This list of birds of New Jersey includes species credibly documented in the U.S. state of New Jersey and accepted by the New Jersey Bird Records Committee (NJBRC). As of March 2024 the list contained 490 species and a species pair. Seven additional species of uncertain origin are also included in this page.[1]
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 New Jersey as permanent residents, summer or winter visitors, or migrants. These tags are used to annotate some species:
- (R) Rare or accidental - Review List ; birds that if observed require more comprehensive documentation than regularly seen species (151 species and a species pair)
- (R*) Review List, in part - "Identifiable form/race/subspecies, seen from shore, etc." per the NJBRC (18 species)
- (E) Extinct - a recent species that no longer exists (four species)
- (Ex) Extirpated - a species that no longer occurs in New Jersey, but populations survive elsewhere (one species)
- (I) Introduced - a species established in North America by direct or indirect human intervention; synonymous with non-native or non-indigenous (eight species)
- (PU) Provenance uncertain - species which might have been released or escaped from captivity (seven species)
- ^ Larson, Laurie; Hanson, Jennifer W.; Boyle, Bill (April 13, 2021). "New Jersey State List" (PDF). New Jersey Bird Records Committee. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
- ^ "Check-list of North and Middle American Birds". American Ornithological Society. June 29, 2021. Retrieved August 9, 2021.