyon Towhee |
| 116 | Canyon Wren |
| 117 | Cape May Warbler |
| 118 | Carolina Wren |
| 119 | Caspian Tern |
| 120 | Cassin's Finch |
| 121 | Cassin's Kingbird |
| 122 | Cassin's Sparrow |
| 123 | Cassin's Vireo |
| 124 | Cattle Egret |
| 125 | Cedar Waxwing |
| 126 | Cerulean Warbler |
| 127 | Chestnut-backed Chickadee |
| 128 | Chestnut-collared Longspur |
| 129 | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| 130 | Chihuahuan Raven |
| 131 | Chimney Swift |
| 132 | Chipping Sparrow |
| 133 | Chuck-will's-widow |
| 134 | Cinnamon Teal |
| 135 | Clark's Grebe |
| 136 | Clark's Nutcracker |
| 137 | Clay-colored Sparrow |
| 138 | Cliff Swallow |
| 139 | Common Eider |
| 140 | Common Gallinule |
| 141 | Common Goldeneye |
| 142 | Common Grackle |
| 143 | Common Ground Dove |
| 144 | Common Loon |
| 145 | Common Merganser |
| 146 | Common Murre |
| 147 | Common Nighthawk |
| 148 | Common Poorwill |
| 149 | Common Raven |
| 150 | Common Redpoll |
| 151 | Common Tern |
| 152 | Common Yellowthroat |
| 153 | Cooper's Hawk |
| 154 | Cordilleran Flycatcher |
| 155 | Costa's Hummingbird |
| 156 | Crested Caracara |
| 157 | Crissal Thrasher |
| 158 | Curlew Sandpiper |
| 159 | Curve-billed Thrasher |
| 160 | Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon) |
| 161 | Dickcissel |
| 162 | Double-crested Cormorant |
| 163 | Downy Woodpecker |
| 164 | Dunlin |
| 165 | Dusky Flycatcher |
| 166 | Dusky-capped Flycatcher |
| 167 | Eared Grebe |
| 168 | Eastern Bluebird |
| 169 | Eastern Kingbird |
| 170 | Eastern Meadowlark |
| 171 | Eastern Phoebe |
| 172 | Eastern Screech-Owl |
| 173 | Eastern Towhee |
| 174 | Eastern Whip-poor-will |
| 175 | Eastern Wood-Pewee |
| 176 | Elegant Trogon |
| 177 | Elf Owl |
| 178 | Eurasian Collared Dove |
| 179 | Eurasian Tree Sparrow |
| 180 | Eurasian Wigeon |
| 181 | European Starling |
| 182 | Evening Grosbeak |
| 183 | Fan-tailed Warbler |
| 184 | Ferruginous Hawk |
| 185 | Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl |
| 186 | Field Sparrow |
| 187 | Flammulated Owl |
| 188 | Forster's Tern |
| 189 | Fox Sparrow |
| 190 | Franklin's Gull |
| 191 | Gadwall |
| 192 | Gambel's Quail |
| 193 | Garganey |
| 194 | Gila Woodpecker |
| 195 | Gilded Flicker |
| 196 | Glaucous Gull |
| 197 | Glaucous-winged Gull |
| 198 | Glossy Ibis |
| 199 | Golden Eagle |
| 200 | Golden-crowned Kinglet |
| 201 | Golden-crowned Sparrow |
| 202 | Golden-winged Warbler |
| 203 | Grace's Warbler |
| 204 | Grasshopper Sparrow |
| 205 | Gray Catbird |
| 206 | Gray Flycatcher |
| 207 | Gray Hawk |
| 208 | Gray Partridge |
| 209 | Gray Vireo |
| 210 | Gray-cheeked Thrush |
| 211 | Great Black-backed Gull |
| 212 | Great Blue Heron |
| 213 | Great Crested Flycatcher |
| 214 | Great Egret |
| 215 | Great Gray Owl |
| 216 | Great Horned Owl |
| 217 | Great Kiskadee |
| 218 | Great-tailed Grackle |
| 219 | Greater Pewee |
| 220 | Greater Prairie Chicken |
| 221 | Greater Roadrunner |
| 222 | Greater Sage-Grouse |
| 223 | Greater Scaup |
| 224 | Greater White-fronted Goose |
| 225 | Greater Yellowlegs |
| 226 | Green Heron |
| 227 | Green-tailed Towhee |
| 228 | Green-winged Teal |
| 229 | Gyrfalcon |
| 230 | Hairy Woodpecker |
| 231 | Hammond's Flycatcher |
| 232 | Harlequin Duck |
| 233 | Harris's Hawk |
| 234 | Harris's Sparrow |
| 235 | Heermann's Gull |
| 236 | Henslow's Sparrow |
| 237 | Hepatic Tanager |
| 238 | Hermit Thrush |
| 239 | Herring Gull |
| 240 | Hoary Redpoll |
| 241 | Hooded Merganser |
| 242 | Hooded Oriole |
| 243 | Hooded Warbler |
| 244 | Horned Grebe |
| 245 | Horned Lark |
| 246 | House Finch |
| 247 | House Sparrow |
| 248 | House Wren |
| 249 | Hudsonian Godwit |
| 250 | Hutton's Vireo |
| 251 | Iceland Gull (Thayer's) |
| 252 | Inca Dove |
| 253 | Indigo Bunting |
| 254 | Ivory Gull |
| 255 | Juniper Titmouse |
| 256 | Kentucky Warbler |
| 257 | Killdeer |
| 258 | King Eider |
| 259 | King Rail |
| 260 | Kirtland's Warbler |
| 261 | Ladder-backed Woodpecker |
| 262 | Lapland Longspur |
| 263 | Lark Bunting |
| 264 | Lark Sparrow |
| 265 | Lawrence's Goldfinch |
| 266 | Lazuli Bunting |
| 267 | Least Bittern |
| 268 | Least Flycatcher |
| 269 | Least Sandpiper |
| 270 | Least Tern |
| 271 | LeConte's Sparrow |
| 272 | LeConte's Thrasher |
| 273 | Lesser Black-backed Gull |
| 274 | Lesser Goldfinch |
| 275 | Lesser Scaup |
| 276 | Lesser Yellowlegs |
| 277 | Lewis's Woodpecker |
| 278 | Lincoln's Sparrow |
| 279 | Little Blue Heron |
| 280 | Loggerhead Shrike |
| 281 | Long-billed Curlew |
| 282 | Long-billed Dowitcher |
| 283 | Long-eared Owl |
| 284 | Long-tailed Duck |
| 285 | Louisiana Waterthrush |
| 286 | Lucifer Hummingbird |
| 287 | Lucy's Warbler |
| 288 | MacGillivray's Warbler |
| 289 | Magnolia Warbler |
| 290 | Mallard |
| 291 | Marbled Godwit |
| 292 | Marsh Wren |
| 293 | McCown's Longspur |
| 294 | Merlin |
| 295 | Mew Gull |
| 296 | Mexican Chickadee |
| 297 | Mexican Jay |
| 298 | Mississippi Kite |
| 299 | Montezuma Quail |
| 300 | Mountain Bluebird |
| 301 | Mountain Chickadee |
| 302 | Mountain Plover |
| 303 | Mourning Dove |
| 304 | Mourning Warbler |
| 305 | Mute Swan |
| 306 | Nashville Warbler |
| 307 | Nelson's Sparrow |
| 308 | Neotropic Cormorant |
| 309 | Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet |
| 310 | Northern Cardinal |
| 311 | Northern Flicker - Yellow-Shafted |
| 312 | Northern Goshawk |
| 313 | Northern Harrier |
| 314 | Northern Hawk Owl |
| 315 | Northern Mockingbird |
| 316 | Northern Parula |
| 317 | Northern Pintail |
| 318 | Northern Pygmy-Owl |
| 319 | Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
| 320 | Northern Saw-whet Owl |
| 321 | Northern Shoveler |
| 322 | Northern Shrike |
| 323 | Northern Waterthrush |
| 324 | Nothern Bobwhite |
| 325 | Nuttall's Woodpecker |
| 326 | Oak Titmouse |
| 327 | Olive Warbler |
| 328 | Olive-sided Flycatcher |
| 329 | Orange-crowned Warbler |
| 330 | Orchard Oriole |
| 331 | Osprey |
| 332 | Ovenbird |
| 333 | Pacific Loon |
| 334 | Pacific Wren |
| 335 | Pacific-slope Flycatcher |
| 336 | Painted Bunting |
| 337 | Painted Redstart |
| 338 | Palm Warbler |
| 339 | Parasitic Jaeger |
| 340 | Pectoral Sandpiper |
| 341 | Pelagic Cormorant |
| 342 | Peregrine Falcon |
| 343 | Phainopepla |
| 344 | Philadelphia Vireo |
| 345 | Pied-billed Grebe |
| 346 | Pigeon Guillemot |
| 347 | Pileated Woodpecker |
| 348 | Pine Grosbeak |
| 349 | Pine Siskin |
| 350 | Pine Warbler |
| 351 | Pinyon Jay |
| 352 | Piping Plover |
| 353 | Plumbeous Vireo |
| 354 | Prairie Falcon |
| 355 | Prairie Warbler |
| 356 | Prothonotary Warbler |
| 357 | Purple Finch |
| 358 | Purple Martin |
| 359 | Pygmy Nuthatch |
| 360 | Pyrrhuloxia |
| 361 | Red Crossbill |
| 362 | Red Knot |
| 363 | Red-bellied Woodpecker |
| 364 | Red-breasted Merganser |
| 365 | Red-breasted Nuthatch |
| 366 | Red-eyed Vireo |
| 367 | Red-faced Warbler |
| 368 | Red-headed Woodpecker |
| 369 | Red-naped Sapsucker |
| 370 | Red-necked Grebe |
| 371 | Red-necked Phalarope |
| 372 | Red-shouldered Hawk |
| 373 | Red-tailed Hawk |
| 374 | Red-throated Loon |
| 375 | Red-winged Blackbird |
| 376 | Reddish Egret |
| 377 | Redhead |
| 378 | Ridgway's Rail |
| 379 | Ring-billed Gull |
| 380 | Ring-necked Duck |
| 381 | Ring-necked Pheasant |
| 382 | Rivoli's Hummingbird |
| 383 | Rock Pigeon |
| 384 | Rock Wren |
| 385 | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| 386 | Roseate Spoonbill |
| 387 | Ross's Goose |
| 388 | Rosy-faced Lovebird |
| 389 | Rough-legged Hawk |
| 390 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
| 391 | Ruby-Throated Hummingbird |
| 392 | Ruddy Duck |
| 393 | Ruddy Ground Dove |
| 394 | Ruddy Turnstone |
| 395 | Ruffed Grouse |
| 396 | Rufous Hummingbird |
| 397 | Rufous-backed Robin |
| 398 | Rufous-capped Warbler |
| 399 | Rufous-crowned Sparrow |
| 400 | Rufous-winged Sparrow |
| 401 | Rusty Blackbird |
| 402 | Sabine's Gull |
| 403 | Sage Thrasher |
| 404 | Sagebrush Sparrow |
| 405 | Sanderling |
| 406 | Sandhill Crane |
| 407 | Savannah Sparrow |
| 408 | Say's Phoebe |
| 409 | Scaled Quail |
| 410 | Scarlet Tanager |
| 411 | Scissor-tailed Flycatcher |
| 412 | Scott's Oriole |
| 413 | Sedge Wren |
| 414 | Semipalmated Plover |
| 415 | Semipalmated Sandpiper |
| 416 | Sharp-shinned Hawk |
| 417 | Sharp-tailed Grouse |
| 418 | Sharp-tailed Sandpiper |
| 419 | Short-billed Dowitcher |
| 420 | Short-eared Owl |
| 421 | Slate-throated Redstart |
| 422 | Smith's Longspur |
| 423 | Snow Bunting |
| 424 | Snow Goose |
| 425 | Snowy Egret |
| 426 | Snowy Owl |
| 427 | Snowy Plover |
| 428 | Solitary Sandpiper |
| 429 | Song Sparrow |
| 430 | Sora |
| 431 | Spotted Owl |
| 432 | Spotted Sandpiper |
| 433 | Spotted Towhee |
| 434 | Sprague's Pipit |
| 435 | Spruce Grouse |
| 436 | Steller's Jay |
| 437 | Stilt Sandpiper |
| 438 | Summer Tanager |
| 439 | Surf Scoter |
| 440 | Surfbird |
| 441 | Swainson's Hawk |
| 442 | Swainson's Thrush |
| 443 | Swamp Sparrow |
| 444 | Tennessee Warbler |
| 445 | Townsend's Solitaire |
| 446 | Townsend's Warbler |
| 447 | Tree Swallow |
| 448 | Tricolored Blackbird |
| 449 | Tricolored Heron |
| 450 | Tropical Kingbird |
| 451 | Trumpeter Swan |
| 452 | Tufted Duck |
| 453 | Tufted Titmouse |
| 454 | Tundra Swan |
| 455 | Turkey Vulture |
| 456 | Upland Sandpiper |
| 457 | Varied Thrush |
| 458 | Veery |
| 459 | Verdin |
| 460 | Vermilion Flycatcher |
| 461 | Vesper Sparrow |
| 462 | Violet-crowned Hummingbird |
| 463 | Violet-green Swallow |
| 464 | Virginia Rail |
| 465 | Virginia's Warbler |
| 466 | Wandering Tattler |
| 467 | Warbling Vireo |
| 468 | Western Bluebird |
| 469 | Western Grebe |
| 470 | Western Gull |
| 471 | Western Kingbird |
| 472 | Western Meadowlark |
| 473 | Western Sandpiper |
| 474 | Western Screech-Owl |
| 475 | Western Tanager |
| 476 | Western Wood-Pewee |
| 477 | Whimbrel |
| 478 | Whiskered Screech-Owl |
| 479 | White-breasted Nuthatch |
| 480 | White-crowned Sparrow |
| 481 | White-eyed Vireo |
| 482 | White-faced Ibis |
| 483 | White-rumped Sandpiper |
| 484 | White-tailed Kite |
| 485 | White-throated Sparrow |
| 486 | White-throated Swift |
| 487 | White-throated Thrush |
| 488 | White-winged Crossbill |
| 489 | White-winged Dove |
| 490 | White-winged Scoter |
| 491 | Whooping Crane |
| 492 | Wild Turkey |
| 493 | Willet |
| 494 | Williamson's Sapsucker |
| 495 | Willow Flycatcher |
| 496 | Wilson's Phalarope |
| 497 | Wilson's Snipe |
| 498 | Wilson's Warbler |
| 499 | Winter Wren |
| 500 | Wood Duck |
| 501 | Wood Stork |
| 502 | Wood Thrush |
| 503 | Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay |
| 504 | Wrentit |
| 505 | Yellow Rail |
| 506 | Yellow Warbler |
| 507 | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher |
| 508 | Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker |
| 509 | Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
| 510 | Yellow-billed Loon |
| 511 | Yellow-billed Magpie |
| 512 | Yellow-breasted Chat |
| 513 | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron |
| 514 | Yellow-eyed Junco |
| 515 | Yellow-headed Blackbird |
| 516 | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| 517 | Yellow-throated Vireo |
| 518 | Yellow-throated Warbler |
| 519 | Zone-tailed Hawk |