Newfoundland Winter Bird List: 2023-24

Below is a list of species recorded in Newfoundland THIS winter (December 1, 2023 – February 29, 2024). 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 22

Recent Additions: Redwing, Snowy Owl

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. Wood Duck
4. Gadwall
5. Eurasian Wigeon
6. American Wigeon
7. American Black Duck
8. Mallard
9. Northern Pintail
10. Blue-winged Teal
11. Green-winged Teal (American & Eurasian)
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. Bufflehead
24. Common Goldeneye
25. Barrow’s Goldeneye
26. Hooded Merganser
27. Common Merganser
28. Red-breasted Merganser
29. Ruddy Duck
30. Ruffed Grouse
31. Spruce Grouse
32. Willow Ptarmigan
33. Rock Ptarmigan
34. Red-throated Loon
35. Common Loon
36. Pied-billed Grebe
37. Horned Grebe
38. Red-necked Grebe
39. Northern Fulmar
40. Double-crested Cormorant
41. Great Cormorant
42. Yellow Crowned Night Heron (1st winter record)
43. Bald Eagle
44. Steller’s Sea Eagle (1st winter record)
45. Northern Harrier
46. Sharp-shinned Hawk
47. American Goshawk
48. Rough-legged Hawk
49. American Kestrel
50. Merlin
51. Common Gallinule
52. American Coot
53. Black-bellied Plover
54. Willet (1st winter record)
55. Ruddy Turnstone
56. White-rumped Sandpiper
57. Purple Sandpiper
58. Ruff (2nd winter record)
59. Wilson’s Snipe
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. Glaucous Gull
69. Great Black-backed Gull
70. Dovekie
71. Common Murre
72. Thick-billed Murre
73. Razorbill
74. Black Guillemot
75. Atlantic Puffin
76. Rock Pigeon
77. Mourning Dove
78. Great Horned Owl
79. Snowy Owl
80. Short-eared Owl
81. Northern Saw-whet Owl
82. Belted Kingfisher
83. Downy Woodpecker
84. Hairy Woodpecker
85. Black-backed Woodpecker
86. Northern Flicker
87. Least Flycatcher (1st winter record)
88. Eastern Phoebe (1st winter record)
89. Northern Shrike
90. Blue-headed Vireo
91. Canada Jay
92. Blue Jay
93. American Crow
94. Common Raven
95. Black-capped Chickadee
96. Boreal Chickadee
97. Red-breasted Nuthatch
98. Brown Creeper
99. Winter Wren
100. Marsh Wren
101. Blue-grey Gnatcatcher
102. Golden-crowned Kinglet
103. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
104. Hermit Thrush
105. Redwing
106. American Robin
107. Gray Catbird
108. European Starling
109. American Pipit
110. Bohemian Waxwing
111. Cedar Waxwing
112. Snow Bunting
113. Orange-crowned Warbler
114. Nashville Warbler
115. Yellow Warbler
116. Cape May Warbler
117. Yellow-rumped Warbler
118. Hermit Warbler
119. Townsend’s Warbler
120. Yellow-throated Warbler
121. Pine Warbler
122. Prairie Warbler
123. Palm Warbler
124. Black-and-White Warbler
125. Ovenbird
126. Common Yellowthroat
127. Wilson’s Warbler
128. Yellow-breasted Chat
129. Eastern Towhee
130. American Tree Sparrow
131. Chipping Sparrow
132. Clay-coloured Sparrow
133. Savannah Sparrow (incl. “Ipswich” race)
134. Fox Sparrow
135. Song Sparrow
136. Lincoln’s Sparrow
137. Swamp Sparrow
138. White-throated Sparrow
139. Dark-eyed Junco
140. Northern Cardinal
141. Indigo Bunting
142. Dickcissel
143. Red-winged Blackbird
144. Rusty Blackbird
145. Common Grackle
146. Baltimore Oriole
147. Pine Grosbeak
148. Purple Finch
149. Red Crossbill
150. White-winged Crossbill
151. Common Redpoll
152. Pine Siskin
153. American Goldfinch
154. Evening Grosbeak
155. House Sparrow