Seasonal Presence and Relative Frequency of Selected Species

Oregon Birding Highlights

This list summarizes the seasonal presence of selected bird species in Oregon, indicating whether each species occurs year-round, during the breeding season, or during the non-breeding season (winter and migration). Within each seasonal category, species are numbered and ordered from least to most frequently observed in the United States based on eBird frequency data. This ordering reflects how commonly a species has been observed by U.S. birders over time and is used here as a relative priority indicator, not as a measure of local abundance or the likelihood of encountering a species at a specific site or season within Oregon.

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Oregon Birding Highlights

Year-round Residents

  1. Spotted Owl

  2. Greater Sage-Grouse

  3. Spruce Grouse

  4. Great Gray Owl

  5. Black Rosy-Finch

  6. Black-footed Albatross

  7. Dusky Grouse

  8. Sharp-tailed Grouse

  9. Black-backed Woodpecker

  10. American Three-toed Woodpecker

  11. Sooty Grouse

  12. Northern Fulmar

  13. Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch

  14. American Goshawk

  15. Northern Pygmy-Owl

  16. Tricolored Blackbird

  17. Mountain Quail

  18. Sooty Shearwater

  19. Williamson’s Sapsucker

  20. White-headed Woodpecker

  21. Marbled Murrelet

  22. Pinyon Jay

  23. Pine Grosbeak

  24. Lewis’s Woodpecker

  25. Juniper Titmouse

  26. American Dipper

  27. Snowy Plover

  28. Canada Jay

  29. Barrow’s Goldeneye

  30. Common Murre

  31. Harlequin Duck

  32. Clark’s Nutcracker

  33. Black Oystercatcher

  34. Clark’s Grebe

  35. Pigeon Guillemot

  36. Canyon Wren

  37. Red-breasted Sapsucker

  38. Brandt’s Cormorant

  39. California Thrasher

  40. White-tailed Kite

  41. Cassin’s Finch

  42. Evening Grosbeak

  43. Mountain Bluebird

  44. Pelagic Cormorant

  45. Varied Thrush

  46. Hutton’s Vireo

  47. Pacific Wren

  48. Band-tailed Pigeon

  49. Trumpeter Swan

  50. Pygmy Nuthatch

  51. Townsend’s Warbler

  52. Wrentit

  53. Glaucous-winged Gull

  54. Western Grebe

  55. Cinnamon Teal

  56. Oak Titmouse

  57. California Quail

  58. Western Gull

  59. Acorn Woodpecker

  60. Chestnut-backed Chickadee

  61. Black-billed Magpie

  62. California Towhee

  63. Steller’s Jay

  64. California Scrub-Jay

Breeding Residents

  1. Yellow Rail

  2. Flammulated Owl

  3. Black Swift

  4. Cassin’s Auklet

  5. Tufted Puffin

  6. Sagebrush Sparrow

  7. Gray Flycatcher

  8. Sage Thrasher

  9. Calliope Hummingbird

  10. Hermit Warbler

  11. Hammond’s Flycatcher

  12. Dusky Flycatcher

  13. Cassin’s Vireo

  14. Vaux’s Swift

  15. MacGillivray’s Warbler

  16. Brewer’s Sparrow

  17. Franklin’s Gull

  18. Green-tailed Towhee

  19. White-throated Swift

  20. Black-throated Sparrow

  21. Black-throated Gray Warbler

  22. Long-billed Curlew

  23. Swainson’s Hawk

  24. Lazuli Bunting

  25. Bobolink

  26. Ash-throated Flycatcher

  27. Rufous Hummingbird

  28. Eared Grebe

  29. Allen’s Hummingbird

  30. Bullock’s Oriole

  31. Willow Flycatcher

  32. Western Flycatcher

  33. Least Flycatcher

  34. Veery

  35. Western Tanager

  36. Black-headed Grosbeak

Non-breeding Residents

  1. Buller’s Shearwater

  2. Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel

  3. Short-tailed Shearwater

  4. Laysan Albatross

  5. Leach’s Storm-Petrel

  6. Ancient Murrelet

  7. Rock Sandpiper

  8. Pink-footed Shearwater

  9. Long-tailed Jaeger

  10. Sabine’s Gull

  11. Red Phalarope

  12. Bohemian Waxwing

  13. Surfbird

  14. Wandering Tattler

  15. White-winged Crossbill

  16. Black-legged Kittiwake

  17. Rhinoceros Auklet

  18. Northern Shrike

  19. Pacific Loon

  20. Black Turnstone

  21. Heermann’s Gull

  22. Red-necked Grebe

  23. Rough-legged Hawk

  24. Redpoll

  25. Black Scoter

  26. White-winged Scoter

  27. Short-billed Gull

  28. Red-throated Loon

  29. Tundra Swan

  30. Greater White-fronted Goose

  31. Long-tailed Duck

  32. Brant

  33. Marbled Godwit

  34. Cackling Goose

  35. Ruddy Turnstone

  36. Snow Goose

  37. Surf Scoter

  38. Sanderling

  39. Golden-crowned Sparrow

  40. American Tree Sparrow

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