Kansas Bird Species List |
Showing number
of counties seen in and |
number of
counties with confirmed breeding records |
Updated March
31, 2024 |
|
|
|
Number |
Species Name |
Counties |
of |
with confirmed |
Counties |
breeding records. |
|
WHISTLING-DUCKS |
|
45 |
Black-bellied Whistling Duck |
8 |
6 |
Fulvous Whistling Duck |
|
|
GEESE,
SWANS |
|
105 |
Snow Goose |
|
103 |
Ross's Goose |
|
100 |
Greater White-fronted Goose |
|
1 |
Taiga/Tundra Bean Goose |
|
15 |
Brant |
|
105 |
Cackling Goose |
|
105 |
Canada Goose |
105 |
82 |
Trumpeter Swan |
|
66 |
Tundra Swan |
|
|
DUCKS |
|
105 |
Wood Duck |
54 |
5 |
Garganey |
|
105 |
Blue-winged Teal |
36 |
88 |
Cinnamon Teal |
2 |
105 |
Northern Shoveler |
10 |
105 |
Gadwall |
13 |
13 |
Eurasian Wigeon |
|
105 |
American Wigeon |
3 |
105 |
Mallard |
78 |
1 |
Mexican Duck |
|
57 |
American Black Duck |
1 |
15 |
Mottled Duck |
2 |
105 |
Northern Pintail |
13 |
105 |
Green-winged Teal |
5 |
105 |
Canvasback |
2 |
105 |
Redhead |
5 |
105 |
Ring-necked Duck |
|
1 |
[Tufted Duck] |
|
92 |
Greater Scaup |
|
105 |
Lesser Scaup |
1 |
1 |
King Eider |
|
1 |
Common Eider |
|
1 |
Harlequin Duck |
|
52 |
Surf Scoter |
|
41 |
White-winged Scoter |
|
38 |
Black Scoter |
|
53 |
Long-tailed Duck |
|
105 |
Bufflehead |
|
101 |
Common Goldeneye |
|
24 |
Barrow's Goldeneye |
|
101 |
Hooded Merganser |
8 |
98 |
Common Merganser |
|
91 |
Red-breasted Merganser |
|
105 |
Ruddy Duck |
7 |
|
QUAIL |
|
105 |
Northern Bobwhite |
76 |
13 |
Scaled Quail |
7 |
|
TURKEY, GROUSE, PHEASANTS |
|
105 |
Wild Turkey |
71 |
2 |
Ruffed Grouse |
|
3 |
Sharp-tailed Grouse |
|
81 |
Greater Prairie-Chicken |
47 |
38 |
Lesser Prairie-Chicken |
29 |
105 |
Ring-necked Pheasant |
77 |
|
FLAMINGOS |
|
3 |
American
Flamingo |
|
|
GREBES |
|
105 |
Pied-billed Grebe |
27 |
94 |
Horned Grebe |
|
26 |
Red-necked Grebe |
|
103 |
Eared Grebe |
4 |
83 |
Western Grebe |
2 |
34 |
Clark's Grebe |
1 |
|
PIGEONS,
DOVES |
|
105 |
Rock Pigeon |
81 |
3 |
Band-tailed Pigeon |
|
105 |
Eurasian Collared-Dove |
32 |
32 |
Inca Dove |
1 |
19 |
Common Ground-Dove |
|
97 |
White-winged Dove |
10 |
105 |
Mourning Dove |
105 |
|
CUCKOOS |
|
14 |
Groove-billed Ani |
|
52 |
Greater Roadrunner |
11 |
105 |
Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
77 |
92 |
Black-billed Cuckoo |
22 |
|
NIGHTJARS |
|
1 |
[Lesser Nighthawk] |
|
105 |
Common Nighthawk |
45 |
77 |
Common Poorwill |
17 |
66 |
Chuck-will's-widow |
21 |
62 |
Eastern
Whip-poor-will |
17 |
1 |
[Mexican
Whip-poor-will] |
|
|
SWIFTS |
|
105 |
Chimney Swift |
57 |
9 |
White-throated Swift |
|
|
HUMMINGBIRDS |
|
2 |
Mexican
Violetear |
|
4 |
Rivoli's Hummingbird |
|
97 |
Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
27 |
19 |
Black-chinned Hummingbird |
1 |
17 |
Anna's Hummingbird |
|
5 |
Costa's Hummingbird |
|
28 |
Calliope Hummingbird |
|
55 |
Rufous Hummingbird |
|
1 |
Allen's Hummingbird |
|
31 |
Broad-tailed Hummingbird |
|
5 |
Broad-billed Hummingbird |
|
|
RAILS,
GALLINULES |
|
45 |
King Rail |
15 |
83 |
Virginia Rail |
9 |
90 |
Sora |
7 |
29 |
Common Gallinule |
8 |
105 |
American Coot |
22 |
12 |
Purple Gallinule |
|
15 |
Yellow Rail |
|
19 |
Black Rail |
7 |
|
LIMPKINS |
|
15 |
Limpkin |
|
|
CRANES |
|
100 |
Sandhill Crane |
|
1 |
Common Crane |
|
62 |
Whooping Crane |
|
|
STILTS,
AVOCETS |
|
76 |
Black-Necked Stilt |
9 |
105 |
American Avocet |
16 |
|
PLOVERS |
|
88 |
Black-bellied Plover |
|
86 |
American Golden-Plover |
|
105 |
Killdeer |
100 |
98 |
Semipalmated Plover |
|
54 |
Piping Plover |
5 |
3 |
[Wilson's Plover] |
|
22 |
Mountain Plover |
6 |
52 |
Snowy Plover |
9 |
|
SANDPIPERS |
|
105 |
Upland Sandpiper |
49 |
49 |
Whimbrel |
|
9 |
Eskimo Curlew |
|
65 |
Long-billed Curlew |
5 |
83 |
Hudsonian Godwit |
|
88 |
Marbled Godwit |
|
51 |
Ruddy Turnstone |
|
18 |
Red Knot |
|
7 |
Ruff |
|
102 |
Stilt Sandpiper |
|
3 |
Curlew Sandpiper |
|
1 |
Red-necked Stint |
|
85 |
Sanderling |
|
65 |
Dunlin |
|
1 |
Purple
Sandpiper |
|
105 |
Baird's Sandpiper |
|
2 |
Little Stint |
|
105 |
Least Sandpiper |
|
103 |
White-rumped Sandpiper |
|
77 |
Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
|
105 |
Pectoral Sandpiper |
|
105 |
Semipalmated Sandpiper |
|
88 |
Western Sandpiper |
|
60 |
Short-billed Dowitcher |
|
104 |
Long-billed Dowitcher |
|
69 |
American Woodcock |
18 |
104 |
Wilson's Snipe |
|
105 |
Spotted Sandpiper |
30 |
105 |
Solitary Sandpiper |
|
105 |
Lesser Yellowlegs |
|
103 |
Willet |
|
1 |
Spotted Redshank |
|
105 |
Greater Yellowlegs |
|
105 |
Wilson's Phalarope |
3 |
61 |
Red-necked Phalarope |
|
13 |
Red Phalarope |
|
|
JAEGERS |
|
11 |
Pomarine Jaeger |
|
11 |
Parasitic Jaeger |
|
5 |
Long-tailed Jaeger |
|
|
ALCIDS |
|
2 |
Long-billed Murrelet |
|
|
GULLS |
|
20 |
Black-legged Kittiwake |
|
35 |
Sabine's Gull |
|
92 |
Bonaparte's Gull |
|
8 |
Black-headed Gull |
|
20 |
Little Gull |
|
1 |
Ross's Gull |
|
30 |
Laughing Gull |
|
105 |
Franklin's Gull |
1 |
16 |
Short-billed
Gull |
|
105 |
Ring-billed Gull |
|
32 |
California Gull |
|
84 |
Herring Gull |
|
31 |
Iceland Gull |
|
36 |
Lesser Black-backed Gull |
|
2 |
[Glaucous-winged Gull] |
|
33 |
Glaucous Gull |
|
18 |
Great Black-backed Gull |
|
|
TERNS |
|
67 |
Least Tern |
16 |
2 |
Gull-billed Tern |
|
56 |
Caspian Tern |
|
105 |
Black Tern |
2 |
58 |
Common Tern |
|
5 |
[Arctic Tern] |
|
103 |
Forster's Tern |
2 |
1 |
Royal Tern |
|
|
SKIMMERS |
|
3 |
Black Skimmer |
|
|
LOONS |
|
29 |
Red-throated Loon |
|
26 |
Pacific Loon |
|
85 |
Common Loon |
|
7 |
Yellow-billed Loon |
|
|
STORKS |
|
11 |
Wood Stork |
|
|
FRIGATEBIRDS |
|
8 |
Magnificent Frigatebird |
|
|
BOOBIES |
|
1 |
Brown Booby |
|
|
DARTERS |
|
11 |
Anhinga |
|
|
CORMORANTS |
|
105 |
Double-crested Cormorant |
11 |
41 |
Neotropic Cormorant |
1 |
|
PELICANS |
|
103 |
American White Pelican |
|
21 |
Brown Pelican |
|
|
HERONS |
|
89 |
American Bittern |
5 |
56 |
Least Bittern |
10 |
105 |
Great Blue Heron |
90 |
100 |
Great Egret |
7 |
93 |
Snowy Egret |
6 |
85 |
Little Blue Heron |
10 |
18 |
Tricolored Heron |
2 |
2 |
Reddish Egret |
|
104 |
Cattle Egret |
8 |
103 |
Green Heron |
37 |
102 |
Black-crowned Night-Heron |
17 |
77 |
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron |
19 |
|
IBISES |
|
15 |
White Ibis |
|
22 |
Glossy Ibis |
|
103 |
White-faced Ibis |
4 |
13 |
Roseate Spoonbill |
|
|
VULTURES |
|
33 |
Black Vulture |
1 |
105 |
Turkey Vulture |
58 |
|
OSPREY,
HAWKS, KITES, & EAGLES |
|
100 |
Osprey |
1 |
7 |
White-tailed Kite |
1 |
27 |
Swallow-tailed Kite |
2 |
100 |
Golden Eagle |
9 |
105 |
Northern Harrier |
36 |
105 |
Sharp-shinned Hawk |
3 |
105 |
Cooper's Hawk |
43 |
73 |
American Goshawk |
|
103 |
Bald Eagle |
57 |
102 |
Mississippi Kite |
61 |
9 |
Harris's Hawk |
1 |
2 |
Gray Hawk |
|
70 |
Red-shouldered Hawk |
24 |
103 |
Broad-winged Hawk |
6 |
105 |
Swainson's Hawk |
61 |
105 |
Red-tailed Hawk |
100 |
105 |
Rough-legged Hawk |
|
84 |
Ferruginous Hawk |
18 |
|
BARN OWLS |
|
102 |
Barn Owl |
56 |
|
OWLS |
|
1 |
[Flammulated Owl] |
|
1 |
Western Screech-Owl |
1 |
103 |
Eastern Screech-Owl |
46 |
105 |
Great Horned Owl |
105 |
92 |
Snowy Owl |
|
83 |
Burrowing Owl |
46 |
79 |
Barred Owl |
33 |
83 |
Long-eared Owl |
21 |
103 |
Short-eared Owl |
17 |
44 |
Northern Saw-whet Owl |
1 |
|
KINGFISHERS |
|
105 |
Belted Kingfisher |
38 |
|
WOODPECKERS |
|
18 |
Lewis's Woodpecker |
|
105 |
Red-headed Woodpecker |
95 |
105 |
Red-bellied Woodpecker |
70 |
5 |
Williamson's Sapsucker |
|
98 |
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
|
9 |
Red-naped Sapsucker |
|
1 |
American Three-toed Woodpecker |
|
105 |
Downy Woodpecker |
87 |
12 |
Ladder-backed Woodpecker |
1 |
105 |
Hairy Woodpecker |
52 |
105 |
Northern Flicker |
81 |
66 |
Pileated Woodpecker |
16 |
|
FALCONS |
|
3 |
Crested Caracara |
|
105 |
American Kestrel |
77 |
105 |
Merlin |
|
9 |
Gyrfalcon |
|
96 |
Peregrine Falcon |
1 |
104 |
Prairie Falcon |
|
|
FLYCATCHERS |
|
20 |
Ash-throated Flycatcher |
2 |
105 |
Great Crested Flycatcher |
66 |
2 |
Great Kiskadee |
|
1 |
Piratic
Flycatcher |
|
23 |
Cassin's Kingbird |
|
105 |
Western Kingbird |
95 |
105 |
Eastern Kingbird |
95 |
105 |
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher |
73 |
2 |
Fork-tailed Flycatcher |
|
101 |
Olive-sided Flycatcher |
|
33 |
Western Wood-Pewee |
1 |
99 |
Eastern Wood-Pewee |
39 |
50 |
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher |
|
46 |
Acadian Flycatcher |
11 |
78 |
Alder Flycatcher |
|
100 |
Willow Flycatcher |
5 |
105 |
Least Flycatcher |
|
11 |
Hammond's Flycatcher |
|
2 |
Gray Flycatcher |
|
19 |
Dusky Flycatcher |
|
13 |
Western Flycatcher |
|
2 |
Black Phoebe |
|
105 |
Eastern Phoebe |
84 |
76 |
Say's Phoebe |
45 |
23 |
Vermilion Flycatcher |
1 |
|
VIREOS |
|
1 |
Black-capped Vireo |
1 |
65 |
White-eyed Vireo |
9 |
104 |
Bell's Vireo |
56 |
1 |
Gray Vireo |
|
69 |
Yellow-throated Vireo |
14 |
10 |
Cassin's Vireo |
|
96 |
Blue-headed Vireo |
|
6 |
Plumbeous Vireo |
|
76 |
Philadelphia Vireo |
|
105 |
Warbling Vireo |
61 |
102 |
Red-eyed Vireo |
23 |
|
SHRIKES |
|
105 |
Loggerhead Shrike |
96 |
98 |
Northern Shrike |
|
|
JAYS,
MAGPIES, CROWS |
|
28 |
Pinyon Jay |
|
18 |
Steller's Jay |
|
105 |
Blue Jay |
93 |
17 |
Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay |
|
1 |
Mexican Jay |
|
26 |
Clark's Nutcracker |
|
83 |
Black-billed Magpie |
54 |
105 |
American Crow |
90 |
44 |
Fish Crow |
6 |
32 |
Chihuahuan Raven |
24 |
11 |
Common Raven |
1 |
|
CHICKADEES,
TITMICE |
|
29 |
Carolina Chickadee |
17 |
104 |
Black-capped Chickadee |
76 |
12 |
Mountain Chickadee |
|
1 |
[Juniper Titmouse] |
|
72 |
Tufted Titmouse |
47 |
|
LARKS |
|
105 |
Horned Lark |
73 |
|
SWALLOWS |
|
104 |
Bank Swallow |
29 |
104 |
Tree Swallow |
49 |
9 |
Violet-green Swallow |
1 |
105 |
N. Rough-winged Swallow |
74 |
103 |
Purple Martin |
80 |
105 |
Barn Swallow |
104 |
105 |
Cliff Swallow |
85 |
15 |
Cave Swallow |
|
|
BUSHTITS |
|
9 |
Bushtit |
|
|
KINGLETS |
|
105 |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
|
103 |
Golden-crowned Kinglet |
|
|
WAXWlNGS |
|
41 |
Bohemian Waxwing |
|
105 |
Cedar Waxwing |
28 |
|
SILKY-FLYCATCHERS |
|
2 |
Phainopepla |
|
|
NUTHATCHES |
|
105 |
Red-breasted Nuthatch |
4 |
105 |
White-breasted Nuthatch |
60 |
12 |
Pygmy Nuthatch |
|
2 |
Brown-headed Nuthatch |
|
|
CREEPERS |
|
101 |
Brown Creeper |
|
|
GNATCATCHERS |
|
105 |
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
42 |
|
WRENS |
|
72 |
Rock Wren |
20 |
4 |
Canyon Wren |
|
90 |
Bewick's Wren |
38 |
100 |
Carolina Wren |
47 |
105 |
House Wren |
93 |
1 |
Pacific Wren |
|
94 |
Winter Wren |
|
77 |
Sedge Wren |
7 |
95 |
Marsh Wren |
4 |
|
THRASHERS |
|
105 |
Gray Catbird |
66 |
30 |
Curve-billed Thrasher |
6 |
105 |
Brown Thrasher |
102 |
23 |
Sage Thrasher |
|
105 |
Northern Mockingbird |
81 |
|
STARLINGS |
|
105 |
European Starling |
104 |
|
THRUSHES |
|
105 |
Eastern Bluebird |
86 |
5 |
Western Bluebird |
|
84 |
Mountain Bluebird |
4 |
89 |
Townsend's Solitaire |
|
66 |
Veery |
|
84 |
Gray-cheeked Thrush |
|
105 |
Swainson's Thrush |
|
100 |
Hermit Thrush |
|
77 |
Wood Thrush |
22 |
105 |
American Robin |
104 |
24 |
Varied Thrush |
|
|
OLD WORLD FLYCATCHERS |
|
1 |
[Northern Wheatear] |
|
|
OLD WORLD SPARROWS |
|
105 |
House Sparrow |
103 |
|
PIPITS |
|
105 |
American Pipit |
|
72 |
Sprague's Pipit |
|
|
FINCHES |
|
2 |
Brambling |
|
74 |
Evening Grosbeak |
|
26 |
Pine Grosbeak |
|
1 |
[Gray-crowned Rosy-finch] |
|
105 |
House Finch |
78 |
83 |
Purple Finch |
|
13 |
Cassin's Finch |
|
58 |
Common Redpoll |
|
87 |
Red Crossbill |
3 |
34 |
White-winged Crossbill |
|
105 |
Pine Siskin |
26 |
33 |
Lesser Goldfinch |
1 |
105 |
American Goldfinch |
49 |
|
LONGSPURS |
|
104 |
Lapland Longspur |
|
71 |
Chestnut-collared Longspur |
1 |
59 |
Smith's Longspur |
|
46 |
Thick-billed
Longspur |
|
49 |
Snow Bunting |
|
|
SPARROWS |
|
48 |
Cassin's Sparrow |
15 |
2 |
Bachman's Sparrow |
|
105 |
Grasshopper Sparrow |
91 |
8 |
Black-throated Sparrow |
|
105 |
Lark Sparrow |
95 |
85 |
Lark Bunting |
34 |
105 |
Chipping Sparrow |
32 |
105 |
Clay-colored Sparrow |
|
105 |
Field Sparrow |
57 |
26 |
Brewer's Sparrow |
2 |
94 |
Fox Sparrow |
|
105 |
American Tree Sparrow |
|
105 |
Dark-eyed Junco |
|
1 |
Yellow-eyed
Junco |
|
105 |
White-crowned Sparrow |
|
20 |
Golden-crowned Sparrow |
|
105 |
Harris's Sparrow |
|
103 |
White-throated Sparrow |
|
2 |
Sagebrush Sparrow |
|
105 |
Vesper Sparrow |
4 |
78 |
LeConte's Sparrow |
|
40 |
Nelson's Sparrow |
|
31 |
Baird's Sparrow |
|
54 |
Henslow's Sparrow |
14 |
105 |
Savannah Sparrow |
|
105 |
Song Sparrow |
10 |
105 |
Lincoln's Sparrow |
|
95 |
Swamp Sparrow |
|
1 |
Canyon Towhee |
|
13 |
Rufous-crowned Sparrow |
1 |
22 |
Green-tailed Towhee |
|
105 |
Spotted Towhee |
14 |
82 |
Eastern Towhee |
20 |
|
CHATS |
|
104 |
Yellow-breasted Chat |
19 |
|
BLACKBIRDS,
ORIOLES |
|
105 |
Yellow-headed Blackbird |
16 |
88 |
Bobolink |
9 |
102 |
Eastern Meadowlark |
63 |
105 |
Western Meadowlark |
69 |
105 |
Orchard Oriole |
91 |
2 |
Hooded Oriole |
|
57 |
Bullock's Oriole |
22 |
105 |
Baltimore Oriole |
91 |
3 |
Scott's Oriole |
|
105 |
Red-winged Blackbird |
104 |
2 |
Bronzed Cowbird |
|
105 |
Brown-headed Cowbird |
95 |
97 |
Rusty Blackbird |
|
105 |
Brewer's Blackbird |
|
105 |
Common Grackle |
105 |
105 |
Great-tailed Grackle |
61 |
|
WARBLERS |
|
93 |
Ovenbird |
5 |
36 |
Worm-eating Warbler |
2 |
65 |
Louisiana Waterthrush |
24 |
96 |
Northern Waterthrush |
|
42 |
Golden-winged Warbler |
|
38 |
Blue-winged Warbler |
1 |
99 |
Black-and-White Warbler |
12 |
64 |
Prothonotary Warbler |
22 |
6 |
Swainson's Warbler |
|
93 |
Tennessee Warbler |
|
105 |
Orange-crowned Warbler |
|
104 |
Nashville Warbler |
|
6 |
Virginia's Warbler |
|
15 |
Connecticut Warbler |
|
32 |
MacGillivray's Warbler |
|
76 |
Mourning Warbler |
|
58 |
Kentucky Warbler |
18 |
105 |
Common Yellowthroat |
36 |
50 |
Hooded Warbler |
2 |
104 |
American Redstart |
3 |
33 |
Cape May Warbler |
|
29 |
Cerulean Warbler |
2 |
91 |
Northern Parula |
24 |
80 |
Magnolia Warbler |
|
48 |
Bay-breasted Warbler |
|
66 |
Blackburnian Warbler |
|
105 |
Yellow Warbler |
27 |
76 |
Chestnut-sided Warbler |
|
99 |
Blackpoll Warbler |
|
36 |
Black-throated Blue Warbler |
|
79 |
Palm Warbler |
|
48 |
Pine Warbler |
|
105 |
Yellow-rumped Warbler |
|
50 |
Yellow-throated Warbler |
4 |
25 |
Prairie Warbler |
3 |
13 |
Black-throated Gray Warbler |
|
25 |
Townsend's Warbler |
|
1 |
Hermit Warbler |
|
85 |
Black-throated Green Warbler |
|
53 |
Canada Warbler |
|
105 |
Wilson's Warbler |
|
7 |
Painted Redstart |
|
|
GROSBEAKS,
BUNTINGS |
|
2 |
Hepatic Tanager |
|
89 |
Summer Tanager |
27 |
71 |
Scarlet Tanager |
11 |
44 |
Western Tanager |
|
105 |
Northern Cardinal |
78 |
8 |
Pyrrhuloxia |
|
103 |
Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
32 |
83 |
Black-headed Grosbeak |
16 |
105 |
Blue Grosbeak |
57 |
96 |
Lazuli Bunting |
1 |
105 |
Indigo Bunting |
51 |
73 |
Painted Bunting |
18 |
105 |
Dickcissel |
96 |
|
|
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