A Checklist of the Birds of
NEW MEXICO

Bold-faced species are rare, unusual or local species.
x = observed       h = heard only
  Nov Nov Nov
  2000 2003 2004
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck      
Fulvous Whistling-Duck      
Greater White-fronted Goose     x
Snow Goose x x x
Ross's Goose x x x
Brant      
Cackling Goose     x
Canada Goose x x x
Trumpeter Swan      
Tundra Swan x    
Wood Duck x x x
Gadwall x x x
Eurasian Wigeon      
American Wigeon x x x
Mallard x x x
Mexican Duck (Mallard)     x
Blue-winged Teal   x x
Cinnamon Teal x x  
Northern Shoveler x x x
Northern Pintail x x x
Garganey      
Green-winged Teal x x x
Canvasback x x x
Redhead x x x
Ring-necked Duck x x x
Greater Scaup   x x
Lesser Scaup x x x
Harlequin Duck      
Surf Scoter      
White-winged Scoter      
Black Scoter      
Long-tailed Duck      
Bufflehead x x x
Common Goldeneye x x x
Barrow's Goldeneye      
Hooded Merganser x x x
Common Merganser x x  
Red-breasted Merganser x x  
Ruddy Duck x x x
Ring-necked Pheasant   x x
Greater Sage-Grouse      
White-tailed Ptarmigan      
Dusky (Blue) Grouse      
Sharp-tailed Grouse      
Lesser Prairie-Chicken      
Wild Turkey      
Scaled Quail   x  
Gambel's Quail x x x
Northern Bobwhite      
Montezuma Quail x    
Red-throated Loon      
Pacific Loon x    
Common Loon x x x
Yellow-billed Loon      
Pied-billed Grebe x x x
Horned Grebe   x x
Red-necked Grebe      
Eared Grebe x x x
Western Grebe x x x
Clark's Grebe x x x
Least Storm-Petrel      
American White Pelican x x x
Brown Pelican      
Neotropic Cormorant x x x
Double-crested Cormorant x x x
Anhinga      
Magnificent Frigatebird      
American Bittern x    
Least Bittern      
Great Blue Heron x x x
Great Egret x x x
Snowy Egret x   x
Little Blue Heron      
Tricolored Heron      
Reddish Egret      
Catttle Egret      
Green Heron   x  
Black-crowned Night-Heron x   x
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron      
White Ibis      
Glossy Ibis      
White-faced Ibis x   x
Plegadis sp (White-faced or Glossy)   x  
Wood Stork      
Black Vulture      
Turkey Vulture x x x
Osprey x   x
Swallow-tailed Kite      
White-tailed Kite      
Mississippi Kite      
Bald Eagle x x x
Northern Harrier x x x
Sharp-shinned Hawk x x x
Cooper's Hawk x x x
Northern Goshawk      
Common Black-Hawk      
Harris's Hawk      
Red-shouldered Hawk      
Broad-winged Hawk      
Gray Hawk      
Swainson's Hawk      
Zone-tailed Hawk      
Red-tailed Hawk ** x x x
** Includes Harlan's and dark-morph Red-tails.
Ferruginous Hawk x x x
Rough-legged Hawk x x  
Golden Eagle x x  
Crested Caracara      
American Kestrel x x x
Merlin x x x
Aplomado Falcon      
Peregrine Falcon x x  
Prairie Falcon x x x
Yellow Rail      
Virginia Rail x x  
Sora x    
Purple Gallinule      
Common Moorhen      
American Coot x x x
Whooping Crane x    
Sandhill Crane x x x
Black-bellied Plover      
American Golden-Plover      
Snowy Plover      
Semipalmated Plover      
Piping Plover      
Killdeer x x x
Mountain Plover      
Black-necked Stilt      
American Avocet   x  
Greater Yellowlegs x x x
Lesser Yellowlegs      
Solitary Sandpiper      
Willet      
Wandering Tattler      
Spotted Sandpiper x x x
Upland Sandpiper      
Whimbrel      
Long-billed Curlew      
Hudsonian Godwit      
Marbled Godwit      
Ruddy Turnstone      
Red Knot      
Sanderling      
Semipalmated Sandpiper      
Western Sandpiper      
Least Sandpiper   x x
White-rumped Sandpiper   x  
Baird's Sandpiper     x
Pectoral Sandpiper      
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper      
Dunlin   x  
Curlew Sandpiper      
Stilt Sandpiper      
Buff-breasted Sandpiper      
Ruff      
Short-billed Dowitcher      
Long-billed Dowitcher x x  
Wilson's Snipe x x  
American Woodcock      
Wilson's Phalarope      
Red-necked Phalarope      
Red Phalarope      
Pomarine Jaeger      
Long-tailed Jaeger      
Laughing Gull      
Franklin's Gull      
Little Gull      
Bonaparte's Gull   x x
Heermann's Gull      
Mew Gull      
Ring-billed Gull x x x
California Gull x x  
Herring Gull x    
Thayer's Gull      
Western Gull      
Glaucous-winged Gull      
Glaucous Gull      
Sabine's Gull      
Black-legged Kittiwake      
Caspian Tern      
Common Tern      
Arctic Tern      
Forster'sTern      
Least Tern      
Black Tern      
Black Skimmer      
Ancient Murrelet      
Rock Pigeon x x x
Band-tailed Pigeon     x
Eurasian Collared-Dove   x x
White-winged Dove x x x
Mourning Dove x x x
Inca Dove      
Common Ground-Dove      
Ruddy Ground-Dove      
Black-billed Cuckoo      
Yellow-billed Cuckoo      
Greater Roadrunner x x x
Groove-billed Ani      
Barn Owl      
Flammulated Owl      
Western Screech-Owl   x x
Whiskered Screech-Owl      
Great Horned Owl x x x
Northern Pygmy-Owl      
Elf Owl      
Burrowing Owl     x
(Mexican) Spotted Owl      
Long-eared Owl      
Short-eared Owl      
Boreal Owl      
Northern Saw-whet Owl      
Lesser Nighthawk      
Common Nighthawk      
Common Poorwill      
Chuck-will's-widow      
Buff-collared Nightjar      
Whip-poor-will      
Black Swift      
Chimney Swfit      
White-throated Swift      
Broad-billed Hummingbird      
White-eared Hummingbird      
Berylline Hummingbird      
Cinnamon Hummingbird      
Violet-crowned Hummingbird      
Blue-throated Hummingbird      
Magnificent Hummingbird      
Lucifer Hummingbird      
Ruby-throated Hummingbird      
Black-chinned Hummingbird      
Anna's Hummingbird      
Costa's Hummingbird      
Calliope Hummingbird      
Broad-tailed Hummingbird      
Rufous Hummingbird      
Elegant Trogon      
Belted Kingfisher x x x
Lewis's Woodpecker      
Red-headed Woodpecker      
Acorn Woodpecker x x x
Gila Woodpecker      
Red-bellied Woodpecker      
Williamson's Sapsucker      
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker      
Red-naped Sapsucker   x x
Ladder-backed Woodpecker   x x
Downy Woodpecker x x x
Hairy Woodpecker x x x
Arizona Woodpecker      
American Three-toed Woodpecker      
Northern (Red-shafted) Flicker x x x
Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet      
Olive-sided Flycatcher      
Greater Pewee      
Western Wood-Pewee      
Eastern Wood-Pewee      
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher      
Acadian Flycatcher      
Willow Flycatcher      
Least Flycatcher      
Hammond's Flycatcher      
Gray Flycatcher      
Dusky Flycatcher      
Pacific-slope Flycatcher      
Cordilleran Flycatcher      
Buff-breasted Flycatcher      
Black Phoebe x x x
Eastern Phoebe     x
Say's Phoebe x x x
Vermilion Flycatcher      
Dusky-capped Flycatcher      
Ash-throated Flycatcher      
Great Crested Flycatcher      
Brown-crested Flycatcher      
Great Kiskadee      
Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher      
Couch's Kingbird      
Cassin's Kingbird      
Thick-billed Kingbird      
Western Kingbird      
Eastern Kingbird      
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher      
Loggerhead Shrike x x x
Northern Shrike x    
White-eyed Vireo      
Bell's Vireo      
Gray Vireo      
Yellow-throated Vireo      
Plumbeous Vireo      
Cassin's Vireo      
Blue-headed Vireo      
Hutton's Vireo x    
Warbling Vireo      
Philadelphia Vireo      
Red-eyed Vireo      
Yellow-green Vireo      
Gray Jay      
Steller's Jay x x x
Blue Jay     x
Western Scrub-Jay x x x
Mexican Jay      
Pinyon Jay      
Clark's Nutcracker x x  
Black-billed Magpie x x x
American Crow x x x
Chihuahuan Raven x x x
Common Raven x x x
Horned Lark x x x
Purple Martin      
Tree Swallow   x  
Violet-green Swallow      
Northern Rough-winged Swallow      
Bank Swallow      
Cliff Swallow      
Cave Swallow      
Barn Swallow      
Black-capped Chickadee x x x
Mountain Chickadee x x x
Mexican Chickadee      
Bridled Titmouse x    
Juniper Titmouse x x x
Verdin x x x
Bushtit x x x
Red-breasted Nuthatch x x x
White-breasted Nuthatch x x x
Pygmy Nuthatch x x x
Brown Creeper x x x
Cactus Wren x   x
Rock Wren x x x
Canyon Wren x   x
Carolina Wren     x
Bewick's Wren x x x
House Wren     x
Winter Wren      
Sedge Wren      
Marsh Wren x x x
American Dipper      
Golden-crowned Kinglet x x x
Ruby-crowned Kinglet x x x
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher     x
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher x   x
Eastern Bluebird   x x
Western Bluebird x x x
Mountain Bluebird x x x
Townsend's Solitaire x x x
Veery      
Gray-cheeked Thrush      
Swainson's Thrush      
Hermit Thrush     x
Wood Thrush      
Rufous-backed Robin      
American Robin x x x
Varied Thrush      
Gray Catbird      
Northern Mockingbird     x
Sage Thrasher      
Brown Thrasher   x  
Long-billed Thrasher      
Bendire's Thrasher      
Curve-billed Thrasher x x x
Crissal Thrasher x x x
European Starling x x x
American Pipit x x x
Sprague's Pipit      
Bohemian Waxwing      
Cedar Waxwing x x x
Phainopepla x x x
Olive Warbler      
Blue-winged Warbler      
Golden-winged Warbler      
Tennessee Warbler      
Orange-crowned Warbler   x  
Nashville Warbler      
Virginia's Warbler      
Lucy's Warbler      
Northern Parula      
Yellow Warbler     x
Chestnut-sided Warbler      
Magnolia Warbler      
Cape May Warbler      
Black-throated Blue Warbler      
Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler x x x
Yellow-rumped (Aud's) Warbler x x x
Black-throated Gray Warbler      
Black-throated Green Warbler      
Townsend's Warbler      
Hermit Warbler      
Blackburnian Warbler      
Yellow-throated Warbler      
Grace's 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      
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      
Slate-throated Redstart