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How many bird species are in Nevada?
Nevada has 496 bird species on its official list (Nevada Bird Records Committee, May 6, 2025), the 13th highest count of the 46 states with a verified count. It includes introduced birds now living wild and the extinct Passenger Pigeon; one record of a species pair is not counted.
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Nevada bird list at a glance
| Official count | 496 species |
|---|---|
| List’s date | May 6, 2025 |
| Kept by | Nevada Bird Records Committee (Great Basin Bird Observatory) |
| Among US states | 13th highest of the 47 US lists (50 states and DC) with a verified count |
| Official list | Official Checklist of the Birds of Nevada |
What does Nevada’s count include?
- Established introduced species.
- The Passenger Pigeon, now extinct.
- Not counted: one record accepted as one of a pair of look-alike species, and the subspecies shown on the list.
Why might you see a different number?
A state’s count is every species ever accepted on its official list, so a figure from another year, or one that counts something else, won’t match.
Every state’s list follows its own rules: see why the counts differ from state to state.
How do you count your own Nevada list?
Your state list is every species you’ve seen in the state. If you log your sightings in eBird, it lets you filter your life list by place, a state included (eBird’s My eBird help page, updated March 28, 2025), and the data download you can ask for gives the state of every sighting: our guide shows how to download your own eBird data. On paper, count the species you’ve seen in Nevada; what is a life list? explains how birders keep their lists.
If you’d like your whole life list in print, Birdfolio turns it into a hardcover book, each species beside a classic painting.
Nevada’s state bird
Mountain Bluebird
Nevada’s state bird is the Mountain Bluebird.
Audubon painted it too: plate 393 of The Birds of America.
Source: Mountain Bluebird (Nevada Department of Wildlife), read October 3, 2026. See the state birds of all 50 states, each with its painting.
More about bird counts
- How many bird species are in each state: all 50 states, DC and Canada, each from its official list.
- Bird lists of nearby states: Arizona, California, Idaho, Oregon and Utah.
- State birds of all 50 states, each with its classic painting.
- How many bird species are in the US and Canada, and how birders count them.
- Bird splits and lumps: when one species becomes two, state lists change too.