Water and Wetland birds
Where you saw a bird rules out more species than almost anything else. These 62 birds turn up in water and wetland habitat.
62 birds
Canada GooseBranta canadensis
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
American CootFulica americana
American WigeonMareca americana
Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
Black PhoebeSayornis nigricans
BuffleheadBucephala albeola
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
Double-crested CormorantNannopterum auritum
GadwallMareca strepera
Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
Great EgretArdea alba
Green-winged TealAnas carolinensis
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeata
OspreyPandion haliaetus
Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
White IbisEudocimus albus
Wood DuckAix sponsa
Yellow WarblerSetophaga petechia
American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
Black-crowned Night-HeronNycticorax nycticorax
Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
Blue-winged TealSpatula discors
Common LoonGavia immer
Common MerganserMergus merganser
Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
Green HeronButorides virescens
Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
Sandhill CraneAntigone canadensis
Snow GooseAnser caerulescens
Snowy EgretEgretta thula
Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
Yellow-headed BlackbirdXanthocephalus xanthocephalus
Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
Northern WaterthrushParkesia noveboracensis
Willow FlycatcherEmpidonax traillii
Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
Cattle EgretBubulcus ibis
Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
Barred OwlStrix varia
Northern HarrierCircus hudsonius
Northern ParulaSetophaga americana
Palm WarblerSetophaga palmarum
Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
VeeryCatharus fuscescens
Vermilion FlycatcherPyrocephalus obscurus
Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
Black-chinned HummingbirdArchilochus alexandri
Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
Purple MartinProgne subis
Warbling VireoVireo gilvus
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