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.