List of birds of Devonshire



(V) means the species is a vagrant.


 * 2/4/11: List updated with four species: Stokes's Turaco, Frilled Parotia, Frost Barbet and Devonshire Horned Owl.
 * 2/18/11: Added greater roadrunner, a possible species I accidentally forgot to add.

Archaeopterygiformes

 * 1. Archaeopteryx/Wellnhoferia

Omnivoropterygiformes

 * 1. Shenshiornis

Unresolved forms

 * 1. Jeholornis

Aves incertae sedis

 * 1. Patagopteryx

Liaoningornithidae

 * 1. Liaoningornis

Eurolimnornithidae

 * 1. Eurolimnornis/Palaeocursornis

Placement unresolved
1. Longipteryx

Confuciusornithiformes
1. Confuciousornis

Enantiornithidae
1. Enantiornis

Unresolved forms
1. Hollanda

Hesperornithidae
1. Hesperornis

Non-Neornithes count: 11

Brevirhynchidae*



 * 1. Crested Stubbill*
 * 2. Giant Stubbill*
 * 3. Green Stubbill*

Struthionidae

 * 1. Purple-necked Ostrich*
 * 2. Dwarf Ostrich*

Casuariidae

 * 1. Emu
 * 2. Scimitar-billed Emu*
 * 3. Three-toed Emu*

Apterygidae

 * 1. Glennshire Kiwi*

Lithornithidae

 * 1. Pseudocrypturus

Tinamidae

 * 1. Little Tinamou (V)

Palaegnaths count: 11

Phasianidae

 * 1. Bulwer's Pheasant
 * 2. Ruffed Grouse
 * 3. Satyr Tragopan
 * 4. Rhode Island Red
 * 5. Grey Ptarmigan*
 * 6. Greater Peafowl*

Odontophoridae

 * 1. Northern Bobwhite
 * 2. Buffy-crowned Wood-partridge

Cracidae

 * 1. Great Curassow
 * 2. Crested Guan

Anatidae



 * 1. African Pygmy-goose
 * 2. Comb Duck
 * 3. Devonshire Brent*
 * 4. Dwarf Swan*
 * 5. Muscovy Duck
 * 6. Patched Weatherbird*
 * 7. Red-breasted Goose
 * 8. Red-breasted Merganser
 * 9. Snow Goose
 * 10. Trumpeter Swan
 * 11. Tuft-eared Duck*
 * 12. Tundra Swan
 * 13. White-spotted Goose*
 * 14. Wry-billed Swan*
 * 15. Black Swan
 * 16. Lesser Scaup
 * 17. Northern Shoveler
 * 18. Bufflehead
 * 19. Blue-winged Teal
 * 20. Redhead
 * 21. Common Merganser
 * 22. Ring-necked Duck
 * 23. Common Goldeneye
 * 24. Ruddy Duck
 * 25. Hooded Merganser
 * 26. Cape Barren Goose
 * 27. Pink-eared Duck
 * 28. Masked Duck
 * 29. Canada Goose
 * 30. Gadwall
 * 31. Wood Duck
 * 32. Mallard
 * 33. American Black Duck
 * 34. Green-winged Teal
 * 35. Northern Pintail
 * 36. American Wigeon

Gastornithidae

 * 1. Gastornis

Galloanserae count: 47

Spheniscidae



 * 1. Adelie Penguin
 * 2. Southern Rockhopper Penguin
 * 3. Snares Crested Penguin
 * 4. Yellow-headed Penguin*

Gaviidae



 * 1. Common Loon or Great Northern Diver

Diomedeidae

 * 1. Black-browed Albatross
 * 2. Black-footed Albatross
 * 3. Laysan Albatross
 * 4. Short-tailed Albatross
 * 5. Wandering Albatross
 * 6. White-capped Albatross
 * 7. Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross
 * 8. Northern Royal Albatross

Procellaridae

 * 1. Long-billed Petrel*

Hydrobatidae

 * 1. Ringed Storm-petrel

Podicipedidae



 * 1. Great Crested Grebe
 * 2. Little Grebe
 * 3. Red-necked Grebe

Phoenicopteridae

 * 1. Dwarf Flamingo*
 * 2. Giant Flamingo*
 * 3. Orange-billed Flamingo*

Ciconiidae

 * 1. Dwarf Stork*
 * 2. Blue-winged Stork*

Phaetonidae

 * 1. Red-tailed Tropicbird

Ardeidae

 * 1. Cocoi Heron
 * 2. Grey Heron
 * 3. Little Blue Heron
 * 4. Purple Heron
 * 5. Reddish Egret
 * 6. Six-toed Grey Heron*
 * 7. Striated Bittern
 * 8. Yellow-necked Heron*
 * 9. Great Egret
 * 10. Snowy Egret
 * 11. Cattle Egret
 * 12. Black Bittern
 * 13. Great-billed Heron
 * 14. Rheimimus*
 * 15. Blue-crested Heron*
 * 16. Dark Blue Heron*
 * 17. Great Blue Heron
 * 18. Giant-crested Heron*
 * 19. Owl-faced Heron*

Threskiornithidae

 * 1. Roseate Spoonbill
 * 2. Scarlet Ibis
 * 3. Long-billed Ibis*
 * 4. Black-faced Ibis
 * 5. White Ibis
 * 6. Straw-necked Ibis
 * 7. Royal Spoonbill
 * 8. Eurasian Spoonbill

Balaenicipitidae

 * 1. Blue Shoebill*

Fregatidae

 * 1. Magnificent Frigatebird
 * 2. Limnofregata
 * 3. Great Frigatebird

Pelecanidae

 * 1. Great-billed Pelican*
 * 2. Brown Pelican
 * 3. Australian Pelican
 * 4. Spot-backed Pelican*
 * 5. Nocturnal Pelican*

Sulidae

 * 1. Masked Gannet (was Masked Booby)
 * 2. Black Gannet (was Black Booby)*
 * 3. Blue-footed Gannet (was Blue-footed Booby)
 * 4. Cormorant-Gannet*

Anhingidae

 * 1. Anhinga
 * 2. Devonshire Anhinga*
 * 3. Frost Anhinga*
 * 4. Australian Darter

Phalacrocoracidae

 * 1. Neotropic (or Olivaceous) Cormorant
 * 2. Double-crested Cormorant
 * 3. Little Pied Cormorant
 * 4. Brandt's Cormorant
 * 5. Robert's Cormorant*

Acciptridae

 * 1. Bald Eagle
 * 2. Black-crested White Eagle*
 * 3. Black Kite
 * 4. Blue Eagle*
 * 5. Brahminy Kite
 * 6. Cat-eyed Eagle*
 * 7. Common Buzzard
 * 8. Crested Brown Eagle*
 * 9. Crested Sea Eagle*
 * 10. Leaf Eagle*
 * 11. Heron-Eagle*
 * 12. Golden Eagle
 * 13. Haast's Eagle
 * 14. Hadeornithes*
 * 15. Hybrid Kite*
 * 16. Hydragle*
 * 17. Lammergeier
 * 18. Lappet-faced Vulture
 * 19. Little-clawed Eagle*
 * 20. Long-clawed Eagle*
 * 21. Long-crested Eagle
 * 22. Long-tailed Steelbird*
 * 23. Northern Goshawk
 * 24. Running Eagle*
 * 25. Scaled Eagle*
 * 26. Short-tailed Hawk
 * 27. Short-tailed Steelbird*
 * 28. Steelbird*
 * 29. Swallow-kite*
 * 30. Toothed Eagle*
 * 31. War Eagle* (on the coat-of-arms)
 * 32. White-tailed Eagle
 * 33. Yellow-masked Eagle*
 * 34. Zombie Eagle* (got its name because they're hard to kill)
 * 35. Western Marsh Harrier
 * 36. Pied Harrier
 * 37. Northern Harrier
 * 38. Crane-Hawk
 * 39. Philippine Eagle
 * 40. Black-shouldered Kite
 * 41. Eastern Imperial Eagle
 * 42. Orange-headed Vulture*
 * 43. Wedge-tailed Eagle
 * 44. Long-toed Hawk*
 * 45. Black-collared Hawk
 * 46. White-spotted Hawk*
 * 47. Verraux's Eagle
 * 48. Snail Kite
 * 49. Short-toed Snake-Eagle
 * 50. Cooper's Hawk
 * 51. Swallow-tailed Kite
 * 52. White-bellied Sea Eagle
 * 53. Pacific Baza
 * 54. Grey-naped Hawk*
 * 55. Royal Hawk*
 * 56. African White-backed Vulture
 * 57. Spotted Kite*
 * 58. White-tailed Kite
 * 59. Devonshire Kite*
 * 60. Cynthia's Goshawk*

Chiropteridae*

 * 1. Chiropterus*
 * 2. Long-crested Tooth Bird*

Falconidae

 * 1. Crested Caracara
 * 2. Curly-crested Yellow-falcon*
 * 3. Grey-masked Falcon*
 * 4. Merlin
 * 5. Plumed Caracara*
 * 6. Peregrine Falcon
 * 7. Quail Falcon*
 * 8. Lesser Yellow-falcon*
 * 9. Saker Falcon
 * 10. American Kestrel
 * 11. African Pygmy Falcon
 * 12. Gyrfalcon
 * 13. Collared Forest-falcon
 * 14. Slaty-backed Forest-falcon
 * 15. Lucian's Kestrel*

Pandionidae

 * 1. Osprey

Sagittariidae

 * 1. Secretarybird

Cathartidae

 * 1. Andean Condor
 * 2. False Orange-headed Vulture*
 * 3. Turkey Vulture
 * 4. Argentavis
 * 5. Grey's Vulture*

Phorusrhacidae

 * 1. Bushy-crested Terror Bird*
 * 2. Terror Bird*
 * 3. Phorusrhacos

Gruidae

 * 1. Devonshire Blue Crane*
 * 2. Sandhill Crane
 * 3. Whooping Crane
 * 4. Pygmy Brolga*
 * 5. Brolga
 * 6. Sarus Crane
 * 7. Dwarf Brolga* (may be the same species as pygmy)
 * 8. Blue-crowned Crane

Otidae

 * 1. Glennshire Bustard*
 * 2. Australian Bustard
 * 3. Brown-winged Bustard*

Rallidae

 * 1. Grey-necked Wood-rail
 * 2. Blue-winged Swamp-hen*
 * 3. American Coot

Heliornithidae

 * 1. Sungrebe

Aramidae

 * 1. Limpkin

Eurypygidae

 * 1. Odysseus Sunbittern*

Rhynochetidae

 * 1. Devonshire Kagu*

Burhinidae

 * 1. Double-striped Thick-knee

Recurvirostridae

 * 1. American Avocet
 * 2. Black Stilt

Alcidae

 * 1. Black Guillemot
 * 2. Cassin's Auklet
 * 3. Craveri's Murrelet
 * 4. Giant Razorbill*
 * 5. Great Auk
 * 6. Razorbill
 * 7. Whiskered Auklet
 * 8. Purple-backed Dovekie
 * 9. Crested Auklet
 * 10. Tufted Puffin

Rhynchopidae

 * 1. Black Skimmer

Laridae

 * 1. Ivory Gull
 * 2. Marie's Gull*

Sternidae

 * 1. Caspian Tern
 * 2. Blue Tern*

Chionididae

 * 1. Red-masked Sheathbill*

Charadriidae

 * 1. Streak-breasted Plover*
 * 2. Northern Lapwing

Scolopacidae

 * 1. Spotted Sandpiper
 * 2. Ruff

Jacanidae

 * 1. Wattled Jacana
 * 2. Northern Jacana

Ibidorhynchidae

 * 1. Ibisbill

Dromadidae

 * 1. Black Crab-plover*

Non-passerine total: 204

Pteroclididae

 * Glennshire Sandgrouse*

Altirhinidae

 * 1. Robert's Highnose*
 * 2. Curve-billed Highnose*
 * 3. Motmot Highnose*
 * 4. Jacamar Highnose*

Columbidae

 * 1. Long-clawed Pigeon*
 * 2. Band-tailed Pigeon
 * 3. Red-billed Pigeon
 * 4. White-crowned Pigeon
 * 5. Rock Pigeon

Psittacidae

 * 1. Blue-winged Parakeet
 * 2. Bourke's Parakeet
 * 3. Crimson Rosella
 * 4. Elegant Parrot
 * 5. Gold-and-blue Macaw
 * 6. Catalina Macaw
 * 7. Hook-billled Parrot*
 * 8. Hybrid Macaw
 * 9. Jenday Conure
 * 10. Megapeda*
 * 11. Parti-coloured Parrot*
 * 12. Princess Parrot
 * 13. Scarlet-chested Parrot
 * 14. Scarlet Macaw
 * 15. Cat-eyed Parrot*
 * 16. Stubbill Parrot*
 * 17. Sun Conure
 * 18. Turquoise Parrot
 * 19. Wattled Parrot*
 * 20. White-pupiled Parrot*
 * 21. Riri Parrot*
 * 22. Crested Macaw*
 * 23. Silver-headed Parrot*
 * 24. Blue Rosella*
 * 25. White Macaw*
 * 26. Red-capped Parrot
 * 27. Blue-headed Parrot
 * 28. Crested Lorikeet*
 * 29. Spix's Macaw

Cacatuidae

 * 1. Giant Cockatiel*
 * 2. Superb Cockatiel*
 * 3. Cockatiel
 * 4. Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
 * 5. Red-tailed Black-cockatoo
 * 6. Galah
 * 7. Gaudy-crested Cockatoo*

Opisthocomidae

 * 1. Hoatzin

Cuculidae

 * 1. Giant Roadrunner*
 * 2. Wattlethroat*
 * 3. Blue-breasted Cuckoo*
 * 4. Grove-billed Ani
 * 5. Smooth-billed Ani
 * 6. Greater Roadrunner

Musophagidae

 * 1. Band-tailed Turaco*
 * 2. Great Blue Turaco
 * 3. Stokes's Turaco*

Strigidae

 * 1. Costa Rican Pygmy Owl
 * 2. Great Horned Owl
 * 3. Northern Pygmy Owl
 * 4. Purple-winged Hawk-owl*
 * 5. Burrowing Owl
 * 7. Striped Owl
 * 8. Devonshire Horned Owl*

Caprimuglidae

 * 1. Common Nighthawk

Steatornithidae

 * 1. Oilbird

Nyctibidae

 * 1. Great Potoo

Trochilidae

 * 1. Bee Hummingbird
 * 2. Frost Hummingbird*
 * 3. Rufous-crested Coquette
 * 4. Umbrella Hummingbird*
 * 5. Violet Sabrewing
 * 6. Flamehead*
 * 7. Eastern Coquette*
 * 8. Snowcap
 * 9. Purple-backed Topaz*
 * 10. Black-faced Snowangel*
 * 11. Stripe-tailed Violet-ear
 * 12. Blue Fairy-streamertail*
 * 13. Crested Sicklebill*
 * 14. Sabre-feathered Hummingbird*
 * 15. Pink-hooded Hummingbird*
 * 16. Stokes's Hummingbird*

Apodidae

 * 1. Crested Brown Swift*
 * 2. Chimney Swift

Incertae sedis*

 * 1. Robert's Legless-swift*
 * 2. Streamertail Legless-swift*
 * 3. Band-breasted Legless-swift*
 * 4. White-tailed Legless-swift*

Coliidae

 * 1. Blue-naped Mousebird

Trogonidae

 * 1. Resplendent Quetzal
 * 2. Orange-bellied Trogon
 * 3. Black-headed Quetzal*
 * 4. Rhinoceros Trogon*
 * 5. Whydah-Trogon*
 * 6. Cuckoo-Trogon*

Cerylidae

 * 1. Belted Kingfisher
 * 2. Orange-breasted Kingfisher*

Alcedinidae

 * 1. Orange-throated Kingfisher*

Bucerotidae

 * 1. Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill
 * 2. Blanchard's Ground-hornbill*
 * 3. Blue-casqued Hornbill*

Momotidae

 * 1. Blue-crowned Motmot
 * 2. Rufous Motmot
 * 3. Turquoise-browed Motmot

Upupidae

 * 1. Hoopoe
 * 2. Purple-winged Hoopoe*

Phoeniculidae

 * 1. Tan-throated Woodhoopoe

Halcyonidae

 * 1. Laughing Kookaburra

Meropidae

 * 1. European Bee-eater

Picidae

 * 1. Black Woodpecker
 * 2. Crested Woodpecker*
 * 3. Downy Woodpecker
 * 4. Hairy Woodpecker
 * 5. Red-headed Woodpecker
 * 6. Red-bellied Woodpecker
 * 7. Pileated Woodpecker

Ramphastidae
Note: some people classify barbets with toucans


 * 1. Chestnut-mandibled Toucan
 * 2. Green Barbet (or sometimes in Megalaimidae)
 * 3. Glennshire Toucanet*

Lybiidae

 * 1. Crested Barbet*
 * 2. Frost Barbet*

Bucconidae

 * 1. White-necked Puffbird

Near-passerine total: 121

Tyrannidae

 * 1. Common Royal Flycatcher*
 * 2. Large-billed Flycatcher*
 * 3. Northern Royal Flycatcher
 * 4. Ruffed Flycatcher*
 * 5. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
 * 6. Three-toed Flycatcher*
 * 7. Greater Pewee
 * 8. Western Kingbird
 * 9. White-throated Spadebill
 * 10. Rex's Kingbird*

Incertae sedis (Tityridae?)

 * 1. Sharpbill

Formicaridae

 * 1. Rufous-breasted Antthrush

Corvidae

 * 1. Bald Raven*
 * 2. Blue-billed Cotinga-crow*
 * 3. Blue Jay
 * 4. Cloudbird*
 * 5. Grace's Diamondback-bird*
 * 6. Kiwi Diamondback-bird*
 * 7. Green Jay
 * 8. Magpie-jay*
 * 9. Broad-winged Crow*
 * 10. Red-headed Thunderbird*
 * 11. Snake-bird*
 * 12. Squirt-bird* (got its name for its habit of squirting blood from its eye)
 * 13. Steller's Jay
 * 14. Thunderbird*
 * 15. Green Jay
 * 16. Piapiac
 * 17. American Crow
 * 18. Tan-billed Jay*
 * 19. Black-billed Magpie
 * 20. White-throated Magpie-jay
 * 21. Common Raven
 * 22. Totterbird*
 * 23. Australian Raven
 * 24. Bushy-crested Jay

Cotingidae

 * 1. Angelbird*
 * 2. Purple-crested Cotinga*
 * 3. Jetbird*
 * 4. Bare-necked Umbrellabird

Furnariidae

 * 1. Brown-billed Scythebill
 * 2. Buffy Tuftedcheek

Menuridae

 * 1. Albert's Lyrebird
 * 2. Superb Lyrebird

Meluridae

 * 1. Splendid Fairy-wren
 * 2. Superb Fairy-wren

Vangidae

 * 1. Blue Vanga

Paradisaeidae

 * 1. Frost Bird-of-paradise*
 * 2. Woodpecker Bird-of-paradise*
 * 3. Green Catbird
 * 4. Frilled Parotia*

Ploceidae

 * 1. Jackson's Widowbird
 * 2. Orange Bishop

Dicruridae

 * 1. Spangled Drongo
 * 2. Fork-tailed Drongo
 * 3. Long-tailed Drongo*

Artamidae

 * 1. Yellow-naped Woodswallow*

Pityriaseidae

 * 1. Devonshire Bristlehead*

Nectariniidae

 * 1. White's Sunbird*

Meliphagidae

 * 1. Noisy Friarbird
 * 2. Sliver-crowned Friarbird
 * 3. Little Friarbird
 * 4. Helmeted Friarbird
 * 5. Giant Honeyeater*

Laniidae

 * 1. Northern (or Great Grey) Shrike

Alaudidae

 * 1. Horned Lark

Hirundinidae

 * 1. Barn Swallow
 * 2. Giant Swallow*
 * 3. White-breasted Swallow*
 * 4. Purple Martin
 * 5. Sand Martin
 * 6. Cliff Swallow

Timallidae

 * 1. Wrentit

Paridae

 * 1. Mountain Chickadee
 * 2. Coal Tit
 * 3. Bridled Titmouse

Certhiidae

 * 1. Brown Creeper

Neosittidae

 * 1. Cone-beaked Sittela*

Sittidae

 * 1. White-breasted Nuthatch
 * 2. Eurasian Nuthatch

Troglodytidae

 * 1. Winter Wren
 * 2. Bewick's Wren
 * 3. Carolina Wren

Megaluridae?

 * 1. Frost Donacobius

Muscicapidae

 * 1. Green-flanked Bluetail*

Turdidae

 * 1. Swainson's Thrush
 * 2. Eastern Bluebird
 * 3. Townsend's Solitaire

Pycnonotidae

 * 1. Red-whiskered Bulbul

Motacillidae

 * 1. Pied Wagtail

Bombycillidae

 * 1. Bohemian Waxwing
 * 2. Cedar Waxwing

Ptilogonatidae

 * 1. Phainopepla

Mimidae

 * 1. Sanford's Catbird*

Sturnidae

 * 1. Blue-eyed Oxpecker*
 * 2. Hill Myna
 * 3. European Starling
 * 4. Tristram's Starling
 * 5. Rose-coloured Starling
 * 6. Spotless Starling
 * 7. Long-tailed Starling
 * 8. Superb Starling
 * 9. Bali Myna
 * 10. Red-winged Starling
 * 11. Red-billed Starling
 * 12. Splendid Glossy-starling
 * 13. Golden-breasted Starling
 * 14. Common Myna
 * 15. White-necked Myna
 * 16. Metallic Starling
 * 17. Crested Myna
 * 18. Yellow-billed Oxpecker
 * 19. Asian Glossy-starling
 * 20. Daurian Starling
 * 21. Micronesian Starling
 * 22. Pohnpei Starling
 * 23. Somoan Starling
 * 24. Ceylon Myna
 * 25. Jungle Myna
 * 26. White-faced Starling
 * 27. Bristle-crowned Starling
 * 28. Red-billed Oxpecker
 * 29. Slender-billed Starling
 * 30. Waller's Starling
 * 31. Stuhlman's Starling
 * 32. Kenrick's Starling
 * 33. Red-spotted Oxpecker*
 * 34. Lexi's Myna*

Prunellidae

 * 1. Dunnock

Thraupidae

 * 1. Crimson-collared Tanager
 * 2. Shining Honeycreeper

Emberizidae

 * 1. Dark-eyed Junco
 * 2. White-throated Sparrow
 * 3. White-crowned Sparrow
 * 4. Spotted Towhee
 * 5. Song Sparrow
 * 6. American Tree Sparrow
 * 7. Lark Sparrow
 * 8. Chipping Sparrow
 * 9. Lark Bunting

Cardinalidae

 * 1. Indigo Bunting
 * 2. Mutated Cardinal* (experiment gone wrong)
 * 3. Northern Cardinal
 * 4. Painted Bunting
 * 5. Dickcissel
 * 6. Flightless Cardinal*
 * 7. Orange Cardinal*
 * 8. Blue Grosbeak

Icteridae

 * 1. Short-tailed Oropendola*
 * 2. Yellow-rumped Cacique
 * 3. Eastern Meadowlark
 * 4. Yellow-headed Blackbird
 * 5. Common Grackle
 * 6. Great-tailed Grackle
 * 7. Brown-headed Cowbird
 * 8. Red-winged Blackbird
 * 9. Chestnut-headed Oropendola
 * 10. Spot-breasted Oriole
 * 11. Melodious Blackbird
 * 12. Crina's Cowbird*

Fringillidae

 * 1. Rooster Finch*
 * 2. Utensil Finch*
 * 3. Common Rosefinch
 * 4. White-winged Crossbill
 * 5. Lawrence's Goldfinch
 * 6. Eurasian Bullfinch
 * 7. Cuvier's Finch*
 * 8. White Crossbill*
 * 9. Purple Pyrrholxia*
 * 10. Pine Siskin
 * 11. Holsaeter's Crossbill*
 * 12. Elegant (or Blue-hooded) Euphonia
 * 13. Hoary Redpoll
 * 14. American Goldfinch
 * 15. Evening Grossbeak
 * 16. Common Redpoll

Estrildidae

 * 1. Nutmeg Mannikin
 * 2. Crimson Finch
 * 3. Gouldian Finch

Passeridae

 * 1. House Sparrow

Passerine total: 180

Total: 574