Birds of Louisiana
517 bird species have been recorded in Louisiana on the eBird network — explore the 515 in the Birbs encyclopedia, and see which are being reported near you right now.
517 bird species have been recorded in Louisiana on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 515 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 FlamingoPhoenicopterus ruber
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 White IbisEudocimus albus
American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
American WigeonMareca americana
American WoodcockScolopax minor
American Yellow WarblerSetophaga aestiva
AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
Anna’s HummingbirdCalypte anna
Antillean NighthawkChordeiles gundlachii
Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
The full checklist — 515 birds of Louisiana 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 Flamingo
- American Golden Plover
- American Goldfinch
- American Grey Flycatcher
- American Herring Gull
- American Kestrel
- American Oystercatcher
- American Pipit
- American Redstart
- American Robin
- American White Ibis
- American White Pelican
- American Wigeon
- American Woodcock
- American Yellow Warbler
- Anhinga
- Anna’s Hummingbird
- Antillean Nighthawk
- Arctic Tern
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross
- Bachman’s Sparrow
- Bachman’s Warbler
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Baird’s Sparrow
- Bald Eagle
- Baltimore Oriole
- Band-rumped Storm Petrel
- Band-tailed Pigeon
- Barn Swallow
- Barnacle Goose
- Barred Owl
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Bell’s Vireo
- Belted Kingfisher
- Bewick’s Wren
- Black Francolin
- Black Rail
- Black Scoter
- Black Skimmer
- Black Swan
- Black Tern
- Black Vulture
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck
- Black-billed Cuckoo
- Black-capped Vireo
- Black-chinned Hummingbird
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black-headed Grosbeak
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Black-necked Grebe
- Black-necked Stilt
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Black-throated Grey Warbler
- Black-whiskered Vireo
- Blackburnian Warbler
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Blue Bunting
- Blue Grosbeak
- Blue Jay
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher
- Blue-headed Vireo
- Blue-throated Mountaingem
- Blue-winged Teal
- Blue-winged Warbler
- Boat-tailed Grackle
- Bobolink
- Bonaparte’s Gull
- Brant Goose
- Brewer’s Blackbird
- Brewer’s Sparrow
- Bridled Tern
- Broad-billed Hummingbird
- Broad-tailed Hummingbird
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Bronzed Cowbird
- Brown Booby
- Brown Creeper
- Brown Noddy
- Brown Pelican
- Brown Thrasher
- Brown-chested Martin
- Brown-crested Flycatcher
- 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 Wren
- Caspian Tern
- Cassin’s Finch
- Cassin’s Kingbird
- Cassin’s Sparrow
- Cassin’s Vireo
- Cave Swallow
- Cedar Waxwing
- Cerulean Warbler
- Chestnut-collared Longspur
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Chihuahuan Raven
- Chimney Swift
- Chipping Sparrow
- Chuck-will’s-widow
- Chukar Partridge
- Cinnamon Teal
- Clapper Rail
- 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
- Cory’s Shearwater
- Couch’s Kingbird
- Crested Caracara
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Curve-billed Thrasher
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Diamond Dove
- Dickcissel
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Downy Woodpecker
- Dunlin
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher
- 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
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Teal
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Evening Grosbeak
- Ferruginous Duck
- Ferruginous Hawk
- Field Sparrow
- Fish Crow
- Flammulated Owl
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher
- Forster’s Tern
- Franklin’s Gull
- Fulvous Whistling Duck
- Gadwall
- Glaucous Gull
- Glossy Ibis
- Golden Eagle
- Golden Pheasant
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Golden-crowned Sparrow
- Golden-crowned Warbler
- Golden-winged Warbler
- Grasshopper Sparrow
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Great Egret
- Great Horned Owl
- Great Kiskadee
- Great Shearwater
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Greater Roadrunner
- Greater Scaup
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Green Heron
- Green-breasted Mango
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Grey Catbird
- Grey Gull
- Grey Kingbird
- Grey Plover
- Grey-cheeked Thrush
- Greylag Goose
- Groove-billed Ani
- Gull-billed Tern
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Hammond’s Flycatcher
- Harris’s Hawk
- Harris’s Sparrow
- Heermann’s Gull
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Henslow’s Sparrow
- Hermit Thrush
- Hermit Warbler
- Hooded Merganser
- Hooded Oriole
- Hooded Warbler
- Horned Grebe
- Horned Lark
- House Crow
- House Finch
- House Sparrow
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Hudsonian Whimbrel
- Iceland Gull
- Inca Dove
- Indian Peafowl
- Indigo Bunting
- Ivory-billed Woodpecker
- Jabiru
- Kelp Gull
- Kentucky Warbler
- Killdeer
- King Eider
- King Rail
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker
- Lapland Longspur
- Lark Bunting
- Lark Sparrow
- Laughing Gull
- Lazuli Bunting
- Leach’s Storm Petrel
- Least Bittern
- Least Flycatcher
- Least Grebe
- Least Sandpiper
- Least Tern
- LeConte’s Sparrow
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Goldfinch
- Lesser Nighthawk
- Lesser Scaup
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Limpkin
- 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
- Lucifer Sheartail
- Lucy’s Warbler
- MacGillivray’s Warbler
- Magnificent Frigatebird
- Magnolia Warbler
- Mallard
- Mandarin Duck
- Mangrove Cuckoo
- Mangrove Warbler
- Manx Shearwater
- Marbled Godwit
- Marsh Wren
- Masked Booby
- Masked Duck
- Merlin
- Mexican Violetear
- Mississippi Kite
- Monk Parakeet
- Mottled Duck
- Mountain Bluebird
- Mountain Plover
- 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 Rough-winged Swallow
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Waterthrush
- Northern Wheatear
- Olive-sided Flycatcher
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Orchard Oriole
- Osprey
- Ovenbird
- Pacific Loon
- Painted Bunting
- Painted Whitestart
- Palm Warbler
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Peregrine Falcon
- Philadelphia Vireo
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Pine Siskin
- Pine Warbler
- Piping Plover
- Plumbeous Vireo
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Prairie Falcon
- Prairie Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Purple Finch
- Purple Gallinule
- Purple Martin
- Purple Sandpiper
- Pyrrhuloxia
- Razorbill
- Red Crossbill
- Red Fox Sparrow
- Red Junglefowl
- Red Knot
- Red Phalarope
- Red Tanager
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Red-billed Tropicbird
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-cockaded Woodpecker
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Red-faced Warbler
- Red-footed Booby
- Red-headed Woodpecker
- Red-legged Honeycreeper
- Red-naped Sapsucker
- Red-necked Grebe
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-throated Loon
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Reddish Egret
- Redhead
- Ring-billed Gull
- Ring-necked Duck
- Ringed Kingfisher
- Ringed Teal
- Rivoli’s Hummingbird
- Rock Dove
- Rock Wren
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Roseate Spoonbill
- Ross’s Goose
- Rosy-billed Pochard
- Rosy-faced Lovebird
- Rough-legged Buzzard
- Royal Tern
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Ruddy Duck
- Ruddy Shelduck
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Ruff
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Rusty Blackbird
- Sabine’s Gull
- Sage Thrasher
- Sand Martin
- Sanderling
- Sandhill Crane
- Sandwich Tern
- Sargasso Shearwater
- Savannah Sparrow
- Say’s Phoebe
- Scaly-breasted Munia
- Scarlet Tanager
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
- Scopoli’s Shearwater
- Scott’s Oriole
- Seaside Sparrow
- Sedge Wren
- Semipalmated Plover
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Shiny Cowbird
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Short-billed Gull
- Short-eared Owl
- Siberian Sand Plover
- Slaty-backed Gull
- Smith’s Longspur
- Smooth-billed Ani
- Snail Kite
- Snow Goose
- Snowy Egret
- Snowy Owl
- Snowy Plover
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Song Sparrow
- Sooty Shearwater
- Sooty Tern
- Sora
- South Polar Skua
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Spotted Towhee
- Sprague’s Pipit
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
- 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
- Townsend’s Warbler
- Tree Swallow
- Tricolored Heron
- Tropical Kingbird
- Tropical Parula
- Trumpeter Swan
- Tufted Titmouse
- Tundra Swan
- Turkey Vulture
- Upland Sandpiper
- Varied Bunting
- Varied Thrush
- Vaux’s Swift
- Veery
- Vermilion Flycatcher
- Vesper Sparrow
- Violet-green Swallow
- Virginia Rail
- Virginia’s Warbler
- Western Cattle Egret
- Western Flycatcher
- Western Grebe
- Western Gull
- Western Kingbird
- Western Meadowlark
- Western Sandpiper
- Western Tanager
- Western Warbling Vireo
- Western Wood Pewee
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- White-cheeked Pintail
- White-crowned Sparrow
- White-eyed Vireo
- White-faced Ibis
- White-faced Whistling Duck
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- White-tailed Hawk
- White-tailed Kite
- White-tailed Tropicbird
- White-throated Sparrow
- White-winged Dove
- White-winged Scoter
- Whooping Crane
- Wild Turkey
- Willet
- Williamson’s Sapsucker
- Willow Flycatcher
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Wilson’s Plover
- Wilson’s Snipe
- Wilson’s Storm Petrel
- Wilson’s Warbler
- Winter Wren
- Wood Duck
- Wood Stork
- Wood Thrush
- Worm-eating Warbler
- Yellow Rail
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron
- Yellow-fronted Canary
- Yellow-green Vireo
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Yellow-throated Vireo
- Yellow-throated Warbler
- Zone-tailed Hawk
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Birds of Louisiana by bird group
- Ducks, Geese & Swans of Louisiana (53 species)
- New World Warblers of Louisiana (48 species)
- Gulls, Terns & Skimmers of Louisiana (33 species)
- Sandpipers & Allies of Louisiana (33 species)
- New World Sparrows of Louisiana (28 species)
- Tyrant Flycatchers of Louisiana (28 species)
- Hawks, Eagles & Kites of Louisiana (18 species)
- New World Blackbirds & Orioles of Louisiana (18 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 Louisiana?
517 species have been recorded in Louisiana on eBird; 515 of them have a full profile on Birbs.
Where can I see birds in Louisiana 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.