Winter Bird List: 2024-25

Below is a list of species recorded in Newfoundland THIS winter (December 1, 2024 – February 28, 2025). 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 1

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. Brant
  3. Canada Goose
  4. Common Shelduck (1st winter record)
  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. 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. Red-breasted Merganser
  28. Common Merganser
  29. Willow Ptarmigan
  30. Rock Ptarmigan
  31. Ruffed Grouse
  32. Spruce Grouse
  33. Horned Grebe
  34. Red-necked Grebe
  35. Rock Pigeon
  36. Mourning Dove
  37. Common Gallinule
  38. American Coot
  39. Sandhill Crane
  40. Northern Lapwing
  41. Black-bellied Plover
  42. Killdeer
  43. Wilson’s Snipe
  44. Spotted Sandpiper (2nd winter record)
  45. Sanderling
  46. Purple Sandpiper
  47. White-rumped Sandpiper
  48. Red Phalarope (1st winter record)
  49. Dovekie
  50. Common Murre
  51. Thick-billed Murre
  52. Razorbill
  53. Black Guillemot
  54. Atlantic Puffin
  55. Black-legged Kittiwake
  56. Bonaparte’s Gull
  57. Black-headed Gull
  58. Common Gull
  59. Ring-billed Gull
  60. American Herring Gull
  61. Iceland Gull
  62. Lesser Black-backed Gull
  63. Slaty-backed Gull
  64. Glaucous Gull
  65. Great Black-backed Gull
  66. Red-throated Loon
  67. Pacific Loon
  68. Common Loon
  69. Northern Gannet
  70. Double-crested Cormorant
  71. Great Cormorant
  72. Great Blue Heron
  73. Great Egret
  74. Golden Eagle
  75. Northern Harrier
  76. Sharp-shinned Hawk
  77. American Goshawk
  78. Bald Eagle
  79. Steller’s Sea Eagle
  80. Rough-legged Hawk
  81. Snowy Owl
  82. Great Horned Owl
  83. Short-eared Owl
  84. Boreal Owl
  85. Northern Saw-whet Owl
  86. Belted Kingfisher
  87. Black-backed Woodpecker
  88. Downy Woodpecker
  89. Hairy Woodpecker
  90. Northern Flicker
  91. American Kestrel
  92. Merlin
  93. Peregrine Falcon
  94. Eastern Phoebe
  95. Blue-headed Vireo
  96. Northern Shrike
  97. Canada Jay
  98. Blue Jay
  99. American Crow
  100. Common Raven
  101. Black-capped Chickadee
  102. Boreal Chickadee
  103. Horned Lark
  104. Golden-crowned Kinglet
  105. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  106. Bohemian Waxwing
  107. Cedar Waxwing
  108. Red-breasted Nuthatch
  109. Brown Creeper
  110. Winter Wren
  111. Marsh Wren
  112. European Starling
  113. Hermit Thrush
  114. American Robin
  115. House Sparrow
  116. American Pipit
  117. Evening Grosbeak
  118. Pine Grosbeak
  119. Purple Finch
  120. Redpoll
  121. Red Crossbill
  122. White-winged Crossbill
  123. Pine Siskin
  124. American Goldfinch
  125. Snow Bunting
  126. Chipping Sparrow
  127. Clay-coloured Sparrow
  128. American Tree Sparrow
  129. Savannah Sparrow
  130. Fox Sparrow
  131. Dark-eyed Junco
  132. White-throated Sparrow
  133. Song Sparrow
  134. Lincoln’s Sparrow
  135. Swamp Sparrow
  136. Yellow-breasted Chat
  137. Baltimore Oriole
  138. Red-winged Blackbird
  139. Common Grackle
  140. Ovenbird
  141. Black-and-White Warbler
  142. Orange-crowned Warbler
  143. Common Yellowthroat
  144. American Redstart
  145. Northern Parula
  146. Pine Warbler
  147. Cape May Warbler
  148. Yellow-rumped Warbler
  149. Yellow-throated Warbler
  150. Prairie Warbler
  151. Townsend’s Warbler
  152. Summer Tanager
  153. Dickcissel