Life List

My Bird Life List

A life list is a list of every bird species an observer has recorded in their lifetime. If the bird in question fit any of the below criteria, then it is included in my lifelist:

The bird was physically seen in the wild
If not seen, the bird was audibly heard in the wild
If the bird was not detected in the wild, it must have been observed alive and in captivity to qualify for my life list (this is to allow rare animals to be counted if seen in zoos and pet shops)
If the bird was not found alive, it can only be included in my life list if the specimen comes from an extinct species that no longer exists in the wild (this is to allow extinct species to be added to my list without allowing stuffed bird collections to qualify as such)

I officially started birdwatching on January 29th 2024, but I included five bird species that I took photos of long before this start date. Here are the results of years of quality birding. Click on the name of a species to learn more about each!

12/14/19

Western Gull

12/14/19

Willet

9/29/22

Common Yellowthroat

3/19/23

Red-tailed Hawk

11/21/23

Great Blue Heron

1/29/24

Western Bluebird

1/29/24

Black Phoebe

1/29/24

Acorn Woodpecker

1/30/24

Yellow-rumped Warbler

1/30/24

House Finch

1/30/24

European Starling

1/30/24

Common Raven

1/31/24

American Crow

1/31/24

California Gull

1/31/24

Anna's Hummingbird

1/31/24

Mallard

1/31/24

Muscovy Duck

1/31/24

Canada Goose

1/31/24

Swan Goose

1/31/24

Northern Mockingbird

2/2/24

Spotted Towhee

2/2/24

California Towhee

2/2/24

Lincoln's Sparrow

2/2/24

White-crowned Sparrow

2/2/24

Bewick's Wren

2/2/24

Bushtit

2/2/24

California Scrub-Jay

2/2/24

Red-shouldered Hawk

2/2/24

Mourning Dove

2/2/24

Lesser Goldfinch

2/2/24

Killdeer

2/3/24

Song Sparrow

2/3/24

House Sparrow

2/3/24

Wrentit

2/3/24

Great Horned Owl

2/4/24

Band-tailed Pigeon

2/4/24

American Coot

2/4/24

Rufous-crowned Sparrow

2/4/24

Cassin's Kingbird

2/8/24

Cooper's Hawk

2/10/24

Chipping Sparrow

2/10/24

Say's Phoebe

2/10/24

American Kestrel

2/12/24

Lawrence's Goldfinch

2/12/24

Nutall's Woodpecker

2/14/24

Brewer's Blackbird

2/19/24

Townsend's Warbler

3/4/24

Great-tailed Grackle

3/9/24

American Robin

3/9/24

Snowy Egret

3/13/24

Snow Goose

3/13/24

Northern Cardinal

3/13/24

Verdin

3/13/24

Gila Woodpecker

3/13/24

Eurasian Collared-Dove

3/13/24

Ring-necked Duck

3/13/24

American Wigeon

3/14/24

White-rumped Munia

3/14/24

Zebra Finch

3/14/24

Taveta Golden-Weaver

3/14/24

Pied Crow

3/14/24

Plush-crested Jay

3/14/24

Purplish-backed Jay

3/14/24

Black-throated Magpie-Jay

3/14/24

Red-and-green Macaw

3/14/24

Scarlet Macaw

3/14/24

Military Macaw

3/14/24

Red-fronted Macaw

3/14/24

Chestnut-fronted Macaw

3/14/24

Blue-throated Macaw

3/14/24

Blue-and-yellow Macaw

3/14/24

Blue-winged Macaw

3/14/24

Burrowing Parakeet

3/14/24

Mealy Amazon

3/14/24

Cuban Amazon

3/14/24

Turquoise-fronted Amazon

3/14/24

Yellow-headed Amazon

3/14/24

Gray Parrot

3/14/24

Yellow-collared Lovebird

3/14/24

Fischer's Lovebird

3/14/24

Rainbow Lorikeet

3/14/24

Plum-headed Parakeet

3/14/24

Alexandrine Parakeet

3/14/24

Papuan Eclectus

3/14/24

Red-winged Parrot

3/14/24

Princess Parrot

3/14/24

Greater Vasa Parrot

3/14/24

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

3/14/24

White Cockatoo

3/14/24

Long-billed Corella

3/14/24

Palm Cockatoo

3/14/24

Red-legged Seriema

3/14/24

Keel-billed Toucan

3/14/24

Blue-bellied Roller

3/14/24

Wreathed Hornbill

3/14/24

Silvery-cheeked Hornbill

3/14/24

Black-casqued Hornbill

3/14/24

Northern Red-billed Hornbill

3/14/24

Von der Decken's Hornbill

3/14/24

African Gray Hornbill

3/14/24

West African Pied Hornbill

3/14/24

Southern Ground-Hornbill

3/14/24

Verreaux's Eagle-Owl

3/14/24

Andean Condor

3/14/24

King Vulture

3/14/24

Hadada Ibis

3/14/24

Northern Bald Ibis

3/14/24

Scarlet Ibis

3/14/24

Marabou Stork

3/14/24

Abdim's Stork

3/14/24

African Penguin

3/14/24

Lesser Flamingo

3/14/24

American Flamingo

3/14/24

Spotted Thick-knee

3/14/24

White-naped Crane

3/14/24

Sarus Crane

3/14/24

Blue Crane

3/14/24

Demoiselle Crane

3/14/24

Gray Crowned-Crane

3/14/24

Gray-winged Trumpeter

3/14/24

Purple Gallinule

3/14/24

Guinea Turaco

3/14/24

Red-crested Turaco

3/14/24

Ross's Turaco

3/14/24

Violet Turaco

3/14/24

White-cheeked Turaco

3/14/24

Western Plantain-eater

3/14/24

Inca Dove

3/14/24

Green Peafowl

3/14/24

Silver Pheasant

3/14/24

Brown Eared-Pheasant

3/14/24

Golden Pheasant

3/14/24

Reeves's Pheasant

3/14/24

Ocellated Turkey

3/14/24

Vulturine Guineafowl

3/14/24

Great Curassow

3/14/24

Blue-throated Piping-Guan

3/14/24

Hooded Merganser

3/14/24

Rosy-billed Pochard

3/14/24

Red-crested Pochard

3/14/24

White-cheeked Pintail

3/14/24

Cinnamon Teal

3/14/24

Mandarin Duck

3/14/24

Wood Duck

3/14/24

Ringed Teal

3/14/24

Spur-winged Goose

3/14/24

Common Shelduck

3/14/24

South African Shelduck

3/14/24

Ruddy Shelduck

3/14/24

Radjah Shelduck

3/14/24

Upland Goose

3/14/24

Whooper Swan

3/14/24

Black-necked Swan

3/14/24

Black Swan

3/14/24

Blue-winged Goose

3/14/24

Cape Barren Goose

3/14/24

Hawaiian Goose

3/14/24

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

3/14/24

White-faced Whistling-Duck

3/14/24

Plumed Whistling-Duck

3/14/24

Magpie Goose

3/14/24

Southern Screamer

3/14/24

Greater Rhea

3/14/24

Emu

3/14/24

Common Ostrich

3/15/24

Rock Pigeon

3/15/24

Gambel's Quail

3/16/24

Curve-billed Thrasher

3/16/24

Gilded Flicker

3/16/24

Budgerigar

3/16/24

Brown-headed Cowbird

3/16/24

Abert's Towhee

3/16/24

Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

3/16/24

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

3/16/24

Cliff Swallow

3/16/24

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

3/16/24

Northern Flicker

3/16/24

Belted Kingfisher

3/16/24

Osprey

3/16/24

Turkey Vulture

3/16/24

Green Heron

3/16/24

Black-crowned Night Heron

3/16/24

Neotropic Cormorant

3/16/24

Double-crested Cormorant

3/16/24

Pied-billed Grebe

3/16/24

Common Gallinule

3/16/24

Rosy-faced Lovebird

3/16/24

Cactus Wren

3/17/24

Harris's Hawk

3/17/24

Costa's Hummingbird

3/18/24

Greater Roadrunner

3/20/24

Bendire's Thrasher

3/20/24

Vermilion Flycatcher

3/22/24

Phainopepla

3/23/24

Lucy's Warbler

3/23/24

Ladder-backed Woodpecker

3/28/24

Allen's Hummingbird

4/2/24

White-throated Swift

4/8/24

Hooded Oriole

4/14/24

Cedar Waxwing

4/14/24

California Thrasher

4/14/24

Northern House Wren

4/14/24

Ash-throated Flycatcher

4/14/24

Rufous Hummingbird

4/15/24

Black-headed Grosbeak

4/15/24

Orange-crowned Warbler

4/15/24

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

4/16/24

Yellow Warbler

4/16/24

Bell's Vireo

4/16/24

Spotted Sandpiper

4/20/24

American Goldfinch

4/21/24

American Barn Owl

4/21/24

Rose-ringed Parakeet

4/21/24

Ruddy Duck

4/22/24

White-breasted Nuthatch

4/24/24

Black-chinned Hummingbird

4/24/24

California Quail

4/27/24

Dusky-headed Parakeet

4/27/24

Tree Swallow

4/27/24

Western Grebe

4/27/24

Forster's Tern

4/27/24

American Herring Gull

4/27/24

Yellow-footed Gull

4/27/24

Ring-billed Gull

4/27/24

Graylag Goose

4/28/24

Red-winged Blackbird

4/28/24

Barn Swallow

4/28/24

Western Tanager

4/28/24

Red-whiskered Bulbul

4/28/24

Western Flycatcher

4/28/24

Mitred Parakeet

4/28/24

Great Egret

4/28/24

Indian Peafowl

5/12/24

Brown Pelican

5/12/24

Egyptian Goose

5/12/24

Dark-eyed Junco

5/12/24

Red-crowned Amazon

5/16/24

Western Kingbird

5/18/24

Oak Titmouse

5/18/24

Mountain Quail

5/20/24

Clark's Grebe

5/20/24

Eared Grebe

5/25/24

White-winged Dove

5/27/24

Bronzed Cowbird

6/21/24

Cockatiel

6/22/24

Heermann's Gull

6/29/24

Hutton's Vireo

7/20/24

Green-cheeked Parakeet

7/26/24

Northern Bobwhite

8/10/24

Galah

8/10/24

Sun Parakeet

8/10/24

Island Canary

8/10/24

Lilac-crowned Amazon

8/10/24

Pacific Parrotlet

8/18/24

White-winged Parakeet

8/24/24

Gouldian Finch

8/24/24

Superb Parrot

8/24/24

Yellow-naped Amazon

8/24/24

Peach-fronted Parakeet

8/27/24

Scaly-breasted Munia

8/28/24

Bullock's Oriole

8/31/24

Lesser Nighthawk

9/2/24

Barred Parakeet

9/21/24

Yellow-breasted Chat

9/21/24

Lark Sparrow

9/21/24

Brewer's Sparrow

9/22/24

Peregrine Falcon

9/22/24

Crested Caracara

9/22/24

Long-eared Owl

9/22/24

Burrowing Owl

9/22/24

Northern Pygmy-Owl

8/24/24

Swainson's Hawk

9/22/24

Zone-tailed Hawk

9/22/24

Gray Hawk

9/22/24

White-tailed Hawk

9/22/24

Bald Eagle

9/22/24

American Goshawk

9/22/24

Golden Eagle

9/22/24

Black Vulture

9/22/24

California Condor

9/22/24

Brown Creeper

9/22/24

Red-breasted Nuthatch

9/22/24

Pygmy Nuthatch

9/22/24

Mountain Chickadee

9/22/24

Steller's Jay

9/22/24

Lewis's Woodpecker

9/23/24

Common Merganser

10/5/24

Savannah Sparrow

11/9/24

Japanese Quail

11/9/24

Red-lored Amazon

11/9/24

Monk Parakeet

11/9/24

Red-masked Parakeet

11/10/24

Tawny Frogmouth

11/10/24

Toco Toucan

11/10/24

Inca Tern

11/10/24

Humboldt Penguin

11/10/24

Laughing Kookaburra

11/10/24

Marbled Duck

11/10/24

Western Crowned-Pigeon

11/10/24

Chilean Flamingo

11/10/24

Rhinoceros Hornbill

11/10/24

Luzon Bleeding-heart

11/10/24

Bornean Crested Fireback

11/10/24

White-throated Sparrow

11/10/24

Buffleheadd

11/10/24

Northern Shoveler

11/14/24

Rock Wren

11/14/24

California Gnatcatcher

11/17/24

Ross's Goose

11/18/24

Vesper Sparrow

11/18/24

American Pipit

11/18/24

Marsh Wren

11/18/24

Loggerhead Shrike

11/18/24

Northern Harrier

11/18/24

American White Pelican

11/18/24

White-faced Ibis

11/18/24

Long-billed Curlew

11/18/24

Black-necked Stilt

11/18/24

Green-winged Teal

11/18/24

Northern Pintail

11/18/24

Gadwall

11/24/24

Hermit Thrush

11/28/24

Redhead

11/30/24

Black-throated Gray Warbler

11/30/24

Western Meadowlark

12/4/24

Tricolored Blackbird

12/4/24

Yellow-headed Blackbird

12/4/24

Wild Turkey

12/7/24

African Collared-Dove

12/17/24

Greater White-fronted Goose

12/19/24

Common Goldeneye

12/19/24

Black-throated Sparrow

12/30/24

Canyon Wren

>12/30/24

Lesser Scaup

>12/30/24

Hairy Woodpecker

2/1/25

Golden-crowned Sparrow

2/1/25

Sharp-shinned Hawk

2/8/25

White-fronted Amazon

2/8/25

Diamond Dove

2/8/25

Red Junglefowl

2/23/25

Black-collared Starling

2/23/25

Red-billed Blue-Magpie

2/23/25

Hyacinth Macaw

2/23/25

Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill

2/23/25

Eurasian Eagle-Owl

2/23/25

Spectacled Owl

2/23/25

Steller's Sea-Eagle

2/23/25

Harpy Eagle

2/23/25

Cape Griffon

2/23/25

African Spoonbill

2/23/25

African Sacred Ibis

2/23/25

Sunbittern

2/23/25

Greater Flamingo

2/23/25

Blue-billed Curassow

2/23/25

Trumpeter Swan

2/23/25

Southern Cassowary

3/9/25

Swinhoe's White-eye

3/23/25

Java Sparrow

3/23/25

Bourke's Parrot

3/23/25

Blue-crowned Parakeet

3/23/25

Senegal Parrot

3/23/25

Red-bellied Parrot

4/25/25

Lazuli Bunting

5/3/25

Yellow-chevroned Parakeet

5/6/25

Swainson's Thrush

5/7/25

Common Poorwill

5/18/25

Olive-sided Flycatcher

5/18/25

Downy Woodpecker

5/18/25

Caspian Tern

5/18/25

American Avocet

5/18/25

Vaux's Swift

5/24/25

Eastern Rosella

5/26/25

Yellow-billed Magpie

5/26/25

Violet-green Swallow

6/21/25

Pin-tailed Whydah

6/21/25

Northern Red Bishop

6/23/25

Nanday Parakeet

7/20/25

Canyon Towhee

7/20/25

Crissal Thrasher

7/20/25

Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay

7/22/25

Brown-crested Flycatcher

7/22/25

Western Wood-Pewee

7/26/25

Purple Martin

7/26/25

Olive Warbler

9/3/25

Wilson's Warbler

9/3/25

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

9/3/25

MacGillivray's Warbler

9/17/25

Sora

9/17/25

Blue-winged Teal

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