Life List
AH, the life of a birder
Traveling far and wide, hopping from habitat to habitat, all in pursuit of one goal: to see as many bird species as possible in a lifetime. This quest is what gives rise to the cherished life list—a record of every bird species a birder has encountered over the years.
With over 10,000 known bird species across the globe, scattered in remote or challenging corners of the planet, completing a life list of all known birds is an almost impossible feat. But isn’t that part of the fun? The endless exploration, the thrill of discovery, and the stories that come with each new sighting?
That’s why Sara and I have our channel: to share our adventures and our story, as we chase after new and exciting birds to add to our own life lists.
Below, you’ll find my life list—Stu’s Life List. It’s pretty similar to Sara’s, but I began documenting my sightings a little earlier, so I’ve managed to add a few species she hasn’t seen (yet!). But don’t worry, she’s catching up quickly.
I’ll work at trying to add extra details to this life list when I can (such as dates and places) and it’s possible that there might be mistakes in here. See below the table for some notes on rules etc…
Total Birds: 516
| Abert’s Towhee Acadian Flycatcher Acorn Woodpecker Alder Flycatcher Allen’s Hummingbird American Avocet American Bittern American Black Duck American Coot American Crow American Golden-Plover American Goldfinch American Herring Gull American Kestrel American Oystercatcher American Pipit American Redstart American Robin American Three-toed Woodpecker American Tree Sparrow American White Pelican American Wigeon American Woodcock Anhinga Anna’s Hummingbird Arizona Woodpecker Ash-throated Flycatcher Atlantic Puffin Baird’s Sandpiper Bald Eagle Baltimore Oriole Band-tailed Pigeon Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Barnacle Goose Barred Owl Barrow’s Goldeneye Bay-breasted Warbler Bell’s Vireo Belted Kingfisher Bewick’s Wren Black Guillemot Black Noddy Black Oystercatcher Black Phoebe Black Scoter Black Skimmer Black Tern Black Vulture Black-and-white Warbler Black-backed Woodpecker Black-bellied Plover Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Black-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Magpie Blackburnian Warbler Black-capped Chickadee Black-chinned Hummingbird Black-crowned Night Heron Black-headed Grosbeak Black-headed Gull Black-necked Stilt Blackpoll Warbler Black-legged Kittiwake Black-tailed Gnatcatcher Black-throated Blue Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Black-throated Sparrow Black-whiskered Vireo Blue Grosbeak Blue Jay Blue-and-yellow Macaw Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Blue-headed Vireo Blue-throated Mountain-gem Blue-winged Teal Blue-winged Warbler Boat-tailed Grackle Bobolink Bonaparte’s Gull Boreal Chickadee Brandt’s Cormorant Brant Brewer’s Blackbird Brewer’s Sparrow Bridled Titmouse Broad-billed Hummingbird Broad-tailed Hummingbird Broad-winged Hawk Bronzed Cowbird Brown Booby Brown Creeper Brown Noddy Brown Pelican Brown Thrasher Brown-crested Flycatcher Brown-headed Cowbird Brown-headed Nuthatch Bufflehead Bullock’s Oriole Burrowing Owl Bushtit Cackling Goose Cactus Wren California Condor California Gull California Quail California Scrub-Jay California Thrasher California Towhee Canada Goose Canada Jay Canada Warbler Canvasback Canyon Towhee Cape May Warbler Carolina Chickadee Carolina Wren Carrion Crow Caspian Tern Cassin’s Kingbird Cave Swallow Cedar Waxwing Chestnut-backed Chickadee Chestnut-sided Warbler Chihuahuan Meadowlark Chimney Swift Chipping Sparrow Cinnamon Teal Clapper Rail Clark’s Grebe Clay-colored Sparrow Cliff Swallow Coal Tit Common Black Hawk Common Buzzard Common Chaffinch Common Eider Common Gallinule Common Goldeneye Common Grackle Common Ground Dove Common Kingfisher Common Loon Common Merganser Common Myna Common Nighthawk Common Pochard Common Raven Common Redshank Common Sandpiper Common Shelduck Common Snipe Common Swift Common Tern Common Wood-Pigeon Common Yellowthroat Cooper’s Hawk Costa’s Hummingbird Crested Caracara Curve-billed Thrasher Dark-eyed Junco Dickcissel Double-crested Cormorant Downy Woodpecker Dunlin Dunnock Dusky Flycatcher Dusky-capped Flycatcher Eared Grebe Eastern Bluebird Eastern Kingbird Eastern Meadowlark Eastern Phoebe Eastern Screech-Owl Eastern Towhee Eastern Wood-Pewee Elegant Trogon Eurasian Blackbird Eurasian Blue Tit Eurasian Bullfinch Eurasian Collared-Dove Eurasian Coot Eurasian Curlew Eurasian Jackdaw Eurasian Jay Eurasian Kestrel Eurasian Magpie Eurasian Moorhen Eurasian Nuthatch Eurasian Oystercatcher Eurasian Tree Sparrow Eurasian Treecreeper Eurasian Wigeon Eurasian Wren European Goldfinch European Greenfinch European Herring Gull European Robin European Starling European Stonechat Evening Grosbeak Field Sparrow Fieldfare Fish Crow Florida Scrub-Jay Forster’s Tern Fox Sparrow Franklin’s Gull Fulvous Whistling-Duck Gadwall Gambel’s Quail Gila Woodpecker Gilded Flicker Glossy Ibis Golden-crowned Kinglet Golden-winged Warbler Grace’s Warbler Grasshopper Sparrow Gray Catbird Gray Flycatcher Gray Hawk Gray Heron Gray Kingbird Gray-headed Swamphen Graylag Goose Great Black-backed Gull Great Blue Heron Great Cormorant Great Crested Flycatcher Great Crested Grebe Great Egret Great Gray Owl Great Horned Owl Great Shearwater Great Spotted Woodpecker Great Tit Greater Pewee Greater Roadrunner Greater Scaup Greater White-fronted Goose Greater Yellowlegs Great-tailed Grackle Green Heron Green-tailed Towhee Green-winged Teal Hairy Woodpecker Hammond’s Flycatcher Harlequin Duck Harris’s Hawk Harris’s Sparrow Heermann’s Gull Hepatic Tanager Hermit Thrush Hermit Warbler Hooded Merganser Hooded Oriole Hooded Warbler | Horned Grebe Horned Lark House Finch House Sparrow Hudsonian Godwit Hutton’s Vireo Iceland Gull Inca Dove Indigo Bunting Juniper Titmouse Killdeer King Eider Ladder-backed Woodpecker Lapland Longspur Lark Sparrow Laughing Gull Lawrence’s Goldfinch Lazuli Bunting Least Bittern Least Flycatcher Least Sandpiper Least Tern Lesser Black-backed Gull Lesser Goldfinch Lesser Nighthawk Lesser Scaup Lesser Yellowlegs Lilac-crowned Amazon Limpkin Lincoln’s Sparrow Little Blue Heron Little Egret Little Grebe Loggerhead Shrike Long-billed Curlew Long-billed Dowitcher Long-eared Owl Long-tailed Duck Long-tailed Tit Lucy’s Warbler MacGillivray’s Warbler Magnificent Frigatebird Magnolia Warbler Mallard Marbled Godwit Marsh Wren Masked Booby Meadow Pipit Merlin Mexican Duck Mexican Jay Mistle Thrush Monk Parakeet Mottled Duck Mountain Chickadee Mourning Dove Mourning Warbler Muscovy Duck Mute Swan Nanday Parakeet Nashville Warbler Neotropic Cormorant Northern Bobwhite Northern Cardinal Northern Flicker Northern Gannet Northern Harrier Northern Hawk Owl Northern House Wren Northern Lapwing Northern Mockingbird Northern Parula Northern Pintail Northern Rough-winged Swallow Northern Saw-whet Owl Northern Shoveler Northern Shrike Northern Waterthrush Northern Wheatear Nuttall’s Woodpecker Oak Titmouse Olive-sided Flycatcher Orange-crowned Warbler Orchard Oriole Osprey Ovenbird Pacific Wren Painted Bunting Painted Redstart Palm Warbler Pectoral Sandpiper Peregrine Falcon Phainopepla Philadelphia Vireo Pied Avocet Pied-billed Grebe Pigeon Guillemot Pileated Woodpecker Pine Siskin Pine Warbler Piping Plover Plumbeous Vireo Prairie Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Purple Finch Purple Gallinule Purple Martin Purple Sandpiper Pygmy Nuthatch Pyrrhuloxia Red Crossbill Red Knot Red Phalarope Red-bellied Woodpecker Red-breasted Merganser Red-breasted Nuthatch Reddish Egret Red-eyed Vireo Red-faced Warbler Redhead Red-headed Woodpecker Red-necked Grebe Redpoll Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Red-throated Loon Red-winged Blackbird Reed Bunting Ring-billed Gull Ring-necked Duck Ring-necked Pheasant Rivoli’s Hummingbird Rock Pigeon Rock Wren Roseate Spoonbill Rose-breasted Grosbeak Rose-ringed Parakeet Ross’s Goose Rough-legged Hawk Royal Tern Ruby-crowned Kinglet Ruby-throated Hummingbird Ruddy Duck Ruddy Turnstone Ruff Ruffed Grouse Rufous-winged Sparrow Rusty Blackbird Saltmarsh Sparrow Sanderling Sandhill Crane Sandwich Tern Savannah Sparrow Say’s Phoebe Scaled Quail Scarlet Tanager Scott’s Oriole Seaside Sparrow Semipalmated Plover Semipalmated Sandpiper Sharp-shinned Hawk Short-billed Dowitcher Short-eared Owl Snail Kite Snow Bunting Snow Goose Snowy Egret Snowy Owl Solitary Sandpiper Song Sparrow Sooty Tern Sora Spotted Sandpiper Spotted Towhee Spruce Grouse Steller’s Jay Stilt Sandpiper Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Summer Tanager Surf Scoter Swainson’s Hawk Swainson’s Thrush Swallow-tailed Kite Swamp Sparrow Tennessee Warbler Thick-billed Kingbird 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 Verdin Vermilion Flycatcher Vesper Sparrow Violet-crowned Hummingbird Violet-green Swallow Virginia Rail Virginia’s Warbler Warbling Vireo Water Rail Western Bluebird Western Cattle-Egret Western Flycatcher Western Grebe Western Gull Western Kingbird Western Meadowlark Western Sandpiper Western Tanager Western Wood-Pewee Whimbrel White Ibis White Wagtail White-breasted Nuthatch White-crowned Pigeon White-crowned Sparrow White-eyed Vireo White-faced Ibis White-tailed Kite White-throated Sparrow White-throated Swift White-winged Crossbill White-winged Dove White-winged Scoter Wild Turkey Willet Willow Flycatcher Wilson’s Phalarope Wilson’s Plover Wilson’s Snipe Wilson’s Warbler Winter Wren Wood Duck Wood Stork Wood Thrush Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay Worm-eating Warbler Wrentit Yellow Warbler Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Yellow-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Magpie Yellow-breasted Chat Yellow-crowned Night Heron Yellow-eyed Junco Yellow-headed Blackbird Yellow-rumped Warbler Yellow-throated Vireo Yellow-throated Warbler |
Last Updated Oct 16th 2025
Quick Notes:
- Bird must be wild and naturalised.
- List began in 2008 when I began recording sightings.
- Common Names are from eBird (North American names, US English spellings).
- Delisted birds are not shown (Eg. Hoary Redpoll)
