Birds of Nebraska: The Official State Checklist

All 473 birds on the list

• Acadian Flycatcher
• Acorn Woodpecker
• Alder Flycatcher
• American Avocet
• American Barn Owl
• American Bittern
• American Black Duck
• American Coot
• American Crow
• American Dipper
• American Egret
• American Golden-Plover
• American Goldfinch
• American Goshawk
• American Herring Gull
• American Kestrel
• American Pipit
• American Redstart
• American Robin
• American Three-toed Woodpecker
• American Tree Sparrow
• American White Pelican
• American Wigeon
• American Woodcock
• Ancient Murrelet
• Anhinga
• Anna's Hummingbird
• Arctic Tern
• Ash-throated Flycatcher
• Baird’s Sandpiper
• Baird’s Sparrow
• Bald Eagle
• Baltimore Oriole
• Band-tailed Pigeon
• Bank Swallow
• Barn Swallow
• Barred Owl
• Barrow’s Goldeneye
• Bay-breasted Warbler
• Bell’s Vireo
• Belted Kingfisher
• Bewick’s Wren
• Black Phoebe
• Black Rail
• Black Rosy-Finch
• Black Scoter
• Black Tern
• Black Vulture
• Black-and-white Warbler
• Black-bellied Plover
• Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
• Black-billed Cuckoo
• Black-billed Magpie
• Black-capped Chickadee
• 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-throated Sparrow
• Blackburnian Warbler
• Blackpoll Warbler
• Blue Grosbeak
• Blue Jay
• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
• Blue-headed Vireo
• Blue-winged Teal
• Blue-winged Warbler
• Bobolink
• Bohemian Waxwing
• Bonaparte’s Gull
• Boreal Owl
• Brambling
• Brant
• Brewer’s Blackbird
• Brewer’s Sparrow
• Broad-billed Hummingbird
• Broad-tailed Hummingbird
• Broad-winged Hawk
• Brown Booby
• Brown Creeper
• Brown Pelican
• Brown Thrasher
• Brown-headed Cowbird
• Brown-headed Nuthatch
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper
• Bufflehead
• Bullock’s Oriole
• Burrowing Owl
• Cackling Goose
• California Gull
• Calliope Hummingbird
• Canada Goose
• Canada Jay
• Canada Warbler
• Canvasback
• Canyon Wren
• Cape May Warbler
• Carolina Parakeet
• Carolina Wren
• Caspian Tern
• Cassin’s Finch
• Cassin’s Kingbird
• Cassin’s Sparrow
• Cassin’s Vireo
• Cave Swallow
• Cedar Waxwing
• Cerulean Warbler
• Chestnut-collared Longspur
• Chestnut-sided Warbler
• Chihuahuan Raven
• Chimney Swift
• Chipping Sparrow
• Chuck-will’s-widow
• Cinnamon Teal
• Clapper Rail
• Clark’s Grebe
• Clark’s Nutcracker
• Clay-colored Sparrow
• Cliff Swallow
• Common Crane
• Common Eider
• Common Gallinule
• Common Goldeneye
• Common Grackle
• Common Ground Dove
• Common Loon
• Common Merganser
• Common Nighthawk
• Common Poorwill
• Common Raven
• Common Tern
• Common Yellowthroat
• Connecticut Warbler
• Cooper’s Hawk
• Costa's Hummingbird
• Couch's Kingbird
• Crested Caracara
• Curlew Sandpiper
• Curve-billed Thrasher
• Dark-eyed Junco
• Dickcissel
• Double-crested Cormorant
• Downy Woodpecker
• Dunlin
• Dusky Flycatcher
• Eared Grebe
• Eastern Bluebird
• Eastern Kingbird
• Eastern Marsh Wren
• Eastern Meadowlark
• Eastern Phoebe
• Eastern Screech-Owl
• Eastern Towhee
• Eastern Warbling-Vireo
• Eastern Whip-poor-will
• Eastern Wood-Pewee
• Emperor Goose
• Eskimo Curlew
• Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaoctoInvasive
• Eurasian Tree Sparrow
• Eurasian Wigeon
• European Starling Sturnus vulgarisInvasive
• Evening Grosbeak
• Ferruginous Hawk
• Field Sparrow
• Fish Crow
• Forster’s Tern
• Fox Sparrow
• Franklin’s Gull
• Fulvous Whistling-Duck
• Gadwall
• Garganey
• Glaucous Gull
• Glaucous-winged Gull
• Glossy Ibis
• Golden Eagle
• Golden-crowned Kinglet
• Golden-crowned Sparrow
• Golden-winged Warbler
• Grace's Warbler
• Grasshopper Sparrow
• Gray Catbird
• Gray Flycatcher
• Gray Partridge
• Gray-cheeked Thrush
• Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
• Great Black-backed Gull
• Great Blue Heron
• Great Crested Flycatcher
• Great Gray Owl
• Great Horned Owl
• Great Kiskadee
• Great-tailed Grackle
• Greater Prairie-Chicken
• Greater Sage-Grouse
• Greater Scaup
• Greater White-fronted Goose
• Greater Yellowlegs
• Green Heron
• Green-tailed Towhee
• Green-winged Teal
• Groove-billed Ani
• Gyrfalcon
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Hammond’s Flycatcher
• Harlequin Duck
• Harris’s Hawk
• Harris’s Sparrow
• Henslow’s Sparrow
• Hepatic Tanager
• Hermit Thrush
• Hermit Warbler
• Hooded Crane
• Hooded Merganser
• Hooded Oriole
• Hooded Warbler
• Horned Grebe
• Horned Lark
• House Finch
• House Sparrow Passer domesticusInvasive
• Hudsonian Godwit
• Hudsonian Whimbrel
• Iceland Gull
• Inca Dove
• Indigo Bunting
• 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 Goldfinch
• Lesser Prairie-Chicken
• Lesser Scaup
• Lesser Yellowlegs
• Lewis’s Woodpecker
• Limpkin
• Lincoln’s Sparrow
• Little Blue Heron
• Little Gull
• Loggerhead Shrike
• Long-billed Curlew
• Long-billed Dowitcher
• Long-eared Owl
• Long-tailed Duck
• Long-tailed Jaeger
• Louisiana Waterthrush
• MacGillivray’s Warbler
• Magnificent Frigatebird
• Magnolia Warbler
• Mallard
• Marbled Godwit
• Merlin
• Mexican Duck
• Mississippi Kite
• Mottled Duck
• Mountain Bluebird
• Mountain Chickadee
• Mountain Plover
• Mourning Dove
• Mourning Warbler
• Mute Swan
• Nashville Warbler
• Nelson’s Sparrow
• Neotropic Cormorant
• Northern Bobwhite
• Northern Cardinal
• Northern Flicker
• Northern Harrier
• Northern Hawk Owl
• Northern House Wren
• Northern Mockingbird
• Northern Parula
• Northern Pintail
• Northern Rough-winged Swallow
• Northern Saw-whet Owl
• Northern Shoveler
• Northern Shrike
• Northern Waterthrush
• Northern Yellow Warbler
• Olive-sided Flycatcher
• Orange-crowned Warbler
• Orchard Oriole
• Osprey
• Ovenbird
• Pacific Loon
• Pacific Wren
• Painted Bunting
• Palm Warbler
• Parasitic Jaeger
• Passenger Pigeon
• Pectoral Sandpiper
• Peregrine Falcon
• Phainopepla
• Philadelphia Vireo
• Pied-billed Grebe
• Pileated Woodpecker
• Pine Grosbeak
• Pine Siskin
• Pine Warbler
• Pink-footed Goose
• Pinyon Jay
• Piping Plover
• Plumbeous Vireo
• Pomarine Jaeger
• Prairie Falcon
• Prairie Warbler
• Prairie Willet
• Prothonotary Warbler
• Purple Finch
• Purple Gallinule
• Purple Martin
• Pygmy Nuthatch
• Red Crossbill
• Red Knot
• Red Phalarope
• Red-bellied Woodpecker
• Red-breasted Merganser
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• Red-eyed Vireo
• Red-headed Woodpecker
• Red-naped Sapsucker
• Red-necked Grebe
• Red-necked Phalarope
• Red-shouldered Hawk
• Red-tailed Hawk
• Red-throated Loon
• Red-winged Blackbird
• Reddish Egret
• Redhead
• Redpoll
• Ring-billed Gull
• Ring-necked Duck
• Ring-necked Pheasant
• Rock Pigeon Columba liviaInvasive
• Rock Wren
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak
• Roseate Spoonbill
• Ross’s Goose
• Ross’s Gull
• Rough-legged Hawk
• Royal Tern
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird
• Ruddy Duck
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Ruff
• Ruffed Grouse
• Rufous Hummingbird
• Rusty Blackbird
• Sabine’s Gull
• Sage Thrasher
• Sagebrush Sparrow
• Sanderling
• Sandhill Crane
• Savannah Sparrow
• Say’s Phoebe
• Scarlet Tanager
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
• Scott’s Oriole
• Sedge Wren
• Semipalmated Plover
• Semipalmated Sandpiper
• Sharp-shinned Hawk
• Sharp-tailed Grouse
• Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
• Short-billed Dowitcher
• Short-billed Gull
• Short-eared Owl
• Smith’s Longspur
• Snow Bunting
• Snow Goose
• Snowy Egret
• Snowy Owl
• Snowy Plover
• Solitary Sandpiper
• Song Sparrow
• Sora
• Spotted Sandpiper
• Spotted Towhee
• Sprague’s Pipit
• Steller’s Jay
• Stilt Sandpiper
• Summer Tanager
• Surf Scoter
• Swainson’s Hawk
• Swainson’s Thrush
• Swainson’s Warbler
• Swallow-tailed Kite
• Swamp Sparrow
• Taiga Bean-Goose
• Tennessee Warbler
• Thick-billed Longspur
• Townsend’s Solitaire
• Townsend’s Warbler
• Tree Swallow
• Tricolored Heron
• Trumpeter Swan
• Tufted Duck
• Tufted Titmouse
• Tundra Swan
• Turkey Vulture
• Upland Sandpiper
• Varied Thrush
• Veery
• Vermilion Flycatcher
• Vesper Sparrow
• Violet-green Swallow
• Virginia Rail
• Virginia’s Warbler
• Western Bluebird
• Western Cattle-Egret
• Western Flycatcher
• Western Grebe
• Western Gull
• Western Kingbird
• Western Marsh Wren
• Western Meadowlark
• Western Sandpiper
• Western Tanager
• Western Warbling-Vireo
• Western Wood-Pewee
• White Ibis
• White-breasted Nuthatch
• White-crowned Sparrow
• White-eyed Vireo
• White-faced Ibis
• White-rumped Sandpiper
• White-tailed Kite
• White-throated Sparrow
• White-throated Swift
• White-winged Crossbill
• White-winged Dove
• White-winged Scoter
• Whooping Crane
• Wild Turkey
• Williamson’s Sapsucker
• Willow Flycatcher
• Wilson’s Phalarope
• Wilson's Snipe
• Wilson’s Warbler
• Winter Wren
• Wood Duck
• Wood Stork
• Wood Thrush
• Worm-eating Warbler
• Yellow Rail
• Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
• Yellow-billed Cuckoo
• Yellow-billed Loon
• Yellow-breasted Chat
• Yellow-crowned Night Heron
• Yellow-headed Blackbird
• Yellow-rumped Warbler
• Yellow-throated Vireo
• Yellow-throated Warbler
• Zone-tailed Hawk

When birds are active in Nebraska

Records of birds in Nebraska peak in March to July. They show when people record birds, not how many there are (about month bars).

How to report

NGPC: 402-471-0641 (or a local conservation officer). Sick or dead wildlife: report to a Game and Parks office. Invasive species: Nebraska Invasive Species Council, [email protected] or its Report A Sighting page. Reptile and amphibian sightings: UNL Report A Sighting form (herpneb.unl.edu/report-sighting). Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

About this list

The species list comes from Checklist of the Birds of Nebraska (Nebraska Ornithologists' Union) (Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, undated PDF retrieved 2026-11-03).

Venom does not apply to birds.

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