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Official Louisiana Field Check-list
Compiled by Donna L. Dittmann,
Secretary, Louisiana Bird Records Committee
(April 2006)

Date________________Time___________Location_______________________

Weather__________________________________________________________

Observers_________________________________________________________

Notes_____________________________________________________________

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_____Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
_____Fulvous Whistling-Duck
_____Greater White-fronted Goose
_____Snow Goose
............"Blue" Goose
_____Ross's Goose
_____Cackling Goose
_____Canada Goose
_____Brant *
_____Trumpeter Swan (Q) *
_____Tundra Swan *
_____Wood Duck
_____Gadwall
_____Eurasian Wigeon *
_____American Wigeon
_____American Black Duck
_____Mallard
_____Mottled Duck
_____Blue-winged Teal
_____Cinnamon Teal *
_____Northern Shoveler
_____Northern Pintail
_____Green-winged Teal
_____Canvasback
_____Redhead
_____Ring-necked Duck
_____Greater Scaup
_____Lesser Scaup
_____King Eider *
_____Surf Scoter
_____White-winged Scoter *
_____Black Scoter
_____Long-tailed Duck
_____Bufflehead
_____Common Goldeneye
_____Hooded Merganser
_____Common Merganser *
_____Red-breasted Merganser
_____Masked Duck *
_____Ruddy Duck

_____Greater Prairie-Chicken (Q) *
_____Wild Turkey
_____Northern Bobwhite
_____Common Loon
_____Least Grebe *
_____Pied-billed Grebe
_____Horned Grebe
_____Red-necked Grebe *
_____Eared Grebe
_____Western Grebe *
_____Yellow-nosed Albatross *
_____Cory’s Shearwater *
_____Greater Shearwater *
_____Manx Shearwater *
_____Audubon's Shearwater *
_____Wilson's Storm-Petrel
_____Leach's Storm-Petrel *
_____Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
_____Red-billed Tropicbird *
_____Masked Booby
_____Brown Booby *
_____Red-footed Booby *
_____Northern Gannet
_____American White Pelican
_____Brown Pelican
_____Neotropic Cormorant
_____Double-crested Cormorant
_____Anhinga
_____Magnificent Frigatebird
_____American Bittern
_____Least Bittern
_____Great Blue Heron
_____Great Egret
_____Snowy Egret
_____Little Blue Heron
_____Tricolored Heron
_____Reddish Egret
_____Cattle Egret
_____Green Heron
_____Black-crowned Night-Heron

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_____Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
_____White Ibis
_____Glossy Ibis
_____White-faced Ibis
.......…..Plegadis, sp.
_____Roseate Spoonbill
_____Wood Stork
_____Black Vulture
_____Turkey Vulture
_____Osprey
_____Swallow-tailed Kite
_____White-tailed Kite
_____Mississippi Kite
_____Bald Eagle
_____Northern Harrier
_____Sharp-shinned Hawk
_____Cooper's Hawk
_____Northern Goshawk *
_____Harris’s Hawk *
_____Red-shouldered Hawk
_____Broad-winged Hawk
_____Swainson's Hawk
_____White-tailed Hawk *
_____Zone-tailed Hawk *
_____Red-tailed Hawk
_____Ferruginous Hawk *
_____Rough-legged Hawk *
_____Golden Eagle *
_____Crested Caracara *
_____American Kestrel
_____Merlin
_____Peregrine Falcon
_____Yellow Rail
_____Black Rail *
_____Clapper Rail
_____King Rail
_____Virginia Rail
_____Sora
_____Purple Gallinule
_____Common Moorhen
_____American Coot
_____Sandhill Crane
_____Whooping Crane (Q) *
_____Black-bellied Plover
_____American Golden-Plover
_____Lesser Sand-Plover *
_____Snowy Plover
_____Wilson's Plover
_____Semipalmated Plover
_____Piping Plover
_____Killdeer

_____American Oystercatcher
_____Black-necked Stilt
_____American Avocet
_____Greater Yellowlegs
_____Lesser Yellowlegs
_____Solitary Sandpiper
_____Willet
_____Spotted Sandpiper
_____Upland Sandpiper
_____Eskimo Curlew (E?) *
_____Whimbrel
_____Long-billed Curlew
_____Black-tailed Godwit *
_____Hudsonian Godwit
_____Marbled Godwit
_____Ruddy Turnstone
_____Red Knot
_____Sanderling
_____Semipalmated Sandpiper
_____Western Sandpiper
_____Least Sandpiper
_____White-rumped Sandpiper
_____Baird's Sandpiper
_____Pectoral Sandpiper
_____Purple Sandpiper *
_____Dunlin
_____Curlew Sandpiper *
_____Stilt Sandpiper
_____Buff-breasted Sandpiper
_____Ruff *
_____Short-billed Dowitcher
_____Long-billed Dowitcher
_____Common Snipe
_____American Woodcock
_____Wilson's Phalarope
_____Red-necked Phalarope *
_____Red Phalarope *
_____Pomarine Jaeger
_____Parasitic Jaeger *
_____Long-tailed Jaeger *
_____Laughing Gull
_____Franklin's Gull
_____Little Gull *
_____Bonaparte's Gull
_____Ring-billed Gull
_____California Gull *
_____Herring Gull
_____Thayer's Gull *
_____Kelp Gull *
_____Lesser Black-backed Gull

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_____Glaucous Gull *
_____Great Black-backed Gull *
_____Kelp Gull *
_____Sabine's Gull *
_____Black-legged Kittiwake *
_____Gull-billed Tern
_____Caspian Tern
_____Royal Tern
_____Sandwich Tern
_____Common Tern
_____Arctic Tern *
_____Forster's Tern
_____Least Tern
_____Bridled Tern
_____Sooty Tern
_____Black Tern
_____Brown Noddy *
_____Black Skimmer
_____Ancient Murrelet *
_____Rock Pigeon (I)
_____Band-tailed Pigeon *
_____Eurasian Collared-Dove (I)
_____White-winged Dove
_____Mourning Dove
_____Passenger Pigeon (E)
_____Inca Dove
_____Common Ground-Dove
_____Carolina Parakeet (E)
_____Black-billed Cuckoo
_____Yellow-billed Cuckoo
_____Greater Roadrunner
_____Groove-billed Ani
_____Lesser Nighthawk *
_____Common Nighthawk
_____Antillean Nighthawk *
_____Chuck-will's-widow
_____Whip-poor-will
_____Barn Owl
_____Flammulated Owl *
_____Eastern Screech-Owl
_____Great Horned Owl
_____Snowy Owl *
_____Burrowing Owl *
_____Barred Owl
_____Long-eared Owl *
_____Short-eared Owl
_____Northern Saw-whet Owl *
_____Chimney Swift
_____Vaux's Swift *

_____Green Violet-ear *
_____Broad-billed Hummingbird *
_____Buff-bellied Hummingbird
_____Blue-throated Hummingbird *
_____Magnificent Hummingbird *
_____Ruby-throated Hummingbird
_____Black-chinned Hummingbird
_____Anna's Hummingbird *
_____Calliope Hummingbird
_____Broad-tailed Hummingbird
_____Rufous Hummingbird
_____Allen's Hummingbird *
_____Ringed Kingfisher *
_____Belted Kingfisher
_____Red-headed Woodpecker
_____Red-bellied Woodpecker
_____Williamson's Sapsucker *
_____Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
_____Red-naped Sapsucker *
_____Downy Woodpecker
_____Hairy Woodpecker
_____Red-cockaded Woodpecker
_____Northern "Yellow-shafted" Flicker
............."Red-shafted" Flicker *
_____Pileated Woodpecker
_____Ivory-billed Woodpecker (E?) *
_____Olive-sided Flycatcher
_____Western Wood-Pewee *
_____Eastern Wood-Pewee
_____Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
_____Acadian Flycatcher
_____Alder Flycatcher
_____Willow Flycatcher *
_____Least Flycatcher
_____Hammond's Flycatcher *
_____Pacific-slope Flycatcher *
_____Cordilleran Flycatcher *
......…...Empidonax, sp.
_____Eastern Phoebe
_____Say's Phoebe *
_____Vermilion Flycatcher
_____Ash-throated Flycatcher
_____Great Crested Flycatcher
_____Brown-crested Flycatcher *
_____Great Kiskadee *
_____Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher *
_____Tropical Kingbird *
_____Couch's Kingbird *
_____Cassin's Kingbird *

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_____Western Kingbird
_____Eastern Kingbird
_____Gray Kingbird *
_____Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
_____Fork-tailed Flycatcher *
_____Loggerhead Shrike
_____White-eyed Vireo
_____Bell's Vireo *
_____Yellow-throated Vireo
_____Plumbeous Vireo *
_____Cassin's Vireo *
_____Blue-headed Vireo
_____Warbling Vireo
_____Philadelphia Vireo
_____Red-eyed Vireo
_____Yellow-green Vireo *
_____Black-whiskered Vireo *
_____Purple Martin
_____Tree Swallow
_____Northern Rough-winged Swallow
_____Bank Swallow
_____Cliff Swallow
_____Cave Swallow *
_____Barn Swallow
_____Blue Jay
_____Clark’s Nutcracker *
_____American Crow
_____Fish Crow
_____Horned Lark
_____Carolina Chickadee
_____Tufted Titmouse
_____Red-breasted Nuthatch
_____White-breasted Nuthatch
_____Brown-headed Nuthatch
_____Brown Creeper
_____Rock Wren *
_____Carolina Wren
_____Bewick's Wren
_____House Wren
_____Winter Wren
_____Sedge Wren
_____Marsh Wren
_____Golden-crowned Kinglet
_____Ruby-crowned Kinglet
_____Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
_____Northern Wheatear *
_____Eastern Bluebird
_____Mountain Bluebird *
_____Townsend's Solitaire *
_____Veery

_____Gray-cheeked Thrush
_____Swainson's Thrush
_____Hermit Thrush
_____Wood Thrush
_____American Robin
_____Varied Thrush *
_____Gray Catbird
_____Northern Mockingbird
_____Sage Thrasher *
_____Brown Thrasher
_____Curve-billed Thrasher *
_____European Starling (I)
_____White Wagtail *
_____American Pipit
_____Sprague's Pipit
_____Cedar Waxwing
_____Bachman's Warbler (E?) *
_____Blue-winged Warbler
_____Golden-winged Warbler
_____Tennessee Warbler
_____Orange-crowned Warbler
_____Nashville Warbler
_____Virginia's Warbler *
_____Lucy's Warbler *
_____Northern Parula
_____Tropical Parula *
_____Yellow Warbler
_____Chestnut-sided Warbler
_____Magnolia Warbler
_____Cape May Warbler
_____Black-throated Blue Warbler
_____Yellow-rumped "Myrtle" Warbler
............."Audubon's" Warbler
_____Black-throated Gray Warbler *
_____Black-throated Green Warbler
_____Townsend's Warbler *
_____Hermit Warbler *
_____Blackburnian Warbler
_____Yellow-throated Warbler
_____Pine Warbler
_____Prairie Warbler
_____Palm Warbler
_____Bay-breasted Warbler
_____Blackpoll Warbler
_____Cerulean Warbler
_____Black-and-white Warbler
_____American Redstart
_____Prothonotary Warbler
_____Worm-eating Warbler
_____Swainson's Warbler

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_____Ovenbird
_____Northern Waterthrush
_____Louisiana Waterthrush
_____Kentucky Warbler
_____Connecticut Warbler *
_____Mourning Warbler
_____MacGillivray's Warbler *
_____Common Yellowthroat
_____Hooded Warbler
_____Wilson's Warbler
_____Canada Warbler
_____Red-faced Warbler *
_____Painted Redstart *
_____Yellow-breasted Chat
_____Hepatic Tanager *
_____Summer Tanager
_____Scarlet Tanager
_____Western Tanager *
_____Green-tailed Towhee *
_____Spotted Towhee*
_____Eastern Towhee
_____Bachman's Sparrow
_____American Tree Sparrow *
_____Chipping Sparrow
_____Clay-colored Sparrow
_____Brewer's Sparrow *
_____Field Sparrow
_____Vesper Sparrow
_____Lark Sparrow
_____Lark Bunting *
_____Baird's Sparrow *
_____Savannah Sparrow
_____Grasshopper Sparrow
_____Henslow's Sparrow
_____Le Conte's Sparrow
_____Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
_____Seaside Sparrow
_____Fox Sparrow
_____Song Sparrow
_____Lincoln's Sparrow
_____Swamp Sparrow
_____White-throated Sparrow
_____Harris's Sparrow
_____White-crowned Sparrow
_____Golden-crowned Sparrow *

_____Dark-eyed "Slate-colored" Junco
............"Gray-headed" Junco *
............"Oregon" Junco *
_____McCown's Longspur *
_____Lapland Longspur
_____Smith's Longspur *
_____Chestnut-collared Longspur *
_____Northern Cardinal
_____Rose-breasted Grosbeak
_____Black-headed Grosbeak *
_____Blue Bunting *
_____Blue Grosbeak
_____Lazuli Bunting *
_____Indigo Bunting
_____Varied Bunting *
_____Painted Bunting
_____Dickcissel
_____Bobolink
_____Red-winged Blackbird
_____Eastern Meadowlark
_____Western Meadowlark
_____Yellow-headed Blackbird
_____Rusty Blackbird
_____Brewer's Blackbird
_____Common Grackle
_____Boat-tailed Grackle
_____Great-tailed Grackle
_____Shiny Cowbird *
_____Bronzed Cowbird
_____Brown-headed Cowbird
_____Orchard Oriole
_____Hooded Oriole *
_____Baltimore Oriole
_____Bullock's Oriole *
_____Scott's Oriole *
_____Purple Finch
_____House Finch (I)
_____Red Crossbill *
_____Pine Siskin
_____Lesser Goldfinch *
_____American Goldfinch
_____Evening Grosbeak *
_____House Sparrow (I)

Not on State List (accepted records lacking hard evidence):
_____Red-throated Loon (H) *

TOTAL: 459

Notes:_____________________________________________________________

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*= species on Review List of the Louisiana Bird Records Committee
(E)= extinct; (Q)= formerly present or status in question
(I)= established introduced population, or records originate from established introduced population
(H) = Hypothetical, accepted record pre-dates specimen/photo policy for First State Records

Species order follows taxonomic sequence of Check-list of North American Birds 7th edition (AOU 1998) and as modified through the 45th Supplement (AOU 2004). Included for convenience are some additional major subspecies and forms that are known to occur in Louisiana; these are indicated in italics or by quotation marks.

Details of Review List species, or species not on this list, should be reported to: Secretary, Louisiana Bird Records Committee, c/o Museum of Natural Science, 119 Foster Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-3216; or submitted online at www.losbird.org.

April 2006

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