Newfoundland Winter Bird List: 2020-21

Below is a list of species recorded in Newfoundland THIS winter (December 1, 2020 – February 28, 2021). 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: March 2

Recent Additions: Spotted Towhee (reported March 2 bu thad been present several days)

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. Pink-footed Goose
2. Canada Goose
3. Tundra Swan (1st winter record)
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. Common Eider
17. King Eider
18. Harlequin Duck
19. Surf Scoter
20. White-winged Scoter
21. Black Scoter
22. Long-tailed Duck
23. Bufflehead
24. Common Goldeneye
25. Barrow’s Goldeneye
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. Common Loon
35. Pied-billed Grebe
36. Horned Grebe
37. Red-necked Grebe
38. Northern Fulmar
39. Northern Gannet
40. Double-crested Cormorant
41. Great Cormorant
42. Great Blue Heron
43. Gray Heron (~6th provincial record; 3rd winter record)
44. Bald Eagle
45. Northern Harrier
46. Sharp-shinned Hawk
47. Northern Goshawk
48. Red-tailed Hawk
49. Rough-legged Hawk
50. American Kestrel
51. Merlin
52. Peregrine Falcon
53. Gyrfalcon
54. Sora
55. Common Gallinule
56. American Coot
57. Black-bellied Plover
58. Killdeer
59. Semipalmated Plover
60. Ruddy Turnstone
61. Red Knot
62. Sanderling
63. White-rumped Sandpiper
64. Purple Sandpiper
65. Dunlin
66. Wilson’s Snipe
67. Black-legged Kittiwake
68. Ivory Gull
69. Bonaparte’s Gull
70. Black-headed Gull
71. Ring-billed Gull
72. Common (Mew) Gull
73. Herring Gull
74. Iceland Gull
75. Lesser Black-backed Gull
76. Slaty-backed Gull
77. Glaucous Gull
78. Great Black-backed Gull
79. Dovekie
80. Common Murre
81. Thick-billed Murre
82. Razorbill
83. Black Guillemot
84. Atlantic Puffin
85. Rock Pigeon
86. Mourning Dove
87. Great Horned Owl
88. Short-eared Owl
89. Boreal Owl
90. Northern Saw-whet Owl
91. Snowy Owl
92. Belted Kingfisher
93. Downy Woodpecker
94. Hairy Woodpecker
95. American Three-toed Woodpecker
96. Black-backed Woodpecker
97. Northern Flicker
98. Vermilion Flycatcher (1st provincial record)
99. Northern Shrike
100. Canada jay
101. Blue Jay
102. American Crow
103. Common Raven
104. Horned Lark
105. Black-capped Chickadee
106. Boreal Chickadee
107. Red-breasted Nuthatch
108. Brown Creeper
109. Golden-crowned Kinglet
110. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
111. Hermit Thrush
112. Redwing
113. American Robin
114. Northern Mockingbird
115. Brown Thrasher
116. European Starling
117. American Pipit
118. Cedar Waxwing
119. Bohemian Waxwing
120. Lapland Longspur
121. Snow Bunting
122. Tennessee Warbler (2nd winter record)
123. Orange-crowned Warbler
124. Yellow Warbler
125. Cape May Warbler
126. Yellow-rumped Warbler
127. Townsend’s Warbler
128. Yellow-throated Warbler
129. Pine Warbler
130. Black-and-White Warbler
131. Common Yellowthroat
132. Wilson’s Warbler
133. Yellow-breasted Chat
134. Spotted Towhee (3rd provincial record)
135. Eastern Towhee
136. American Tree Sparrow
137. Lark Sparrow
138. Savannah Sparrow
139. Fox Sparrow
140. Song Sparrow
141. Lincoln’s Sparrow
142. Swamp Sparrow
143. White-throated Sparrow
144. White-crowned Sparrow
145. Dark-eyed Junco
146. Northern Cardinal
147. Dickcissel
148. Red-winged Blackbird
149. Rusty Blackbird
150. Common Grackle
151. Baltimore Oriole
152. Pine Grosbeak
153. Purple Finch
154. Red Crossbill
155. White-winged Crossbill
156. Common Redpoll
157. Hoary Redpoll
158. Pine Siskin
159. American Goldfinch
160. Evening Grosbeak
161. House sparrow