Birds of West Virginia

Order Anseriformes (ducks, geese, and waterfowl)

Family Anatidae (ducks, geese, and swans)

Aix sponsa (wood duck)

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Anas acuta (northern pintail)

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Anas carolinensis (green-winged teal)

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Anas platyrhynchos (mallard)

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Anas rubripes (American black duck)

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Anser albifrons (greater white-fronted goose)

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Anser caerulescens (snow goose)

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Anser rossii (Ross's goose)

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Aythya affinis (lesser scaup)

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Aythya americana (redhead)

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Aythya collaris (ring-necked duck)

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Aythya marila (greater scaup)

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Aythya valisineria (canvasback)

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Branta bernicla (brant)

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Branta canadensis (Canada goose)

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Branta hutchinsii (cackling goose)

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Bucephala albeola (bufflehead)

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Bucephala clangula (common goldeneye)

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Clangula hyemalis (long-tailed duck)

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Cygnus buccinator (trumpeter swan)

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Cygnus columbianus (tundra swan)

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Cygnus olor (mute swan)

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Dendrocygna autumnalis (black-bellied whistling duck)

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Histrionicus histrionicus (harlequin duck)

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Lophodytes cucullatus (hooded merganser)

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Mareca americana (American wigeon)

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Mareca penelope (Eurasian wigeon)

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Mareca strepera (gadwall)

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Melanitta americana (black scoter)

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Melanitta deglandi (white-winged scoter)

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Melanitta perspicillata (surf scoter)

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Mergus merganser (common merganser)

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Mergus serrator (red-breasted merganser)

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Oxyura jamaicensis (ruddy duck)

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Somateria spectabilis (king eider)

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Spatula clypeata (northern shoveler)

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Spatula cyanoptera (cinnamon teal)

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Spatula discors (blue-winged teal)

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Order Apodiformes (swifts, hummingbirds, and relatives)

Family Apodidae (swifts)

Chaetura pelagica (chimney swift)

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Family Trochilidae (hummingbirds)

Archilochus alexandri (black-chinned hummingbird)

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Archilochus colubris (ruby-throated hummingbird)

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Colibri thalassinus (Mexican violetear)

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Selasphorus rufus (rufous hummingbird)

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Order Caprimulgiformes (nightjars and relatives)

Family Caprimulgidae (nightjars)

Antrostomus carolinensis (chuck-will's-widow)

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Antrostomus vociferus (eastern whip-poor-will)

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Chordeiles acutipennis (lesser nighthawk)

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Chordeiles minor (common nighthawk)

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Order Charadriiformes

Family Charadriidae (plovers, dotterels, and lapwings)

Charadrius melodus (piping plover)

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Charadrius semipalmatus (semipalmated plover)

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Charadrius vociferus (killdeer)

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Pluvialis dominica (American golden-plover)

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Pluvialis squatarola (black-bellied plover)

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Family Laridae (gulls, terns, and skimmers)

Chlidonias niger (Black Tern)

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Chroicocephalus philadelphia (Bonaparte's Gull)

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Hydrocoloeus minutus (Little Gull)

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Hydroprogne caspia (Caspian Tern)

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Larus argentatus (Herring Gull)

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Larus delawarensis (Ring-billed Gull)

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Larus dominicanus (Kelp Gull)

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Larus fuscus (Lesser Black-backed Gull)

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Larus glaucoides (Iceland Gull)

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Larus hyperboreus (Glaucous Gull)

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Larus marinus (Great Black-backed Gull)

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Leucophaeus atricilla (Laughing Gull)

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Leucophaeus pipixcan (Franklin's Gull)

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Onychoprion fuscatus (Sooty Tern)

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Rissa tridactyla (Black-legged Kittiwake)

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Sterna forsteri (Forster's Tern)

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Sterna hirundo (Common Tern)

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Sternula antillarum (Least Tern)

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Xema sabini (Sabine's Gull)

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Family Recurvirostridae (avocets and stilts)

Himantopus mexicanus (black-necked stilts)

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Recurvirostra americana (American avocet)

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Family Scolopacidae (sandpipers and relatives)

Actitis macularius (spotted sandpiper)

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Arenaria interpres (ruddy turnstone)

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Bartramia longicauda (upland sandpiper)

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Calidris alba (sanderling)

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Calidris alpina (dunlin)

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Calidris bairdii (Baird's sandpiper)

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Calidris canutus (red knot)

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Calidris fuscicollis (white-rumped sandpiper)

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Calidris himantopus (stilt sandpiper)

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Calidris mauri (western sandpiper)

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Calidris melanotos (pectoral sandpiper)

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Calidris minutilla (least sandpiper)

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Calidris pusilla (semipalmated sandpiper)

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Calidris subruficollis (buff-breasted sandpiper)

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Calidris tenuirostris (great knot)

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Gallinago delicata (Wilson's snipe)

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Limnodromus griseus (short-billed dowitcher)

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Limnodromus scolopaceus (long-billed dowitcher)

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Limosa fedoa (marbled godwit)

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Limosa haemastica (Hudsonian godwit)

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Numenius phaeopus (whimbrel)

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Phalaropus fulicarius (red phalarope)

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Phalaropus lobatus (red-necked phalarope)

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Phalaropus tricolor (Wilson's phalarope)

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Scolopax minor (American woodcock)

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Tringa flavipes (lesser yellowlegs)

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Tringa melanoleuca (greater yellowlegs)

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Tringa semipalmata (willet)

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Tringa solitaria (solitary sandpiper)

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Family Stercorariidae (skuas and jaegers)

Stercorarius parasiticus (parasitic jaeger)

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Stercorarius longicaudus (long-tailed jaeger)

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Order Ciconiiformes (storks)

Family Ciconiidae (storks)

Mycteria americana (wood stork)

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Order Columbiformes (pigeons and doves)

Family Columbidae (pigeons and doves)

Columba livia (rock pigeon)

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Columbina inca (Inca dove)

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Ectopistes migratorius (passenger pigeon) (extinct)

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Streptopelia decaocto (Eurasian collared-dove)

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Zenaida asiatica (white-winged dove)

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Zenaida macroura (mourning dove)

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Order Cuculiformes (cuckoos)

Family Cuculidae (cuckoos)

Coccyzus americanus (yellow-billed cuckoo)

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Coccyzus erythropthalmus (black-billed cuckoo)

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Order Galliformes

Family Odontophoridae (New World quail)

Colinus virginianus (northern bobwhite)

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Family Phasianidae (pheasants, grouse, and allies)

Bonasa umbellus (ruffed grouse)

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Meleagris gallopavo (wild turkey)

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Phasianus colchicus (ring-necked pheasan)

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Order Gaviiformes (loons)

Family Gaviidae (loons)

Gavia immer (common loon)

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Gavia stellata (red-throated loon)

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Order Gruiformes (cranes and relatives)

Family Gruidae (cranes)

Antigone canadensis (sandhill crane)

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Family Rallidae (rails and relatives)

Coturnicops noveboracensis (yellow rail)

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Fulica americana (American coot)

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Gallinula galeata (common gallinule)

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Laterallus jamaicensis (black rail)

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Porphyrio martinicus (purple rail)

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Porzana carolina (sora)

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Rallus crepitans (clapper rail)

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Rallus elegans (king rail)

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Rallus limicola (Virginia rail)

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Order Podicipediformes (grebes)

Family Podicipedidae (grebes)

Podiceps auritus (horned grebe)

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Podiceps grisegena (red-necked grebe,)

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Podiceps nigricollis (eared grebe)

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Podilymbus podiceps (pied-billed grebe)

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Order Suliformes (anhingas, cormorants, and frigate birds)

Family Anhingidae (anhingas)

Anhinga anhinga (anhinga)

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Family Fregatidae (frigate birds)

Fregata magnificens (magnificent frigatebird)

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Family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorants)

Phalacrocorax auritus (double-crested cormorant)

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Phalacrocorax carbo (great cormorant)

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