This is the list of all birds known to have occurred in Massachusetts. It was extracted from the list maintained by the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee. Extinct species and subspecies (Heath Hen) were removed, and three species of possible non-wild origin (Steller's Eider, Black-billed Magpie, Eurasian Siskin) were included. The probably extinct Eskimo Curlew has been kept on the list.
Fulvous Whistling-Duck | Peregrine Falcon | Common Ground-Dove | European Starling |
Greater White-fronted Goose | Yellow Rail | Monk Parakeet | American Pipit |
Snow Goose | Black Rail | Common Cuckoo | Sprague's Pipit |
Ross's Goose | Clapper Rail | Black-billed Cuckoo | Bohemian Waxwing |
Brant | King Rail | Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Cedar Waxwing |
Barnacle Goose | Virginia Rail | Barn Owl | Phainopepla |
Cackling Goose | Sora | Eastern Screech-Owl | Blue-winged Warbler |
Canada Goose | Purple Gallinule | Great Horned Owl | Golden-winged Warbler |
Mute Swan | Common Moorhen | Snowy Owl | Tennessee Warbler |
Tundra Swan | American Coot | Northern Hawk Owl | Orange-crowned Warbler |
Wood Duck | Sandhill Crane | Burrowing Owl | Nashville Warbler |
Gadwall | Northern Lapwing | Barred Owl | Lucy's Warbler |
Eurasian Wigeon | Black-bellied Plover | Great Gray Owl | Northern Parula |
American Wigeon | American Golden-Plover | Long-eared Owl | Yellow Warbler |
American Black Duck | Pacific Golden-Plover | Short-eared Owl | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
Mallard | Snowy Plover | Boreal Owl | Magnolia Warbler |
Blue-winged Teal | Wilson's Plover | Northern Saw-whet Owl | Cape May Warbler |
Cinnamon Teal | Common Ringed Plover | Common Nighthawk | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
Northern Shoveler | Semipalmated Plover | Chuck-will's-widow | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Northern Pintail | Piping Plover | Whip-poor-will | Black-throated Gray Warbler |
Garganey | Killdeer | Chimney Swift | Black-throated Green Warbler |
Green-winged Teal | Mountain Plover | Large swift (Apus/Cypseloides) | Townsend's Warbler |
Canvasback | American Oystercatcher | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Hermit Warbler |
Redhead | Black-necked Stilt | Black-chinned Hummingbird | Blackburnian Warbler |
Ring-necked Duck | American Avocet | Calliope Hummingbord | Yellow-throated Warbler |
Tufted Duck | Greater Yellowlegs | Rufous Hummingbird | Pine Warbler |
Greater Scaup | Lesser Yellowlegs | Allen's Hummingbird | Prairie Warbler |
Lesser Scaup | Spotted Redshank | Belted Kingfisher | Palm Warbler |
Steller's Eider | Solitary Sandpiper | Lewis's Woodpecker | Bay-breasted Warbler |
King Eider | Willet | Red-headed Woodpecker | Blackpoll Warbler |
Common Eider | Wandering Tattler | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Cerulean Warbler |
Harlequin Duck | Spotted Sandpiper | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Black-and-white Warbler |
Surf Scoter | Terek Sandpiper | Downy Woodpecker | American Redstart |
White-winged Scoter | Upland Sandpiper | Hairy Woodpecker | Prothonotary Warbler |
Black Scoter | Eskimo Curlew | American Three-toed Woodpecker | Worm-eating Warbler |
Long-tailed Duck | Whimbrel | Black-backed Woodpecker | Swainson's Warbler |
Bufflehead | Eurasian Curlew | Northern Flicker | Ovenbird |
Common Goldeneye | Long-billed Curlew | Pileated Woodpecker | Northern Waterthrush |
Barrow's Goldeneye | Black-tailed Godwit | Olive-sided Flycatcher | Louisiana Waterthrush |
Hooded Merganser | Hudsonian Godwit | Western Wood-Pewee | Kentucky Warbler |
Common Merganser | Bar-tailed Godwit | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Connecticut Warbler |
Red-breasted Merganser | Marbled Godwit | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Mourning Warbler |
Masked Duck | Ruddy Turnstone | Acadian Flycatcher | MacGillivray's Warbler |
Ruddy Duck | Red Knot | Alder Flycatcher | Common Yellowthroat |
Ring-necked Pheasant | Sanderling | Willow Flycatcher | Hooded Warbler |
Ruffed Grouse | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Least Flycatcher | Wilson's Warbler |
Wild Turkey | Western Sandpiper | Hammond's Flycatcher | Canada Warbler |
Northern Bobwhite | Red-necked Stint | Gray Flycatcher | Painted Redstart |
Red-throated Loon | Little Stint | Eastern Phoebe | Yellow-breasted Chat |
Pacific Loon | Least Sandpiper | Say's Phoebe | Summer Tanager |
Common Loon | White-rumped Sandpiper | Vermilion Flycatcher | Scarlet Tanager |
Pied-billed Grebe | Baird's Sandpiper | Ash-throated Flycatcher | Western Tanager |
Horned Grebe | Pectoral Sandpiper | Great Crested Flycatcher | Green-tailed Towhee |
Red-necked Grebe | Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | Sulphur-bellied/Streaked Flycatcher | Spotted Towhee |
Eared Grebe | Purple Sandpiper | Tropical Kingbird | Eastern Towhee |
Western Grebe | Dunlin | Couch's Kingbird | American Tree Sparrow |
Yellow-nosed Albatross | Curlew Sandpiper | Cassin's Kingbird | Chipping Sparrow |
Black-browed Albatross | Stilt Sandpiper | Western Kingbird | Clay-colored Sparrow |
Northern Fulmar | Broad-billed Sandpiper | Eastern Kingbird | Brewer's Sparrow |
Black-capped Petrel | Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Gray Kingbird | Field Sparrow |
Cory's Shearwater | Ruff | Scissor-tailed Flycatcher | Vesper Sparrow |
Greater Shearwater | Short-billed Dowitcher | Fork-tailed Flycatcher | Lark Sparrow |
Sooty Shearwater | Long-billed Dowitcher | Loggerhead Shrike | Lark Bunting |
Manx Shearwater | Wilson's Snipe | Northern Shrike | Savannah Sparrow |
Audubon's Shearwater | American Woodcock | White-eyed Vireo | Grasshopper Sparrow |
Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Wilson's Phalarope | Yellow-throated Vireo | Henslow's Sparrow |
White-faced Storm-Petrel | Red-necked Phalarope | Blue-headed Vireo | Le Conte's Sparrow |
Leach's Storm-Petrel | Red Phalarope | Warbling Vireo | Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow |
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel | Great Skua | Philadelphia Vireo | Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow |
White-tailed Tropicbird | South Polar Skua | Red-eyed Vireo | Seaside Sparrow |
Red-billed Tropicbird | Pomarine Jaeger | Gray Jay | Fox Sparrow |
Brown Booby | Parasitic Jaeger | Blue Jay | Song Sparrow |
Northern Gannet | Long-tailed Jaeger | Black-billed Magpie | Lincoln's Sparrow |
American White Pelican | Laughing Gull | Eurasian Jackdaw | Swamp Sparrow |
Brown Pelican | Franklin's Gull | American Crow | White-throated Sparrow |
Double-crested Cormorant | Little Gull | Fish Crow | Harris's Sparrow |
Great Cormorant | Black-headed Gull | Common Raven | White-crowned Sparrow |
Anhinga | Bonaparte's Gull | Horned Lark | Golden-crowned Sparrow |
Magnificent Frigatebird | Mew Gull | Purple Martin | Dark-eyed Junco |
American Bittern | Ring-billed Gull | Brown-chested Martin | McCown's Longspur |
Least Bittern | California Gull | Tree Swallow | Lapland Longspur |
Great Blue Heron | Yellow-legged Gull | Violet-green Swallow | Smith's Longspur |
Great Egret | Herring Gull | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Chestnut-collared Longspur |
Little Egret | Thayer's Gull | Bank Swallow | Snow Bunting |
Western Reef-Heron | Iceland Gull | Cliff Swallow | Northern Cardinal |
Snowy Egret | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Cave Swallow | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
Little Blue Heron | Glaucous Gull | Barn Swallow | Black-headed Grosbeak |
Tricolored Heron | Great Black-backed Gull | Black-capped Chickadee | Blue Grosbeak |
Reddish Egret | Sabine's Gull | Boreal Chickadee | Lazuli Bunting |
Cattle Egret | Black-legged Kittiwake | Tufted Titmouse | Indigo Bunting |
Green Heron | Ross's Gull | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Painted Bunting |
Black-crowned Night-Heron | Ivory Gull | White-breasted Nuthatch | Dickcissel |
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Gull-billed Tern | Brown Creeper | Bobolink |
White Ibis | Caspian Tern | Rock Wren | Red-winged Blackbird |
Glossy Ibis | Royal Tern | Carolina Wren | Eastern Meadowlark |
White-faced Ibis | Elegant Tern | Bewick's Wren | Western Meadowlark |
Wood Stork | Sandwich Tern | House Wren | Yellow-headed Blackbird |
Black Vulture | Roseate Tern | Winter Wren | Rusty Blackbird |
Turkey Vulture | Common Tern | Sedge Wren | Brewer's Blackbird |
Osprey | Arctic Tern | Marsh Wren | Common Grackle |
Swallow-tailed Kite | Forster's Tern | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Boat/Great-tailed Grackle |
White-tailed Kite | Least Tern | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Shiny Cowbird |
Mississippi Kite | Bridled Tern | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Brown-headed Cowbird |
Bald Eagle | Sooty Tern | Northern Wheatear | Orchard Oriole |
White-tailed Eagle | White-winged Tern | Eastern Bluebird | Bullock's Oriole |
Northern Harrier | Black Tern | Mountain Bluebird | Baltimore Oriole |
Sharp-shinned Hawk | Brown Noddy | Townsend's Solitaire | Common Chaffinch |
Cooper's Hawk | Black Skimmer | Veery | Brambling |
Northern Goshawk | Dovekie | Gray-cheeked Thrush | Pine Grosbeak |
Red-shouldered Hawk | Common Murre | Bicknell's Thrush | Purple Finch |
Broad-winged Hawk | Thick-billed Murre | Swainson's Thrush | House Finch |
Swainson's Hawk | Razorbill | Hermit Thrush | Red Crossbill |
Red-tailed Hawk | Black Guillemot | Wood Thrush | White-winged Crossbill |
Rough-legged Hawk | Long-billed Murrelet | Fieldfare | Common Redpoll |
Golden Eagle | Ancient Murrelet | American Robin | Hoary Redpoll |
Eurasian Kestrel | Atlantic Puffin | Varied Thrush | Eurasian Siskin |
American Kestrel | Rock Pigeon | Gray Catbird | Pine Siskin |
Red-footed Falcon | Band-tailed Pigeon | Northern Mockingbird | American Goldfinch |
Merlin | White-winged Dove | Sage Thrasher | Evening Grosbeak |
Gyrfalcon | Mourning Dove | Brown Thrasher | House Sparrow |