Class Aves -- Birds in the Quincy University Life Science Museum

All specimens are full-body taxidermic mounts

  1. Anseriformes
    • Anatidae
      • Bufflehead-2
      • Wood Duck-M
      • Mallard-M/F
      • Mallard/Pekin hybrid
      • Common Merganser
      • Hooded Merganser
      • Merganser sp.
      • American Pintail
      • Northern Shoveler
      • Blue-winged Teal-3
      • Green-winged Teal-2
      • American Wigeon
  2. Caprimulgiformes
    • Caprimulgidae
      • Common Nighthawk
  3. Charadriiformes
    • Laridae
      • Herring Gull
    • Recurvirostridae
      • American Avocet
    • Scolopacidae
      • Dowitcher sp.
      • Marbled Godwit
      • Solitary Sandpiper
      • Upland Sandpiper
      • Wilson's Snipe
      • American Woodcock-4
      • Lesser Yellowlegs
  4. Ciconiiformes
    • Ardeidae
      • American Bittern
      • Least Bittern
      • Great Egret
      • Great Blue Heron-2
      • Green Heron
    • Cathartidae
      • Turkey Vulture
  5. Columbiformes
    • Columbidae
      • Mourning Dove-2
      • Passenger Pigeon
      • Rock Pigeon
  6. Coraciiformes
    • Alcedinidae
      • Belted Kingfisher-M/F
  7. Cuculiformes
    • Cuculidae
      • Yellow-billed Cuckoo-2
  8. Falconiformes
    • Accipitridae
      • Bald Eagle
      • Golden Eagle
      • Broad-winged Hawk-2
      • Cooper's Hawk
      • Northern Harrier-M/F
      • Red-tailed Hawk-immature-2
      • Red-shouldered Hawk
      • Sharp-shinned Hawk
      • Osprey
    • Falconidae
      • Prairie Falcon
      • American Kestrel
  9. Galliformes
    • Phasianidae
      • Prairie Chicken-F
      • Ruffed Grouse
      • Red Junglefowl
      • Golden Pheasant-2
      • Ring-necked Pheasant
    • Odontophoridae
      • Scaled Quail
  10. Gaviiformes
    • Gaviidae
      • Common Loon
  11. Gruiformes
    • Rallidae
      • American Coot-3
      • King Rail
      • Sora-2
  12. Passeriformes
    • Alaudidae
      • Horned Lark
    • Corvidae
      • American Crow
    • Cardinalidae
      • Indigo Bunting-3
      • Northern Cardinal-M/F
      • Rose-breasted Grosbeak-4
    • Bombycillidae
      • Cedar Waxwing-2
    • Emberizidae
      • Dark-eyed Junco
      • Lark Sparrow
      • Eastern Towhee-3
    • Hirundinidae
      • Purple Martin-M/F
    • Icteridae
      • Red-winged Blackbird-M/F
      • Rusty Blackbird- M/F
      • Yellow-headed Blackbird
      • Bobolink
      • Brown-headed Cowbird
      • Common Grackle-M/F
      • Eastern Meadowlark
      • Orchard Oriole-2
      • Baltimore Oriole-4
    • Laniidae
      • Loggerhead Shrike
    • Mimidae
      • Brown Thrasher
      • Grey Catbird-2
    • Parulidae
      • Yellow-breasted Chat
      • Yellow-rumped Warbler
    • Passeridae
      • House Sparrow
    • Regulidae
      • Golden-crowned Kinglet
    • Sittidae
      • White breasted nuthatch-2
    • Sturnidae
      • European Starling-2
    • Thraupidae
      • Scarlet Tanager-4
    • Troglodytidae
      • House Wren
    • Turdidae
      • American Robin
      • Eastern Bluebird M/F
    • Tyrannidae
      • Eastern Kingbird-2
      • Great Crested Flycatcher
  13. Pelecaniformes
    • Pelecanidae
      • American White Pelican
    • Phalacrocoracidae
      • Double-creasted Cormorant
  14. Piciformes
    • Picidae
      • Common Flicker-M/F
      • Downey Woodpecker-M/F
      • Hairy Woodpecker-M/F
      • Red-bellied Woodpecker-M/F
      • Red-headed Woodpecker-adult/immature
      • Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
  15. Podicipediformes
    • Podicipedidae
      • Horned Grebe
      • Pied-billed Grebe-2
      • Western Grebe
  16. Psittaciformes
      Loriidae
      • Lorikeet sp.
  17. Strigiformes
    • Strigidae
      • Barred Owl-3
      • Great horned Owl-3
      • Screech Owl-2


This list has been compiled as much as possible in accordance with the nomenclature established in the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds as of 01/2005, except for the lorikeet, and I have alphabetized orders and families (link).

[ 1/15/05 jrc]