my life list, as of 03/04/2026!

what is a life list?

a life list is a list birdwatchers keep of every species of bird we've seen in our life! this includes birds we got visual or auditory evidence of, or ones that we just saw and don't have any "proof" of! birds are notoriously flighty (ha) and can often be hard to capture image or audio of, so birdwatchers generally just trust what others say they saw, and, well, there's not much benefit to lying about something like this. :P

  1. Acorn woodpecker
  2. Allen's hummingbird
  3. American avocet
  4. American barn owl
  5. American coot
  6. American crow
  7. American goldfinch
  8. American herring gull
  9. American kestrel
  10. American redstart
  11. American robin
  12. American tree sparrow
  13. American white pelican
  14. American wigeon (11/30/2025 at Antonelli Pond)
  15. American woodcock
  16. Anna's hummingbird
  17. Ash-throated flycatcher
  18. Bald eagle
  19. Baltimore oriole
  20. Band-tailed pigeon
  21. Barn swallow
  22. Barred owl
  23. Barrow's goldeneye
  24. Belted kingfisher
  25. Bewick's wren
  26. Black-and-white warbler
  27. Black-bellied plover
  28. Black-capped chickadee
  29. Black-crowned night heron
  30. Black-footed albatross (02/17/2025 on the Monterey Bay, CA)

  31. Black-headed grosbeak
  32. Black-necked stilt (01/08/2026 at Moss Landing State Beach, CA)
  33. Black oystercatcher
  34. Black phoebe
  35. Black skimmer (02/27/2025 at Santa Cruz Beach, CA)

  36. Black tern (06/26/2026 at Horicon National Wildlife refuge, WI)
  37. Black turnstone
  38. Blue-gray gnatcatcher
  39. Blue jay
  40. Blue-winged teal
  41. Bonaparte's gull
  42. Brandt's cormorant
  43. Brant (01/05/2025 at the mouth of the San Lorenzo, CA)

  44. Brewer's blackbird
  45. Brown creeper
  46. Brown-headed cowbird
  47. Brown pelican
  48. Bufflehead
  49. Bushtit
  50. Cackling goose
  51. California condor (02/21/2026 at Pinnacles National Park, CA)

  52. California gull
  53. California quail
  54. California scrub jay (01/23/2024 at UCSC Arboretum, CA)

  55. California towhee
  56. California thrasher
  57. Canada goose
  58. Canvasback (12/24/2024 at UW Lakeshore Preserve, WI)
  59. Caspian tern
  60. Cedar waxwing
  61. Chestnut-backed chickadee
  62. Chipping sparrow
  63. Cinnamon teal (01/16/2026 at College Lake, CA)
  64. Clark's grebe
  65. Cliff swallow
  66. Common goldeneye
  67. Common grackle
  68. Common loon
  69. Common merganser
  70. Common murre
  71. Common raven
  72. Common yellowthroat
  73. Cooper's hawk
  74. Dark-eyed junco
  75. Dickcissel
  76. Double-crested cormorant
  77. Downy woodpecker
  78. Eared grebe
  79. Eastern bluebird
  80. Eastern kingbird
  81. Eastern meadowlark
  82. Eastern phoebe
  83. Eastern warbling vireo
  84. Eastern wood-pewee
  85. Elegant tern
  86. Eurasian collared-dove
  87. Eurasian wigeon
  88. European starling
  89. Forster's tern
  90. Fox sparrow
  91. Gadwall
  92. Glaucous-winged gull
  93. Golden-crowned kinglet
  94. Golden-crowned sparrow
  95. Gray catbird
  96. Great blue heron
  97. Great egret
  98. Greater yellowlegs (01/29/2026 at Moss Landing State Beach, CA)
  99. Great horned owl
  100. Great-tailed grackle (03/23/2026 in Lost Hills, CA)
  101. Green heron
  102. Green-winged teal
  103. Greylag goose (domestic ssp., 03/29/2019 in New Glarus, WI)
  104. Hairy woodpecker
  105. Heermann's gull
  106. Henslow's sparrow
  107. Hermit thrush
  108. Hooded merganser
  109. Hooded oriole
  110. House finch
  111. House sparrow
  112. Hudsonian whimbrel
  113. Hutton's vireo
  114. Indigo bunting (08/13/2024 at Pheasant Branch Conservancy, WI)
  115. Killdeer
  116. Lawrence's goldfinch (03/12/2026 at Fort Ord Natural Reserve, CA)
  117. Least flycatcher
  118. Least sandpiper (01/08/2026 at Moss Landing State Beach, CA)
  119. Lesser goldfinch
  120. Lesser scaup (01/08/2026 at Moss Landing State Beach, CA)
  121. Lesser yellowlegs (01/29/2026 at Moss Landing State Beach, CA)
  122. Lincoln's sparrow
  123. Loggerhead shrike
  124. Long-billed curlew
  125. Long-billed dowitcher (seen 02/26/2026 at Moss Landing State Beach, CA, first heard 2-5 weeks earlier and picked up by Merlin)
  126. Long-tailed duck (01/25/2026 at Moss Landing State Beach)
  127. Mallard
  128. Marbled godwit
  129. Marsh wren (02/26/2026 at Moss Landing State Beach, CA)
  130. Merlin
  131. Mourning dove
  132. Nashville warbler
  133. Northern cardinal
  134. Northern flicker
  135. Northern fulmar
  136. Northern harrier
  137. Northern house wren
  138. Northern mockingbird
  139. Northern red bishop
  140. Northern rough-winged swallow (03/26/2026 at Ed Davis Park, CA)
  141. Northern shoveler
  142. Northern yellow warbler
  143. Nuttall's woodpecker
  144. Oak titmouse
  145. Olive-sided flycatcher
  146. Orange-crowned warbler
  147. Osprey
  148. Pacific loon (05/03/2026 at Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf, CA)
  149. Pacific wren
  150. Parasitic jaeger
  151. Pelagic cormorant
  152. Peregrine falcon (02/21/2026 at Pinnacles National Park, CA)
  153. Pied-billed grebe
  154. Pigeon guillemot
  155. Pileated woodpecker
  156. Pine siskin
  157. Pine warbler
  158. Prairie falcon (02/21/2026 at Pinnacles National Park, CA)
  159. Purple finch
  160. Purple martin
  161. Pygmy nuthatch
  162. Red-bellied woodpecker
  163. Red-breasted sapsucker
  164. Red-breasted merganser
  165. Red-breasted nuthatch
  166. Red-eyed vireo
  167. Redhead (10/28/2025 at Lakeshore Nature Preserve, WI)
  168. Red-headed woodpecker
  169. Red-necked grebe (03/12/2026 at Moss Landing, CA)
  170. Red-necked phalarope
  171. Red phalarope
  172. Red-shouldered hawk
  173. Red-tailed hawk
  174. Red-throated loon
  175. Red-winged blackbird
  176. Rhinoceros auklet
  177. Ring-billed gull
  178. Ring-necked duck (12/28/2025 at UW Lakeshore Preserve, WI)
  179. Rock dove (feral ssp.)
  180. Rose-breasted grosbeak
  181. Ruby-crowned kinglet
  182. Ruby-throated hummingbird
  183. Ruddy duck
  184. Ruffed grouse
  185. Ruddy blackbird
  186. Sanderling
  187. Sandhill crane
  188. Savannah sparrow (01/25/2026 at Moss Landing, CA)
  189. Say's phoebe
  190. Semipalmated plover
  191. Sharp-shinned hawk
  192. Short-billed dowitcher (01/29/2026 at Moss Landing State Beach)
  193. Short-billed gull
  194. Spotted sandpiper
  195. Spotted towhee
  196. Snow goose
  197. Snowy egret
  198. Snowy owl (12/17/2024 in New Glarus, WI)
  199. Snowy plover
  200. Song sparrow
  201. Steller's jay
  202. Summer tanager
  203. Surf scoter
  204. Swainson's thrush
  205. Swamp sparrow (01/07/2026 at College Lake, CA)
  206. Swan goose (03/29/2019 in New Glarus, WI, domestic/domestic hybrid)
  207. Tennessee warbler
  208. Townsend's warbler
  209. Tree swallow
  210. Tricolored blackbird
  211. Trumpeter swan (06/26/2026 at Horicon National Wildlife refuge, WI)
  213. Tundra swan
  214. Turkey vulture
  215. Violet-green swallow
  216. Western warbling vireo
  217. Western bluebird
  218. Western flycatcher
  219. Western grebe
  220. Western gull
  221. Western meadowlark
  222. Western sandpiper (01/08/2026 at Moss Landing State Beach, CA)
  223. Western tanager (10/11/2026 at Natural Bridges State Beach, CA)
  224. White-breasted nuthatch
  225. White-crowned sparrow
  226. White-tailed kite
  227. White-throated sparrow
  228. White-throated swift
  229. White wagtail
  230. White-winged scoter (01/25/2026 at Moss Landing State Beach, CA)
  231. Wild turkey
  232. Willet
  233. Wilson's warbler
  234. Wood duck
  235. Wrentit
  236. Yellow-bellied sapsucker
  237. Yellow-billed magpie
  238. Yellow-headed blackbird (06/26/2026 at Horicon National Wildlife refuge, WI)
  239. Yellow-rumped warbler (Audubon's warbler ssp.)