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 coot
  5. American crow
  6. American goldfinch
  7. American herring gull
  8. American kestrel
  9. American redstart
  10. American robin
  11. American tree sparrow
  12. American white pelican
  13. American woodcock
  14. Anna's hummingbird
  15. Ash-throated flycatcher
  16. Bald eagle
  17. Baltimore oriole
  18. Band-tailed pigeon
  19. Barn owl
  20. Barn swallow
  21. Barred owl
  22. Barrow's goldeneye
  23. Belted kingfisher
  24. Bewick's wren
  25. Black-and-white warbler
  26. Black-bellied plover
  27. Black-capped chickadee
  28. Black-crowned night heron
  29. Black-footed albatross
  30. Black-headed grosbeak
  31. Black-necked stilt (01/08/2026 at Moss Landing State Beach)
  32. Black oystercatcher
  33. Black phoebe
  34. Black skimmer
  35. Black turnstone
  36. Blue-gray gnatcatcher
  37. Blue jay
  38. Blue-winged teal
  39. Bonaparte's gull
  40. Brandt's cormorant
  41. Brant (01/05/2025 at the mouth of the San Lorenzo)
  42. Brewer's blackbird
  43. Brown creeper
  44. Brown-headed cowbird
  45. Brown pelican
  46. Bufflehead
  47. Bushtit
  48. Cackling goose
  49. California condor (02/21/2026 at Pinnacles National Park)

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