Birds of Arkansas
442 bird species have been recorded in Arkansas on the eBird network — explore the 441 in the Birbs encyclopedia, and see which are being reported near you right now.
442 bird species have been recorded in Arkansas on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 441 of them have a full profile in the Birbs encyclopedia — start with the well-known birds below, browse the complete list, then check which are being reported near you right now.
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Birds to know first
Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
African Collared DoveStreptopelia roseogrisea
Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
Allen’s HummingbirdSelasphorus sasin
American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
American Barn OwlTyto furcata
American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
American Black DuckAnas rubripes
American Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
American CootFulica americana
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
American GoldfinchSpinus tristis
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
American KestrelFalco sparverius
American PipitAnthus rubescens
American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
American RobinTurdus migratorius
American Tree SparrowSpizelloides arborea
American White IbisEudocimus albus
American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
American WigeonMareca americana
American WoodcockScolopax minor
American Yellow WarblerSetophaga aestiva
AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
Anna’s HummingbirdCalypte anna
Ash-throated FlycatcherMyiarchus cinerascens
Bachman’s SparrowPeucaea aestivalis
Bachman’s WarblerVermivora bachmanii
Baird’s SandpiperCalidris bairdii
The full checklist — 441 birds of Arkansas in our library
- Acadian Flycatcher
- African Collared Dove
- Alder Flycatcher
- Allen’s Hummingbird
- American Avocet
- American Barn Owl
- American Bittern
- American Black Duck
- American Cliff Swallow
- American Coot
- American Crow
- American Golden Plover
- American Goldfinch
- American Goshawk
- American Herring Gull
- American Kestrel
- American Pipit
- American Redstart
- American Robin
- American Tree Sparrow
- American White Ibis
- American White Pelican
- American Wigeon
- American Woodcock
- American Yellow Warbler
- Anhinga
- Anna’s Hummingbird
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Bachman’s Sparrow
- Bachman’s Warbler
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Bald Eagle
- Baltimore Oriole
- Barn Swallow
- Barnacle Goose
- Barred Owl
- Barrow’s Goldeneye
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Bell’s Vireo
- Belted Kingfisher
- Bewick’s Wren
- Black Rail
- Black Scoter
- Black Skimmer
- Black Swan
- Black Tern
- Black Vulture
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck
- Black-billed Cuckoo
- Black-chinned Hummingbird
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black-headed Grosbeak
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Black-necked Grebe
- Black-necked Stilt
- Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Black-throated Grey Warbler
- Blackburnian Warbler
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Blue Grosbeak
- Blue Jay
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher
- Blue-headed Vireo
- Blue-winged Teal
- Blue-winged Warbler
- Bobolink
- Bohemian Waxwing
- Bonaparte’s Gull
- Brambling
- Brant Goose
- Brewer’s Blackbird
- Brewer’s Sparrow
- Bridled Tern
- Broad-billed Hummingbird
- Broad-tailed Hummingbird
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Brown Booby
- Brown Creeper
- Brown Pelican
- Brown Thrasher
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Brown-headed Nuthatch
- Budgerigar
- Buff-bellied Hummingbird
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Bufflehead
- Burrowing Owl
- Cackling Goose
- California Gull
- Calliope Hummingbird
- Canada Goose
- Canada Warbler
- Canvasback
- Cape May Warbler
- Carolina Chickadee
- Carolina Parakeet
- Carolina Wren
- Caspian Tern
- Cassin’s Kingbird
- Cassin’s Sparrow
- Cave Swallow
- Cedar Waxwing
- Cerulean Warbler
- Chestnut-collared Longspur
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Chimney Swift
- Chipping Sparrow
- Chuck-will’s-widow
- Chukar Partridge
- Cinnamon Teal
- Clark’s Grebe
- Clark’s Nutcracker
- Clay-colored Sparrow
- Cockatiel
- Common Gallinule
- Common Goldeneye
- Common Grackle
- Common Ground Dove
- Common Loon
- Common Merganser
- Common Nighthawk
- Common Pheasant
- Common Starling
- Common Tern
- Common Yellowthroat
- Connecticut Warbler
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Couch’s Kingbird
- Crested Caracara
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Dickcissel
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Downy Woodpecker
- Dunlin
- Eastern Bluebird
- Eastern Kingbird
- Eastern Meadowlark
- Eastern Phoebe
- Eastern Screech Owl
- Eastern Towhee
- Eastern Warbling Vireo
- Eastern Whip-poor-will
- Eastern Wood Pewee
- Egyptian Goose
- Eskimo Curlew
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Teal
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Evening Grosbeak
- Ferruginous Hawk
- Field Sparrow
- Fish Crow
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher
- Forster’s Tern
- Franklin’s Gull
- Fulvous Whistling Duck
- Gadwall
- Garganey
- Glaucous Gull
- Glossy Ibis
- Golden Eagle
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Golden-winged Warbler
- Grasshopper Sparrow
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Great Egret
- Great Horned Owl
- Great Kiskadee
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Greater Prairie Chicken
- Greater Roadrunner
- Greater Scaup
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Green Heron
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Grey Catbird
- Grey Kingbird
- Grey Plover
- Grey-cheeked Thrush
- Grey-crowned Rosy Finch
- Greylag Goose
- Groove-billed Ani
- Gull-billed Tern
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Harris’s Sparrow
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Henslow’s Sparrow
- Hermit Thrush
- Hooded Merganser
- Hooded Warbler
- Horned Grebe
- Horned Lark
- House Finch
- House Sparrow
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Hudsonian Whimbrel
- Iceland Gull
- Inca Dove
- Indian Peafowl
- Indigo Bunting
- Kentucky Warbler
- Killdeer
- King Rail
- Lapland Longspur
- Lark Bunting
- Lark Sparrow
- Laughing Gull
- Lazuli Bunting
- Least Bittern
- Least Flycatcher
- Least Grebe
- Least Sandpiper
- Least Tern
- LeConte’s Sparrow
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Goldfinch
- Lesser Scaup
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Lewis’s Woodpecker
- Limpkin
- Lincoln’s Sparrow
- Little Blue Heron
- Little Gull
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Long-billed Curlew
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Long-billed Murrelet
- Long-eared Owl
- Long-tailed Duck
- Long-tailed Jaeger
- Louisiana Waterthrush
- Magnificent Frigatebird
- Magnolia Warbler
- Mallard
- Mandarin Duck
- Marbled Godwit
- Marsh Wren
- Merlin
- Mexican Violetear
- Mississippi Kite
- Monk Parakeet
- Mottled Duck
- Mountain Bluebird
- Mourning Dove
- Mourning Warbler
- Muscovy Duck
- Mute Swan
- Myrtle Warbler
- Nashville Warbler
- Nelson’s Sparrow
- Neotropic Cormorant
- Northern Bobwhite
- Northern Cardinal
- Northern Flicker
- Northern Gannet
- Northern Harrier
- Northern House Wren
- Northern Mockingbird
- Northern Parula
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Red Bishop
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Northern Saw-whet Owl
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Shrike
- Northern Waterthrush
- Northern Wheatear
- Olive-sided Flycatcher
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Orchard Oriole
- Osprey
- Ovenbird
- Pacific Loon
- Painted Bunting
- Painted Whitestart
- Palm Warbler
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Passenger Pigeon
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Peregrine Falcon
- Philadelphia Vireo
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Pine Grosbeak
- Pine Siskin
- Pine Warbler
- Piping Plover
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Prairie Falcon
- Prairie Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Purple Finch
- Purple Gallinule
- Purple Martin
- Purple Sandpiper
- Red Crossbill
- Red Fox Sparrow
- Red Knot
- Red Phalarope
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-cockaded Woodpecker
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Red-headed Woodpecker
- Red-necked Grebe
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-throated Loon
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Redhead
- Redpoll
- Ring-billed Gull
- Ring-necked Duck
- Rivoli’s Hummingbird
- Rock Dove
- Rock Wren
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Roseate Spoonbill
- Ross’s Goose
- Rosy-faced Lovebird
- Rough-legged Buzzard
- Royal Tern
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Ruddy Duck
- Ruddy Shelduck
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Ruff
- Ruffed Grouse
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Rufous-crowned Sparrow
- Rusty Blackbird
- Sabine’s Gull
- Sage Thrasher
- Sand Martin
- Sanderling
- Sandhill Crane
- Savannah Sparrow
- Say’s Phoebe
- Scarlet Tanager
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
- Scott’s Oriole
- Sedge Wren
- Semipalmated Plover
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Short-billed Gull
- Short-eared Owl
- Smith’s Longspur
- Snow Bunting
- Snow Goose
- Snowy Egret
- Snowy Owl
- Snowy Plover
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Song Sparrow
- Sooty Tern
- Sora
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Spotted Towhee
- Sprague’s Pipit
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Summer Tanager
- Surf Scoter
- Swainson’s Hawk
- Swainson’s Thrush
- Swainson’s Warbler
- Swallow-tailed Kite
- Swamp Sparrow
- Swan Goose
- Tennessee Warbler
- Thick-billed Longspur
- Townsend’s Solitaire
- Tree Swallow
- Tricolored Heron
- Tropical Kingbird
- Trumpeter Swan
- Tufted Duck
- Tufted Titmouse
- Tundra Bean Goose
- Tundra Swan
- Turkey Vulture
- Two-barred Crossbill
- Upland Sandpiper
- Varied Thrush
- Veery
- Vermilion Flycatcher
- Vesper Sparrow
- Virginia Rail
- Western Cattle Egret
- Western Grebe
- Western Kingbird
- Western Meadowlark
- Western Sandpiper
- Western Tanager
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- White-crowned Sparrow
- White-eyed Vireo
- White-faced Ibis
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- White-tailed Kite
- White-throated Sparrow
- White-throated Swift
- White-winged Dove
- White-winged Scoter
- Whooping Crane
- Wild Turkey
- Willet
- Willow Flycatcher
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Wilson’s Plover
- Wilson’s Snipe
- Wilson’s Warbler
- Winter Wren
- Wood Duck
- Wood Stork
- Wood Thrush
- Worm-eating Warbler
- Yellow Grosbeak
- Yellow Rail
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Yellow-billed Loon
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Yellow-throated Vireo
- Yellow-throated Warbler
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Birds of Arkansas by bird group
- Ducks, Geese & Swans of Arkansas (50 species)
- New World Warblers of Arkansas (39 species)
- Sandpipers & Allies of Arkansas (34 species)
- New World Sparrows of Arkansas (27 species)
- Gulls, Terns & Skimmers of Arkansas (25 species)
- Tyrant Flycatchers of Arkansas (21 species)
Species lists and counts come from the eBird network; "recorded" means reported by birders to eBird. Tap any bird for its full profile, photos, sounds and ID notes.
Frequently asked questions
How many bird species are in Arkansas?
442 species have been recorded in Arkansas on eBird; 441 of them have a full profile on Birbs.
Where can I see birds in Arkansas right now?
Use the Birds Near You tool to see species reported near you in the last few days, or browse the full checklist on this page.