Below is a list of species recorded in Newfoundland THIS winter (December 1, 2025 – February 28, 2026). 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 2

Recently Added: Varied Thrush

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