Birds of Utah
507 bird species have been recorded in Utah on the eBird network — explore the 506 in the Birbs encyclopedia, and see which are being reported near you right now.
507 bird species have been recorded in Utah on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 506 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
Abert’s TowheeMelozone aberti
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 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 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
The full checklist — 506 birds of Utah in our library
- Abert’s Towhee
- Acorn Woodpecker
- African Collared Dove
- 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 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
- Baird’s Sparrow
- Bald Eagle
- Baltimore Oriole
- Band-tailed Pigeon
- Bar-headed Goose
- Bar-tailed Godwit
- Barn Swallow
- Barnacle Goose
- Barrow’s Goldeneye
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Bell’s Sparrow
- Bell’s Vireo
- Belted Kingfisher
- Bendire’s Thrasher
- Bewick’s Wren
- Black Phoebe
- Black Rosy Finch
- Black Scoter
- Black Swan
- Black Tern
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Black-billed Cuckoo
- Black-billed Magpie
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Black-chinned Hummingbird
- Black-chinned Sparrow
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black-headed Grosbeak
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Black-necked Grebe
- Black-necked Stilt
- Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
- Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Black-throated Grey Warbler
- Black-throated Sparrow
- Blackburnian Warbler
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Blue Grosbeak
- Blue Jay
- Blue-footed Booby
- 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
- Bronzed Cowbird
- Brown Creeper
- Brown Pelican
- Brown Thrasher
- Brown-capped Rosy Finch
- Brown-crested Flycatcher
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Budgerigar
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Bufflehead
- Burrowing Owl
- Cackling Goose
- Cactus Wren
- California Condor
- California Gull
- California Quail
- Calliope Hummingbird
- Canada Goose
- Canada Jay
- Canada Warbler
- Canvasback
- Canyon Towhee
- Canyon Wren
- Cape May Warbler
- Caspian Tern
- Cassin’s Finch
- Cassin’s Kingbird
- Cassin’s Sparrow
- Cassin’s Vireo
- Cedar Waxwing
- 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 Black Hawk
- Common Crane
- 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
- Crested Caracara
- Crissal Thrasher
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Curve-billed Thrasher
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Dickcissel
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Downy Woodpecker
- Dunlin
- Dusky Grouse
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher
- Eastern Bluebird
- Eastern Kingbird
- Eastern Phoebe
- Echo Parakeet
- Egyptian Goose
- Elf Owl
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Teal
- Eurasian Wigeon
- European Goldfinch
- Evening Grosbeak
- Ferruginous Hawk
- Field Sparrow
- Fischer’s Lovebird
- Flammulated Owl
- Forster’s Tern
- Franklin’s Gull
- Fulvous Whistling Duck
- Gadwall
- Gambel’s Quail
- Garganey
- Gilded Flicker
- 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-tailed Grackle
- Greater Roadrunner
- Greater Scaup
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Green Heron
- Green Peafowl
- Green Pheasant
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Grey Catbird
- Grey Hawk
- Grey Partridge
- Grey Plover
- Grey Vireo
- Grey-crowned Rosy Finch
- Greylag Goose
- Gunnison Grouse
- Gyrfalcon
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Hammond’s Flycatcher
- Harlequin Duck
- Harris’s Sparrow
- Heermann’s Gull
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Hermit Thrush
- Hermit Warbler
- 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
- Japanese Quail
- Juniper Titmouse
- Kentucky Warbler
- Killdeer
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker
- Lapland Longspur
- Lark Bunting
- Lark Sparrow
- Laughing Gull
- Lawrence’s Goldfinch
- Lazuli Bunting
- Least Bittern
- Least Flycatcher
- Least Sandpiper
- Least Tern
- LeConte’s Sparrow
- LeConte’s Thrasher
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Flamingo
- Lesser Goldfinch
- Lesser Nighthawk
- 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
- Magnificent Frigatebird
- Magnolia Warbler
- Mallard
- Mandarin Duck
- Marbled Godwit
- Marsh Wren
- Merlin
- Mexican Duck
- Mexican Whip-poor-will
- Mississippi Kite
- Monk Parakeet
- Mountain Bluebird
- Mountain Chickadee
- Mountain Plover
- Mountain Pygmy Owl
- Mourning Dove
- Muscovy Duck
- Mute Swan
- Myrtle Warbler
- Nashville Warbler
- Nelson’s Sparrow
- Neotropic Cormorant
- Northern Bobwhite
- Northern Cardinal
- Northern Flicker
- Northern Harrier
- 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 Warbler
- Olive-sided Flycatcher
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Orchard Oriole
- Osprey
- Ovenbird
- Pacific Golden Plover
- Pacific Loon
- Pacific Wren
- Painted Bunting
- Painted Whitestart
- Palm Warbler
- Parasitic Jaeger
- 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 Gallinule
- Purple Martin
- Purple Sandpiper
- Pygmy Nuthatch
- Pyrrhuloxia
- Red Crossbill
- Red Fox Sparrow
- Red Junglefowl
- Red Knot
- Red Phalarope
- Red Tanager
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-breasted Sapsucker
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
- Red-crested Pochard
- 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
- Ringed Teal
- Rivoli’s Hummingbird
- Rock Dove
- Rock Wren
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Roseate Spoonbill
- Ross’s Goose
- Rough-legged Buzzard
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Ruddy Duck
- Ruddy Ground Dove
- Ruddy Shelduck
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Ruff
- Ruffed Grouse
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Rufous-backed Thrush
- Rufous-crowned Sparrow
- Rusty Blackbird
- Sabine’s Gull
- Sage Grouse
- Sage Thrasher
- Sagebrush Sparrow
- Sand Martin
- Sanderling
- Sandhill Crane
- Savannah Sparrow
- Say’s Phoebe
- Scaled Quail
- 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
- Snow Bunting
- Snow Goose
- Snowy Egret
- Snowy Owl
- Snowy Plover
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Song Sparrow
- Sora
- Spotted Owl
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Spotted Towhee
- Sprague’s Pipit
- Steller’s Jay
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Streak-backed Oriole
- Summer Tanager
- Sun Parakeet
- Sunda Zebra Finch
- Surf Scoter
- Swainson’s Hawk
- Swainson’s Thrush
- Swamp Sparrow
- Swan Goose
- Tennessee Warbler
- Thick-billed Kingbird
- Thick-billed Longspur
- Townsend’s Solitaire
- Townsend’s Warbler
- Tree Swallow
- Tricolored Heron
- Tropical Kingbird
- Trumpeter Swan
- Tundra Swan
- Turkey Vulture
- Two-barred Crossbill
- Upland Sandpiper
- Varied Thrush
- Vaux’s Swift
- Veery
- Vega Gull
- Verdin
- Vermilion Flycatcher
- Vesper Sparrow
- Village Indigobird
- Violet-green Swallow
- Virginia Rail
- Virginia’s Warbler
- Wandering Tattler
- 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-rumped Sandpiper
- White-tailed Kite
- White-tailed Ptarmigan
- White-throated Sparrow
- White-throated Swift
- White-winged Dove
- White-winged Scoter
- 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-bellied Flycatcher
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Yellow-billed Loon
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron
- Yellow-footed Gull
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Yellow-throated Vireo
- Yellow-throated Warbler
- Zone-tailed Hawk
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Birds of Utah by bird group
- Ducks, Geese & Swans of Utah (51 species)
- New World Warblers of Utah (41 species)
- Sandpipers & Allies of Utah (34 species)
- New World Sparrows of Utah (32 species)
- Gulls, Terns & Skimmers of Utah (26 species)
- Tyrant Flycatchers of Utah (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 Utah?
507 species have been recorded in Utah on eBird; 506 of them have a full profile on Birbs.
Where can I see birds in Utah 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.