New England Birds

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New England Birds last updated: January 2024

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Snow Goose	Canada Geese	White-fronted Goose
Brant	Mute Swan	Trumpeter Swan
Gadwall	Greater Scaup	Lesser Scaup
American Wigeon	American Black Ducks	Mallard Ducks
Northern Pintail Duck	Green-winged Teal	Ring-Necked Duck
Common Goldeneye	Barrow's Goldeneye	Ruddy Duck
Ruddy Duck	Common Eiders	Bufflehead
Red-throated Loon (winter)	Common Loons	Common Loon (juvenile)
Northern Gannet	Northern Gannet	Black Guillemot
Black Guillemot winter	Razorbill	Thick-billed Murre
Harlequin Duck	Harlequin Duck	Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter	Black Scoter	Long-tailed Duck
Northern Shoveler Duck	Hooded Merganser	Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser	Horned Grebes	Red-necked Grebe (winter)
Pied-billed Grebe	Wood Duck
Common Gallinule	American Coot	American Avocet
Black-bellied Plover	American Golden Plover	Piping Plover (protected species)
Semi-palmated Plover	Killdeer	Sanderlings
Dunlins	Least Sandpiper	Semi-Palmated Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper	Solitary Sandpiper	Stilt Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper	Pectoral Sandpiper	Short-billed Dowitcher
Yellowlegs	Willet	Bonapart's Gull
Laughing Gull	Ring-billed Gull	Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull	Least Tern (on nest)	Common Tern
Great Blue Herons	Yellow-crowned Night Heron	Green Heron
American Bittern
Great Egret	Snowy Egret	Cattle Egret
Cormorant	Turkey Vultures	Golden Eagle
Bald Eagle	Juvenile Peregrine Falcon	Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk	Red-tailed Hawk	Red-shouldered Hawk
Northern Harrier	Merlin	American Kestrel
Osprey	Great Horned Owl	Snowy Owl
Barred Owls	Great Gray Owl	Saw Whet Owl
Screech Owl	Pileated Woodpecker	Red-bellied Woodpecker (female)
Downy Woodpecker	Red-headed Woodpecker	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Northern Flicker	Rock Pigeon	Mourning Dove
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (female)	Belted Kingfisher (female)	Least Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher	Great Crested Flycatcher	Willow Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe	Say's Phoebe	Bobolink
Eastern Kingbird	Wood Pewee
Barn Swallow	Tree Swallow	Bank Swallow
Purple Martin	Chickadee	Nuthatch
Brown Creeper	Tufted Titmouse	Junco
Blue Jay	Northern Cardinal	American Robin
Bluebird	Swainson's Thrush	Wood Thrush
Brown Thrasher	Ovenbird	Veery
Eastern Towhee	Carolina Wren	House Wren
Baltimore Oriole	Red-winged Blackbird	Gray Catbird
Eastern Mockingbird	Philadelphia Vireo	Warbling Vireo
Connecticut Warbler	Yellow Warbler	Blackburnian Warbler
Prothonatary Warbler	Blackpoll Warbler	Magnolia Warbler
Palm Warbler Breeding Plumage	Yellow-throated Warbler Breeding Plumage	Black-and-white Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler	Prairie Warbler	Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart	House Finch	Purple Finch
Goldfinch	Common Redpoll	Pine Siskin
Chipping Sparrow	Fox Sparrow	Savannah Sparrow
House Sparrow	Song Sparrow	White-throated Sparrow (left) White-crowned Sparrow (right)
Swamp Sparrow	American Tree Sparrow	Saltmarsh Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow	Vesper Sparrow	Evening Grosbeak
Rose-breasted Grosbeak	Pine Grosbeak	Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting	Snow Bunting	Horned Lark
Lapland Longspur	Smith's Longspur	Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Cedar Waxwing	Wilson's Snipe	Cowbird
European Starling	Common Grackle	Ravens
Bobwhite Quail	Ruffed Grouse	American Woodcock
Wild Turkey	Ring-necked Pheasant	Sandhill Crane

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