Uncommon or Extinct Birds
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