Species List
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Here is our lifetime checklist of birds photographed and/or seen. When you click on the underlined Family Name, you will be taken to photos of that family.
Here is the legend for the lists below: Any bird name in bold signifies there is a photo of that bird, otherwise we have seen the bird but weren't able to get a photo. When a bird name is white, it has been seen in Niagara, in blue - seen elsewhere in Ontario, and in red - seen elsewhere.
Accentors
Dunnock
Atlantic Puffin
Black Guillemot
Razorbill
Spotted Antbird
Collared Aracari
Keel-billed Toucan
Northern Emerald-Toucanet
Prong-billed Barbet
Red-headed Barbet
Yellow-throated Toucan
Cinnamon Becard
Masked Tityra
Baltimore Oriole
Bobolink
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Chestnut-headed Oropendola
Common Grackle
Eastern Meadowlark
Giant Cowbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Hooded Oriole
Melodious Blackbird
Montezuma Oropendola
Orchard Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird
Shiny Cowbird
Tawny-shouldered Blackbird
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Yellow-winged Cacique
Blue-footed Booby
Cocos Booby
Magnificent Frigatebird
Northern Gannet
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Northern Cardinal
Painted Bunting
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Scarlet Tanager
Scarlet-rumped Cacique
Streak-backed Oriole
Summer Tanager
Western Tanager
Yellow Grosbeak
Black Guan
Crested Guan
Gray-headed Chachalaca
West Mexican Chachalaca
Black-capped Chickadee
Boreal Chickadee
Coal Tit
Crested Tit
Eurasian Blue Tit
Great Tit
Tufted Titmouse
Cisticolas and Allies
Zitting Cisticola
Anhinga
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Neotropic Cormorant
Sandhill Crane
American Crow
Black-billed Magpie
Black-throated Magpie-Jay
Blue Jay
Brown Jay
Canada Jay
Common Raven
Eurasian Magpie
Fish Crow
Green Jay
San Blas Jay
Black-billed Cuckoo
Groove-billed Ani
Hispaniolan Lizard-Cuckoo
Squirrel Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
American Black Duck
American Wigeon
Barrow's Goldeneye
Black Scoter
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Brant
Bufflehead
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Canvasback
Cinnamon Teal
Common Eider
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Eurasian Wigeon
Gadwall
Greater Scaup
Greater White-fronted Goose
Green-winged Teal
Harlequin Duck
Hooded Merganser
King Eider
Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Mallard
Muscovy Duck
Mute Swan
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Red-breasted Merganser
Ring-necked Duck
Ross's Goose
Ruddy Duck
Snow Goose
Surf Scoter
Trumpeter Swan
Tundra Swan
West Indian Whistling-Duck
White-cheeked Pintail
White-winged Scoter
Wood Duck 🇨🇦
American Kestrel
Bat Falcon
Crested Caracara
Eurasian Kestrel
Laughing Falcon
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Yellow-headed Caracara
American Goldfinch
Common Chaffinch
Common Redpoll
European Goldfinch
European Greenfinch
European Serin
Evening Grosbeak
Golden-browed Chlorophonia
Hoary Redpoll
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
Olive-backed Euphonia
Pine Grosbeak
Pine Siskin
Purple Finch
West Mexican Euphonia
White-winged Crossbill
Yellow-bellied Siskin
Yellow-throated Euphonia
American Flamingo
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Black Phoebe
Black-capped Flycatcher
Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher
Boat-billed Flycatcher
Bright-rumped Attila
Brown-crested Flycatcher
Common Tody-Flycatcher
Dusky-capped Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Gray-capped Flycatcher
Gray Kingbird
Great Kiskadee
Great Crested Flycatcher
Greater Pewee
Greenish Elaenia
Least Flycatcher
Lesser Elaenia
Mountain Elaenia
Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
Northern Tropical Pewee
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Social Flycatcher
Thick-billed Kingbird
Torrent Tyrannulet
Tropical Kingbird
Tufted Flycatcher
Vermilion Flycatcher
Western Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Willow Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Yellowish Flycatcher
Blue-gray Gnacatcher
Grassbirds and Allies
Savi's Warbler
Eared Grebe
Horned Grebe
Least Grebe
Little Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Western Grebe
Black-breasted Wood-Quail
Chukar
Helmeted Guineafowl
Indian Peafowl
Ring-necked Pheasant
Ruffed Grouse
Spotted Wood-Quail
Spruce Grouse
Wild Turkey
Arctic Tern
Black Skimmer
Black Tern
Black-headed Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake
Bonaparte's Gull
California Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Gull
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Glaucous Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Heermann's Gull
Herring Gull
Iceland Gull
Laughing Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Little Gull
Mediterranean Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Royal Tern
Sabine's Gull
Sandwich Tern
Slaty-backed Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Bald Eagle
Black Kite
Black Vulture
Booted Eagle
Broad-winged Hawk
Common Black Hawk
Common Buzzard
Cooper's Hawk
Eurasian Griffon
Golden Eagle
King Vulture
Northern Goshawk
Northern Harrier
Osprey
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Ridgway's Hawk
Roadside Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Semiplumbeous Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Short-tailed Hawk
Swallow-tailed Kite
Turkey Vulture
Western Marsh Harrier
White-tailed KIte
American Bittern
Bare-throated Tiger-Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Boat-billed Heron
Glossy Ibis
Gray Heron
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Green Heron
Green Ibis
Least Bittern
Little Blue Heron
Little Egret
Reddish Egret
Roseate Spoonbill
Snowy Egret
Tricolored Heron
Western Cattle Egret
White Ibis
White-faced Ibis
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Black-crowned Palm-Tanager
Black-bellied Hummingbird
Blue-chested Hummingbird
Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer
Cinnamon Hummingbird
Coppery-headed Emerald
Fiery-throated Hummingbird
Green Hermit
Green Thorntail
Green-crowned Brilliant
Hispaniolan Mango
Lesser Violetear
Long-billed Hermit
Plain-capped Starthroat
Purple-throated Mountain-gem
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
Stripe-tailed Hummingbird
Talamanca Hummingbird
Vervain Hummingbird
Violet Sabrewing
Violet-headed Hummingbird
Volcano Hummingbird
White-necked Jacobin
White-throated Mountain-gem
Amazon Kingfisher
Belted Kingfisher
Green KIngfisher
Ringed Kingfisher
Common Firecrest
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Horned Lark
Leaf Warblers
Common Chiffchaff
Limpkin
Common Loon
Pacific Loon
Red-throated Loon
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting
Long-tailed Tits, Bushtits
Long-tailed Tit
Manakins
White-ruffed Manakin
Bahama Mockingbird
Blue Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Tropical Mockingbird
Lesson's Motmot
Rufous Motmot
Russet-crowned Motmot
Common Nighthawk
Cuban Nightjar
Eastern Whip-poor-will
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Old World Flycatchers
Black Redstart
Common Nightingale
European Robin
European Stonechat
Old World Sparrows
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
House Sparrow
Ovenbirds
Ruddy Treenrunner
Barred Owl
Boreal Owl
Crested Owl
Eastern Screech-Owl
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
Great Horned Owl
Long-eared Owl
Mottled Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Short-eared Owl
Snowy Owl
Spectacled Owl
Palmchat
Blue and Gold Macaw
Crimson-fronted Parakeet
Great Green Macaw
Mealy Amazon
Military Macaw
Monk Parakeet
Olive-throated Parakeet
Orange-chinned Parakeet
Orange-fronted Parakeet
Red-lored Parrot
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Scarlet Macaw
Sulphur-winged Parakeet
White-crowned Parrot
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Banded-tailed Pigeon
Buff-fronted Quail-Dove
Common Ground Dove
Common Wood-Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Inca Dove
Key West Quail-Dove
Mourning Dove
Red-billed Pigeon
Rock Pigeon
Ruddy Ground Dove
Scaly-naped Pigeon
White-winged Dove
White-tipped Dove
American Pipit
Gray Wagtail
Western Yellow Wagtail
White Wagtail
Great Potoo
Rufous-tailed Jacamar
White-whiskered Puffbird
American Coot
Common Gallinule
Eurasian Coot
Eurasian Moorhen
Gray-cowled Wood-Rail
Purple Gallinule
Sora
Virginia Rail
Water Rail
White-throated Crake
Reed Warblers and Allies
Common Reed Warbler
Great Shearwater
American Avocet
American Golden-Plover
American Oystercatcher
American Woodcock
Baird's Sandpiper
Bar-tailed Godwit
Black-bellied Plover
Black-necked Stilt
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Common Redshank
Common Ringed Plover
Common Sandpiper
Double-striped Thick-knee
Dunlin
Eurasian Whimbrel
Greater Yellowlegs
Hudsonian Godwit (rare)
Killdeer
Least Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Long-billed Dowitcher
Marbled Godwit
Pectoral Sandpiper
Piping Plover
Purple Sandpiper
Red Knot
Red-necked Phalarope
Ruddy Turnstone
Ruff
Sanderling
Semipalmated Plover
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Snowy Plover
Solitary Sandpiper
Southern Lapwing
Spotted Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Upland Sandpiper
Wandering Tattler
Western Sandpiper
Whimbrel
White-rumped Sandpiper
Willet
Wilson's Phalarope
Wilson's Plover
Wilson's Snipe
Loggerhead Shrike
Northern Shrike
Black-and-yellow Silky-Flycatcher
Long-tailed Silky-Flycatcher
American Tree Sparrow
Black-striped Sparrow
Chestnut-capped Brushfinch
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Common Chlorospingus
Dark-eyed Junco
Eastern Towhee
Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Harris's Sparrow
Large-footed Finch
Lincoln's Sparrow
Nelson's Sparrow
Orange-billed Sparrow
Rufous-collared Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Sooty-capped Chlorospingus
Stripe-headed Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
White-eared Ground-Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Yellow-thighed Brushfinch
Crested Myna
European Starling
Spotless Starling
White Stork
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Blue-and-white Swallow
Cave Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Eurasian Crag-Martin
European Red-rumped Swallow
Mangrove Swallow
N. Rough-winged Swallow
Purple Martin
S. Rough-winged Swallow
Tree Swallow
Western House-Martin
Swifts
Gray-rumped Swift
Chimney Swift
Pallid Swift
White-collared Swift
Sylviid Warblers
Eurasian Blackcap
Bananaquit
Bay-headed Tanager
Black-faced Grassquit
Blue-black Grassquit
Blue-gray Tanager
Buff-throated Saltator
Cinnamon-bellied Saltator
Dusky-faced Tanager
Golden-hooded Tanager
Green Honeycreeper
Palm Tanager
Red-legged Honeycreeper
Scarlet-rumped Tanager
Shining Honercreeper
Silver-throated Tanager
Slaty-Flowerpiercer
Thick-billed Seed-Finch
Variable Seedeater
American Robin
Black-billed Nightingale-Thrush
Black-faced Solitaire
Clay-coloured Thrush
Eastern Bluebird
Eurasian Blackbird
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Mistle Thrush
Mountain Thrush
Red-legged Thrush
Ruddy-capped Nightingale-ThrushRufous-backed Robin
Sooty Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Townsend's Solitaire
Varied Thrush
Veery
White-throated Thrush
Wood Thrush
Broad-billed Tody
Brown Creeper
Black-headed Trogon
Collared Trogon
Coppery-tailed Trogon
Gartered Trogon
Northern Black-throated Trogon
Resplendent Quetzal
Slaty-tailed Trogon
Bell's Vireo
Black-whiskered Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Golden Vireo
Lesser Greenlet
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-winged Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
American Redstart
Bay-breasted Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Canada Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Collared Redstart
Common Yellowthroat
Connecticut Warbler
Fan-tailed Warbler
Flame-throated Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Kirtland's Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
MacGillivray's Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Northern Waterthrush
Orange-crowned Warbler
Ovenbird
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Slate-throated Redstart
Tennessee Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Common Waxbill
Cedar Waxwing
Ivory-billed Woodcreeper
Northern Barred-Woodcreeper
Spot-crowned Woodcreeper
Wedge-billed Woodcreeper
Acorn Woodpecker
Antillean Piculet
Black-backed Woodpecker
Black-cheeked Woodpecker
Cinnamon Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Golden-cheeked Woodpecker
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Hispaniolan Woodpecker
Hoffmann's Woodpecker
Lineated Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Bay Wren
Canebrake Wren
Carolina Wren
Gray-breasted Wood-Wren
Eurasian Wren
Happy Wren
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Rufous-backed Wren
Sedge Wren
White-breasted Wood-Wren
Winer Wren
Yellow-breasted Chat
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