Newfoundland Winter Bird List: 2017-18

Below is a list of species recorded in Newfoundland THIS winter (December 1, 2017 – February 28, 2018). Please let me know if you have seen or know of any birds that do not already appear below (or any other interesting sightings!).

Last Updated: February 26, 2018

Recent Addition(s): Rock Ptarmigan, American Three-toed Woodpecker

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. (Will be updated with 2016-17 info soon)

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