Angnix
GWWA
Edit, a much better list with the birds in IOC order can now be found on my blog: http://angnix.blogspot.com/2009/08/my-lifelist-of-birds-ioc-order-and.html
I've only birded in a few states, but I did get to see a handful of out-of-range birds. I based this on an older field guide's order. Anyway I had a list of dates, but lost it.
I put an asterisk by the cool ones IMHO
Birds seen in Michigan, Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Texas
Birds heard counted
1. Common Loon
2. Pied-billed Grebe
3. Least Grebe*
4. Horned Grebe
5. American White Pelican
6. Brown Pelican
7. Magnificent Frigatebird* (rare sighting at the hawkwatch)
8. Anhinga
9. Double-crested Cormorant
10. Neotropic Cormorant*
11. Great Blue Heron
12. Great Egret
13. Snowy Egret
14. Reddish Egret
15. Little Blue Heron
16. Tricolored Heron
17. Cattle Egret
18. Green Heron
19. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron*
20. White-faced Ibis
21. White Ibis
22. Roseate Spoonbill
23. Wood Stork
24. Mute Swan
25. Tundra Swan
26. Trumpeter Swan*
27. Greater White-fronted Goose
28. Snow Goose
29. Canada Goose
30. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
31. Wood Duck
32. Mallard
33. American Black Duck
34. Mottled Duck
35. Northern Pintail
36. American Wigeon
37. Eurasian Wigeon* (In a flock of American Wigeons)
38. Northern Shoveler
39. Blue-winged Teal
40. Green-winged Teal
41. Redhead
42. Lesser Scaup
43. Greater Scaup
44. Ring-necked Duck
45. Long-tailed Duck
46. Common Goldeneye
47. Bufflehead
48. Hooded Merganser
49. Red-breasted Merganser
50. Common Merganser
51. Ruddy Duck
52. Black Vulture
53. Turkey Vulture
54. Osprey
55. White-tailed Kite
56. Swallow-tailed Kite*
57. Mississippi Kite
58. Sharp-shinned Hawk
59. Cooper’s Hawk
60. Northern Harrier
61. Harris’s Hawk*
62. Red-shouldered Hawk
63. Zone-tailed Hawk*
64. Broad-winged Hawk
65. Red-tailed Hawk
66. White-tailed Hawk
67. Swainson’s Hawk
68. Ferruginous Hawk*
69. Golden Eagle*
70. Bald Eagle
71. Crested Caracara
72. American Kestrel
73. Merlin
74. Peregrine Falcon
75. Wild Turkey
76. Ring-necked Pheasant
77. Ruffed Grouse
78. Northern Bobwhite
79. Sora
80. Common Moorhen
81. American Coot
82. Sandhill Crane
83. Killdeer
84. Semipalmated Plover
85. Black-necked Stilt
86. American Avocet
87. Greater Yellowlegs
88. Lesser Yellowlegs
89. Solitary Sandpiper
90. Spotted Sandpiper
91. Willet
92. Long-billed Curlew
93. Upland Sandpiper
94. Ruddy Turnstone
95. Sanderling
96. Dunlin
97. Least Sandpiper
98. Ruff* (when I was in MD, this bird drew lots of birders)
99. Wilson’s Snipe
100. American Woodcock
101. Laughing Gull
102. Franklin’s Gull
103. Ring-billed Gull
104. Herring Gull
105. Great Black-backed Gull
106. Black Tern
107. Caspian Tern
108. Royal Tern
109. Common Tern
110. Forster’s Tern
111. Rock Pigeon
112. White-winged Dove
113. Mourning Dove
114. Inca Dove
115. Eurasian Collared-Dove
116. White-tipped Dove*
117. Black-billed Cuckoo
118. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
119. Groove-billed Ani*
120. Eastern Screech-Owl
121. Great Horned Owl
122. Barred Owl
123. Common Nighthawk
124. Chuck-will’s-widow
125. Whip-poor-will
126. Chimney Swift
127. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
128. Rufous Hummingbird
129. Buff-bellied Hummingbird
130. Broad-tailed Hummingbird
131. Belted Kingfisher
132. Green Kingfisher
133. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
134. Red-headed Woodpecker
135. Red-bellied Woodpecker
136. Golden-fronted Woodpecker
137. Downy Woodpecker
138. Hairy Woodpecker
139. Ladder-backed Woodpecker
140. Northern Flicker
141. Pileated Woodpecker
142. Olive-sided Flycatcher
143. Eastern Wood-Pewee
144. Alder Flycatcher
145. Least Flycatcher
146. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
147. Acadian Flycatcher
148. Eastern Phoebe
149. Vermilion Flycatcher
150. Brown-crested Flycatcher
151. Great Crested Flycatcher
152. Western Kingbird
153. Eastern Kingbird
154. Gray Kingbird* (out of range, seen in Corpus Christi)
155. Couch’s Kingbird
156. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
157. Great Kiskadee
158. Loggerhead Shrike
159. Warbling Vireo
160. Philadelphia Vireo
161. White-eyed Vireo
162. Bell’s Vireo* (very rare breeder in central Ohio)
163. Red-eyed Vireo
164. Yellow-throated Vireo
165. Blue-headed Vireo
166. Blue Jay
167. Green Jay
168. Gray Jay
169. American Crow
170. Fish Crow
171. Common Raven
172. Horned Lark
173. Barn Swallow
174. Cliff Swallow
175. Cave Swallow
176. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
177. Bank Swallow
178. Tree Swallow
179. Purple Martin
180. Black-capped Chickadee
181. Carolina Chickadee
182. Brown Creeper
183. Tufted Titmouse
184. Black-crested Titmouse
185. White-breasted Nuthatch
186. Red-breasted Nuthatch
187. Brown-headed Nuthatch
188. Carolina Wren
189. House Wren
190. Winter Wren
191. Golden-crowned Kinglet
192. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
193. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
194. Eastern Bluebird
195. Swainson’s Thrush
196. Veery
197. Hermit Thrush
198. Wood Thrush
199. American Robin
200. Gray Catbird
201. Northern Mockingbird
202. Brown Thrasher
203. Long-billed Thrasher
204. Cedar Waxwing
205. European Starling
206. Tennessee Warbler
207. Nashville Warbler
208. Blue-winged Warbler
209. Golden-winged Warbler
210. Northern Parula
211. Yellow Warbler
212. Chestnut-sided Warbler
213. Magnolia Warbler
214. Blackburnian Warbler
215. Black-throated Blue Warbler
216. Cerulean Warbler
217. Black-throated Green Warbler
218. Yellow-rumped Warbler
219. Palm Warbler
220. Pine Warbler
221. Prairie Warbler
222. Blackpoll Warbler
223. Bay-breasted Warbler
224. Yellow-throated Warbler
225. Black-and-white Warbler
226. American Redstart
227. Prothonotary Warbler
228. Worm-eating Warbler
229. Common Yellowthroat
230. Mourning Warbler
231. Connecticut Warbler*
232. Kentucky Warbler*
233. Northern Waterthrush
234. Louisiana Waterthrush
235. Ovenbird
236. Canada Warbler
237. Hooded Warbler
238. Wilson’s Warbler
239. Yellow-breasted Chat
240. Scarlet Tanager
241. Dickcissel
242. Blue Grosbeak
243. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
244. Indigo Bunting
245. Painted Bunting
246. Northern Cardinal
247. Eastern Towhee
248. Olive Sparrow*
249. Chipping Sparrow
250. Field Sparrow
251. American Tree Sparrow
252. Savannah Sparrow
253. Song Sparrow
254. Lincoln’s Sparrow
255. Swamp Sparrow
256. Fox Sparrow
257. White-crowned Sparrow
258. White-throated Sparrow
259. Dark-eyed Junco
260. Snow Bunting
261. Baltimore Oriole
262. Orchard Oriole
263. Eastern Meadolark
264. Bobolink
265. Red-winged Blackbird
266. Rusty Blackbird
267. Brewer’s Blackbird
268. Common Grackle
269. Great-tailed Grackle
270. Brown-headed Cowbird
271. Bronzed Cowbird*
272. House Sparrow
273. American Goldfinch
274. Pine Sisken
275. Common Redpoll
276. House Finch
277. Purple Finch
278. Red Crossbill*
I've only birded in a few states, but I did get to see a handful of out-of-range birds. I based this on an older field guide's order. Anyway I had a list of dates, but lost it.
I put an asterisk by the cool ones IMHO
Birds seen in Michigan, Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Texas
Birds heard counted
1. Common Loon
2. Pied-billed Grebe
3. Least Grebe*
4. Horned Grebe
5. American White Pelican
6. Brown Pelican
7. Magnificent Frigatebird* (rare sighting at the hawkwatch)
8. Anhinga
9. Double-crested Cormorant
10. Neotropic Cormorant*
11. Great Blue Heron
12. Great Egret
13. Snowy Egret
14. Reddish Egret
15. Little Blue Heron
16. Tricolored Heron
17. Cattle Egret
18. Green Heron
19. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron*
20. White-faced Ibis
21. White Ibis
22. Roseate Spoonbill
23. Wood Stork
24. Mute Swan
25. Tundra Swan
26. Trumpeter Swan*
27. Greater White-fronted Goose
28. Snow Goose
29. Canada Goose
30. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
31. Wood Duck
32. Mallard
33. American Black Duck
34. Mottled Duck
35. Northern Pintail
36. American Wigeon
37. Eurasian Wigeon* (In a flock of American Wigeons)
38. Northern Shoveler
39. Blue-winged Teal
40. Green-winged Teal
41. Redhead
42. Lesser Scaup
43. Greater Scaup
44. Ring-necked Duck
45. Long-tailed Duck
46. Common Goldeneye
47. Bufflehead
48. Hooded Merganser
49. Red-breasted Merganser
50. Common Merganser
51. Ruddy Duck
52. Black Vulture
53. Turkey Vulture
54. Osprey
55. White-tailed Kite
56. Swallow-tailed Kite*
57. Mississippi Kite
58. Sharp-shinned Hawk
59. Cooper’s Hawk
60. Northern Harrier
61. Harris’s Hawk*
62. Red-shouldered Hawk
63. Zone-tailed Hawk*
64. Broad-winged Hawk
65. Red-tailed Hawk
66. White-tailed Hawk
67. Swainson’s Hawk
68. Ferruginous Hawk*
69. Golden Eagle*
70. Bald Eagle
71. Crested Caracara
72. American Kestrel
73. Merlin
74. Peregrine Falcon
75. Wild Turkey
76. Ring-necked Pheasant
77. Ruffed Grouse
78. Northern Bobwhite
79. Sora
80. Common Moorhen
81. American Coot
82. Sandhill Crane
83. Killdeer
84. Semipalmated Plover
85. Black-necked Stilt
86. American Avocet
87. Greater Yellowlegs
88. Lesser Yellowlegs
89. Solitary Sandpiper
90. Spotted Sandpiper
91. Willet
92. Long-billed Curlew
93. Upland Sandpiper
94. Ruddy Turnstone
95. Sanderling
96. Dunlin
97. Least Sandpiper
98. Ruff* (when I was in MD, this bird drew lots of birders)
99. Wilson’s Snipe
100. American Woodcock
101. Laughing Gull
102. Franklin’s Gull
103. Ring-billed Gull
104. Herring Gull
105. Great Black-backed Gull
106. Black Tern
107. Caspian Tern
108. Royal Tern
109. Common Tern
110. Forster’s Tern
111. Rock Pigeon
112. White-winged Dove
113. Mourning Dove
114. Inca Dove
115. Eurasian Collared-Dove
116. White-tipped Dove*
117. Black-billed Cuckoo
118. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
119. Groove-billed Ani*
120. Eastern Screech-Owl
121. Great Horned Owl
122. Barred Owl
123. Common Nighthawk
124. Chuck-will’s-widow
125. Whip-poor-will
126. Chimney Swift
127. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
128. Rufous Hummingbird
129. Buff-bellied Hummingbird
130. Broad-tailed Hummingbird
131. Belted Kingfisher
132. Green Kingfisher
133. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
134. Red-headed Woodpecker
135. Red-bellied Woodpecker
136. Golden-fronted Woodpecker
137. Downy Woodpecker
138. Hairy Woodpecker
139. Ladder-backed Woodpecker
140. Northern Flicker
141. Pileated Woodpecker
142. Olive-sided Flycatcher
143. Eastern Wood-Pewee
144. Alder Flycatcher
145. Least Flycatcher
146. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
147. Acadian Flycatcher
148. Eastern Phoebe
149. Vermilion Flycatcher
150. Brown-crested Flycatcher
151. Great Crested Flycatcher
152. Western Kingbird
153. Eastern Kingbird
154. Gray Kingbird* (out of range, seen in Corpus Christi)
155. Couch’s Kingbird
156. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
157. Great Kiskadee
158. Loggerhead Shrike
159. Warbling Vireo
160. Philadelphia Vireo
161. White-eyed Vireo
162. Bell’s Vireo* (very rare breeder in central Ohio)
163. Red-eyed Vireo
164. Yellow-throated Vireo
165. Blue-headed Vireo
166. Blue Jay
167. Green Jay
168. Gray Jay
169. American Crow
170. Fish Crow
171. Common Raven
172. Horned Lark
173. Barn Swallow
174. Cliff Swallow
175. Cave Swallow
176. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
177. Bank Swallow
178. Tree Swallow
179. Purple Martin
180. Black-capped Chickadee
181. Carolina Chickadee
182. Brown Creeper
183. Tufted Titmouse
184. Black-crested Titmouse
185. White-breasted Nuthatch
186. Red-breasted Nuthatch
187. Brown-headed Nuthatch
188. Carolina Wren
189. House Wren
190. Winter Wren
191. Golden-crowned Kinglet
192. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
193. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
194. Eastern Bluebird
195. Swainson’s Thrush
196. Veery
197. Hermit Thrush
198. Wood Thrush
199. American Robin
200. Gray Catbird
201. Northern Mockingbird
202. Brown Thrasher
203. Long-billed Thrasher
204. Cedar Waxwing
205. European Starling
206. Tennessee Warbler
207. Nashville Warbler
208. Blue-winged Warbler
209. Golden-winged Warbler
210. Northern Parula
211. Yellow Warbler
212. Chestnut-sided Warbler
213. Magnolia Warbler
214. Blackburnian Warbler
215. Black-throated Blue Warbler
216. Cerulean Warbler
217. Black-throated Green Warbler
218. Yellow-rumped Warbler
219. Palm Warbler
220. Pine Warbler
221. Prairie Warbler
222. Blackpoll Warbler
223. Bay-breasted Warbler
224. Yellow-throated Warbler
225. Black-and-white Warbler
226. American Redstart
227. Prothonotary Warbler
228. Worm-eating Warbler
229. Common Yellowthroat
230. Mourning Warbler
231. Connecticut Warbler*
232. Kentucky Warbler*
233. Northern Waterthrush
234. Louisiana Waterthrush
235. Ovenbird
236. Canada Warbler
237. Hooded Warbler
238. Wilson’s Warbler
239. Yellow-breasted Chat
240. Scarlet Tanager
241. Dickcissel
242. Blue Grosbeak
243. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
244. Indigo Bunting
245. Painted Bunting
246. Northern Cardinal
247. Eastern Towhee
248. Olive Sparrow*
249. Chipping Sparrow
250. Field Sparrow
251. American Tree Sparrow
252. Savannah Sparrow
253. Song Sparrow
254. Lincoln’s Sparrow
255. Swamp Sparrow
256. Fox Sparrow
257. White-crowned Sparrow
258. White-throated Sparrow
259. Dark-eyed Junco
260. Snow Bunting
261. Baltimore Oriole
262. Orchard Oriole
263. Eastern Meadolark
264. Bobolink
265. Red-winged Blackbird
266. Rusty Blackbird
267. Brewer’s Blackbird
268. Common Grackle
269. Great-tailed Grackle
270. Brown-headed Cowbird
271. Bronzed Cowbird*
272. House Sparrow
273. American Goldfinch
274. Pine Sisken
275. Common Redpoll
276. House Finch
277. Purple Finch
278. Red Crossbill*
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