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Explore New Hampshire’s Birds

On this page you can access information on most of the regularly occurring birds of New Hampshire (a few more to come, so be sure to check back!). Each species profile includes one or more photos of the species, a concise summary of conservation information, graphs showing it’s seasonal abundance, a range map, and a population trend graph where available. There will also be a short narrative describing some aspects of the species’ behavior, ecology, trends, or conservation.

Adult Common Loon. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Immature Common Loon. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Adult Common Loon with young chicks. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Common Loon in flight. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt

Common Loon

Gavia immer

Pair of Common Mergansers. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Female Common Merganser with chicks.,,

Common Merganser

Mergus merganser

Female Common Nighthawk. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Common Nighthawk nest with eggs. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Female Common Nighthawk with chicks. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Common Nighthawk in flight. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt

Common Nighthawk

Chordeiles minor

Common Raven. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Common Raven

Corvus corax

Male Common Redpoll. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Female Common Redpoll. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,,

Common Redpoll

Acanthis flammea

Adult Common Terns. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Common Tern

Sterna hirundo

Male Common Yellowthroat. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Common Yellowthroat

Geothlypis trichas

Adult Cooper's Hawk. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Adult Cooper's Hawk in flight. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Immature Cooper's Hawk. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,

Cooper’s Hawk

Accipiter cooperii

Male Dark-eyed Junco. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Dark-eyed Junco

Junco hyemalis

Adult Double-creasted Cormorant. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Nesting colony of Double-crested Cormorants. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Immature Double-crested Cormorant. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Comparison of Double-crested (left) and Great Cormorant (right). Photo credit: Pamela Hunt

Double-crested Cormorant

Nannopterum auritum

Male Downy Woodpecker. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Female Downy Woodpecker. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Downy Woodpecker in nest hole. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,

Downy Woodpecker

Dryobates pubescens

Male Eastern Bluebird. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Female Eastern Bluebird. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Fledgling Eastern Bluebird. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Male Eastern Bluebird in next box. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt

Eastern Bluebird

Sialia sialis

Eastern Kingbird. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,,,

Eastern Kingbird

Tyrannus tyrannus

Eastern Meadowlark. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Eastern Meadowlark

Sturnella magna

Eastern Phoebe. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Eastern Phoebe nest with eggs. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Eastern Phoebe on nest. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,

Eastern Phoebe

Sayornis phoebe

Gray morph Eastern Screech-Owl at roost hole. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,,,

Eastern Screech-Owl

Megascops asio

Male Eastern Towhee. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Eastern Towhee

Pipilo erythrophthalmus

Female Eastern Whip-poor-will on nest. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Eastern Whip-poor-will nest. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Eastern Whip-poor-will chick. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,

Eastern Whip-poor-will

Antrostomus vociferus

Eastern Wood-Pewee. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,,,

Eastern Wood-Pewee

Contopus virens

European Starling in breeding plumage. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

European Starling

Sturnus vulgaris

Male Evening Grosbeaks. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Evening Grosbeak

Coccothraustes vespertinus

Field Sparrow. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Field Sparrow

Spizella pusilla

Fish Crows. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Fish Crow

Corvus ossifragus

Glossy Ibis. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Glossy Ibis

Plegadis falcinellis

Male Golden-crowned Kinglet. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Regulus satrapa

Gray Catbird. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Gray Catbird

Dumetella carolinensis

Great Blue Heron. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Great Blue Heron nests. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Great Blue Heron in flight.,

Great Blue Heron

Ardea herodias

Adult Great Cormorant. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Immature Great Cormorant. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Comparison of Double-crested (left) and Great Cormorant (right). Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,

Great Cormorant

Phalacrocorax carbo

Great Crested Flycatcher. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,,,

Great Crested Flycatcher

Myiarchus crinitus

Great Egret. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,,,

Great Egret

Ardea alba

Great Horned Owl. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Young Great Horned Owls in nest.,,

Great Horned Owl

Bubo virginianus

Great Shearwater in Flight. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Great Shearwater resting on ocean. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,,

Great Shearwater

Ardenna gravis

Pair of Greater Scaup. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,,,

Greater Scaup

Aythya marila

Greater Yellowlegs. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Greater Yellowlegs

Tringa melanoleuca

Green Heron. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,,,

Green Heron

Butorides virescens

Male Hairy Woodpecker. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Female Hairy Woodpecker. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,,

Hairy Woodpecker

Dryobates villosus

Hermit Thrush. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Hermit Thrush

Catharus guttatus

Adult Herring Gull on a nest. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Herring Gull

Larus argentatus

Pair of Hooded Mergansers. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,,,

Hooded Merganser

Lophodytes cucullatus

Horned Grebes in winter plumage. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,,,

Horned Grebe

Podiceps auritus

Adult Horned Lark. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Horned Lark

Eremophila alpestris

Male House Finch. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

House Finch

Haemorhous mexicanus

Male House Sparrow. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

House Sparrow

Passer domesticus

House Wren. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

House Wren

Troglodytes aedon

Male Indigo Bunting. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Indigo Bunting

Passerina cyanea

Killdeer. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Killdeer

Charadrius vociferus

Least Flycatcher. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,,,

Least Flycatcher

Empidonax minimus

Least Sandpiper. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Least Sandpiper

Calidris minutilla

Least Tern and chick. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Least Tern in flight. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,,

Least Tern

Sternula antillarum

Lesser Scaup. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,,,

Lesser Scaup

Aythya affinis

Lesser Yellowlegs. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Lesser Yellowlegs

Tringa flavipes

Winter male Long-tailed Ducks. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Winter female Long-tailed Duck. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Male Long-tailed Ducks in breeding plumage.,

Long-tailed Duck

Clangula hyemalis

Louisiana Waterthrush. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Louisiana Waterthrush

Parkesia motacilla

Male Magnolia Warbler. Photo Credit: Pamela Hunt

Magnolia Warbler

Setophaga magnolia

Pair of Mallards. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Female Mallard and ducklings. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Mallard nest and eggs. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,

Mallard

Anas platyrhynchos

Adult Merlin. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,Immature Merlin.,,

Merlin

Falco columbarius

Mourning Dove. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,,,

Mourning Dove

Zenaida macroura

Adult Mute Swan. Photo credit: Pamela Hunt,,,

Mute Swan

Cygnus olor

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Works Cited

Information for the species profiles on this website was compiled from a combination of the sources listed below.

  • The Birds of New Hampshire. By Allan R. Keith and Robert B. Fox. 2013. Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological club No. 19.

  • Atlas of the Breeding Birds of New Hampshire. Carol R. Foss, ed. 1994. Arcadia Publishing Company and Audubon Society of New Hampshire

  • Birds of the World. Various authors and dates. Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.

  • Data from the Breeding Bird Survey

  • Data from the Christmas Bird Count

Funding

Funding for the State of the Birds website content and development came from grants from the Davis Conservation Foundation and Biber Foundation.

Information for the species profiles on this website was compiled from a combination of the sources listed below.

  • The Birds of New Hampshire. By Allan R. Keith and Robert B. Fox. 2013. Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological club No. 19.

  • Atlas of the Breeding Birds of New Hampshire. Carol R. Foss, ed. 1994. Arcadia Publishing Company and Audubon Society of New Hampshire

  • Birds of the World. Various authors and dates. Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.

  • Data from the Breeding Bird Survey

  • Data from the Christmas Bird Count