Rare Birds for the CTAudubon Rare Bird Alert
This Little Egret spent a number of days in eastern Connecticut in August 2018. It was its first recorded appearance in the state. Photo courtesy of Frank Mantlik
If one of these birds shows up in Connecticut, we’ll send you a text, if you’ve signed up for the CT Audubon Rare Bird Alert.
- Fulvous Whistling-Duck
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
- Pink-footed Goose
- Barnacle Goose
- Graylag Goose
- Ross’s Goose
- Trumpeter Swan
- Tundra Swan
- Cinnamon Teal
- Tufted Duck
- King Eider
- Harlequin Duck
- Barrow’s Goldeneye
- Eared Grebe
- Western Grebe
- Band-tailed Pigeon
- Eurasian Collared-Dove
- Common Ground Dove
- White-winged Dove
- Chuck-will’s-widow
- Mexican Violetear
- Black-chinned Hummingbird
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Calliope Hummingbird
- Broad-billed Hummingbird
- King Rail
- Yellow Rail
- Black Rail
- Little Egret
- Cattle Egret
- Roseate Spoonbill
- Sandhill Crane
- Corn Crake
- Purple Gallinule
- Black-necked Stilt
- American Avocet
- Northern Lapwing
- Snowy Plover
- Wilson’s Plover
- Long-billed Curlew
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Bar-tailed Godwit
- Ruff
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Red-necked Stint
- Little Stint
- Spotted Redshank
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red Phalarope
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Long-tailed Jaeger
- Dovekie
- Common Murre
- Thick-billed Murre
- Black Guillemot
- Atlantic Puffin
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Ivory Gull
- Sabine’s Gull
- Black-headed Gull
- Little Gull
- Ross’s Gull
- Franklin’s Gull
- Mew Gull
- California Gull
- “Thayer’s Gull”
- Slaty-backed Gull
- Sooty Tern
- Bridled Tern
- Gull-billed Tern
- Arctic Tern
- Sandwich Tern
- White-tailed Tropicbird
- Pacific Loon
- Northern Fulmar
- Black-capped Petrel
- Cory’s Shearwater
- Sooty Shearwater
- Great Shearwater
- Manx Shearwater
- Audubon’s Shearwater
- White-faced Storm-Petrel
- Leach’s Storm-Petrel
- Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
- Wood Stork
- Magnificent Frigatebird
- Brown Booby
- Anhinga
- Brown Pelican
- White Ibis
- White-faced Ibis
- White-tailed Kite
- Swallow-tailed Kite
- Mississippi Kite*
- Swainson’s Hawk
- Zone-tailed Hawk
- Northern Hawk Owl
- Burrowing Owl
- Great Gray Owl
- Boreal Owl
- Black-backed Woodpecker
- Gyrfalcon
- Gray Flycatcher
- Pacific-slope Flycatcher
- Say’s Phoebe
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Tropical Kingbird
- Western Kingbird
- Gray Kingbird
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Northern Shrike*
- Bell’s Vireo
- Eurasian Jackdaw
- Brown-chested Martin
- Cave Swallow
- Boreal Chickadee
- Sedge Wren
- Northern Wheatear
- Mountain Bluebird
- Townsend’s Solitaire
- Bicknell’s Thrush
- Fieldfare
- Varied Thrush
- Bohemian Waxwing
- Sprague’s Pipit
- Brambling
- Pine Grosbeak
- Red Crossbill*
- White-winged Crossbill*
- Common Redpoll*
- Hoary Redpoll
- Chestnut-collared Longspur
- Smith’s Longspur
- Golden-winged Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Connecticut Warbler
- Kentucky Warbler
- MacGillivray’s Warbler
- Yellow-throated Warbler
- Black-throated Gray Warbler
- Hermit Warbler
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Spotted Towhee
- Lark Sparrow
- Lark Bunting
- Henslow’s Sparrow
- LeConte’s Sparrow
- Harris’s Sparrow
- Golden-crowned Sparrow
- Summer Tanager
- Western Tanager
- Black-headed Grosbeak
- Blue Grosbeak
- Lazuli Bunting
- Painted Bunting
- Western Meadowlark
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Brewer’s Blackbird
- Bullock’s Oriole
Species marked with an asterisk will be on a case-by-case basis – during an irruption year, for example, we probably won’t send a text each time someone reports a winter finch. And you never know: maybe a rarity not on this list will be found. We’ll let you know about that too.
