Birds of Nova Scotia - Bird List Page one

Appendix 1: Hypothetical Species | Appendix 2: Unsuccessful Introductions | Literature Cited | Birds of NS

This index is based on the order in which the birds appear in Robie Tufts' Birds of Nova Scotia. Tufts, like many ornithologists, chose to list his birds taxonomically.

Find the general category under which the bird you are seeking might be found, then click on the listing to be linked to that bird's individual page.

Line drawings by John H. Dick

1. Red-throated Loon

2. Pacific Loon
3. Common Loon
4. Pie-billed Grebe
5. Horned Grebe
6. Red-necked Grebe
7. Eared Grebe
8. Western Grebe
9. Black-browed Albatross
10. Yellow-nosed Albatross
11. Northern Fulmar
12. Black-capped Petrel
13. Cory's Shearwater
14. Greater Shearwater
15. Sooty Shearwater
16. Manx Shearwater
17. Little Shearwater
18. Audubon's Shearwater
19. Wilson's Storm-Petrel
20. British Storm-Petrel
21. Leach's Storm-Petrel
22. White-tailed Tropicbird
23. Brown Booby
24. Northern Gannet
25. American White Pelican
26. Brown Pelican
27. Great Cormorant
28. Double-crested Cormorant
29. Magnificent Frigatebird
30. American Bittern

31. Least Bittern
32. Great Blue Heron
33. Great Egret
34. Snowy Egret
35. Little Blue Heron
36. Tricolored Heron
37. Reddish Egret
38. Cattle Egret
39. Green-backed Heron
40. Black-crowned Night-Heron
41. Yellow-crowned Night Heron
42. White Ibis
43. Glossy Ibis
44. Greater Flamingo
45. Fulvous Whistling-Duck
46. Tundra Swan
47. Greater White-fronted Goose
48. Snow Goose
49. Brant
50. Barnacle Goose
51. Canada Goose
52. Wood Duck

53. Green-winged Teal
54. American Black Duck
55. Mallard
56. Northern Pintail
57. Blue-winged Teal
58. Northern Shoveler
59. Gadwall
60. Eurasian Wigeon
61. American Wigeon
62. Canvasback
63. Redhead
64. Ring-necked Duck
65. Greater Scaup
66. Lesser Scaup
67. Common Eider

68. King Eider
69. Labrador Duck
70. Harlequin Duck
71. Oldsquaw
72. Black Scoter
73. Surf Scoter
74. White-winged Scoter
75. Common Goldeneye
76. Barrow's Goldeneye
77. Bufflehead
78. Hooded Merganser
79. Common Merganser
80. Red-breasted Merganser
81. Ruddy Duck
82. Black Vulture
83. Turkey Vulture
84. Osprey
85. American Swallow-tailed Kite
86. Bald Eagle
87. Northern Harrier

88. Sharp-shinned Hawk
89. Cooper's Hawk
90. Northern Goshawk
91. Red-shouldered Hawk
92. Broad-winged Hawk
93. Swainson's Hawk
94. Zone-tailed Hawk
95. Red-tailed Hawk
96. Rough-legged Hawk
97. Golden Eagle
98. American Kestrel
99. Merlin
100. Peregrine Falcon
101. Gryfalcon
102. Gray Partridge
103. Ring-necked Pheasant
104. Spruce Grouse
105. Willow Ptarmigan
106. Rock Ptarmigan
107. Ruffed Grouse
108. Yellow Rail
109. Corn Crake
110. Clapper Rail
111. King Rail
112. Virginia Rail
113. Sora
114. Purple Gallinule
115. Common Moorhen
116. American Coot
117. Limpkin
118. Sandhill Crane
119. Northern Lapwing
120. Black-bellied Plover
121. Lesser Golden-Plover
122. Wilson's plover
123. Semipalmated Plover
124. Piping Plover
125. Killdeer
126. American Oystercatcher
127. Black-necked Stilt
128. American Avocet
129. Greater Yellowlegs
130. Lesser Yellowlegs

131. Solitary Sandpiper
132. Willet
133. Spotted Sandpiper
134. Upland Sandpiper
135. Eskimo Curlew
136. Whimbrel
137. Eurasian Curlew
138. Long-billed Curlew
139. Hudsonian Godwit
140. Marbled Godwit
141. Ruddy Turnstone
142. Red Knot
143. Sanderling
144. Semipalmated Sandpiper
145. Western Sandpiper
146. Little Stint
147. Least Sandpiper
148. White-rumped Sandpiper
149. Baird's Sandpiper
150. Pectoral Sandpiper
151. Purple Sandpiper
152. Dunlin
153. Curlew Sandpiper
154. Stilt Sandpiper
155. Buff-breasted Sandpiper
156. Ruff
157. Short-billed Dowitcher
158. Long-billed Dowitcher
159. Common Snipe

160. American Woodcock
161. Wilson's Phalarope
162. Red-necked Phalarope
163. Red Phalarope
164. Pomarine Jaeger
165. Parasitic Jaeger
166. Long-tailed Jaeger
167. Great Skua
168. Laughing Gull
169. Franklin's Gull
170. Little Gull
171. Common Black-headed Gull
172. Bonaparte's Gull
173. Mew Gull
174. Ring-billed Gull
175. Herring Gull
176. Iceland Gull
177. Lesser Black-backed Gull
178. Glaucous Gull
179. Great Black-backed Gull
180. Black-legged Kittiwake
181. Sabine's Gull
182. Ivory Gull
183. Gull-billed Tern
184. Caspian Tern
185. Royal Tern
186. Roseate Tern

187. Common Tern
188. Arctic Tern
189. Forster's Tern
190. Least Tern
191. Sooty Tern
192. Black Tern
193. Black Skimmer
194. Dovekie
195. Common Murre
196. Thick-billed Murre
197. Razorbill
198. Great Auk
199. Black Guillemot
200. Atlantic Puffin
201. Rock Dove
202. Band-tailed Pigeon
203. White-winged Dove
204. Mourning Dove
205. Passenger Pigeon
206. Common Ground-Dove

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