Contents

A page for every one of the 454 species on the official Ohio bird list — the Ohio Ornithological Society's count as of November 2025, following American Ornithological Society nomenclature through the Sixty-sixth Supplement (August 2025).

Each page carries the species' scientific name, its family, its OOS difficulty code, and its ODNR legal status in Ohio where one is assigned. The list these pages are built from, with all four columns in one table and the full sourcing, is Ohio Bird Checklist. For what is moving this week and where to stand, see Ohio Bird Migration.

What is in here

Measure Count
Species pages 454
Families represented 65
State endangered 10
State threatened 4
State species of concern 25
State special interest 46
State extirpated 5
State extinct 2

On "native". The official state list is a record of what has occurred in Ohio, so it includes long-distance vagrants and a handful of established introductions — European Starling, House Sparrow, Rock Pigeon, Mute Swan, Ring-necked Pheasant, Gray Partridge, Eurasian Collared-Dove and Eurasian Tree Sparrow are not native. Those pages say so. Everything else on the list reached Ohio under its own power.

The species, in taxonomic order

Grouped by family and sequenced as every printed checklist, field guide, and eBird list sequences them — not alphabetically.

Ducks, Geese, and Swans

New World Quail

Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies

Flamingos

Grebes

Pigeons and Doves

Cuckoos

Nightjars

Swifts

Hummingbirds

Limpkin

Cranes

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

Stilts and Avocets

Plovers and Lapwings

Sandpipers and Allies

Skuas and Jaegers

Auks, Murres, and Puffins

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

Loons

Northern Storm-Petrels

Shearwaters and Petrels

Storks

Frigatebirds

Boobies and Gannets

Anhingas

Cormorants

Ibises and Spoonbills

Pelicans

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns

New World Vultures

Osprey

Hawks, Eagles, and Kites

Barn-Owls

Typical Owls

Kingfishers

Woodpeckers

Falcons and Caracaras

New World Parrots

Tyrant Flycatchers

Vireos

Shrikes

Crows, Jays, and Magpies

Chickadees and Titmice

Larks

Swallows

Kinglets

Waxwings

Nuthatches

Treecreepers

Gnatcatchers

Wrens

Mockingbirds and Thrashers

Starlings

Thrushes

Old World Flycatchers

Old World Sparrows

Wagtails and Pipits

Finches

Longspurs and Snow Buntings

New World Sparrows

Yellow-breasted Chat

Blackbirds and Orioles

New World Warblers

Cardinals, Grosbeaks, and Allies