My Life List of birds sighted in my lifetime.
Total of 305 as October 23, 2019.
- Mute Swan
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck
- Greater White-fronted goose
- Snow Goose
- Canada Goose
- Wood Duck
- Gadwall
- American Wigeon
- Mallard
- Blue-winged Teal
- Cinnamon Teal
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Pintail
- Green-winged Teal
- Canvasback
- Redhead
- Ring-necked Duck
- Muscovy Duck
- Egyptian Goose
- Rough-legged Hawk
- Black Scoter
- Bufflehead
- Common Goldeneye
- Hooded Merganzer
- Red-breasted Merganzer
- Ruddy Duck
- Montezuma Quail
- Scaled Quail
- Northern Bobwhite
- Wild Turkey
- Gambel’s Quail
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Horned Grebe
- Eared Grebe
- Western Grebe
- Neotropic Cormorant
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Anhinga
- American White Pelican
- Brown Pelican
- American Bittern
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Egret
- Snowy Egret
- Tri-colored Heron
- Cattle Egret
- Green Heron
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron
- Flamingo
- White Ibis
- White-faced Ibis
- Roseate Spoonbill
- Black Vulture
- Turkey Vulture
- Osprey
- Mississippi Kite
- Bald Eagle
- Northern Harrier
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Harris’s Hawk
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Swainson’s Hawk
- Zone-tailed Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Ferruginous Hawk
- Golden Eagle
- Common Black Hawk
- Crested Caracara
- American Kestrel
- Merlin
- Peregrine Falcon
- Prairie Falcon
- Sora
- American Coot
- Sandhill Crane
- American Golden-Plover
- Snowy Plover
- Killdeer
- Black-necked Stilt
- American Avocet
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Willet
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Upland Sandpiper
- Long-billed Curlew
- Marbled Godwit
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Western Sandpiper
- Least Sandpiper
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Wilson’s Snipe
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Bonaparte’s Gull
- Franklin’s Gull
- Ring-billed Gull
- Herring Gull
- Least Tern
- Black Tern
- Forster’s Tern
- Rock Pigeon
- Eurasion Collared Dove
- White-winged Dove
- Mourning Dove
- Inca Dove
- Ruddy-ground Dove
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Greater Roadrunner
- Barn Owl
- Great Horned Owl
- Burrowing Owl
- Lesser Nighthawk
- Common Night Hawk
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Black-chinned Hummingbird
- Broad-tailed Hummingbird
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Ringed Kingfisher
- Belted Kingfisher
- Lewis’s Woodpecker
- Red-headed Woodpecker
- Acorn Woodpecker
- Golden-fronted Woodpecker
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Red-naped Sapsucker
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker
- Northern Flicker
- Olive-sided Flycatcher
- Western Wood-pewee
- Eastern Wood-pewee
- Black Phoebe
- Eastern Phoebe
- Say’s Phoebe
- Vermilion Flycatcher
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Brown-crested Flycatcher
- Western Kingbird
- Eastern Kingbird
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
- Cassin’s Kingbird
- Loggerhead Shrike
- White-eyed Vireo
- Bell’s Vireo
- Yellow-throated Vireo
- Stellar’s Jay
- Blue Jay
- Western Scrub-Jay
- American Crow
- Chihuahuan Raven
- Common Raven
- Mexican Jay
- Purple Martin
- Tree Swallow
- Bank Swallow
- Cliff Swallow
- Cave Swallow
- Barn Swallow
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Carolina Chickadee
- Black-crested Titmouse
- Verdin
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- Brown Creeper
- Cactus Wren
- Rock Wren
- Canyon Wren
- Carolina Wren
- Bewick’s Wren
- Marsh Wren
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Eastern Bluebird
- Western Bluebird
- Mountain Bluebird
- Hermit Thrush
- American Robin
- Gray Catbird
- Northern Mockingbird
- Sage Thrasher
- Brown Thrasher
- Curve-billed Thrasher
- European Starling
- American Pipit
- Cedar Waxwing
- Phainopepla
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Nashville Warbler
- Townsend Warbler
- Yellow Warbler
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Lousiana Waterthrush
- MacGillivray’s Warbler
- Common Yellowthroat
- Wilson’s Warbler
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Spotted Towhee
- Rufous-crowned Sparrow
- Canyon Towhee
- Cassin’s Sparrow
- Chipping Sparrow
- Clay-colored Sparrow
- Field Sparrow
- Vesper Sparrow
- Lark Sparrow
- Black-throated Sparrow
- Lark Bunting
- Black-chinned Sparrow
- Savannah Sparrow
- Grasshopper Sparrow
- Song Sparrow
- Lincoln’s Sparrow
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Summer Tanager
- Western Tanager
- Northern Cardinal
- Pyrrhuloxia
- Black-headed Grosbeak
- Blue Grosbeak
- Lazuli Bunting
- Indigo Bunting
- Painted Bunting
- Dickcisssel
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Eastern Meadowlark
- Western Meadowlark
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Brewer’s Blackbird
- Common Grackle
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Bronzed Cowbird
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Orchard Oriole
- Boat-tailed Grackle
- Bullock’s Oriole
- Baltimore Oriole
- Scott’s Oriole
- House Finch
- Pine Siskin
- Lesser Goldfinch
- American Goldfinch
- House Sparrow
- Little Blue Heron
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Swainson’s Thrush
- Chimney Swift
- Crissal Thrasher
- Pileated Woodpecker
- White-tailed Hawk
- Common Merganzer
- Long-tailed Duck
- Ross’s Goose
- Common Loon
- Broad-billed Hummingbird
- Blue-throated Hummingbird
- Anna’s Hummingbird
- Fox Sparrow
- Gray Hawk
- Common Ground Dove
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Purple Finch
- Scarlet Tanager
- Green Jay
- Long-billed Thrasher
- Great-crested Flycatcher
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Clark’s Grebe
- Couch’s Kingbird
- Great Kiskadee
- Lesser Scaup
- House Wren
- Horned Lark
- Pine Warbler
- Least Grebe
- Olive Sparrow
- White-throated Sparrow
- Rusty Blackbird
- Willow Flycatcher
- American Redstart
- Black-belllied Plover
- Graylag Goose
- Bushtit
- Hepatic Tanager
- White-tailed Kite
- Allen’s Hummingbird
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Blue-headed Vireo
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Swamp Sparrow
- Virginia Rail
- Thayer’s (Iceland) Gull
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Black-bellied Plover
- Laughing Gull
Texas Tweeties by Bob Zeller 
I have some work to do!! Love this. I might have to put such a list up too. But your 253 to my 120-something is intimidating. And inspiring, all at the same time. Ha! I’ll catch up to you yet.
You will find that it will be easier for you to add to your list than it is for me to add to my own. I have no doubt that you will eventually catch me, and I really hope you do. 🙂