IORC Review List

(as updated 25 July 2024)

Order Anseriformes

Family Anatidae

  • Fulvous Whistling-Duck
  • Brant
  • Barnacle Goose
  • Garganey
  • Cinnamon Teal [females only]
  • Eurasian Wigeon
  • Mottled Duck
  • Tufted Duck
  • King Eider
  • Common Eider
  • Harlequin Duck [except Lake Michigan]
  • Barrow's Goldeneye

Order Galliformes

Family Phasianidae

  • Gray Partridge

Order Podicipediformes

Family Podicipedidae

  • Clark's Grebe

Order Columbiformes

Family Columbidae

  • Band-tailed Pigeon
  • Inca Dove
  • Common Ground-Dove

Order Cuculiformes

Family Cuculidae

  • Groove-billed Ani

Order Apodiformes

Family Trochilidae

  • Mexican Violetear
  • Anna's Hummingbird
  • Allen's Hummingbird
  • Broad-tailed Hummingbird
  • Broad-billed Hummingbird

Order Gruiformes

Family Rallidae

  • Purple Gallinule
  • Black Rail

Family Aramidae

  • Limpkin

Family Gruidae

  • Whooping Crane [documentation should address why the record is thought to be from the naturally occurring population and not the migratory population whose reintroduction is being attempted]

Order Charadriiformes

Family Charadriidae

  • Common Ringed Plover
  • Wilson's Plover
  • Mountain Plover
  • Snowy Plover

Family Scolopacidae

  • Long-billed Curlew
  • Ruff
  • Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
  • Curlew Sandpiper
  • Purple Sandpiper
  • Little Stint
  • Wandering Tattler

Family Stercorariidae

  • Pomarine Jaeger
  • Parasitic Jaeger
  • Long-tailed Jaeger

Family Alcidae

  • Dovekie
  • Ancient Murrelet

Family Laridae

  • Ivory Gull
  • Black-headed Gull
  • Ross's Gull
  • Black-tailed Gull
  • Short-billed Gull
  • Slaty-backed Gull
  • Glaucous-winged Gull
  • Sooty Tern
  • Large-billed Tern
  • Gull-billed Tern
  • Arctic Tern
  • Royal Tern
  • Sandwich Tern
  • Black Skimmer

Order Gaviiformes

Family Gaviidae

  • Pacific Loon
  • Yellow-billed Loon

Order Ciconiiformes

Family Ciconiidae

  • Wood Stork

Order Suliformes

Family Fregatidae

  • Magnificent Frigatebird

Family Sulidae

  • Brown Booby
  • Northern Gannet

Family Anhingidae

  • Anhinga [except southern Illinois]

Order Pelecaniformes

Family Pelecanidae

  • Brown Pelican

Family Ardeidae

  • Tricolored Heron
  • Reddish Egret

Family Threskiornithidae

  • White Ibis
  • Glossy Ibis [any fall or immature (non-alternate) plumage]
  • White-faced Ibis [any fall or immature (non-alternate) plumage]
  • Roseate Spoonbill

Order Accipitriformes

Family Accipitridae

  • White-tailed Kite
  • Ferruginous Hawk

Order Strigiformes

Family Strigidae

  • Northern Hawk Owl
  • Burrowing Owl
  • Boreal Owl

Order Piciformes

Family Picidae

  • Lewis's Woodpecker
  • Williamson's Sapsucker
  • Red-naped Sapsucker
  • Black-backed Woodpecker
  • Red-cockaded Woodpecker

Order Falconiformes

Family Falconidae

  • Crested Caracara
  • Gyrfalcon
  • Prairie Falcon

Order Passeriformes

Family Tyrannidae

  • Small-billed Elaenia
  • Ash-throated Flycatcher
  • Great Kiskadee
  • Tropical Kingbird
  • Cassin's Kingbird
  • Gray Kingbird
  • Fork-tailed Flycatcher
  • Western Flycatcher
  • Say's Phoebe
  • Vermilion Flycatcher

Family Vireonidae

  • Cassin's Vireo
  • Plumbeous Vireo

Family Corvidae

  • Clark's Nutcracker
  • Black-billed Magpie
  • Common Raven

Family Paridae

  • Boreal Chickadee

Family Hirundinidae

  • Violet-green Swallow
  • Cave Swallow

Family Bombycillidae

  • Bohemian Waxwing

Family Sittidae

  • Brown-headed Nuthatch

Family Troglodytidae

  • Rock Wren
  • Bewick's Wren

Family Mimidae

  • Curve-billed Thrasher
  • Sage Thrasher

Family Turdidae

  • Mountain Bluebird

Family Muscicapidae

  • Northern Wheatear

Family Motacillidae

  • Sprague's Pipit

Family Fringillidae

  • Pine Grosbeak
  • Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
  • Lesser Goldfinch

Family Calcariidae

  • Chestnut-collared Longspur

Family Emberizidae

  • Cassin's Sparrow
  • Bachman's Sparrow
  • Black-throated Sparrow
  • Lark Bunting
  • Brewer's Sparrow
  • Golden-crowned Sparrow
  • Green-tailed Towhee

Family Icteridae

  • Bullock's Oriole
  • Scott's Oriole
  • Great-tailed Grackle

Family Parulidae

  • Swainson's Warbler
  • MacGillivray's Warbler
  • Kirtland's Warbler
  • Grace's Warbler
  • Black-throated Gray Warbler
  • Townsend's Warbler
  • Hermit Warbler
  • Painted Redstart

Family Cardinalidae

  • Hepatic Tanager
  • Black-headed Grosbeak
  • Lazuli Bunting
  • Painted Bunting

This page was last updated 26 July 2024.