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Our Bird Journey
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! We’re hoping to see 5,000 birds in the lifetime of the BritHikesOntario YouTube channel. That’s nearly half of the just over 11,000 known species on the planet.
Read more about Our Journey To 5000 Birds and track of our progress below!
Total Birds: 731 out of 5,000 | Last Update: Apr 7th 2026
| Abert’s Towhee Acadian Flycatcher Acorn Woodpecker Alder Flycatcher Allen’s Hummingbird Amazon Kingfisher American Avocet American Bittern American Black Duck American Coot American Crow American Dipper 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 Bananaquit Band-tailed Barbthroat Band-tailed Pigeon Bank Swallow Bare-throated Tiger-Heron Barn Swallow Barnacle Goose Barred Owl Barrow’s Goldeneye Bat Falcon Bay Wren Bay-breasted Warbler Bay-headed Tanager Bell’s Vireo Belted Kingfisher Bewick’s Wren Black Guillemot Black Hawk-Eagle Black Noddy Black Oystercatcher Black Phoebe Black Scoter Black Skimmer Black Tern Black Vulture Black-and-white Owl Black-and-white Warbler Black-backed Woodpecker Black-bellied Plover Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Black-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Magpie Black-billed Nightingale-Thrush Blackburnian Warbler Black-capped Chickadee Black-cheeked Warbler Black-cheeked Woodpecker Black-chinned Hummingbird Black-cowled Oriole Black-crowned Night Heron Black-crowned Tityra Black-headed Grosbeak Black-headed Gull Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher Black-hooded Antshrike Black-legged Kittiwake Black-necked Stilt Blackpoll Warbler Black-striped Sparrow Black-tailed Gnatcatcher Black-throated Blue Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Black-throated Sparrow Black-whiskered Vireo Blue Grosbeak Blue Ground Dove Blue Jay Blue-and-white Swallow Blue-and-yellow Macaw Blue-black Grosbeak Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Blue-gray Tanager Blue-headed Vireo Blue-throated Mountain-gem Blue-vented Hummingbird Blue-winged Teal Blue-winged Warbler Boat-billed Flycatcher Boat-billed Heron 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-billed Motmot Broad-tailed Hummingbird Broad-winged Hawk Bronzed Cowbird Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer Brown Booby Brown Creeper Brown Jay Brown Noddy Brown Pelican Brown Thrasher Brown-crested Flycatcher Brown-headed Cowbird Brown-headed Nuthatch Brown-hooded Parrot Bufflehead Buff-rumped Warbler Buff-throated Saltator Bullock’s Oriole Burrowing Owl Bushtit Cabanis’s Wren 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 Carmiol’s Tanager Carolina Chickadee Carolina Wren Carrion Crow Caspian Tern Cassin’s Kingbird Cave Swallow Cedar Waxwing Charming Hummingbird Checker-throated Stipplethroat Chestnut-backed Antbird Chestnut-backed Chickadee Chestnut-capped Brushfinch Chestnut-capped Warbler Chestnut-headed Oropendola Chestnut-sided Warbler Chihuahuan Meadowlark Chimney Swift Chipping Sparrow Cinnamon Becard Cinnamon Teal Cinnamon-bellied Saltator Clapper Rail Clark’s Grebe Clay-colored Sparrow Clay-colored Thrush Cliff Swallow Coal Tit Cocoa Woodcreeper Collared Aracari Collared Redstart 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 Squirrel-Cuckoo Common Swift Common Tern Common Tody-Flycatcher Common Wood-Pigeon Common Yellowthroat Cooper’s Hawk Coppery-tailed Trogon Costa Rican Swift Costa’s Hummingbird Crested Caracara Crested Guan Crimson-collared Tanager Crimson-fronted Parakeet Crowned Woodnymph Curve-billed Thrasher Dark-eyed Junco Dickcissel Double-crested Cormorant Double-toothed Kite Downy Woodpecker Dunlin Dunnock Dusky Antbird Dusky Flycatcher Dusky-capped Flycatcher Eared Grebe Eastern Bluebird Eastern Kingbird Eastern Meadowlark Eastern Phoebe Eastern Screech-Owl Eastern Towhee Eastern Warbling Vireo Eastern Wood-Pewee Emerald Tanager 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 Fawn-throated Foliage-gleaner Field Sparrow Fieldfare Fiery-billed Aracari Fish Crow Flame-colored Tanager Flame-throated Warbler Florida Scrub-Jay Forster’s Tern Fox Sparrow Franklin’s Gull Fulvous Whistling-Duck Gadwall Gambel’s Quail Garden Emerald Gartered Violaceous Trogon Giant Cowbird Gila Woodpecker Gilded Flicker Glaucous Gull Glossy Ibis Goldcrest Golden-browed Chlorophonia Golden-crowned Kinglet Golden-crowned Warbler Golden-hooded Tanager Golden-olive Woodpecker Golden-winged Warbler Graceful Black-throated Trogon Grace’s Warbler Grasshopper Sparrow Gray Catbird Gray Flycatcher Gray Hawk Gray Heron Gray Kingbird Gray-breasted Martin Gray-capped Flycatcher Gray-cowled Wood-Rail Gray-headed Chachalaca Gray-headed Swamphen Graylag Goose Great Black-backed Gull Great Blue Heron Great Cormorant Great Crested Flycatcher Great Crested Grebe Great Curassow Great Egret Great Gray Owl Great Horned Owl Great Kiskadee Great Potoo Great Shearwater Great Spotted Woodpecker Great Tit Greater Pewee Greater Roadrunner Greater Scaup Greater White-fronted Goose Greater Yellowlegs Great-tailed Grackle Green Hermit Green Heron Green Honeycreeper Green Ibis Green Kingfisher Green Thorntail Green-breasted Mango Green-tailed Towhee Green-winged Teal Groove-billed Ani Hairy Woodpecker Hammond’s Flycatcher Harlequin Duck Harris’s Hawk Harris’s Sparrow Heermann’s Gull Hepatic Tanager Hermit Thrush Hermit Warbler Hoffmann’s Woodpecker Hooded Merganser Hooded Oriole Hooded Warbler Horned Grebe Horned Lark House Finch House Sparrow Hudsonian Godwit Hudsonian Whimbrel Hutton’s Vireo Iceland Gull Inca Dove Indigo Bunting Juniper Titmouse Keel-billed Toucan Killdeer King Eider King Vulture Ladder-backed Woodpecker Lapland Longspur Large-footed Finch Lark Sparrow Laughing Falcon Laughing Gull | Lawrence’s Goldfinch Lazuli Bunting Least Bittern Least Flycatcher Least Sandpiper Least Tern Lesser Black-backed Gull Lesser Goldfinch Lesser Greenlet Lesser Nighthawk Lesser Scaup Lesser Violetear Lesser Yellowlegs Lesson’s Motmot Lilac-crowned Amazon Limpkin Lincoln’s Sparrow Lineated Woodpecker Little Blue Heron Little Egret Little Grebe Loggerhead Shrike Long-billed Curlew Long-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Gnatwren Long-billed Hermit Long-eared Owl Long-tailed Duck Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher Long-tailed Tit Lucy’s Warbler MacGillivray’s Warbler Magnificent Frigatebird Magnolia Warbler Mallard Marbled Godwit Marbled Wood-Quail Marsh Wren Masked Booby Masked Tityra Meadow Pipit Melodious Blackbird Merlin Mexican Duck Mexican Jay Mistle Thrush Mistletoe Tyrannulet Monk Parakeet Montezuma Oropendola Morelet’s Seedeater Mottled Duck Mottled Owl Mountain Chickadee Mountain Elaenia Mountain Thrush Mourning Dove Mourning Warbler Muscovy Duck Mute Swan Nanday Parakeet Nashville Warbler Neotropic Cormorant Northern Barred-Woodcreeper Northern Bobwhite Northern Cardinal Northern Flicker Northern Gannet Northern Harrier Northern Hawk Owl Northern House Wren Northern Jacana Northern Lapwing Northern Mockingbird Northern Parula Northern Pintail Northern Plain-Xenops Northern Rough-winged Swallow Northern Saw-whet Owl Northern Shoveler Northern Shrike Northern Tropical Pewee Northern Waterthrush Northern Wheatear Northern Yellow Warbler Nuttall’s Woodpecker Oak Titmouse Olive-backed Euphonia Olive-crowned Yellowthroat Olive-sided Flycatcher Orange-billed Sparrow Orange-chinned Parakeet Orange-crowned Warbler Orchard Oriole Osprey Ovenbird Pacific Wren Painted Bunting Painted Redstart Pale-billed Woodpecker Palm Tanager Palm Warbler Pectoral Sandpiper Peregrine Falcon Phainopepla Philadelphia Vireo Pied Avocet Pied-billed Grebe Pigeon Guillemot Pileated Woodpecker Pine Grosbeak Pine Siskin Pine Warbler Piping Plover Piratic Flycatcher Plain Antvireo Plain-colored Tanager Plumbeous Vireo Prairie Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Purple Finch Purple Gallinule Purple Martin Purple Sandpiper Purple-crowned Fairy Pygmy Nuthatch Pyrrhuloxia Razorbill Red Crossbill Red Knot Red Phalarope Red-bellied Woodpecker Red-billed Pigeon Red-breasted Merganser Red-breasted Nuthatch Reddish Egret Red-eyed Vireo Red-faced Warbler Redhead Red-headed Woodpecker Red-legged Honeycreeper Red-lored Amazon Red-necked Grebe Redpoll Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Red-throated Ant-Tanager Red-throated Loon Red-winged Blackbird Reed Bunting Resplendent Quetzal Ring-billed Gull Ringed Kingfisher Ring-necked Duck Ring-necked Pheasant Rivoli’s Hummingbird Roadside Hawk Rock Pigeon Rock Wren Rook 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 Quail-Dove Ruddy Treerunner Ruddy Turnstone Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher Ruff Ruffed Grouse Rufous-backed Wren Rufous-collared Sparrow Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Rufous-winged Sparrow Rufous-winged Woodpecker Russet Antshrike Rusty Blackbird Saltmarsh Sparrow Sanderling Sandhill Crane Sandwich Tern Savannah Sparrow Say’s Phoebe Scaled Quail Scaly-breasted Hummingbird Scarlet Macaw Scarlet Tanager Scarlet-rumped Tanager Scintillant Hummingbird Scott’s Oriole Seaside Sparrow Semipalmated Plover Semipalmated Sandpiper Sharp-shinned Hawk Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Short-billed Pigeon Short-eared Owl Short-tailed Hawk Silver-throated Tanager Slaty Flowerpiercer Slaty Spinetail Slaty-capped Flycatcher Smoky-brown Woodpecker Snail Kite Snow Bunting Snow Goose Snowcap Snowy Egret Snowy Owl Social Flycatcher Solitary Sandpiper Song Sparrow Sooty Tern Sooty Thrush Sooty-capped Chlorospingus Sora Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet Southern House Wren Southern Lapwing Southern Rough-winged Swallow Speckled Tanager Spectacled Owl Spot-crowned Euphonia Spot-crowned Woodcreeper Spotted Sandpiper Spotted Towhee Spotted Woodcreeper Spruce Grouse Steller’s Jay Stilt Sandpiper Streaked Flycatcher Streak-headed Woodcreeper Stripe-breasted Wren Stripe-tailed Hummingbird Stripe-throated Hermit Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Summer Tanager Sunbittern Surf Scoter Swainson’s Hawk Swainson’s Thrush Swallow-tailed Kite Swamp Sparrow Talamanca Hummingbird Tawny-capped Euphonia Tawny-chested Flycatcher Tawny-winged Woodcreeper Tennessee Warbler Thick-billed Kingbird Thick-billed Seed-Finch Thicket Antpitta Torrent Tyrannulet Townsend’s Solitaire Townsend’s Warbler Tree Swallow Tricolored Heron Tropical Kingbird Tropical Mockingbird Tropical Parula Tropical Royal Flycatcher Trumpeter Swan Tufted Duck Tufted Flycatcher Tufted Titmouse Tundra Swan Turkey Vulture Upland Sandpiper Variable Seedeater Varied Thrush Vaux’s Swift Veery Velvety Manakin Verdin Vermilion Flycatcher Vesper Sparrow Violet Sabrewing Violet-crowned Hummingbird Violet-green Swallow Violet-headed Hummingbird Virginia Rail Virginia’s Warbler Volcano Hummingbird Water Rail Wedge-billed Woodcreeper Western Bluebird Western Cattle-Egret Western Flycatcher Western Grebe Western Gull Western Kingbird Western Meadowlark Western Sandpiper Western Tanager Western Warbling Vireo Western Wood-Pewee White Ibis White Wagtail White-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Wood-Wren White-collared Manakin White-collared Swift White-crowned Parrot White-crowned Pigeon White-crowned Sparrow White-eared Ground-Sparrow White-eyed Vireo White-faced Ibis White-necked Jacobin White-ruffed Manakin White-rumped Sandpiper White-shouldered Tanager White-tailed Kite White-throated Flycatcher White-throated Mountain-gem White-throated Sparrow White-throated Swift White-tipped Dove White-tipped Sicklebill White-vented Euphonia 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 Tyrannulet Yellow-bellied Elaenia Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Yellow-bellied Siskin Yellow-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Magpie Yellow-breasted Chat Yellow-crowned Euphonia Yellow-crowned Night Heron Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet Yellow-eyed Junco Yellow-faced Grassquit Yellow-headed Blackbird Yellow-headed Caracara Yellowish Flycatcher Yellow-olive Flatbill Yellow-rumped Warbler Yellow-thighed Brushfinch Yellow-throated Euphonia Yellow-throated Toucan Yellow-throated Vireo Yellow-throated Warbler Yellow-winged Vireo |
Quick Notes:
- See the list of rules on the Our Journey to 5000 Birds page.
- List began in 2008 when I began recording sightings. Anything seen before then needs to be re-found!
- Not EVERY bird will have been shown in our videos, but the vast majority have!
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