Kris Schaumburg
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Was poking around trying to find a list of NA waterfowl and found this instead. Supposedly the 72 species of NA huntable birds (yes I know you could break them down further by subspecies). Thought this was really neat
72 Species Total
DUCKS (32)
1) Mallard x
2) American Black Duck x
3) Northern Pintail x
4) Gadwall x
5) American Wigeon x
Eurasian Wigeon
6) Wood Duck x
Mandarin Duck
7) Blue-Winged Teal x
8) Green-Winged Teal x
9) Cinnamon Teal
10) Northern Shoveler
11) Mottled Duck
12) Fulvous Whistling Duck
13) Black-Bellied Whistling Duck
14) Canvasback
15) Redhead
16) Lesser Scaup
17) Greater Scaup
18) Ring-Necked Duck
19) Common Goldeneye
20) Barrow's Goldeneye
21) Bufflehead
22) Ruddy Duck
Masked Duck
23) Common Merganser
24) Red-Breasted Merganser
25) Hooded Merganser
26) White-Winged Scoter
27) Surf Scoter
28) Black Scoter
29) Common Eider
30) King Eider
31) Oldsquaw
32) Harlequin
GEESE (5)
33) Canada Goose x
Cackling Goose
34) Snow Goose x
35) Greater White-Fronted Goose x
36) Ross Goose x
37) Brant x
SWAN (1)
38) Tundra Swan x
Trumpeter Swan
Chachalaca (1)
Plain Chacalaca
TURKEY (2)
39) Wild Turkey (Eastern, Osceola, Rio Grande, Merriam, Gould are all sub-species) x
40) Ocellated Turkey (this one doesn't belong if you are delaing strictuly with NORTH American
birds.....if you include this species here then there are "MANY" Duck and Upland Species that would
need to be added as well.
PHEASANT (1)
41) Ring-Necked Pheasant
Partridge (2)
42) Chukar Partridge
43) Hungarian Partridge
Himalayan Snowcock
GROUSE (6)
44) Ruffed Grouse
45) Sharp-Tailed Grouse
46) Greater Prairie Chicken
Lesser Prairie Chicken
47) Greater Sage Grouse
48) Blue Grouse
Dusky Grouse
49) Spruce Grouse
PTARMIGAN (3)
50) Willow Ptarmigan
51) Rock Ptarmigan
52) White-Tailed Ptarmigan
QUAIL (6)
53) Bobwhite Quail x
54) California Quail
55) Gambel's Quail
56) Scaled Quail
57) Mearn's Quail
58) Mountain Quail
MIGRATORY UPLAND (6)
59) Woodcock
60) Common Snipe x
61) Mourning Dove x
62) White-Winged Dove
63) White-Tipped Dove
Collared Dove
64) Band-Tailed Pigeon
MARSH (4)
65) Sandhill Crane
66) American Coot x
67) Common Moorhen x
68) Purple Gallinule x
RAIL (4)
69) Sora x
70) Clapper Rail x
71) King Rail x
72) Virginia Rail x
72 Species Total
DUCKS (32)
1) Mallard x
2) American Black Duck x
3) Northern Pintail x
4) Gadwall x
5) American Wigeon x
Eurasian Wigeon
6) Wood Duck x
Mandarin Duck
7) Blue-Winged Teal x
8) Green-Winged Teal x
9) Cinnamon Teal
10) Northern Shoveler
11) Mottled Duck
12) Fulvous Whistling Duck
13) Black-Bellied Whistling Duck
14) Canvasback
15) Redhead
16) Lesser Scaup
17) Greater Scaup
18) Ring-Necked Duck
19) Common Goldeneye
20) Barrow's Goldeneye
21) Bufflehead
22) Ruddy Duck
Masked Duck
23) Common Merganser
24) Red-Breasted Merganser
25) Hooded Merganser
26) White-Winged Scoter
27) Surf Scoter
28) Black Scoter
29) Common Eider
30) King Eider
31) Oldsquaw
32) Harlequin
GEESE (5)
33) Canada Goose x
Cackling Goose
34) Snow Goose x
35) Greater White-Fronted Goose x
36) Ross Goose x
37) Brant x
SWAN (1)
38) Tundra Swan x
Trumpeter Swan
Chachalaca (1)
Plain Chacalaca
TURKEY (2)
39) Wild Turkey (Eastern, Osceola, Rio Grande, Merriam, Gould are all sub-species) x
40) Ocellated Turkey (this one doesn't belong if you are delaing strictuly with NORTH American
birds.....if you include this species here then there are "MANY" Duck and Upland Species that would
need to be added as well.
PHEASANT (1)
41) Ring-Necked Pheasant
Partridge (2)
42) Chukar Partridge
43) Hungarian Partridge
Himalayan Snowcock
GROUSE (6)
44) Ruffed Grouse
45) Sharp-Tailed Grouse
46) Greater Prairie Chicken
Lesser Prairie Chicken
47) Greater Sage Grouse
48) Blue Grouse
Dusky Grouse
49) Spruce Grouse
PTARMIGAN (3)
50) Willow Ptarmigan
51) Rock Ptarmigan
52) White-Tailed Ptarmigan
QUAIL (6)
53) Bobwhite Quail x
54) California Quail
55) Gambel's Quail
56) Scaled Quail
57) Mearn's Quail
58) Mountain Quail
MIGRATORY UPLAND (6)
59) Woodcock
60) Common Snipe x
61) Mourning Dove x
62) White-Winged Dove
63) White-Tipped Dove
Collared Dove
64) Band-Tailed Pigeon
MARSH (4)
65) Sandhill Crane
66) American Coot x
67) Common Moorhen x
68) Purple Gallinule x
RAIL (4)
69) Sora x
70) Clapper Rail x
71) King Rail x
72) Virginia Rail x
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