This gallery contains the following rare, unexpected, unusual birds I have photographed in Indiana: Curlew Sandpiper, Brown Pelican, Bohemian Waxwing, Asian Hooded Crane, Calliope Hummingbird, Say's Phoebe, Wood Stork, Yellow-headed Blackbird, Western Wood-Pewee, Neotropic Cormorant, Roseate Spoonbill, White Ibis, White-faced Ibis, Black-bellied Whistling Duck, Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Bullock's Oriole, Rufous Hummingbird, Western Kingbird, Purple Gallinule, Pure Albino Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Black-necked Stilt, Cinnamon Teal, Monk Parakeet, Townsend's Solitaire, Prairie Falcon, Krider's Red-tailed Hawk, Western Red-tailed Hawk, Harlan's Hawk, Trumpeter Swan, Fulvous Whistling-Duck, Tri-colored Heron, and "Oregon" Junco.

I'm also including a White-eyed Vireo as it was a very unexpected find by Alan Bruner and I during the Terre Haute Christmas Bird Count (CBC) on December 17, 2011 . It was the first White-eyed Vireo ever found on an Indiana CBC and the latest Indiana December record by ten days.

Many of the bird species in this gallery are occasionally seen in our state, however the photo's by me and other birders of the Bullock's Oriole, Fork-tailed Flycatcher and Roseate Spoonbill represent the first and only confirmed Indiana records for those species.

I have also included photographed mounts of the extinct Passenger Pigeon and Carolina Parakeet that are on display in the Indiana State Museum. These two birds were once native to Indiana. (Note: Gray Partridge, Eskimo Curlew and Greater Prairie Chicken are also extinct or extirpiated from Indiana). These extinct bird mount photo's are not counted toward my Indiana life bird photo list.