Yes. No account, no email, no ads. Pick a place and download the PDF.

Where does the bird data come from?

Public, license-clean records from GBIF, the IOC World Bird List, USGS, and iNaturalist.

Does it work outside the US?

Yes. Every US state, plus countries, continents, and a global list — anywhere with bird occurrence records.

A birding tradition: count how many species you can see in one place over a calendar year. The same approach works for a Big Day, Big Week, or Big Month.

Can I customize my checklist?

Yes. Filter by season, common vs rare, and family before you download.

Big Year Bird Checklist for New Mexico

A free printable New Mexico bird checklist. Pick your goal, get the PDF.

New Mexico's checklist is a meeting of the Rockies, the Chihuahuan Desert, and the Great Plains. Bosque del Apache's winter crane-and-goose spectacle is the marquee event.

The tool builds you a printable checklist of every bird realistically possible in New Mexico, grouped by family, with seasonal markers and a space to log the date you spot each one. It's drawn from public, license-clean records — not a generic national list, but the species that actually occur where you're birding.

Pick New Mexico (or any area inside it), choose your goal — Big Day, Big Month, Big Year, or a life list — and download the PDF. Free, no account, no email. Print it, fold it in a field guide, and start checking birds off.

What you'll find on a New Mexico checklist

A New Mexico checklist mixes widespread residents with the specialties that make the state worth a big year. A few you'll want to target:

Sandhill Crane — Tens of thousands at Bosque del Apache.
Scaled Quail — Desert-grassland covey.
Montezuma Quail — Oak-grassland skulker.
Pinyon Jay — Nomadic woodland flocks.
Gray Vireo — Pinyon-juniper specialist.
Juniper Titmouse — Woodland resident.
Black-throated Sparrow — Desert-scrub songster.
Pyrrhuloxia — Desert cardinal.
Lesser Prairie-Chicken — A declining shinnery-oak specialty.
Bendire's Thrasher — Scarce desert thrasher.
Lewis's Woodpecker — Open-pine flycatching woodpecker.
Greater Roadrunner — State bird, desert icon.

Your generated PDF includes every realistic species for the exact area you pick, with seasonal markers and a space to log each sighting.

This is a preview. For your full printable list:

Build a complete, customizable New Mexico checklist — filter by season, by how common a bird is, and by family, then download the PDF.

What kind of list do you need?

Birders use “Big” challenges to make birding count. Pick the timeframe you're working with, and I'll tune the list for it.

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Sandhill Crane, Scaled Quail, Montezuma Quail, Pinyon Jay — all illustrated and designed by Jaymi at Better With Birds. Made-to-order, never mass-printed.