Birding Challenge
This page details the birding challenge I am completing during 2024 where I try to see all the species in my Birds of Utah field guide
For those of you that don’t know, I make birding and wildlife content. There are so many species to see, and it's been super fun working on growing my birding life list. I highly recommend you check out my YouTube channel!
One thing I have loved about birding is how friendly the birding community is overall! I am excited to get out more and grow this hobby, meet awesome people, and become a better birder.
2024 Birding Challenge
To make birding even more fun, I set myself a challenge for 2024. I am trying to see all 130 species in Birds of Utah by Stan Tekiela.
Last Updated - 10/30/2024
Remaining Species
- Evening Grosbeak
- Blue-winged Teal
- Pinyon Jay
- Bohemian Waxwing (Extra)
- Lewis's Woodpecker
Full Checklist of the Birds
- American Avocet ✅
- American Bittern ✅
- Brewer's Blackbird ✅
- Red-winged Blackbird ✅
- Yellow-headed Blackbird ✅
- Mountain Bluebird ✅
- Western Bluebird ✅
- Lazuli Bunting ✅
- Bushtit ✅
- Black-capped Chickadee ✅
- Mountain Chickadee ✅
- Chukar ✅
- American Coot ✅
- Double-crested Cormorant ✅
- Brown-headed Cowbird ✅
- Sandhill Crane ✅
- Brown Creeper ✅
- Red Crossbill ✅
- American Crow ✅
- American Dipper ✅
- Eurasian Collared-Dove ✅
- Mourning Dove ✅
- Bald Eagle ✅
- Golden Eagle ✅
- Snowy Egret ✅
- Black-Rosy-Finch ✅
- Cassin's Finch ✅
- Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch ✅
- House Finch ✅
- Northern Flicker ✅
- Olive-sided Flycatcher ✅
- Gadwall ✅
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✅
- Common Goldeneye ✅
- American Goldfinch ✅
- Canada Goose ✅
- Great-tailed Grackle ✅
- Pie-billed Grebe ✅
- Western Grebe ✅
- Black-headed Grosbeak ✅
- Blue Grosbeak ✅
- Evening Grosbeak
- Dusky Grouse ✅
- California Gull ✅
- Northern Harrier ✅
- Cooper's Hawk ✅
- Ferruginous Hawk ✅
- Red-tailed Hawk ✅
- Sharp-shinned Hawk ✅
- Swainson's Hawk ✅
- Black-crowned Night-Heron ✅
- Great Blue Heron ✅
- Black-chinned Hummingbird ✅
- Broad-tailed Hummingbird ✅
- Calliope Hummingbird ✅
- Canada Jay ✅
- Pinyon Jay
- Steller's Jay ✅
- Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay ✅
- Dark-eyed Junco ✅
- American Kestrel ✅
- Killdeer ✅
- Eastern Kingbird ✅
- Western Kingbird ✅
- Belted Kingfisher ✅
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✅
- Horned Lark ✅
- Black-billed Magpie ✅
- Mallard ✅
- Western Meadowlark ✅
- Common Merganser ✅
- Northern Mockingbird ✅
- Common Nighthawk ✅
- Clark's Nutcracker ✅
- Pygmy Nuthatch ✅
- Red-breasted Nuthatch ✅
- White-breasted Nuthatch ✅
- Bullock's Oriole ✅
- Osprey ✅
- Burrowing Owl ✅
- Great Horned Owl ✅
- Western Wood-Pewee ✅
- Ring-necked Pheasant ✅
- Say's Phoebe ✅
- Rock Pigeon ✅
- Northern Pintail ✅
- Common Poorwill ✅
- Gambel's Quail ✅
- Common Raven ✅
- Redhead ✅
- American Robin ✅
- Spotted Sandpiper ✅
- Williamson's Sapsucker ✅
- Northern Shoveler ✅
- Loggerhead Shrike ✅
- Pine Siskin ✅
- Townsend's Solitaire ✅
- American Tree Sparrow ✅
- Chipping Sparrow ✅
- House Sparrow ✅
- Lark Sparrow ✅
- Song Sparrow ✅
- White-crowned Sparrow ✅
- European Starling ✅
- Barn Swallow ✅
- Cliff Swallow ✅
- Tree Swallow ✅
- Violet-green Swallow ✅
- White-throated Swift ✅
- Western Tanager ✅
- Blue-winged Teal
- Green-winged Teal ✅
- Sage Thrasher ✅
- Green-tailed Towhee ✅
- Spotted Towhee ✅
- Wild Turkey ✅
- Turkey Vulture ✅
- Orange-crowned Warbler ✅
- Wilson's Warbler ✅
- Yellow Warbler ✅
- Yellow-rumped Warbler ✅
- Bohemian Waxwing (Extra)
- Cedar Waxwing ✅
- Downy Woodpecker ✅
- Hairy Woodpecker ✅
- Lewis's Woodpecker
- Bewick's Wren ✅
- Canyon Wren ✅
- House Wren ✅
- Rock Wren ✅
- Common Yellowthroat ✅
For more information about the challenge, check out this video!
Birds of Utah is by Stan Tekiela and all credit goes for that goes to him and Adventure Publications for the book. I am just trying to see every bird in it. Check out the book on Amazon here!