Newfoundland Winter Bird List: 2014-15

Below is a list of species recorded in Newfoundland from December 1, 2014 – February 28, 2015.

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