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!).
**Note that I will be out of the country December 5-16 and unable to update this list. Please keep up the great reporting, and I’ll update it as soon as I return **
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
- Gadwall
- Eurasian Wigeon
- American Wigeon
- American Black Duck
- Mallard
- Northern Pintail
- Green-winged Teal
- Ring-necked Duck
- Tufted Duck
- Greater Scaup
- White-winged Scoter
- Bufflehead
- Common Goldeneye
- Common Merganser
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Ruffed Grouse
- Spruce Grouse
- Willow Ptarmigan
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Great Cormorant
- Turkey Vulture (1st winter record)
- Bald Eagle
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Northern Goshawk
- Rough-legged Hawk
- Peregrine Falcon
- Common Gallinule (2nd winter record)
- American Coot
- Semipalmated Plover
- Sanderling
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- Purple Sandpiper
- Semipalmated Sandpiper (1st winter record)
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Black-headed Gull
- Herring Gull
- Iceland Gull
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Glaucous Gull
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Dovekie
- Black Guillemot
- Rock Dove
- Mourning Dove
- Belted Kingfisher
- Downy Woodpecker
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Northern Flicker
- Blue Jay
- American Crow
- Common Raven
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Boreal Chickadee
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Marsh Wren
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- American Robin
- European Starling
- American Pipit
- Lapland Longspur
- Snow Bunting
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Northern Parula
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Townsend’s Warbler
- Yellow-throated Warbler
- Pine Warbler
- Common Yellowthroat
- Wilson’s Warbler
- American Tree Sparrow
- Fox Sparrow
- Song 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
- Pine Siskin
- American Goldfinch
- Evening Grosbeak
- House Sparrow