Newfoundland Winter Bird List: 2012-13

Below is a list of the species reported in Newfoundland during winter (December – February) 2012-2013.

A cumulative, all-time list can be found here.

Bold = Notable or less than annual species (for winter period)

1. Pink-footed Goose (1st winter record)
2. Snow Goose
3. Brant
4. Canada Goose
5. Wood Duck
6. Gadwall
7. Eurasian Wigeon
8. American Wigeon
9. American Black Duck
10. Mallard
11. Northern Shoveler
12. Northern Pintail
13. Green-winged Teal (American & Eurasian)
14. Ring-necked Duck
15. Tufted Duck
16. Greater Scaup
17. Lesser Scaup
18. King Eider
19. Common Eider
20. Harlequin Duck
21. Surf Scoter
22. White-winged Scoter
23. Black Scoter
24. Long-tailed Duck
25. Bufflehead
26. Common Goldeneye
27. Barrow’s Goldeneye
28. Hooded Merganser
29. Common Merganser
30. Red-breasted Merganser
31. Ruddy Duck
32. Ruffed Grouse
33. Spruce Grouse
34. Willow Ptarmigan
35. Rock Ptarmigan
36. Red-throated Loon
37. Common Loon
38. Pied-billed Grebe
39. Horned Grebe
40. Red-necked Grebe
41. Northern Fulmar
42. Great Shearwater
43. Northern Gannet
44. Double-crested Cormorant
45. Great Cormorant
46. Gray Heron (1st winter record)
47. Bald Eagle
48. Northern Harrier
49. Sharp-shinned Hawk
50. Northern Goshawk
51. Rough-legged Hawk
52. American Kestrel
53. Merlin
54. Gyrfalcon
55. Peregrine Falcon
56. American Coot
57. Black-bellied Plover
58. Greater Yellowlegs
59. Ruddy Turnstone
60. White-rumped Sandpiper
61. Purple Sandpiper
62. Dunlin
63. Wilson’s Snipe
64. American Woodcock (1st winter record)
65. Black-legged Kittiwake
66. Ivory Gull
67. Bonaparte’s Gull
68. Black-headed Gull
69. Common Gull
70. Ring-billed Gull
71. Herring Gull
72. Iceland Gull
73. Lesser Black-backed Gull
74. Glaucous Gull
75. Great Black-backed Gull
76. Dovekie
77. Common Murre
78. Thick-billed Murre
79. Razorbill
80. Black Guillemot
81. Atlantic Puffin
82. Rock Dove
83. Mourning Dove
84. Great Horned Owl
85. Snowy Owl
86. Long-eared Owl
87. Short-eared Owl
88. Boreal Owl
89. Northern Saw-whet Owl
90. Belted Kingfisher
91. Downy Woodpecker
92. Hairy Woodpecker
93. (American) Northern Three-toed Woodpecker
94. Black-backed Woodpecker
95. Northern Flicker
96. Northern Shrike
97. Gray Jay
98. Blue Jay
99. American Crow
100. Common Raven
101. Horned Lark
102. Black-capped Chickadee
103. Boreal Chickadee
104. Red-breasted Nuthatch
105. Brown Creeper
106. Marsh Wren (2nd winter record)
107. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
108. Golden-crowned Kinglet
109. Hermit Thrush
110. Fieldfare
111. American Robin
112. Northern Mockingbird
113. European Starling
114. American Pipit
115. Bohemian Waxwing
116. Lapland Longspur
117. Snow Bunting
118. Orange-crowned Warbler
119. Nashville Warbler
120. Yellow Warbler
121. Cape May Warbler
122. Yellow-rumped Warbler
123. Townsend’s Warbler
124. Yellow-throated Warbler
125. Pine Warbler
126. Black-and-white Warbler
127. Common Yellowthroat
128. Yellow-breasted Chat
129. American Tree Sparrow
130. Clay-coloured Sparrow
131. Savannah Sparrow
132. Fox Sparrow
133. Song Sparrow
134. Lincoln’s Sparrow
135. Swamp Sparrow
136. White-throated Sparrow
137. White-crowned Sparrow
138. Dark-eyed Junco
139. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
140. Dickcissel
141. Common Grackle
142. Baltimore Oriole
143. Common Chaffinch (3rd winter record)
144. Pine Grosbeak
145. Purple Finch
146. Red Crossbill
147. White-winged Crossbill
148. Common Redpoll
149. Hoary Redpoll
150. Pine Siskin
151. American Goldfinch
152. Evening Grosbeak
153. House Sparrow