Newfoundland Winter Bird List: 2019-20
Below is a list of species recorded in Newfoundland THIS winter (December 1, 2019 – February 29, 2020). Please let me know if you have seen or know of any birds that do not already appear below (or any other interesting sightings!).
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.
- Pink-footed Goose (2nd winter record)
- Canada goose
- Wood Duck
- Gadwall
- Eurasian Wigeon
- American Wigeon
- American Black Duck
- Mallard
- Northern Pintail
- Green-winged Teal (American & Eurasian ssp)
- Ring-necked Duck
- Tufted Duck
- Greater Scaup
- Lesser Scaup
- Common Eider
- Harlequin Duck
- Surf Scoter
- White-winged Scoter
- Black Scoter
- Long-tailed Duck
- Bufflehead
- Common Goldeneye
- Barrow’s Goldeneye
- Hooded Merganser
- Common Merganser
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Ruffed Grouse
- Spruce Grouse
- Willow Ptarmigan
- Rock Ptarmigan
- Common Loon
- Red-throated Loon
- Pacific Loon
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Horned Grebe
- Red-necked Grebe
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Great Cormorant
- Turkey Vulture (1st winter record)
- Bald Eagle
- Northern Harrier
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Northern Goshawk
- Rough-legged Hawk
- American Kestrel
- Merlin
- Peregrine Falcon
- Common Gallinule (2nd winter record)
- American Coot
- Killdeer
- Semipalmated Plover
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Sanderling
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- Purple Sandpiper
- Dunlin
- Semipalmated Sandpiper (1st winter record)
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Bonaparte’s Gull
- Black-headed Gull
- Mew (Common) Gull
- Ring-billed Gull
- Herring Gull
- Slaty-backed Gull
- Iceland Gull
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Glaucous Gull
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Dovekie
- Common Murre
- Thick-billed Murre
- Razorbill
- Black Guillemot
- Rock Dove
- White-winged Dove
- Mourning Dove
- Great Horned Owl
- Snowy Owl
- Short-eared Owl
- Northern Saw-whet Owl
- Boreal Owl
- Belted Kingfisher
- Downy Woodpecker
- Hairy Woodpecker
- American Three-toed Woodpecker
- Black-backed Woodpecker
- Northern Flicker
- Northern Shrike
- Gray Jay
- Blue Jay
- American Crow
- Common Raven
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Boreal Chickadee
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Brown Creeper
- Marsh Wren
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Hermit Thrush
- American Robin
- Redwing
- European Starling
- American Pipit
- Bohemian waxwing
- Cedar Waxwing
- Lapland Longspur
- Snow Bunting
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Nashville Warbler
- Northern Parula
- Yellow Warbler
- Black-throated Blue Warbler (1st winter record)
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Hermit Warbler (2nd winter record; 4th provincial record)
- Townsend’s Warbler
- Yellow-throated Warbler
- Pine Warbler
- American Redstart
- Common Yellowthroat
- Wilson’s Warbler
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- American Tree Sparrow
- Clay-coloured Sparrow
- Lark Sparrow
- Savannah Sparrow
- Fox Sparrow
- Song Sparrow
- Lincoln’s Sparrow
- Swamp Sparrow
- White-throated Sparrow
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Dickcissel
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Common Grackle
- Baltimore Oriole
- Bullock’s Oriole (3rd provincial record)
- Pine Grosbeak
- Purple Finch
- Red Crossbill
- White-winged Crossbill
- Common Redpoll
- Pine Siskin
- American Goldfinch
- Evening Grosbeak
- House Sparrow