List of birds of Tennessee
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This list of birds of Tennessee includes species documented in the U.S. state of Tennessee and accepted by the Tennessee Bird Records Committee (TBRC) of the Tennessee Ornithological Society. As of February 2020, 423 species were on the official list.[1] Of them, 41 are considered accidental, 30 are considered casual, and 13 are labeled provisional as defined below. Five species were introduced to North America, two are extinct, and three have been extirpated.
This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 62nd Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society (AOS).[2] Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
Unless otherwise noted, all species listed below are considered to occur regularly in Tennessee as permanent residents, summer or winter visitors, or migrants. These tags are used to annotate some species:
- (A) Accidental – a "very rare and unpredictable vagrant" per the TBRC
- (C) Casual – a species which "occurs with some frequency but not every year" per the TBRC
- (P) Provisional – a species with "less than 3 accepted records within the state without photographs or a specimen" per the TBRC
- (E) Extinct – a recent species that no longer exists
- (Exp) Extirpated – a species which formerly occurred in Tennessee but exists elsewhere
- (I) Introduced – a species established solely as result of direct or indirect human intervention