Birds of Mississippi: The Official State Checklist

All 392 birds on the list

• Acadian Flycatcher
• Alder Flycatcher
• Allen's Hummingbird
• American Avocet
• American Bittern
• American Black Duck
• American Coot
• American Crow
• American Golden Plover
• American Goldfinch
• American Kestrel
• American Oystercatcher
• American Pipit
• American Redstart
• American Robin
• American Tree Sparrow
• American White Pelican
• American Wigeon
• American Woodcock
• Anhinga
• Anna's Hummingbird
• Ash-throated Flycatcher
• Audubon's Shearwater
• Bachman's Sparrow
• Bachman's Warbler
• Baird's Sandpiper
• Bald Eagle
• Baltimore Oriole
• Band-tailed Pigeon
• Bank Swallow
• Barn Owl
• Barn Swallow
• Barred Owl Cp
• Bay-breasted Warbler
• Bell's Vireo
• Belted Kingfisher
• Bewick's Wren
• Black Rail
• Black Scoter
• Black Skimmer
• Black Tern
• Black Vulture
• Black-and-white Warbler
• Black-bellied Plover
• Black-billed Cuckoo
• Black-capped Vireo
• Black-chinned Hummingbird
• Black-crowned Night-Heron
• Black-headed Grosbeak
• Black-headed Gull
• Black-legged Kittiwake
• Black-necked Stilt
• Black-throated Blue Warbler
• Black-throated Gray Warbler
• Black-throated Green Warbler
• Black-whiskered Vireo
• Blackburnian Warbler
• Blackpoll Warbler
• Blue Grosbeak
• Blue Jay
• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
• Blue-winged Teal
• Blue-winged Warbler
• Boat-tailed Grackle
• Bobolink
• Bonaparte's Gull
• Brant
• Brewer's Blackbird
• Bridled Tern
• Broad-tailed Hummingbird
• Broad-winged Hawk
• Bronzed Cowbird
• Brown Creeper
• Brown Noddy
• Brown Pelican
• Brown Thrasher
• Brown-headed Cowbird
• Brown-headed Nuthatch
• Buff-bellied Hummingbird
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper
• Bufflehead
• Burrowing Owl
• Calliope Hummingbird
• Canada Goose
• Canada Warbler
• Canvasback
• Cape May Warbler
• Carolina Chickadee
• Carolina Wren
• Caspian Tern
• Cassin's Kingbird
• Cattle Egret
• Cave Swallow
• Cedar Waxwing
• Cerulean Warbler
• Chestnut-sided Warbler
• Chimney Swift
• Chipping Sparrow
• Chuck-will's-widow
• Cinnamon Teal
• Citrine Wagtail
• Clapper Rail
• Clay-colored Sparrow
• Cliff Swallow
• Common Goldeneye
• Common Grackle
• Common Ground-Dove
• Common Loon
• Common Merganser
• Common Moorhen
• Common Nighthawk
• Common Snipe
• Common Tern
• Common Yellowthroat
• Connecticut Warbler
• Cooper's Hawk
• Crested Caracara
• Dark-eyed Junco
• Dickcissel
• Double-crested Cormorant
• Downy Woodpecker
• Dunlin
• Eared Grebe
• Eastern Bluebird
• Eastern Kingbird
• Eastern Meadowlark
• Eastern Phoebe
• Eastern Screech-Owl
• Eastern Towhee
• Eastern Wood-Pewee
• Eurasian Collared-Dove
• Eurasian Wigeon
• European Starling
• Evening Grosbeak
• Ferruginous Hawk
• Field Sparrow
• Fish Crow
• Forster's Tern
• Fox Sparrow
• Franklin's Gull
• Fulvous Whistling-Duck
• Gadwall
• Glaucous Gull
• Glossy Ibis
• Golden Eagle
• Golden-crowned Kinglet
• Golden-winged Warbler
• Grasshopper Sparrow
• Gray Catbird
• Gray Kingbird
• Gray-cheeked Thrush
• Great Black-backed Gull
• Great Blue Heron
• Great Cormorant
• Great Egret
• Great Horned Owl
• Great-crested Flycatcher
• Greater Scaup
• Greater White-fronted Goose
• Greater Yellowlegs
• Green Heron
• Green-tailed Towhee
• Green-winged Teal
• Groove-billed Ani
• Gull-billed Tern
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Harris' Hawk
• Harris' Sparrow
• Henslow's Sparrow
• Hermit Thrush
• Herring Gull
• Hooded Merganser
• Hooded Warbler
• Horned Grebe
• Horned Lark
• House Finch
• House Sparrow
• House Wren
• Hudsonian Godwit
• Indigo Bunting
• Ivory-billed Woodpecker
• Kentucky Warbler
• Killdeer
• King Eider
• King Rail
• Lapland Longspur
• Lark Bunting
• Lark Sparrow
• Laughing Gull
• Lazuli Bunting
• Least Bittern
• Least Flycatcher
• Least Sandpiper
• Least Tern
• LeConte's Sparrow
• Lesser Black-backed Gull
• Lesser Scaup
• Lesser Yellowlegs
• Limpkin
• Lincoln's Sparrow
• Little Blue Heron
• Little Gull
• Loggerhead Shrike
• Long-billed Curlew
• Long-billed Dowitcher
• Long-eared Owl
• Louisiana Waterthrush
• Magnificent Frigatebird
• Magnolia Warbler
• Mallard
• Marbled Godwit
• Marsh Wren
• Masked Booby
• Merlin
• Mississippi Kite
• Mottled Duck
• Mountain Bluebird
• Mountain Plover
• Mourning Dove
• Mourning Warbler
• Nashville Warbler
• Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
• Neotropic Cormorant
• Northern Bobwhite
• Northern Cardinal
• Northern Flicker
• Northern Gannet
• Northern Goshawk
• Northern Harrier (Marsh Hawk)
• Northern Mockingbird
• Northern Parula
• Northern Pintail
• Northern Rough-winged Swallow
• Northern Saw-whet Owl
• Northern Shoveler
• Northern Waterthrush
• Oldsquaw
• Olive-sided Flycatcher
• Orange-crowned Warbler
• Orchard Oriole
• Osprey
• Ovenbird
• Pacific Loon
• Painted Bunting
• Painted Redstart
• Palm Warbler
• Parasitic Jaeger
• Pectoral Sandpiper
• Peregrine Falcon
• Philadelphia Vireo
• Pied-billed Grebe
• Pileated Woodpecker
• Pine Siskin
• Pine Warbler
• Piping Plover
• Pomarine Jaeger
• Prairie Falcon
• Prairie Warbler
• Prothonotary Warbler
• Purple Finch
• Purple Gallinule
• Purple Martin
• Purple Sandpiper
• Red Crossbill
• Red Knot
• Red Phalarope
• Red-bellied Woodpecker
• Red-breasted Merganser
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• Red-cockaded Woodpecker
• Red-eyed Vireo
• Red-headed Woodpecker
• Red-necked Grebe
• Red-necked Phalarope
• Red-shouldered Hawk
• Red-tailed Hawk
• Red-throated Loon
• Red-winged Blackbird
• Reddish Egret
• Redhead
• Ring-billed Gull
• Ring-necked Duck
• Rock Dove
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak
• Roseate Spoonbill
• Roseate Tern
• Ross' Goose
• Rough-legged Hawk
• Royal Tern
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird
• Ruddy Duck
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Ruff
• Rufous Hummingbird
• Rusty Blackbird
• Sabine's Gull
• Sanderling
• Sandhill Crane
• Sandwich Tern
• Savannah Sparrow
• Say's Phoebe
• Scarlet Tanager
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
• Seaside Sparrow
• Sedge Wren
• Semipalmated Plover
• Semipalmated Sandpiper
• Sharp-shinned Hawk
• Shiny Cowbird
• Short-billed Dowitcher
• Short-eared Owl
• Smith's Longspur
• Snow Bunting
• Snow Goose
• Snowy Egret
• Snowy Owl
• Snowy Plover
• Solitary Sandpiper
• Solitary Vireo
• Song Sparrow
• Sooty Shearwater
• Sooty Tern
• Sora
• Spotted Sandpiper
• Sprague's Pipit
• Stilt Sandpiper
• Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
• Summer Tanager
• Surf Scoter
• Swainson's Hawk
• Swainson's Thrush
• Swainson's Warbler
• Swallow-tailed Kite
• Swamp Sparrow
• Tennessee Warbler
• Townsend's Solitaire
• Townsend's Warbler
• Tree Swallow
• Tricolored Heron
• Trumpeter Swan
• Tufted Titmouse
• Tundra Swan
• Turkey Vulture
• Upland Sandpiper
• Veery
• Vermilion Flycatcher
• Vesper Sparrow
• Virginia Rail
• Warbling Vireo
• Western Grebe
• Western Kingbird
• Western Meadowlark
• Western Sandpiper
• Western Tanager
• Western Wood-Pewee
• Whimbrel
• Whip-poor-will
• White Ibis
• White Turkey
• White-breasted Nuthatch
• White-crowned Sparrow
• White-eared Hummingbird
• White-eyed Vireo
• White-faced Ibis
• White-rumped Sandpiper
• White-tailed Kite
• White-throated Sparrow
• White-winged Dove
• White-winged Scoter
• Willet
• Willow Flycatcher
• Wilson's Phalarope
• Wilson's Plover
• Wilson's Storm-Petrel
• Wilson's Warbler
• Winter Wren
• Wood Duck
• Wood Stork
• Wood Thrush
• Worm-eating Warbler
• Yellow Rail
• Yellow Warbler
• Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
• Yellow-billed Cuckoo
• Yellow-breasted Chat
• Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
• Yellow-headed Blackbird
• Yellow-rumped Warbler
• Yellow-throated Vireo
• Yellow-throated Warbler

When birds are active in Mississippi

Records of birds in Mississippi peak in January to May and October. They show when people record birds, not how many there are (about month bars).

If you see one

Official advice from MDWFP:

• If you meet a bear, enjoy it from a distance, do not approach, and back away slowly; do not run. MDWFP

How to report

Bear problems or sightings, and nuisance-animal guidance: MDWFP Wildlife Bureau (601) 432-2199. Nuisance animal technical guidance is also available from USDA Wildlife Services (MS) (662) 325-3014. Coastal invasive species: MDMR Invasive Species Coordinator (228) 523-4113. Sawfish sightings: 1-844-4SAWFISH. MDWFP

About this list

The species list comes from Bird Checklists of the United States: Mississippi — Checklist of Birds of Mississippi (compiled by the Mississippi Ornithological Society Bird Records Committee, April 1997), hosted by USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center (U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, compiled April 1997; NPWRC version 22MAY98; Internet Archive capture 2013-06-25).

Venom does not apply to birds.