Birds of Tennessee
471 bird species have been recorded in Tennessee on the eBird network — explore the 470 in the Birbs encyclopedia, and see which are being reported near you right now.
471 bird species have been recorded in Tennessee on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 470 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
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 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
Ancient MurreletSynthliboramphus antiquus
AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
Anna’s HummingbirdCalypte anna
Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
Ash-throated FlycatcherMyiarchus cinerascens
Bachman’s SparrowPeucaea aestivalis
The full checklist — 470 birds of Tennessee in our library
- Acadian Flycatcher
- 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 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
- Ancient Murrelet
- Anhinga
- Anna’s Hummingbird
- Arctic Tern
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Bachman’s Sparrow
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Bald Eagle
- Baltimore Oriole
- Band-rumped Storm Petrel
- Band-tailed Pigeon
- 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-capped Chickadee
- Black-capped Petrel
- Black-chinned Hummingbird
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black-headed Grosbeak
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-headed Parrot
- 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
- Boat-tailed Grackle
- Bobolink
- Bohemian Waxwing
- Bonaparte’s Gull
- Brant Goose
- Brewer’s Blackbird
- Bridled Tern
- Broad-billed Hummingbird
- Broad-tailed Hummingbird
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Bronzed Cowbird
- Brown Booby
- Brown Creeper
- Brown Noddy
- 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 Warbler
- Canvasback
- Cape May Warbler
- Carolina Chickadee
- Carolina Parakeet
- Carolina Wren
- Caspian Tern
- Cassin’s Kingbird
- Cave Swallow
- Cedar Waxwing
- Cerulean Warbler
- Chestnut-collared Longspur
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Chiloe Wigeon
- Chimney Swift
- Chipping Sparrow
- Chuck-will’s-widow
- Chukar Partridge
- Cinnamon Teal
- Clapper Rail
- Clark’s Grebe
- Clay-colored Sparrow
- Common Eider
- Common Gallinule
- Common Goldeneye
- Common Grackle
- Common Ground Dove
- Common Loon
- Common Merganser
- Common Nighthawk
- Common Pheasant
- Common Quail
- Common Shelduck
- Common Starling
- Common Tern
- Common Yellowthroat
- Connecticut Warbler
- Cooper’s Hawk
- 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
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Teal
- Eurasian Wigeon
- European Goldfinch
- Evening Grosbeak
- Ferruginous Hawk
- Field Sparrow
- Fish Crow
- Forster’s Tern
- Franklin’s Gull
- Fulvous Whistling Duck
- Gadwall
- Garganey
- Glaucous 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 Cormorant
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Great Egret
- Great Horned Owl
- Great Kiskadee
- Great Shearwater
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Greater Scaup
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Green Heron
- Green Pheasant
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Grey Catbird
- Grey Plover
- Grey-cheeked Thrush
- Greylag Goose
- Groove-billed Ani
- Gull-billed Tern
- Gyrfalcon
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Harlequin Duck
- Harris’s Hawk
- Harris’s Sparrow
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Henslow’s Sparrow
- Hermit Thrush
- 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
- Ivory Gull
- Ivory-billed Woodpecker
- Kentucky Warbler
- Killdeer
- King Eider
- King Rail
- Kirtland’s Warbler
- Lady Amherst’s Pheasant
- 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
- Limpkin
- Lincoln’s Sparrow
- Little Blue Heron
- Little Gull
- Little Stint
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Long-billed Curlew
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Long-billed Murrelet
- 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 Violetear
- Mississippi Kite
- Monk Parakeet
- Mottled Duck
- Mourning Dove
- Mourning Warbler
- Muscovy Duck
- Mute Swan
- Myrtle Warbler
- Nanday Parakeet
- 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 Raven
- 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
- Palm Warbler
- Paradise Shelduck
- 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 Goose
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-cockaded Woodpecker
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Red-headed Woodpecker
- Red-necked Grebe
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-necked Stint
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-throated Loon
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Reddish Egret
- Redhead
- Redpoll
- Ring-billed Gull
- Ring-necked Duck
- Ringed Teal
- Rock Dove
- Rock Wren
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Roseate Spoonbill
- Ross’s Goose
- 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 Thrasher
- Sand Martin
- Sanderling
- Sandhill Crane
- Sandwich Tern
- Savannah Sparrow
- Say’s Phoebe
- Scaly-breasted Munia
- Scarlet Tanager
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
- Scott’s Oriole
- Sedge Wren
- Semipalmated Plover
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
- Shiny Cowbird
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Short-eared Owl
- Smith’s Longspur
- Snail Kite
- Snow Bunting
- Snow Goose
- Snowy Egret
- Snowy Owl
- Snowy Plover
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Song Sparrow
- Sooty Tern
- Sora
- South African Shelduck
- South Polar Skua
- Southern Pochard
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Spotted Towhee
- Sprague’s Pipit
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Summer Tanager
- Sunda Zebra Finch
- 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
- Tricolored Munia
- Trumpeter Swan
- Tufted Titmouse
- Tundra Swan
- Turkey Vulture
- Two-barred Crossbill
- Upland Sandpiper
- Varied Thrush
- Variegated Flycatcher
- Veery
- Venezuelan Troupial
- Vermilion Flycatcher
- Vesper Sparrow
- Violet-green Swallow
- Virginia Rail
- Virginia’s Warbler
- Western Cattle Egret
- Western Flycatcher
- 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 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 Tennessee by bird group
- Ducks, Geese & Swans of Tennessee (58 species)
- New World Warblers of Tennessee (41 species)
- Sandpipers & Allies of Tennessee (35 species)
- Gulls, Terns & Skimmers of Tennessee (28 species)
- New World Sparrows of Tennessee (26 species)
- New World Blackbirds & Orioles of Tennessee (19 species)
- Tyrant Flycatchers of Tennessee (19 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 Tennessee?
471 species have been recorded in Tennessee on eBird; 470 of them have a full profile on Birbs.
Where can I see birds in Tennessee 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.
