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. Maps updated as of
March, 2012.
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 |
Darters |
Terns |
Flycatchers |
Thrushes |
|
Geese, Swans |
Pelicans |
Skimmers |
Shrikes |
Thrashers |
|
Ducks |
Herons |
Jaegers |
Vireos |
Starlings |
|
Quail |
Ibises |
Alcids |
Jays, Magpies, Crows |
Pipits |
|
Pheasants |
Vultures |
Pigeons, Doves |
Larks |
Waxwings |
|
Grouse |
Osprey, Hawks, Kites & Eagles |
Cuckoos |
Swallows |
Silky-Flycatchers |
|
Turkeys |
Falcons |
Barn Owls |
Chickadees, Titmice |
Longspurs |
|
Loons |
Rails, Gallinules |
Owls |
Bushtits |
Warblers |
|
Grebes |
Cranes |
Nightjars |
Nuthatches |
Sparrows |
|
Flamingos |
Plovers |
Swifts |
Creepers |
Grosbeaks, Buntings |
|
Storks |
Stilts, Avocets |
Hummingbirds |
Wrens |
Blackbirds, Orioles |
|
Frigatebirds |
Sandpipers |
Kingfishers |
Gnatcatchers |
Finches |
|
Cormorants |
Gulls |
Woodpeckers |
Kinglets |
Old World Sparrows |
|
Number
of
Counties |
Species Name |
|
|
WHISTLING-DUCKS |
|
13 |
Black-bellied Whistling Duck |
|
6 |
Fulvous Whistling Duck |
|
|
GEESE, SWANS |
|
92 |
Greater White-fronted Goose |
|
100 |
Snow Goose |
|
85 |
Ross's Goose |
|
13 |
Brant |
|
91 |
Cackling Goose |
|
105 |
Canada Goose |
|
60 |
Trumpeter Swan |
|
51 |
Tundra Swan |
|
|
DUCKS |
|
103 |
Wood Duck |
|
105 |
Gadwall |
|
10 |
[Eurasian Wigeon] |
|
105 |
American Wigeon |
|
49 |
American Black Duck |
|
105 |
Mallard |
|
10 |
Mottled Duck |
|
105 |
Blue-winged Teal |
|
72 |
Cinnamon Teal |
|
105 |
Northern Shoveler |
|
104 |
Northern Pintail |
|
5 |
Garganey |
|
105 |
Green-winged Teal |
|
102 |
Canvasback |
|
103 |
Redhead |
|
103 |
Ring-necked Duck |
|
1 |
[Tufted Duck] |
|
65 |
Greater Scaup |
|
104 |
Lesser Scaup |
|
1 |
King Eider |
|
1 |
Common Eider |
|
1 |
Harlequin Duck |
|
35 |
Surf Scoter |
|
32 |
White-winged Scoter |
|
28 |
Black Scoter |
|
42 |
Long-tailed Duck |
|
105 |
Bufflehead |
|
95 |
Common Goldeneye |
|
17 |
Barrow's Goldeneye |
|
92 |
Hooded Merganser |
|
88 |
Common Merganser |
|
67 |
Red-breasted Merganser |
|
104 |
Ruddy Duck |
|
|
QUAIL |
|
14 |
Scaled Quail |
|
105 |
Northern Bobwhite |
|
|
PHEASANTS |
|
104 |
Ring-necked Pheasant |
|
|
GROUSE |
|
2 |
Ruffed Grouse |
|
3 |
Sharp-tailed Grouse |
|
80 |
Greater Prairie-Chicken |
|
36 |
Lesser Prairie-Chicken |
|
|
TURKEYS |
|
105 |
Wild Turkey |
|
|
LOONS |
|
22 |
Red-throated Loon |
|
23 |
Pacific Loon |
|
67 |
Common Loon |
|
5 |
Yellow-billed Loon |
|
|
GREBES |
|
105 |
Pied-billed Grebe |
|
74 |
Horned Grebe |
|
20 |
Red-necked Grebe |
|
97 |
Eared Grebe |
|
64 |
Western Grebe |
|
27 |
Clark's Grebe |
|
|
FLAMINGOS |
|
2 |
American Flamingo |
|
|
STORKS |
|
10 |
Wood Stork |
|
|
FRIGATEBIRDS |
|
6 |
Magnificent Frigatebird |
|
|
CORMORANTS |
|
19 |
Neotropic Cormorant |
|
101 |
Double-crested Cormorant |
|
|
DARTERS |
|
8 |
Anhinga |
|
|
PELICANS |
|
92 |
American White Pelican |
|
18 |
Brown Pelican |
|
|
HERONS |
|
75 |
American Bittern |
|
45 |
Least Bittern |
|
105 |
Great Blue Heron |
|
91 |
Great Egret |
|
80 |
Snowy Egret |
|
76 |
Little Blue Heron |
|
16 |
Tricolored Heron |
|
2 |
Reddish Egret |
|
91 |
Cattle Egret |
|
103 |
Green Heron |
|
94 |
Black-crowned Night-Heron |
|
61 |
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron |
|
|
IBISES |
|
8 |
White Ibis |
|
8 |
Glossy Ibis |
|
81 |
White-faced Ibis |
|
8 |
Roseate Spoonbill |
|
|
VULTURES |
|
11 |
Black Vulture |
|
105 |
Turkey Vulture |
|
|
OSPREY, HAWKS, KITES, & EAGLES |
|
94 |
Osprey |
|
10 |
Swallow-tailed Kite |
|
5 |
White-tailed Kite |
|
87 |
Mississippi Kite |
|
102 |
Bald Eagle |
|
105 |
Northern Harrier |
|
105 |
Sharp-shinned Hawk |
|
105 |
Cooper's Hawk |
|
66 |
Northern Goshawk |
|
6 |
Harris's Hawk |
|
55 |
Red-shouldered Hawk |
|
84 |
Broad-winged Hawk |
|
2 |
Gray Hawk |
|
105 |
Swainson's Hawk |
|
105 |
Red-tailed Hawk |
|
78 |
Ferruginous Hawk |
|
105 |
Rough-legged Hawk |
|
94 |
Golden Eagle |
|
|
FALCONS |
|
105 |
American Kestrel |
|
98 |
Merlin |
|
9 |
Gyrfalcon |
|
70 |
Peregrine Falcon |
|
101 |
Prairie Falcon |
|
|
RAILS, GALLINULES |
|
12 |
Yellow Rail |
|
14 |
Black Rail |
|
43 |
King Rail |
|
69 |
Virginia Rail |
|
76 |
Sora |
|
11 |
Purple Gallinule |
|
22 |
Common Gallinule |
|
105 |
American Coot |
|
|
CRANES |
|
92 |
Sandhill Crane |
|
1 |
Common Crane |
|
51 |
Whooping Crane |
|
|
PLOVERS |
|
67 |
Black-bellied Plover |
|
64 |
American Golden-Plover |
|
43 |
Snowy Plover |
|
3 |
[Wilson's Plover] |
|
72 |
Semipalmated Plover |
|
37 |
Piping Plover |
|
105 |
Killdeer |
|
21 |
Mountain Plover |
|
|
STILTS, AVOCETS |
|
41 |
Black-Necked Stilt |
|
93 |
American Avocet |
|
|
SANDPIPERS |
|
105 |
Spotted Sandpiper |
|
101 |
Solitary Sandpiper |
|
1 |
Spotted Redshank |
|
104 |
Greater Yellowlegs |
|
91 |
Willet |
|
105 |
Lesser Yellowlegs |
|
102 |
Upland Sandpiper |
|
8 |
Eskimo Curlew |
|
23 |
Whimbrel |
|
56 |
Long-billed Curlew |
|
54 |
Hudsonian Godwit |
|
59 |
Marbled Godwit |
|
34 |
Ruddy Turnstone |
|
17 |
Red Knot |
|
57 |
Sanderling |
|
96 |
Semipalmated Sandpiper |
|
74 |
Western Sandpiper |
|
103 |
Least Sandpiper |
|
81 |
White-rumped Sandpiper |
|
97 |
Baird's Sandpiper |
|
97 |
Pectoral Sandpiper |
|
47 |
Dunlin |
|
3 |
Curlew Sandpiper |
|
88 |
Stilt Sandpiper |
|
55 |
Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
|
7 |
Ruff |
|
35 |
Short-billed Dowitcher |
|
96 |
Long-billed Dowitcher |
|
98 |
Wilson's Snipe |
|
57 |
American Woodcock |
|
96 |
Wilson's Phalarope |
|
33 |
Red-necked Phalarope |
|
13 |
Red Phalarope |
|
|
GULLS |
|
16 |
Black-legged Kittiwake |
|
25 |
Sabine's Gull |
|
75 |
Bonaparte's Gull |
|
8 |
Black-headed Gull |
|
15 |
Little Gull |
|
1 |
Ross's Gull |
|
24 |
Laughing Gull |
|
105 |
Franklin's Gull |
|
11 |
Mew Gull |
|
104 |
Ring-billed Gull |
|
24 |
California Gull |
|
67 |
Herring Gull |
|
24 |
Thayer's Gull |
|
5 |
Iceland Gull |
|
15 |
Lesser Black-backed Gull |
|
2 |
[Glaucous-winged Gull] |
|
29 |
Glaucous Gull |
|
7 |
Great Black-backed Gull |
|
|
TERNS |
|
57 |
Least Tern |
|
2 |
Gull-billed Tern |
|
47 |
Caspian Tern |
|
101 |
Black Tern |
|
44 |
Common Tern |
|
4 |
[Arctic Tern] |
|
90 |
Forster's Tern |
|
|
SKIMMERS |
|
3 |
Black Skimmer |
|
|
JAEGERS |
|
10 |
Pomarine Jaeger |
|
9 |
Parasitic Jaeger |
|
3 |
Long-tailed Jaeger |
|
|
ALCIDS |
|
1 |
[Long-billed Murrelet] |
|
|
PIGEONS, DOVES |
|
105 |
Rock Pigeon |
|
3 |
Band-tailed Pigeon |
|
105 |
Eurasian Collared-Dove |
|
59 |
White-winged Dove |
|
105 |
Mourning Dove |
|
28 |
Inca Dove |
|
17 |
Common Ground-Dove |
|
|
CUCKOOS |
|
105 |
Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
|
87 |
Black-billed Cuckoo |
|
42 |
Greater Roadrunner |
|
14 |
Groove-billed Ani |
|
|
BARN OWLS |
|
92 |
Barn Owl |
|
|
OWLS |
|
1 |
[Flammulated Owl] |
|
1 |
Western Screech-Owl |
|
103 |
Eastern Screech-Owl |
|
105 |
Great Horned Owl |
|
66 |
Snowy Owl |
|
80 |
Burrowing Owl |
|
71 |
Barred Owl |
|
74 |
Long-eared Owl |
|
95 |
Short-eared Owl |
|
37 |
Northern Saw-whet Owl |
|
|
NIGHTJARS |
|
1 |
[Lesser Nighthawk] |
|
105 |
Common Nighthawk |
|
66 |
Common Poorwill |
|
64 |
Chuck-will's-widow |
|
56 |
Eastern
Whip-poor-will |
|
|
SWIFTS |
|
105 |
Chimney Swift |
|
8 |
White-throated Swift |
|
|
HUMMINGBIRDS |
|
3 |
Broad-billed Hummingbird |
|
3 |
Magnificent Hummingbird |
|
85 |
Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
|
13 |
Black-chinned Hummingbird |
|
12 |
Anna's Hummingbird |
|
4 |
Costa's Hummingbird |
|
16 |
Calliope Hummingbird |
|
20 |
Broad-tailed Hummingbird |
|
39 |
Rufous Hummingbird |
|
1 |
Allen's Hummingbird |
|
|
KINGFISHERS |
|
103 |
Belted Kingfisher |
|
|
WOODPECKERS |
|
16 |
Lewis's Woodpecker |
|
105 |
Red-headed Woodpecker |
|
102 |
Red-bellied Woodpecker |
|
4 |
Williamson's Sapsucker |
|
85 |
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 |
|
46 |
Pileated Woodpecker |
|
|
FLYCATCHERS |
|
79 |
Olive-sided Flycatcher |
|
27 |
Western Wood-Pewee |
|
94 |
Eastern Wood-Pewee |
|
30 |
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher |
|
40 |
Acadian Flycatcher |
|
55 |
Alder Flycatcher |
|
76 |
Willow Flycatcher |
|
102 |
Least Flycatcher |
|
9 |
Hammond's Flycatcher |
|
2 |
Gray Flycatcher |
|
14 |
Dusky Flycatcher |
|
9 |
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 |
|
13 |
Cassin's Kingbird |
|
105 |
Western Kingbird |
|
105 |
Eastern Kingbird |
|
104 |
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher |
|
1 |
[Fork-tailed Flycatcher] |
|
|
SHRIKES |
|
105 |
Loggerhead Shrike |
|
77 |
Northern Shrike |
|
|
VIREOS |
|
48 |
White-eyed Vireo |
|
102 |
Bell's Vireo |
|
1 |
Black-capped Vireo |
|
1 |
Gray Vireo |
|
56 |
Yellow-throated Vireo |
|
3 |
Plumbeous Vireo |
|
8 |
Cassin's Vireo |
|
72 |
Blue-headed Vireo |
|
105 |
Warbling Vireo |
|
52 |
Philadelphia Vireo |
|
99 |
Red-eyed Vireo |
|
|
JAYS, MAGPIES, CROWS |
|
28 |
Pinyon Jay |
|
15 |
Steller's Jay |
|
105 |
Blue Jay |
|
13 |
Western Scrub-Jay |
|
1 |
Mexican Jay |
|
24 |
Clark's Nutcracker |
|
82 |
Black-billed Magpie |
|
105 |
American Crow |
|
22 |
Fish Crow |
|
32 |
Chihuahuan Raven |
|
8 |
Common Raven |
|
|
LARKS |
|
105 |
Horned Lark |
|
|
SWALLOWS |
|
102 |
Purple Martin |
|
99 |
Tree Swallow |
|
6 |
Violet-green Swallow |
|
105 |
N. Rough-winged Swallow |
|
100 |
Bank Swallow |
|
105 |
Cliff Swallow |
|
5 |
Cave Swallow |
|
105 |
Barn Swallow |
|
|
CHICKADEES, TITMICE |
|
26 |
Carolina Chickadee |
|
104 |
Black-capped Chickadee |
|
11 |
Mountain Chickadee |
|
1 |
[Juniper Titmouse] |
|
70 |
Tufted Titmouse |
|
|
BUSHTITS |
|
8 |
Bushtit |
|
|
NUTHATCHES |
|
96 |
Red-breasted Nuthatch |
|
105 |
White-breasted Nuthatch |
|
9 |
Pygmy Nuthatch |
|
1 |
Brown-headed Nuthatch |
|
|
CREEPERS |
|
99 |
Brown Creeper |
|
|
WRENS |
|
61 |
Rock Wren |
|
3 |
Canyon Wren |
|
96 |
Carolina Wren |
|
84 |
Bewick's Wren |
|
105 |
House Wren |
|
88 |
Winter Wren |
|
58 |
Sedge Wren |
|
76 |
Marsh Wren |
|
|
GNATCATCHERS |
|
100 |
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
|
|
KINGLETS |
|
100 |
Golden-crowned Kinglet |
|
104 |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
|
|
OLD WORLD FLYCATCHERS |
|
1 |
[Northern Wheatear] |
|
|
THRUSHES |
|
105 |
Eastern Bluebird |
|
5 |
Western Bluebird |
|
78 |
Mountain Bluebird |
|
76 |
Townsend's Solitaire |
|
45 |
Veery |
|
71 |
Gray-cheeked Thrush |
|
102 |
Swainson's Thrush |
|
78 |
Hermit Thrush |
|
74 |
Wood Thrush |
|
105 |
American Robin |
|
20 |
Varied Thrush |
|
|
THRASHERS |
|
103 |
Gray Catbird |
|
105 |
Northern Mockingbird |
|
14 |
Sage Thrasher |
|
105 |
Brown Thrasher |
|
24 |
Curve-billed Thrasher |
|
|
STARLINGS |
|
105 |
European Starling |
|
|
PIPITS |
|
99 |
American Pipit |
|
52 |
Sprague's Pipit |
|
|
WAXWlNGS |
|
40 |
Bohemian Waxwing |
|
105 |
Cedar Waxwing |
|
|
SILKY-FLYCATCHERS |
|
2 |
Phainopepla |
|
|
LONGSPURS |
|
102 |
Lapland Longspur |
|
62 |
Chestnut-collared Longspur |
|
44 |
Smith's Longspur |
|
37 |
McCown's Longspur |
|
38 |
Snow Bunting |
|
|
WARBLERS |
|
81 |
Ovenbird |
|
30 |
Worm-eating Warbler |
|
60 |
Louisiana Waterthrush |
|
73 |
Northern Waterthrush |
|
27 |
Golden-winged Warbler |
|
22 |
Blue-winged Warbler |
|
91 |
Black-and-White Warbler |
|
56 |
Prothonotary Warbler |
|
6 |
Swainson's Warbler |
|
82 |
Tennessee Warbler |
|
104 |
Orange-crowned Warbler |
|
91 |
Nashville Warbler |
|
6 |
Virginia's Warbler |
|
13 |
Connecticut Warbler |
|
24 |
MacGillivray's Warbler |
|
56 |
Mourning Warbler |
|
51 |
Kentucky Warbler |
|
103 |
Common Yellowthroat |
|
40 |
Hooded Warbler |
|
96 |
American Redstart |
|
22 |
Cape May Warbler |
|
26 |
Cerulean Warbler |
|
74 |
Northern Parula |
|
63 |
Magnolia Warbler |
|
36 |
Bay-breasted Warbler |
|
47 |
Blackburnian Warbler |
|
105 |
Yellow Warbler |
|
59 |
Chestnut-sided Warbler |
|
84 |
Blackpoll Warbler |
|
32 |
Black-throated Blue Warbler |
|
46 |
Palm Warbler |
|
26 |
Pine Warbler |
|
105 |
Yellow-rumped Warbler |
|
41 |
Yellow-throated Warbler |
|
19 |
Prairie Warbler |
|
13 |
Black-throated Gray Warbler |
|
18 |
Townsend's Warbler |
|
1 |
Hermit Warbler |
|
64 |
Black-throated Green Warbler |
|
44 |
Canada Warbler |
|
95 |
Wilson's Warbler |
|
3 |
Painted Redstart |
|
93 |
Yellow-breasted Chat |
|
|
SPARROWS |
|
17 |
Green-tailed Towhee |
|
104 |
Spotted Towhee |
|
68 |
Eastern Towhee |
|
8 |
Rufous-crowned Sparrow |
|
1 |
Canyon Towhee |
|
43 |
Cassin's Sparrow |
|
2 |
Bachman's Sparrow |
|
105 |
American Tree Sparrow |
|
105 |
Chipping Sparrow |
|
105 |
Clay-colored Sparrow |
|
16 |
Brewer's Sparrow |
|
102 |
Field Sparrow |
|
105 |
Vesper Sparrow |
|
105 |
Lark Sparrow |
|
6 |
Black-throated Sparrow |
|
2 |
Sage Sparrow |
|
79 |
Lark Bunting |
|
105 |
Savannah Sparrow |
|
105 |
Grasshopper Sparrow |
|
29 |
Baird's Sparrow |
|
47 |
Henslow's Sparrow |
|
67 |
Le Conte's Sparrow |
|
27 |
Nelson's Sparrow |
|
85 |
Fox Sparrow |
|
105 |
Song Sparrow |
|
103 |
Lincoln's Sparrow |
|
84 |
Swamp Sparrow |
|
97 |
White-throated Sparrow |
|
105 |
Harris's Sparrow |
|
105 |
White-crowned Sparrow |
|
17 |
Golden-crowned Sparrow |
|
105 |
Dark-eyed Junco |
|
|
GROSBEAKS, BUNTINGS |
|
1 |
[Hepatic Tanager] |
|
79 |
Summer Tanager |
|
62 |
Scarlet Tanager |
|
30 |
Western Tanager |
|
105 |
Northern Cardinal |
|
7 |
Pyrrhuloxia |
|
94 |
Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
|
71 |
Black-headed Grosbeak |
|
105 |
Blue Grosbeak |
|
73 |
Lazuli Bunting |
|
103 |
Indigo Bunting |
|
62 |
Painted Bunting |
|
105 |
Dickcissel |
|
|
BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES |
|
77 |
Bobolink |
|
105 |
Red-winged Blackbird |
|
94 |
Eastern Meadowlark |
|
105 |
Western Meadowlark |
|
102 |
Yellow-headed Blackbird |
|
90 |
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 |
|
|
FINCHES |
|
1 |
Brambling |
|
1 |
[Gray-crowned
Rosy-finch] |
|
21 |
Pine Grosbeak |
|
76 |
Purple Finch |
|
9 |
Cassin's Finch |
|
105 |
House Finch |
|
71 |
Red Crossbill |
|
28 |
White-winged Crossbill |
|
45 |
Common Redpoll |
|
103 |
Pine Siskin |
|
14 |
Lesser Goldfinch |
|
105 |
American Goldfinch |
|
71 |
Evening Grosbeak |
|
|
OLD WORLD SPARROWS |
|
105 |
House Sparrow |
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- Chuck Otte