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@cox.net. Range maps updated as of September, 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
Quail	Vultures	Alcids	Jays, Magpies, Crows	Pipits
Pheasants	Flamingos	Pigeons, Doves	Larks	Waxwings
Grouse	Hawks, Kites & Eagles	Cuckoos	Swallows	Silky-Flycatchers
Turkeys	Falcons	Barn Owls	Chickadees, Titmice	Warblers
Loons	Rails, Gallinules	Owls	Bushtits	Sparrows
Grebes	Cranes	Goatsuckers	Nuthatches	Grosbeaks, Buntings
Pelicans	Plovers	Swifts	Creepers	Blackbirds, Orioles
Cormorants	Stilts, Avocets	Hummingbirds	Wrens	Northern Finches
Darters	Sandpipers	Kingfishers	Kinglets	Old World Sparrows
Frigatebirds	Jaegers	Woodpeckers	Gnatcatchers

Number
of
Counties

Species Name

	WHISTLING-DUCKS
13	Black-bellied Whistling Duck
6	Fulvous Whistling Duck
	GEESE, SWANS
89	Greater White-fronted Goose
99	Snow Goose
80	Ross's Goose
12	Brant
88	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
9	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
101	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
40	Long-tailed Duck
102	Bufflehead
94	Common Goldeneye
13	Barrow's Goldeneye
90	Hooded Merganser
87	Common Merganser
62	Red-breasted Merganser
104	Ruddy Duck
	QUAIL
13	Scaled Quail
105	Northern Bobwhite
	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
	LOONS
21	Red-throated Loon
22	Pacific Loon
66	Common Loon
6	Yellow-billed Loon
	GREBES
105	Pied-billed Grebe
71	Horned Grebe
19	Red-necked Grebe
96	Eared Grebe
61	Western Grebe
26	Clark's Grebe
	FLAMINGOS
2	American Flamingo
	PELICANS
92	American White Pelican
16	Brown Pelican
	CORMORANTS
15	Neotropic Cormorant
99	Double-crested Cormorant
	DARTERS
7	Anhinga
	FRIGATEBIRDS
5	Magnificent Frigatebird
	HERONS
74	American Bittern
44	Least Bittern
105	Great Blue Heron
90	Great Egret
74	Snowy Egret
76	Little Blue Heron
14	Tricolored Heron
2	Reddish Egret
90	Cattle Egret
103	Green Heron
91	Black-crowned Night-Heron
58	Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
	IBISES
7	White Ibis
7	Glossy Ibis
79	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
5	White-tailed Kite
83	Mississippi Kite
102	Bald Eagle
105	Northern Harrier
104	Sharp-shinned Hawk
105	Cooper's Hawk
66	Northern Goshawk
2	Gray Hawk
6	Harris's Hawk
53	Red-shouldered Hawk
79	Broad-winged Hawk
105	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
65	Peregrine Falcon
100	Prairie Falcon
	RAILS, GALLINULES
11	Yellow Rail
13	Black Rail
41	King Rail
68	Virginia Rail
74	Sora
11	Purple Gallinule
21	Common Moorhen
105	American Coot
	CRANES
90	Sandhill Crane
1	Common Crane
51	Whooping Crane
	PLOVERS
59	Black-bellied Plover
60	American Golden-Plover
43	Snowy Plover
2	[Wilson's Plover]
67	Semipalmated Plover
36	Piping Plover
105	Killdeer
21	Mountain Plover
	STILTS, AVOCETS
36	Black-Necked Stilt
90	American Avocet
	SANDPIPERS
105	Spotted Sandpiper
99	Solitary Sandpiper
1	Spotted Redshank
102	Greater Yellowlegs
86	Willet
105	Lesser Yellowlegs
101	Upland Sandpiper
8	Eskimo Curlew
21	Whimbrel
53	Long-billed Curlew
51	Hudsonian Godwit
55	Marbled Godwit
32	Ruddy Turnstone
16	Red Knot
56	Sanderling
93	Semipalmated Sandpiper
69	Western Sandpiper
99	Least Sandpiper
75	White-rumped Sandpiper
96	Baird's Sandpiper
94	Pectoral Sandpiper
44	Dunlin
3	Curlew Sandpiper
85	Stilt Sandpiper
48	Buff-breasted Sandpiper
7	Ruff
31	Short-billed Dowitcher
95	Long-billed Dowitcher
95	Wilson's Snipe
56	American Woodcock
95	Wilson's Phalarope
33	Red-necked Phalarope
12	Red Phalarope
	GULLS
16	Black-legged Kittiwake
22	Sabine's Gull
75	Bonaparte's Gull
7	Black-headed Gull
15	Little Gull
1	Ross's Gull
24	Laughing Gull
105	Franklin's Gull
5	Mew Gull
104	Ring-billed Gull
21	California Gull
65	Herring Gull
23	Thayer's Gull
5	Iceland Gull
12	Lesser Black-backed Gull
2	[Glaucous-winged Gull]
28	Glaucous Gull
7	Great Black-backed Gull
	TERNS
56	Least Tern
2	Gull-billed Tern
45	Caspian Tern
101	Black Tern
43	Common Tern
3	[Arctic Tern]
86	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
52	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
70	Barred Owl
74	Long-eared Owl
94	Short-eared Owl
35	Northern Saw-whet Owl
	GOATSUCKERS
1	[Lesser Nighthawk]
105	Common Nighthawk
65	Common Poorwill
64	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
11	Anna's Hummingbird
4	Costa's Hummingbird
13	Calliope Hummingbird
19	Broad-tailed Hummingbird
36	Rufous Hummingbird
1	Allen's Hummingbird
	KINGFISHERS
103	Belted Kingfisher
	WOODPECKERS
16	Lewis's Woodpecker
105	Red-headed Woodpecker
101	Red-bellied Woodpecker
2	Williamson's Sapsucker
84	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
7	Red-naped Sapsucker
8	Ladder-backed Woodpecker
105	Downy Woodpecker
105	Hairy Woodpecker
1	American Three-toed Woodpecker
105	Northern Flicker
45	Pileated Woodpecker
	FLYCATCHERS
76	Olive-sided Flycatcher
27	Western Wood-Pewee
92	Eastern Wood-Pewee
27	Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
38	Acadian Flycatcher
52	Alder Flycatcher
72	Willow Flycatcher
101	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
15	Vermilion Flycatcher
15	Ash-throated Flycatcher
103	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
72	Northern Shrike
	VIREOS
47	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
71	Blue-headed Vireo
105	Warbling Vireo
52	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
19	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
99	Bank Swallow
105	Cliff Swallow
5	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
74	Marsh Wren
	KINGLETS
96	Golden-crowned Kinglet
104	Ruby-crowned Kinglet
	GNATCATCHERS
99	Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
	THRUSHES
1	[Northern Wheatear]
105	Eastern Bluebird
5	Western Bluebird
77	Mountain Bluebird
75	Townsend's Solitaire
43	Veery
71	Gray-cheeked Thrush
102	Swainson's Thrush
76	Hermit Thrush
72	Wood Thrush
105	American Robin
19	Varied Thrush
	THRASHERS
103	Gray Catbird
105	Northern Mockingbird
13	Sage Thrasher
105	Brown Thrasher
23	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
25	Golden-winged Warbler
80	Tennessee Warbler
104	Orange-crowned Warbler
87	Nashville Warbler
6	Virginia's Warbler
72	Northern Parula
105	Yellow Warbler
57	Chestnut-sided Warbler
62	Magnolia Warbler
22	Cape May Warbler
31	Black-throated Blue Warbler
105	Yellow-rumped Warbler
13	Black-throated Gray Warbler
63	Black-throated Green Warbler
16	Townsend's Warbler
1	Hermit Warbler
44	Blackburnian Warbler
39	Yellow-throated Warbler
25	Pine Warbler
18	Prairie Warbler
46	Palm Warbler
36	Bay-breasted Warbler
82	Blackpoll Warbler
26	Cerulean Warbler
90	Black-and-White Warbler
94	American Redstart
55	Prothonotary Warbler
29	Worm-eating Warbler
5	Swainson's Warbler
77	Ovenbird
70	Northern Waterthrush
59	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
41	Canada Warbler
2	Painted Redstart
93	Yellow-breasted Chat
	SPARROWS
17	Green-tailed Towhee
102	Spotted Towhee
62	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
103	Savannah Sparrow
105	Grasshopper Sparrow
26	Baird's Sparrow
44	Henslow's Sparrow
64	Le Conte's Sparrow
26	Nelson's Sparrow
83	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
34	McCown's Longspur
102	Lapland Longspur
40	Smith's Longspur
61	Chestnut-collared Longspur
31	Snow Bunting
	GROSBEAKS, BUNTINGS
1	[Hepatic Tanager]
74	Summer Tanager
62	Scarlet Tanager
25	Western Tanager
104	Northern Cardinal
7	Pyrrhuloxia
92	Rose-breasted Grosbeak
69	Black-headed Grosbeak
105	Blue Grosbeak
69	Lazuli Bunting
103	Indigo Bunting
61	Painted Bunting
105	Dickcissel
	BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES
75	Bobolink
105	Red-winged Blackbird
94	Eastern Meadowlark
105	Western Meadowlark
100	Yellow-headed Blackbird
87	Rusty Blackbird
101	Brewer's Blackbird
105	Common Grackle
105	Great-tailed Grackle
105	Brown-headed Cowbird
105	Orchard Oriole
48	Bullock's Oriole
105	Baltimore Oriole
1	Scott's Oriole
	NORTHERN FINCHES
1	Brambling
1	[Gray-crowned Rosy-finch]
19	Pine Grosbeak
76	Purple Finch
8	Cassin's Finch
105	House Finch
71	Red Crossbill
28	White-winged Crossbill
45	Common Redpoll
103	Pine Siskin
13	Lesser Goldfinch
105	American Goldfinch
71	Evening Grosbeak
	OLD WORLD SPARROWS
105	House Sparrow

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Updated August 23, 2009 - Chuck Otte