This checklist includes all bird species found in Richmond , based on the best information available at this time. It is based on a wide variety of sources that I collated over many years. I am pleased to offer these checklists as a service to birdwatchers. If you find any error, please do not hesitate to .
The taxonomic order and nomenclature follows Clements, version 2021. If you prefer to view the list based on a different authority, click on one of the list available below. Globally threatened species (status in red) were identified by Birdlife International in Birdlife Data Zone (species).
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Snow Goose | Anser caerulescens | |
Canada Goose | Branta canadensis | |
Wood Duck | Aix sponsa | |
Blue-winged Teal | Spatula discors | |
Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | |
Gadwall | Mareca strepera | |
American Wigeon | Mareca americana | |
Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | |
American Black Duck | Anas rubripes | |
Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | |
Green-winged Teal | Anas crecca | |
Ring-necked Duck | Aythya collaris | |
Greater Scaup | Aythya marila | |
Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis | |
King Eider | Somateria spectabilis | |
Common Eider | Somateria mollissima | Near-threatened |
Harlequin Duck | Histrionicus histrionicus | |
Labrador Duck | Camptorhynchus labradorius | Rare/Accidental Extinct |
Surf Scoter | Melanitta perspicillata | |
White-winged Scoter | Melanitta deglandi | |
Black Scoter | Melanitta americana | Near-threatened |
Long-tailed Duck | Clangula hyemalis | Vulnerable |
Bufflehead | Bucephala albeola | |
Common Goldeneye | Bucephala clangula | |
Barrow's Goldeneye | Bucephala islandica | |
Hooded Merganser | Lophodytes cucullatus | |
Common Merganser | Mergus merganser | |
Red-breasted Merganser | Mergus serrator | |
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Ruffed Grouse | Bonasa umbellus | |
Spruce Grouse | Canachites canadensis | |
Ring-necked Pheasant | Phasianus colchicus | Introduced species |
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Pied-billed Grebe | Podilymbus podiceps | |
Horned Grebe | Podiceps auritus | Vulnerable |
Red-necked Grebe | Podiceps grisegena | |
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Rock Pigeon | Columba livia | Introduced species |
Mourning Dove | Zenaida macroura | |
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus americanus | |
Black-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus erythropthalmus | |
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Common Nighthawk | Chordeiles minor | |
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Chimney Swift | Chaetura pelagica | Vulnerable |
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Archilochus colubris | |
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Virginia Rail | Rallus limicola | |
Sora | Porzana carolina | |
Common Gallinule | Gallinula galeata | |
American Coot | Fulica americana | |
Purple Gallinule | Porphyrio martinica | Rare/Accidental |
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Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | |
American Golden-Plover | Pluvialis dominica | |
Northern Lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Semipalmated Plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | |
Piping Plover | Charadrius melodus | Near-threatened |
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus | |
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Upland Sandpiper | Bartramia longicauda | |
Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
Hudsonian Godwit | Limosa haemastica | |
Marbled Godwit | Limosa fedoa | Rare/Accidental |
Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Near-threatened |
Ruff | Calidris pugnax | Rare/Accidental |
Stilt Sandpiper | Calidris himantopus | |
Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
Dunlin | Calidris alpina | |
Purple Sandpiper | Calidris maritima | |
Baird's Sandpiper | Calidris bairdii | |
Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | |
White-rumped Sandpiper | Calidris fuscicollis | |
Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Calidris subruficollis | Near-threatened |
Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | |
Semipalmated Sandpiper | Calidris pusilla | Near-threatened |
Short-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus griseus | |
American Woodcock | Scolopax minor | |
Wilson's Snipe | Gallinago delicata | |
Wilson's Phalarope | Phalaropus tricolor | |
Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | |
Red Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius | |
Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | |
Solitary Sandpiper | Tringa solitaria | |
Greater Yellowlegs | Tringa melanoleuca | |
Willet | Tringa semipalmata | |
Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | |
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Great Skua | Stercorarius skua | Rare/Accidental |
Pomarine Jaeger | Stercorarius pomarinus | |
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Dovekie | Alle alle | |
Common Murre | Uria aalge | |
Thick-billed Murre | Uria lomvia | |
Razorbill | Alca torda | |
Black Guillemot | Cepphus grylle | |
Atlantic Puffin | Fratercula arctica | Vulnerable |
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Black-legged Kittiwake | Rissa tridactyla | Vulnerable |
Ivory Gull | Pagophila eburnea | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Sabine's Gull | Xema sabini | Rare/Accidental |
Bonaparte's Gull | Chroicocephalus philadelphia | |
Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | |
Laughing Gull | Leucophaeus atricilla | Rare/Accidental |
Ring-billed Gull | Larus delawarensis | |
Herring Gull | Larus argentatus | |
Iceland Gull | Larus glaucoides | |
Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | Rare/Accidental |
Glaucous Gull | Larus hyperboreus | |
Great Black-backed Gull | Larus marinus | |
Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | Rare/Accidental |
Black Tern | Chlidonias niger | |
Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea | |
Forster's Tern | Sterna forsteri | Rare/Accidental |
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Red-throated Loon | Gavia stellata | |
Common Loon | Gavia immer | |
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Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | |
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Leach's Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | Vulnerable |
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Northern Fulmar | Fulmarus glacialis | |
Cory's Shearwater | Calonectris diomedea | Rare/Accidental |
Great Shearwater | Ardenna gravis | |
Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | Near-threatened |
Manx Shearwater | Puffinus puffinus | |
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Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | Rare/Accidental |
Northern Gannet | Morus bassanus | |
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Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | |
Double-crested Cormorant | Nannopterum auritum | |
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American Bittern | Botaurus lentiginosus | |
Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | |
Great Egret | Ardea alba | Rare/Accidental |
Snowy Egret | Egretta thula | Rare/Accidental |
Little Blue Heron | Egretta caerulea | Rare/Accidental |
Tricolored Heron | Egretta tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | Rare/Accidental |
Green Heron | Butorides virescens | |
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Nyctanassa violacea | Rare/Accidental |
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Black Vulture | Coragyps atratus | Rare/Accidental |
Turkey Vulture | Cathartes aura | |
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Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | Rare/Accidental |
Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | |
Sharp-shinned Hawk | Accipiter striatus | |
Northern Goshawk | Accipiter gentilis | |
Bald Eagle | Haliaeetus leucocephalus | |
Broad-winged Hawk | Buteo platypterus | |
Swainson's Hawk | Buteo swainsoni | Rare/Accidental |
Red-tailed Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis | |
Rough-legged Hawk | Buteo lagopus | |
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Great Horned Owl | Bubo virginianus | |
Snowy Owl | Bubo scandiacus | Vulnerable |
Barred Owl | Strix varia | |
Long-eared Owl | Asio otus | |
Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | |
Northern Saw-whet Owl | Aegolius acadicus | |
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Belted Kingfisher | Megaceryle alcyon | |
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Sphyrapicus varius | |
Red-bellied Woodpecker | Melanerpes carolinus | Rare/Accidental |
Black-backed Woodpecker | Picoides arcticus | |
Downy Woodpecker | Dryobates pubescens | |
Hairy Woodpecker | Dryobates villosus | |
Pileated Woodpecker | Dryocopus pileatus | |
Northern Flicker | Colaptes auratus | |
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American Kestrel | Falco sparverius | |
Merlin | Falco columbarius | |
Gyrfalcon | Falco rusticolus | |
Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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Olive-sided Flycatcher | Contopus cooperi | Near-threatened |
Eastern Wood-Pewee | Contopus virens | |
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Empidonax flaviventris | |
Alder Flycatcher | Empidonax alnorum | |
Willow Flycatcher | Empidonax traillii | |
Least Flycatcher | Empidonax minimus | |
Eastern Phoebe | Sayornis phoebe | |
Western Kingbird | Tyrannus verticalis | Rare/Accidental |
Eastern Kingbird | Tyrannus tyrannus | |
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Bell's Vireo | Vireo bellii | Rare/Accidental |
Blue-headed Vireo | Vireo solitarius | |
Warbling Vireo | Vireo gilvus | Rare/Accidental |
Red-eyed Vireo | Vireo olivaceus | |
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Northern Shrike | Lanius borealis | |
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Canada Jay | Perisoreus canadensis | |
Blue Jay | Cyanocitta cristata | |
American Crow | Corvus brachyrhynchos | |
Common Raven | Corvus corax | |
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Black-capped Chickadee | Poecile atricapillus | |
Boreal Chickadee | Poecile hudsonicus | |
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Horned Lark | Eremophila alpestris | |
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Purple Martin | Progne subis | |
Tree Swallow | Tachycineta bicolor | |
Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia | |
Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
Cliff Swallow | Petrochelidon pyrrhonota | |
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Corthylio calendula | |
Golden-crowned Kinglet | Regulus satrapa | |
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Red-breasted Nuthatch | Sitta canadensis | |
White-breasted Nuthatch | Sitta carolinensis | |
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Brown Creeper | Certhia americana | |
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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Polioptila caerulea | Rare/Accidental |
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Winter Wren | Troglodytes hiemalis | |
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European Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | Introduced species |
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Gray Catbird | Dumetella carolinensis | |
Brown Thrasher | Toxostoma rufum | Rare/Accidental |
Northern Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos | |
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Eastern Bluebird | Sialia sialis | |
Varied Thrush | Ixoreus naevius | Rare/Accidental |
Veery | Catharus fuscescens | |
Gray-cheeked Thrush | Catharus minimus | |
Bicknell's Thrush | Catharus bicknelli | Vulnerable |
Swainson's Thrush | Catharus ustulatus | |
Hermit Thrush | Catharus guttatus | |
American Robin | Turdus migratorius | |
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Bohemian Waxwing | Bombycilla garrulus | |
Cedar Waxwing | Bombycilla cedrorum | |
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House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | Introduced species |
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American Pipit | Anthus rubescens | |
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Evening Grosbeak | Coccothraustes vespertinus | Vulnerable |
Pine Grosbeak | Pinicola enucleator | |
House Finch | Haemorhous mexicanus | Introduced species |
Purple Finch | Haemorhous purpureus | |
Common Redpoll | Acanthis flammea | |
Hoary Redpoll | Acanthis hornemanni | |
Red Crossbill | Loxia curvirostra | |
White-winged Crossbill | Loxia leucoptera | |
Pine Siskin | Spinus pinus | |
American Goldfinch | Spinus tristis | |
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Lapland Longspur | Calcarius lapponicus | |
Snow Bunting | Plectrophenax nivalis | |
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Chipping Sparrow | Spizella passerina | |
Field Sparrow | Spizella pusilla | Rare/Accidental |
Lark Sparrow | Chondestes grammacus | Rare/Accidental |
American Tree Sparrow | Spizelloides arborea | |
Fox Sparrow | Passerella iliaca | |
Dark-eyed Junco | Junco hyemalis | |
White-crowned Sparrow | Zonotrichia leucophrys | |
White-throated Sparrow | Zonotrichia albicollis | |
Vesper Sparrow | Pooecetes gramineus | |
LeConte's Sparrow | Ammospiza leconteii | Rare/Accidental |
Nelson's Sparrow | Ammospiza nelsoni | |
Savannah Sparrow | Passerculus sandwichensis | |
Song Sparrow | Melospiza melodia | |
Lincoln's Sparrow | Melospiza lincolnii | |
Swamp Sparrow | Melospiza georgiana | |
Eastern Towhee | Pipilo erythrophthalmus | |
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Yellow-breasted Chat | Icteria virens | Rare/Accidental |
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Yellow-headed Blackbird | Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus | Rare/Accidental |
Bobolink | Dolichonyx oryzivorus | |
Eastern Meadowlark | Sturnella magna | Near-threatened |
Orchard Oriole | Icterus spurius | Rare/Accidental |
Baltimore Oriole | Icterus galbula | |
Red-winged Blackbird | Agelaius phoeniceus | |
Brown-headed Cowbird | Molothrus ater | |
Rusty Blackbird | Euphagus carolinus | Vulnerable |
Common Grackle | Quiscalus quiscula | Near-threatened |
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Ovenbird | Seiurus aurocapilla | |
Northern Waterthrush | Parkesia noveboracensis | |
Black-and-white Warbler | Mniotilta varia | |
Tennessee Warbler | Leiothlypis peregrina | |
Orange-crowned Warbler | Leiothlypis celata | Rare/Accidental |
Nashville Warbler | Leiothlypis ruficapilla | |
Mourning Warbler | Geothlypis philadelphia | |
Common Yellowthroat | Geothlypis trichas | |
American Redstart | Setophaga ruticilla | |
Cape May Warbler | Setophaga tigrina | |
Northern Parula | Setophaga americana | |
Magnolia Warbler | Setophaga magnolia | |
Bay-breasted Warbler | Setophaga castanea | |
Blackburnian Warbler | Setophaga fusca | |
Yellow Warbler | Setophaga petechia | |
Chestnut-sided Warbler | Setophaga pensylvanica | |
Blackpoll Warbler | Setophaga striata | Near-threatened |
Black-throated Blue Warbler | Setophaga caerulescens | |
Palm Warbler | Setophaga palmarum | |
Pine Warbler | Setophaga pinus | Rare/Accidental |
Yellow-rumped Warbler | Setophaga coronata | |
Black-throated Green Warbler | Setophaga virens | |
Canada Warbler | Cardellina canadensis | |
Wilson's Warbler | Cardellina pusilla | |
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Summer Tanager | Piranga rubra | Rare/Accidental |
Scarlet Tanager | Piranga olivacea | Rare/Accidental |
Western Tanager | Piranga ludoviciana | Rare/Accidental |
Northern Cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | |
Rose-breasted Grosbeak | Pheucticus ludovicianus | |
Blue Grosbeak | Passerina caerulea | Rare/Accidental |
Indigo Bunting | Passerina cyanea | Rare/Accidental |
Painted Bunting | Passerina ciris | Rare/Accidental |
Dickcissel | Spiza americana | Rare/Accidental |
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