Birds of Vermont
412 bird species have been recorded in Vermont on the eBird network — explore the 411 in the Birbs encyclopedia, and see which are being reported near you right now.
412 bird species have been recorded in Vermont on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 411 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
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 Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
American GoldfinchSpinus tristis
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
Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
Ash-throated FlycatcherMyiarchus cinerascens
Atlantic PuffinFratercula arctica
Baird’s SandpiperCalidris bairdii
The full checklist — 411 birds of Vermont in our library
- Acadian Flycatcher
- African Collared Dove
- Alder Flycatcher
- American Avocet
- American Barn Owl
- American Bittern
- American Black Duck
- American Cliff Swallow
- American Coot
- American Crow
- American Golden Plover
- American Goldfinch
- American Goshawk
- 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
- Arctic Tern
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Atlantic Puffin
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Bald Eagle
- Baltimore Oriole
- Band-rumped Storm Petrel
- Band-tailed Pigeon
- Bar-headed Goose
- Barn Swallow
- Barnacle Goose
- Barred Owl
- Barrow’s Goldeneye
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Bell’s Vireo
- Belted Kingfisher
- Bewick’s Wren
- Bicknell’s Thrush
- Black Guillemot
- Black Scoter
- Black Tern
- Black Vulture
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Black-backed Woodpecker
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck
- Black-billed Cuckoo
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black-headed Grosbeak
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Black-necked Grebe
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Black-tailed Gull
- Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Black-throated Grey Warbler
- 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
- Brant Goose
- Brewer’s Blackbird
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Brown Booby
- Brown Creeper
- Brown Pelican
- Brown Thrasher
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Budgerigar
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Bufflehead
- Cackling Goose
- Canada Goose
- Canada Jay
- Canada Warbler
- Canvasback
- Cape May Warbler
- Carolina Wren
- Caspian Tern
- Cassin’s Vireo
- Cave Swallow
- Cedar Waxwing
- Cerulean Warbler
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Chimney Swift
- Chipping Sparrow
- Chukar Partridge
- Clay-colored Sparrow
- Cockatiel
- Common Crane
- Common Eider
- Common Gallinule
- Common Goldeneye
- Common Grackle
- Common Loon
- Common Merganser
- Common Murre
- Common Nighthawk
- Common Pheasant
- Common Pochard
- Common Quail
- Common Ringed Plover
- 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
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Teal
- Eurasian Wigeon
- European Goldfinch
- European Turtle Dove
- Evening Grosbeak
- Field Sparrow
- Fish Crow
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher
- 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 Grey Owl
- Great Horned Owl
- Great Shearwater
- Greater Scaup
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Green Heron
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Grey Catbird
- Grey Partridge
- Grey Plover
- Grey-cheeked Thrush
- Greylag Goose
- Gyrfalcon
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Hammond’s Flycatcher
- Harlequin Duck
- Harris’s Sparrow
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Henslow’s Sparrow
- Hermit Thrush
- Hooded Merganser
- Hooded Warbler
- Horned Grebe
- Horned Lark
- House Finch
- House Sparrow
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Hudsonian Whimbrel
- Iceland Gull
- Indigo Bunting
- Ivory Gull
- Kentucky Warbler
- Killdeer
- King Eider
- King Rail
- Lapland Longspur
- Lark Bunting
- Lark Sparrow
- Laughing Gull
- Leach’s Storm Petrel
- Least Bittern
- Least Flycatcher
- Least Sandpiper
- LeConte’s Sparrow
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Scaup
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Lewis’s Woodpecker
- Lincoln’s Sparrow
- Little Auk
- Little Blue Heron
- Little Egret
- Little Gull
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Long-eared Owl
- Long-tailed Duck
- Long-tailed Jaeger
- Louisiana Waterthrush
- Magnolia Warbler
- Mallard
- Mandarin Duck
- Marbled Godwit
- Marsh Wren
- Merlin
- Mexican Violetear
- Mountain Bluebird
- Mourning Dove
- Mourning Warbler
- Muscovy Duck
- Mute Swan
- Myrtle Warbler
- Nashville Warbler
- Nelson’s Sparrow
- Northern Bobwhite
- Northern Cardinal
- Northern Flicker
- Northern Fulmar
- Northern Gannet
- 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
- Northern Wheatear
- Olive-sided Flycatcher
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Orchard Oriole
- Osprey
- Ovenbird
- Pacific Golden Plover
- Pacific Loon
- Painted Bunting
- Palm Warbler
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Peregrine Falcon
- Philadelphia Vireo
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Pine Grosbeak
- Pine Siskin
- Pine Warbler
- Pink-footed Goose
- Piping Plover
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Prairie Falcon
- Prairie Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Purple Finch
- Purple Gallinule
- Purple Martin
- Purple Sandpiper
- Razorbill
- Red Crossbill
- Red Fox Sparrow
- Red Junglefowl
- Red Knot
- Red Phalarope
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Red-headed Woodpecker
- Red-necked Grebe
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-throated Loon
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Redhead
- Redpoll
- Ring-billed Gull
- Ring-necked Duck
- Rock Dove
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Ross’s Goose
- 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
- Sand Martin
- Sanderling
- Sandhill Crane
- Savannah Sparrow
- Say’s Phoebe
- Scarlet Tanager
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
- Sedge Wren
- Semipalmated Plover
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Short-eared Owl
- Slaty-backed Gull
- Smith’s Longspur
- Snow Bunting
- Snow Goose
- Snowy Egret
- Snowy Owl
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Song Sparrow
- Sooty Tern
- Sora
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Spotted Towhee
- Spruce Grouse
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Summer Tanager
- Surf Scoter
- Swainson’s Hawk
- Swainson’s Thrush
- Swainson’s Warbler
- Swallow-tailed Kite
- Swamp Sparrow
- Swan Goose
- Tennessee Warbler
- Thick-billed Murre
- Townsend’s Solitaire
- Tree Swallow
- Tricolored Heron
- Trumpeter Swan
- Tufted Duck
- Tufted Titmouse
- Tundra Swan
- Turkey Vulture
- Two-barred Crossbill
- Upland Sandpiper
- Varied Thrush
- Veery
- Vesper Sparrow
- Virginia Rail
- Western Cattle Egret
- Western Grebe
- Western Kingbird
- Western Meadowlark
- Western Sandpiper
- Western Tanager
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- White-crowned Sparrow
- White-eyed Vireo
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- White-tailed Tropicbird
- White-throated Sparrow
- White-winged Dove
- White-winged Scoter
- White-winged Tern
- Whooping Crane
- Wild Turkey
- Willet
- Willow Flycatcher
- Willow Ptarmigan
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Wilson’s Snipe
- Wilson’s Storm Petrel
- Wilson’s Warbler
- Winter Wren
- Wood Duck
- Wood Thrush
- Worm-eating Warbler
- Yellow Rail
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Yellow-throated Vireo
- Yellow-throated Warbler
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Birds of Vermont by bird group
- Ducks, Geese & Swans of Vermont (51 species)
- New World Warblers of Vermont (37 species)
- Sandpipers & Allies of Vermont (32 species)
- New World Sparrows of Vermont (24 species)
- Gulls, Terns & Skimmers of Vermont (23 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 Vermont?
412 species have been recorded in Vermont on eBird; 411 of them have a full profile on Birbs.
Where can I see birds in Vermont 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.