Water and Wetland birds
Where you saw a bird rules out more species than almost anything else. These 107 birds turn up in water and wetland habitat.
107 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
CanvasbackAythya valisineria
Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
Common LoonGavia immer
Common MerganserMergus merganser
Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
Green HeronButorides virescens
Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
Northern PintailAnas acuta
Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
RedheadAythya americana
Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
Sandhill CraneAntigone canadensis
Snow GooseAnser caerulescens
Snowy EgretEgretta thula
Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
Yellow-headed BlackbirdXanthocephalus xanthocephalus
Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
Cinnamon TealSpatula cyanoptera
Common GallinuleGallinula galeata
Forster's TernSterna forsteri
Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
Greater ScaupAythya marila
Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
Northern WaterthrushParkesia noveboracensis
Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
Roseate SpoonbillPlatalea ajaja
SoraPorzana carolina
Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
Trumpeter SwanCygnus buccinator
Tundra SwanCygnus columbianus
Willow FlycatcherEmpidonax traillii
Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicata
Yellow-crowned Night-HeronNyctanassa violacea
American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
Great KiskadeePitangus sulphuratus
Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
Sedge WrenCistothorus stellaris
Virginia RailRallus limicola
Wood StorkMycteria americana
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-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
WilletTringa semipalmata
Black-bellied PloverPluvialis squatarola
BrantBranta bernicla
California GullLarus californicus
Common TernSterna hirundo
DunlinCalidris alpina
Least TernSternula antillarum
Rough-legged HawkButeo lagopus
Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
Semipalmated SandpiperCalidris pusilla
Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
VeeryCatharus fuscescens
Vermilion FlycatcherPyrocephalus obscurus
Wilson's WarblerCardellina pusilla
Yellow-throated WarblerSetophaga dominica
Canada WarblerCardellina canadensis
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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