Steve Sauter's N.A. Life List 1971-

Major Bird Trips Outside New England include :
1975- March. Road Trip to Florida Keys.
1976-July. Road trip through the South to Brownsville, Texas and up the Rio Grande to Big Bend and Oklahoma.
1977- May. Road Trip to Gaspe' Peninsula returning from Nova Scotia aboard the Blue Nose.
1977-August. Road trip across country just to see the California Condors, returning through S.E. Arizona.
1993-July. Family Driving/Camping Trip from N.E. through Utah to California and back.
2001- August. Family Camping Trip to Olympic National Park.
2001- December 9-11 Tucson, AZ area visit to the Biosphere2 in Oracle.
2002-March 17-20 Trip to North Carolina and Croatan National Forest
2004- August camping trip to Banf and Jasper, BC, Canada
2008- July Camping trip to Gaspe'

Many minor trips to Parker River, Brigantine, Barnegat, Jamaica Bay, Hammonasett, Cape Cod, Green Mountains, Toledo, Ohio Marshes, Blue Nose Ferry, Cleveland area, Hartford area, Lake George area.

Life List Total Common Name Scientific Name
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1 Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata
  Arctic Loon Gavia arctica
1 Pacific Loon Gavia pacifica
1 Common Loon Gavia immer
  Yellow-billed Loon Gavia adamsii
1 Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus
1 Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
1 Horned Grebe Podiceps auritus
1 Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena
1 Eared Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
1 Western Grebe Aechmophorus occidentalis
  Clark's Grebe Aechmophorus clarkii
  Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos
  Shy Albatross Thalassarche cauta
  Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris
  Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans
  Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis
1 Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes
  Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus
1 Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis
  Herald Petrel Pterodroma arminjoniana
  Murphy's Petrel Pterodroma ultima
  Mottled Petrel Pterodroma inexpectata
  Black-capped Petrel Pterodroma hasitata
  Cook's Petrel Pterodroma cookii
  Stejneger's Petrel Pterodroma longirostris
  White-chinned Petrel Procellaria aequinoctialis
  Streaked Shearwater Calonectris leucomelas
1 Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea
1 Pink-footed Shearwater Puffinus creatopus
  Flesh-footed Shearwater Puffinus carneipes
1 Greater Shearwater Puffinus gravis
  Wedge-tailed Shearwater Puffinus pacificus
  Buller's Shearwater Puffinus bulleri
1 Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus
  Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris
1 Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus
  Black-vented Shearwater Puffinus opisthomelas
  Audubon's Shearwater Puffinus lherminieri
  Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis
1 Wilson's Storm-Petrel Oceanites oceanicus
  White-faced Storm-Petrel Pelagodroma marina
  European Storm-Petrel Hydrobates pelagicus
  Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma furcata
1 Leach's Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa
  Ashy Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma homochroa
  Band-rumped Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma castro
  Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma tethys
  Black Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma melania
  Least Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma microsoma
  White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus
  Red-billed Tropicbird Phaethon aethereus
  Red-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon rubricauda
  Masked Booby Sula dactylatra
  Blue-footed Booby Sula nebouxii
  Brown Booby Sula leucogaster
  Red-footed Booby Sula sula
1 Northern Gannet Morus bassanus
1 American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
1 Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis
1 Brandt's Cormorant Phalacrocorax penicillatus
1 Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus
1 Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus
1 Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
  Red-faced Cormorant Phalacrocorax urile
1 Pelagic Cormorant Phalacrocorax pelagicus
1 Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
1 Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnificens
  Great Frigatebird Fregata minor
  Lesser Frigatebird Fregata ariel
1 American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus
  Yellow Bittern Ixobrychus sinensis
1 Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis
1 Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
1 Great Egret Ardea alba
  Chinese Egret Egretta eulophotes
  Little Egret Egretta garzetta
  Western Reef-Heron Egretta gularis
1 Snowy Egret Egretta thula
1 Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
1 Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
1 Reddish Egret Egretta rufescens
1 Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
1 Green Heron Butorides virescens
1 Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
1 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Nyctanassa violacea
1 White Ibis Eudocimus albus
  Scarlet Ibis Eudocimus ruber
1 Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus
1 White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi
1 Roseate Spoonbill Ajaia ajaja
  Jabiru Jabiru mycteria
1 Wood Stork Mycteria americana
1 Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
1 Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
1 California Condor Gymnogyps californianus
  Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber
1 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
1 Fulvous Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
  Bean Goose Anser fabalis
  Pink-footed Goose Anser brachyrhynchus
Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
  Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus
  Emperor Goose Chen canagica
1 Snow Goose Chen caerulescens
  Ross's Goose Chen rossii
1 Canada Goose Branta canadensis
1 Brant Branta bernicla
 1 Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis
1 Mute Swan Cygnus olor
  Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator
1 Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus
  Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus
  Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
1 Wood Duck Aix sponsa
1 Gadwall Anas strepera
  Falcated Duck Anas falcata
Eurasian Wigeon Anas penelope
1 American Wigeon Anas americana
1 American Black Duck Anas rubripes
1 Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
1 Mottled Duck Anas fulvigula
  Spot-billed Duck Anas poecilorhyncha
1 Blue-winged Teal Anas discors
1 Cinnamon Teal Anas cyanoptera
1 Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata
  White-cheeked Pintail Anas bahamensis
1 Northern Pintail Anas acuta
  Garganey Anas querquedula
  Baikal Teal Anas formosa
1 Green-winged Teal Anas crecca
1 Canvasback Aythya valisineria
1 Redhead Aythya americana
  Common Pochard Aythya ferina
1 Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
1 Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula
1 Greater Scaup Aythya marila
1 Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
  Steller's Eider Polysticta stelleri
  Spectacled Eider Somateria fischeri
1 King Eider Somateria spectabilis
1 Common Eider Somateria mollissima
1 Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus
  Labrador Duck Camptorhynchus labradorius
1 Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata
1 White-winged Scoter Melanitta fusca
1 Black Scoter Melanitta nigra
1 Oldsquaw Clangula hyemalis
1 Bufflehead Bucephala albeola
1 Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
1 Barrow's Goldeneye Bucephala islandica
1 Smew Mergellus albellus
1 Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
1 Common Merganser Mergus merganser
1 Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
  Masked Duck Nomonyx dominicus
1 Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
1 Osprey Pandion haliaetus
  Hook-billed Kite Chondrohierax uncinatus
1 Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus
1 White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus
  Snail Kite Rostrhamus sociabilis
1 Mississippi Kite Ictinia mississippiensis
1 Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
  White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla
  Steller's Sea-Eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus
1 Northern Harrier Circus cyaneus
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
1 Cooper's Hawk Accipiter cooperii
1 Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis
  Crane Hawk Geranospiza caerulescens
  Gray Hawk Asturina nitida
  Common Black-Hawk Buteogallus anthracinus
1 Harris's Hawk Parabuteo unicinctus
  Roadside Hawk Buteo magnirostris
1 Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
1 Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
1 Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus
1 Swainson's Hawk Buteo swainsoni
1 White-tailed Hawk Buteo albicaudatus
1 Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus
1 Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
1 Ferruginous Hawk Buteo regalis
1 Rough-legged Hawk Buteo lagopus
1 Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos
  Collared Forest-Falcon Micrastur semitorquatus
1 Crested Caracara Caracara plancus
  Eurasian Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
1 American Kestrel Falco sparverius
1 Merlin Falco columbarius
  Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
  Aplomado Falcon Falco femoralis
  Gyrfalcon Falco rusticolus
1 Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
1 Prairie Falcon Falco mexicanus
1 Plain Chachalaca Ortalis vetula
1 Chukar Alectoris chukar
  Himalayan Snowcock Tetraogallus himalayensis
  Gray Partridge Perdix perdix
1 Ring-necked Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
1 Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus
1 Sage Grouse Centrocercus urophasianus
  Spruce Grouse Falcipennis canadensis
  Willow Ptarmigan Lagopus lagopus
  Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus mutus
  White-tailed Ptarmigan Lagopus leucurus
1 Blue Grouse Dendragapus obscurus
1 Sharp-tailed Grouse Tympanuchus phasianellus
  Greater Prairie-chicken Tympanuchus cupido
  Lesser Prairie-chicken Tympanuchus pallidicinctus
1 Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
  Mountain Quail Oreortyx pictus
1 Scaled Quail Callipepla squamata
1 California Quail Callipepla californica
  Gambel's Quail Callipepla gambelii
1 Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
  Montezuma Quail Cyrtonyx montezumae
  Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis
1 Black Rail Laterallus jamaicensis
  Corn Crake Crex crex
1 Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris
1 King Rail Rallus elegans
1 Virginia Rail Rallus limicola
1 Sora Porzana carolina
  Paint-billed Crake Neocrex erythrops
  Spotted Rail Pardirallus maculatus
1 Purple Gallinule Porphyrula martinica
  Azure Gallinule Porphyrula flavirostris
1 Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
  Eurasian Coot Fulica atra
1 American Coot Fulica americana
1 Limpkin Aramus guarauna
1 Sandhill Crane Grus canadensis
  Common Crane Grus grus
  Whooping Crane Grus americana
  Double-striped Thick-knee Burhinus bistriatus
  Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus
1 Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola
  European Golden-Plover Pluvialis apricaria
1 American Golden-Plover Pluvialis dominica
  Pacific Golden-Plover Pluvialis fulva
  Mongolian Plover Charadrius mongolus
  Collared Plover Charadrius collaris
1 Snowy Plover Charadrius alexandrinus
1 Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia
  Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
1 Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
1 Piping Plover Charadrius melodus
  Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius
1 Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
  Mountain Plover Charadrius montanus
  Eurasian Dotterel Charadrius morinellus
  Eurasian Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus
1 American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus
1 Black Oystercatcher Haematopus bachmani
  Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
1 Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
1 American Avocet Recurvirostra americana
  Northern Jacana Jacana spinosa
  Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
1 Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
1 Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
  Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
  Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus
  Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
  Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
1 Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
1 Willet Catoptrophorus semipalmatus
1 Wandering Tattler Heteroscelus incanus
  Gray-tailed Tattler Heteroscelus brevipes
  Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
1 Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia
  Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus
1 Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
  Little Curlew Numenius minutus
  Eskimo Curlew Numenius borealis
1 Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
  Bristle-thighed Curlew Numenius tahitiensis
  Far Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis
  Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris
  Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
1 Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus
  Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
1 Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica
  Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
1 Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
1 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
1 Black Turnstone Arenaria melanocephala
  Surfbird Aphriza virgata
  Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris
1 Red Knot Calidris canutus
1 Sanderling Calidris alba
1 Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
1 Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
  Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis
  Little Stint Calidris minuta
  Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
  Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta
1 Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
 1 White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis
1 Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
1 Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
  Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata
1 Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima
  Rock Sandpiper Calidris ptilocnemis
1 Dunlin Calidris alpina
  Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea
Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
  Spoonbill Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus
  Broad-billed Sandpiper Limicola falcinellus
1 Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis
  Ruff Philomachus pugnax
1 Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus
1 Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
  Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus
1 Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
  Pin-tailed Snipe Gallinago stenura
  Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola
1 American Woodcock Scolopax minor
1 Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
1 Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
1 Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicaria
  Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum
1 Great Skua Catharacta skua
  South Polar Skua Catharacta maccormicki
Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus
  Parasitic Jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus
  Long-tailed Jaeger Stercorarius longicaudus
1 Laughing Gull Larus atricilla
1 Franklin's Gull Larus pipixcan
1 Little Gull Larus minutus
1 Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus
1 Bonaparte's Gull Larus philadelphia
1 Heermann's Gull Larus heermanni
  Band-tailed Gull Larus belcheri
  Black-tailed Gull Larus crassirostris
1 Mew Gull Larus canus
1 Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
1 California Gull Larus californicus
1 Herring Gull Larus argentatus
  Yellow-legged Gull Larus cachinnans
  Thayer's Gull Larus thayeri
1 Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides
1 Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
  Slaty-backed Gull Larus schistisagus
  Yellow-footed Gull Larus livens
1 Western Gull Larus occidentalis
1 Glaucous-winged Gull Larus glaucescens
1 Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus
1 Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
  Sabine's Gull Xema sabini
1 Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla
  Red-legged Kittiwake Rissa brevirostris
1 Ross's Gull Rhodostethia rosea
1 Ivory Gull Pagophila eburnea
1 Gull-billed Tern Sterna nilotica
1 Caspian Tern Sterna caspia
1 Royal Tern Sterna maxima
  Elegant Tern Sterna elegans
  Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis
1 Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii
1 Common Tern Sterna hirundo
1 Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea
1 Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
1 Least Tern Sterna antillarum
  Aleutian Tern Sterna aleutica
  Bridled Tern Sterna anaethetus
  Sooty Tern Sterna fuscata
  Large-billed Tern Phaetusa simplex
  White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
  Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus
1 Black Tern Chlidonias niger
  Brown Noddy Anous stolidus
  Black Noddy Anous minutus
1 Black Skimmer Rynchops niger
1 Dovekie Alle alle
1 Common Murre Uria aalge
1 Thick-billed Murre Uria lomvia
1 Razorbill Alca torda
  Great Auk Pinguinus impennis
1 Black Guillemot Cepphus grylle
1 Pigeon Guillemot Cepphus columba
  Long-billed Murrelet Brachyramphus perdix
1 Marbled Murrelet Brachyramphus marmoratus
  Kittlitz's Murrelet Brachyramphus brevirostris
  Xantus's Murrelet Synthliboramphus hypoleucus
  Craveri's Murrelet Synthliboramphus craveri
  Ancient Murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus
  Cassin's Auklet Ptychoramphus aleuticus
  Parakeet Auklet Aethia psittacula
  Least Auklet Aethia pusilla
  Whiskered Auklet Aethia pygmaea
  Crested Auklet Aethia cristatella
1 Rhinoceros Auklet Cerorhinca monocerata
  Atlantic Puffin Fratercula arctica
  Horned Puffin Fratercula corniculata
1 Tufted Puffin Fratercula cirrhata
1 Rock Dove Columba livia
  Scaly-naped Pigeon Columba squamosa
1 White-crowned Pigeon Columba leucocephala
  Red-billed Pigeon Columba flavirostris
1 Band-tailed Pigeon Columba fasciata
  Oriental Turtle-Dove Streptopelia orientalis
  European Turtle-Dove Streptopelia turtur
1 Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto
1 Spotted Dove Streptopelia chinensis
1 White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
  Zenaida Dove Zenaida aurita
1 Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
  Passenger Pigeon Ectopistes migratorius
1 Inca Dove Columbina inca
1 Common Ground-Dove Columbina passerina
  Ruddy Ground-Dove Columbina talpacoti
1 White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
  Key West Quail-Dove Geotrygon chrysia
  Ruddy Quail-Dove Geotrygon montana
  Budgerigar Melopsittacus undulatus
Monk Parakeet Myiopsitta monachus
  Carolina Parakeet Conuropsis carolinensis
  Thick-billed Parrot Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha
  White-winged Parakeet Brotogeris versicolurus
  Red-crowned Parrot Amazona viridigenalis
  Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
  Oriental Cuckoo Cuculus saturatus
1 Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus
1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
  Mangrove Cuckoo Coccyzus minor
1 Greater Roadrunner Geococcyx californianus
1 Smooth-billed Ani Crotophaga ani
1 Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris
1 Barn Owl Tyto alba
  Flammulated Owl Otus flammeolus
  Oriental Scops-Owl Otus sunia
  Western Screech-Owl Otus kennicottii
1 Eastern Screech-Owl Otus asio
  Whiskered Screech-Owl Otus trichopsis
1 Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
1 Snowy Owl Nyctea scandiaca
1 Northern Hawk Owl Surnia ulula
1 Northern Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium gnoma
  Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium brasilianum
  Elf Owl Micrathene whitneyi
1 Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia
  Mottled Owl Ciccaba virgata
  Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis
1 Barred Owl Strix varia
1 Great Gray Owl Strix nebulosa
1 Long-eared Owl Asio otus
1 Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
  Boreal Owl Aegolius funereus
1 Northern Saw-whet Owl Aegolius acadicus
1 Lesser Nighthawk Chordeiles acutipennis
1 Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
  Antillean Nighthawk Chordeiles gundlachii
1 Common Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis
1 Common Poorwill Phalaenoptilus nuttallii
  Chuck-will's-widow Caprimulgus carolinensis
  Buff-collared Nightjar Caprimulgus ridgwayi
1 Whip-poor-will Caprimulgus vociferus
  Jungle Nightjar Caprimulgus indicus
  Black Swift Cypseloides niger
  White-collared Swift Streptoprocne zonaris
1 Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
1 Vaux's Swift Chaetura vauxi
1 White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus
  Common Swift Apus apus
  Fork-tailed Swift Apus pacificus
  White-throated Swift Aeronautes saxatalis
  Antillean Palm Swift Tachornis phoenicobia
  Green Violet-ear Colibri thalassinus
  Green-breasted Mango Anthracothorax prevostii
1 Broad-billed Hummi