Newfoundland Winter Bird List: 2022-23

Below is a list of species recorded in Newfoundland THIS winter (December 1, 2022 – February 28, 2023). 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 28

Recent Additions: Slaty-backed Gull, Eastern Towhee

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