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. Northern Saw-whet Owl
88. Belted Kingfisher
89. American three-toed Woodpecker
90. Black-backed Woodpecker
91. Downy Woodpecker
92. Hairy Woodpecker
93. Northern Flicker
94. American Kestrel
95. Merlin
96. Peregrine Falcon
97. White-eyed Vireo
98. Northern Shrike
99. Canada Jay
100. Blue Jay
101. American Crow
102. Common Raven
103. Black-capped Chickadee
104. Boreal Chickadee
105. Horned Lark
106. Golden-crowned Kinglet
107. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
108. Red-breasted Nuthatch
109. Brown Creeper
110. Winter Wren
111. European Starling
112. Varied Thrush (11th & 12th provincial records)
113. Hermit Thrush
114. American Robin
115. Bohemian Waxwing
116. Cedar Waxwing
117. House Sparrow
118. American Pipit
119. Brambling (1st winter record; 2nd provincial record)
120. Evening Grosbeak
121. Pine Grosbeak
122. Purple Finch
123. Redpoll
124. Red Crossbill
125. White-winged Crossbill
126. Pine Siskin
127. American Goldfinch
128. Lapland Longspur
129. Snow Bunting
130. Chipping Sparrow
131. American Tree Sparrow
132. Savannah Sparrow
133. Fox Sparrow
134. Dark-eyed Junco
135. White-crowned Sparrow
136. Golden-crowned Sparrow (2nd winter record; 3rd provincial record)
137. White-throated Sparrow
138. Savannah Sparrow
139. Song Sparrow
140. Lincoln’s Sparrow
141. Swamp Sparrow
142. Yellow-breasted Chat
143. Baltimore Oriole
144. Red-winged Blackbird
145. Common Grackle
146. Black-and-White Warbler
147. Orange-crowned Warbler
148. Kentucky Warbler (1st winter record)
149. Common Yellowthroat
150. Northern Yellow Warbler
151. Yellow-rumped Warbler
152. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
153. Dickcissel