Pennsylvania Ornithological Records Committee

Review List of the Birds of Pennsylvania

The following Review List contains species that are considered rare or accidental in Pennsylvania. The Records Committee requests details including full descriptions, and if possible photographs or video/sound recordings, for review and possible inclusion on the Official State List. Please note the county exemptions where documentation is not required for some species.

Submit documentation to: Nick Pulcinella, 613 Howard Ave., West Chester, PA 19380. e-mail: nickpulcinella@verizon.net

Review List A - Rarities
Review List B - Extirpated Species
Recognizable forms and subspecies

Revised July 22, 2007

Review List A - Rarities
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Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Pink-footed Goose
Cinnamon Teal
Tufted Duck
King Eider
Common Eider
Harlequin Duck
Barrow's Goldeneye
Masked Duck
Pacific Loon
Yellow-billed Loon
Northern Fulmar
Black-capped Petrel
Cory's Shearwater
Greater Shearwater
Leach's Storm-Petrel
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
White-tailed Tropicbird
Northern Gannet
Brown Pelican
Anhinga
Magnificent Frigatebird
Tricolored Heron
White Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Wood Stork
Swallow-tailed Kite
Mississippi Kite
Swainson's Hawk
Gyrfalcon
Yellow Rail
Black Rail
Clapper Rail
King Rail
Spotted Rail
Purple Gallinule
Snowy Plover
Wilson's Plover
Piping Plover
American Oystercatcher
Black-necked Stilt
Long-billed Curlew
Black-tailed Godwit
Surfbird
Curlew Sandpiper
Ruff
Red Phalarope
Long-tailed Jaeger
Black-headed Gull
Mew Gull
California Gull
Thayer's Gull
Sabine's Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake
Ross's Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Royal Tern
Roseate Tern
Arctic Tern
Sooty Tern
Black Skimmer
Dovekie
Thick-billed Murre
Black Guillemot
Ancient Murrelet
Band-tailed Pigeon
White-winged Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Northern Hawk Owl
Great Gray Owl
Boreal Owl
Chuck-will's-widow
Calliope Hummingbird
Lewis's Woodpecker
Black-backed Woodpecker
Hammond's Flycatcher
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Say's Phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Gray Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
Violet-green Swallow
Cave Swallow
Boreal Chickadee
Bewick's Wren
Northern Wheatear
Mountain Bluebird
Townsend's Solitaire
Bicknell's Thrush
Redwing
Varied Thrush
Bohemian Waxwing
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Kirtland's Warbler
Swainson's Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Summer Tanager
Western Tanager
Green-tailed Towhee
Spotted Towhee
Lark Sparrow
Lark Bunting
LeConte's Sparrow
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Harris' Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Black-headed Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting
Painted Bunting
Western Meadowlark
Scott's Oriole
Bullock's Oriole
Brambling
Pine Grosbeak
Hoary Redpoll

Greater Prairie-Chicken
Eskimo Curlew
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Bachman's Sparrow

Recognizable forms and subspecies
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"Black" Brant (Branta bernicla nigricans)
Green-winged (Common) Teal (Anas crecca crecca)
"Eastern" Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus semipalmatus)
Yellow-rumped (Audubon's) Warbler (Dendroica coronata auduboni)
White-crowned (Gambel's) Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrus gambelii)
Dark-eyed Junco other than Slate-colored