Missouri Department of Conservation

Uncommon or Extinct

The following bird species do not occur in Missouri every year. The majority are detected once or twice every few years. Some (*) have been recorded fewer than five times throughout the state's history.

• Red-throated Loon
• Pacific Loon
• Yellow-billed Loon*
• Red-necked Grebe
• Band-rumped Storm-Petrel*
• Brown Pelican*
• Neotropic Cormorant
• Anhinga
• Magnificent Frigatebird*
• Tricolored Heron
• White Ibis
• Glossy Ibis
• White-faced Ibis
• Roseate Spoonbill*
• Wood Stork
• Fulvous Whistling-Duck
• Black-bellied Whistling-Duck*
• Brant
• Barnacle Goose*
• Garganey*
• Eurasian Wigeon
• Harlequin Duck*
• Barrow's Goldeneye
• Swallow-tailed Kite*
• White-tailed Kite*
• Northern Goshawk
• Harris Hawk*
• Ferruginous Hawk
• Gyrfalcon*
• Prairie Falcon
• Gray Partridge
• Black Rail
• Purple Gallinule
• Whooping Crane*
• Snowy Plover
• Whimbrel
• Long-billed Curlew
• Ruff
• Red Phalarope
• Pomarine Jaeger*
• Parasitic Jaeger*
• Long-tailed Jaeger*
• Skua*
• Laughing Gull
• Little Gull*
• Black-headed Gull*
• California Gull
• Iceland Gull
• Lesser Black-backed Gull*
• Slaty-backed Gull*
• Great Black-backed Gull
• Black-legged Kittiwake
• Sabine's Gull
• Sooty Tern*
• Band-tailed Pigeon*
• White-winged Dove*
• Inca Dove*
• Common Ground-Dove*
• Groove-billed Ani
• Snowy Owl
• Burrowing Owl
• Common Poorwill*
• White-throated Swift*
• Green Violetear*
• Anna's Hummingbird*
• Lewis' Woodpecker*
• Say's Phoebe*
• Vermillion Flycatcher*
• Violet-green Swallow*
• Gray Jay*
• Clark's Nutcracker*
• Black-billed Magpie*
• Rock Wren*
• Mountain Bluebird
• Townsend's Solitaire
• Varied Thrush
• Sage Thrasher*
• Bohemian Waxwing
• Northern Shrike
• Black-throated Blue Warbler
• Hermit Warbler*
• Kirtland's Warbler*
• MacGillivray's Warbler*
• Western Tanager*
• Black-headed Grosbeak
• Lazuli Bunting
• Green-tailed Towhee
• Lark Bunting
• Baird's Sparrow
• Black-throated Sparrow
• Golden-crowned Sparrow*
• McCown's Longspur
• Chestnut-collared Longspur
• Snow Bunting
• Bronzed Cowbird*
• Pine Grosbeak
• Red Crossbill
• White-winged Crossbill
• Common Redpoll
• Evening Grosbeak
• Lesser Goldfinch*

Former Missouri Birds

The following bird species formerly occurred in Missouri, but are either extinct (*) or otherwise unlikely to be reported in Missouri in the future.

• Eskimo Curlew
• Passenger Pigeon*
• Carolina Parakeet*
• Red-cockaded Woodpecker
• Ivory-billed Woodpecker
• Common Raven
• Brown-headed Nuthatch
• Bachman's Warbler