Rare Bird Review List

This list consists of birds that have very rarely occurred in Ohio. Species on the Review List must be acceptably documented before adding them to the official record.

The OBRC considers changes to the Review List at its annual meetings. The list is compiled (beyond including all species never accepted for Ohio) by including all species averaging fewer than one record per year over the latest ten-year period, adding selected species that have averaged between one and three records per year in a similar span, then adding a few species whose populations are declining precipitously even if they exceed other numerical criteria.

This list is current as of July 2024 and follows the nomenclature and taxonomic sequence of the American Ornithological Society’s Checklist of North and Middle American Birds through the Sixty-fifth Supplement (July 2024).

Fulvous Whistling-Duck

Garganey

Cinnamon Teal

Tufted Duck

King Eider

Common Eider

Barrow’s Goldeneye

American Flamingo

Western Grebe

Common Ground Dove

Smooth-billed Ani

Groove-billed Ani

White-throated Swift

Mexican Violetear

Black-chinned Hummingbird

Anna’s Hummingbird

Calliope Hummingbird

Allen’s Hummingbird

Broad-billed Hummingbird

Purple Gallinule

Black Rail

Limpkin

Whooping Crane

Northern Lapwing

Wilson’s Plover

Snowy Plover

Eskimo Curlew

Long-billed Curlew

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

Curlew Sandpiper

Red-necked Stint

Eurasian Woodcock

Spotted Redshank

Thick-billed Murre

Black Guillemot

Long-billed Murrelet

Ancient Murrelet

Atlantic Puffin

Ivory Gull

Ross’s Gull

Black-tailed Gull

Heermann’s Gull

Common Gull

Short-billed Gull

Slaty-backed Gull

Glaucous-winged Gull

Kelp Gull

Sooty Tern

Large-billed Tern

Arctic Tern

Royal Tern

Arctic Loon

Leach’s Storm-Petrel

Black-capped Petrel

Wood Stork

Magnificent Frigatebird

Brown Booby

Northern Gannet

Anhinga

Great Cormorant

Tricolored Heron

Reddish Egret

White Ibis

Roseate Spoonbill

White-tailed Kite

American Goshawk

Harris’s Hawk

Swainson’s Hawk

Ferruginous Hawk

Northern Hawk Owl

Burrowing Owl

Great Gray Owl

Boreal Owl

Red-naped Sapsucker

Black-backed Woodpecker

Red-cockaded Woodpecker

Crested Caracara

Gyrfalcon

Prairie Falcon

Ash-throated Flycatcher

Tropical Kingbird

Gray Kingbird

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Gray Flycatcher

Dusky Flycatcher

Western Flycatcher

Say’s Phoebe

Vermilion Flycatcher

Loggerhead Shrike

Black-billed Magpie

Boreal Chickadee

Violet-green Swallow

Cave Swallow

Bohemian Waxwing

Brown-headed Nuthatch

Rock Wren

Bewick’s Wren

Mountain Bluebird

Townsend’s Solitaire

Northern Wheatear

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

White Wagtail

Sprague’s Pipit

Brambling

Pine Grosbeak

Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch

Chestnut-collared Longspur

Cassin’s Sparrow

Bachman’s Sparrow

Black-throated Sparrow

Lark Bunting

Brewer’s Sparrow

Golden-crowned Sparrow

Baird’s Sparrow

Green-tailed Towhee

Spotted Towhee

Hooded Oriole

Bullock’s Oriole

Great-tailed Grackle

Swainson’s Warbler

Black-throated Gray Warbler

Townsend’s Warbler

Painted Redstart

Black-headed Grosbeak

 

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