Birds of Nebraska
490 bird species have been recorded in Nebraska on the eBird network — explore the 489 in the Birbs encyclopedia, and see which are being reported near you right now.
490 bird species have been recorded in Nebraska on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 489 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
Acorn WoodpeckerMelanerpes formicivorus
African Collared DoveStreptopelia roseogrisea
Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
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 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 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 WoodcockScolopax minor
American Yellow WarblerSetophaga aestiva
Ancient MurreletSynthliboramphus antiquus
AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
The full checklist — 489 birds of Nebraska in our library
- Acadian Flycatcher
- Acorn Woodpecker
- African Collared Dove
- Alder Flycatcher
- American Avocet
- American Barn Owl
- American Bittern
- American Black Duck
- 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 Pipit
- American Redstart
- American Robin
- American Three-toed Woodpecker
- American Tree Sparrow
- American White Ibis
- American White Pelican
- American Wigeon
- American Woodcock
- American Yellow Warbler
- Ancient Murrelet
- Anhinga
- Anna’s Hummingbird
- Arctic Tern
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Baird’s Sparrow
- 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 Rail
- Black Rosy Finch
- Black Scoter
- Black Tern
- Black Vulture
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck
- Black-billed Cuckoo
- Black-billed Magpie
- Black-capped Chickadee
- 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-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 Owl
- Brambling
- Brant Goose
- Brewer’s Blackbird
- Brewer’s Sparrow
- 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-breasted Sandpiper
- Bufflehead
- Burrowing Owl
- Cackling Goose
- California Gull
- Calliope Hummingbird
- Canada Goose
- Canada Jay
- Canada Warbler
- Canvasback
- Canyon Wren
- Cape May Warbler
- Carolina Parakeet
- 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 Grebe
- Clark’s Nutcracker
- Clay-colored Sparrow
- Cockatiel
- Common Crane
- Common Eider
- Common Gallinule
- Common Goldeneye
- Common Grackle
- Common Ground Dove
- Common Loon
- Common Merganser
- Common Nighthawk
- Common Pheasant
- Common Poorwill
- Common Starling
- Common Tern
- Common Yellowthroat
- Connecticut Warbler
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Costa’s Hummingbird
- Couch’s Kingbird
- Crested Caracara
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Curve-billed Thrasher
- 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
- Emperor Goose
- Eskimo Curlew
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Teal
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Evening Grosbeak
- Ferruginous Hawk
- Field Sparrow
- Fish Crow
- Forster’s Tern
- Franklin’s Gull
- Fulvous Whistling Duck
- Gadwall
- Garganey
- Glaucous Gull
- Glaucous-winged Gull
- Glossy Ibis
- Golden Eagle
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Golden-crowned Sparrow
- Golden-winged Warbler
- Grace’s Warbler
- Grasshopper Sparrow
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Great Egret
- Great Grey Owl
- Great Horned Owl
- Great Kiskadee
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Greater Prairie Chicken
- Greater Scaup
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Green Heron
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Grey Catbird
- Grey Partridge
- Grey Plover
- Grey-cheeked Thrush
- Grey-crowned Rosy Finch
- Greylag Goose
- Groove-billed Ani
- Gyrfalcon
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Hammond’s Flycatcher
- Harlequin Duck
- Harris’s Hawk
- Harris’s Sparrow
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Henslow’s Sparrow
- 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
- Inca Dove
- Indian Peafowl
- Indigo Bunting
- Kentucky Warbler
- Killdeer
- King Eider
- King Rail
- 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 Prairie Chicken
- 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-eared Owl
- Long-tailed Duck
- Long-tailed Jaeger
- Louisiana Waterthrush
- MacGillivray’s Warbler
- Magnificent Frigatebird
- Magnolia Warbler
- Mallard
- Mandarin Duck
- Marbled Godwit
- Marsh Wren
- Merlin
- Mexican Duck
- Mississippi Kite
- Monk Parakeet
- Mottled Duck
- Mountain Bluebird
- Mountain Chickadee
- 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 Harrier
- Northern Hawk-Owl
- Northern House Wren
- Northern Mockingbird
- Northern Parula
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Raven
- Northern Red Bishop
- 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 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
- Pink-footed Goose
- Pinyon Jay
- Piping Plover
- Plumbeous Vireo
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Prairie Falcon
- Prairie Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Purple Finch
- Purple Gallinule
- Purple Martin
- Pygmy Nuthatch
- Red Crossbill
- Red Fox Sparrow
- Red Junglefowl
- Red Knot
- Red Phalarope
- Red Tanager
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Red-headed Woodpecker
- 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
- Roseate Spoonbill
- Ross’s Goose
- Ross’s Gull
- 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
- 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
- Sedge Wren
- Semipalmated Plover
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Sharp-tailed Grouse
- 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
- Sora
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Spotted Towhee
- Sprague’s Pipit
- Steller’s Jay
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Summer Tanager
- Surf Scoter
- Swainson’s Hawk
- Swainson’s Thrush
- Swainson’s Warbler
- Swallow-tailed Kite
- Swamp Sparrow
- Swan Goose
- Taiga Bean Goose
- Tennessee Warbler
- Thick-billed Longspur
- Townsend’s Solitaire
- Townsend’s Warbler
- Tree Swallow
- Tricolored Heron
- Trumpeter Swan
- Tufted Duck
- Tufted Titmouse
- Tundra Swan
- Turkey Vulture
- Two-barred Crossbill
- Upland Sandpiper
- Varied Thrush
- 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 Tanager
- Western Warbling Vireo
- Western Wood Pewee
- 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
- 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
- Worm-eating Warbler
- 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
- Zone-tailed Hawk
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Birds of Nebraska by bird group
- Ducks, Geese & Swans of Nebraska (56 species)
- New World Warblers of Nebraska (42 species)
- Sandpipers & Allies of Nebraska (33 species)
- New World Sparrows of Nebraska (29 species)
- Gulls, Terns & Skimmers of Nebraska (25 species)
- Tyrant Flycatchers of Nebraska (24 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 Nebraska?
490 species have been recorded in Nebraska on eBird; 489 of them have a full profile on Birbs.
Where can I see birds in Nebraska 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.
