North American (ABA Area) Birds Seen in 2001 -- B.J. Bergstrom
I saw the following 527 species primarily during year-long birding in Georgia and
Florida, and on special trips to the following states: Alaska (9 days in May/June),
Wyoming (1 week in June), Colorado/Utah (2 days June + 3 days July), Arizona (8 days July),
Texas (6 days December). Those 8 states accounted for 522 species; the remaining 5 were
seen, one each, on short visits to: North Carolina, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and
Idaho.
Common Loon 4 loons
Yellow-billed Loon
Pacific Loon
Red-throated Loon
Eared Grebe all 7 grebes
Horned Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
-Least Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark's Grebe
Northern Gannet
Masked Booby
Magnificent Frigatebird
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
-Neotropic Cormorant
Anhinga
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Reddish Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Green Heron
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
White-faced Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Wood Stork
Trumpeter Swan 40 spp. waterfowl = all regular breeding
Tundra Swan species except Amer. Black Duck
Canada Goose (including all swans, geese, eiders)
Snow/Blue Goose
-Ross's Goose
Greater White-fronted Goose
Brant
Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Wood Duck
Green-winged Teal
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Mallard
Mottled Duck
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Ruddy Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Barrow's Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Hooded Merganser
Oldsquaw
Harlequin Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Black (Common) Scoter
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Common Eider
King Eider
Spectacled Eider
Steller's Eider
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey 28 spp. raptors= all regular breeders
Snail Kite except Short-tailed Hawk, Gyrfalcon
Mississippi Kite
Swallow-tailed Kite
White-tailed Kite
Hook-billed Kite
Bald Eagle
Golden Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Northern Goshawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
White-tailed Hawk
Harris's Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Gray Hawk
Common Black-Hawk
Zone-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Prairie Falcon
Crested Caracara
Ruffed Grouse (10/20, NC)
Willow Ptarmigan
Rock Ptarmigan
Wild Turkey
Northern Bobwhite
Gambel's Quail
Plain Chachalaca
Clapper Rail
King Rail
Sora
(Virginia Rail)
Purple Gallinule
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Limpkin
Sandhill Crane
Whooping Crane
Black-bellied Plover 46 spp. shorebirds
American (Lesser) Golden Plover
Pacific (Lesser) Golden Plover
Snowy Plover
Wilson's Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Mountain Plover
Killdeer
American Oystercatcher
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Purple Sandpiper
Rock Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Rufous-necked Stint
Wood Sandpiper
Sanderling
Dunlin
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Curlew
Willet
Whimbrel
Ruff
Wandering Tattler
Ruddy Turnstone
Black Turnstone
Red Knot
Bar-tailed Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Common Snipe
American Woodcock
Wilson's Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Red Phalarope
Parasitic Jaeger 34 spp. larids
Pomarine Jaeger
Long-tailed Jaeger
Laughing Gull
Herring Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
California Gull
Franklin's Gull
Glaucous Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Ivory Gull
Ross's Gull (5-31-01)
Great Black-backed Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Heermann's Gull
Mew Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Sabine's Gull
Slaty-backed Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake
Aleutian Tern
Arctic Tern
Black Tern
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Gull-billed Tern
Least Tern
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Roseate Tern
Sooty Tern
Brown Noddy
Black Skimmer
Common Murre
Thick-billed Murre
Pigeon Guillemot
Black Guillemot
Parakeet Auklet
Crested Auklet
Least Auklet
Marbled Murrelet
Ancient Murrelet
Tufted Puffin
Horned Puffin
Dovekie
Rock Dove 9 of 10 regular columbids
White-crowned Pigeon
Common Ground Dove
Mourning Dove
Eurasian Collared Dove
White-winged Dove
-White-tipped Dove
Band-tailed Pigeon
Inca Dove
Monk Parakeet
Green Parakeet
Budgerigar (3-24-01)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Greater Roadrunner
Elf Owl
(Western Screech Owl)
(Whiskered Screech Owl)
Eastern Screech Owl
Barred Owl
Burrowing Owl
Great Horned Owl
Short-eared Owl
Barn Owl
Common Nighthawk
Lesser Nighthawk
Poorwill
Whip-poor-will
Chuck-will's Widow
Pauraque
Chimney Swift all 4 swifts
White-throated Swift
Vaux's Swift
Black Swift
Anna's Hummingbird 12 spp. hummers
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Blue-throated Hummingbird
Broad-billed Hummingbird
Costa's Hummingbird
Magnificent Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Violet-crowned Hummingbird (5-17-98)
Berylline Hummingbird (7-12-01)
Buff-bellied Hummingbird
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher all 3 kingfishers
Green Kingfisher
Ringed Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker 16 woodpeckers
Hairy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Acorn Woodpecker
Strickland's (Arizona) Woodpecker
Gila Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Williamson's Sapsucker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Red-naped Sapsucker
Great-Crested Flycatcher 28 spp. tyrant flycatchers
Brown-Crested Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Dusky-capped Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee
Acadian Flycatcher
Dusky Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Cordilleran (Western) Flycatcher
Vermilion Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-pewee
Western Wood-pewee
Greater Pewee
Eastern Phoebe
Say's Phoebe
Black Phoebe
Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
Buff-breasted Flycatcher
Northern Beardless Tyrannulet (AZ & TX)
Cassin's Kingbird
Thick-billed Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Gray Kingbird
Western Kingbird
Tropical Kingbird (11/17, St. Marks, FL)
Couch's Kingbird
Horned Lark
Purple Martin all 8 swallows
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Cave Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Blue Jay 16 of 19 corvids
Green Jay
Brown Jay
Gray Jay
Steller's Jay
Gray-breasted (Mexican) Jay
Pinyon Jay
Western Scrub Jay
Florida Scrub Jay (12/31)
Clark's Nutcracker
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Fish Crow
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Chihuahuan (White-necked) Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Carolina Chickadee
Mountain Chickadee
Mexican Chickadee
Bridled Titmouse
Juniper (Plain) Titmouse
Tufted Titmouse
Verdin
Common Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch all 4 nuthatches
White-breasted Nuthatch
Pygmy Nuthatch
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren all 9 wrens
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Rock Wren
Sedge Wren
Winter Wren
Bewick's Wren
Cactus Wren
Canyon Wren
American Dipper (ID)
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Arctic Warbler
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
Northern Wheatear
Eastern Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird
Western Bluebird
Townsend's Solitaire
Wood Thrush
Veery
Hermit Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Varied Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird 7 mimic thrushes
Northern Mockingbird
Blue Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Long-billed Thrasher
Bendire's Thrasher (NM)
Curve-billed Thrasher
Yellow Wagtail
American Pipit
Sprague's Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Phainopepla
Loggerhead Shrike
European Starling
Red-eyed Vireo 10 vireos
Black-whiskered Vireo
Blue-headed (Solitary) Vireo
Plumbeous (Solitary) Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Bell's Vireo
Hutton's Vireo
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Bay-breasted Warbler 41 wood warblers
Black-and-white Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Canada Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Hooded Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Swainson's Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's and Myrtle)
Yellow-throated Warbler
Northern Parula
Tropical Parula
Lucy's Warbler
Grace's Warbler
Olive Warbler
Red-faced Warbler
Virginia's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart
Painted Redstart
Ovenbird
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager
Western Tanager
Hepatic Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
Pine Grosbeak
Black-headed Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Lazuli Bunting
Varied Bunting
Lark Bunting
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Common Grackle 16 icterids
Great-tailed Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Bronzed Cowbird
Hooded Oriole
Bullock's (Northern) Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Altamira Oriole
Audubon's Oriole
Orchard Oriole
Bobolink
Brewer's Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Green-tailed Towhee 45 emberizids (incl. all 4 longspurs)
Eastern (Rufous-sided) Towhee
Spotted (Rufous-sided) Towhee
Canyon (Brown) Towhee
Black-chinned Sparrow
Black-throated Sparrow
Botteri's Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Five-striped Sparrow (7-10-01)
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Rufous-winged Sparrow
Sage Sparrow
Olive Sparrow
Bachman's Sparrow
Brewer's Sparrow
Cassin's Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Harris's Sparrow (11/23, Okla.)
Henslow's Sparrow
LeConte's Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Slate-colored Junco
Yellow-eyed (Mexican) Junco
Chestnut-collared Longspur
McCown's Longspur
Lapland Longspur
Smith's Longspur (11/24, Kans.)
Snow Bunting
McKay's Bunting
Brambling
Black Rosy-Finch (6-21-01)
Brown-capped Rosy Finch
Cassin's Finch
House Finch
Common Redpoll
Hoary Redpoll
Red Crossbill
White-winged Crossbill
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
Lesser Goldfinch
Eurasian Bullfinch (5-31-01)
House Sparrow