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Illustrated Louisiana Check List
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This list contains pictures of birds found on the official Louisiana Checklist. These birds were photographed within the state except where noted. Birds marked with an asterisk (*) are currently on the review list of the Louisiana Bird Records Committee.
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GAVIIFORMES Gaviidae: loons Red-throated Loon * Common Loon PODICIPEDIFORMES Podicipedidae: grebes Least Grebe * Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe * Eared Grebe Western Grebe * PROCELLARIIFORMES Diomedeidae: albatrosses Yellow-nosed Albatross * Procellariidae: shearwaters Greater Shearwater * Cory's Shearwater * Manx Shearwater * Audubon's Shearwater * Hydrobatidae: storm-petrels Wilson's Storm-Petrel Leach's Storm-Petrel * Band-rumped Storm-Petrel PELECANIFORMES Sulidae: boobies, gannets Masked Booby * Brown Booby * Red-footed Booby * Northern Gannet Pelecanidae: pelicans American White Pelican Brown Pelican Phalacrocoracidae: cormorants Double-crested Cormorant Neotropic Cormorant Anhingidae: darters Anhinga Fregatidae: frigatebirds Magnificent Frigatebird CICONIIFORMES Ardeidae: bitterns, herons American Bittern Least Bittern Great Blue Heron ........."Great White" Heron * Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Reddish Egret Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Threskiornithidae: ibises, spoonbills White Ibis Glossy Ibis White-faced Ibis Roseate Spoonbill Ciconiidae: storks Wood Stork ANSERIFORMES Anatidae: swans, geese, ducks Fulvous Whistling-Duck Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Tundra Swan * Trumpeter Swan (Q) * Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross' Goose Brant * Canada Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Teal American Black Duck Mottled Duck Mallard Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall Eurasian Wigeon * American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup King Eider* Oldsquaw Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter * Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser * Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Masked Duck * FALCONIFORMES Cathartidae: American vultures Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Accipitridae: kites, eagles, hawks, and allies Osprey Swallow-tailed Kite White-tailed Kite Mississippi Kite Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk * Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Swainson's Hawk White-tailed Hawk * Harris' Hawk Zone-tailed Hawk * Red-tailed Hawk Ferruginous Hawk* Rough-legged Hawk * Golden Eagle * Falconidae: caracaras, falcons Crested Caracara* American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon GALLIFORMES Phasianidae: grouse, turkeys, quail Greater Prairie-Chicken (Q) * Wild Turkey Northern Bobwhite GRUIFORMES Rallidae: rails, gallinules, coots Yellow Rail Black Rail * Clapper Rail King Rail Virginia Rail Sora Purple Gallinule Common Moorhen American Coot Gruidae: craness Sandhill Crane Whooping Crane (Q) * CHARADRIIFORMES Charadriidae: plovers Black-bellied Plover American Golden Plover Mongolian Plover * Snowy Plover Wilson's Plover Semipalmated Plover Piping Plover Killdeer Haematopodidae: oystercatchers American Oystercatcher Recurvirostridae: stilts, avocets Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Scolopacidae: sandpipers, phalaropes, and allies Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Willet Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Eskimo Curlew (Q) * 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 * Laridae: skuas, gulls, terns, skimmers 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 * Lesser Black-backed Gull Glaucous Gull * Great Black-backed Gull * Black-legged Kittiwake * Sabine's Gull * 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 Alcidae: auks, murres, puffins Ancient Murrelet * COLUMBIFORMES Columbidae: pigeons, doves Rock Dove (I) Band-tailed Pigeon * Eurasian Collared Dove (I) White-winged Dove Mourning Dove Passenger Pigeon (E) Inca Dove Common Ground-Dove PSITTACIFORMES Psittacidae: parrots Carolina Parakeet (E) CUCULIFORMES Cuculidae: cuckoos, roadrunners, anis Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Greater Roadrunner Groove-billed Ani STRIGIFORMES Tytonidae: barn owls Barn Owl Strigidae: typical owls Flammulated Owl * Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Snowy Owl * Burrowing Owl Barred Owl Long-eared Owl * Short-eared Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl * CAPRIMULGIFORMES Caprimulgidae: goatsuckers Lesser Nighthawk * Common Nighthawk Antillean Nighthawk * Chuck-will's-widow Whip-poor-will APODIFORMES Apodidae: swift Chimney Swift Vaux's Swift * Trochilidae: hummingbirds Green Violetear * Broad-billed Hummingbird * Buff-bellied Hummingbird Blue-throated Hummingbird* Ruby-throated Hummingbird Black-chinned Hummingbird Anna's Hummingbird* Calliope Hummingbird Broad-tailed Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Allen's Hummingbird CORACIIFORMES Alcedinidae: kingfishers Belted Kingfisher Rigned Kingfisher * PICIFORMES Picidae: woodpeckers Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Red-naped Sapsucker* Williamson's Sapsucker * Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Red-cockaded Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Ivory-billed Woodpecker (E) * PASSERIFORMES Tyrannidae: tyrant flycatchers 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* 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 * Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird Gray Kingbird * Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Fork-tailed Flycatcher * Alaudidae: larks Horned Lark Hirundinidae: swallows Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Cave Swallow * Barn Swallow Corvidae: jays, crows Blue Jay Clark's Nutcracker * American Crow Fish Crow Paridae: titmice Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Sittidae: nuthatches Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown-headed Nuthatch Certhiidae: creepers Brown Creeper Troglodytidae: wrens Rock Wren * Carolina Wren Bewick's Wren House Wren Winter Wren Sedge Wren Marsh Wren Muscicapidae: muscicapids Slyviinae: kinglets, gnatcatchers Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Turdinae: thrushes Northern Wheatear * Eastern Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire* Mountain Bluebird * Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Varied Thrush * Mimidae: mockingbirds, thrashers, and allies Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Sage Thrasher * Brown Thrasher Curve-billed Thrasher * Motacillidae: pipits White Wagtail * American Pipit Sprague's Pipit Bombycillidae: waxwings Cedar Waxwing Laniidae: shrikes Loggerhead Shrike Sturnidae: starlings European Starling (I) Vireonidae: vireos White-eyed Vireo Bell's Vireo* Solitary Vireo Plumbeous Vireo * Yellow-throated Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Yellow-green Vireo* Black-whiskered Vireo * Parulidae: wood-warblers 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 Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler * Townsend's Warbler * Hermit Warbler * Black-throated Green 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 Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Mourning Warbler MacGillivray's Warbler * Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Red-faced Warbler * Painted Redstart * Yellow-breasted Chat Thraupidae: tanagers Hepatic Tanager * Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Western Tanager * Cardinalidae: cardinals, grosbeaks, and allies Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Black-headed Grosbeak* Blue Bunting * Blue Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting * Indigo Bunting Painted Bunting Dickcissel Emberizidae: emberizines Green-tailed Towhee * Eastern Towhee Spotted Towhee* Bachman's Sparrow American Tree Sparrow * Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Brewer's Sparrow * Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Lark Bunting * Savannah Sparrow Baird's Sparrow * Grasshopper Sparrow Henslow's Sparrow Leconte's Sparrow Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow Seaside Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow * White-crowned Sparrow Harris' Sparrow Dark-eyed "Slate-colored" Junco McCown's Longspur * Lapland Longspur Smith's Longspur * Chestnut-collared Longspur * Icteridae: icterines Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Western Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Great-tailed Grackle Boat-tailed Grackle Common Grackle Shiny Cowbird * Bronzed Cowbird Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Hooded Oriole * Baltimore Oriole Bullock's Oriole* Scott's Oriole * Fringillidae: cardueline finches, and allies Carduelinae: finches Purple Finch House Finch(I) Red Crossbill * Pine Siskin Lesser Goldfinch * American Goldfinch Evening Grosbeak Ploceidae: weavers House Sparrow (I) |
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