Kansas Bird Species County Maps

Kansas Bird Species County Maps

A solid dot in the county indicates that the species has been reported from that county, an open circle indicates a breeding record for that species in that county. The number preceding the species name indicates in how many counties that species has been recorded. Bracketed [species names] indicate species that are hypothetical in Kansas. These species have been convincingly documented with written information, but yet to be substantiated with physical evidence, i.e. photo, video, specimen, etc. Please report any errors in these maps or problems accessing them to Chuck Otte, otte2 at cox dot net. Range maps updated as of March, 2009.

Species names in this colored type (lavender) have no breeding record for Kansas.
Species in this colored type (green) have breeding records for Kansas.

Map Legend: Solid black circle indicates sight record, open circle indicates breeding record. No circle in the county indicates no record at all for that county.

Whistling-Ducks	Herons	Gulls	Flycatchers	Thrushes
Geese, Swans	Ibises	Terns	Shrikes	Thrashers
Ducks	Storks	Skimmers	Vireos	Starlings
Pheasants	Vultures	Alcids	Jays, Magpies, Crows	Pipits
Grouse	Flamingos	Pigeons, Doves	Larks	Waxwings
Turkeys	Hawks, Kites & Eagles	Cuckoos	Swallows	Silky-Flycatchers
Quail	Falcons	Barn Owls	Chickadees, Titmice	Warblers
Loons	Rails, Gallinules	Owls	Bushtits	Tanagers
Grebes	Cranes	Goatsuckers	Nuthatches	Sparrows
Pelicans	Plovers	Swifts	Creepers	Grosbeaks, Buntings
Cormorants	Stilts, Avocets	Hummingbirds	Wrens	Blackbirds, Orioles
Darters	Sandpipers	Kingfishers	Kinglets	Northern Finches
Frigatebirds	Jaegers	Woodpeckers	Gnatcatchers	Old World Sparrows

Number
of
Counties

Species Name

	WHISTLING-DUCKS
11	Black-bellied Whistling Duck
6	Fulvous Whistling Duck
	GEESE, SWANS
89	Greater White-fronted Goose
99	Snow Goose
79	Ross's Goose
12	Brant
84	Cackling Goose
105	Canada Goose
51	Trumpeter Swan
51	Tundra Swan
	DUCKS
101	Wood Duck
105	Gadwall
8	[Eurasian Wigeon]
105	American Wigeon
49	American Black Duck
105	Mallard
8	Mottled Duck
105	Blue-winged Teal
69	Cinnamon Teal
105	Northern Shoveler
104	Northern Pintail
4	Garganey
105	Green-winged Teal
99	Canvasback
102	Redhead
99	Ring-necked Duck
1	[Tufted Duck]
62	Greater Scaup
104	Lesser Scaup
1	King Eider
1	Common Eider
1	Harlequin Duck
33	Surf Scoter
29	White-winged Scoter
27	Black Scoter
39	Long-tailed Duck
102	Bufflehead
92	Common Goldeneye
13	Barrow's Goldeneye
89	Hooded Merganser
87	Common Merganser
60	Red-breasted Merganser
104	Ruddy Duck
	PHEASANTS
104	Ring-necked Pheasant
	GROUSE
2	Ruffed Grouse
3	Sharp-tailed Grouse
77	Greater Prairie-Chicken
31	Lesser Prairie-Chicken
	TURKEYS
105	Wild Turkey
	QUAIL
13	Scaled Quail
105	Northern Bobwhite
	LOONS
21	Red-throated Loon
22	Pacific Loon
65	Common Loon
6	Yellow-billed Loon
	GREBES
105	Pied-billed Grebe
70	Horned Grebe
19	Red-necked Grebe
95	Eared Grebe
61	Western Grebe
26	Clark's Grebe
	FLAMINGOS
2	American Flamingo
	PELICANS
92	American White Pelican
14	Brown Pelican
	CORMORANTS
14	Neotropic Cormorant
99	Double-crested Cormorant
	DARTERS
7	Anhinga
	FRIGATEBIRDS
5	Magnificent Frigatebird
	HERONS
72	American Bittern
42	Least Bittern
105	Great Blue Heron
90	Great Egret
71	Snowy Egret
75	Little Blue Heron
14	Tricolored Heron
2	Reddish Egret
85	Cattle Egret
102	Green Heron
91	Black-crowned Night-Heron
58	Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
	IBISES
7	White Ibis
7	Glossy Ibis
76	White-faced Ibis
8	Roseate Spoonbill
	STORKS
10	Wood Stork
	VULTURES
11	Black Vulture
105	Turkey Vulture
	HAWKS, KITES, EAGLES
93	Osprey
10	Swallow-tailed Kite
3	White-tailed Kite
82	Mississippi Kite
102	Bald Eagle
105	Northern Harrier
104	Sharp-shinned Hawk
105	Cooper's Hawk
63	Northern Goshawk
2	Gray Hawk
6	Harris's Hawk
51	Red-shouldered Hawk
78	Broad-winged Hawk
104	Swainson's Hawk
105	Red-tailed Hawk
77	Ferruginous Hawk
105	Rough-legged Hawk
92	Golden Eagle
	FALCONS
105	American Kestrel
97	Merlin
10	Gyrfalcon
64	Peregrine Falcon
100	Prairie Falcon
	RAILS, GALLINULES
10	Yellow Rail
13	Black Rail
41	King Rail
67	Virginia Rail
74	Sora
19	Purple Gallinule
20	Common Moorhen
105	American Coot
	CRANES
90	Sandhill Crane
1	Common Crane
51	Whooping Crane
	PLOVERS
59	Black-bellied Plover
59	American Golden-Plover
42	Snowy Plover
2	[Wilson's Plover]
66	Semipalmated Plover
35	Piping Plover
105	Killdeer
20	Mountain Plover
	STILTS, AVOCETS
35	Black-Necked Stilt
90	American Avocet
	SANDPIPERS
105	Spotted Sandpiper
98	Solitary Sandpiper
1	Spotted Redshank
102	Greater Yellowlegs
82	Willet
105	Lesser Yellowlegs
101	Upland Sandpiper
6	Eskimo Curlew
20	Whimbrel
53	Long-billed Curlew
51	Hudsonian Godwit
53	Marbled Godwit
31	Ruddy Turnstone
15	Red Knot
54	Sanderling
92	Semipalmated Sandpiper
69	Western Sandpiper
97	Least Sandpiper
75	White-rumped Sandpiper
96	Baird's Sandpiper
93	Pectoral Sandpiper
42	Dunlin
3	Curlew Sandpiper
85	Stilt Sandpiper
47	Buff-breasted Sandpiper
7	Ruff
30	Short-billed Dowitcher
95	Long-billed Dowitcher
96	Wilson's Snipe
56	American Woodcock
95	Wilson's Phalarope
32	Red-necked Phalarope
12	Red Phalarope
	GULLS
15	Black-legged Kittiwake
20	Sabine's Gull
75	Bonaparte's Gull
7	Black-headed Gull
14	Little Gull
1	Ross's Gull
24	Laughing Gull
104	Franklin's Gull
5	Mew Gull
104	Ring-billed Gull
21	California Gull
63	Herring Gull
23	Thayer's Gull
5	Iceland Gull
12	Lesser Black-backed Gull
2	[Glaucous-winged Gull]
28	Glaucous Gull
6	Great Black-backed Gull
	TERNS
54	Least Tern
2	Gull-billed Tern
44	Caspian Tern
100	Black Tern
43	Common Tern
3	[Arctic Tern]
84	Forster's Tern
	SKIMMERS
3	Black Skimmer
	JAEGERS
8	Pomarine Jaeger
10	Parasitic Jaeger
3	Long-tailed Jaeger
	ALCIDS
1	[Long-billed Murrelet]
	PIGEONS, DOVES
105	Rock Pigeon
3	Band-tailed Pigeon
105	Eurasian Collared-Dove
51	White-winged Dove
105	Mourning Dove
25	Inca Dove
16	Common Ground-Dove
	CUCKOOS
105	Yellow-billed Cuckoo
86	Black-billed Cuckoo
38	Greater Roadrunner
14	Groove-billed Ani
	BARN OWLS
91	Barn Owl
	OWLS
1	[Flammulated Owl]
1	Western Screech-Owl
102	Eastern Screech-Owl
105	Great Horned Owl
64	Snowy Owl
80	Burrowing Owl
69	Barred Owl
74	Long-eared Owl
94	Short-eared Owl
35	Northern Saw-whet Owl
	GOATSUCKERS
1	[Lesser Nighthawk]
105	Common Nighthawk
62	Common Poorwill
63	Chuck-will's-widow
55	Whip-poor-will
	SWIFTS
105	Chimney Swift
8	White-throated Swift
	HUMMINGBIRDS
2	Broad-billed Hummingbird
3	Magnificent Hummingbird
84	Ruby-throated Hummingbird
10	Black-chinned Hummingbird
9	Anna's Hummingbird
4	Costa's Hummingbird
13	Calliope Hummingbird
18	Broad-tailed Hummingbird
35	Rufous Hummingbird
1	Allen's Hummingbird
	KINGFISHERS
103	Belted Kingfisher
	WOODPECKERS
16	Lewis's Woodpecker
105	Red-headed Woodpecker
100	Red-bellied Woodpecker
2	Williamson's Sapsucker
82	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
7	Red-naped Sapsucker
9	Ladder-backed Woodpecker
105	Downy Woodpecker
105	Hairy Woodpecker
1	American Three-toed Woodpecker
105	Northern Flicker
45	Pileated Woodpecker
	FLYCATCHERS
75	Olive-sided Flycatcher
27	Western Wood-Pewee
92	Eastern Wood-Pewee
27	Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
38	Acadian Flycatcher
49	Alder Flycatcher
71	Willow Flycatcher
100	Least Flycatcher
8	Hammond's Flycatcher
2	Gray Flycatcher
13	Dusky Flycatcher
8	Cordilleran Flycatcher
1	[Black Phoebe]
101	Eastern Phoebe
67	Say's Phoebe
12	Vermilion Flycatcher
15	Ash-throated Flycatcher
102	Great Crested Flycatcher
1	Great Kiskadee
12	Cassin's Kingbird
105	Western Kingbird
105	Eastern Kingbird
104	Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
1	[Fork-tailed Flycatcher]
	SHRIKES
105	Loggerhead Shrike
71	Northern Shrike
	VIREOS
46	White-eyed Vireo
102	Bell's Vireo
1	Black-capped Vireo
1	Gray Vireo
53	Yellow-throated Vireo
3	Plumbeous Vireo
8	Cassin's Vireo
70	Blue-headed Vireo
105	Warbling Vireo
51	Philadelphia Vireo
99	Red-eyed Vireo
	JAYS, MAGPIES, CROWS
15	Steller's Jay
105	Blue Jay
13	Western Scrub-Jay
1	Mexican Jay
28	Pinyon Jay
23	Clark's Nutcracker
81	Black-billed Magpie
105	American Crow
17	Fish Crow
32	Chihuahuan Raven
4	Common Raven
	LARKS
105	Horned Lark
	SWALLOWS
100	Purple Martin
97	Tree Swallow
6	Violet-green Swallow
105	N. Rough-winged Swallow
98	Bank Swallow
105	Cliff Swallow
4	Cave Swallow
105	Barn Swallow
	CHICKADEES, TITMICE
25	Carolina Chickadee
104	Black-capped Chickadee
10	Mountain Chickadee
1	[Juniper Titmouse]
69	Tufted Titmouse
	BUSHTITS
8	Bushtit
	NUTHATCHES
95	Red-breasted Nuthatch
105	White-breasted Nuthatch
9	Pygmy Nuthatch
1	Brown-headed Nuthatch
	CREEPERS
96	Brown Creeper
	WRENS
61	Rock Wren
3	Canyon Wren
93	Carolina Wren
84	Bewick's Wren
105	House Wren
87	Winter Wren
54	Sedge Wren
73	Marsh Wren
	KINGLETS
96	Golden-crowned Kinglet
104	Ruby-crowned Kinglet
	GNATCATCHERS
98	Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
	THRUSHES
1	[Northern Wheatear]
105	Eastern Bluebird
5	Western Bluebird
77	Mountain Bluebird
75	Townsend's Solitaire
43	Veery
70	Gray-cheeked Thrush
102	Swainson's Thrush
74	Hermit Thrush
72	Wood Thrush
105	American Robin
19	Varied Thrush
	THRASHERS
103	Gray Catbird
105	Northern Mockingbird
13	Sage Thrasher
105	Brown Thrasher
22	Curve-billed Thrasher
	STARLINGS
105	European Starling
	PIPITS
97	American Pipit
48	Sprague's Pipit
	WAXWlNGS
40	Bohemian Waxwing
105	Cedar Waxwing
	SILKY-FLYCATCHERS
2	Phainopepla
	WARBLERS
21	Blue-winged Warbler
24	Golden-winged Warbler
80	Tennessee Warbler
103	Orange-crowned Warbler
87	Nashville Warbler
6	Virginia's Warbler
72	Northern Parula
105	Yellow Warbler
54	Chestnut-sided Warbler
60	Magnolia Warbler
22	Cape May Warbler
30	Black-throated Blue Warbler
105	Yellow-rumped Warbler
13	Black-throated Gray Warbler
62	Black-throated Green Warbler
16	Townsend's Warbler
1	Hermit Warbler
44	Blackburnian Warbler
37	Yellow-throated Warbler
25	Pine Warbler
18	Prairie Warbler
44	Palm Warbler
36	Bay-breasted Warbler
82	Blackpoll Warbler
25	Cerulean Warbler
88	Black-and-White Warbler
94	American Redstart
54	Prothonotary Warbler
29	Worm-eating Warbler
5	Swainson's Warbler
75	Ovenbird
69	Northern Waterthrush
58	Louisiana Waterthrush
51	Kentucky Warbler
13	Connecticut Warbler
54	Mourning Warbler
24	MacGillivray's Warbler
103	Common Yellowthroat
38	Hooded Warbler
91	Wilson's Warbler
40	Canada Warbler
2	Painted Redstart
93	Yellow-breasted Chat
	TANAGERS
1	[Hepatic Tanager]
73	Summer Tanager
62	Scarlet Tanager
25	Western Tanager
	SPARROWS
17	Green-tailed Towhee
101	Spotted Towhee
61	Eastern Towhee
1	Canyon Towhee
35	Cassin's Sparrow
2	Bachman's Sparrow
7	Rufous-crowned Sparrow
105	American Tree Sparrow
105	Chipping Sparrow
104	Clay-colored Sparrow
14	Brewer's Sparrow
101	Field Sparrow
105	Vesper Sparrow
105	Lark Sparrow
6	Black-throated Sparrow
2	Sage Sparrow
77	Lark Bunting
102	Savannah Sparrow
105	Grasshopper Sparrow
26	Baird's Sparrow
43	Henslow's Sparrow
62	Le Conte's Sparrow
26	Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
82	Fox Sparrow
105	Song Sparrow
103	Lincoln's Sparrow
81	Swamp Sparrow
95	White-throated Sparrow
105	Harris's Sparrow
105	White-crowned Sparrow
17	Golden-crowned Sparrow
105	Dark-eyed Junco
33	McCown's Longspur
102	Lapland Longspur
39	Smith's Longspur
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