Newfoundland Winter Bird List: 2013-14

Below is a list of species recorded in Newfoundland from December 1, 2013 – February 28, 2014.

Species shown in bold are rare or very unusual in winter (or possibly any time of year).

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

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