ARCC Review List

The following is a list of 143 species for which The Avian Records Committee requests written descriptions, photographs, sound recordings, and other documentation for occurrences in Connecticut. The Committee also requests documentation for the occurrence in the state of any species not on the official state list (see the hardcopy COA Field Checklist, March 2023, as well as The Checklist of the Birds of Connecticut).


CURRENT REVIEW SPECIES – Updated March 23, 2024 by Frank Gallo

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Ross’s Goose
Graylag Goose
Pink-footed Goose
“Black” Brant
Barnacle Goose
Trumpeter Swan
Cinnamon Teal
Tufted Duck
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Band-tailed Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Common Ground-Dove
White-winged Dove
Chuck-will’s-widow
Mexican Violetear
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Calliope Hummingbird
Broad-billed Hummingbird
Purple Gallinule
Corn Crake
Yellow Rail
Black Rail
Black-necked Stilt
Northern Lapwing
Pacific Golden Plover
Common Ringed Plover
Wilson’s Plover
Snowy Plover
Long-billed Curlew
Bar-tailed Godwit
Black-tailed Godwit
Ruff
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper
Red-necked Stint
Little Stint
Spotted Redshank
Red-necked Phalarope
Red Phalarope
Pomarine Jaeger
Long-tailed Jaeger
Dovekie
Common Murre
Thick-billed Murre
Black Guillemot
Atlantic Puffin

Ivory Gull
Sabine’s Gull
Little Gull
Ross’s Gull
Franklin’s Gull
Common Gull
Short-billed Gull
California Gull
“Thayer’s” Gull
Slaty-backed Gull
Sooty Tern
Bridled Tern
Gull-billed Tern
Arctic Tern
Sandwich Tern
White-tailed Tropicbird
Pacific Loon
White-faced Storm-Petrel
Leach’s Storm-Petrel
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
Northern Fulmar
Black-capped Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Audubon’s Shearwater
Wood Stork
Magnificent Frigatebird
Brown Booby
Anhinga
Brown Pelican
Little Egret
White Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
White-tailed Kite
Swallow-tailed Kite
Swainson’s Hawk
Zone-tailed Hawk
Barn Owl
Northern Hawk Owl
Burrowing Owl
Great Gray Owl
Boreal Owl
Black-backed Woodpecker
Crested Caracara
Gyrfalcon
Ash-throated Flycatcher

Tropical Kingbird
Gray Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Gray Flycatcher
Western Flycatcher
Say’s Phoebe
Bell’s Vireo
Loggerhead Shrike
Eurasian Jackdaw
Boreal Chickadee
Violet-green Swallow
Brown-chested Martin
Bohemian Waxwing
Mountain Bluebird
Townsend’s Solitaire
Bicknell’s Thrush**
Fieldfare
Varied Thrush
Northern Wheatear
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
Sprague’s Pipit
Brambling
Pine Grosbeak
Hoary Redpoll
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Smith’s Longspur
Lark Bunting
Brewer’s Sparrow
Dark-eyed “Oregon” Junco
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Harris’s Sparrow
Le Conte’s Sparrow
Henslow’s Sparrow
Green-tailed Towhee
Spotted Towhee
Western Meadowlark
Bullock’s Oriole
Black-backed Oriole
Brewer’s Blackbird
MacGillivray’s Warbler
Yellow-rumped “Audubon’s” Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend’s Warbler
Hermit Warbler
Western Tanager
Black-headed Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting

**Recording and banding records only
” ” Subspecies for which we want reports


BREEDING BIRD REVIEW SPECIES – Updated March 23, 2024

Breeding records of the species listed below or others not known to breed in Connecticut will be reviewed and archived by the ARCC.

Blue-winged Teal
Green-winged Teal
Northern Bobwhite
Ring-necked Pheasant
Pied-billed Grebe
Eurasian Collared Dove*
Common Nighthawk
Chuck-wills-widow*
King Rail
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Black Rail
Sandhill Crane**
Wilson’s Snipe
Black Skimmer
Common Loon
Tricolored Heron
Western Cattle Egret
White-faced Ibis*

Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
American Goshawk
Mississippi Kite
Barn Owl
Long-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Red-headed Woodpecker
Merlin*
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
Horned Lark
Sedge Wren
Evening Grosbeak
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin

Clay-colored Sparrow*
White-throated Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Henslow’s Sparrow
Yellow-breasted Chat
Boat-tailed Grackle
Golden-winged Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow-throated Warbler
Summer Tanager*
Blue Grosbeak
Dickcissel 

Those species marked with an * have either, attempted but failed to nest successfully in the State, or are nesting in nearby states and are anticipated to nest in Connecticut. **First confirmed nesting in 2022 in Norfolk.


Other species in need of documentation:
Any exotic species, escaped cage birds, including waterfowl.


For information on how to report a rare sighting to ARRC, go to Rare Report