These birds breed in the wild nowhere else on the planet except the United States of America—most of them spend their entire lives without passing out of this nation's borders. And I left out all but one of the birds endemic to Hawaii. This land was made for you and me, and for them:
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| My crappy photo of a Gunnison Sage-Grouse |
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| Greater Prairie-Chickens were once found in Canada, too, but were extirpated. |
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| Lesser Prairie-Chicken |
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| Nene or Hawaiian Goose. |
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| Allen's Hummingbird breeds only in the US. |
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| Black Turnstones breed only in the U.S. |
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| Mississippi Kites breed only the the U.S. |
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| Red-cockaded Woodpecker |
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| Extinct Carolina Parakeet |
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| Yellow-billed Magpie |
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| Fish Crow |
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| Florida Scrub-Jay |
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| Island Scrub-Jay |
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| Carolina Chickadee |
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| Brown-headed Nuthatch |
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| Brown-headed and Black Rosy-Finches |
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| I don't have my own photo of Bachman's Sparrow |
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| Seaside Sparrow |
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| Wolfgang Wander's photo of a Saltmarsh Sparrow |
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| Sagebrush Sparrow breeds only in the U.S. |
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| Boat-tailed Grackle |
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| Worm-eating Warblers breed only in the U.S. |
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| Extinct Bachman's Warblers bred only in the U.S. |
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| Swainson's Warblers breed only in the U.S. |
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| Virginia's Warblers breed only in the U.S. |
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| Kentucky Warblers breed only in the U.S. |
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| Yellow-throated Warblers breed only in the U.S. |
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| Hermit Warblers breed only in the U.S. |
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| Golden-cheeked Warblers breed only in the U.S. |
*This list of endemics came from
here, a source not all that reliable because they think Bachman's Sparrow is extinct, and did not mark Bachman's Warbler as extinct, which it is.
