Birds of North Dakota: The Official State Checklist

All 398 birds on the list

• Acorn Woodpecker
• Alder Flycatcher
• American Avocet Recurvirostra americana
• American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus
• 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 Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
• American Wigeon
• American Woodcock
• Arctic Loon
• Arctic Tern
• Baird’s Sandpiper
• Baird’s Sparrow Centronyx bairdii
• Bald Eagle
• Baltimore Oriole
• Band-tailed Pigeon
• Bank Swallow
• Barn Owl
• Barn Swallow
• Barred Owl
• Barrow’s Goldeneye
• Bay-breasted Warbler
• Bell’s Vireo
• Belted Kingfisher
• Bewick’s Wren
• Black Rail
• Black Scoter
• Black Tern Chlidonias niger
• Black-and-white Warbler
• Black-backed Woodpecker
• Black-bellied Plover
• Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus
• Black-billed Magpie Pica hudsonia
• Black-capped Chickadee
• Black-crowned Night-Heron
• Black-headed Grosbeak
• 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 Dolichonyx oryzivorus
• Bohemian Waxwing
• Bonaparte’s Gull
• Boreal Chickadee
• Boreal Owl
• Brambling
• Brant
• Brewer’s Blackbird
• Brewer’s Sparrow Spizella breweri
• Broad-winged Hawk
• Brown Creeper
• Brown Pelican
• Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum
• Brown-headed Cowbird
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper Calidris subruficollis
• Bufflehead
• Bullock’s Oriole
• Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia
• California Gull
• Canada Goose
• Canada Warbler
• Canvasback Aythya valisineria
• Cape May Warbler
• Carolina Wren
• Caspian Tern
• Cassin’s Finch
• Cattle Egret
• Cedar Waxwing
• Cerulean Warbler
• Chestnut-collared Longspur Calcarius ornatus
• Chestnut-sided Warbler
• Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
• Chipping Sparrow
• Cinnamon Teal
• Clark’s Grebe
• Clark’s Nutcracker
• Clay-colored Sparrow
• Cliff Swallow
• Common Crane
• Common Eider
• Common Goldeneye
• Common Grackle
• Common Loon
• Common Merganser
• Common Moorhen
• Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
• Common Poorwill
• Common Raven
• Common Redpoll
• Common Tern
• Common Yellowthroat
• Connecticut Warbler
• Cooper’s Hawk
• Curlew Sandpiper
• Dark-eyed Junco
• Dickcissel
• Double-crested Cormorant
• Downy Woodpecker
• Dunlin Calidris alpina
• Eared Grebe
• Eastern Bluebird
• Eastern Kingbird
• Eastern Meadowlark
• Eastern Phoebe
• Eastern Screech-owl Megascops asio
• Eastern Towhee
• Eastern Whip-poor-will
• Eastern Wood-pewee
• Eskimo Curlew
• Eurasian Collared-Dove
• Eurasian Wigeon
• European Starling
• Evening Grosbeak
• Ferruginous Hawk Buteo regalis
• Field Sparrow
• Forster’s Tern
• Fox Sparrow
• Franklin’s Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan
• Fulvous Whistling-Duck
• Gadwall
• Garganey
• Glaucous Gull
• Glaucous-winged Gull
• Glossy Ibis
• Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos
• Golden-crowned Kinglet
• Golden-crowned Sparrow
• Golden-winged Warbler
• Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum
• Gray Catbird
• Gray Jay
• Gray Partridge
• Gray-cheeked Thrush
• Gray-crowned Rosy-finch
• Great Black-backed Gull
• Great Blue Heron
• Great Crested Flycatcher
• Great Egret
• Great Gray Owl
• Great Horned Owl
• Greater Prairie-Chicken Tympanuchus cupido
• Greater Sage-Grouse Centrocercus urophasianus
• Greater Scaup
• Greater White-fronted Goose
• Greater Yellowlegs
• Green Heron
• Green-tailed Towhee
• Green-winged Teal
• Gyrfalcon
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Harlequin Duck
• Harris’ Sparrow Zonotrichia querula
• Henslow’s Sparrow
• Hermit Thrush
• Herring Gull
• Hoary Redpoll
• Hooded Merganser
• Hooded Warbler
• Horned Grebe Podiceps auritus
• Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
• House Finch
• House Sparrow
• House Wren
• Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica
• Iceland Gull
• Inca Dove
• Indigo Bunting
• Kentucky Warbler
• Killdeer
• King Rail
• Lapland Longspur
• Lark Bunting Calamospiza melanocorys
• Lark Sparrow
• Laughing Gull
• Lazuli Bunting
• Le Conte’s Sparrow Ammospiza leconteii
• Least Bittern
• Least Flycatcher
• Least Sandpiper
• Least Tern Sternula antillarum
• Lesser Black-backed Gull
• Lesser Goldfinch
• Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
• Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
• Lewis’ Woodpecker
• Lincoln’s Sparrow
• Little Blue Heron
• Little Gull
• Little Stint
• Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
• Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus
• Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
• Long-eared Owl
• Long-tailed Duck
• Long-tailed Jaeger
• Louisiana Waterthrush
• MacGillivary’s Warbler
• Magnolia Warbler
• Mallard
• Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
• Marsh Wren
• McCown’s Longspur
• Merlin
• Mew Gull
• Mottled Duck
• Mountain Bluebird
• Mountain Plover
• Mourning Dove
• Mourning Warbler
• Nashville Warbler
• Nelson’s Sparrow Ammospiza nelsoni
• Northern Cardinal
• Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
• Northern Gannet
• Northern Goshawk
• Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius
• Northern Hawk Owl
• Northern Mockingbird
• Northern Parula
• Northern Pintail Anas acuta
• Northern Rough-winged Swallow
• Northern Saw-whet Owl
• Northern Shoveler
• Northern Shrike
• Northern Waterthrush
• Olive-sided Flycatcher
• Orange-crowned Warbler
• Orchard Oriole
• Osprey
• Ovenbird
• Pacific Loon
• Palm Warbler
• Parasitic Jaeger
• Passenger Pigeon
• Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
• Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
• Philadelphia Vireo
• Pied-billed Grebe
• Pileated Woodpecker
• Pine Grosbeak
• Pine Siskin
• Pine Warbler
• Pinyon Jay
• Piping Plover Charadrius melodus
• Plumbeous Vireo
• Prairie Falcon Falco mexicanus
• Prairie Warbler
• Prothonotary Warbler
• Purple Finch
• Purple Martin
• Pygmy Nuthatch
• Red Crossbill
• Red Knot Calidris canutus rufa
• Red Phalarope
• Red-bellied Woodpecker
• Red-breasted Merganser
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• Red-eyed Vireo
• Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
• 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
• Ring-necked Pheasant
• Rock Pigeon
• Rock Wren
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak
• Ross’s Goose
• Ross’s Gull
• Rough-legged Hawk
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird
• Ruddy Duck
• Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
• Ruff
• Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus
• Rusty Blackbird
• Sabine’s Gull
• Sage Thrasher
• Sanderling
• Sandhill Crane
• Savannah Sparrow
• Say’s Phoebe
• Scarlet Tanager
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
• Sedge Wren
• Semipalmated Plover
• Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
• Sharp-shinned Hawk
• Sharp-tailed Grouse Tympanuchus phasianellus
• Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
• Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus
• Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
• Smith’s Longspur Calcarius pictus
• Snow Bunting
• Snow Goose
• Snowy Egret
• Snowy Owl Bubo scandiacus
• Snowy Plover
• Solitary Sandpiper
• Song Sparrow
• Sora
• South Polar Skua
• Spotted Sandpiper
• Spotted Towhee
• Sprague’s Pipit Anthus spragueii
• Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
• Summer Tanager
• Surf Scoter
• Swainson’s Hawk
• Swainson’s Thrush
• Swallow-tailed Kite
• Swamp Sparrow
• Tennessee Warbler
• Thayer’s Gull
• Townend’s Warbler
• Townsend’s Solitaire
• Tree Swallow
• Tricolored Heron
• Trumpeter Swan
• Tufted Titmouse
• Tundra Swan
• Turkey Vulture
• Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
• Varied Thrush
• Veery
• Vermillion Flycatcher
• Vesper Sparrow
• Violet-green Swallow
• Virginia Rail
• Warbling Vireo
• Western Bluebird
• Western Grebe Aechmophorus occidentalis
• Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis
• Western Meadowlark Sturnella neglecta
• Western Sandpiper
• Western Tanager
• Western Wood-pewee
• Whimbrel
• White Ibis
• White-breasted Nuthatch
• White-crowned Sparrow
• White-eyed Vireo
• White-faced Ibis
• White-rumped Sandpiper
• White-tailed Kite
• White-throated Sparrow
• White-winged Crossbill
• White-winged Dove
• White-winged Scoter
• Whooping Crane Grus americana
• Wild Turkey
• Willet Tringa semipalmata
• Willow Flycatcher
• Willow Ptarmigan
• Wilson’s Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
• Wilson’s Snipe
• Wilson’s Warbler
• Winter Wren
• Wood Duck
• Wood Stork
• Wood Thrush
• Worm-eating Warbler
• Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis
• Yellow Warbler
• 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

When birds are active in North Dakota

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

About this list

The species list comes from Checklist of North Dakota Birds (North Dakota Game and Fish Department, April 2016).

Venom does not apply to birds.