Official Louisiana State List
compiled by Donna L. Dittmann
Secretary, Louisiana Bird Records Committee
(September 1995)

GAVIIFORMES
Gaviidae: loons
_____Red-throated Loon *
_____Common Loon

PODICIPEDIFORMES
Podicipedidae: grebes
_____Least Grebe *
_____Pied-billed Grebe
_____Horned Grebe
_____Red-necked Grebe *
_____Eared Grebe
_____Western Grebe *

PROCELLARIIFORMES
Diomedeidae: albatrosses
_____Yellow-nosed Albatross *

Procellariidae: shearwaters *
_____Greater Shearwater *
_____Audubon's Shearwater *

Hydrobatidae: storm-petrels
_____Wilson's Storm-Petrel*
_____Leach's Storm-Petrel *

PELECANIFORMES
Sulidae: boobies, gannets
_____Masked Booby *
_____Brown Booby *
_____Red-footed Booby *
_____Northern Gannet

Pelecanidae: pelicans
_____American White Pelican
_____Brown Pelican

Phalacrocoracidae: cormorants
_____Double-crested Cormorant
_____Neotropic Cormorant

Anhingidae: darters
_____Anhinga

Fregatidae: frigatebirds
_____Magnificent Frigatebird

CICONIIFORMES
Ardeidae: bitterns, herons
_____American Bittern
_____Least Bittern
_____Great Blue Heron
............"Great White" Heron *
_____Great Egret
_____Snowy Egret
_____Little Blue Heron
_____Tricolored Heron
_____Reddish Egret
_____Cattle Egret
_____Green Heron
_____Black-crowned Night-Heron
_____Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Threskiornithidae: ibises, spoonbills
_____White Ibis
_____Glossy Ibis
_____White-faced Ibis
......... Plegadis, sp.
_____Roseate Spoonbill

Ciconiidae: storks
_____Wood Stork

ANSERIFORMES
Anatidae: swans, geese, ducks
_____Fulvous Whistling-Duck
_____Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
_____Tundra Swan *
_____Trumpeter Swan (Q) *
_____Greater White-fronted Goose
_____Snow Goose
............"Blue" Goose
_____Ross' Goose
_____Brant *
_____Canada Goose
_____Wood Duck
_____Green-winged Teal
_____American Black Duck
_____Mottled Duck
_____Mallard
_____Northern Pintail
_____Blue-winged Teal
_____Cinnamon Teal
_____Northern Shoveler
_____Gadwall
_____Eurasian Wigeon *
_____American Wigeon
_____Canvasback
_____Redhead
_____Ring-necked Duck
_____Greater Scaup
_____Lesser Scaup
_____King Eider*
_____Oldsquaw
_____Black Scoter
_____Surf Scoter
_____White-winged Scoter *
_____Common Goldeneye
_____Bufflehead
_____Hooded Merganser
_____Common Merganser *
_____Red-breasted Merganser
_____Ruddy Duck
_ ____Masked Duck *

FALCONIFORMES
Cathartidae: American vultures
_____Black Vulture
_____Turkey Vulture

Accipitridae: kites, eagles, hawks, and allies
_____Osprey
_____Swallow-tailed Kite
_____White-tailed Kite
_____Mississippi Kite
_____Bald Eagle
_____Northern Harrier
_____Sharp-shinned Hawk
_____Cooper's Hawk
_____Northern Goshawk *
_____Red-shouldered Hawk
_____Broad-winged Hawk
_____Swainson's Hawk
_____White-tailed Hawk *
_____Zone-tailed Hawk *
_____Red-tailed Hawk
_____Ferruginous Hawk *
_____Rough-legged Hawk *
_____Golden Eagle *

Falconidae: caracaras, falcons
_____Crested Caracara*
_____American Kestrel
_____Merlin
_____Peregrine Falcon

GALLIFORMES

Phasianidae: grouse, turkeys, quail

_____Greater Prairie-Chicken (Q) *
_____Wild Turkey
____Northern Bobwhite

GRUIFORMES
Rallidae: rails, gallinules, coots
_____Yellow Rail
_____Black Rail *
_____Clapper Rail
_____King Rail
_____Virginia Rail
_____Sora
_____Purple Gallinule
_____Common Moorhen
_____American Coot

Gruidae: craness
_____Sandhill Crane
_____Whooping Crane (Q) *

CHARADRIIFORMES
Charadriidae: plovers
_____Black-bellied Plover
_____American Golden-Plover
_____Mongolian Plover *
_____Snowy Plover
_____Wilson's Plover
_____Semipalmated Plover
_____Piping Plover
_____Killdeer

Haematopodidae: oystercatchers
_____American Oystercatcher

Recurvirostridae: stilts, avocets
_____Black-necked Stilt
_____American Avocet

Scolopacidae: sandpipers, phalaropes, and allies
_____Greater Yellowlegs
_____Lesser Yellowlegs
_____Solitary Sandpiper
_____Willet
_____Spotted Sandpiper
_____Upland Sandpiper
_____Eskimo Curlew (Q) *
_____Whimbrel
_____Long-billed Curlew
_____Black-tailed Godwit*
_____Hudsonian Godwit
_____Marbled Godwit
_____Ruddy Turnstone
_____Red Knot
_____Sanderling
_____Semipalmated Sandpiper
_____Western Sandpiper
_____Least Sandpiper
_____White-rumped Sandpiper
_____Baird's Sandpiper
_____Pectoral Sandpiper
_____Purple Sandpiper *
_____Dunlin
_____Curlew Sandpiper *
_____Stilt Sandpiper
_____Buff-breasted Sandpiper
_____Ruff *
_____Short-billed Dowitcher
_____Long-billed Dowitcher
_____Common Snipe
_____American Woodcock
_____Wilson's Phalarope
_____Red-necked Phalarope *
_____Red Phalarope *

Laridae: skuas, gulls, terns, skimmers
_____Pomarine Jaeger *
_____Parasitic Jaeger *
_____Long-tailed Jaeger *
_____Laughing Gull
_____Franklin's Gull
_____Little Gull *
_____Bonaparte's Gull
_____Ring-billed Gull
_____California Gull *
_____Herring Gull
_____Thayer's Gull *
_____Lesser Black-backed Gull *
_____Glaucous Gull *
_____Great Black-backed Gull *
_____Black-legged Kittiwake *
_____Sabine's Gull *
_____Gull-billed Tern
_____Caspian Tern
_____Royal Tern
_____Sandwich Tern
_____Common Tern
_____Arctic Tern *
_____Forster's Tern
_____Least Tern
_____Bridled Tern *
_____Sooty Tern
_____Black Tern
_____Brown Noddy *
_____Black Skimmer

Alcidae: auks, murres, puffins

_____Ancient Murrelet *

COLUMBIFORMES
Columbidae: pigeons, doves

_____Rock Dove (I)
_____Band-tailed Pigeon *
_____Eurasian Collared Dove (I)*
_____White-winged Dove
_____Mourning Dove
_____Passenger Pigeon (E)
_____Inca Dove
_____Common Ground-Dove

PSITTACIFORMES
Psittacidae: parrots

_____Carolina Parakeet (E)

CUCULIFORMES
Cuculidae: cuckoos, roadrunners, anis

_____Black-billed Cuckoo
_____Yellow-billed Cuckoo
_____Greater Roadrunner
_____Groove-billed Ani

STRIGIFORMES
Tytonidae: barn owls

_____Barn Owl

Strigidae: typical owls

_____Flammulated Owl *
_____Eastern Screech-Owl
_____Great Horned Owl
_____Snowy Owl *
_____Burrowing Owl
_____Barred Owl
_____Long-eared Owl *
_____Short-eared Owl
_____Northern Saw-whet Owl *

CAPRIMULGIFORMES
Caprimulgidae: goatsuckers

_____Lesser Nighthawk *
_____Common Nighthawk
_____Antillean Nighthawk *
_____Chuck-will's-widow
_____Whip-poor-will

APODIFORMES
Apodidae: swift

_____Chimney Swift
_____Vaux's Swift *

Trochilidae: hummingbirds

_____Broad-billed Hummingbird *
_____Buff-bellied Hummingbird
_____Blue-throated Hummingbird*
_____Ruby-throated Hummingbird
_____Black-chinned Hummingbird
_____Anna's Hummingbird *
_____Calliope Hummingbird *
_____Broad-tailed Hummingbird *
_____Rufous Hummingbird
_____Allen's Hummingbird *

CORACIIFORMES
Alcedinidae: kingfishers

_____Belted Kingfisher

PICIFORMES
Picidae: woodpeckers

_____Red-headed Woodpecker
_____Red-bellied Woodpecker
_____Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
_____Red-naped Sapsucker*
_____Williamson's Sapsucker *
_____Downy Woodpecker
_____Hairy Woodpecker
_____Red-cockaded Woodpecker
_____Northern "Yellow-shafted" Flicker
............."Red-shafted" Flicker*
_____Pileated Woodpecker
_____Ivory-billed Woodpecker (E) *

PASSERIFORMES
Tyrannidae: tyrant flycatchers

_____Olive-sided Flycatcher
_____Western Wood-Pewee *
_____Eastern Wood-Pewee
_____Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
_____Acadian Flycatcher
_____Alder Flycatcher.
_____Willow Flycatcher *
_____Least Flycatcher
_____Hammond's Flycatcher *
_____Pacific-slope Flycatcher*
_____Cordilleran Flycatcher*
.........Empidonax, sp.
_____Eastern Phoebe
_____Say's Phoebe *
_____Vermilion Flycatcher
_____Ash-throated Flycatcher *
_____Great Crested Flycatcher
_____Brown-crested Flycatcher *
_____Great Kiskadee *
_____Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher *
_____Tropical Kingbird *
_____Couch's Kingbird *
_____Cassin's Kingbird *
_____Western Kingbird
_____Eastern Kingbird
_____Gray Kingbird *
_____Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Alaudidae: larks

_____Horned Lark

Hirundinidae: swallows

_____Purple Martin
_____Tree Swallow
_____Northern Rough-winged Swallow
_____Bank Swallow
_____Cliff Swallow
_____Cave Swallow *
_____Barn Swallow

Corvidae: jays, crows

_____Blue Jay
_____American Crow
_____Fish Crow

Paridae: titmice

_____Carolina Chickadee
_____Tufted Titmouse

Sittidae: nuthatches

_____Red-breasted Nuthatch
_____White-breasted Nuthatch
_____Brown-headed Nuthatch

Certhiidae: creepers

_____Brown Creeper

Troglodytidae: wrens

_____Rock Wren *
_____Carolina Wren
_____Bewick's Wren
_____House Wren
_____Winter Wren
_____Sedge Wren
_____Marsh Wren

Muscicapidae: muscicapids

Slyviinae: kinglets, gnatcatchers

_____Golden-crowned Kinglet
_____Ruby-crowned Kinglet
_____Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Turdinae: thrushes

_____Northern Wheatear *
_____Eastern Bluebird
_____Mountain Bluebird *
_____Veery
_____Gray-cheeked Thrush
_____Swainson's Thrush
_____Hermit Thrush
_____Wood Thrush
_____American Robin
_____Varied Thrush *

Mimidae: mockingbirds, thrashers, and allies

_____Gray Catbird
_____Northern Mockingbird
_____Sage Thrasher *
_____Brown Thrasher
_____Curve-billed Thrasher *

Motacillidae: pipits

_____American Pipit
_____Sprague's Pipit

Bombycillidae: waxwings

_____Cedar Waxwing

Laniidae: shrikes

_____Loggerhead Shrike

Sturnidae: starlings

_____European Starling (I)

Vireonidae: vireos

_____White-eyed Vireo
_____Bell's Vireo*
_____Solitary "Blue-headed" Vireo
............"Cassin's" Solitary Vireo *
______Plumbeous Vireo *
_____Yellow-throated Vireo
_____Warbling Vireo
_____Philadelphia Vireo
_____Red-eyed Vireo
_____Yellow-green Vireo*
_____Black-whiskered Vireo *

Parulidae: wood-warblers
_____Bachman's Warbler (E?) *
_____Blue-winged Warbler
_____Golden-winged Warbler
_____Tennessee Warbler
_____Orange-crowned Warbler
_____Nashville Warbler
_____Virginia's Warbler *
_____Lucy's Warbler *
_____Northern Parula
_____Tropical Parula *
_____Yellow Warbler
_____Chestnut-sided Warbler
_____Magnolia Warbler
_____Cape May Warbler
_____Black-throated Blue Warbler
_____Yellow-rumped "Myrtle" Warbler
............"Audubon's" Warbler
_____Black-throated Gray Warbler *
_____Townsend's Warbler *
_____Hermit Warbler *
_____Black-throated Green Warbler
_____Blackburnian Warbler
_____Yellow-throated 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
_____Swainson's 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 *
_____Yellow-breasted Chat

_____Thraupidae: tanagers

_____Hepatic Tanager *
_____Summer Tanager
_____Scarlet Tanager
_____Western Tanager *

Cardinalidae: cardinals, grosbeaks, and allies

_____Northern Cardinal
_____Rose-breasted Grosbeak *
_____Black-headed Grosbeak *
_____Blue Bunting *
_____Blue Grosbeak
_____Lazuli Bunting *
_____Indigo Bunting
_____Painted Bunting
_____Dickcissel

Emberizidae: emberizines

_____Green-tailed Towhee *
_____Eastern Towhee
_____Spotted Towhee*
_____Bachman's Sparrow
_____American Tree Sparrow*
_____Chipping Sparrow
_____Clay-colored Sparrow
_____Brewer's Sparrow *
_____Field Sparrow
_____Vesper Sparrow
_____Lark Sparrow
_____Lark Bunting *
_____Savannah Sparrow
_____Grasshopper Sparrow
_____Henslow's Sparrow
_____Le Conte's Sparrow
_____Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
_____Seaside Sparrow
_____Fox Sparrow
_____Song Sparrow
_____Lincoln's Sparrow
_____Swamp Sparrow
_____White-throated Sparrow
_____Golden-crowned Sparrow *
_____White-crowned Sparrow
_____Harris' Sparrow
_____Dark-eyed "Slate-colored" Junco
............"Gray-headed" Junco *
............"Oregon" Junco
_____McCown's Longspur *
_____Lapland Longspur
_____Smith's Longspur *
_____Chestnut-collared Longspur *

Icteridae: icterines

_____Bobolink
_____Red-winged Blackbird
_____Eastern Meadowlark
_____Western Meadowlark
_____Yellow-headed Blackbird
_____Rusty Blackbird
_____Brewer's Blackbird
_____Great-tailed Grackle
_____Boat-tailed Grackle
_____Common Grackle
_____Shiny Cowbird *
_____Bronzed Cowbird
_____Brown-headed Cowbird
_____Orchard Oriole
_____Hooded Oriole *
_____Baltimore Oriole
_____Bullock's Oriole*
_____Scott's Oriole *

Fringillidae: cardueline, finches, and allies

Carduelinae: finches

_____Purple Finch
_____House Finch (I)
_____Red Crossbill *
_____Pine Siskin
_____Lesser Goldfinch *
_____American Goldfinch
_____Evening Grosbeak

Ploceidae: weavers

_____House Sparrow (I)

* = LBRC Review List Species (E) = extinct (Q) = formerly present or status in question (I) = established introduced population, or records originate from established introduced population Names and sequence of species follow 1983 AOU Check-list and its supplements. Included for convenience are some additional major subspecies and forms that are known to occur in Louisiana; these are indicated by quotation marks. Records of review list species should be reported to: Secretary, Louisiana Bird Records committee, c/o Museum of Natural Science, 119 Foster Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803.