| Scientific name | Common name |
| Podilymbus podiceps | Pied-billed Grebe |
| Podiceps auritus | Horned Grebe |
| Podiceps nigricollis | Eared Grebe |
| Phalacrocorax auritus | Double-crested Cormorant |
| Ardea herodias | Great Blue Heron |
| Cathartes aura | Turkey Vulture |
| Branta canadensis | Canada Goose |
| Aix sponsa | Wood Duck |
| Anas strepera | Gadwall |
| Anas americana | American Wigeon |
| Anas discors | Blue-winged Teal |
| Aythya collaris | Ring-necked Duck |
| Aythya affinis | Lesser Scaup |
| Bucephala albeola | Bufflehead |
| Oxyura jamaicensis | Ruddy Duck |
| Pandion haliaetus | Osprey |
| Meleagris gallopavo | Wild Turkey |
| Fulica americana | American Coot |
| Charadrius vociferus | Killdeer |
| Larus pipixcan | Franklin's Gull |
| Larus delawarensis | Ring-billed Gull |
| Columba livia | Rock Dove |
| Zenaida macroura | Mourning Dove |
| Strix varia | Barred Owl |
| Melanerpes erythrocephalus | Red-headed Woodpecker |
| Melanerpes carolinus | Red-bellied Woodpecker |
| Picoides pubescens | Downy Woodpecker |
| Picoides villosus | Hairy Woodpecker |
| Colaptes auratus | Northern Flicker |
| Sayornis phoebe | Eastern Phoebe |
| Cyanocitta cristata | Blue Jay |
| Corvus brachyrhynchos | American Crow |
| Tachycineta bicolor | Tree Swallow |
| Stelgidopteryx serripennis | Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
| Hirundo rustica | Barn Swallow |
| Poecile atricapillus | Black-capped Chickadee |
| Baeolophus bicolor | Tufted Titmouse |
| Thryothorus ludovicianus | Carolina Wren |
| Polioptila caerulea | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
| Sialia sialis | Eastern Bluebird |
| Turdus migratorius | American Robin |
| Sturnus vulgaris | European Starling |
| Toxostoma rufum | Brown Thrasher* |
| Parula americana | Northern Parula |
| Dendroica coronata | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Spizella passerina | Chipping Sparrow |
| Spizella pusilla | Field Sparrow |
| Pooecetes gramineus | Vesper Sparrow |
| Zonotrichia albicollis | White-throated Sparrow* |
| Zonotrichia querula | Harris's Sparrow |
| Cardinalis cardinalis | Northern Cardinal |
| Agelaius phoeniceus | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Sturnella magna | Eastern Meadowlark |
| Sturnella neglecta | Western Meadowlark |
| Quiscalus quiscula | Common Grackle |
| Molothrus ater | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Carduelis tristis | American Goldfinch |
| Passer domesticus | House Sparrow |
* - heard or seen by Rintoul before class