Bird Guide
Guide to North American Birds
Explore more than 800 North American bird species, learn about their lives and habitats, and how climate change is impacting their ability to survive.
839 birds shown
Northern Cardinal
Barred Owl
Blue Jay
Red-tailed Hawk
Great Horned Owl
House Finch
Gray Catbird
Mourning Dove
American Crow
American Robin
Cooper's Hawk
American Goldfinch
Northern Mockingbird
Common Raven
Indigo Bunting
Great Blue Heron
House Wren
Pileated Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Dark-eyed Junco
Eastern Screech-Owl
Black-capped Chickadee
Eastern Bluebird
Bald Eagle
Baltimore Oriole
Peregrine Falcon
Killdeer
Osprey
Carolina Wren
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Whip-poor-will
Cedar Waxwing
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Barn Owl
Red-shouldered Hawk
American White Pelican
Red-headed Woodpecker
Sandhill Crane
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Belted Kingfisher
Swallow-tailed Kite
American Kestrel
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Brown Thrasher
House Sparrow
Downy Woodpecker
White-breasted Nuthatch
Turkey Vulture
Burrowing Owl
European Starling
Barn Swallow
Scarlet Tanager
Common Grackle
Canada Goose
Tufted Titmouse
Double-crested Cormorant
Purple Finch
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Northern Harrier
Common Loon
Painted Bunting
Bar-tailed Godwit
Wild Turkey
Eastern Phoebe
Merlin
Golden Eagle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Greater Roadrunner
Snowy Owl
Great Egret
Anna's Hummingbird
Western Tanager
Song Sparrow
Purple Martin
Common Merganser
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Common Nighthawk
Steller's Jay
Hairy Woodpecker
American Woodcock
Mississippi Kite
Yellow Warbler
Ring-necked Pheasant
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Tree Swallow
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Wood Duck
Roseate Spoonbill
Piping Plover
Eastern Towhee
Broad-winged Hawk
Mallard
Green Heron
American Coot
Ferruginous Hawk
American Redstart
Black-billed Magpie
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Rufous Hummingbird
Western Screech-Owl
Northern Bobwhite
California Quail
Black Vulture
Hooded Merganser
Snow Goose
Spotted Towhee
Bufflehead
White Ibis
Bank Swallow
Rock Pigeon
Acorn Woodpecker
Crested Caracara
Summer Tanager
Wood Thrush
Black Skimmer
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Chickadee
Wood Stork
White-crowned Sparrow
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Atlantic Puffin
California Scrub-Jay
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Chimney Swift
Northern Goshawk
American Bittern
Chukar
Evening Grosbeak
Varied Thrush
Chipping Sparrow
Black-and-white Warbler
Common Redpoll
Brown Pelican
Black Phoebe
White-throated Sparrow
Hermit Thrush
Fish Crow
Eastern Kingbird
Bullock's Oriole
American Black Duck
Common Yellowthroat
Bobolink
Allen's Hummingbird
Trumpeter Swan
Anhinga
Pine Siskin
Bewick's Wren
Chuck-will's-widow
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Common Cuckoo
Muscovy Duck
Little Blue Heron
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Mountain Bluebird
Short-eared Owl
Great Gray Owl
Lesser Goldfinch
American Flamingo
American Dipper
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
White-tailed Kite
Western Meadowlark
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Tundra Swan
Black-headed Grosbeak
Snowy Egret
Hooded Oriole
Western Bluebird
Great Crested Flycatcher
Blue Grosbeak
Brown Creeper
Common Black Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Orchard Oriole
Bushtit
American Tree Sparrow
Elf Owl
Egyptian Goose
Ovenbird
White-winged Dove
Ring-necked Duck
Nanday Parakeet
Gambel's Quail
Magnificent Frigatebird
Eastern Meadowlark
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Brewer's Blackbird
American Avocet
Mute Swan
Yellow-breasted Chat
Canada Jay
Scaly-breasted Munia
Whooping Crane
Ruffed Grouse
Western Kingbird
Blue-winged Teal
Swainson's Thrush
Loggerhead Shrike
Pine Grosbeak
American Oystercatcher
Harris's Hawk
Snow Bunting
Red-eyed Vireo
Great-tailed Grackle
Long-eared Owl
Rough-legged Hawk
Northern Shrike
Prothonotary Warbler
Northern Parula
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Northern Pygmy-Owl
Blackburnian Warbler
Cassin's Finch
American Wigeon
Pied-billed Grebe
Cliff Swallow
California Towhee
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Greater White-fronted Goose
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Glossy Ibis
Band-tailed Pigeon
Wilson's Snipe
Pine Warbler
Horned Lark
Least Tern
Spotted Sandpiper
Pyrrhuloxia
Chihuahuan Raven
Greater Prairie-Chicken
Calliope Hummingbird
Lazuli Bunting
Abert's Towhee
Herring Gull
Marbled Murrelet
Cerulean Warbler
Acadian Flycatcher
Sanderling
Least Bittern
Northern Hawk Owl
Gray Partridge
Curve-billed Thrasher
Cattle Egret
Bohemian Waxwing
Fox Sparrow
Warbling Vireo
Arctic Tern
Common Ground Dove
Spotted Owl
Ruddy Duck
Costa's Hummingbird
Laughing Gull
White-faced Ibis
Winter Wren
Cactus Wren
Tricolored Heron
Northern Gannet
Greater Sage-Grouse
Prairie Falcon
Canvasback
Boat-tailed Grackle
Common Goldeneye
Limpkin
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Common Tern
Long-billed Curlew
Florida Scrub-Jay
Palm Warbler
Savannah Sparrow
Black-necked Stilt
California Condor
Alder Flycatcher
Common Gallinule
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Redhead
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Blue Bunting
Black-billed Cuckoo
Say's Phoebe
Common Poorwill
Vermilion Flycatcher
Pacific Golden-Plover
Willet
American Pipit
Flammulated Owl
Green-winged Teal
Sora
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Gyrfalcon
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Grasshopper Sparrow
Willow Ptarmigan
Marsh Wren
Yellow-billed Magpie
Red Knot
Veery
Lesser Nighthawk
Blue-headed Vireo
Royal Tern
Brant
Snowy Plover
Red-whiskered Bulbul
Ring-billed Gull
Blackpoll Warbler
Boreal Owl
Lesser Scaup
American Three-toed Woodpecker
Gray Hawk
Virginia Rail
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Common Murre
Townsend's Solitaire
Pinyon Jay
Clark's Nutcracker
Field Sparrow
Black Rail
Elegant Trogon
Long-tailed Duck
Red-breasted Merganser
Wilson's Warbler
Red Crossbill
Altamira Oriole
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
Harlequin Duck
Violet-green Swallow
Lark Bunting
Cape May Warbler
Common Myna
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dunlin
Mountain Chickadee
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
Sooty Shearwater
Black-throated Green Warbler
Reddish Egret
Hooded Warbler
Bachman's Sparrow
Caspian Tern
Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay
Western Sandpiper
Sharp-tailed Grouse
Dickcissel
American Golden-Plover
Mottled Duck
Golden-cheeked Warbler
Willow Flycatcher
Ruff
Magnolia Warbler
Purple Gallinule
Boreal Chickadee
Cinnamon Teal
Lesser Prairie-Chicken
Dusky Grouse
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Tufted Puffin
Northern Waterthrush
Rusty Blackbird
Townsend's Warbler
Tufted Duck
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bell's Vireo
Golden-winged Warbler
Spruce Grouse
Louisiana Waterthrush
Yellow-throated Vireo
Arctic Loon
Aplomado Falcon
Gila Woodpecker
Common Eider
Verdin
Brown-crested Flycatcher
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Canyon Wren
Bahama Mockingbird
Black Tern
Gadwall
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Red-crowned Parrot
Lark Sparrow
Black-crested Titmouse
Great Cormorant
Greater Yellowlegs
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Nashville Warbler
Western Grebe
Short-tailed Hawk
Ruddy Turnstone
Black-backed Woodpecker
Northern Wheatear
Green Jay
Sooty Grouse
California Thrasher
Clapper Rail
Whimbrel
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Lewis's Woodpecker
Gray Kingbird
Barrow's Goldeneye
Cackling Goose
White-tailed Tropicbird
Great Black-backed Gull
Monk Parakeet
Laysan Albatross
Western Wood-Pewee
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Blue-winged Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Dovekie
Oak Titmouse
Phainopepla
Tennessee Warbler
Black Guillemot
Canada Warbler
Kirtland's Warbler
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Horned Grebe
Tricolored Blackbird
Swamp Sparrow
Red-necked Phalarope
Black Swift
Rock Ptarmigan
Rock Wren
Pink-footed Goose
Spotted Dove
Blue Mockingbird
Snail Kite
Brambling
Surf Scoter
Upland Sandpiper
Red-necked Grebe
Black Scoter
Vaux's Swift
Kentucky Warbler
Semipalmated Plover
Audubon's Oriole
Vesper Sparrow
California Gnatcatcher
Least Flycatcher
Zone-tailed Hawk
Bay-breasted Warbler
Northern Jacana
Great Kiskadee
Mexican Duck
Wilson's Phalarope
Henslow's Sparrow
Black Oystercatcher
Painted Redstart
Black-throated Sparrow
Greater Scaup
Saltmarsh Sparrow
Red-throated Loon
Red-naped Sapsucker
White-throated Swift
Pacific Loon
Lincoln's Sparrow
Aleutian Tern
Brandt's Cormorant
Great Shearwater
Green Parakeet
King Rail
Long-billed Dowitcher
Sooty Tern
White-eyed Vireo
Mountain Quail
Blue-footed Booby
Antillean Nighthawk
Short-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Himalayan Snowcock
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Gray-headed Chickadee
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Northern Lapwing
Gilded Flicker
Scott's Oriole
Mexican Jay
Yellow-billed Loon
Least Sandpiper
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Razorbill
Green Kingfisher
Clay-colored Sparrow
Leach's Storm-Petrel
Black-bellied Plover
Harris's Sparrow
Sage Thrasher
Mexican Whip-poor-will
Bicknell's Thrush
Marbled Godwit
Whiskered Screech-Owl
Berylline Hummingbird
Pygmy Nuthatch
Bonaparte's Gull
Pacific Wren
Brown Booby
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spot-breasted Oriole
Forster's Tern
Sedge Wren
Eared Grebe
Whooper Swan
Barnacle Goose
Seaside Sparrow
White Wagtail
Solitary Sandpiper
Horned Puffin
Bronzed Cowbird
White-tailed Hawk
White-winged Scoter
Little Egret
Ross's Goose
Baird's Sparrow
Worm-eating Warbler
Broad-billed Hummingbird
Brown-capped Rosy-Finch
Audubon's Shearwater
Wilson's Plover
Bananaquit
Franklin's Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake
California Gull
Black-headed Gull
Plain Chachalaca
Yellow-green Vireo
Connecticut Warbler
Western Gull
Lapland Longspur
Gray-headed Swamphen
Tamaulipas Crow
South Polar Skua
Rosy-faced Lovebird
Bendire's Thrasher
Elegant Tern
White-winged Crossbill
Clay-colored Thrush
King Eider
Buff-collared Nightjar
Arizona Woodpecker
Hudsonian Godwit
Brewer's Sparrow
Crested Auklet
Baird's Sandpiper
Yellow Rail
Ringed Kingfisher
White-crowned Pigeon
Juniper Titmouse
Curlew Sandpiper
Gray Flycatcher
Mountain Plover
Common Ringed Plover
Northern Red Bishop
Northern Fulmar
Pigeon Guillemot
White-headed Woodpecker
Arctic Warbler
Short-tailed Shearwater
Hutton's Vireo
Cassin's Kingbird
Common Sandpiper
Inca Dove
Budgerigar
Brown Jay
Lucifer Hummingbird
Flame-colored Tanager
Mourning Warbler
Manx Shearwater
Mexican Violetear
Violet-crowned Hummingbird
Zenaida Dove
Gray Vireo
Cordilleran Flycatcher
Ridgway's Rail
Black Rosy-Finch
Blue-crowned Parakeet
Short-billed Gull
Scaled Quail
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Eurasian Wigeon
Philadelphia Vireo
Glaucous-winged Gull
Parasitic Jaeger
Canyon Towhee
White-eared Hummingbird
Clark's Grebe
Bridled Titmouse
Rufous-backed Robin
Brown Noddy
Green-tailed Towhee
Common Crane
White-tailed Ptarmigan
Hoary Redpoll
Cory's Shearwater
Bristle-thighed Curlew
MacGillivray's Warbler
Swainson's Warbler
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Black-chinned Sparrow
Montezuma Quail
Ancient Murrelet
Great Skua
Neotropic Cormorant
Bell's Sparrow
Garganey
Island Scrub-Jay
Eurasian Skylark
Rhinoceros Auklet
Dusky Flycatcher
Shiny Cowbird
Roseate Tern
Hepatic Tanager
Redwing
Iceland Gull
Rivoli's Hummingbird
Red-footed Booby
Ashy Storm-Petrel
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
Lucy's Warbler
Hook-billed Kite
Spectacled Eider
White-tipped Dove
Lawrence's Goldfinch
Black-vented Oriole
Colima Warbler
Mexican Chickadee
Common Pauraque
Rose-throated Becard
Wrentit
Baikal Teal
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Nelson's Sparrow
Tropical Kingbird
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
Slaty-backed Gull
Williamson's Sapsucker
Yellow-headed Parrot
Black-whiskered Vireo
Heermann's Gull
Mangrove Cuckoo
Buff-bellied Hummingbird
Groove-billed Ani
Cassin's Sparrow
Sandwich Tern
Cave Swallow
Blue-throated Mountain-gem
Pectoral Sandpiper
Purple Sandpiper
Gunnison Sage-Grouse
Hammond's Flycatcher
Eared Quetzal
Black-capped Vireo
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Masked Duck
Pelagic Cormorant
Red Phalarope
Crimson-collared Grosbeak
Green-breasted Mango
LeConte's Sparrow
Red-faced Cormorant
Black Francolin
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Black-capped Gnatcatcher
Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
Cassin's Vireo
White-winged Tern
Thick-billed Longspur
White-rumped Sandpiper
Glaucous Gull
Lilac-crowned Parrot
Smew
Thick-billed Kingbird
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
Botteri's Sparrow
Sagebrush Sparrow
Long-billed Thrasher
Gull-billed Tern
Thick-billed Murre
Black-capped Petrel
Golden-crowned Warbler
Smith's Longspur
LeConte's Thrasher
Masked Booby
Black Noddy
Smooth-billed Ani
Falcated Duck
Couch's Kingbird
Virginia's Warbler
Red-masked Parakeet
Pomarine Jaeger
Bridled Tern
Sprague's Pipit
Kittlitz's Murrelet
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Black Turnstone
Black-tailed Godwit
McKay's Bunting
Cassin's Auklet
Short-tailed Albatross
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Bluethroat
Emperor Goose
Eurasian Jackdaw
Streak-backed Oriole
Red-billed Pigeon
Stilt Sandpiper
Black-faced Grassquit
Key West Quail-Dove
Crissal Thrasher
Morelet's Seedeater
Ruddy Ground Dove
Varied Bunting
Red-faced Warbler
Yellow-eyed Junco
Aztec Thrush
Red-billed Tropicbird
Surfbird
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
Wandering Tattler
Eurasian Kestrel
Hermit Warbler
Xantus's Hummingbird
Long-tailed Jaeger
Whiskered Auklet
Sabine's Gull
Eastern Yellow Wagtail
Tropical Parula
Pink-footed Shearwater
White-cheeked Pintail
Red-tailed Tropicbird
Oriental Turtle-Dove
Dusky-capped Flycatcher
Common Greenshank
Variegated Flycatcher
Black Storm-Petrel
Five-striped Sparrow
Plain-capped Starthroat
Mitred Parakeet
Eurasian Hobby
Jabiru
Ivory Gull
Grace's Warbler
Yellow-footed Gull
Plumbeous Vireo
Little Gull
Brown Shrike
Red-lored Parrot
Red-necked Stint
Red-legged Kittiwake
Black-vented Shearwater
Red-throated Pipit
Fan-tailed Warbler
Yellow-legged Gull
Cassia Crossbill
Black-tailed Gull
Ruddy Quail-Dove
Olive Warbler
Little Stint
Dusky Warbler
Eyebrowed Thrush
Scripps's Murrelet
Least Grebe
Western Spindalis
Greater Pewee
Kelp Gull
Buff-breasted Flycatcher
Rustic Bunting
Steller's Eider
Rock Sandpiper
Tufted Flycatcher
White-throated Thrush
Crested Myna
Parakeet Auklet
Rufous-winged Sparrow
Nutting's Flycatcher
Thick-billed Parrot
Cuban Pewee
Ross's Gull
Buller's Shearwater
Olive Sparrow
Yellow-nosed Albatross
White-winged Parakeet
Western Reef-Heron
Least Auklet
Rufous-capped Warbler
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel
Wood Sandpiper
Gray-tailed Tattler
White-collared Swift
Long-billed Murrelet
Mealy Parrot
Spotted Redshank
Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
Lanceolated Warbler
Lesser Sand-Plover
Slate-throated Redstart
Guadalupe Murrelet
Little Bunting
Loggerhead Kingbird
Gray-crowned Yellowthroat
La Sagra's Flycatcher
Crescent-chested Warbler
Thick-billed Vireo
Least Storm-Petrel
Flesh-footed Shearwater
Yellow-naped Parrot
Siberian Accentor
Little Curlew
European Golden-Plover
Dusky-headed Parakeet
Craveri's Murrelet
White-faced Storm-Petrel
Temminck's Stint
Terek Sandpiper
Cook's Petrel
Eurasian Dotterel
Siberian Rubythroat
Olive-backed Pipit
Piratic Flycatcher
Mottled Petrel
Pechora Pipit
Wedge-rumped Storm-petrel
Murphy's Petrel
Western Scrub-Jay
Sagebrush/Bell's Sparrow (Sage Sparrow)
California/Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay (Western Scrub-Jay)
Tufted/Black-crested Titmouse
Iceland Gull (Thayer's)
Nelson's/Saltmarsh Sparrow (Sharp-tailed Sparrow)
Pacific/Winter Wren
Northwestern Crow
Thayer's Gull