LIFE-LIST

A life-list is a fancy term for a list of birds. More specifically, it includes every single species of bird a birdwatcher has ever recorded seeing.
This one's mine.
I'm lucky enough to live in a city with a ton of parks, so I have seen most of these birds at-home in Alberta, Canada, though there are a few I have seen abroad. Some of these I have seen repeatedly and some I have only seen once or twice. Like I said, this includes EVERY bird.
I have also included a short list at the end of non-bird animals I have seen while birdwatching, which isn't typical of life-lists. But this is my website and I do what I want.

Admittedly this list is not organized too well. I've sorted the birds into groups and sub-groups, some of which are taxonomic and some of which are more-or-less arbitrary. Hopefully they make enough sense, but if not you can always CTRL+F.

So far, I have seen

98

species of birds!

WATERFOWL AND WADING-BIRDS

• Mallard Duck
• Wood Duck
• Common Goldeneye
• Bufflehead
• Common Merganser
• Red-Breasted Merganser
• Hooded Merganser
• Lesser Scaup
• American Wigeon
• Northern Pintail
• Blue-Winged Teal
• Northern Shoveler
• Redhead
• Tufted Duck
• Mandarin Duck
• Ruddy Duck

• Canada Goose
• Cackling Goose
• Graylag Goose
• Egyptian Goose
• Mute Swan

• Eared Grebe
• Western Grebe
• Great Crested Grebe
• Red-Necked Grebe
• Common Loon

• American Coot
• Eurasian Coot
• Eurasian Moorhen
• White-Faced Ibis
• Great Blue Heron
• Gray Heron

SEABIRDS

• American White Pelican
• Double-Crested Cormorant
• Great Cormorant
• Common Tern

• Franklin's Gull
• Numerous unidentified seagulls

SHOREBIRDS

• Solitary Sandpiper
• American Avocet
• Killdeer
• Willet
• Black-Necked Stilt
• Greater Yellowlegs

WOODPECKERS AND NUTHATCHES

• Northern Flicker
• Pileated Woodpecker
• Downy Woodpecker
• Red-Bellied Woodpecker
• Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker

• Red-Breasted Nuthatch
• White-Breasted Nuthatch

BIRDS-OF-PREY AND VULTURES

• Bald Eagle
• Osprey

• Cooper's Hawk
• Swainson's Hawk
• Red-Tailed Hawk
• Merlin
• Prairie Falcon

• Black Vulture

CORVIDS

• American Crow
• Carrion Crow
• Common Raven
• Black-Billed Magpie
• Eurasian Magpie
• Blue Jay

BLACKBIRDS

• Red-Winged Blackbird
• Yellow-Headed Blackbird
• Brown-Headed Cowbird
• Common Grackle
• Western Meadowlark

SONGBIRDS, SPARROWS, AND THE REST

• House Sparrow
• Song Sparrow
• Fox Sparrow
• Savannah Sparrow
• Dark-Eyed Junco
• White-Crowned Sparrow
• White-Throated Sparrow
• House Finch
• House Wren
• American Goldfinch
• Yellow Warbler

• American Robin
• Cedar Waxwing
• Eastern Phoebe
• Western Wood-Pewee
• European Starling
• Northern Cardinal
• Eastern Kingbird
• Rose-Ringed Parakeet

• Rock Pigeon
• Mourning Dove
• Wood Pigeon

• Black-Capped Chickadee
• Eurasian Blue Tit
• Golden-Crowned Kinglet
• White Wagtail
• Least Flycatcher
• Tree Swallow
• Bank Swallow

NON-BIRDS

Other animals I've seen while out birdwatching.

• White-Tailed Deer
• Richardson's Ground-Squirrel
• Striped Skunk
• Muskrat
• Raccoon