Birds of Idaho
458 bird species have been recorded in Idaho on the eBird network — explore the 457 in the Birbs encyclopedia, and see which are being reported near you right now.
458 bird species have been recorded in Idaho on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 457 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
Acorn WoodpeckerMelanerpes formicivorus
Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
American Barn OwlTyto furcata
American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
American Black DuckAnas rubripes
American Black SwiftCypseloides niger
American BushtitPsaltriparus minimus
American Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
American CootFulica americana
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
American DipperCinclus mexicanus
American Dusky FlycatcherEmpidonax oberholseri
American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
American GoldfinchSpinus tristis
American Grey FlycatcherEmpidonax wrightii
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
American KestrelFalco sparverius
American OystercatcherHaematopus palliatus
American PipitAnthus rubescens
American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
American RobinTurdus migratorius
American Three-toed WoodpeckerPicoides dorsalis
American Tree SparrowSpizelloides arborea
American White IbisEudocimus albus
American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
American WigeonMareca americana
American Yellow WarblerSetophaga aestiva
Ancient MurreletSynthliboramphus antiquus
Anna’s HummingbirdCalypte anna
The full checklist — 457 birds of Idaho in our library
- Acorn Woodpecker
- Alder Flycatcher
- American Avocet
- American Barn Owl
- American Bittern
- American Black Duck
- American Black Swift
- American Bushtit
- American Cliff Swallow
- American Coot
- American Crow
- American Dipper
- American Dusky Flycatcher
- American Golden Plover
- American Goldfinch
- American Goshawk
- American Grey Flycatcher
- American Herring Gull
- American Kestrel
- American Oystercatcher
- American Pipit
- American Redstart
- American Robin
- American Three-toed Woodpecker
- American Tree Sparrow
- American White Ibis
- American White Pelican
- American Wigeon
- American Yellow Warbler
- Ancient Murrelet
- Anna’s Hummingbird
- Arctic Tern
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Bald Eagle
- Baltimore Oriole
- Band-tailed Pigeon
- Bar-headed Goose
- Barn Swallow
- Barred Owl
- Barrow’s Goldeneye
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Bell’s Vireo
- Belted Kingfisher
- Bewick’s Wren
- Black Phoebe
- Black Rosy Finch
- Black Scoter
- Black Tern
- Black Turnstone
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Black-backed Woodpecker
- Black-billed Cuckoo
- Black-billed Magpie
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Black-chinned Hummingbird
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black-headed Grosbeak
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Black-necked Grebe
- Black-necked Stilt
- Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Black-throated Grey Warbler
- Black-throated Sparrow
- 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
- Boreal Chickadee
- Boreal Owl
- Brambling
- Brant Goose
- Brewer’s Blackbird
- Brewer’s Sparrow
- Broad-billed Hummingbird
- Broad-tailed Hummingbird
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Brown Creeper
- Brown Pelican
- Brown Thrasher
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Budgerigar
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Bufflehead
- Burrowing Owl
- Cackling Goose
- California Gull
- California Quail
- California Scrub Jay
- Calliope Hummingbird
- Canada Goose
- Canada Jay
- Canada Warbler
- Canvasback
- Canyon Wren
- Cape May Warbler
- Caspian Tern
- Cassia Crossbill
- Cassin’s Finch
- Cassin’s Kingbird
- Cassin’s Sparrow
- Cassin’s Vireo
- Cedar Waxwing
- Chestnut-backed Chickadee
- Chestnut-collared Longspur
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Chilean Flamingo
- Chimney Swift
- Chipping Sparrow
- Chukar Partridge
- Cinnamon Teal
- Clark’s Grebe
- Clark’s Nutcracker
- Clay-colored Sparrow
- Cockatiel
- Common Crane
- Common Gallinule
- Common Goldeneye
- Common Grackle
- Common Loon
- Common Merganser
- Common Nighthawk
- Common Pheasant
- Common Poorwill
- Common Starling
- Common Tern
- Common Yellowthroat
- Connecticut Warbler
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Costa’s Hummingbird
- Crested Caracara
- Curve-billed Thrasher
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Dickcissel
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Downy Woodpecker
- Dunlin
- Dusky Grouse
- Eastern Bluebird
- Eastern Kingbird
- Eastern Phoebe
- Eastern Towhee
- Emperor Goose
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Teal
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Evening Grosbeak
- Ferruginous Hawk
- Flammulated Owl
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher
- Forster’s Tern
- Franklin’s Gull
- Gadwall
- Gambel’s Quail
- Garganey
- Glaucous Gull
- Glaucous-winged Gull
- Glossy Ibis
- Golden Eagle
- Golden Pheasant
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Golden-crowned Sparrow
- Golden-winged Warbler
- Grasshopper Sparrow
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Great Egret
- Great Grey Owl
- Great Horned Owl
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Greater Scaup
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Green Heron
- Green Pheasant
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Grey Catbird
- Grey Partridge
- Grey Plover
- Grey-cheeked Thrush
- Grey-crowned Rosy Finch
- Greylag Goose
- Gyrfalcon
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Hammond’s Flycatcher
- Harlequin Duck
- Harris’s Hawk
- Harris’s Sparrow
- Heermann’s Gull
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Hermit Thrush
- Hermit Warbler
- Hooded Crane
- Hooded Merganser
- Hooded Oriole
- Hooded Warbler
- Horned Grebe
- Horned Lark
- House Finch
- House Sparrow
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Hudsonian Whimbrel
- Iceland Gull
- Indian Peafowl
- Indigo Bunting
- Juniper Titmouse
- Killdeer
- Lapland Longspur
- Lark Bunting
- Lark Sparrow
- Laughing Gull
- Lazuli Bunting
- Least Bittern
- Least Flycatcher
- Least Sandpiper
- Least Tern
- LeConte’s Sparrow
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Goldfinch
- Lesser Scaup
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Lewis’s Woodpecker
- Lincoln’s Sparrow
- Little Blue Heron
- Little Gull
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Long-billed Curlew
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Long-eared Owl
- Long-tailed Duck
- Long-tailed Jaeger
- Louisiana Waterthrush
- Lucy’s Warbler
- MacGillivray’s Warbler
- Magnolia Warbler
- Mallard
- Mandarin Duck
- Marbled Godwit
- Marsh Wren
- Merlin
- Mountain Bluebird
- Mountain Chickadee
- Mountain Plover
- Mountain Pygmy Owl
- Mountain Quail
- Mourning Dove
- Mourning Warbler
- Muscovy Duck
- Mute Swan
- Myrtle Warbler
- Nashville Warbler
- Neotropic Cormorant
- Northern Bobwhite
- Northern Flicker
- Northern Harrier
- Northern Hawk-Owl
- Northern House Wren
- Northern Mockingbird
- Northern Parula
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Raven
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Northern Saw-whet Owl
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Shrike
- Northern Waterthrush
- Olive-sided Flycatcher
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Orchard Oriole
- Osprey
- Ovenbird
- Pacific Golden Plover
- Pacific Loon
- Pacific Wren
- Painted Bunting
- Palm Warbler
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Passenger Pigeon
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Peregrine Falcon
- Phainopepla
- Philadelphia Vireo
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Pine Grosbeak
- Pine Siskin
- Pine Warbler
- Pinyon Jay
- Plumbeous Vireo
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Prairie Falcon
- Prairie Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Purple Finch
- Purple Martin
- Pygmy Nuthatch
- Red Crossbill
- Red Fox Sparrow
- Red Junglefowl
- Red Knot
- Red Phalarope
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-breasted Sapsucker
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Red-flanked Bluetail
- Red-headed Woodpecker
- Red-legged Partridge
- Red-naped Sapsucker
- Red-necked Grebe
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-throated Loon
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Reddish Egret
- Redhead
- Redpoll
- Ring-billed Gull
- Ring-necked Duck
- Rock Dove
- Rock Wren
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Ross’s Goose
- Ross’s Gull
- Rough-legged Buzzard
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Ruddy Duck
- Ruddy Shelduck
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Ruff
- Ruffed Grouse
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Rusty Blackbird
- Sabine’s Gull
- Sage Grouse
- Sage Thrasher
- Sagebrush Sparrow
- Sand Martin
- Sanderling
- Sandhill Crane
- Savannah Sparrow
- Say’s Phoebe
- Scarlet Tanager
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
- Scott’s Oriole
- Semipalmated Plover
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Sharp-tailed Grouse
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Short-billed Gull
- Short-eared Owl
- Siberian Accentor
- Slaty-backed Gull
- Snow Bunting
- Snow Goose
- Snowy Egret
- Snowy Owl
- Snowy Plover
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Song Sparrow
- Sora
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Spotted Towhee
- Spruce Grouse
- Steller’s Jay
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Summer Tanager
- Sunda Zebra Finch
- Surf Scoter
- Swainson’s Hawk
- Swainson’s Thrush
- Swamp Sparrow
- Swan Goose
- Tennessee Warbler
- Thick-billed Longspur
- Townsend’s Solitaire
- Townsend’s Warbler
- Tree Swallow
- Tricolored Blackbird
- Tricolored Heron
- Tropical Kingbird
- Trumpeter Swan
- Tufted Duck
- Tundra Swan
- Turkey Vulture
- Two-barred Crossbill
- Upland Sandpiper
- Varied Thrush
- Vaux’s Swift
- Veery
- Vermilion Flycatcher
- Vesper Sparrow
- Violet-green Swallow
- Virginia Rail
- Virginia’s Warbler
- Western Bluebird
- Western Cattle Egret
- Western Flycatcher
- Western Grebe
- Western Gull
- Western Kingbird
- Western Meadowlark
- Western Sandpiper
- Western Screech Owl
- Western Tanager
- Western Warbling Vireo
- Western Wood Pewee
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- White-crowned Sparrow
- White-eyed Vireo
- White-faced Ibis
- White-headed Woodpecker
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- White-tailed Kite
- White-tailed Ptarmigan
- White-throated Sparrow
- White-throated Swift
- White-winged Dove
- White-winged Scoter
- Whooper Swan
- Whooping Crane
- Wild Turkey
- Willet
- Williamson’s Sapsucker
- Willow Flycatcher
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Wilson’s Snipe
- Wilson’s Warbler
- Winter Wren
- Wood Duck
- Wood Stork
- Wood Thrush
- Woodhouse’s Scrub Jay
- Worm-eating Warbler
- Yellow Rail
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Yellow-billed Loon
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- Yellow-collared Lovebird
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Yellow-throated Vireo
- Yellow-throated Warbler
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Birds of Idaho by bird group
- Ducks, Geese & Swans of Idaho (47 species)
- New World Warblers of Idaho (39 species)
- Sandpipers & Allies of Idaho (31 species)
- Gulls, Terns & Skimmers of Idaho (25 species)
- New World Sparrows of Idaho (25 species)
- Tyrant Flycatchers of Idaho (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 Idaho?
458 species have been recorded in Idaho on eBird; 457 of them have a full profile on Birbs.
Where can I see birds in Idaho 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.