Birds of Arkansas: The Official State Checklist

All 343 birds on the list

• Acadian Flycatcher
• Alder Flycatcher
• American Avocet
• American Bittern
• American Black Duck
• American Coot
• American Crow
• American Golden-Plover Pluvialis dominica
• American Goldfinch
• American Kestrel Falco sparverius
• American Pipit
• American Redstart
• American Robin
• American Tree Sparrow
• American White Pelican
• American Wigeon
• American Woodcock Scolopax minor
• Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
• Anna’s Hummingbird
• Bachman’s Sparrow Peucaea aestivalis
• Baird’s Sandpiper
• Bald Eagle
• Baltimore Oriole
• Bank Swallow
• Barn Owl Tyto furcata
• Barn Swallow
• Barred Owl
• Bay-breasted Warbler
• Bell’s Vireo Vireo bellii
• Belted Kingfisher
• Bewick’s Wren Thryomanes bewickii
• Black Rail Laterallus jamaicensis jamaicensis
• Black Scoter
• Black Tern Chlidonias niger
• Black Vulture
• Black-and-white Warbler
• Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola
• Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
• Black-billed Cuckoo
• Black-chinned Hummingbird
• Black-crowned Night-Heron
• Black-headed Grosbeak
• Black-legged Kittiwake
• Black-necked Stilt
• Black-throated Blue Warbler
• Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
• Blackburnian Warbler
• Blackpoll Warbler
• Blue Grosbeak
• Blue Jay
• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
• Blue-headed Vireo
• Blue-winged Teal
• Blue-winged Warbler
• Bobolink
• Bonaparte’s Gull
• Brewer’s Blackbird
• Broad-winged Hawk
• Brown Creeper
• Brown Pelican
• Brown Thrasher
• Brown-headed Cowbird
• Brown-headed Nuthatch
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper Calidris subruficollis
• Bufflehead
• Cackling Goose
• California Gull
• Canada Goose
• Canada Warbler
• Canvasback
• Cape May Warbler
• Carolina Chickadee
• Carolina Wren
• Caspian Tern
• Cattle Egret
• Cave Swallow
• Cedar Waxwing
• Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea
• Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
• Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
• Chipping Sparrow
• Chuck-will’s-widow Antrostomus carolinensis
• Cinnamon Teal
• Clay-colored Sparrow
• Cliff Swallow
• Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
• Common Goldeneye
• Common Grackle
• Common Ground-Dove
• Common Loon
• Common Merganser
• Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
• Common Redpoll
• Common Tern
• Common Yellowthroat
• Connecticut Warbler
• Cooper’s Hawk
• Dark-eyed Junco
• Dickcissel
• Double-crested Cormorant
• Downy Woodpecker
• Dunlin Calidris alpina
• Eared Grebe
• Eastern Bluebird
• Eastern Kingbird
• Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
• Eastern Phoebe
• Eastern Screech-Owl
• Eastern Towhee
• Eastern Wood-Pewee
• Eurasian Collared-Dove
• European StarlingNonnative
• Evening Grosbeak
• Ferruginous Hawk
• Field Sparrow
• Fish Crow
• Forster’s Tern
• Fox Sparrow
• Franklin’s Gull
• Fulvous Whistling-Duck
• Gadwall
• Glaucous Gull
• Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus
• Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos
• Golden-crowned Kinglet
• Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
• Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum
• Gray Catbird
• Gray-cheeked Thrush
• Great Blue Heron
• Great Crested Flycatcher
• Great Egret
• Great Horned Owl
• Great-tailed Grackle
• Greater Roadrunner
• Greater Scaup
• Greater White-fronted Goose
• Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
• Green Heron
• Green-winged Teal
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Harris’s Sparrow Zonotrichia querula
• Henslow’s Sparrow Centronyx henslowii
• Hermit Thrush
• Herring Gull
• Hooded Merganser
• Hooded Warbler
• Horned Grebe
• Horned Lark
• House Finch
• House SparrowNonnative
• House Wren
• Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica
• Inca Dove
• Indigo Bunting
• Ivory-billed Woodpecker Campephilus principalis
• Kentucky Warbler
• Killdeer
• King Rail Rallus elegans
• Lapland Longspur
• Lark Sparrow
• Laughing Gull
• Lazuli Bunting
• Le Conte’s Sparrow Ammospiza leconteii
• Least Bittern Botaurus exilis
• Least Flycatcher
• Least Sandpiper
• Least Tern Sternula antillarum athalassos
• Lesser Black-backed Gull
• Lesser Scaup
• Lesser Yellowlegs
• Lincoln’s Sparrow
• Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
• Little Gull
• Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
• Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
• Long-eared Owl
• Long-tailed Duck
• Louisiana Waterthrush
• Magnificent Frigatebird
• Magnolia Warbler
• Mallard
• Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
• Marsh Wren
• Merlin Falco columbarius
• Mississippi Kite
• Mottled Duck Anas fulvigula
• Mourning Dove
• Mourning Warbler
• Mute SwanNonnative
• Nashville Warbler
• Nelson’s Sparrow
• Neotropic Cormorant
• Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
• Northern Cardinal
• Northern Flicker
• Northern Harrier
• Northern Mockingbird
• Northern Parula
• Northern Pintail
• Northern Rough-winged Swallow
• Northern Saw-whet Owl
• Northern Shoveler
• Northern Waterthrush
• Olive-sided Flycatcher
• Orange-crowned Warbler
• Orchard Oriole
• Osprey
• Ovenbird
• Pacific Loon
• Painted Bunting Passerina ciris
• Palm Warbler
• Parasitic Jaeger
• Pectoral Sandpiper
• Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
• Philadelphia Vireo
• Pied-billed Grebe
• Pileated Woodpecker
• Pine Siskin
• Pine Warbler
• Piping Plover Charadrius melodus
• Prairie Falcon
• Prairie Warbler
• Prothonotary Warbler
• Purple Finch
• Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinicus
• Purple Martin
• Red Crossbill
• Red Knot Calidris canutus
• Red-bellied Woodpecker
• Red-breasted Merganser
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• Red-cockaded Woodpecker Dryobates borealis
• Red-eyed Vireo
• Red-headed Woodpecker
• Red-necked Grebe
• Red-necked Phalarope
• Red-shouldered Hawk
• Red-tailed Hawk
• Red-throated Loon
• Red-winged Blackbird
• Redhead
• Ring-billed Gull
• Ring-necked Duck
• Rock PigeonNonnative
• Rock Wren
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak
• Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja
• Ross’s Goose
• Rough-legged Hawk
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird
• Ruddy Duck
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Ruff
• Rufous Hummingbird
• Rufous-crowned Sparrow
• Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus
• Sabine’s Gull
• Sanderling
• Sandhill Crane
• Savannah Sparrow
• Say’s Phoebe
• Scarlet Tanager
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
• Sedge Wren Cistothorus stellaris
• Semipalmated Plover
• Semipalmated Sandpiper
• Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
• Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus
• Short-eared Owl
• Smith’s Longspur Calcarius pictus
• Snow Goose
• Snowy Egret
• Solitary Sandpiper
• Song Sparrow
• Sooty Tern
• Sora Rail
• Spotted Sandpiper
• Spotted Towhee
• Sprague’s Pipit Anthus spragueii
• Stilt Calidris himantopus
• Summer Tanager
• Surf Scoter
• Swainson’s Hawk
• Swainson’s Thrush
• Swainson’s Warbler Limnothlypis swainsonii
• Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus
• Swamp Sparrow
• Tennessee Warbler
• Townsend’s Solitare
• Tree Swallow
• Tricolored Heron
• Trumpeter Swan
• Tufted Titmouse
• Tundra Swan
• Turkey Vulture
• Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
• Veery
• Vermilion Flycatcher
• Vesper Sparrow
• Virginia Rail Rallus limicola
• Warbling Vireo
• Western Flycatcher
• Western Grebe
• Western Meadowlark
• Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
• Western Tanager
• Whimbrel
• Whip-poor-will Antrostomus vociferus
• White Ibis Eudocimus albus
• White-breasted Nuthatch
• White-crowned Sparrow
• White-eyed Vireo
• White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi
• White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis
• White-tailed Kite
• White-throated Sparrow
• White-winged Dove
• White-winged Scoter
• Whooping Crane Grus americana
• Wild Turkey
• Willet Tringa semipalmata
• Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii
• Wilson’s Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
• Wilson’s Snipe
• Wilson’s Warbler
• Winter Wren
• Wood Duck
• Wood Stork Mycteria americana
• Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
• Worm-eating Warbler
• Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis
• Yellow Warbler
• Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
• Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
• Yellow-breasted Chat
• Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Nyctanassa violacea
• Yellow-headed Blackbird
• Yellow-rumped Warbler
• Yellow-throated Vireo
• Yellow-throated Warbler

When birds are active in Arkansas

Records of birds in Arkansas peak in January, March to June and December. They show when people record birds, not how many there are (about month bars).

If you see one

Official advice from AGFC:

• Bears: remove attractants such as trash, pet food and bird feeders. AGFC

About this list

The species list comes from Wings Over Arkansas Application Checklist (AGFC) (Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC), undated; PDF created 2024-04-05; linked from AGFC Wings Over Arkansas page). 2 more entries come from other official sources named on each card.

Venom does not apply to birds.

"Nonnative" and "Invasive" follow the wording of the source list. See invasive species in Arkansas.