PA Nature Guide - Bird Species

Bird species regularly recorded in Pennsylvania
Waterfowl Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Pink-footed Goose Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross’s Goose Brant Goose Cackling Goose Canada Goose Mute Swan Tundra Swan Wood Duck Gadwall Eurasian Widgeon American Widgeon American Black Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup White-winged Scoter Surf Scoter Black Scoter Long-tailed Duck Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Masked Duck Ruddy Duck Pheasants, Grouse, Turkey Ring-necked Pheasant Ruffled Grouse Wild Turkey Northern Bobwhite Loons Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon Common Loon Grebes Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Eared Grebe Cormorants and Herons Double-crested Cormorant Great Cormorant Anhinga American Bittern Least Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Glossy Ibis Roseate Spoonbill Wood Stork Vultures Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Pigeon and Cuckoo Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo	Raptors Osprey Swallow-tailed Kite Mississippi Kite Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper’s Hawk Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Swainson’s Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle American Kestrel Merlin Gyrfalcon Peregrine Falcon Waders and Shore birds Virginia Rail Common Moorhen American Coot Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Willet Spotted Sandpiper Whimbrel Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Baird’s Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson’s Snipe American Woodcock Wilson’s Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Seabirds Black-capped Petrel Cory’s Shearwater Greater Shearwater Leach’s Storm-Petrel Band-rumped Storm-Petrel American White Pelican Laughing Gull Franklin’s Gull Little Gull Black-headed Gull Bonaparte’s Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Thayer’s Gull Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Forster’s Tern Black Tern Owls Barn Owl Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Snowy Owl Barred Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl		Nightjars Common Nighthawk Whip-poor-will Swift Chimney Swift Hummingbirds Ruby-throated Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Woodpeckers Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Flycatchers Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Vireos White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Jays Blue Jay Crows American Crow Fish Crow Common Raven Horned Lark Swallows Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Thrush Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson’s Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Sparrows American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Henslow’s Sparrow Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Harris’s Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow		Warblers Blue-winged Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson’s Warbler Canada Warbler Other Perching Birds Yellow-breasted Chat Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Dark-eyed Junco Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Dickcissel Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Brewer’s Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Pine Grosbeak House Finch Red Crossbill White-winged Crossbill Common Redpoll Pine Siskin American Goldfinch Evening Grosbeak House Sparrow Carolina Chickadee Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren Marsh Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling American Pipit Cedar Waxwing